The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 22, 1915, Page 2, Image 2
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Weather Forecast. e
Weather forecast for the .wee* be,
ginning Wednesday, April 20. 1915,
issued by the United States weather
bureau at Washington: F
For South Atlantic and East Gulf 0
States> c
Except for local 6howers at its be- p
ginning in the East Gulf States, the w
week will be ine of generally fair 0
weather, with temperature above nor- a
mal. - a
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Bamberg needs a commercial trade
organization. We should like to see s
- some of our live merchants get in s
behind such a movement and push it.
An organization of this kind could do i
a lot of good in publishing to the r
world the advantages of Bamberg. n
It is the purpose of Supervisor v
McMillan to clay the roads in the
v county as rapidly as possible. He
y v proposes to devote special attention a
-~ ~f r.io^ Tv.^rl-inc nntil ^
IU Li'io icacuic ui * vtvu mm v ?
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every road in the county is clayed ^
and in fine shape. Fine business.
The sales by fertilizer companies t
in this State to the present date are n
54 per cent, of the sales to the same
date of laSt year. The tag tax re- t
ceipts this year amount to $132,706 c
as compared with $244,039. The tax li
is 25 cents fc/r each ton of fertilizer. 1
N The receipts go to the support of >
Clemson college. F
The people of Bamberg will wel- j.
' come the inauguration of a regular c
passenger schedule over the B., E. & c
W., "which will be started on May 2d. a
It is contemplated 'for trains to run h
regularly between Bamberg and a
Green Pond, connecting with the reg- a
ular Charleston trains of the Atlantic a
Coast Line railway. ^
The South Carolina Dental associa- K
tion will meet in Columbia April 27- c'
30. A number of notable speakers
are on the programme, including Dr. P
Harvey W. Wiley, of Washington, D. ^
C. Dr. Wiley is an eminent pure
feed specialist. The people of the v
State have been extending a cordial
invitation to hear him and other 01
speakers on April 2Sth.
We like that idea of the people e
getting together occasionally in a so- tl
cia! nay, as the Business Men's Bible w
class is doing. It makes people like tl
one another better. When we come tl
into ^direct contact and rub elbows, e
so to speak, with our neighbors we e
frequently see good things about si
them that we never oeiore uiougin tl
of. Every church should have just h
such an organization. The study of g
the Bible is much neglected, and with tl
the aided social feature, such classes si
are an addition to any community, j]
Several counties in South Carolina t]
are going after good roads with a 0
vim. They are endeavoring to issue e
bonds for the purpose of building
v and maintaining a system ?of modern w
highways. It is proposed for Greenville
to issue $950,000 and Richland C;
.. ? ? ~ f hon ^ millmn
? CApeVlS IU issue IIIUI O iiiau a lu.mvu
dollars in bonds. As is natural when
these big questions are agitated,
there has developed a lot of opposition.
but it seems reasonably certain c
that several jcounties will succeed in d
securing the road development.
Elaborate systems of highways have E
been planned, and when the move- J
ment extends to cover the entire t
State. South Carolina will take a *
place on the map she lias long needed.
Progress without good roads is
hardly possible, and the best authorities
agree that sufficient money can- 1
not be secured at any one time without
the issuance of bonds to build
a system of highways. We hope to
see Bamberg county among those
agitating a bond issue after the next ^
session of the^legislature. g
I'AtXTKtt COMMITS Sl'lCIDK.
'elf Itearliiiian, of (ireenwood. t'ses
Shotgun on Soil'.
(Ireenwood, April 1 "?.?Jeff Beachnan.
a well-known planter, commit
ed suicide this afternoon at his home
n Cambridge street. He was alone in
he house at the time, his wile beng
away in Jacksonville. Florida, on
i visit to a married daughter. .Mr.
3eachman used a shotgun, pressing
he trigger with a stick. Death was
iractieally instantaneous. He i^as
ibout oO years old.
War's (lentler Side.
The Kaiser of Germany has freluently
been compared to Napoleon
ionaparte during the course of the
iresent war, and while there is as
et little to show that the German
Jmperor has the overshadowing miliary
talents of his predecessor, it is
ndisputable that there are points of
esemblance between the two men.
An impartial student of the life
nd character of Napoleon have noted
he generosity he displayed at times
oward defeated enemies. The most
iOted case is that of the English ,
ailor who. escaping front the detenion
camp near Havre, tried to make
is way across the English Channel
n a hastily constructed raft. When
aptured and brought before the ,
Tench Emperor the sailor said that
e had braved the terrible risk of his (
ndertaking in order to see his moth- (
r, who v/as very old and infirm. (
"You shall see her," said Napoleon:
she must be a remarkable woman to I j
aspire such devotion in her son." A (
Tench warship was directed to put | (
ut to sea, flying a white flag and!,
arrving, in addition to her crew, one J.
assenger, a common English sailor. |j
ho was thus convoyed, witn tne non- ,
rs that would have seemed large for j
n admiral, to the English shores. ]
nd there delivered over to an Eng- (
ish frigate. \
Another incident is related by Alii- ,
on. Napoleon was riding with Mar- j
hal I>annes toward Vienna after cer- ,
tin great victories in the campaign of
809, and, upon reaching a cross-;,
oads, found his way blocked by a!.
umber of wagons carrying Austrian j.
. ounded. A french staff officer rode ,
head to direct the wagons to hold j
r fr>r tho Pmnprnr hut the latter I
t once interfered. Getting off his!
orse and removing his hat, he stood! ,
| '
t the crossroads until the wagons
ad passed by. exclaiming in a voice: ,
i-hich reached the wounded men in | (
he wagons, "Honor to the brave in 1 (
nisfortune." I (
An incident that is now related of:
he Kaiser upon the occasion of a re-(
ent visit to Nancy, on the western 1
I ;
ine of battle, shows a similar spirit. |(
'he Kaiser, with his staff, arrived at ]
."ancy just as a captured regiment of. ]
'rench in'antry was brought in dur-|
iig the dusk of the evening. Inquir-' ,
[ig as to the circumstances of the',
apture, the Kaiser was told that the :
aptured French regiment had held ]
n important road for more than an j ,
our against two German origaaes ]
nd had Ihus enabled a large French! ,
mmunition train to escape capture,'
lthough the captured regimfent had' (
een compelled to sacrifice itself. The' ,
laiser at once sent for the French | j
olonel commanding the regiment, J i
)aded him with compliments for his: (
rofessional skill and devotion and ,
ivited him to take supper with him- i ,
elf and the Crown Prince of Ba-|(
aria.
The sequel of the story is equally] (
.a/I^oKU tKo XT'ronr>h nffif-pr fin ! .
ICUUftUlC VV * ? vuv? ^...vw. . | ,
ir from having his head turned by' ,
ne invitation to take supper with the Imperor,
the French colonel replied I (
iat his regiment was encumbered j
ith many of its own wounded*; that: (
hese men needed all the attention j?
heir officers could give, and he ask-|,
? 1
-I to be excused from attending the f
Imperor's dinner and given permis- J (
ion to spend the night looking after |
lie comfort of the wounded men of t
i '
is command. Not to be dutdone in
allantry, the Kaiser directed that i
he medical officers of his personal ]
taff go with him and assisf in car- (
ig for the French wounded, and
iter in the evening the Kaiser and i
he Bavarian Prince visited the pris- )
ners and were unceasing in their
fforts to look after their comfort. j
Such incidents happen in all great ]
ars and rarely fail to have the effect ]
f ameliorating the passions that war
alls forth.?Louisville Evening Post, i
Her Feelings Hurt.
"What's the. matter with your old
at? She looks disconsolate these ,
ays."
"Pap hurt her feelings, dreadfully,
{rung home a mouse trap last week,
told him not to do it. Cats has'got
heir feelings same as anybody else."
? Louisville Courier-Journal.
Safe.
"Aren't you afraid of hoi polloi?" !
lie erudite reporter asked Senator
'asliem.
"Oh. no." replied the statesman,
we boil our drinking water."
Glendale Spring Water delivered '
y J. A. Murdaugh for ">0c for j>- '
allon bottle.?adv. if. i
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XATCRK'S COXVl'LSIOXS. 1
Some Interesting Facts About Speed
of Earthquakes. 1
Now. there are two curious points
well worth noting about earthquakes
which are not generally known.
In the first place, the more over
whelming the consequences o;' an
earthquake may be in a human and
material sense the less interesting it
is usually to the seismological expert:
Ill 1116 second yi<lt'C? ixitr lau^c \ji viit
shock is in inverse ratio to the
amount of destruction which it causes
on the earth's surface.
For the scientist who has specialized
in the investigation of seismic
disturbances will tell you that the
really big earthquakes occur most
frequently, not in populous countries
like Italy and Japan, but in desolate
regions far from the familiar centres
of civilization or down in the
depths of the ocean.
The fact that so many thousands
of lives have been lost in an earthquake
has less significance for the
expert?who is concerned with the
scientific rather than the human consequences
of the convulsion?than
the effects which may have been made
on the rock-formations of the earth
we inhabit.
Then the shocks which have visi- i
blv been the most violent have been
the niorst restricted in actual range |
pf earth-movement. Take the recent
disaster. Although the Avezzano
disaster was telling its story on that
delicately-sensitive instrument known
as the seismograph in England long
before the news of the latest earthquake
had reached the country by
uable, the writing on the tablets of.
the seismograph was less pronounced f
and definite in character than are
many records made by shocks of ,
which you and the rest of the news- '
paper-reading public have never even
heard, since they cause no damage
either to life or property.
But the earthquake shock which
was felt in 1 896 in London, and in
many parts of England and Wales. c
though nowhere so severely as in
Herefordshire and Worcestershire?
where crockery-ware was broken and
people were thrown out of their beds
?had the extraordinary traveling ?
power of extending over an area of
100.000 square miles!
tuoko oro vnn must know, such it's
i nci^ uiw, vw ... ?
things as e&rth-wavee as well as
ether-waves. But while the ether- But
waves have by the genius of a Marconi
been harnessed into the service Anc
af mankind, no scientist has yet discovered
any uses for earth-waves, or The
even any means of utilizing them.
The shock of a seismic disturbance t
travels in waves at the rate of two
miles a second in the actual vicinity f>f
the disturbance and this rate rapidly
diminishes as the distance travelled
by the earth-waves increases. The
The deeper the originating movement
happens to be the farther the But
shock travels: but the deeper the
movement, on the other hand, the The
less extensive, and usually the less
serious, from the point of view of But
loss of life, is the visible effect on
:he earth's surface. T
Thus we have the apparent contraiiction
that the Herefordshire earthjuake
of 1896?so called because it
s believed to have originated in that
Dorder county, if not in the bowels The
)f the Black mountains of Wales?
>vas. from a scientific point of view, <p0 j
i bigger affair than the Avezzano, or
?ven Messina. But
The largest recorded displacement
>f land surface was that consequent jn ,
tpon the Indian earthquake of 1897,
vlien an area as big as this whole of j
Yorkshire was turned, so to speak,
jonipletely upside down.
Yet who can give a name to that y
earthquake today, though every
schoolboy has heard of buried Pomieii.
of the Lisbon and San Francisis
the seismagraph in England long -p]ie
o earthquakes!?-From Answers.
An
He Began Life W rong.
Samuel H. Church, president of gut
lie Carnegie institute, said at a
uncheon in Pittsburg, apropos of gee
*ertain war atrocities:
"The excuse for these atrocities 7
3 - ^ ^F lv** mincit' Kr 1 H P
reminus me <ji uiu
?room. v
"A young miner got married, and
for the first week's housekeeping expenses
he gave his wife the good jt \
-ound sum of one dollar.
"The girl, to his suprise, accepted y^ t
:he dollar cheerfully, and that week
they lived abundantly enough, albeit rU?
plainly.
"So, for the second week, the Eae
miner doled out only half a dollar.
Then his wife went for him. She
lold him what she thought/ of his -p
meanness. The house reverberated
with her indignation. V
"The miner, in the midst of the
uorm. clapped on his bat and stalk?d
out. muttering.
"'I see what's the matter here. I
Toiled ye the first week.' "
* Quite Different. ainf
Mrs. Crabshaw?What do you
think of my lovely new muff? I st
Crabshaw?Umpli! What a fuss
cou'd make if you were asked to car- pari
ry a package half that size home thet
from the store. spei
List of Purchases by Bamberg Co. Dispensary Board Apr. 5,1915
I'lie following: awards by the Bamberg County Dispensary Board. April 1were made subject to increase
or decrease.
Cost Price Sells For
/- Gal. Qt. Pt. M-Pt.. Gal. Qt. Pt. ^Pt.
FREID.MAN KEILER CO.. Paducah. Ky.
I 5 cases New Port 13.00 13.50 14.00 1.50 .to .40
15 cases J. \V. Palmer fit ' 10.00 10.50 11.00 1.25 .65 .35
. - i-;?? i ^ r.. k;:, <> >-. or:, 1.00 .60 .30
i ? taaua imii^ v# w -
15 cases Old Possum Ca 8.50 9.00 9.50 1.00 .60 .30
GALLAGHER & BURTON. Philadelphia.
15 cases Black Lable ft ... - 14.84 15.34 15.84 1.75 .90 .50
.MERCANTILE DIS. CO., Cincinnati, O.
15 cases Henderson ft 8.75 9.75 10.75 1.00 .60 .30
15 cases Private Stock ft 8.50 9.00 9.50 1.00 .60 .30
1,5 cases Rogers ft 8.50 9.50 10.50 1.00 .60 .30
15 cases Holland Gin (fi 8.50 9.00 9.50 1.00 .60 .30 .
15 cases Tom Gin ft 7.50 8.00 8.50 .75 .40 .25 J
HARRIS JOHNSON & CO.. Cincinnati, O. 1
15 cases T. B. Ripy ft 12.00 13.00 14.00 1.40 .75 .40 . ' A
J. CRANSTON'S' CO.. Baltimore Md. 1
15 cases I'pper Ten ft .... 10.50 11.50 12.50 1.25 .75 .40 . A
, A r, 1-. T-, i-> r-< T^IO. /-./-. ill fl
.IAS. Cj. rtrrsn uis. wini-a^o, *
15 oases Pepper Whiskey ft 12.50 1.25
ROCHESTER DIS. CO., Rochester. X. Y.
5 oases Duffv Malt fit 8.50 N 1.00
FRANKLIN* DIS. CO.. New York.
15 oases Mount Vernon ft 11.50 12.50 13.50 1.50 .80 .45
BERNHEIM REXIXGER CO., Cincinnati, O.
5 cases B. R. Reserve Ti 14.00 15.00 16.00 1.75 .90 .45
15 cases Rexnioe Special 'a 12.00 13.00 14.00 1.25 .65 .35 \
drums Old Xoland ft .... 3u.uu si.ou zz.uu .10 .20.
5 drums Mountain Corn <7i> .'50.00 31.00 32.00 .75 .40 .25
BIG FOUR DIS. CO., Louisville. Ky.
5 oases Harper (5 10.00 10.50 1 1.00 1.25 .65 .35
5 cases Shaw Malt (ft '.... 9.10 10.0.> 11.00 1.00 .60 .3?
JAS. A. MAGNUS & CO., Cincinnati, O.
5 cases Murry Hill ft 12.00 13.00 14.00 1.50 .75 .40
5 drums Uncle Bob ft 30.00 31.00 32.00 .75 .40 .25
f5 drums S. Mt. Corn ft 30.00 31.00 32.00 .75 .40 .25
15 drums Kyles Malt 30.00 31.00 32.00 .75 .40 .25 , ;
a barrels 80 proof Corn ft 1.39 , .60 .35 .20..
5 barrels 80 proof Rye ft 1.39 .60 .35 .20 *.
5 barrels SO proof Gin (ft 1.42 .60 .35 .20
OLD BAGBY DIS. CO., Paducah, Kv.
a barrels 100 proof Corn (ft 1.65 .75 .40 .25 .
5 barrels 100 proof Rye (ft 1.65 .75 .40 .25
a barrels 100 proof Gin (ft 1.65 .75 .40 .25
PEOPLES DIS. CO., Cincinnati, O,
5 barrels SO proof X Corn ft - 1.36 .60 .35, .20 Y
5 barrels 80 proof X Rye @ 1.36 .60 .35 .20
' . 1 01 ? V n;_ ? 190 C fi 9 ^ 9 A
0 Darreis ?u pruoi a. uhi <ct
1 barrel 188 proof Alcohol (ft 2.78 3.25 .95
CONSUMERS B. B. ESTB., Charleston, S. C.
!5 cask P. Pale Beer (ft 7 .... 8.25 . .10
GERMANIA BREWING CO., Charleston, S. b.
55 cask Imperial Beer (ft 8.25 . .10 '
^ WHITE CREST WINE CO., Norfolk Va.
5 cases Virginia Dare Wine (ft 4.65 5.45 .50 .30
5 cases Blackberry Wine (ft 4.25 5.00 .50 .30
5 cases Port Wine (ft 4.25 5.00 .50 .30
5 cases Sherry Wine (ft 4.25 5.00 . .50 .30
The above awards were irade (subject to increase or decrease by board) upon bids submitted in acordance
with the advertisement of the Board and opened April 5, 1915.
By order Bamberg County Dispensary Board. J. M. GRIMES.
J. S. WALKER, Chairman, - .
Clerk. ) J. B. KEARSE,
/ W. H. FAUST. . . '
The Little Country Paper. BRIXG BACK THE BIRDS. DEAF MUTE IS ORATOR.
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set by hand and printed on an Feathered Creatures a necessity to Gtrt of jg Bom Dumb, to Deliver '
old-time Campbell press. \ land. ....
every item in it has an interest 1 " ? opvcvii uu ur?uunuun
none the less;
1 week by week its coming makes Why cannot American farmers, Miss Helen Dodge, 18 years old
a sweetness in the world. economists and nature-lovers make daughter of Mr. an-d Mrs. H C
little country paper brings with- 1915 a banner year for birds? Dodge, of Baldwin street, Lesterin
its wrapper curled. j We ought to preserve the birds shire, born deaf and dumb, will de- f
he little country paper, j for their own sake, for their beauty, liver an oral oration at her graduaFrom
the old town, ah me, their song, their vivid life that adds tion from the Malone State institulas
anybody died this week? so vastly to the attractiveness of tion for the Deaf and Dumb in June. '
Let's open it and see. field and grove. But if not for these She was placed, in the institution
sentimental reasons?which are the when only 4 years old and has been
outside's patent medicine, a po- sanest of all?then let us foster bird a student there ever since. Her
life because it is necessary to the I teachers soon discovered that she
em. anu regime, .
smiles are on our visage when j prosperity of the lard, because it was unusually intelligent and began
its homely type we see; will yield the biggest kinds of re-: experimenting in an effort to teach
ink is badly levelled and somei turns in cash. j her to speak. Her. vocal cords were |
words are upside down, ! Birds are the grefit natural de-^ found to be in normal condition and
it's the little paper from the! stroyers of noxious insects. ' j before she was 7 years Old she had
sweet old country town! The stomach of a yellow-billed cue-; been taught to make sounds which
he little country paper, koo shot at 6 o'clock in the morning j were intelligible.
Like a letter from a friend. contained partly digested remains of ^ The fabt that she could speak was
t comes to bring us comfort forty-three caterpillars. Heaveniuu kept secret, not even her parents
At the long week's golden end! forty-three tent caterpillars. Heaven ( knowing of the success of the experionly
knows how many more the bird ments until three years ago, when, *
editor is lazy and he don't get would have eaten before night. | on the occasion of a call at the instiround
much more The stomachs of four chickadees I tution, she was allowed to talk to *
gather up the items at the black- contained 1,028 eggs of the canker them. <
smith shop and store: w?"n. j She now speaks as distinctIy ud
here are all the funerals, and the The stomach of a single robin ex- with as much expression as a person
the marriages are told amined at the State laboratories of j with the normal faculty of hearing,' *
simple old-time sweetness of an Illinois contained 175 larvae which and it is declared that hers is the
English style of gold. Prey on grass roots. < I first case where this has been done
he little country paper, Brookline, .Mass., after fighting; in this or any other institution with
" 1 ,-c- incoftt whi>ti : anv deeree of success.
Some ones ience uetru ?mic- vami; mm okiojo ??
washed, eh? were destroying its shade trees, sent j Not only can she carry on an orhe
old church steeple's painted, out a Macedonian cry for the birds, dinary conversation,-but her eyesight
And they're tired of Parson put out food for them in- winter, | has been developed to such an extent
Gray! , nests in summer, punished any one! that she reads the lips of any person 1
dint nr frierhteneH them. The in her vicinity, and will make oral
back page has a story of the old birds came back, and the moths and, responses so readily as to make it
Ned Buntline type. bugs went out. Last year the town! impossible for a person unacquaintold
smell hang* around its fold-'was free from tree-destroying pests, i ed with her to discover that she is
ed pages like a pipe. ! while outside, in the shotgun areas.! not able to hear a sound of any kind,
sweet with morning music it can ! the finest old groves were being j ^
' - - ! crrinnori anrl ruined. I H#, \Vjlv Ventral.
mane me uu> accm, t ?
ause it brings the old town up to! It would pay every community, in {
visit us in a dream. Illinois to follow tho example of | #
visu ub m d | * , An Irishman went into a well
he little country paper. Brook me. Bring back the b.rds and , known BosIOI1 restaurant a short
Been no robberies anywhere? protect then, when they come. | time ag0 t0 get his lunch. Among
'"he's S?"e a"a>' ? vislt: ? ; ; Other things, he ordered some cold
And who's come to visit there. Nothing Perceptible. j nieat. and the waiter?when he serv
| ed the meal?inquired:
iasn..t.,mUCh_ Pre,t!"lif.n; ^ itS| "Did >'ou accept him as soon as he{ "Will you have the French or Ger
stni ine same wiu iiiiiis proposed?" I man mustered, sir:
lsed to e * en c oo e course not. I kept him wait-j "Neither," was the Irishman's re- ,
the world or us wit spring. for ^ angwer near]y a whole! ply, "I'm neutral, just give me the
how we watch and hunger for ? j ^ radish ?
the little sheet to come . ?
h from Homely Corners, 4
where so manv friends are dum. H
where so many friendsare dumb. I THE WAY TO KEEI> Capital and Surplus ?100,000.00 I
he little country paper, I tjle wolf from the door is a n
Oh. a welcome friend it is. I s account in a good savings I?"""1 i I
I'iti. ..11 itc miaint old STOSSll) ...... I' M^fZ-Aiirlpl ITl I
Of a sweeter world than this! I bank- Don t delay tnis nn- nijJF 11 *
?Baltimore Sun. I portant duty to your family, or ' | f| I
I you will regret it when For- j - t j/ . I
.One Very Winning Way. I tljne frown8# bv a smaI1 . 1
oung Lotsofrox is very popular I amount of your weekly earn- , ; '' j f N" I *
>ng the men at his club. I ings in the Bamberg Banking v '& \ ' j( > 9
Because of his witty conversation, | Co., and you will thank us for ' Wifr' I
ippose. oilh6convu. LtyifrV" * ' '" _
Xot altogether. A considerable . l/i^L. -*>/ I
t of his popularity is due to his I BcUHbsrg Banking Co. - ;. t * -
>ry that it is never too late to I 4 per cent. pd. on Sav. Deposits frV.". ' I {
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