Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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udir tfomhrrg Ifrrallt ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. \\\ 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 Mergentiialer linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by electric power with other material ? A I ? ri or aIo ituu luatmuci ? m mv nviv equipment representing an investv ment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $150; six months, 75 c-.nts; three months, 50 cents. All subscriptions payable EBjMk strictly in advance. 0^^^^ 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 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 nol tices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. 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. 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 expressed in any communication. Thursday, Sept. 4, 1913 ~ v\n Vvl i c? 11 Of] it X" I UU1 CliC puuiioiivu uvv\su?*vw . ~ v?xpears that the board of canvassers in Sumter county were determined that the dispensary should win. Partisanship was shown in their decisions ail the way through. There is one bit of advice that ve would give the county dispensary board in this county, and that is not to spend much money on a bottling plant or other things which will be * of little value if the dispensary system is discontinued. We look for a strong fight to be made lor Statewide prohibition, with the chance of its being successful. In Orangeburg county the legislative delegation passed a resolution requesting the1 dispensary board not to invest in a j bottling plant on account of the prob-1 ability of State-wide prohibition. I Don't think for a moment that our reference to-the unfairness of newspapers applied to politics alone. There are various ways we have noticed that newspapers have of showing that they are so prejudiced and biased that they will take advantage of any incident and attempt to distort and twist it to the disadvantage of some person or interest who is not in their favor. It is the business of a newspaper to give the news?nobody should blame them for that?but when a newspaper attempts by stating half a truth or treating a news item in such a way it conveys a wrong impression, then such action is reprehensible. It is a form of dishonesty which cannot be too strongly condemned. Ingenious Creditor. A cute story comes from Kansas of the ingenious use made of the parcel post to collect bad debts. The story was told at the chamber of commerce of Boston. It is as follows: A merchant had been carrying a number of small acounts for years without any chance of ever getting his money. But when the parcel post established its C. 0. D. department he hit upon a process that brought him cash liowing in from all sides. This is what he did, according to a western i contemporary which vouches for the j iacis in ine case: Prilling some boxes with waste the merchant topped this with a receipted bill for the amount due him and nailed on the cover. Then he shipped the boxes to the delinquent customers. All it cost him was 5 cents for transportation and 10 cents C. O. D. fee. Almost every person who received one of the boxes paid to see what it contained. He found the receipted bill for his old debt. But we are also told that in the "United State's district attorney's office in Kansas tlie consensus of opinion was that this was "clever." and that it did not constitute a fraud, as the sender had been smart enough not to write the addressee that in return for the C. O. D. he would receive something. "This does not seem to appeal to common sense," says the Washington Herald. "The question is not wheth er the sender was getting that which did not belong to him. It is whether he obtained something by fraud." It raises a mighty "nice question," as the lawyers say, but as the recipient of the box merely paid the sender what he owed him it is difficult to see how a case in the nature of larceny or any of this family of crimes could be made out against the ingenous creditor. THE GRASSHOPPER YEAR. | Kansas Grandfather Tells of Scourge j That Hit the State in the Seventies. Grasshoppers in Kansas, eh? It's been a long time since we've heard that cry, and a sorrowful enough one it is. too?grasshoppers in Kanj sas. They came the first time, Tom, j in "7 4. when your father was just a . wee bit of a youngster. He says he i can stiil remember how he used to hate to step out the back door, because the hoppers flew up all around him and above his head and whirred in his face. You hear a lot of foolish talk every j year about the seventeen-year locusts but the Rocky Mountain grass-hoppers of the seventies came a heap nearer being the Bible kind of locusts ?the kind Moses brought down upon the land of Egypt to "eat up every green thing." That's what these mis-1 erable pests did all right. It was late summer?most of the small grain had been harvested when they apeared first. I'd gone to town, and your l'nc!e Tom that you're named after?a little bit of a shaver he was then, about 10?was riding herd on a little bunch of cattle. Everybody had some work to do in those early i days in Kansas, even the youngsters, j He had a little old pony, gentle it was, and it was his job to see that our I cattle didn't stray off?there weren't i any fences to speak of in a good part of Kansas in '74. Well, sir. it's the same story that J every one'll tell you that saw the hop-1 pers?they came like a cloua before the sun. Way, way up in the air they fiew, two. three hundred feet above the earth-, and when you looked up, j you could see their wings glittering j in the sunlight like'little flakes of sil-1 ver?or like snow, some folks said, j We'd heard about 'em before, but it j seems like you can never quite realize j a thing of that sort till you see it. I And then they began to drop downi all around, and it seemed like they j hardly got to the earth before they commenced to eat. They weren't particular what they ate. either, just so 'twas green. You . could watch them start on a field of j corn?first the tassels and the silk and the new tender shoots, and then the edges of the big, broad leaves, and finally the very stalks themselves. I drove home pretty quick, but when I got there there wasn't a sign of your Uncle Tom or the cattle. They had just taken out for Nebraska, it looked like. I got on a horse and rode along their trail?it was broad enough so a green New Englander couldn't have lost in, and in about ! three hours or so I found 'em. The cattle had stampeded when the hoppers came?they settled on 'em thick, on their eyes, their noses, all over i 'em?and they put down their heads and plunged off for the north, sullen and stubborn?Tom said for a good while he didn't know whether they meant to stop any short of Nebraska. But the little fellow kept along after them and finally they were plumb played out; he headed 'em around and got them started back toward home. I wonder if you can imagine wliat it looks like to see trees stripped naked in the middle of summer?just standing there with the bare branches and no hint of green. That was what happened when the grasshop- , pers came, and the fields, too, bare . and brown, as if you'd peeled the , crops right off them. They ate the very grass, and dis- ( carded wheat straw was hoarded that , year?we used it to feed the cattle during the winter. As the grasshop- j pers ate the country bare and went , on. or died, they left their eggs be- ] hind?anywhere you could see the sod honeycombed with holes that i looked as if they might have been , punched with an umbrella. And there was a lot of argument about whether or not those eggs would hatch next spring. There was those that insist- < ed and shouted 'emselves red in the face over it that 110 grasshopper eggs < could live through a Kansas winter. "You'll never see the hoppers again," these fellows said, "the win ier li Kin mem suit?. But it didn't. Once in a while, along through the winter, some fellow'd go out and grub up a piece of frozen sod with spade and ax and bring it in and lay it by the lire. i where it was steadily warm. And after a little while, out the baby hoppers would come a-squirming, and he'd sweep sod and grubs and all into the tire and swear cooking was too good for them. We tried all sorts of ways to get rid of the hoppers. Mostly, people burned them, dug trenches and swept the young hoppers in and piled in brush and set the brush on lire. o low that ic ctill nn tilP 5tnt ^ ilt-i t O Ci i C4 > ? 1U ?J 1/ i * * v ** V -- W ^ ? ute books of Kansas that I saw talk of using tlie other day in Ford county. it's called the "Warning-OutLaw," and it provides that township trustees or mayors may call out every man and boy between the ages of 12 and 65 to fight back the grasshoppers. Well, they hatched out all right GOT HIS MONEY BACK. Young Man Lost Sack of Coin in PostoIIice. Charleston, Aug 31.?A nervous but happy young man walked into the olfice of Assistant Postmaster Willard yesterday and claimed a canvas bag containing $400 which he had forgotten eailier in the day on a writing table near the stamp department window. The young man had purchased some stamps, depositing 111s oag ror the time being and then he walked off. leaving the bag. The vigilance of Clerk Webb of the stamp department probably saved the money. Noting the bag 011 the table he had it passed through his window and he took it at once to Mr. Willard's desk, explaining the finding of the money. Shortly after leaving the postoffice the young man missed the bag and retraced his steps. He was identified at the government building and was handed the bag. He fairly beamed with joy when he received his bag. He was nervouse and pale for he had gotten a severe shock, but he was happy with it all. Mr. Willard suggested that he might examine the contents of the bag in his office and ascertain if it was all right, but the young man replied that this was not necessary. He was willing to trust to the integrity of the postoffice officials, and thankirg Mr. Willard he quickly retired from the office. This ISaby Has Six Grandmothers. With six living grandmothers did Joe Hilton Chapman, the month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Chap man, of Piedmont, begin his mundane career on July 27. This record of living ancestors is unique so far as the proud parents of the boy know, and it has caused much comment among their friends and relatives, who are familiar with the unusual circumstances. The Chapmans reside at Xo. 7 Liberty street. On his mother's side, young Master Chapman has one grandmother, Mrs. J. E. Garrison, two great-grandmothers, Mrs. T. J. Garrison and Mrs. Xora Owens; and a great-great-greatgrandmother, Mrs. T. J. Garrison. On his father's side, the infant has one grandmother, Mrs. Jay Chapman, and a great-grandmother, Mrs. Dunn, who is Mrs. Jay Chapman's mother. This unusual combination of living ancestors indicates remarkable longevity in both branches of the family tree, and doubtless augurs a long life, under normal conditions, for the young fellow. ORANGEBURG LIQUOR BOARD. Men Selected For Appointment By Governor Blease. Orangeburg, Sept. 1.?At a meeting of the Orangeburg delegation to the General Assembly, held to-day, the following were elected to comprise the county dispensary board of control: Henry S. Holman, of the Folk section; Abraham S. Dukes, of Branchville, and Joe S. Weeks, of Elloree. There were probably fifty aspirants for positions on the board and a great deal of interest was manifested. It is likely that the dispensary recently voted in will be opened in short order. enough in the spring of '75. At first they couldn't fly, and it was an uncanny thing to see tliern all walking over the ground, a vast moving carpet of them, heads to the north. "A line like an army," says Wilder's Annals. "They leave no grass behind them; a strange sight. They do an immense work and are silent; Carlyle's type of a hero. And they eat up the towns as his heroes devasted empires." The chickens ate so many grasskftnnflve t h o + ruar>nl<a wnilld not eat &11UL . eggs at all; their yolks were very dark and strong?they were "meat eggs." A good many people packed up their scanty belongings and went back east and there were others who stayed because they were too poor to go. The state appropriated $73,000 to relieve the farmers, and counties voted bonds and gave the money to relieve their ^wn residents. Back east people heard about the suffering end sent out boxes of clothing for the ' embattled farmers." And so at last it passed. The hoppers died or flew away; we would find them piled up in heaps in the fence corners, and they had to be carted away and buried. Toward the end of June, in '75, we began replanting corn?it was too late to expect a crop of other sorts of grain that year, and I tell you it was good in the early days of July to see the earth sprouting out green again, to ieei mai tnougn we a ueeu uu, ana hit hard, there wasn't any way of keeping us down. They raised a wonderful lot of corn in Kansas that summer, enough to carry us through the next winter and provide something for men and beasts to eat.? Kansas City Star. WONDERFUL PROCESS IS THIS. Man Says He Can Artificially Matuit Cotton. Every now and then the world is surprised by the perfection of soni( great invention, but we feel sure tha1 none has been more wonderful thar one claimed by Prof. John B. Hall, o: Philadelphia in a talk at Barnwell He came to Barnwell, referred to Col Harry D. Calhoun by Commissionei ^ T IVotcnn in or/ior t a trv hnlli XJ. *J . aiovix, in v/i uvi tv c* j wii? for experimental purposes at his sta tion in Pennsylvania. We copy tin following from the Barnwell People of Thursday in regard to his visit tc that city: That with a new process that h( has only recenly perfected he can df in two hours what it takes nature weeks to accomplish and do it bettei at that, was the assertion made In John B. Hall, of Philadelphia, to i number of planters and representa tive business men in the directors room of the Home Bank of Barnwell Friday evening. For an hour 01 more Mr. Hall told of the results thai have been accomplished, and it was like listening to a fairy tale whereir the good fairy wa^s her magic wand and unheard of things happen But that he was in earnest no one doubted. He was not trying to sel' anything; he had no apparent reasor to wish to humbug any one; he was not asking for something for nothing ?on the contrary he paid and was willing to pay well for what he wanted; i. e., green bolls of cotton. He bought several hundred pounds oi short and several hundred pounds ol long staple cotton bolls at from five to seven and a half cents a pound depending on the variety of the cot ton, and in addition made arrangements for the purchase of several thousands pounds more to be shipped to Philadelphia. At present the experiments are being carried on at a government station. Mr. Hall exhibited a number ol open bolls of cotton which he said were matured by his process. One of them was partly rotted, while another had been punctured by the boll weevil in several places. Yet they had opened and by dyeing the staple a part of it can be used. The boll weevil has cost the farmers ol the southwest millions of dollars by destroying the bolls before they have reached maturity. Mr. Hall claims that with his process the boll weevil will be starved out. At present the experiments are being carried on secretly, as letters patent have not yet been secured, but the method of procedure is as follows: Instead of waiting until the tolls have fully opened, and the cotton is damaged by the weather, the green bolls are picked "like roses." It doesn't matter if they are one, two, three, four or five weeks from maturity. They are then poured intc an immense hopper and pass into the machine where .the maturing process is done. Then the seed cotton is separated from the boll and is car ried to the gin. But what is just as wonderful is that Mr. Hall states that the by-products that can be made from bolls and stalks are as valuable as the cotton itself. He stated that an excellent grade of rubber, paper pulp and gunpowder are among the by-products. Xow, if he can "make good" on his claim he is perhaps the most wonderful man of the age. Think a minute what it would mean. A saving of waste by eliminating immature rrost-bitten bolls and of the cotton that is,blown off by the wind after maturity. The saving of labor, for by picking the whole boll from the plant one workman could do the work of several. It now costs something like $100,000,000 a year to gather the cotton crop of the South, and by cutting this in half there would be a saving of $50,000,000 yearly. Now as to the texture of the staple that is artificially matured; Mr. Hail claims that it is far superior to the same grade of cotton naturally matured "because cotton as matured now on the field while waiting to be picked, is subjected to the dews or chill of the night followed by the heat of the sun next day or possibly some days of rain or climatic conditions of some kind, together with the dirt or dust brown on the cotton. The gloss on the artificially matured cotton would be of a brilliancy and whiteness, far superior to that possible on any cotton naturally matured and exposed to deteriorating weather conditions. The fibre also would certainly be much stronger for the same reason." It is pointed out that by picking the hniic thrpp wppks nr n month before maturity, the strength of the plant would be increased and the remaining bolls would grow larger from the increased substance they would obtain from the plant, and in addition the bolls would be saved from the weather and insect pests. The use of this process would also result in the saving of the top crop, which is so often killed by frost. The time consumed in maturing by j WILLIAMSBURG DECLARED WET.1 DA] i _______ I i Throwing Out of Two Boxes Takes Victory from "Drys." A S 3' Kingstree, August 30.?In the face ; s of strong opposition of eminent coun- j y\ sel, the county board of canvassers) A . j at 6.30 o'clock this evening reversed ?hil 1 I live i the result of the recent dispensary | | election as returned by the mana- j js a | gers. and declared in favor of the dis- j lor , pensary. he c ^ I I 011 c . The fight was waged over the con- . ^ I * 11- A I Itsieu puns ell neuiuil emu. .,iuuu.7 j ggj( , Creek. By the decision of the board calc j this evening, these two boxes were ^ ) thrown out. changing the result of the total vote polled in the county 'to 0f ^ > a majority of 17 for the dispensary, calc } as against a majority of 2 previous- . E j ly reported in lavor of the "dry" ' forces. sen. The "drys" were represented by ant< former Judge R. O. Purdy, of Sumter, Pe0 and Charlton Durant, Esq., of .Man ning. ' any ?: effe the Hail process is said to be very short, ranging from two to three : hours. It is estimated that one man j 5 can mature from six to ten bales a the 1 day, according to the size of the ma- ed: ; chine. , Prol ; DO IT NOW ir i the tclt0 5 Bamberg People Should Not Wait ju(j, i Until It Is Too Late. B > The appalling death rate from kid - cey disease is due in most cases to , ; the fact that the little kidney troubles rake . ' are usually neglected until they be. come serious. The slight symptoms1 M often give place to chronic disorders ( '! and the sufferer may slip gradually in- laflES ' | to some serious form of kidney com i ' | plaint. I If you suffer from backache, head- 3 [ f ache, dizzy spells; if the kidney se-)8| 1 | cretions are irregular of passage and w . j unnatural in appearance, do not de- j| lay. Help the kidneys at once. 3 | uoan s J\iuney .riiis are esye^iaiijr ug .' for kidney disorders?they act where e , ' i others fail. Over one hundred thou- D ' sand people have recommended them, g : j Here is one of many cases in this ra f j Vicinity. ! I D. J. Pelk, Main St., Bamberg, S. C., j |j ^ ;!says: '"Doan's Kidney Pills procured ; Ugg ;1 at the People's Drug Co. have been ___ , j used in our family for kidney comj | plaint and backache and have brought p : great benefit. I am confident that ^ * Doan's Kidney Pills are a good kidney ! medicine and act just as represented." X ; For sale by all dealers. Price 50 [ cents. Foster-Milbum Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United j . States. o- O; Remember the name?Doan's?and i . take no other. + - i m If A R L I I'WSCHC BAMBERG, A standard "A" Grade School own A School with High Standards o Moral Atmosphere; Positive Christif Twelve Acre Campus. Handsome letic Field. Study Hall conducted Health. Pure Artesian Water. Teachc ; a*-.-,,***.****, wpmc T.mn?T Willi OlltllClllS* JL JU1 JLiV IV JUiA Grade in the State. A SCHOOL THAT IT WOULD PA I Twenty-first year begins Sept. 24. I J. CALDWELL GUILDS J I'; jPfe! . it ^^_ Of course you do. E especially if you hav turn out. You can fi are looking for at o stock of buggies anc be beat and the pri< reach of all. We all extra nice horses tha ? 1?C ? ? J Cm T f I7A51 suippeu in* it juw and look them over. I J. J. SJV Sale and Livery Stable VGEROUS CALOMEL 4 GOING OUT OF USE. afer, More Reliable Remedy Has Taken Its Place in the Ding Store and in the Home. l few years ago. men, women and dren took calomel for a sluggish r and for constipation. They took ;s when they did so, for calomel dangerous drug. Your family docwill be the first to tell you this if liscovers you dosing yourself with mi el. lut the drug trade has found a ?r, more pleasant remedy than imel in Dodson's Liver Tone. 'he Peoples Drug Store tells us t their drug store sells Dodson's / 3i* Tone in practically every case iliousness and liver trouble where nnel used to be taken. )odson's Liver Tone is a vegetable r tonic that is absolutely harmless children and grown people. It s for 50 cts. a bottle and is guarded to be entirely satisfactory by pies Drug Store who will refund r money with a smile if it does < give quick, gentle relief without of calomel's unpleasant after- 1 cts. A NOTICE TO CREDITORS. J o all and singular the creditors of estate of G. W. Fail, Sr., deceasNotice is hereby given that a . rence will be held in the office of bate Judge for Bamberg county, lamberg, S, C., on the 8th day of 1913, ten o'clock, a. m., for T purpose of hearing testimony on proof of claims against said esG. P. HARMON, ee of Probate tor mmberg uo. amberg, S. C., August 18th, 1913. ' To Cure a Cold in One Day LAXATIVE BROJIO Quinine. It stops th< ti 2nd Headache and works off the Cold, fists refund money if it fails to cure. . GROVE'S signature on each box. 25c. The Augusta Fish Co. Augusta, Ga. Wholesale Fish and Oysters ^ Always Fresh j your Orders Shall Receive Our Prompt Attention A trial order, large or small, is all we ask. ii in?? 1 tILEY & COPELAND f Successors to W. P. Riley. ^ Fire, Life | Accident INSURANCE | ffice in J. D. Copeland's Store BAMBERG, S. C. X 5Fp1 JUL JL< s. c. ied by Wofford College, f Scholarship; Wholesome, i in Influences. New Dormitory. New Athby Teacher. Unsurpassed ts and Matrons live in BuildI than any School of Similar Y YOU TO INVESTIGATE. Write for Catalogue, fl f. A., Head Master J FIRST-CLASS PAIR WORK OMPT SERVICE rick's Garage * UMBERG, S. C. ! to Ride? Everybody does, | e an up-to-date nd the kind you ur place. Our 1 harness can't j :es are within so have several t have just been need one come | ' 'i lOAK Bamberg, S. C. J! -y t ...r.