Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? I THE t,OV? OF MONEY. I War Has Made Men Jud?;e Their Fel lows by Wliat They Do. ? % i The love of money can hardly b< the root of all evil, for it is only out preserved passion out of many. Bu there is a kind of decorum abou L money whith makes the love of i m _ peculiarly dangerous, since it con ceals from the lover the nature ant effects of his passion. If a mar wants too much food, he is evidently k greedy. If a woman wants too man: clothes, she is evidently vain. Bu' money is not a thing, like clothes oi gk food, that can be enjo&d; .and sc B greed for money is not direct greed W but indirect. It is a civilized meam of conducting the struggle for life which to a great extent conceal! v from those who use it the uglines: and the animal nature of that strug gle. It is. in fact, a kind of diplom acy, politely conducted, behind whicl there is war; but the diplomats oftei do not see the war. They deal onl: in documents, scraps of paper; anc jjk they are not aware, except at sec 7 ond hand, what all these documents and the struggle about them, meai to the mass of men. The rich mar who is greedy for money does no put it to himself that he is greedy foi the things that money will buy. Al though money keeps its actual pow ^ ^ er, and is his own mind, to divorc* it from its real meaning. It become; to him a symbol of something mucl finer and more romantic than it is I It inflames his imagination and tlx imagination of a great part of tlx poorer world, too, as if it were no merely a means of buying materia ? *?- 1 {? th, ![ Wings, DUC It peisuuai quawij iu v.,, man who possesses it. Money, it i; said, can be used for great and nobl< purposes, which is true; but the mar who is greedy for money does no' want to use it for such purposes Often he does not even want to bu: an/inordinate number of materia l things. His greed has become ab I stract and romantic. It is greed foi 5' a symbol, forgetful of what the sym \ bol implies. And this greed for i (symbol spreads among people tha Otherwise greedy, who do manag< v by means of money to engage ruth ^ lessly in the struggle for life with , out ever being aware that they ar< red of tooth and claw. The decorun of money wraps itself round then ^ and hides from them the charactei and the results of their own greed . litey. 6ee only lists of securities they do not even see heaps of gold ' $ and, even if they dp engage in i quarrel about money'with some on< par! ?is? n? less greedy for it, there is K/; only a lawsuit decently conducted * which may cause decent ruin to th< %i loser that the winner never sees P< All he knows is that he has got judg ment in hi6 favor, which means o I ' course, that he takes a certain num I^i ber of material things from his op ponent. But it does not mean tha i V: to him. To him it means a kind o religious justification, giving him j moral as w-ell as a legal right to owi the money he gets through it. That we do unconsciously rever ence money more than the things w< i; get with it is proved by two curiou! $ facts. You can give a man anything except money without affecting youi f relations with him; and a man's de pendents may steal many thing! from him without caning it men Ybut they know always that takinj V money is stealing. Evidently, then money is more sacred than any othei kind of material possessions, biT I:.. why? It only differs from oth 5.or material possessions in tha it is a means of getting them, tha ?5 while you have money you keep you: jjtV.-- power of choice because you hav< not' yet chosen. So.if you give monej you only give the power of choice g and if you steal money you steal th< power of choice; and this po'we: ' seems to us more sacred than any o if . thfe things that can be chosen. \Y< do reverence th^ man who has < great deal of power, just because hi has not yet chosen, and because hi haps, he might choose nobly or gen erously. But we may be sure that if he is greedy of the power, he wil : * not choose nobly or gene'rously?ii fact, that the man who can ennobli < ; money is he who cares very little fo: j it. The war makes all these thing! plainer to us than they were in timi , of peace. We now see greed fo: ii money as it is, and we no longer rev k erence the rich man because of wha j he might do with his money, sinci [ we have other tests forced upon u: ^ than these possibilities. We valu< V"! a man for what he does, not for wha he might do: for his actual persona qualities rather than for his posses sions. In that we are like people 01 a sinking ship, for whom all the ens ^ tomary social values are destroyet and a man is a man only if he prove: himself one. To us now the privati who wins the Victoria Cross is a bet ter man than the millionaire wh< & t cannot sleep at night for fear o bombs. The monev test is. for tin time, almost abolished. We knov by our own experiences at last tha a man may be poor, net because h< j 's a fcol or a weakling, but be-,aus< he cares for other things than money * f THE NEGLECTED ART. . Post Card and Telephone Have Hurt I Letter Writing. * There has been much lamentation of late years over the lost art of let- v ter writing. The blame has been r pretty evenly divided between the in-!0 nocent post card and the useful tele-! S phone, and. reading the plaintive |a comments, we almost wept over the j11 terrible state of affairs. A recent ex- a periment, however, has changed our n views on this particular matter. Mov- v mg from a big house to a small one. v we found it necessary to do a lot of condensing and some eliminating, f and, among other things, it seemed 0 best for a trunkful of old letters to S be eliminated. Of course, we waded I 11 v~v^ tVinnt for foar some ^ 3 ; UUUUgii a. 11 ui vu?uif iv* ?. j! valuable document might be lost. 11 . j There were letters to represent all c .jages. Simple, childish affairs: fool- h ijish, sentimental epistles; long, sad a ; I pages of admonition. Old-fashioned 'i ,-i letters from kinsfolk? Yes, scores f j: of them. You remember how they v . ran. The first page was given over S to taking the pen in hand to let you 8 j J know they were well, and hoping e J you were enjoying the same great s 11 blessing, if not they would be very n rj sorry to hear of it. On the secona h .I page your cousin informed you that h J father had been suffering during the a ?| winter months with rheumatism, and t 31 that mother had also been quite poor- a . i lv. (By the way, what has become h J of the "poorly" people?) On the P ?| third she stated the piece of plaid n i1 gingham inclosed with the letter was I J like her new dress. The red piece ' 1 was like Emma Jane's new dress, ana c J the blue and the yellow were like h s j Mary's children's new dresses. On ?i the last page she invariably wound 3 ! up by saying that she must close be- *> t cause her hand was growing very g tired. She asked you to excuse the v j bad penmanship, and write soon, etc. h 1 And postage was high then, too! s But the old-time love letters, ah, r me, and ah. me! No wonder many v . I of them required excess postage, v l Sweet stuff usually is heavy. We e t! were thankful that we had plucked o ;' up the courage to eliminate them, v . It would have been a great pity for s . posterity to waste time going a ? through them. Lost art, eh? Thank a j goodness that some phases of it have s j been lost. We'd rather our boys and h r girls made dates with a few jerky I sentences over the telephone, slam- b . : med up the receiver and hustled out a . i to the croquet grounds or tennis d l court, out in the blessed fresh.air e 31 and sunshine, doing their courting in q s wholesome, healthful fashion, instead a of sitting mewed up over a desk, nib- b K,J"? ? noniifti/ior whilp studvine up a a UIJ115 a. ptuiiv.^v. . - w _ stuff with which to disfigure highly a .! tinted and scented stationery. Life a f is too short to waste any of it on unnecessary letter writing, and. besides, a we change our minds too frequently c t nowadays to risk putting our * f thoughts down in black and white. y tj. Don't misunderstand and get the h 11 notion that we are frowning on all t j kinds of correspondence. Don't stop ! writing to mother?that kind of let- f 4;ter writing willi always be in good g ^ style. And mothers?don't stop writ- b ing to the boys and girls away from v *j home. They hunger for the home : news, and the assurance of your un- y ? j changing, undying love. And sweet- j 3 hearts, separated by long, dreary j| I miles?write sensible, helpful, cheery v ? letters. Pure, strong love letters are never disgusting. But letter writing, a r . t just for the sake of boasting of your \ many correspondents, or for the priv- 0 ilege of airing your views or letting t your sentiment slop over?oh, well, p { we would advise the use of post cards a ^[or telephones every time, for withj these one must be brief.?Indianap- t, olis News. t ? Far Heuioved. r f fi Ella?Miss' Antique says , she r wishes she could step to the 'phone d tjand call up her happy college days. s ? Bella?If she did she'd have to em- n j I ploy the long distance phone.?Flori- s - i da Times-Union. ' Be sure and read page three in s this issue. a 1 3 But shall we remember this when s r peace comes again? Men commonly f 3 apply this money test, not so much t because they are base in their own ^ r r desires as because it is easy to ap ply. We know by hearsay when a b t man is rich; we have to find out for * 3 ourselves whether he is simple and n s kindly and brave. But our judg3 ments are worth nothing to ourselves t or any one else unless we make them 1 for ourselves, unless they are based ^ - upon what a man does rather than 11 i on what he has; and there is nothing t f - which hinders us so much from exerl cising our own judgment as the rev- s 3 erence for money. It hides from us ? our own a reed and the greed of oth ers. It spreads a fog of decorum a ,i where there ought to be no decorum t at all: it makes tis think there is | 5 peace where there is a sharp material { f war. And this war. not purely nia. 11 t terial. opens our eyes to the nature ? of the other. It will have one good ^ ? result at least if it keeps them . open.?London Times. ? A GOLD MINK ON YOUR FARM. lead How The>e Girls Found Their's and Then Look for Yours. In a newspaper that had come napped around something?and I enieniber now that that thing was aimed corn, which we should have orwn and put up ourselves?we saw n advertisement for girls to work n a factory that made fruit boxes nd crates. When we decided to go iiother cried some, and father said ,e'd soon come home when we found ,e had to work. We had to walk two miles to the actory, which was in . a town f about 300 people. We were to et $3 a week each. That first week was very hard for s, and night time found us almost oo tired to walk home. But that $3 oming to us Saturday night would ave made us. who had never owned s much as a 50-cent piece in our ives, walk through fire and water, I hink. The first Saturday night we alked home on air, happy and rich, oraething in mother's look when we ot there made me offer her half my arnings. The other two did the ame. Mother held then in her hand lore money than she had ever called ier own at one time before or aftei ier marriage, and she broke down nd cried. That does not sound kind o my father, who :s a good man, and Iways wants to do his best, but he iad old-fashioned notions about his Toviding for the women, and theii iot needing any money of their own. know now that a great deal of a woman's self-respect and industry omes from having a little money of ier owi. Now this is how we turned from ur foolish ways. It had rained all reek and one day the bridge was ;one and we could not get home. We rent back up to a white painted iouse and the woman said we could tay there all night. We could not cross the river for a reek, but we did not care, for we /ere having fine things to eat?smokd ham and corned beef and all kinds T preserves and canned fruit and egetables. On day one of my sisters aid they must be pretty rich to have 11 those things. The woman smiled ,nd said she was rich, and would how us how rich she was after reakfast. She took us later to a room in the ack of the house. It had shelves all rouad it, and was filled with hunIreds of glass jars and tin cans of vervthing from corn to raspberries, .''here were stone jars of things and 11 kinds of meats, dried herbs and ottles of fruit juices. She said, "I ra rich in the energy to grow these nd put them up. You girls are just ,3 rich but you don't know it." I believe that the seeds of ambition re in every one, and they were in us. )ur ambition started to grow right here. Before the end of the week it /as arranged that I was to stay and elp her for $2 a week and she was o teach me. I learned just everything that fall, "or Christmas she gave me "The Proressive Farmer," and a starting of ens and a lot of garden seeds. That .-as five years ago. I expect 1 am pretty proud to tell ou about it, but I see so many girls ust like we were that I just must do t, and maybe they will try to do what re are doing. We have three cows and five pigs, nd two calves and almost 300 hens. Ve have a fine garden and a canning utfit with a supply of tin cans and wo gross of glass jars in which we >ut the things we show at the fair nd eat at home. And what is best we can sell all the utter and meat and eggs and other hings we have for the highest price. >f course, we could not have done his without the help of what we ead and what the State officials have one to help us. One man came and tayed three days to show us how to nake butter right, and another one pent a whole day showing father ow to plant and spray trees. Our eighbors have wormy fruit every econd year. We have had perfect pples. peaches and plums every year o far. and are setting out pecans this all. We take four magazines and two apers. and have a good many books. >ur house is painted and so are the arns. We have a driving horse and wo-seated carriage and are saving ow for water and plumbing in the ouse. Also we liave insured our ives. Don't think we have not worked ard. for we have. But we are hapv and have good times, too. and I hink we have more and better riends than we once did.?Progresive Farmer. The Albert medal of the Roval Soietv of Arts, England, which is warded annually for distinguished iierit for promoting arts, manufacures and commerce, was presented o Guglielnio Marconi this year. The nedal was instituted in 1SGG when he Prince Consort was president of he society. lead the The Herald. $1."0 per yea". TAX SALE. State of South Carolina, County of : Bamberg. By virtue of an execution to me directed by G. A. Jennings, treasurer of Bamberg county. I have levied upon and will sell at public aution before the court house door in Bam| berg. S. C.. on .Monday, the 6th day : of September, 19In. the same being legal salesday in said month, during I the legal hours of sale, the real es; tate described below, to the highest bidder for cash, said sale being for non-payment of taxes due and owing the State of South Carolina and the county of Bamberg: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the town and county of Bamberg, said State, containing 5 1-2 acres. more or less, oounaed on ine norm by lands of C. D. Dowling: east by lands of Washington Rivers; west by lands of Joseph Milhouse: south by j lands of Thomas Grant. To be sold \ as the property of estate of Sam Spell. ALSO All that certain land situate, lying and being in the county of Bamberg, said State, containing 3 acres, more or less, bounded north by lands of Dr. L. E. M. Smoak; southeast by Mrs. Anna J. Grayson; west by road leading to colored cemetery. To be sold as the property of Char.otte Davis. ALSO All that certain piece or parcel of real estate with the store building thereon situate, lying and being in i the town and county of Bamberg, said State, fronting on the south side of Railroad avenue, containing and measuring 20 feet, more or less, front and rear and having a depth of ninety feet at either side line, anC bounded north by Railroad avenue, west by lot of G. H. Smoak; east by lot of Hevward Johnson, and south by lot of J. A. Ximmons. To be sold as the property of Jno. F. Minnigan. ALSO All that piece and parcel of land lying, being and situate in the town and county of Bamberg, said State, containing 4 acres, more or less, and bounded on the north by lands of Ida Mitchell; on the east by Binaker's Bridge road; on the south by lands bf Ellanara McMillan; on the west by Jones A. Williams. To be sold as the property of Sim McMillan. ALSO All that lot or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the town and county of Bamberg, state aforesaid, containing 6 acres, more or less, and bounded north by lands of J. B. Black; east bv lands of Mrs. J. E. Varn; south by estate of G. W. Dyches, affd west by Annie Silcox. To be sold as the property of the estate of H. W. Silcox. S. G. RAY. Sheriff for Bamberg County. August 12, 1915. RILEY & COPELAND Successors to W. P. Riley.. Fire, Life Accident INSURANCE* Office in J. D. Copeland's Store BAMBERG. 8. C. t ? , LODGE MEETING. Bamberg, Lodge, No. 38, Knights of Pythias meets first and fourth Monday nights at 7:30 p. m. Visiting brethren cordiallv invited. H. L. HINNANT, Chancellor Commander, F. C. AYER, Keeper of Records and Seal. NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS. All persons having claims against the estate of Annie Carter, deceased, will file the same with the undersigned, duly itemized and verified, and all persons indebted to said estate will make payment to the undersigned. JOHN E. CARTER. Administrator of the estate of Annie Carter, deceased. Ehrhardt, S. C., July 28th, 1915. NOW HER FRIENDS HARDLY KNOW HER Bat This Does Not Bother Mrs. Barton, Under the Circumstances. Houston, Texas.?In an interesting letter from this city, Mrs. S. C. Burton writes as follows: "I think it is my duty to tell you what your medicine, Cardui, the woman's tonic, has done for me. I was down sick with womanly trouble, and my mother advised several different treatments, but they didn't seem to do me any good. I lingered along for three or four months, and for three weeks. J was in bed, so sick I couldn't bear for any one to walk across the floor. My husband advised me to try Cardui, the woman's tonic. I have taken two bottles of Cardui, am feeling fine, gained 15 pounds and do all of my housework. Friends hardly know me, 1 am so well." If you suffer from any of the ailments I go common to women, don't allow the (trouble to become cnronic. Begin utKing ! Cardui to-day. It is purely vegetable, I its ingredients acting in a gentle, natural I way on the weakened womanly constituj tion. You run no risk in trying Cardui. It has been helping weak women back to I health and strength for more than 50 years. It will help you. At all dealers. | Write to: Chattanooga Mee Seine Co.. Ladles' I Advisory Dept.. Chattanooga. Tenn.. for Special Instructions on your case and 64-page book. ' H?ne Treatment for Women." sent in plain wrapper. E69-B I Call on Mack's Drug Store or W. : P. Herndon for Glendale Springs water. 50c for 5-gallon jug.?adv. ; . " , - - : : ' \ *-* ' % \ .i r: ? ' ohb F/aTJ r aT*1 I ? 7ATA bbb k c hi s m ^hj hi m n^8 IFull value given. Come and see our big stock of premiums and you'll realize . that it pays to save Coupons and Tags from Liggett & Myers Cigarettes and Tobaccos. Ladies specially invited, I H. WICK JOHNSON I ftf point in time-be f ready for itr Have a I some money in I A the Bank. || The word "Bank'' seems to awe many .people, they feel the steps that lead to the inside are not intended for them. Make up your mind to get acquainted with us and our methods. Make up your mina to come ill jjiaj&e up yuui mind to have a Bank account in this strong bank. It makes little difference how much money you have or earn, let us explain the way to make this Bank your Bank. $1. will start you. 4 per cent Interest Paid on Savings Deposits. y PEOPLES BANK Bamberg, - South Carolina I H and W.P. Herndon j^n II I 1 I Handfull of Money ' are the possessions of savers niemous up uu wie muu ui v.v???? welcome your account and as- *^|. > sure you beforehand of excellent treatment. Enterprise Bank I ." Per Cent. Interest Paid on Savings Deposits. Bamberg, S. C. - ,rV>y| : . .1