The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 24, 1914, Page 4, Image 4
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Thursday, Dec. 24, 1914.
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MEKKY CHRISTMAS.
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The Herald wishes each and every
one of its valued readers a merry
Christmas and a happy new year.
While the times are not so prosperous
as we usually have at yuletide.
still we have plenty to be happy for.
and we trust that the pleasure of no
nr,* win hp marred. There was One,
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whose birth we celebrate at this seaS,
son, who suffered many years ago
more than any of us could possibly
suffer. Let each one remember this,
a-nd celebrate the occasion with peace
on earth and good will toward all
men.
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k: Have you planted that patch of
wheat yet? If not/ there is yet time.
Remember, if wheat commands no
profitable price next year, it can be
ft;'- put aside for future use. You can
eat wheai, but you cannot eat cotton.
Be sure to plant enough for your own
use, if no more.
It is perhaps well that there are
no elaborate Christmas sales this
/ year. The people of this section of
the country have been hard hit this
fall, and there is really no money to
spare for foolish spending. The ma
jority of our people need every cent
they have for necessities, and it is
6afe to say the amount of money
spent on foolish and needless gifts
this year will be small.
The governor of South Carolina is
quoted as saying recently: "I pardoned
many negroes because negroes
v v . often fail to get justice at the white
man's court house." Despite these
remarks, the governor has often expressed
himself as not opposed to
jlynching
in certain cases. If the ner
gro cannot get justice at "the white
man's court." how can he get justice
from a crowd of enraged men, who
do not stop to take testimony, and
when there is often a strong doubt
as to the identity of the lynched negro?
> Signs ol' Christinas.
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Christmas is coming down here, no
doubt,
If folks are to judge by a sign;
The children are awfully busy about,
5 ". ? And as easy to get to mind.
Why, it's "Mamma I'll bring in the
coal and wood,"
^ And "Papa I'll go for the mail;"
I never saw children so awfully good,
' And Christmas will come if the
signs don't fail.
x Yes, Christmas is coming. I'm 6ure
for I hear
The "pea-pea-pea" in the pen.
And the pantry smells so good, oh
dear!
When I open the door to look in.
And the children are saying their
prayers at night;
The boys don't pull the cat's tail,
(Poor thing was always kept in a
fright.)
. Yes, Christmas will come if the
signs don't fail.
Oh. Christmas is coming and I wish
'twould stay,
For everything seems so nice;
The children are good the live-long
day,
And don't have to be told twice.
And they are hustling around to
bring in the wood.
And scampering off for the mail.
I never saw children so awfully good,
And Christmas will come if the
signs don't fail.
% ?EVA HOLMES MACDOWELL.
Ehrhardt, S. C.
Experiments with wireless have
shown that signals vary closely with
the inverse of moonlight intensity.
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A UNIQUE K.XPKIJIMKXT.
Western Concern Spends .$17,500 to
Promote Thrift.
The Washburn-Crosby company
put a check for $25 into the pay envelope
of each of the 700 men who
work in the wheat-grinding and flourpacking
and loading departments of
the Minneapolis mills of the com- :
panv. when it paid off Saturday, November
21, says the Wall Street
Journal. Not a man had any idea
that this "extra" was coming.
The checks were drawn on the
Northwestern National bank, payable
to the Farmers and Mechanics Saving
Bank, and the only "string" to
the bonus was that every recipient
thereof must open a savings account.
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Tlie \ude in Art.
Sometimes the nude in art seems
appropriate and in good taste, but
often it is otherwise. In the works
of some of the great masters, especially
in the portrayal of religious
subjects, the unclothed human form
appeajs to accord accurately and acceptably
with the idea and purpose
of the painting. In the modern
school, it frequently appears as an
interloper, as something forced into
the picture and made to take part in
it against all rules of real beauty
and harmony. The other day several
newspapers printed a copy of a
painting by a French artist representing
the soul leaving the body of a
man, and the soul was a woman
minus apparel. Such a picture by no
possible means could appeal as an
artistic product. Its only appeal is
its sensational display of the female
figure, and its only excuse, the desire
on the part of the artist to attract
attention and to make a ready
and profitable sale.
A few days ago the Potter Palmer
gold medal, worth a thousand dollars
and offered in a competition in
the Art Institute of Chicago, was
awarded to a picture entitled "The
Xude." The picture, of course, was
commercialized at once. Copies of it
began pouring through the mails.
Having such a bright start, it naturally
looked forward to a most profit
able business, ana especially iu au
invasion of every post card stand and
picture collection in America. But
"The Nude," fortunately, had to pass
under the eyes of men with common
sense as well as those of exagerated
artistic mentalities. It encountered
the inspection of the federal postoffice
authorities, and hereafter, if it
is to have wide circulation, it must
travel by freight or express. Frederick
D. Jackson, ol a prominent art
firm in Washington, who once upon a
time arose in arms in defense of
"September Morn,""has declined emphatically
to exhibit "The Nude" in
his establishment. His action in all
probability will be followed by many
other dealers.
Every' week or two. sometimes every
day or two. we read of persons
convicted of sending objectionable
pictures or literature through the
mails, and the public, when it hears
of such cases, applauds the action of
the authorities vigorously. But if
tl>e government puts its veto on obscenity
under the guise of art, many
people cry aloud with indignation.
They would have the open door for
artists of viciOus ideas, and the
prison house for vice in ordinary
T7n<1ar tVi? nam? r>f art thev
&ai u. tuu^t wuv ,
would throw down every stronghold
of modesty and good taste.?Roanoke
World News.
Quickly Maue Candies.
The following uncooked candies
are excellent says an exchange, and
not difficult to make: To make the
>onaant, or loundation ot the candies,
do not beat but drip the whites
ot two eggs into a small granite pan.
dtir into this gradually, until tnick
enough to worK like any cream fondant,
conieetionery sugar. Use a
woouen spoon wnen stirring. Mix
in well a iew drops o? flavoring. Lay
the ball 01 cream on a granite slab,
or a sinooui coard, over wnich yoa
nave spriukleu some of tne sugar.
Work it for a few minutes. Divide
the cream into turee or four rons.
It it is too thick to work easiiy, a few
urops ot milk or water will make it
soit- enougii to mold. With tliis
cream as a foundation many fancy
candies can be made.
Fruit co onng in orange or strawberry
can be used, and makes a very
pretty candy. Dates stuffed with the
cream in several colors are good.
Chore a few dates and figs together
and work into the cream. Roll out
and cut in half-inch pieces. Roll
some cream out flat, cut in square
pieces and lold in eaeh piece a California
grape. Roll some cream into
little balls and press English walnuts,
pecans or almonds into them, a nut
on each side. Dip molded cream
balls into hot melted and sweetened
chocolate. An orange wood stick is
good to dip the cream with. Work
some cocoanut in some cream, but
when cutting be careful to do it
quickly, as the candy will not look
neat otherwise. Soak some raisins in
warm water and cover with cream.
Soak some prunes overnight in
cold water, then remove the stones,
crack these and run the kernels
through the food chopper, adding
other chopped nut meats and chopped
dates. Fill the cavities of the
prunes with this mixture close and
dip in the fondant. When making
wafers be careful to use only a very
small amount of flavoring, such as
maple, cinnamon, allspice, orange.
lemon, vanilla, strawberry, mint or
peppermint, or it will be too strong.
After the cream has been rolled out
, with a rolling pin, use a small can
i lid to cut the wafers.
The Wisdom of Lupus.
First Wolf?Been at tne Smiths'
? door?
i\ ' Second Wolf?Not much; she'd
make a muff of me.?New York Sun.
After that is done the company has
no further control over the money,
and if the man wants to draw it out
and spend it foolishly or otherwise
no one will try to stop him.
But the company has added a provision
that is calculated to stimulate:
a desire to save. On November 1,1
1915, it will pay every man still inj
its employ who was included in the j
original bonus, one-ha!f as much as j
the increase in his deposit for the j
year, up to $25 each. If the man
who starts with $25 brings it up
to $75 before November, 1915, hei
will get another $25 to add, and if
his account at that time shows $43
he will get $10 to add.
The experiment is costing the company
$17,500.
Olden Tips.
That tip was easily Earned which I
Johnson and Boswell bestowed upon!
the boy who rowed them from the1
Temple stair to Greenwich, July 10,
17C3, says the London Chronicle.
The two men were discussing the
value of the Greek and Latin languages.
Boswell thought that a
man could go through life very comfortable
without learning. "Why,
sir," said Johnson, "that may be
true in cases where learning can notpossibly
be of any use; for instance,
this boy rows us as well without i
learning as 11 ne coma smg me sung j
of Orpheus to the Argonauts, who.
were the first sailors." Then turn-;
ing to the boy he asked, "Whatj
would you give, toy lad, to know'
about the Argonauts?" "Sir," was!
the reply, "I would give what I have."!
The answer pleased Johnson mightily,
and the boy got double fare.
"-^The tips or "vails" of the
eighteenth century were by no means
confined to inns. One traveler
through his country, Le Blanc, says
that, after dinner with a friend, "you'll |
find all the servants drawn up in the
passage like a -file of musketeers,
from the house steward down to the
lowest livery seryant, and each of
them holds out his hands to you in
as deliberate a manner as the servants
in our inns on the like occasions."
The master of the house |
turned his head away, pretending not
to be aware of what was going forward.
Lord Hervey records that
George II's queen thought it necessary
to give vails in town as well as
in the country but the king told her
she was a fool to do so.
Power From Kain.
Energy is wasted in every direction,
although during the past two
or three years considerable ingenuity
has been manifested in efforts to
turn natural resources to actual
account, according to Chambers'
Journal. Thus the sun's rays are
being harnessed to furnish steam for
jumping operations in Egypt and
other tropical countries; the wind
is utilized for pumping and for the
generation of electricity; but so far
no one has attempted to make profitable
use of the rainfall, although a
tremendous amount of energy is [
thereby running to waste. A cor- j
respondent in an American journal |
has recently pointed out what we j
are losing tnrougn our ianure 10
make use of the rainfall. The district
in which that observer - resides
Was visited by a severe rainstorm,
the fall of water aggregating 4.17
inches in 10 hours over an area of
10 square miles. He estimated the
height of the rainclouds to be 5,000
feet, and on that basis some 6,000,000.000
pounds of water fell during
the 10 hours, representing 15,000,000
horsepower hours. The correspondent
estimates that if this energy
were harnessed, 4,000 arc lamps
in the city streets could be kept alit|
therewith for 425 days. If one rain j
storm would furnish such an enormous
amount of energy, what would j
be available if we were able to turn,
the whole rainfall to account? At!
all events, the foregoing interesting!
computation conveys a graphic idea
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work in nature.
Indoor Exercise.
"Your husband pores over his
books too much."
"He loves to read."
"But he should exercise."
"Oh, he exercises. The doctor told
him the same thing. So now he has
taken up golf by mail."?Louisville
Courier-Journal.
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If you have not seen our line of Xmas
I Jewelrv vou are missing something. We
have a beautiful line of ' f 1
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Mesh Bags, . Bar Pins, H
Beaded Bags, Beauty Pins, v ||
Party Boxes, Hat Pins,
Lavcdlieres, Necklaces,
Ladies' Cuff Buttons, Gents' Cuff Buttons. f
Every piece of our Jewelry is guaranteed. Sp&ce will not permit
us to mention many other very acceptable gifts. We guarantee
to save you money in this department. ' /
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It is useless for us to tell you about our Xmas Hand- |
kerchiefs as we have long since established a reputation
of carrying the most up-to-date line of Christmas : i |
Handkerchiefs in Bamberg County. If you have not r '
seen our line come in at once. .*. .'. .*. .*. jj j
"A Suggestion" Jj m
I Why not give your friends and relatives something useful. We have just llll \ .
received a large line of Gloves in White, Black, and Tan, all sizes. These are j
|| $1.15 per pair. This is the same Glove that you used to pay $1,00 per pair for.
jj This increase is caused by a shortage of Gloves due to the European war. You ' 'm
I no doubt recall the warning we gave you in our advertisements some two or I
three months ago. Gloves are getting scarcer and scarcer every day. WE AD- |[ ?;1
VISE YOU TO BUY IMMEDIATELY. ' ^|||
I Ready-to-Wear Shirt Waists J
Our line of Ready-to-Wear Shirts can't be beat anywhere. We have them in
Jap Silk, Habutai Silk, Crepe de Chine, and all kinds of Crepes and Lawns.
I These we are offering at very special prices. READ j
Ij Crepe de Chine, reg- Silk Waists, regular Crepes and Lawns, j ]
I I ular price $3.00, now price $2.50, now regular price $1.50, j
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Big Bargains in Fancy Work Department I j
We want to again impress you with the many bargains we have in this depart- 11
ment. Remember you are to share in our good luck when we purchased a ml
drummer's sample line. We have everything you could wish for in this depart- I >
llll ment. We also have a few beautiful finished pieces we would like to show you. " ,
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