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pjjjjpPI ? ppT~r-; l^pippl ; . ^ ^ ., (Hk Hamburg ifmtlb I v!H ?? __^ One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1915. Established 1891. ? i COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SfcC ; SOME IXTERESTIXG HAPPEXIXGS IX VARIOUS SECTIOXS. V Xews Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Clear Pond Clippings. Clear Fond, August 31.?Mrs. it. F. McMillan is at home from a visit to her mother at Ehrhardt. Miss Clara Mae Grimes, of Lee's, is visiting Miss Maggie Padgett. ; Mrs. Avis Steedly and children have returned from a visit to relak tives at Ulmers and Allendale. | Miss Inez Morris, of Lodge, is the * - charming guest of the Misses Goodwin. Miss Nettie Mitdhell, of Bamberg, visited her sister, Mrs. J. H. Pearson last week. * , Miss Vonetta Crider, of Denmark, - spent Saturday night and Sunday with Miss Wilhelmina Folk. Mrs. Edward Steedly, Mr. Henry Hutson and sister, Inez, of Ehrhardt, ' . visited the home of Mr. G. w. Foik Saturday and Sunday. Miss Mayme Morris was the guest of Miss Dorris Folk Saturday and I ' Sunday. f < Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Folk visited at ^ Lodge last week. - Messrs. Oren Drawdy and Clayton Jolley, of Embree, visited in this section Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Folk attendv / ed the revival meeting at Hilda last week. Mrs. G. W. Folk is visiting her sis. ter, Mrs. Neb. Crider, near Denmark. Mr. James Johnson, of Denmark, was a visitor in this community Sat. urday and Sunday., Miss Mayme Morris entertained a i * number of her friends Monday eve? ning. AMICUS. Spring Branch Sprigs. ? Spring Branch, Aug. 30.?On Saturday afternoon, September 4th, at 5 o'clock, there will be an ice cream festival at the home of Mr. J. P. O'Quinn. After the festival the remaining part of the afternoon will be spent as a birthday party in honor of Miss Eula O'Quinn. The public \ is cordially invited to attend. On Saturday, September 18th, there will be a picnic at Spring Branch given by the Ladies Missionary society. The public is cordially invited to come, and bring well filled baskets. We are having some very nice weather for cotton picking. The Barnwell and Bamberg Sunday-school convention will be held at the Colston church thfe coming week and there are quite a number of the Spring Branch folks expecting to attend. We wish them a very - pleasant trip. Last Tuesday, August 24, was a very pleasant day at Glendale | Springs for both the young and the r ; qld folks of Spring Branch and Sassafras sections. . ' - Country Correspondence. \ x * Mrs. Kistler Rentz, of Oak Grove, 7 7 has been on a visit for several days to her> brothers, Messrs. Martin and William Hughes, of our midst. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Ayer, of Bamberg, spent Sunday with their brother, Mr. W. F. Hughes. Mrs. L. E. Holder, of Augusta, Ga., is visiting relatives in tnis ana otner vicinities. Mrs. L. Hill, of Bamberg,, is at her son's for several days. A heavy hail and rain storm visited U6 Tuesday morning, with much electricity. It rained in torrents for about thirty-six minutes. Cotton * gathering will be much delayed as everything is soaked. Miss Georgie Emma Jordan is attending the S. S. convention at Colston this week. Miss Grace Hill is real sick. Hope she will soon be better. Notice in these columns has already been made of a neighborhood picnic held at Glendale Springs last Tuesday, but must speak something of the beauty and idealism of the place and surroundings. The property, as owned by Mr. Jno. F. Folk, has been somewhat improved b., a cement fount, and this, with the great bubble of the spring as it boils itself upward and rushes onward to the mighty sea is a very attractive source for all nature lovers. iae writer's pen has very little, we fear, * of poetry in it, but the merry, joyful sound of this beautiful spring carries nature's children back to childhood and especially a longing . to wade as in childhood, in the clear, bfeautiful water, as it rushes wastingly over the pure white sand in thef'' * . * ' \ i J LIST SHOWS RESULTS OF RAIDS. 216 Have Paid This Year Against 507 Last Year. Columbia, August 25.?Indications of the results which it is believed are due to the raiding by constables sent to Charleston by Governor Manning to enforce the liquor laws are shown significantly by the great fallinor nff in tVlo nnmhop f\f norCftTI? flnd 1115 1U HiVy UUU1MVA V. A. %?M? firms paying the revenue liquor tax of the United States government for this year as compared with last year. Figures obtained from the records in the office of United States Revenue Collector Heyward, by this correspondent, show that 507 paid the revenue tax in Charleston last year, while so far only 216 have paid the tax for this year, a falling off of 291, or about 60 per cent. The number of persons and firms in Charleston county which paid the United States revenue liquor license tax for the year ending July, 1915, was 507. Those who have paid this tax for the ensuing year, that is, up to August 10, number 216 in Charleston, a falling off of 291. The year runs from July to July and the revenue liquor tax must be paid in ad vance. The total number in the whole / State for the year ending July, 1915, that paid the liquor license tax to the federal government was 1,137, divided as follows: Retail liquor dealers, 956; wholesale liquor dealers, 18; retail malt liquor dealers, 152; wholesale malt liquor dealers, 11. Included in the wholesale liquor dealers were the wholesale county dispensaries. From this is will be evident that one-half of those paying the tax required by the United States govern-! ment for wholesale and retail liquor; dealers for the past year lived in Charleston, and with the same percentage in decrease shown throughout (the State, the figures tell elo-1 quently the results of law enforce-1 ment, as it was put here today by : one high in authority in State official i life. A Sensitive Soul. A minister must be very careful in choosing his words if he is to give no offense to any of his flock. In a certain congregation there tt'oc. o door rtlH IqHv whn lnvpd flnw-l v> ao Or uvai VU 1UU^ T>uV >v V . | ers and who had a beautiful garden. Every Sunday it was her bouquet that adorned the pulpit. She was especially fond of sweet peas, andi she once brought them for. several Sundays in succession. Suddenly other flowers appeared. The minister noticed the change, and after the service, asked the old lady why she brought no more sweet peas. She smiled sadly and answered. "You don't like them. Last .Sunday you pointed right at my sweet peas and said, "God loves even the meanest flower that grows.' " To Correspondents. The Herald wants the news from every section of Bamberg I county. If the news of your com- j munity does not appear regularly j in The Herald, make it a point yourself to send it in. This newspaper is published for its subscribers, and newrs is always welcomed to its columns. We want a-regu- J lar correspondent in every neigh- ! borhood. Stationery is furnislied j frpfi tn anvone who will use it. Get your news letters in by Tuesday morning at latest. Write only on one side of the paper, and be sure to sign your letter with your name. We will not print your name, buf we must know who writes the letters; otherwise we have no means of knowing whether they are genuine or not. If you write a letter to The Herald and do not sign your' name to it, do not be surprised if it is not printed., * \ little canal provided for it's outlet. j I This particular day we spent there in true picnic style was seemingly a short one, as the voice of the spring kept singing melody unlike! any other. Pushing aside the curtain of the future, in our imagination we see Glendale a health resort of modern style yet of Mother! Nature's soothing peace and quietude,. connected with the outer world by the tele?phone, graph and the other tell?a woman?as we look and in Rip Van Winkle style, see the spring property improved by handsome buildings, drives and a resort in general, that will elevate the morals, health, mental capacities, and last, but not least, BamoniinK qc a nnn-malaria 1 nlac.P vU UUIJ J W G. E. J. , . ' t V / . ; "* - > '.'. ' . ..!'..- v. v".-- . :'{ ' , IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. } I Stat? News Boiled Down for Quick Heading.?Paragraphs About Men ana Happenings. W. R. Scott has been elected i mayor of Kingstree. He was re! elected mayor over P. S. Courtney. Five thousand gallons of gasoline was lost when a tank car on the A. C. L. railway was wrecked near Florence on Friday last. John Edwards shot Jake Peu in a public road in Saluda county Sunday night. Both men had been drinking. Edwards surrendered to the sheriff the following day. Walter I. Herbert, of Newberry, recently sold 43 bushels of beans in three days. The beans were raised by Mr. Herbert, and brought good prices on the local market. The Southern railway's big coal handling plant on the Cooper river at Charleston is about completed and ?.ill ? -- x TirWViiri n oVinnf will UtJ pill 111 IU SCI vice >>11.111X1 a ouui I, tme. The plant cost $600,000. Letters have been received in this State calling for a meeting of the Farmers union to be held in Atlanta j on September 21, for the purpose of ! fixing a minimum price for cotton. G. D. Boland, a farmer living in Newberry county, killed a snake last week which measured seven feet three inches in length and three inches through the largest part of its body. v Two colored men employed by Melvin Rhodes, near Stokes, killed a rattlesnake near G. Albert Beach's gate last Wednesday which measured 10 inches around and was six feet and four inches long. Bill Bolin, of Blacksburg, is lying ' at the point of death and Coke Dun; can, chief of police, is seriously cut | as a result of a fracas between the two men at Blacksburg on Sunday. The affair resulted when Duncan attempted the arrest of Bolin. Sam J. Nicholls, of Spartanburg, recently nominated for congress, is a grandson of the late Sam Jones, of Columbia, a Methodist minister. His maternal grandmother . was a Miss Fishburne, of Walterboro, and Mr. Nicholls has a large family con nection in the lower part of the [ State. Phillip Watts, a machinist, 23 years of age, was electrocuted in Columbia Tuesday night while inspecting an elevator in a department store in that city. Watts was examining the motor which drives the elevator when his hand in some manlier came in contact with the current. He lived only a few minutes after the accident. KEEPS THE BABIES WtlLL. Flies7 and Heat May Make Baby Sick This Season. During the months of May and June the baby death rate begins to climb, reaching its height in July and August. It should not be forgotten that this is the season when babies should be given the greatest care and attention in order to keep them well. There are two causes demanding this: heat and flies. Heat is depressing. It increases every danger that j baby is disposed to. If there is lack | of cleanliness about the baby or baby's things, heat increases it and makes it harder to bear; if baby lives in stuffy air, heat makes it sickening and unendurable; if its food is not I handled with greatest cleanliness and ! care, heat makes greater its infection j and therefore increases its danger to baby's health and life. ' Then there are flies. Flies are baby's greatest enemy. They should | never be allowed to come in contact ! with baby itself, or its food, or any ! of its playthings. They carry numerous diseases but are the main carriers of diarrhoeal diseases commonly known as "baby summer complaints." The baby death rate from this disease climbs especially high during (these months. And strange as it may seem to some mothers this is a preventable disease. It is mainly a flyborne disease, thought it may sometimes be carried in impure water and milk. The mother therefore would be safe in giving her child only pasteurized milk and an abundance of \ cooled boiled water, and in keeping it from flies and fly-infected food. To keep the baby well will be worth all the pains and more.?North Carolina State Board of Health. About five-sevenths of the Bulgarians are engaged in agriculture, most of them being small proprietors, holding from one to six acres. s UNITED STATES FINANCES. . Uncle Sam Not in Urgent Need o! Funds, Declares McAdoo. Washington, August 31.?The United States treasury is in excellent condition, and there is no preseni prospect that the government will issue bonds or short term notes to fill its coffers, according to a statement by Secretary McAdoo today on his return to Washington from a month's vacation in Maine. "It's too soon to talk about revenue legislation," said Mr. McAdoo, "I don't know what the estimates will be, and consequently cannot talk about revenues." He added, however, that congress probably would be asked to extend the period ol operation of the emergency tax beyond December 31, its present limit. No consideration had been given, he declared to the advisability of replacing the duty on sugar, lowering the exemption limit of the income tax, or other plans suggested to increase revenues. "But," said the secretary, "I have never considered a bond issue. The treasury is in excellent condition, and there is no country on the globe more able to pay more taxes than the United States if our expenditures are to be increased. I'm not worrying about the situation, and 1 guess I should be the first man tc wTorry." FIRE IN SCHOOL BUILDING. Damage is Estimated at Between $2,500 and $3,000. Columbia, August 25.?The Blossom street school, at Blossom and Lincoln streets, was partly burned this morning. The alarm was rung in at S: 50 o'clock from Box 51. The fire was of peculiar origin, seemingly to have been burning under the roof and the floor at the same time, leading to the theory that the flames started in the lower part of the building and spread upward through the walls. The building was closed tightly and the fire had evidently been burning for some time, breaking through the roof and the walls at about the same time. The employees of the Gibbes plant, in an adjoining block, ran a section of hose to the school and rendered "first aid," until the regulars arrived from the up-town stations. Even after the firemen had entered the building the fire broke through the walls and ceiling. The damage is estimated at $2,500, or $3,000. The Longest Trolley Trip. "Come on, let's take a trolley ride." "Where to?" "Oh, let's go to Chicago." Two men boarded a trolley car at Little Falls, N. Y., and made the entire trip to Chicago by trolley. And, were they so minded, they could have gone on to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, tc Bay City, Michigan, to Louisville, Kentucky and almost to St. Louis. With only a couple of breaks in New York State, it is entirely possible for one to travel all the way from New Tork city to a point near St. Louis by trolley car. The fares will cost about $20, and the hotel bills en route will be about $12 extra. The trip will require about four days and it is needless to say that the route is through the most picturesque scenery in eastern America. From New York city, the trolley lines extend up the Hudson valley to Albany and thence up the Mohawk valley via Schenectady and Amsterdam. Nearly all the important cities are connected by trolley lines after leaving Syracuse. He was sarcastic. A man in the English veteran reserves was called up recently. Aftei a week at his new quarters he was brought up before the officer commanding for not cleaning his rifle one day. Said the officer commanding: "Hem, you're an old soldier re-enlisted, I see. I suppose it will be many years ago since you were reprimanded? What was your last offense? Can you remember what it was?" The old soldier, with irony on account of the repeated assertions to his age, replied, "For not cleanin' my bow an' arrow, sir!" In the Usual Way. "How are you going to spend the summer?" "U'lViHnpr ahnnt. the climate and the food, as usual," replied Mr. Growcher, "although I have not decided what place I'll go to."?Washington Star. Read the The Herald, $1.50 per year. . ^ :y... C0ITON CONDITION 30.7 PLANT HAS DETERIORATED SINCE LAST REPORT. i Storm Set Crop Hack in Texas.?Year Ago Condition Was 77.6 i Per Cent. 1 New York, August 29.?The con' dition of cotton has deteriorated con-1 siderably since the last special report of the. Journal of Commerce. ' Condition on the average date of ' these reports, August 24, is 70.7 per cent., against 77.3 per cent, a month ago, or a loss of 6.6 points. This is ' largely due to continued drought followed by excessive rains, causing much shedding. A year ago the condition was 77.6; in 1913 it was 71.4, and in 1912 it was 75.4 per cent. The ten-year average is 73.4 per cent. States of greatest deterioration were: Georgia, losing 7.7 points; Alabama. 9.5 Doints: Mississippi. 8.1 1 points; Louisiana, 9.5 points; Texas, ! 7.4 points, and Arkansas and Ten' nessee, 6.3 and 6 points, respective! ly. Oklahoma gained 0.4 points. L The hurricane was largely accountable for the loss in Texas. Percentage condition by States with comparisons follow: 1 . ?1915? Sept. Aug 1914 N, Carolina 75.8 78.5 82.0 S. Carolina 72.0 75.5 76.0 . Georgia 69.8 77.5 80.9 Florida 69.3 79.0 82.0 Alabama 67.0 76.5 74.0 Mississippi 70.7 78.8 71.X) Louisiana 69.5 79.0 72.4 Texas 69.6 77.0 79.0 Arkansas 74.7 81.0 76.8; Tennessee 78.0 84.0 80.0 Missiouri 78.2 80.0 73.0 Oklahoma 72.4 72.0 80.1 Average 70.7 77.3 77.6 Better Times Coming. Indications point to better things in business this fall in the South. This is good new^ from the federal reserve board about financing the cotton crop; there is available money to finance the entire crop of cotton. No farmer large or small will be / forced to rush his cotton to market, he can borrow on it and hold it off? and when all the farmers do that, or any considerable portion of them, the price is going up. The mills in this country are manufacturing more cotton than ever be-j fore, and foreign countries are want-! ing as much as ever, for they need itj now not only for clothing but forj . making gunpowder also. The allies have put an embargo on | cotton, and the Germans are sinking | all the ships they can that are going to England, and many that are going to neutrals; but some way will be found for all European countries | needing cotton to get it. At any rate, there is no use in exaggerating the effects of the war on the cotton crop; the main thing and the important thing is that our own ' government will see to it that the cotton grower will not have to sacrifice his cotton. When we come to foodstuffs, the South has a larger supply on hand than it has had in many years. The cost of living has gone dowm, and is still going down. Farmers are better prepared for living at home than they have been for a half century. The dark cloud upon the business horizon is the danger of war;-not only the wTar in Europe, but that our own country may be drawn into it also. Let us all hope that some hon-J " - * ^ -3 orable means may De iouna 10 avert war, so that our people may enter upon the long-postponed "good times" that they have been looking and longing for.?Newberry Observ-i ' er. | \ Mr. Orange Peel. Orange Peel " is the name of the . dairyman of the Utah food and dairy i commissioner's department. "I have had more difficulty persuading people that I am not fooling, , and all but taken an oath that my name is the same as the rind of the famous fruit, than you could ever i imagine," said Mr. Peel. "At school a fellow called me lemon peel after he heard my last name was Peel. He thought he was joking. But I went him one better when I explained to him my full Christian name. Then ' he looked on me as a sort of hero, and ceased joking." Mr. Peel says his parents called him Orange because he was a sweet child.?Washington Star. Glendale springs water for sale at Herndon's Grocery Store and Mack's Drug Store.?adv. I ' " n:'' ' '' "I' 'v KJKiKFIELI) COFFEE PLANTER. S. Z. Sei?ler Believes Industry Can 43 lie Revelo|ied in South Carolina. Edgefield, August 25.?There is on exhibition at the office of the Edgefield Chronicle a coffee plant grown bv S. Z. Seigler. of the Cleora sec tion of the county. It is five feet high, with seven well developed pods about a foot and a half long, filled , with coffee beans. While traveling in the State of Georgia last spring Mr. Seigler remained over night with a friend, and on going into his farm was attracted by a half here field on which was growing a plant unfamiliar to him, and upon inquiry found it to be the coffee plant. He procured some seed and experimented with it this year, and is now thoroughly convinced that coffee can l*e* grown, in this State, and he claims with success. He has about six *ows twenty-five yards long and expects to gather a number of pounds of coffee. He says his friend has grown it successfully for several years. ^ /| "Of course," said Mr. Seigler, "people will naturally be very incredulous about the matter, and will hoot at the idea of growing coffee in South Carolina, but if we can grow tea why not its companion plant, coffee?" Mr. Seigler not only has faith""in the growing of coffee here, but he is enthusiastic about it, and wants others to make the trial. Before leaving he remarked that "just because we have never done so in the past cannot be accepted as absolute proof that the thing can't be done." NEW YORK CRIME RECORD. 45,000 Were Jail Cases.?Intoxication is Most Common Offense. With 80,698 convictions in New York in the- last year, the largest" .. >M number recorded in the history of the State, the question suggests itself: What is actually being done to keep down crime? Francis M. Hugo, secretary of | State, furnishes the figures, for it is ! one of his duties to compile an anI ? - * 1 ?n.iminnl ofoHetirtO llllcU rcpui l Uil Uliuiuai oiaucuvo, but it is none of his business to an-w swer foolish questions, says an Albany special. Were he to comment on the increase in crime he might offer as an explanation New York's all-around bigness. M A leader in philanthropies, topping all other States in population, ! with yio good second in the race, it is not strange New York also should have a heavy crime list. But after ! all, the great bulk of the crimes that ' figure in Secretary Hugo's list are | not heinous crimes; many thousands ! of them are so trivial as not to call for a jail penalty. There were only 4,782 female convictions, all the rest of the lawbreak- . \| ing being the work of the lawmaking portion of the population. Secretary Hugo's report shows the interesting fact that the great majority of the offenders were natives of the United States, could read and write and had received religious instruction. The court records from which the; statistics are compiled also set down the great majority of the offenders as "temperate in their habits." Intoxication, however, was ?--i. fA/4 oiriflrl/i nf Hie IiJUSl illilllCX UUSljr U1I.CU otugig wifense. Between 20 and 50 would seem to . , be the "bad man" age in this State, leaving room to hope the lawbreakers will grow into staid citizens in their maturer years. Of all the convictions only about 45,000 were jail cases, the number of persons actually committed to jail being smaller than in 1913. The growing custom among magistrates of suspending" sentence in unimpor- v tant cases accounted for the difference. Many Motor Speeders. The automobile speed violator helped materially to swell the total of convictions, and, incidentally, the revenues of the State. Few such convictions carried jail sentences. The State executive during the year issued three pardons, commuted nineteen sentences, restored nine. -? ty-four former convicts to citizenship and granted eight respites in capital cases. Por the preceding year the figures were eleven pardons, thirtyone commuted sentences, sixty-seven persons restored to citizenship and four respites of condemned murderers. The municipal building, New York, is the largest structure under the jurisdiction of the bureau of public buildings and offices. It contains about 3,000 offices and has about 10,000 visitors daily. It is the world's largest building of its kind.