The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 29, 1915, Page 4, Image 4
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K.STA5JLiSHi:i> APRIL, 1801.
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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
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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
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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
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personally don't think that it is so.1
edje was the' scene of the tragic)
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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
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ee, who said that he was a slave j t
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?d there to wait until the caravan j arted
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"When the war began we received1
ard by runners who brought dis-jc
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11 night and day and traveled from , c
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"The disasters at sea are appall- TEACHERS'EXAMINATION,
ng!" The regular examination for cei
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ESTATE OF J. A. MCROAUGH.' a certificate. R W D RtfVVELL.
^ County Supt. of Education.
All persons having claims against
aid estate will present them duly atested
and all persons indebted there- I MEN AND WOMEN
o will make payment to the under- I
igned at Bamberg. S.C- I will find the use of cljeck books
M AM I hi M u RDA I U H. W
I-G Executrix. | a convenience and an economy.
NOTICE TO CT{EI)I1X)IIS I Convenient because checks can
. j be so easily mailed. Economi)oreas
Green, Plaintiff, vs. Cornelia , f.a] ije(.aiise tliev cause thinking
Zeigler. et ai, Defendants.
Pursuant to an order of the Court j before spending. We invite ac?f
Common Pleas for Bamberg Coun- counts from both sexes and
y, in tne above entitled case, all ;
ireditors of Louisa Graham, deceaa-1 promise every facility good
d. are required to prove their claims | , .
igainst hey estate betore me at the i
ounty court house on or before
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ESTATE NOTICE.
All persons having claims against
s the estate of Mrs. Mary Rice Boati
wright, deceased, are hereby notified
k to file the same, duly verified, with
i- the undersigned, and those indebted
11 to said estate will please make payi_
mont likpwisp
>t j MRS. SARAH RICE OWENS,
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Bamberg, S. C., April 14th, 1915.
Capital and Surplus $100,000.00 ^
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