Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I ttihp ibauibmj feralb r-T ? ^-rr=r===== I S KSTAHHSHK1) APKIL, 1891. Published every Thursday in The j Herald building, on Main street, in ' the live and growing City or Bam- j 0 berg, being issued from a printing i . office which is equipped with Mer-1 genthaler linotype machine, Babcock J" rviindpr nress folder, two jobbers, a ) h line Miehle cylinder press, all run by Ijj electric power with other material ; . and machinery in keeping, the whole 11 equipment representing an invest- f< nient of $10,000 and upwards. li Subscriptions?By the year $1.50; six months, 75 cents; three months, 50 cents. AJ1 subscriptions payable ' strictly in advance. e< Advertisements?$1.00 per inch p: for first insertion, subsequent inser- ^ tions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by ai law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and ic other advertisements under special , head, 1 cent a word each insertion. Liberal contracts made for. three, six and twelve months. Write tor rates. 1> Obituaries, tributes of respect, reso- c. lutions. cards of thanks, and all no- ' tices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular ad- < vertising. Contracts for advertising p. not subject to cancellation alter nrsi s} insertion. Communications?We are always " glad to publish news letters or those ir pertaining to matters of public interest. We require the name and ad- dress of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory or ai offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are o) not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. n( ? a? Thursday, Augu-t 19 i915. b?l e< That was rather a disgraceful af- tj fair over in Georgia, when a crowd m of men went to the State prison farm and secured forceful possession of Frank. Whether the governor of ^ Georgia was right or wrong in re- w ducing Frank's sentence from death a, to life imprisonment, the prisoner w * ir? i . ? was entitled i<j pruietnuu ?uu>. ... tr the custody of the State. w The Observer, it may be noticed, is taking no part in the "beauty con- C? test" for the "harvest jubilee," tt which is to form one of the attrac- m tione of State fair week in Columbia. sc We may be regarded as a little oldfashioned in saying so; but we do p not approve of thrusting young lo women forward in a beauty contest, ta It may be all right: but it doesn't 0J look good to us, and so we are not giving it any space or other en- '? couragement.?Newberry Observer, ui Yes, and there's another reason: Jt and that is the cofftest referred to is ot ' pure advertising matter; and if the w ? Observer can afford to give its space tt for free advertising, it*can afford to n< do more than this newspaper can. It di is time newspapers treated everybody alike. If a store conducted tt such a contest, it would have to pay ai I " . for the advertising: why not the m State fair? When the dividends, if si any, are paid, the newspapet will not cc be included. ei h< FIRE OX AMERICAN TROOPS. tr ei One of Uncle Sam's Cavalry Officers Killed and Another Wounded. 01 Brownsville. Texas, August 16.? re , tr Armed Mexicans in force crossed me Rio Grande at a ford near Mercedes tonight, attacking an outpost of a half a dozen cavalrymen at Saenz. Ranger Lieut. Reynau. at Mercedes. telephoned State Adjt. Gen. Hutch^ , infes here that Corpl. Wilman, of ?* Troop C. 12th cavalry, was killed and Lieut. Roy O. Henry and two privates er of the same troop were wounded. Reynau reported that the Mexicans w had crossed the border in three sr < bands and were advancing toward ri 111 - Mercedes. u A clash between Mexicans and *n United States troops occurred last night. The troops were fired upon u' ' v "from across the Rio Grande, but the a Mexicans withdrew when the fire was re returned. None of the Americans' rc i were wounded. S1 ^ I of Americans who arrived here today f 1 * reported that they had been threatened by a party of Carranza soldiers; st : > aboard a train enroute from Monte-; u ' '? 11*1 rev. The soldiers apparently had. been drinking and were incensed bvI m exaggerated reports of the raids on ! **' the American side of the boundary *)( and treatment accorded Mexicans.] Officers quieted the troops. I 1)1 The Americans.said that a state-|fc ment signed by Gen. Nafarrate. Car- j 1)1 ranza commander at Matamoros, had i been published in a Monterey news- b< paper. declaring that Carranza 4. troops had no connection with the 111 Texas raids. They reported that the n' majority of the American residents of Monterey had left that city. ni The 21th infantry arrived today C( from Texas City to, reinforce the IS United States border patrol. It has been learned that Clyde 1S Robinson, an American, was detain- 'c ed in the Matamoros jail five days S( Pending an investigation of his pres- R ence near the Matamoros military trenches. He was released at thei01 request of United States Consul John- ( I son at Matamoros. An Extreme case. i i _____ w "My cousin is a true pessimist." tj "How's that?" V "Even the brand of hope he uses e: is forlorn."?Kansas City Journal. y< WHAT A SOLDIEH CAItiHKS. cience Jh>es Little to Lighten I/<>ad of Modern Fighter. While the rifle of the infantrymen f the world's armies has steadily issened in weight during the last ears and while constant attempts ave been made in other ways to ghten the soldier's burden on march. is nevertheless a fact that the uni? jrmed fighter of today carries very ttle if any iess than he did a genration 01 two ago. His gun and ayonet and some other details of quipment that had an exact counter-) art in the old armies may be lighter, ut modern military necessities have tided to his carrying requirements. He must now face tnis marching >ad: Magazine rifle, bayonet, scabard, rifle cartridge belt suspends, rst aid packet, canteen strap, set of lankets. roll straps, haversack, meat in (used as a frying pan), cup. nit'e. fork, spoon, one shelter tent half), five shelter tent pins, one ancho (rubber blanket), one pair ? l>A..oAMM'fA I rv/-11 onH lues, Ulie lU'Uttniic luccuit Uliu ireadi, on overcoat, one lntrenchig tool. These marching loads have varied om 40 to 100 pounds in the past, ad weigh about the same now. Of course in going into action much f this load is discarded, some of it 2ver to be possessed by the owner ?ain, even though lie escapes the little peril. In the old days knapicks were always cast off by season1 troops, who grow calloused as to le hoarding up of little trinkets and ementos that so appeal to the ama ur soldier. After a battle these discarded aapsacks might be recovered, but it a? not likely. At any rate, while I lother knapsack might be issued, it | ould not be the one possessed by le soldier before the battle. Whenever a new levy of troops as mustered in and arrived In a ifnp where veterans were stationed ie newcomers were greeted with ock praise for their spick and span ldierly appearance, with special em^tasis on "How nice those knapsacks ok!" This time-honored recepicle of everything a soldier desired hoped to keep ever near him is no 'nger reckoned in the latter day livefsal fighting equipment. The ipanese soldiers and the men ot I :her armies carry a long sack in hich it is possible to tie many lings the fighter needs or thinks he seds?until the weight suggests a scarding. . During the Japanese-Russian war te infantrymen of Nippon carried, uong other things, a hemp hamock, a water bottle of aluminum, a ipplv of rice in a grass box and a >pper charcoal camp kettle of a patlted kind that enabled water to be )i!ed right in a gale of wind. While oops on going into battle discard erything not absolutely necessary i them for the fight and are thus ghtened up some, they have to take i some weight in the place of that 'linfluished. in the shape of "an exa ifumber of cartridges.?X. Y. Sun Southern Crops. If the elimination of profit in raisg cotton by the European war can ing home to the South the value ' diversified crops the loss to the nithern farmer will not have been itirely in vain. While it is true iat cotton is the basis of the South's e'alth. it is equally true that the 1' nf fho -Smith has been uaii 1 a 1 111 V l vr*. ww dden by the one crop?cotton?idea itil he has been to a large extent ipoverished by it. Custom and the *hope of cleaning 7 a big profit each year have led to habitual over-acreage of cotton as tgularlv as such planting season has lied aroupd. to the practical excluon of grain crops. This shortage ' home grown grain has had the feet'of limiting the raising of live ock. The South has come to get s bacon and beef as well as its corneal and flour from the West as a after of course." although the home own product is superior to the im-j orted in every case. As long as cotton fetches a good "ice this system works well enough, r then the Western supplies can he irchased for considerably less than le cotton brings. But when the ottom drops out of the cotton niaret then the Southern farmer can either eat the product of his soil or sell it for enough to pay ex?nses. Many of the small farmers ortgage their crops before their )ttou is picked: tne result for such bankruptcy. It is a grim lesson that the South learning. It may well be that the ?ss will reach $200.000,0d0, as >me Southern authorities compute, ut already there are indications that te loss has taught what State govrnment campaigns for diversified ops have failed to inculcate. The epariuieut tu i* ^ ^ >recasts give Georgia an increase of s.TOl.nnO bushels over 1014 in its heat, corn and oat crpps. This is pical of the Southern State from irtrinia to Texas. Perhaps the preset. loss mav mean gain in future ears.?N. Y. Evening Sun. WOXDKKS OF MILKV WAY. The "Diamond Dust" That (Jlitters in I* *l>" L'??c#ah?? Clr t* Hit) a* . August and September are the best months to observe the summer con- F stellations because then they are high b at an early hour of the evening, says t< Latimer J. Wilson, in Southern Wo- v man's .Magazine. They are also the t best observing months in some lo- b calities where there is less rainfall. .> The showers of June and July have become less frequent and the hot day is followed at night by a thin haze instead of water-laden clouds. The haze does little to prevent star-gazing n unless it becomes thick enough to ii cut off the light of the bright stars a and blends them into harmony with the quiet summer night. Across the h eastern sky stretches the milky way. tl What is this strange nana of lumi- a nous clouds? With the invention of is the telescope the mystery of the milky way was solved. It was found n to be stars, in which clusters and k garlands are interwoven in the most b fantastic manner. Every point of light is a sun. Even a good opera tc glass will show that stars compose p the milky way. They are transform- P ed by the opera glass into a glitter- w ing mass like diamond dust cast in p the sky. A telescope reaches deeper ir into space and shows hundreds of si stars gathered into this small re- n: gion. But it is the sensitive plate attached to the telescope which re- b; veals the real wonders of the milky ti way. Instead of hundreds and thou- T sands of stars, the photographs ^how s< millions. The faintest objects which U can be recorded on the plate are d' hopelessly beyond the reacli of the human eye even when the largest p! telescopes are used. The plate ac- ri cumulates the light which falls upon r< it while the retina becomes tired k with continued straining for faint ci light. Thus stars can be seen in fr photographs which can never be seen a< in the heavens. p a; Lucky Stones in the .Mails. o: a It does not seem possible that in S1 this admittedly enlightened age a suf- ' D< ficient number of persons could be found credulous enough to pay high ^ prices for "lucky stones," alleged to possess mysterious powers by means g< of which lost jewelry is restored, true ^ and false friends pointed out, the sick healed, the poor brought into ^ possession of wealth, the unemployed assured of work, hard luck banished and secrets revealed. A postoffice fraud order just issued dis- ^ closes that such a business has been conducted by mail from Philadelphia IT! for a term of years, during which the profits have been at least $300,000, ^ and for the last several years the promoters have gained an average of $44,000 a year by purchasing the stones at prices ranging from 2 to 15 cents each and selling them at prices based on the*estimated credulity and purchasing ability of the victims. Customers were obtained by ^ circulars with highly spiced literature, lists of names purchased from * "astrologers" and others engaged in one way or another in relieving the r weak, foolish and superstitious of ^ their money.?Rochester Post-Ex- ^ press. Her Serene Highness. O' Little green lizard, threading the a] grass a, Over the lawn to the sea, p, Fearest thou not wnere tne people st pass. la Hither and thither, to be? s< For the lords of the earth, their a) pride and their fall, Carest thou not in the least ' e^ Thou who are lowliest, dost thou ai have all. Being lord of thyself, little beast? 0j m Whither thou goest and what is thy 0] thought, bi Serenely here by the sea. \7 Curiously wonder I. knowing that naught ot 1 may think interests thee! di ' . bi Shadow' of ebon wings frighteth thee n, not'. . di Nor rustle of far. far soaring palm. As it sways in the sky where the snowy clouds dot The blue of the tropical calm. th Lift then thy tiny head all unafraid, fr Looking far out to the sea: "] Feeling the flicker of sunshine and fii shade. g( And happy, just living, to he. in ?'M. E. Buhler. in the New York as Sun. gi - - n< Weekly Weuther Forecast. w ri Issued by the 1". S. Weather Bu- si reau. Washington. 1). C.. for the week beginning Wednesday, August w J 8th. 1 !i 1 : d; For South Atlantic and East Gulf I States: Local thunderstorms for a day or two wiil be followed by generally fair weather during the remain-lit der of the week, with seasonable! d: temperatures. [ m OUSTER'S LAST SURVIVOR. 'rank H. Karle Buried at Cireenville Miss., Sunday. Greenville. Miss.. August 16.? 'rank H. Karle. 74. said to liavi een the only survivor of Gen. Cus er's command when the 7th cavalr; as massacred by Indians at the bat !e of the Kittle Big Horn, wa uried here yesterday. He died a .rkansas City. Ark., Friday. Mental Healing. The familiar saying that there i othing new under the sun is strik lglv exemplified by mental hygiem nd mental healing. Gre'at emphasis is rightly beinj uu on uuiii or inese uuwauays. mi ie widespread impression that the: re sudden outgrowths in medicin* i quite mistaken. On the contrary, they have a re larkable historical background, ant nown and practiced in various ways y ancient peoples. Even hypnotism, that extremely up )-date therapeutic agent, was em loyed as long ago as the time of th< haraohs. There is evidence tha ise Egyptians sometimes put t'neii atients into a hypnotic sleep, dur lg which they gave them curativt iggestions much in the moderr tanner. The treatment of nervous invalid: y "rest cure" methods was prac ced both in Egypt and in Greece he shrines of Aesculapius were es jntiallv what we would call sani iriums. A medical historian thu: escribes them: "They were spacious buildings leasantly situated. The hours oi sing and of rest were definitelj jgulated. The patients' minds wen ept occupied with the details of th< are, they met pleasant companion: om distant places, they had all th< dvantages of diversion of mind, sim le diet, long hours in the open air nd abundance of rest away from tlx rdinary worries of life. "No wonder that these institution! cquired a reputation Tor cures o rmptoms which the physician hac een unable to accomplish while tlx atient was at home in the midst o is daily cares and worries." / Sanitariums of the same sort wen stablished in Egypt and in Assyria both places, as in Greece, how rer, the physicians who conductec lem were priests and, probably in al ncerity, they sedulously cultivat 3 in their patients' minds the ide? lat the cures wrought were effectec y supernatural means. Thus, although mental hygiene ant lental healing were systematically racticed, there was no general rec gnition of the factors that really rought about the often curative re tits. But there are records of lndividua hysicians who did recognize them rasistratos (about 300 B. C.) was le, and another was the famous HipDerates. At a later day Avicenna ie great Arabian physician, express taught that the "imagination" o ien can and does affect their bodies Still, even Avicenna had a mystic 1 * ? *? - ? i _ iAAnkimrro I, occuii strain 111 ins leatmuga his tendency persisted throughout ie middle ages. For that matter, it is in evidencf mong some mental healers of out ivn day. And it was because the ancients id their medieval successors blindlj Jopted the easy explanation of "susrnatural aid" that a correct underlanding of the mental cures was de;>ed until modern times. This it is that forms a basis for the jeming newness of mental hygiene id mental healing. More is heard of them today than ,*er before because itiore is known bout them. The development of medicai psvlology?which, as a science, is noi ore than a half a century old?has pened up vistas of medical possiilities until now only crudely utiled. Naturally this has caused unpre>dented discussion and out of this iscussion has arisen the widespread nt mistaken notion of the absolute ewness of mental hygiene.?H. Adington Bruce. As She Took Him Up. "I went home feeling awfully bad ie other night." confides a married iend to the Cleveland Plain Dealer My eye was bright, my step was m, my head was clear and my diistion was perfect?still I was feelg rotten. 1 told my wife about il r - - .1. _ 1 7 ? soon as 1 goi ,nuu me nuuoc. < -oaned something pitiful. At din?r I groaned ?ome more, though 1 as so hungry that I had to keep ght on eating in spite of the misis' protests. Finally she said: " I'm afraid, dearie, that you on't lie well enough to go to thai inre with me tonight." And. before thought. I blurted out: " 'Durn it. I'm afraid I will!' "And T couldn't explain to her thai was a slip of the tongue, and she ragged me out with her in spite ol y shrieks of pain." 1 THK MOST : INTERESTING BOOK you'll ever own will be the one _; showing your first deposit in a c; savings bank. And every time J you make a fresh deposit you 1 will read the book with more _! interest and satisfaction. Make gl that first deposit today at this ti bank. Start the book that means comfort and independence for you. Bamberg Banking Co. 4 per cent. pd. on Sav. Deposits e ; \ .Mfl.ntiim r, A peaceable man in a steel town t'of Pennsylvania came upon two y l youths fighting. > "Let me beg of ?! you," he earnestly besought, "to sett?e your dispute by arbitration. . Each of you choose half a dozen jj friends to arbitrate." 51 Having seen the twelve arbitrators j selected to the satisfaction of both . i sides, the man of peace went on his . way rejoicing. Half an hour later a he returned that way, and was horrit fied to find the whole street fighting, r while in the distance police whistles could be heard blowing and-, police a rushing to the spot from all quarters, j "Merciful heavens! What's the matter now?" the peacemaker asked , of an onlooker. "Sure," said the man, "the arbitrators are at work." IFFREE! r 1st PRIZE?Set of ; 2nd PRIZE?9 x 1 Beginning Saturc A TICKET WII 5 with each dollar purchase of Wt be given with each dollar paymen 15th, two prizes will be given t bers. Prizes Are Now on Display at G 1 These prizes will be given aw 1 necessary is to purchase Watkins' The merits of these goods are k: i used them. If you have not beei 1 about our goods. 1 1\7 LJ U II VV .11. W1 \l I Watkln's Salesman i ?? BBaBBHDBEBHHBHIIHBBflHl 5 ; Money at is the nearest thing to perpet- JE i ual motion ever discovered. Hi When you have a bank account H where interest is paid on your Be deposit your income is growing aU . night as well as day. If it is r your ambition to be successful and independent in this wor'd Ib5 the short cut is to start a bank Vff account. You can start ;t here mh ; with a very small sum. U Enterpri ."? Per Cent. Interest Paid on Satin m LEND. SPRIN WATI H|| For Sale B BH Mack's Drug! and M.P. Her Bamberg, S. L t > -.'M/ * . -- Ziiak^KL^ Capital and Surplus $100,000.00 r ~ < AX ORDINANCE. . ^ to regulate the Driving and Speed of Automobiles at Certain Corners in the Town of Bamberg: ' Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of Bamberg, \ now met and sitting, and by authority of the same: That all automobiles shall come to a,full stop before miking the turn at the corner of Main street and Railroad avenue, the corner of Main street and Church street, and the ?\ corner of Railroad avenue and New Bridge street, in the Town of Bamberg. All persons violating the pro- visions of this Ordinance shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than One Hundred Dollars, or be imprisoned not longer than Thirty Days, at the discretion of the Mayor. v Done in Town Council this 5th day a of August, in the year of our -Lord M 1915. 1 E. C. HAYS. E. H. HENDERSON, Mayor. Clerk. FREE!! | : China Dishes f 2 Art Square , 1 lay, August 21st -":k\ -L BE OIVEN . ttkins' goods. Tickets will also t on Old accounts, on uecemuer 0 persons holding certain num- if' > - ???& . 0. Sim nous's Hardware Store , ?S1 ay absolutely free. All that is - . - ^ Medicines and household goods, nown to everyone who has ever 1 a customer, ask your neighbor ' l";WSB? * \NDLBR U Bamberg, S.iC. t Interest I se Bank fj gs Deposits. Bamberg, S. C. J mbbbbbbbbbbI * ' hhhm^BBBH |*?s? / .'.1 ALE I j [G ' m *R ndon J b -r' - V.n ... - S^tMi > . Vi -S- ?;,*" .