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V' tyqe iambrrg feralb 1 __ ?? ??????? One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3,1914. Established 1391. ??? ' 41 COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, August 31.?Several rattlers have been killed recently in *? 1 3 T T pATUi mis neiguuuriiuuu. :?n. land killed a rattler about six feet long with 15 rattles and button, last week. Cotton, cotton, is all that the people are interested in. Can't get any Drice offered for it on the market. Farmers can't pay anything as they can't sell. What's to be done? The situation is somewhat alarming to those who have fertilizer note6, and others, maturing. No use to urge them too strongly, as they can't help the stagnant business. The warehouse question is slow. The cotton is here and talk does not relieve the situation worth a cent. Mr'. Geo. B. Kearse has quit the cotton for the present and is giving his attention to fox hunting; says that's the way he is enjoying the war situation. Well, the end of August is here, and some accounts are to be made up and collected. Expect the magis.* trates will be the best bill presenters. Well, the candidates must have had plenty heat as they were scratched by plenty of voters last week. Surely our people-are not all to be pulled into something that is no good all the time. Our electric plant has not given us any light for two weeks or more. Something' wrong, bad. Sam W. Copeland is pushing his warehouse to completion now; going to have it ready shortly. There is a meeting going on at Bethany that is entertaining the audience. No one makes any comment on an auto driver when he goes in a ditch now-a-days: only go to work and give him aid to get out; "neighborly." JEE. URGES VOTERS TO DO DUTY. Anti-Blease Men Should Not Fail to j Go to Polls. Editor The Herald:?I should like va-rv oamastlv thp voters JUU I,%J UlgV ^ that stand for good government to go to the box Sept. Sth and have a part in finishing the job. Blfease is dead, and now let us take no chances on the "ism." The Bleaseites should not feel this appeal for we grant it their privilege to stay at home and mourn with the mourners over the dead. We should deal the same blow to Bleaseism all down the line, for there ? is no wholesomeness to the "ism," whether high or low office. We are not scared, no, not even uneasy, but no one can aford to take chances on a bad issue. The more ' thoroughly you destroy it the less trouble it is afterwards, i Bleaseism may be like the earth worm?we know it is m Deing iow? they tell us that if the earthworm is broken in two parts, each part will develop a whole worm; the tail will develop a head and the head will develop a tail, each will develop its { counterpart. Let's be earnest and active; as we have the head dead, lets deal out the same overwhelming death blow to all the tails, that they may have no chance to grow heads from their low level. . VOTER Ehrhardt, S. C., Aug. 31. 1914. ALUM FOR SNAKE BITE. Idaho Man Says It is a Sure Cure for Rattler's Venom. There is a little danger in the bite of a rattlesnake, and no reason at all that it should result in death, according to L. C. Post, of Caldwell, who says that he has gone through the experience and has not suffered t seriously. In this season, when the snake is said to be blind and to strike f without warning, the remedy for hites -which he recommends and in which he has absolute faith may be of interest. In a letter he writes: "I see accounts of persons being bitten by rattlesnakes. If parties going into localities where they are liable to be bitten by the reptile would carry a little alum with them and make a solution of it and wash the wound thoroughly and apply a compress and keep well saturated with the solution, and also take two or three grains internally every hour and not overdo or get excited, I positively know there is no need of anyone dying from a rattlesnake bite." s* ?*? i COTTON ORGANIZATION. Bamberg Cotton Association Formed Thursday Last. SO Pursuant to call issued by the State congress a meeting of the Bamberg County Cotton congress was held in the court house Thursday. A large number of farmers, merchants, bankers and lawyers were present, and all seemed to be united to attain the same end, to wit: relief wa for the people of the South during 0I1 these war times. Mr. J. D. Copeland, Jr., of Bam- vi! berg, was elected temporary chair- a man, with J. A. Wyman, temporary secretary, after which a permanent Wfi organization was completed with the m( election of W. L. Riley, of Denmark, president, and the following vice ^ presidents: J. D. Copeland, Jr., BamCO' berg; J. B. Guess, Jr., Denmark; Dr. J. L. Copeland, Ehrhardt; J. D. *n Rhoad. Hunters Chapel; H. H. 0 Kirkland, Olar; J. W. Hill, Midway; W. E. Free, secretary and treasur- lui er. pa th A committee on nomination was appointed, and nominated the follow- _ t h ing as a warehouse committee: J. A. Wyman, A. L. Kirkland, St. Clair . Cu Guess. E. E. Hughes. J. H. Fender, re< and J. W. Hill, who were duly elected. On motion of S. G. Mayfield, Esq., a resolution was unanimously passed asking the governor to call an extra session of the legislature to pass a standard warehouse bill. Mr. C. F. Rizer, member of tie State warehouse committee addressed the convention, and in a very clear and logical speech told the people what his views were on the present crisi6, and among other matters stressed very strongly the need of immediate action to the building of | standard warehouses to take care of ! the present cotton crop. Mr. Rizer also read the following i resolution adopted by the State congress as to the formulating of a plan for warehousing and financing the cotton crop, which was adopted: "Whereas, on the 19th day of August, 1914, the South Carolina Cotton Congress was organized in Columbia for the purpose of devising ways and means for the handling of the cotton crop of South Carolina for the year 1914, and at said meet ing Dr. Wade Stackhouse was elected president of said congress, who, on motion, appointed a committee for the purpose of formulating a plan for the warehousing and financing of said crop, "Resolved, That we, the said committee so appointed, do recommend:: "That at the county meetings called for next Thursday, August 27, 1914, each county elect a warehouse committee composed of one live, active farmer for each township, and that such committee elect its own chairman; that the county chairman, elected as aforesaid, meet with the warehouse committee of the South Ca.rolina Cotton congress in Columbia, South Carolina, on the first day of September, 1914, for the purpose of organizing a State warehouse committee. "That each county chairman attend the aforesaid meeting on the first day of September, 1914. pre- se pared to report how much cottcn can be stared, or warehoused, in his respective county in such manner as to be protected from the weather and whether cotton so warehoused w can be insured; and further, and in 6C addition thereto, report to what extent the tanks in his respective county can finance said cotton so warehoused aid insured for a period of six months and the amount per pound of cotton the banks will be 61 willing to lend upon such cotton so j warehoused and insured. ^ ! "That at the county meetings to | be held on Thursday, August 27, 1914, a resolution be passed by each ai county organization urging the farmers not to offer for sale any cotton a until the State warehouse committee has formulated and published some S plan to prevent this 1914 cotton crop st being sold at ruinous prices." The association, on motion of. S. G. Mavfield, Esq.. placed itself *n squarely on record as being opposed *r S3 to the passage of a "stay law." The matter of warehousing cotton was pc unanimously referred to the county ^ warehouse committee, which was St called to meet lmmeaiuieiy anei tut adjournment of the association. 01 A resolution introduced by Mr. H. bj C. Crum, and unanimously adopted, ac was as follows: in "Resolved: That this association w favors the passage of a law bv our oi legislature which will prevent the ta planting of more than ten acres to tk the plow in cotton for the year 1915: Provided; that the other Southern I THE PALMETTO STATE Mr ME OCX TERENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Se ?te News Foiled Down for Quick fifi Reading?Paragraphs About Sa Men and Happenings. ne an CJtl Mrs Alvin W. Gilmore, of Union. t61 is killed in an automobile accident . , ba Sunday. no George King, a youth of Green- aQ le, was killed when he stepped 0:1 wc live wire. Hugh Mooney, 18 years of age, an is drowned while bathing in Clair- h? >nt lake, at Greenville on Sunday. lei A company of coast artillery from tic arlo*tnt? together with two other pr mpanies, has been ordered to Pan- lir la canal, for duty on the canal jo: ratifications. hi: At a cotton conference held in Co- pr robia Tuesday resolutions were ssed calling on the farmers to hold Su eir cotton until October 1, unless an e price reaches 12 cents; that oneird of the crop be held for a year less the price of 12 cents is secui, and that the acreage for 1915 be duced 50 per cent. ka Senator E. D. Smith. 'e! m< d \i LEe se Dillon th An Person ou ea Chester . It WilliaMsburg th Union cr SparTanburg th RicHland ad pr l>atrens re Lexi Ngton . WftTrfiplri in HampTon gc GreEnville wi Dorchester Chesterfield SumTer st: OrAngeburg d Charles Ton al Gre En wood ^ KerShaw w ta DorcheSter b AbbEville w, BarNwell til BeAufort George Town YOrk New'joRrv Ej Edge Field FloRence HOrry BaMberg aJ pe JaSper h< OcOnee w SalUda m Da rling Ton " Calfloun ai ca PiCkens ^ Lane Aster cr MaRlboro CherOkee , t dl Horltft I Arken ?j Clare Ndon 0t MArion *c h< ?M. M. Buford in Newberry Ob- pi rver. tt ? p( Wasted. V( Miss Maud Lessing was telling us ie other day that soon after she ?11 ent to Germany she was interview- _ fp i by the representative of a British K1 jwspaper, says the Washington cs ar. The interviewer complimented her * 1 being able to speak her lines in ie piece without a trace of a for- te gn accent. "Oh." replied Miss Lessing frivo- ec usly. "I olay in five languages? sr erman, French, American, English id Irish." * Poor Mies Lessing expected at ast a smile at her little joke, but , 16 ie interviewer wrote it down quite rirmslv and in due course the ' atement appeared in print. Almost immediately another newsiper chided her, solemnly informte g her that American, English and ish were practically one and the ime language. "Mis6 Lessing," it )inted out, "should know better cr ian to make a mistake like this." . to :ates pass a similar law." ai It seemed to be the concensus of tli J1U1ULI Uv <iii cocac <xuu cajjctiau; cu those who had been taking an hi :tive part in the matter of financ- til g the cotton crop that the worst ould not come, but that the needs ' everybody would be supplied cerinly to such an extent as will tide tu ie people over the present crisis. W. E. FREE, m Secretary. th LOSES HIS LIFE IX GIN. Preston Seigler Victim of Horri hie Accident. Aiken, Aug. 31.?Mr. Presto igler. of the Eureka section, abou teen miles from Aiken, lost his lif turday morning in a dreadful mar r. He was working around his gi d in some way his arms wer ught in the saws. Both arms wer ribly mangled and one-shoulde dly crushed. It took nearly a ur to get his arms from the gi d it is stated that he directed th ?rk of taking the gin down. Mr. Seigler was 23 years of ag d was married about a year ag< i was a brother of Mr. Cecil Seii ', county superintendent of educt in, and was of one of the mof ominent families in South Car< 1a. He was a man of mean6, ei yed the respect of all who kne m, and was a young man of muc omise. The funeral services were hel nday afternoon at Eureka churc d interment v.-as made in the fan Docking Absentee Statesmen. Ey a vote of 213 to 27 the hous .s passed a resolution revoking a ives of absence and docking a embers who remain away. This d< iction from salary will cost the al ntee about $20 a day, such beir e amount that Uncle Sam hant it ttf a senator or representative f< ch of the 365 1-4 days of the yea is the expectation, consequentl at absenteeism will te greatly d eased. But nobody need suppcx at this "resolution could have bee lopted except under the stronge essure and with the most obvioi luctance. There was justice, to Minority Leader Mann's complaii at the resolution cane only aft mthern members were throui ith primary campaigns which we e equivalent of elections, whi Drthern members had their troubl ill ahead. Democratic Leader U: srwood was doubtless believed 1 1, however, when he declared th was simpiy government necessi hich inspired the step. And ce inly congressional salaries will 1 stter eanned during the next U eeks than they have been for a loi me past.?Charlotte Observer. CHICKENS CHEW TOBACCO. ergs and Flesh Not Fit for Fcx When Habit is Acquired. Ever see chickens chew tobacc< iked Norman Mclnnes at the Ii irial. Mr. Mclnnes lias made h ime for 18 years in Nicaragu here he is the manager of sever ines. "Down in Bluefields some years ai 1 American started a ncwspap illed the Bluefields American. O: ' his efforts was directed toward i easing the limited output of th irt of the coast, which used to pr ice only rubber and mahogany..F le thing, he advised the cultivate ' tobacco. During one of my tri i Bluefields he gave rre some see i had gotten from Havana, and anted them in a little patch ne le mine, where I had already e irimented successfully with raisii jgetables. "On my next trip to the States )ught some fine Leghorn chlcke id took them back. I neglected nee them up and the first thing aew they were scratching up n ? A T iDDages ana lomawes. ou i ire fence around the place whe had planted the tobacco and qua red them there. "The first thing they did was it every blade of grass and eve eed in the place. Thp tobacco, lould have mentioned," had grov ie first season as tall as my hea id then had reseeded itself. \Vh< ie chickens were put in with it tl aves had dried. So the chicken iving swallowed everything gree ade an attack on the tobacco." "But how did the chickens che ie tobacco when they have i eth?" a listener asked. "Simplest thing in the world," r ied Mr. Mclnnes. "They chewi as chickens usually chew?in the aws. Pretty soon the eggs begt > develop a strong nicotine flavc id soon got so that I could not e ~ * ~11 \ A TT-ll on thp nipat Till CL L ell I. AUU ?? *?V4i w*. ie chickens was brought on the t e it tasted so strongly of tobac iat I had to send it away." A Strong Point. "Fat girls are said to be good-r. ired." "Take my advise, old man, ai arry a thin one. They can fast< leir own waists up the back." TO WAREHOUSE COTTON i PLAN' FORMED TO RELIEVE SITUATION*. n it e Tempo: ary Warehouse Will Be Erecti e<I in Bamberg Within Few n Days. e At a meeting of citizens Saturday :r afternoon, the Bamberg Cotton Waren house company was launched, and a n committee appointed, consisting of e Messrs. C. B. Free, W. D. Rhoad and J. W. Stokes, to apply for a commise sion from the secretary of State. The 5* committee immediately made application, and a commission was issued l" yesterday. !t Immediate steps will he taken to ** complete organization, open books of 1_ subscription, and begin work on the w proposed warehouse, k At the meeting Saturday afternoon plans were discussed for the building ^ of a warehouse by the quickest metbk od to meet the regulatione and renniFomaiife r?f tVio foHoral authorities 4UW VI ? - and the insurance companies, in order that cotton stored in the warehouse can be drawn upon from the ;e federal funds. , II Mr. C. B. Free outlined a plan he II had evolved as the most, practicable method of erecting an approved warehouse to meet the requirements. lg This method will doubtless be adopt}s ed by the company and followed. 11 )r will require only a few days in which r> to have such a warehouse ready foi y, storing cotton. The plan of Mr e_ Free, briefly stated, is as follows: se Cut cypress poles and put them ir ?n the ground for posts, so as to const struct a shed of the size that may b( is needed to hold the first few hundrec o, bales of cotton; make it wide enougt at so that there will be passage ways er and the cotton can be put in rows, sc jh that the stamping on each bale wii: re be exposed and where the cotton car le be counted. Of course it is contem es plated that this shed will be coveret n- with corrugated iron or some cover jy ing acceptable to the insurance com at panies. It is also contemplated tha ty the sheds so constructed shall be pu x- in some lot surrounded by barbe< be wire, and that some one who is re iw sponsible shall act as bookkeeper an< lg day guard, and keep a record of th< cotton stored, as well as watch it This party, together with a nigh guard, will be paid by the partie who put cotton in the sheds. v/1 It is stated that the insurance com * - ? ;'1 - AW/l InntixA fV?/ PSD16S Will aypiuve aiiu iiiouic vu< cotton so stored. As the cotton come in and. more shedding is needed, i can be extended indefinitely and thu lls the cotton sheds can be covered. s< ia> as to receive a part, and while tin other part it still coming in, addi tional space can be provided at prac 50 tically the cost of the covering, fo er the farmers can do the balance 0 ae the work themselves. By adopting this or some simila plan, it is believed that the cottoi situation can be relieved in Bamberj county within a short time. Beside being very economical the ware ps house may be extended as needs re j quire to any size, and the work o enlarging may be done expeditiously ar x_ Tuesday the committee visitei 3g Charleston to look over the situation Dut were not greauy cutuuia6cu j er the prospect of assistance fron QS that city, and determined to prose t0 cute the plans for the local ware j housing of cotton, av After the meeting Saturday, S. G a Mayfield. Esq., wired to the commis re sioner of agriculture outlining th< r. plans and requesting comment fron him on the plans. He received th< t0 following letter in reply: rv "In regard to the latter ;'.art o I your inquiry by wire today, I beg t< m say that McAdoo, himself, may b< d, quoted in regard to what will be con ?n sidered a warehouse as things nov he stand without any further nationa is, legislation. He says: n. " *1 stated here yesterday that i was my purpose to accept from th< w banks and currency associations note: 10 and obligations secured by warehous< receipts, properly certified and - is e- sued by responsible warehouse mei 2d or warehouse companies. I do no :ir say that those warehouses have go in to be bfiilt of brick, stone, steel, o: ?r, anything else, or that they must b< at bonded. All I ask is that thos< * ? -1?11 o nh a r oi warenouses suaw uc ui auvu ?. a- acter as to protect the cotton itsel co from deterioration or destruction that adequate insurance can be offer ed. and backed by responsible agen cies, so that when their warehous< a- receipts are issued we will know tha they represent something actuall: id in storage there, something that cat ?n be had on presentation of receipts I said we would accept those as se I curity under this act." ' "Under the new federal cotton warehouse bill, which has already unanimously passed the senate, and which will unquestionably pass the house, being reported unanimously favorable by the house committee onagriculture, the term "warehouse* I j is defined to mean 'every building, compress, gin house, and other constructions in which any cotton is or may be stored or held for or in course or interstate or roreign commerce, which means that a man's own barn or his own farm can be made a federal government bonded warehouse, and of course would cover the class of warehouses that you refer to absolutely. Of course the act requires ? x that federal inspectors, when application for licenses for warehouses j are made, 6hall determine whether | such warehouses for which licenses are applied for are suitable for the proper storage or holding of cotton. ] "In any event, there can be no doubt whatever that the warehouse which you propose is just as good a proposition in the eyes of the law, ^ and will be considered such by the secretary of the treasury, as any modern storage warehouse with sprinkler system. Of course, the in! surance rate will necessarily be high- rm er, but that can be reduced by keep; ing a watchman, running barbed wire fences around, by packing the cotton sectionally with the asbestos paper between so that; in case of fire only one section would be in danger, and j| in preparation for water protection. The sprinkler system of course carrying the lowest rate of insurance. "I might say for your information that down in Louisiana we have al1 ready submitted to tie London-Liver- , " pool & Globe company the question i as to whether or not they would in1 sure cotton stored on the steps in a 1 farmer's residence, on the portico, or in a room, and Mr. John M. Parker, ) of New Orleans, was assured by the 1 representative of that company that 1 his company would consider such storage a safe risk. I doubt how ever, if storage to this extent?I " mean on the piazza and in a room in " a man's house, would come under t Mr. McAdoo's construction of the t mpatiin? of a nrnner warehouse, and 1 I merely mention it to show you to ~ what extent the insurance may be * obtained. B "If I mistake not, the laying of a pine pole foundation on the ground t and the piling of cotton upon it, cov3 ering it with tarpaulins, the running of a barbed wire fence around, and - the keeping of a watchman day and e night around the enclosure, with s hose fire protection, has already been t successfully tried by one of the larger s cotton mills of this State, and com0 manded a low rate of insurance. Une questionably, however, every individ ual risk will have to be passed upon - by the insurance companies' reprer sentatives as to the rate of insurance f that will be allowed. AH I can do is to say that anything from a cotton r barn on a man's farm on up to the 1 most modern warehouse, if the asl suranee of absolute protection is givs en, whether that assurance be for - fire protection or by fire insurance - it will be passed favorably upon by f secretary of the treasury, and will . be considered a proper warehouse, j If the new federal bill becomes a law there is no question about that. Undoubtedly the warehouse you pro5 pose, however, which can be so easily, quickly and cheaply built, is a _ proper warehouse." Mr. Watson here goes into the matter of insurance rates on cotton at length. The letter concludes: : "So far as I can see, wooden shed ~ warehouses of more or less temporary nature, but thoroughly protecting the cotton, well guarded by watchmen, and if possible protected f with water supply, could be made to 5 meet this present emergency about 3 as well as anything else, and if these sheds were built, held and operated ! by responsible local companies there ' is no reason as far as I can see why their warehouse certificates should 1 not through the banks be made aci ceptable to the secretary of the treas3 urv, whether the federal warehouse i act passes or not. "It will be of special interest to 1 you to know that only today I have t been informed by the insurance comt panies that they have placed until r further notice a limit on the insur3 ance on cotton of not exceeding nine 3 cents per pound, middling. This is " about the nearest thing we have had f in some days as to the fixing of a se' curity price on cotton stored in ware" houses." i When Frank Wolf entered his rest taurant in New York to begin the 1 day's business he found eight young l chickens running around the bottom . of an egg crate. The crate had lain - behind the cooking stove.