University of South Carolina Libraries
IJlitrg ferali > Arin L. I sol. fcery" Thursday in Th k, on Main street, i K-owing City of Ban Kwied from a printin m. equipped with .Mei k> pe machine. Babcoc Ifolder. two 'obbers, pnder press, all run b K with other materia Kin keeping, the whol resenting an invesi PbQ and upwards, ns?By the year $1..~>0 IHV vd cents: tnree mount: subscriptions payabl ^Kdvance. Hpnents?$1.00 per inc ^BTcrtion, subsequent inset per inch. I^egal ad at the rates allowed b reading notices 10 cent insertion. Wants an Mrtisements under specie Pn; a word each insertior Ritracts ntade for three, si months. Write for rate.' tributes of respect, resc JPds of thanks, and all nc Fpersonal or political chat kharged for as regular ad p Contracts for advertisin |ct to cancellation after firs r* nnications?We are alway lublish news letters or thos to matters of public intei Crequire the name and ad Riie writer in every cast Te which is defamatory o ly personal can find place i n* v nrir.A ort/1 U'O d T at au> j/i uc, a^u .?v (^Sponsible for the opinions es HM in any communication. Hftday, May 6, 19If Weather Forecast. Hither forecast for the week b( Wednesday, .May 191." jHby the United States weathe M at Washington: W South Atlantic and East Gul es: he weather will be^fair the greaf Portion of the time, with somt t lower temperatures for a da ^ro Vver the interior district; ra Jc ocnio nrnsrpot of showers i fPP or so over the East Gulf State: It seems that the proverbial Apr lowers are a myth, after all. 1 ere. were any April showers i imberg, we failed to notice th ct. The people of the city of Bamber el very grateful that passenger set ce has been put on the B.. E. & \\ ilroad. The new road affords th ople of the lower section of th Inty means of getting to the coui: feat, and we hope to see our goo Has of that section visit our cit Bner in the future. The roa Ries easy access to Bamberg tins being operated both way Sunday is mothers' day. Le le remember to wear a whir on or other white flower, an church.. It is a iitting thin to thus set aside one day in a yea I as a special honor and remembranc k our mothers. The suggestion b of our friends to write our moth Vs a letter on that day is a splendi |ne. If your mother is not near yoil M3ember to write her a letter nex lunday. She will appreciate it. As yet we have heard but littl Imment on the excellent suggestio: ^ ^K>ur last issue by L?r. j. ts. tiiac H^^Hthe organization of a county fai JBHRciaticn. If a fair is to be heb Bamberg next fall, some step 6houid be taken at once toward th ^^fcrganization of the fair society, i H^ounty fair advertises the county a nothing else will, and at the sam W "time provides wholesome entertain meat for the people, and instructio! Hkgfeat cannot be secured otherwise. m Difference in Shooting. ^^^vHenrv Miller in the followin K^^Jory proves how wit can effectivel B^Mave a man from humiliation. "During the civil war. at a cam ^min Ohio, a captain fresh from civj BHiife and grand in a brand-new uni |^Hornn happened to observe two me rnooung at a imgci. 'Here, bov," said he. 'let me sho> you how to shoot.' "Taking a gun in hand, he fire and missed. ' 'That said he to one of the so] diers, is the way you shoot." "He fired a second shot and hi ' the bull's-eye. " 'And that,' said he. "is the wa I t shoot.''"?Young's Magazine. Reward of Dishonesty. "Once upon a time," began th teacher, "two little brothers starte to Sunday school one Sunday mori ing. Their way led past a fine 01 chard, where the trees were bendin down with ripe, luscious apples. On nf the brothers proposed going int the orchard and getting some frui but the other refused and sped awa; leaving his companion greedily d< vouring the apples. "Now, it happened that the owm "of the1 orchard saw them, and tli next day rewarded tlie good hoy wh refused to steal his apples by givin him a shilling. He got a prize fc his honesty, and what do you stir . pose the other boy got for his di: nonesty?" I. "He got the apples!" yelled ever W member of the class.?Exchange. ^ COPPED AXI) CARTKIIXiKS. i _ i : Length ol' War May He Determined l>y Ainniuuiti?in Supply. How long will a.OOO.OuO.bOO cart _ ridges last in a war of the size of the k present one? How much copper has a Germany on hand from which to j make new cartridges for the infantry e rifies and machine guns, and driving l- bands for the shells of all sizes? Great Britain has declared copper .* contraband of war, and is trying to 0 SlOp US going IU ctll> pun w uciu'c ii I might reach Germany. Other things . might end the war more speedily. I_ but when the supply of copper quits y then the war quits likewise. The1 s Germans were reported to" have had j nearly 5.000.000,000 rifle cartridges i. on hand when the war broke out. x They probably have 4,000.000 men ' under arms, possibly more. They j_ have thousands of machine guns.! - each of which eats up cartridges as I- fast as a whole infantry battalion.! ^ Twelve hundred and fifty rounds per soldier, excluding the machine guns, s and the 5,000,000,000 cartridges are e gone. Without doubt the Germans are reduced already to picking up the >. fired cases when it is feasible to do r so. Trench fighting is particularly n well adapted to this purpose, while 0 ? .. from a machine gun the ejected cases are thrown so uniformly that a bas7 ket would catch practically all of I: them. The German cartridge cases are not well adapted to being reloaded. The American government reloads the fired rifle cartridges, and the requirements specify that each r case must stand 20 such reloadings without splitting or giving way at lf T-Jit *-? A r?f thmiQ5*T\riQ Of [I ClII \ HUUUi t UO VL kUVMWMuwv fired cartridges are reloaded by the t- United States army each year, and the i- economy thereof is great because y while the completed loaded cartridges 5. cost 2 1-2 cents, the case itself costs n nearly 1 1-2 cents, a saving of 60 5. per cent, through reloading. - Both the German authorities and Sir Charles Ross, the designer of the 'n Canadian army rifle, have experiment11 j ed with the manufacture of steel carte ridge cases. Ross produced them, but they were too costly to be com? nierciallv practicable. & The start of the brass cartridge \ case is a flat disk of copper-zinc ale loy. It goes through a battery of e I draw presses until it has been drawn t_'out to a brass cylinder, about the d j length of the complete shell. Then vthe head is.formed from the thick d brass left in the base. During these j,! drawing operations the case has to s'be frequently annealed, the process j making the brass very brittle. In ! American cartridges the final opera:tjtion is to "neck down" the cylinder ej to the proper bottle-neck form for j that particular rifle. In the British R; service, where the cordite powder is rj loaded in the form of tubular strips. e; the powder is inserted before the I case is necked down. Every shell l"| has to be gauged to make sure it will a! chamber iij the rifle, for a bad one l,l might jam a rifle or tie up a machine 1 gun for a day. Brass instead of pure copper is ej used, being thrust against the chamn; ber walls in the rifle by the terrific li pressure. If resiliency to spring back r 1 to form after the case does not do i d 1 this it cannot be extracted. So the s temper of the finished shell is very e important. If it is too brittle, it will split at the neck or break off at the s base, disabling the weapon. If it is e too soft, it will upset or swell into - the chamber's most minute rough ii spots and cannot be extracted. The chamber pressure of the rifles used in the war ranges from 40,000 pounds to 55,000 pounds per square I inch of chamber area. The actual V [ thrust on the head of the bolt holdI ir.<r tho ciioii in thp Mauser rifle is p I 9,000 pounds. With the high presi sures, brass has^ not always proved entirely sufficient to stand the strain. n The cartridge case is the weak point of the modern rifle. The first sign ,x that the chamber pressure is too ! high is the "flowing" of the head of ^ i the cartridge out into the unsupport! ed space around the extractor cut, and%over the head of the bolt. In very high pressure the case is literaTly "smeared" all over the head of the bolt, flowing back like butter. The J steel case is not open to the objections pertaining to brass cases, but steel refuses to be jammed at high e speed through a series of draw pressd esi Military bullets are made in much r- the same fashion as the cartridge, g | Disks of the jacket metal are stamp,e ! ed out of sheets and then run through o i presses-to make the jacket. In Amert,|ican and British arsenals this metal r, is a copper-nickel alloy, about 7." per cent, copper and 2"> per cent, nickel, making, roughly. German *r silver. In the German service the ... iufkot ic sjiippr steel nlated to guard io! against rust. The presses finally turn out the complete jac ket, just the >r shape of the finished bullet, but of ).! course hollow. Then lead or lead aire !oy in the form of wire on great reels, i the wire about the diameter of the vj finished bullet, is fed into a machine j that cuts it off to the right length Rent2 Vol. 1 Store News ! Our first edition of "Rentz & Fel- j der Weekly" was to appear last wwek j I h?r nnr editor sot too busy to edit. The girls and ladies say those last j shipments of "Baby Dolls" and Co-1 lonials. are even better and ahead of j any they have seen anywhere. We received a car of land plaster , | this week. .Most of it is sold. Get j your supp'y for your pindars before all is gone. Nothing like it for pindars and peas. The boys and young men tell us we have the Oxfords?in tan. patent, white, dull?in the styles that lead, and that our shirts, ties, collars and socks are still better. "Ikey," "Buck," "Handy," or the "Old .Man" either and all will be glad to see you and will give you the best of service. I n r? 1 K.HJ LKAI) POISOXIXG DAXGEKS. ; One of the Most Prevalent of Occupational Diseases. Although lead poisoning is one of the most prevalent and distressing of occupational diseases, little has been done in this country toward its mitigation. Investigations have been made looking to preventive measures, but Illinois alone has passed restrictive laws. Lead poisoning, or plumbism, as the malady is known, is caus-1 ed by the absorption of the mineral into the system either through the respiratory organs, the skin or the alimentary canal. It manifests itself in various ways, a common form be-1 ing a paralysis known as the "wrist j drop" or "ankle drop," in which the I victim losses control of certain muscles, but the symptoms range in severity from lead "colic" to blindness, Bright's disease and occasionally complete xloss of mind. A study i of hospital records in New York city I shows that out of sixty deaths resulting from lead poisoning in two years forty were painters. Out of 100 apparently healthy and able-bodied I painters who were examined ?9 had; rth.nnin IaqH nftienninff Out nf 1 . I V.U1 Vlliv 1CUU fUlOVillUg. V/ u v VI + y 000 painters in Chicago who were questioned by the department of labor more than a third exhibited symptoms of it. The disease is often the result of carelessness or ignorance. Common practices among painters, such as holding the brush in the mouth, placing putty and white lead in the palms of the hand, eating before thoroughly washing the hands and removing the working clothes, using tobacco while working and other similar customs that bring the lead into contact with the skin or into the mouth are frequently the means of communicating the disease. Sandpapering a lead-painted surface is a particularly dangerous operation, as fine particles of the lead are thrown off, which the worker cannot avoid breathing. Such practices are generally forbidden in Europe, where considerable preventive work has been done. A French law, passed | about five years ago. but only lately going into effect, forbids the use of white lead in painting. England. Germany. Austria. Belgium and the | Netherlands have various regulative! laws, including reports of all cases of the disease, compulsory medical examination, stipulation of the kind of clothes to be worn by painters, and provisions for personal cleanliness at factories. Austria has prohibited the use of white lead for all interior work, and the International Congress of Industrial Hygiene has considered the advisability of entirely prohibiting its use in all of the countries represented.?Indianapolis News. How do you know that Chaucer dictated to a stenographer? Look at the spelling.?Columbia Jester. and pushes the slug down into the j iofiL'flt I JUV l\v w. The German sheet-steel jacket is | I supposed to wear out the ritie barrel j faster than copro-nickel, but it is! easier to obtain in uniform quality) and sufficient quantity, and does not! "metal foul" the ride barrel. Copro-j nickel, on the other hand, when I pushed up a barrel by the very hot J cordite of the British service, or at J the high speed of the American rifle. | melts from the heat and friction, and leaves copper in the rifle grooves.? | Popular Mechanics. : & Fe Bamberg, S. Customers' News This column is for use of our cus toniers. A letter or a suggestion from an: customer will appear here. Direc all such to Rentz & Felder. Suggestions to us from our cus tomers will be appreciated and con sidered. Cooperation is success What suits you best, suits us best When you thrive we thrive. The olc motto, "Live and let live," is ours Honest goods and fair treatment t< all. NTZ & Of the Dispensar ALL Dispensary No. Location Bamberg, S. C. 1 K. R. Ave. Denmark, S. C. 2 Palmetto Ave. Olar, S. C. 3 R. R._Ave. Ehrhardt, S. C. 4 Main St. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,.' Bamberg County. Personally appeared J. M. Grimes, Board, who, being each duly and sev< rect. Sworn to and subscribed before jj jgm The Lucky Birds. In these days of discussing am planning and advertising, and clean ing house and moving, and buildinj and selling, and reading want add! slipping in and out of the clutches o the real estate men, we are mori than ever inclined to envy our fussy pampered neighbors, the birds. It ii no exaggeration to say that in Irving ton alone there are almost as man: hoUses for birds as there are for peo pie, and all through the city are birc houses of every sort, from plaii home-made box-like cottages, t< gabled affairs on top of high- poles There are bird bungalows, doubles appartments and a few regular birc hotels where meals are served dail: on the little front porch. One woulc think it would be an easy thing foi a bird to find a house to suit him There are no equities, no cash prices no monthly payments, and as for lo cation, a bird can take his choice, foi wings are less crowded and swiftei than street cars, and more reliablt than automobiles. Nevertheless, the silly creature: are hard to please. They find fault with almost every house we build foi them. It is too large or too small has too few or too many windows or the back door is not right. Mar tins are very particular about bad doors. There is the possibility, to b< sure, that the birds really prefei their own ideas of architecture, prim itive and unsanitary and dangerou: as they may be. On the other hand they may think to take advantage oi our generosity, and may be planning to get electric lights and sleeping porches and alarm clocks. One mar * * j _ 1 0 , built a tinv cottage aim piateu n. a the disposal of any bird who mighi desire to move into it. Althougl there were crowded nests of birds all about it, none of them took pos session of it. He decided that it was not large enough and that birds pre ferred a tenement sort of life. H< built a wonderful house of man: rooms, placed it on a pole and ar ranged a free lunch counter and ? public bath conveniently near. Th< birds have, apparently, not noticec it. They are still quarrelling ovei their ugly nests and the children an still spilling out of them. Perhaps after all, the trouble is that the birds are not accustomed to publicity They have always hidden their nests 1 U..JU and the nouses we nave uum ivi tlieni were not made to be hidden Perhaps the fault is partly ours ii desiring that all the world should se< that we are offering homes to tin birds?and modern bits of real es tate at that. Testing Fattier. Willie?Do you know everything pa? Pa?Yes. my son. Willie?What is the difference be tween a son of a gun and a pop of i pistol??Williams Purple Cow. Ider W C., May 6, 1915 | Markets _____COTTON* .Market sags a little. That is a | ways looked for after a continue ! rise as we have had lately. Best ai - j thority seems to look for better ma; kets. Do not increase your crop c | use any more fertilizer for cotton. IlKKAI) Corn is fair price and plentifu j Wheat getting scarce and highe ! Less wheat and more corn on han ' than last year. But for safety saki t plant more corn and prepare to plar more wheat next fall. ! Rentz & Felder will furnish yot; ! fertP'zers for these crops and see | wheat, and sell you the best flot | now. MEATS Prices getting higher every da I and we are selling less meats tha ! ever before. A little preparation o I part of our people, and still less wi ' ! be sold. Should there be some i . earnest, and think they need hel along this line of preparation, an 1 our experience is worth anythinj will be glad to show you what w have done a^id are doing?for tli pigs and calves. Our line of supplies is of the be; and at the lowest prices. : FELE MONTHLY STATEMENT, ies in Bamberg County for Month STOCK IS GIVEN AT CONSUMERS' Total Invoice. In- Total Sales Breaks eluding Stock on hand 1 day >!on. $ 7,632.05 $ 2,784.15 $13.5 5,650.85 1,529.31 4.3 4,426.00 1,688.16 7.2 5,600.75 1,644.88 8.9 $23,309.65 $ 7,64 6.50 $33.9 J. B. Kearse, \V. H. Faust, members erally sworn, deposes and says that tl me this 3rd day of May, 1915. J ;|sTONECYPHER DRUG W'ESTMIP For sale by F. W. FR Wintiirop College. SCHOLARSHIP and ENTRANCE 1 EXAMINATION". r . i j The examination for the award c . \acant scholarships in VVinthrop Co - lege and for the admission of ne1 [. students will be held at the Count Court House on Friday, July 2, at : a. in. Applicants must not be les '; than sixteen years of age. Whe ; Scholarships are vacant atter July - they will be awarded to those mat ing the highest average at this exan: c|ination, provided they meet the cor Editions governing the award. Appl , cants for Scholarships should writ I to President Johnson before the e> '.animation for Scholarship examins "i tion blanks. ?j Scholarships are worth $100 an ?jfree tuition. The next session wi r open September 15, 1915. For fui ! ther information and catalogue, ac "I dress Pres. I). B. Johnson^ Rock Hil 5 i S. C. f [\ TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. '! The regular examination for cei >5 tificates to teach in the public school i of Bamberg county will be held Fri L day, May 7, beginning at 9 o'cloc a. m., at the court house. All teach t: ers who have not certificates wi ? please bear this in mind, as no teach 31 er is allowed to teach who has no J a certificate. R. W. D. ROWELL. County Supt. of Education. J ESTATE XOTICE. i I 'j All persons having claims agains ; the estate of Mrs. Mary Rice Boat "j wright, deceased, are hereby notifie i to file the same, duly verified, wit ;jthe undersigned, and those indebte 11 to said estate will please make pay ment likewise, r j MRS. SARAH RICE OWENS, > Executrix, j Bamberg, S. C., April 14th, 1915. IYOr EXPERIENCE A JOYOUS FEELING wheh you come to our bank to deposit money. The joy comes from knowing you are adding to your capital for future use. and in tlie thought that your money is safe and working for you. Kindly "bear in mind we pay the highest rate of interest. Bamberg Banking Co. t 4 per cent. pd. on Sav. Deposits Weekly No. 1 Specials l* | Xobbv line of dress straw hats. d r_ Wash suits for boys, 25c to $1.25. >r Ladies' and girls' slipper^" and oxj fords, silk hose, all colors and prices. 1. r- Men's and boys' low cut shoes, all d i nripps and stvles. e. r " " " Interwoven socks, colors black and ir white. 25c and 50c. id ir Summer wash goods, full line, at 1 0c. ;> .Men's and boys' work pants for n summer wear, n N Work shirts, n V Dress shirts, d ?. e Summer underwear. ie $3.00 black satin Colonial Pump for $1.50. 5t Clever, attentive salesmen. )ER of April, 1015 PRICES. ige Stock on Hand Other Credits Operating Last Day of R. K. Claims Kx.ofeach Month & goods Rt. Dispensary 0 $ 4,801.60 $ 17.55 $220.25 0 4,105.00 102.24 5 2,706.50 11.70 88.39 0 3,926.20 3.25 89.52 5 $15,539.30 $ 32.50 $500.40 of the Bamberg County Dispensary ie foregoing statement is true and cor.1. S. WWLKER. Notary Public. Stonecypher's Irish Potato Bug Killer j Guaranteed to destroy the Irish Potato Bugs without fail rand injury to the vines. One or two applications, usually sufficient to save the entire potato crop. Easily applied, does not wash off. Insist' upon Stone- , cypher's?sure death to the bugs. Money back is not satisfied. Sold by Druggists and general Merchants everywhere. Manufactured only by 6 CHEMICAL COMPANY, <ISTER, S. C. EE yu., Bamoerg, a. w. Kidney Trouble Causes J Intense Suffering i-1 sv I Sixteen years ago I was taken sick y! with Kidney trouble and suffered 9 terribly for three months. I did not is j work during this time and was mostn ' ly confined to the bed. After using 2 other remedies I finally tried a bot' tie of Swamp-Root. I immediately i- began to feel better, and after using i-; seven fifty-cent botttes, was entirely i- j cured and have had no Kidney troue ble since. I can truly say that I c- owe my good health to Swamp-Root. i- You may publish this letter for the benefit of other people afflicted as I d was with the hope of bringing to II their attention this most wonderful > remedy. [_ Yours very truly, HATTIE A. QUIMBY. 36 Spruce St. Waterville, Maine. - State of Maine [ Kennebec County } ^ j ^ Personally appcarcu uic cti/v?c named Hattie A. Quimby, who snbs scribed above statement and made l" oath that the same is true in sabk stance and in fact. ANNA M. DRUMMOND. " j Authorized to administer oaths, etc. it j Letter to j Dr. Kilmer & Co., j Binghamton, N. Y. i Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You it Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & ^0., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample d size bottle. It will convince anyone, h You will also receive a booklet of d valuable information, telling about - the kidneys and bladder. When writing, be sure and mention the Bamberg Weekly Herald. Regular fiftycent and one-dollar size bottles for sale at all drug stores. Capital and Surplus $100,000.00 .* \ i" ' * ' SSfcVs.-: