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U/hr j&uuiirrg feral it K.STA5JLiSHi:i> APRIL, 1801. Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City or Bamberg. being Issued from a printing otiioe which is equi; pod with Mergentiialer linotype machine. Uabeock cylinder press, folder, two jobbers, a fine Michle cylinder press. a;i run uy electric rower with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole ! equipment representing an invest- j inent of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $ 1.50; j six months. 75 cents: three months, j 50 cents. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, subsequent inser- i tions 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, j Obituaries, tributes of respect, reso- i lutions. cards of thanks, and all no- j tices of a personal or political char- { acter are charged for as regular ad-; vertising. Contracts for advertising } not subject to cancellation after first : insertion. * I Communications?We are always I 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. Xo 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, April 29, 1915. Weather Forecast. Weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday. April 2?. 1913. issued by the United States weather bureab at Washington: For South Atlantic and East Gulf States: Generally fair weather, with tem. perature near the seasonal average, probable during the coming week. We respectfully suggest that it is a hardship for the merchants on Main street to have to pay for the street - being sprinkled. A street sprinkler should be purchased by the city and used in dry weather. 'That is a spendid suggestion made by Dr. Black for a county fair in Bamberg. So much enthusiasm was evinced by the Chautauqua that it wonld appear with a little concerted action by some of our leading citizens the organization of a county fair should be a comparatively easy task. The Colonel would rather have the publicity which accompanies the bringing of the suit against Barnes than to have a verdict of $50,000 without fche publicity. He just couldn't remain out of the limelight any longer.?Edgefield Advertiser. Give the Bull Moose chief what little credit that is due him. Brother Minis. The Colonel hasn't sued any . body for libel?lately: he is being sued. *lt is encouraging to note that the number of newspapers endeavoring' to keep their news columns free of advertising matter is increasing. Jt is becoming to be realized that the j news columns are to be kept free from matter advertising individuals and businesses of any character. We know of several otherwise splendid newspapers that every week give choice space in their local and personal columns to the free advertis- ( jng of their friends. It is an ex- ( tremely bad practice to give away ] your merchandise, whether it be ] newspaper space or merchandise j goods. When it is desired to make < charitable contributions. editors < should go down in their pockets, and ' not charge it up to the newspaper, ] and then cry hard times when they j fail to make a livelihood. 1 Our <ror>rt fripnf) f'nl Anil rif flip 1 Newberry Herald and News, repro-1: duces our remarks on the free adver-| t tising graft, calling us the Charlotte t Observer. We plead not guilty of being the esteemed Charlotte Observ- ( er. But we will forgive ihe Colonel.; , and give our readers the benefit of J , his comments on our editorial, for L thev st"ike the s;)ot: , The following is from a late issue s of the Charlotte Observer and contains so much truth tiiat we feel that 1 we will be justified in reproducing it f here. And the newspaper publishers i are themselves largely to blame for , the lack of appreciation of value which is placed upon their only mer- 1 chandise. the space they have to sell, '< by the public, because these same c newsraper publishers themselves do t not put the proper value upon it. Many a publisher of a weekly paper 1 gives away every issue from twenty i to thirty copies of his paper, refusing ; to accent pay for them. If he sold v them he would charge "> cents each. Some people would think him stingy and mean if he charged for a paper and yet they would not think of going to any store and taking a cigar without paying for it. Rut the newspaper, it seems, is expected to do a lot of this community work without pay and sometimes without acknowledgment of the service. Awkward Situation. "For $2 I will foretell your future." "Are you a genuine soothsayer?" "I am." 1 "Then you ought to know that 1 j haven't got ?2."?Louisville Courier- e Journal. | c visrri:i> thk afijicax i'h;miks. Chapin Spends Si\ Years in the Wilds of A' i ica. .lames Chapin. of the Congo expedition of the museum of natural history. lias retained to New York, after six years spent in the wilds of Africa. Despite seemingly well-authenticat ed rumors in the last few years that the members of the expedition had j been lost or killed, he reported that I they had enjoyed the best of health j and that the expedition had been a1 sreat success, more than 30.00O speci-i mens having been obtained. They; obtained three okapi, which was the ! special object of their search. "We were lucky enough to get; three perfect specimens of the oka-! pi." Mr. Chapin said, "two full-grown i and one about half grown. The little one is the only one that 1 saw alive and the group will he the hrst that j ever has been set up in this country, j The okapi is a distant relative of thej giraffe, only that his neck is short-j er. The males have the same horns j as the giraffe and both males and fe-! males have stripes on their legs like zebras. Herbert I.ang. who was in j charge of the expedition, was partic- j ularly pleased at our luck. "We started for the Congo Free; States on May 8. 1909, intending to be gone a year. After we got into the work this time was lengthened to twp years, then to three, and finally we decided to stay until we had finished what we set out to do. "We landed at Stanleyville, which is about 1.200 miles inland up the Congo, and then made our first hike which landed us at Avakubi after 23 days. Mr. Lang and I walked, as we did for the rest of our stay there, and it is probably due to this constant exercise that we were able to reta:n our health although the other white men in the Congo thought it wonderful that we could live there for six years without serious sickness. "Avakubi and .Medge, both Belgian posts, were our headquarters for a year, and it was here that we obtained the small okapi. This is a forest country and owing to the lack of underbrush, was fairly easy to travel through. The Belgian government assisted us in every way. The officials would get porters for us and the government ended by contributing $1,300 towards the expenses of the expedition. "One of the; most curious of the bird specimens we collected was a species of the great hornbill. We also have several nests of this bird The male hornbill, when the season arrives for the female to lay her eggs and raise a family, entices his mate into a hollow tree, as high above the ground as possible, and then walls her in with mud. She is im IdUllCU HI ClliO Vdl IVI OlA WCCR3 to two months, and is allowed to break her way out when the young are ready to fly. All the time' the male brings her food, many times a day, which he passes in to her through a small hole which he leaves for the purpose when he walls her up. Her food consists of insects and fruit, which he often has to chew small enough to pass through the hole. "Another peculiar bird was a crowned' eagle, that seemed to li\e exclusively on monkeys. He is similar to the American eagle, except that tie has very large, strong feather L feet, with great talons. We have specimens of this bird and also eev- ei jral of its nests, which are' huge. rhere was also a chocolate colored S lawk, which lived on bats. It would w ippear just about dusk and catch the m aats on the wing. Weaver birds. which are about the size of the Xew aI Fork sparrow, build hanging nests. sometimes as many as 2t?0 in one 's :ree, which they enter at the hot- 'a :oni. ' "In the Ituri we were in the pigmy ^ iountry, and saw many of these peoile and found them an assistance n our work. They are great hun:ers. and usually attach themselves 111 o some tribe composed of farmers, V so that they can trade the spoils ot heir hunt for vegetables. They are n< ?reat hunters of caterpillars and er white ants. These thev catch and tl( ta ifter drying them use them in trade with the other natives who are just hi is keen for them as they are. The aterpillar month is September, and 'e hen the pigmies are in clover. They |U oam the forests until they gather til they can carry. They catch the Wi white ants, which are not very large. tr >y setting leaf traps near their hills. "One of the most peculiar things tr \e found in the forest country was ,)e he "wireless telephone" used by the tj< latives. 1 was able to get two of he great wooden drums they use. This is a wonderfully efficient S? sem, and is not like the .Morse or any J" hat we use. The natives make toises with the drums, which will wi any 10 miles and which resembles pn he sounds of words in their own lan- ra mage. It is more like a wireless St clephone than anything else. ta "A steamer sank on the river sev-j ' 1 ral days ago and within two days j ?f its loss we had heard all about it,| Cc Goods That You Need Right Now. 36-inch Tub Silks in solid colors and attractive stripes. This Silk is especially adapted for men's shirt? and ladies shirt waists. 40-inch All Silk .Moire, in black, reseda green, and wisteria. 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Come in while we have a large selection to show you. ren to its name, the Ville de Bruges. took the survivors of the wreck jveral weeks to reach where we ere, but the native 'wireless' transited the news in 4 8 hours. "We were told that the natives 'ound .Medje were cannibals not so | ng ago, and that there were still J olated cases of cannibalism. Tl>isj tter we were unable to verify, and; personally don't think that it is so.1 edje was the' scene of the tragic) sath of Tiiornton. an American, ho, in 190:5, went there to establish j1 ie post. The natives killed and atej m. Shortly before we arrived there | tey told me that when the local;' dge was leaving the post with aj' itive murderer, who was being tak-j i away to another post for execu- . 3ii, the friends of the slain man atcked the party and tried to get ^ m. Thev said they could not unc TStand why the murderer was being moved, and asked 'Why should the dge take food away from us?" "Another story that they told us as about a chief that came in toi ade. The trading was interrupted I s ' the discoverv of a man tied to all j 1 ee, who said that he was a slave j t >!nnEriner to the chief, and had been s " I ?d there to wait until the caravan j arted home, and then lie was to bej. lied for food. These stories maj , ) true, hut we saw nothing that' stifled our believing them. . I "When the war began we received1 ard by runners who brought dis-jc .tches to the Belgian posts. They't 11 night and day and traveled from , c anleyviile to Avakubi. which had L C ken us 23 days, in just about five.-i c saw no hostilities in the Congo." j 1 When Mr. Chapin went out to the| >ngo he was 19 years old and a j woman walks forth c silk in all weaves a: don't believe there is; v X who couldn t be suite ^ ) stock. ^ We have bought ^ Silps^LJ1 of things made of si ES?S?SBtK them for little prices. 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