Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IBantfrrnj ralii I ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KNIGHT, Editor. Published every Thursday in The( Herald building, on Main street, in, the live and growing City of Bam-; berg, being issued from a printing ofiiee which is equipped with Mer-[ gen thaler linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a line Miehle cylinder press, all run by J electric power with other material i .\nd machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an invest-; inpnt. of ?10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year ? 15 u; | six months, 75 cents; three months, 50 cents. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. I 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, j 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 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. fnu?M?^nTT Wornk 9fi 1Q14 X liUi ibUClJf , ATJLCU VX1 UV| There is no movement on foot to keep the people from hearing the State candidates this summer, much as some politicians would like to have it so appear. Any "candidate \ can arrange his own meetings and should do so. But while we are about it, suppose we get down to facts. There never was a time, except during the campaign of 1S90. when any considerable number of the voters of any county attended a campaign meeting*. Two years ago the campaign for governor was bitter and sensational, and yet in Bamberg county not fifty per cent, of the voters attended the meeting held here. It was the same in every county, no doubt, and many of those who do attend the meetings go for the purpose of encouraging their candidate. Their minds are already made up and they vote accordingly. Very few votes are changed as the result of campaign speeches. How can any man discuss what the politicians are pleased to term the "issues" in the short ' 1? o of io time allowed eacn speauci. ??, the county-to-county campaign is nothing but a farce and should be abolished. / System of Cotton Grades. New York, Mar. 17.?Submission to the nine type system of cotton grading favored^ by the United States government was acknowledged to-day by the board of managers of the New York cotton exchange in the adoption of a resolution making the government standard types of cotton the basis for trading on and after April 1, 1915. The resolution reads: "Resolved. That the government standard types of the following grades of cotton, i. e., middling fair, strict good middling, good middling, strict middling, middling, strict low middling, low middling, strict good ordinary and good ordinary, shall i be the basis for determining the grade of all cotton for delivery upon contracts maturing on and at-1 ter April 1, 1915." The 23 cotton grades heretofore maintained by the New York cotton exchange have been criticised se- j verely in the South and it was said | by some of those in touch with the situation tl)6t to-day's action was j taken to forestall possible antago- j nistic legislation by congress. j The nine grade system has been applied by the New Orleans exchange for years and is said to sim- | plify the marketing of the product. Conciliatory action was taken last , fall by the New York exchange, but the concession did not completely appease dissatisfaction in the element which has insisted on a complete surrender, it is said. Many Brown People. With a total population in the British empire of more than 419,AAA CSr* T A fbolotcino Raino? V VV^V V Vj KJJLZ. ?J *-rv?.Mw finds that outside of the United Kingdom and certain other parts are lands of 362,000,000 inhabitants showing more or less different races or color, every 10.000 persons averaging 3S9 white. 28 mixed. S,4 70 brown. 401 yellow, 45 Malay, six Polynesian, 658 black and three red. Outside of India, each 10.000 in these lands contains 2.935 white. 1,070 brown and 5,046 black. In Australia about 9,$83 in 10,000 are white; Canada, nearly as many; New Zealand, 94 per cent; South Africa. 22 per cent, and India, only six per 10,000. < OLD PUEBLO CITY. Aconia Found By Explorer Covonadc in 1542. Acoma. the Publeo Indian cit: down in New Mexico, is said to b< the oldest city in the Western Hemis | phere. It was in full bloom whet j Coronado in I'd. came across it 01 an exploring tour northward fron i .Mexico. He found, says the Toron | to Mail and Empire, the Pueblo In | dians doing things that they are do ing to-day and doing it in the sami fashions, and the houses on th? rocky islands that rise several hun dred feet out of the plains are th< same houses that Coronado's eye rested on -as he came on the Indiai city. St. Augustine, which is often re ferred to as the oldest city in tin Tnited States, was not found unti 1565, when Menendez came on Flori da. while chasing a French ship un der #Rebault. Years before Corona do found it Acoma was a recognize; abode of the Pueblo Indians. Tin Pueblos told Coronado that thei first city was on Katzimo, tin rocky island three miles away which is also called the "Enchante< Mesa." Many years ago, they toh the Spanish explorer, the origina Acoma rested on the top of Katzimo One day, while all but three wo I men were in the plains below th tableland, a great cliff fell, destroy ing the trail from the plains to tin ! ancient city. The Indians took thi as an indication of the Grea Spirit's displeasure over somethin; they had done, and to punish then had cut off the path to their city Instead of clearing the path and re turning to their old homes on to; j of Katzimo the Publos went to ai adjoining tableland and there se up the present city of Acoma, tin 1 same city that Coronado visited ii i 1542. The Pueblos look at the old cit on its rocky site nearly 4 00 feet ii the afr, as a sacred place, and wo< to the person caught trying to pene j trate its precincts, j The present city of Acoma is on ; ! niotaon timt risps 250 feet out 0 (the arid plains of Xew Mexico. Th< I sides of the plateau, a mass of browi [sandstone, are almost straight. TV .get to the top one must climb crude stairway cut in the stone. O: top one will find three or four row of priniitive apartment houses. Thes houses are three stories high and ar built on each side of streets 1,00< feet long. The houses follow a lin< that seems even straighter than th building line in big cities, since, th houses are all of the same type o architecture and are built up close t the line. The streets, too, are 10< feet wide, which may be another fea ture that- modern city builders ma; have copied .from the red men of th southwest. One may be sure that the Pueblo did not get the idea of broad street and building lines from the whit man's cities, for 100-foot streets an< building lines were laid down year and years before palefaces cam across the ocean. These things wen a part of Acoma when Coronado call ed on the Pueblos in 1 -14 2. Anothe feature of this .quaint city is tha ' i5- ^ ? T?Krv I nouses nave nai ruuis. i uc uppc floors are reached by outside stair ways in the shape of ladders. Thi second floor is ten feet shorter thai the first and the third floor is tei feet shorter than the second. Thi ten feet serves as yards for each o the apartments. In summer the In dian and family use' this yard fo sleeping. In winter he sleeps in doors. Houses are built of mud, ordinar; Xew Mexico mud, shaped into block and baked hard. After centuries un der the fierce rays of the sun thi blocks get as hard as stone. The wall: are seamless. After the blocks wen placed, the Indian builders smearet the joints with mud, which in tinn became part of the blocks. The wall: of most of the houses are eight fee thick. In the early days they wen often attacked by the warring In dians of the southwest, as they knev the Pueblo city was always wel stocked with foodstuff. In the cit; ? * ^ - J. 2J. 3 4 i is a catnearai *u ieei wiue aim t< feet high. It has two towers ii which swing bells. The cathedral i built of mud just as the other house in the settlement. The roof is sup ported by rafters that would serv as masts in big sailing ships. Thesi rafters the Indians pulled twent; miles across the plains from the Sai Mateo mountains. Appendicitis Policies Too Popular. London, .March 19.?A group o Lloyds underwriters several month ago fixed a premium of $2.50 fo policies on insurance against ap pendicitis covering all claims for ex penses up to $500. There have beei so many claims that it is being foun< impossiDie to continue uiese terms A new syndicate has been formed however, and the premium has beei raised to $ ">. Read The Herald. $1.50 a year. - \ DOGS AS BLANKETS. > I Cutlery Workers at Thiers Fit Them Great Comforts. I t- Every visitor to one of the gre ? Paris stores will have noticed coil - ters covered with table cutlery of tl i characteristic French pattern1 broad curved blades and horn .1 black bone handles, excellent ste - and very cheap. Almost all this - made at Thiers and by hand, sa - Scribner's .Magazine. But there is i ? external sign of manufacture, and e traveler might pass through the tov - without suspecting a great industr & The swift flowing Durolle suppli s power at the bottom of a deep ai .1 narrow gorge, on the steep side which the apparently sleepy town - built. At one story below stre e level we came to the forges of t' 1 chief firm. Here, with extraordina - quickness and skill the knives a - hand ?prged?blade, hilt and tang from steel bars, then tempered one 1 i one, and two stories lower down, e river level, in a long, dark, dan r cellar, they are ground, and it is t e method of this process, unique so f as I know, that makes the indust 3 of Thiers worth a moment's descri d tion. ,1 The river turns a score of erne i. wheels about a yard in diameter, ai - above each of these is a narrow,-sic e ing platform six feet lonf and ty - feet wide. Along each of these, fl e and face downward, lay a grind* s man or woman, grasping a blade t the two ends and pressing it by t * i whole weight of the body against t n revolving wheel just below. T long row of stretched-out bodies ga - a grim impression of something I P [ tween a field hospital and a nu n I tuary. t The foreman assured us that e was much easier work thus to pre i against the wheel by one's weig than to sit and press by the force y one's arms. But to lie thus almc n motionless all day long in a da q cellar, far below the ground lev . is about as dreary and unhealthy way for a human being to pass 1 a life as can be imagined. The pla f itself can not be warmed, but to ke e at least a little heat in their bodi [i and stave off rheumatism as long 3 possible the grinders have adopt a the extraordinary expedient of trai n ing dogs to lie all day upon them s dogs of all sorts and sizes. The e they lay, curled up on the backs e their owners' thighs, living hat b< > ties. e Talked and Sang Without Tongi e e Xew York, March 23.?Thomas f Maguire, veteran theatrical mar 0 ger, who lived and talked and sa D for 10 years without a tongue, di yesterday of cancer. It was his lo y for cigars that brought about t e loss of his tongue. He smoked frc 25 to 30 cigars almost every day f s more than 20 years. Cancer develc s ed. One operation failed and e March, 1904, Mr. Maguire greet 3 his friends for what he believed w s the last time and submitted to t e operation in which the whole tong e was removed. Almost immediately after t r operation Maguire showed signs t recovery and within four months r woe intorvipwprf nnnn the sensatio ' he was experiencing in his life wit 6 out a tongue. He wrote his answe I with pencils and pen and ink. Se II eral months later Mr. Maguire d s covered thafc his power of speech h; f not been destroyed. He often said that he found sin r ing easier than talking. Magui - was born in San Francisco and w 57 years old. s Policemen Suspended. 5 Spartanburg, March 18.?The p s lice made a raid on an alleged d a orderly place and found E. B. Dun j a policeman, there. City conn e held a meeting to-night and suspen s ed Dunn. Dunn has the distinctl t of being nearly seven feet tall. e Read The Herald, $1.50 a "yeai ; DEPRESSED SPIRIT: 0 * Everyone Has it Withi s His Power to be Happy. A celebrated French physician1 sj e that "a man's liver is the baromei y of his disposition."' a Every man and every worn knows that the cheerful smile is big factor in one's success. Everyone should know that t disordered liver is cause of nin< per cent of human ills. Lazy ovi worked livers are the prime caus of headaches, indigestion, constii s tion and dozens of other ills, r But the inactive liver always war t/maiin cnil r ctOIYlJl^h H I? U * V-VUt^u IVUJ5UV, wvy V?1 wvv*^MN/?.f v* eye and even laziness. Heed vc warning and you insure happiness 1 yourself and reflect it upon your j 3 sociates. Calomel used to do. AI< ; ern dav science has found a beti ! way in CARSWELL'S LIVER-A ' which is a pure vegetable remedy 1 sale under guarantee or money : fund at 50 cents for large bott Ask Mack's Drug Store, Bambe: S. C., about it. 1 The Nc - -Bp ? |j| (i!j \ , i Although To $H \I(: H1 1 \ against u, " Sils "Ifv* Day, we w * f \V v ri results- L ^ 55S II 'V'iJ |^% another si >e- *55 V / fitiW Pattern H )r" Sfiri |v f ^1(1 show you ~ 1 V-'l^ s || ^ ep Ready-to-Wea ed We wish to announce that \ ? plete line of Children's ?f ^ Blouses, House Dresses, Linf Dresses, and Shirt Waists. e #^2 tion of this line you will be ,a- 25S we can ?^er suc^ meritoi ed |?|j such low prices. Se Don't fad tc of Vals and 'l'o ll ^ IpMi Bands, Gallo< 'rS lie ' overs, and F1 ad ^ illSS' all<1 Plai *|f ^0^ Tub Silks a] " H We offer a a- ed effects?D i*vl tastefully patterned and exq ?**' a- .^',1 n. Illcticncud. \/ui o|/cvicu j/j ~ make it worth your while t fH selections. j^| Although we anticipated a big s ud gfl largely while at the markets, we an lis receiving goods daily. Come in a you ^at we ^ headquarters f the ladies. )a- ! We await mm w w i your inspec- J V 7 Tglj 1^" LaVerne In 71 CorseTCoders. Former^ C" W" ReIltZ B AMBER on ' Gowns, Etc. Store S IT = as 9 I SSfc \ iwest Goods 1 ^ Millinery j|jj the "weather man" was s for our second Opening ere well pleased with the ast Saturday we received upply of New and Stylish jjr# [ats. Come in and let us before they are all sold. - * 3Si | ; * !| ve have a com- fjP Dresses, Boys' jjj|| Upon inspec- |j^| surprised that jylP^ ^ ) and Embroideries ' ) see our special values in 5^ j\ rchons, Edgings, Insertions, j ins, Beadings, Reveres, Alllouncings, Ruchings, Ruffltings. jj^ id Dress Goods ^ > 11 of the favor- fjp \ ? -lustrous, soft, 55* uisitely colored ^|l|plrea IjE^ ripoe An th#?A SftS ??VVO V?? ?t?vwv yt?"> ' 'V'Vi V'"'?! -j?^ i i S8? :o make early jgsp|||J| J&J easoo and bought ^ are ordering and Wiw . US nd let us prove to w I'sH or everything for ^ ; ^ 1 OP We are Iff Omasa 10. Always |g and K. I. Shuck & Co. in the J&J . ' to, s. c. Lead +** i 1 M - j ' ' ' " ^