The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 10, 1914, Page 4, Image 4

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SIljp Bamberg Beralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. 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 invest merit ot $iu.uuu anu upwaius. 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 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 notices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular ad vertisiug. 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. 10, 1914. We extend our congratulations to Governor Richard I. Manning. We extend our congratulations to the grand old State of South Carolina. In Orangeburg last Monday the dispensaries were open and doing business as usual, although they were closed in Bamberg, the closing V/)nnA Krr nr/lorc frnm hpad quarters. We cannot understand why dispensaries should be open in one county and closed in another. The "sweating" process, threatened by the governor in the event of his defeat, has begun. The first act was to try to stuff John G. Richards down the throats of the people as governor, saying he would not call 1 a special session of the legislature 1 if Richards were not elected. The ' governor'6 threat was of no avail. A majority of those who have studied the situation are of the opinion that 1 a session of the legislature at this time could do nothing but cost the 1 State a lot of money. Even many i of the governor's supporters do not i agree with him on the matter of a i "stay" law. i ISLANDS ARE DISAPPEARING. ? Historic Spots in Lower Potomac Bei 9. . ing Washed Away. 1 ~~~~~ j The Islands in the Potomac and along the eastern side of the Chesapeake Bay are' being reduced with c more or less rapidity and is said to be a question o.f only a few years ^ oovotoI nf tj-iom will (iisannpar. UOIVIO OV * Vi Ui vr*. vuvu. .??. ^-r x During every big storm portions of c St Georges and the other islands in the lower river are carried away, but the erosion is particularly marked at St Georges, the area of which has been much reduced in the last quarter of a century. Just above Glymont. about 22 mile6 below this city, is Craney Island and on it formerly stood several houses used by fishermen in seine hauling. The island was then large enough to accommodate easily the fishermen and a gig storehouse. The U6e of the island for fishing purposes was abondoned twenty or more years ago, and since that time the waves of the Potomac have almost complete ly washed the island away, until but a small spot of land remains above water. According to the investigators in the geological survey service, tilghman, Sharp and James islands, along the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay ' above Point Lookout, are rapidly de- 1 creasing in size from the action of the waves. Tilghman Island, the largest and most northerly of the islands is more ' than 3 1-2 miles long and has an 1 acreage of more than 3 square miles, ! providing homes for many prosperous ' farmers and fishermen. At its north end are located the towns of Tilgh- 1 man and Avalon, with a population of several hundred persons. Sharp Island is the smallest of the ' three. Less than a generation ago it was a summer resort and supported several families throughout the year. Now all the trees have disappeared save half a dozen and the buildings have been washed away except a large hotel, which stands alone in the centre of the island. The site of an Artesian well has been reached by | the waves. In 1848 the island contain ed 438 acres of land. In 1900 only 91 acres remain, and in 1910 only 53. If the present rate of erosion continues unabated the island will be gone in fourteen years.?Washington Dispatch to New York Sun. Full line of Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pens at Herald Book Store. EGYPTIAN WOMEN. Are beginning to Protest Against the Age While a very few Egyptian women are married to men who have imbibed Western education for themselves, and have out of their own country the right to go shopping and to theaters and other public places unveiled, according to Cairo correspondence Washington Post, even 1 these in their own land are cut off from all intercourse with men save those of their own household and never appear out of their homes unloon rv?ol xr vroiloH 1COO VIVUC*; ? V4*v\A. Many of these women are highly educated, and pass examinations similar to those passed by their brothers and fathers; but their education is of little use to them after they have left their schools or their governesses beyond making many of them bitterly discontented with their lot. For Man's Pleasure Alone An Eastern man, however educated, never regards a woman as an equal. She is there, she is created for his needs, his pleasure. If it amuses her in her youth to learn French and English, to know something of science and history, well and good; but she belongs to another world from himself. Against this attitude of man the Egyptian woman is beginning to ' make her first feeble protest and revolt. Those who have learned of historv and art in their youth are form- 1 ing little societies among themselves ' for mutual help and instruction, even 1 arranging for lectures and papers to 1 be read to them by Western women. Woman a Household Drudge ' Among the lower classes it is the women who do the greater part of j the work, while the men spend their days in idleness. For not only do women do the work of the houses, fetching the water from long distances, carving their huge conical- ] based water jars on their heads, but j they also work long hours in the ( fields, weeding, hoeing and planting, j There is no one place where can be ( typically seen side by side the com- ? mencing struggle of women for ? emancipation and their utter sub- \ servience to man's dominance so well a is in the great hospitals of Cairo, j In Cairo Hospitals Many young Egyptian women are ? ieing trained as hakima, or nurses, j Fhey are drawn mostly from the t awyer or doctor class, and * while h many of them are very pretty and 1( /ery intelligent, they are utterly un- ? "eliable, and do not know the meanng of truth. They lie about things * :hat do not matter, and while they jj ire kind to their patients, cheerfully s nake utterly false reports and state- t nents about themr oblivious or in- ?' ii lifferent to the fact that the doctor nay be mystified or utterly misled. tl Their dress in hospitals is pretty ind graceful, of blue cotton, with ^ vhite aprons and cuffs, and dainty vhite veils bound about their heads, y eaving their smiling young faces un- w :overed. Afraid of Evil Spirits. They are mostly very superstitious, h >eing deadly afraid of "afreets" evil spirits), and in their dormitor- ^ es herd closely together, as if in this s< vay they believe the dreaded tl 'afreets" are more easily repelled. t] rhey have to be closely locked into j. heir rooms, while their windojvs are ^ jarred, as brought tip strictly "pur- t; lah" though they are, they are not 11 o be trusted fqr an instant, and vould escape for an adventure if v tiven the least opportunity. P n ? * *1 Virt KAtfi'nnmff rt f b JD U L L 11 C\ ait; at cue V? ;hings, and in so far as they have g nade the first step toward emanci- f; jation and making a career for them- r selves, they may be regarded as pio- * leers for their sex. a On the other side of the picture is n :he woman patient, who exemplifies tier relation to man by her utter pas- ^ sivity and indifference under suffer- n ing. Bear Pain Stoically. Many of them come into the hospital for the birth of their children, and as many of them have been kick- * ed and beaten into deformity, their * sufferings are horrible. But never * does a word of complaint cross their * lips. They lie in stoical endurance, * after operation or illness, their great, c beautiful dark eyes looking up with unfathomable pathos, without one ( word of complaint. Their whole at- 1 titude is one of "malaish" (nothing t matters). It is the will of Allah. In the foundling ward there are an nuallv taken from 120 to 150 small j babies, ranging irum a imuuicoj to 48 hours old, who have been!1 thrown out into the streets wrapped J in a piece of newspaper or old cloth 1 and utterlv deserted. I ' I But the Egyptian woman is knock- j ing at the door which her Western j ' sister has already thrust wide open. 5 and those who have crossed the threshold must wish well even if they can-i ' not help, those who are still strug- j 1 gling through generations of repres- i 1 sion and tyranny and degradation to come into the light which Western- i j ers take for granted from the cradle. 1 - - .w . / r--. a. BUSY QUEEN MARY. Leads the Simple Life and Sews for the Poor. "Queen Mary, of England, will not allow freedom of tone or conduct in those about her, and she will not put up with 'vagaries,' " says the current Woman's Home Companion. "Dislikeing carls, she occupies after-dinner hours, even when visiting at great country houses, in sewing. In private apartments occupied by the royal family she has in each room an unfinished piece of needlework, which she takes ud in odd moments. Of dancing, however, she is very fond, and at Court balls, which will probably be more numerous when Princess Mary comes out, the Queen never misses a waltz or a quadrille. "Life is much simpler at the palace than it was in King Edward's time. Regularly once a month all bills are examined and paid, a plan quite different from the one pursued in the preceding reign, and, iDdeed, by the British aristocracy in general. "Herself a practical cook?for she learnei^m her girlhood in the kitchen of White Lodge and Kensington Palace?she still finds time now and then to make cakes and knows how things should be done. "Fond of the needle and accustomed to the sewing machine, she taught Princess Mary to help darn her brothers' socks; even the young Princes have learned to knit socks and mittens as part of their contribution to Inefifnfirvno Tn o VDdf fnp 9 qin?lp charity, the Queen makes as many as sixty woollen garments, and remembers in their making that people who are poor love pretty things as much as do the rich. At Balmoral ifter dinner in holiday time Queen Mary, for instance, is busily knitting tor some needy one." Good! Times Coming. The following from Witt K. Cochrane. president of a large advertising igency in Chicago, should greatly enmurage the merchants and business nen in Bamberg. Mr. Cochrane >ught to know what he is talking ibout?anyway it sounds reasonable, tnd we hope every merchant in Bam>erg will read it carefully. If this idvice is good in Chicago, it is good n Bamberg: It is inconceivable that any merhant or manufacturer should cease ?or even curtail?his advertising ust when the country is on the hreshold of a tremendous double .arvest?the natural harvest of our >wn unprecedented crops and the ogical harvest consequent on the far in Europe. It is under such conditions as hese that advertising reaches the enith of its power. The man who istens to the yellow pessimist and its back to "wait for things to setle down," is yielding his common ense and enterprise to the baleful lfluence of idle sentiment, and acually starving the goose that lays be golden egg. To all my clients I have sent this efinite, uncompromising anc! cheerul message: "Keep the columns of be daily newspapers bristling with our announcements and thus open ide your doors for the flood of proeerity that is bound to rush in. Make ay while the sun shines. We won't ave another chance like this in a uuuicu j cai o. I have noticed with a feeling of rofound disgust the conservatism nd business cowardice that have et in in America since the kaiser irew down the guage o:.' battle. We, he very people who will logically rofit by the war abroad?and profit mmeasurably?are acting as though e were at war ourselves. We are liking blue things, pinching the penies, cutting down our advertising nd forcing prosperity to stand back. As a matter of fact, this is the ery hour when we should rush into rint to a greater extent than ever efore because unless the earth opens nd swallows \js up. there will be reater prosperity in America this ill than ever in the history of the epublic. We are not at war. We re not likely to be. The warring orld looks to us for its supplies nd we can't keep prosperity down o matter how hard we try. If my advice is worth anything to ou business men, it is here conveyd to you in six words: Advertise ow and never let up. He Knew She'd Guess It. For five years John Henry had >een keeping company with Hannah Jay. but not one time had he whisled any tune that sounded like a vedding march. Naturally Hannah Jay was beginning to feel a trifle :oncerned. One evening, however, John Henry :arae to the house looking as if he | night propose, and a great hope filled he heart of the fair one. Hope developed into certainty when the oung man drew a small jeweler's )ox from his vest pocket. "Hannah, dear." began John Hen*y. in a gentle voice, "1 have brought vou a little present, but I'm afraid it von't fit you finger. Will you try it )n?" "Oh. John," ecstatically cried the iear one, "do you really mean to say that you have bought me?" "Yes." was the hope killing rejoinder of John as he handed over :he box, "a thimble. 1 knew you tvould guess it the first time." Glendale Springs Water delivered it your house. 50c for five-gallons. Peoples Drug Store. "PORTLAND NED'S" CAREES RECORD OF NOTORIOUS YEfHi MAN READS LIKE FICTION. Escaped From Gov. Blease's Office Now Held in North Carolina Jail. Spartanburg, Sept. 5.?Since th( arrest in North Carolina last montl of James Johnson, alias "Portland Ned," the noted safe robber who escaped in April, 1913, from a deputj United States marshal in Governoi Cole L. Blease's office in Columbia much information has been obtained here from official sources as to th( manner of his escape, his crimina record and his recent operations which brought him afoul of the lav again. Besides the many crimes of whicl "Portland Ned" has been convicted most notable of which was the $10, 000 safe robbery at Enoree, Spartan burg county, he and his associates? the desperate band of "yeggmen' I invrorln/1 fKa CftntH o HA7fln VDO rc ago?are accused in this State alont of stealing $3,500 from a tank at Fort Mill in September. 1.902, $6,50( from a bank at Mullins in December 1902, and $7,000 from a cotton mil at Newry in December, 1903. In addition indictments are pending against Johnson in the federal court for three postoffice robberies ic South Carolina?at Prosperity, Fori Mill and Clemson College. "Portland Ned's" career of crime as described in official records of the postoffice department, is as thrilling as fiction. He has never hesitated to adopt the boldest methods to escape from custody and for that rea son the federal authorities have suggested to the sheriff of f'ulford county. N. C., where the robber is now in jail, awaiting trial for a postoffice robbery at Plymouth, N. C. that special guards be placed over Johnson, to keep him under surveillance day and night. Arrested in Baltimore. For the Enoree and other South Carol [na robberies, "Portland Ned" was- arrested in Baltimore, Md., in December, 1904. Prior to his arrest he had boasted that he would never be taken: alive again. When taken into custody on that occasion, it is learned, he was lying on a couph with his right hand grasping a fortyfour calibre revolver under his head, with a blanket thrown over him, on which his mistress with her aunt's baby in her arms was lying. When officers forced an entry into the house they noticed the suspicious arrangement of the blanket. One of the officers turned it back and quickly grasped "Portland Ned's" revolver under the protection of other revolvers covering the desperado. Johnson, sentenced: to seven years imprisonment in the United States penitentiary, at Atlanta, for a postoffice robbery at Spartanburg county, made a desperate effort, while serving the sentence, to escape. He complained of an illness and asked to be taken to the city forsai operation. His request was granted, but while they were on their way he threw red pepper into the guard's eyes and tried to flee. This resulted in the forfeiture of the usual commutation for good behavior. He was released from the Atlanta prison-July 4, 1911, but was immediately apprehended by Sheriff W. J. White of Spartanburg county, brought here and convicted of the Enoree robbery and sent to the State penitentiary at Colombia, for a ten-year term, but was later paroled by Governor Blease. He escaped from the governor's office when a deputy marshal songht to rearrest him. Yeggman Id en titled. Deputy Sheriff H. J.. Walker, of Mayodam, Rockingham county, N. C., sent to the postoffice authorities last month a post card photograph of two burglars, giving their names as G. T. Conway and J. P. Lister. The photograph was referred to Hardy T. Gregory, postoffice inspector in charge of the Washington district, the terror of "yeggmen." He at once recognised the man giving his name as Lister, as james .iuuuson, alias "Portland Ned." Investigation disclosed the following facts: A section foreman, residing at Walnut Cove, N. C., whose residence had been robbed saw the two burglars on August 3, last, at a water tank two miles north of Walnut Cove. Subsequently accompanied by three men from Walnut Cove, he proceeded in his car to the location. When the car was stopped the two suspects immediately made a dash for the river, carrying a satchel, a bucket and a package. On getting into the water they discarded their baggage and threw up their hands in response to shots fired by the four men. One of the suspects had in his possession a razor. They were committed to the county jail, at Danbury, X. C.. in default of $500 bail. As a result of a search made in the river the satchel carried by the suspects was recovered and was found to contain two large revolvers and safe-blowing equipment, including nitroglycerin, dynamite caps, fuse and I OPPORTUNITY FOR MILLS. To Get Trade Which is Lost tc Europe. Col. Leroy Springs of Lancaster S. C., is quoted as follows in the cur rent issue of the Manufacturers Record on the situation as it relates tc American trade: J "In case the European war should 1 last longer than 60 days, it would 1 seem that our exports of cottor " goods would materially increase, and T it would be the greatest opportunity that American spinners could have to introduce their goods both to the 1 Orient and South American trade 1 If the war continues the Europeai I spinner who has heretofore been sup 5 plying the bulk of the Oriental anc ' South American trade would be un able to do so and with the propel 1 effect American mills should be abl< tn tak-A un this business and ven * largely increase our export trade " with these countries. This woul( * bring about a much larger consump tion of cotton in this country. 5 "As to your second question, ! * have great confidence in the preseni t administration being equal to the 1 emergency, and, with the active co * operation of the banks, we shoulc 1 be able to handle and finance the * crop in such a way as to make it * bring fair prices to the producer. ) * think it would not be to the interesl L of the American manufacturer tc * have low-priced raw material. "With the cooperation of the gov' ernment, the banks, the cotton pro! ducer and the cotton mill, we should ' be able to very largely increase oui [ trade with the Orient and South * 1 A-r a -1 ..1 J U , American countries, auu suuuiu uc in position to maintain it after il is once obtained. Our mill agents ^ should be active in their efforts tc ! find out just what these countries need, and we should cooperate nol ' only in introducing the fabrics ws are now making, but also in manufacturing the styles of goods and put ting them up the way they are desired in these countries. This, 1 think, has been very mach neglected by American manufacturers in the past. "The use of cotton may be restricted during the first six months of the war bat the world must be ^clothed > and cotton is used for so many different purposes I do not believe it will be necessary to market this present crop except at fair prices." Money to Burn. "Economy has its pains as well as its pleasures." says a Washington preacher, "if the experience of an old darkey of my acquaintance in Virginia counts for anything. "One spring, for some reason, old Mose was going 'round town with the face of dissatisfaction. When questioned, he poured forth a voluble tale of woe in these- terms: " 'Marse Tom, he come to me last fall an' he say, "Mose, dey's gwine to be a hard winter, so you be keerful, and save yo' wages fast an' tight." " 'An' I believe Marse'Tom, yassuh r KaIiova V?4m on* T covo an* an' when de winter come it ain't got no hardship, an' dere I was wid all dat money jest thrown on my hands!' "?Exchange. soap.. The bucket contained three cooked chickens and the package loaves of bread, indicating they had provided food for a "layout" in connection wit^ a burglary?possibly of the cotton mill at Mayodam?in order to avoid the risk of procuring meals from any person just prior and subsequent to the burglary planned. They were then charged with having burglar's tools in their possession and their bail was increased to $700. They caused a telegram to be sent to an address at Philadelphia, Pa., asking tliat $3,000 be immediately sent them. Hearing Probably Tuesday, Postoffice Inspector Leman conferred with the North Carolina aithorities, including the solicitor and arranged for the surrender of Johnson to the United States authorities. The cracksman was duly arrested at Danbury, N. C.. on August 14, on a warrant sworn out by Inspector Leman, charging burglary of the postoffice at Plymouth, N. C.. on June 13, 1898, and committed to jail at Greensboro, N. C., in default of $10,000 bail, for a preliminary hearing, which has been tentatively set for next Tuesday (September 8.) "Portland Ned" would have been arrested for the Plymouth robbery, for which he was originally arrested in Norfolk, Va., in August 1898, that same year but for the fact that West Virginia had a prior claim on him for a burglary at Bramwell, that State. He was Qonvicted of the Bramwell robbery at Charleston, W. Va., in March, 1S99, and sentenced to the State penitentiary at Moundsville. Through a hitch he was not taken into custody immediately after his release from the Moundsville prison and when he finally was arrested again he had committed so many robberies in the meantime that they took precedence over the Plymouth case. NOTICE. > On account of the rise in the price of flour I will charge 5c per loaf for bread, or 6 for 25c, beginning Monday September 14,1914. As soon as , the price of flour becomes normal I will sell three loaves for 10c as heretofore. J. F. KILGUS. ) NOTICE. . The annual meeting of the Stockholders of Bamberg Cotton Mills 1 Company will be held at the office of t the Company at Bamberg, S. C., on I Monday September 21st. 1914, at 12 o'clock, noon. W. E. ANDREWS, J Secretary. NOTICE. 1 All persons are hereby forbiddea - to employ or house my son James j Henry Daniels. He is about fifteen years old. JIM DANIELS. r .. i NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that, pur suant to a Commission issued by the 1 Secretary of State of South Caro. lina constituting the undersigned a board of Corporators, Books of Subscription to the capital stock of Sa 1 vannah Western Railroad Company t will be opened at tho offices of Ed? ward L. Craig, Attorney at Law, Third Floor National Loan & Exchange Bank Building, in the City of 1 Columbia, S. C., on the 28th day of > September, 1914, at 10:00 o'clock in t the forenoon. The minimum capital r stock to be $100,000 divided into L one thousand shares of the par value t of $100.00 each, and the maximum | > amount to which said capital stock may be hereafter increased to be $1,000,000, divided into ten thou?' and,shares of the par value of $100 ? each. 1 Notice is also given that said par. ties propose to ask on behalf of the proposed corporation for the power 1 to condemn lands for rights of way i and that application therefor will be * ; made to the Secretary of State of ' S6uth Carolina at his office in the * ' City of Columbia, S. C., on the 28ttf ' day of September, 1914, at 12:00 i o'clock noon, the proposed route is as follows: beginning at a point at and in the towns of Estill and Lena in Goethe Township, Hampton County, thence through Goethe and Peoples Townships in Hampton County, thence through Braxton and Warren Townships in Colleton County, thence through Fish Pond Township in Bamberg County, thence through Branchville. Cow Castle, Providence and Vance Townships in Orangeburg: Cdunty and thence into and through ' St. Paul Township in Clarendon ! County, to and into St. Paul in said ; County of Clarendon, a distance of approximately 90 miles, all in .theState of South Carolina. ; G. H. Milligan i Virgil Walker Adrian M. Rea. August 24, 1914. 117 ~ 1 War ii i ' vi Is just what General Sherman said it was, but the "hard times" you hear so much about is merely a state of mind. In any case, Madam Housekeeper, this is no time to econo- " i ' - .v mize at the expense of the health of your household and the use of improperly preserv- < ed and handled food is truly false economy. Do you know your grocer's methods, and do ^ they safeguard the health of your household? Our's do, ' and they are in keeping with our business policy: I uk Clean Store Clean Goods and Clean Basiness Methods We invite you to prove this to your own satisfaction. A trial will convince you. B.W. Simmons# Co. Telephone 18 Only One "BROMO QUININE" ; i To get the gennine, call for fall name, LAXATIVE BROMO QOINLNE- Look for signature of E. W. GROVE. Cores a Cold in One Day. Stop* cough and headaches and works off cold. 23c. R. P. BELLINGER ATTORNEY AT LAW Office Over Bamberg Banking Co. General Practice J Cures Old Sores, Other Remwflts Won't Cure. The worst cases, no matter of how font standing, M are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. W| Porter's Antiseptic Healing: Oil. It relieves ^ Pain and Heals at the lame time. 25c. 50c, <1.00 I I 1 '2 Mrs. Edward A. MacDowell TEACHER Piano and Voice r '< Classes Beginning Sept. 1st. EHRHARDT, S. G. * 1