Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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NOVEL USE FOR GUNPOWDER. Taken Internally, Makes Cuts and Bruises Easier to Heal. A reference was made a short time ago to the use of gunpowder as a medicine, and now the Rev. Fuller j Mills, a retired Baptist minister, of W Carmarthen, Wales, testifies to its effiAmnnv in tVlP RlYtieS of the I ilV/l^UVJ JLi U 1 1 J 1U V*4V/ w - - ? ? last century," Mr. Mills writes, "I was a boy behind the counter of what was kno"wn as the company's shop at Abertillery. Amongst the collier customers who came to the shop was a tall, well developed man known as Dick Stevens, or Stephens. "He was a member of the prize ring or the pugilistic fraternity, ^ which was very popular in those days. Dick Stevens was matched to fight Ianto Cattcham and was preparing for the fight when he came to the shop for his weekly requirements. He generally asked for an ounce or two of gunpowder. I wondered at this, and my curiosity was aroused. "I asked what he used it for. His reply was: "I mix it with my gravy when I have my dinner, and swallow it. It prevents the flesh from easily nnffine- under the hard blowrs of an opponent. The cuts and bruises are not so hurtful and heal more easily.'" Young Man and Younng Maiden. * ??? Consider the young man. He goeth forth i,n the morning and bloweth himself to glad raiment. And the pants thereof are two cubits from the ground. He wrappeth his ankles in sox that are white as the lily and as near 6ilk as the bazaars will sell for one ^ quarter of a shekel. Behold the shirt. It hath cuffs that are soft and that turneth back. And his necktie shrieketh like un ^ to a 42-centimeter shell. And his gloves are of the skin of the chamois. Yellow are the gloves ^H^H^Land the stitching thereof is black, are some kid. ^^He weareth a lid of fuzz and the ow thereof is cute and followed on \jfrhind. mf Yea, he looketh like one thousand shekels, but alas, all is not as it aoomoth OWM?vrvM? ^ For, behold he meeteth at the apom thecary's a maiden with eyes like W the gazelle and with lashes of midnight. And the maiden pretendeth that she hath but even now asked the clerk of the fountain to mix her a nut sundae/ But she will suffer the young man to blow her off to one. And behold, when the sundaes are gone; the young man- tippeth the clerk a wink and passed out gaily with the maiden. And the clerk is on. He knoweth. ( 1 that /the young man is broke. And. will the young man slip the clerk- the twenty-pence? Yea, even so, as soon as his father's pension check arriveth. Consider the maiden. Lo, though the wind bloeth and chilleth, she weareth upon her feet sandies that are low and hose that are silk. And the neck of her gown exist/ eth not, yet she sweareth that she ; is as warm as toast. She goeth forth into the highways and she carrieth a party box. And therein are many tnings I wherewith to kalsomine her countenance. * Phffs there are and the skin of the chamois and many pigments white as the lilies of Hebron and f ' red as the evening skies over Jordan. She maketh up where she listeth and careth not who observeth. And though her lips become as pomegranates, yet she denieth that there is any color in the stuff. With a gaze of reproof she telleth * thee that it is as camphor ice, that is tinteth not. And, behold she putteth it over upon thee. She goeth forth at night and she tangoeth until the dawn is on the mountains and the morning breezes stir the cedars, and she is not a bit tired. But when her mother beggeth her to go up into the market place for a cubit of calico, lo, she withereth up* on the vine. Wondrous are the ways of a maiden.?The Kirksville Index. w Needed the Money. "You say this picture is worth $5,000 and yet you are offering it for I $10. "Yes." "Something wrong," declared the policeman. "I'll have to take you in." "Nothing wrong, officer," interposed the dealer. "He is the artist." By Way oi Contrast. \ ^ i "There is one good thing about buying a really handsome and ex^ pensive dress," said Mrs. Bunting to Mrs. Larkin. "What is that?" "Why, you feel as though you really ought to buy another not quite so good to save your best one."?Puck. Read the Herald, $1.50 per year. SOUTHERN MILL TAKINGS. For Six Months Ending January 31 Were 2,373,000 Rales. The Southern mills' taking of cot ton exclusive consumption at South ern outports for the six months end ing January 31 last, was 2,373,00( bales, an increase of 437,000 bale: over the same period last year, ac cording to the semi-annual statemen issued last Friday by Secretary Hes ter, of the New Orleans cotron ex change. The statement shows tha foreign exports for the six month: were 2,831,749, a decrease of 901, 697 under last year, and 3,558,64; under the previous year. Mr. Hester puts the total move ment of the cotton crop brought int( sight for the half year at 8,811,261 bales, against 10,296,760 last year Including last year's stock left ove: at ports and interior towns and th< current crop brought into sight fo: the six months, the supply was 9, 993,693 bales, a decrease of 642,32; Nunder last'year. Other figures for the six months period contained in Secretary Hes ter's statement follow: Receipts at all United States ports 4,901,731, against 6,649,164 lasi year; overland across the Mississippi Ohio and Potomac to Northern mills and Canada, 743,357, against 640, 133 last year; taking by Northerr spinners, 1,708,212, against 1,708,393 last year; stocks at seaboard anc the twenty-nine leading interior cen tres January 31 were 2,966,905 against 3,232,480 last year. MOULTRIE J. CLEMENT DEAD. Shoots Himself in Right Temple ai Clementia Springs. Charleston, Feb. 13.?Mr. Moultrie Johnston Clement, a member of the Charleston county delegation of the State's legislature, yesterday morning about 7 o'clock shot himself ir the right temple at his country home at Clementia Springs, about fourteer miles from Charleston. Coroner Mansfield was notifiec shortly afterward and went by auto mobile to make an inquiry. A jurj was empannelled at once and the ihquest held. A verdict of suicid'e was rendered. No notes were found anc no attempt was made to ascertaii the cause, it was stated. Mr. Clement, while attending the legislature in Columbia early lasi month, was stricken with paralysis and brought to his home here. Sine* then his health failed him. Friday afternoon he left Charleston for his country home, at dementia Springs 'He arrived at his home between t and 6 o'clock and retired in appar ently cheerful mood. ? . ' . Mr. Clement was elected to th< legislature to fill a vacancy in .1913 He was reelected in 1914. . He at tended the legislature this year un til he was forced Ao return home as the result of a stroke. He. was sixty one years old and is survived by i widow and several children. In Char leston Mr. Clement made his hom< at 36 Coming street. At Clementii Springs he managed his farm. His funeral services will be helc this afternoon at St. Andrew'* church, near Drayton, at 4 o'clock Interment will be made in the church yard. . . ; Mr. Clement made, many friends and many were delightfully enter tained at Clementia Springs. New: of his death has brought sorrow to i wide circle. His popularity in th< legislature was great. Great Men's Cares. -The great man touched the elec trie button under his desk, says thi Newark News. His secretary appeared in the door way. "Yes, sir." "My interview on the war?havi you looked over the proofs from thi Morning Gazette?" "Yes, sir." "Have you compared them careful ly with the original?" "Yes, sir." "And found them correct?" "In every detail, sir." "Good. Now, before I leave towi * * _ JL _ 1_ lor m;y summer nome, ieicn your p<n and I will dictate a follow-up lette to the Gazette, saying that I hav been grossly misquoted in their inter view with me." "Yes, sir." "And, Smith." "Yes, sir." "Don't make the mistake of mail ing the letter before the intervie^ has appeared, the way you did in th case of the Evening Bulletin's inter view with me last month. That wa most annoying, Smith, most annoj ing." Give Him Time. "Although Chugson has had a ca for almost six months, he still seem to think a pedestrian has som rights." "How do you account for that att: tude?" "It's very peculiar. It certain! shows a woeful lack of self-conf dence." BOMBS IN INFANCY. ? Soldiers Know Little About Handling These Deadly Missiles. "A bomb is like a woman?you can never tell what it is going to do next," writes an Irish officer from the British front in Flanders. He b I has been engaged for several weeks in experimenting with bombs and va^ rious new-fangled bomb-throwing devices. "The more one has to do with 1 bombs, the more afraid one becomes s of them," he continues, "for one cannot play with explosives all day withJ out going aloft some time, and the toll of good men who have been blown to pieces by their own bombs is both long and sad. "Bomb throwing as an art is still ' in its infancy, changing almost from r day to day, and what state of de" velopment or perfection it will have r reached before the end of the war " cannot be guessed. At the best it is * a fiendish way of fighting, for its injuries are even of the ghastliest. "Yet bombing, like most other aspects of the war, has its humorous side, and I have seen a whole trench ' helpless with laughter at the sight of ^ two men running opposite ways to ' avoid a sausage bomb they had spot5 ted sailing over from a German trench mortar. They collided, and 1 sat down facing each other like vaudeville comedians. The bomb drop ped in the middle, almost touching them both and then completely failed ' to explode. "One morning twenty or more members of the general staff came around to our trench to witness a t test of a new catapult arrangement for throwing bombs to the considerable distance of 25 yards. With j great interest they watched the 5 screwing down of the great arm, and 3 the placing and securing of the - bombs in position. Then upwards i and forwards swung the arm, but the ? missile, instead of hurling in the dii rection of the enemy, rose gently a few feet in the air, not having been 1 properly secured, and then prepare^ - to descend again to earth. Such a t rapid and complete self-effacement of - staff officers had never before been 3 seen; they fled like rabbits, and as I they rounded the corner of the i trench, the bomb went off a few feet from the ground, completely destroy3 ing the new catapult." t The Boll Weevil Comes. 3 6 Upon Progressive Farmer readers everywhere in newly, infested boll weevil territory -we would impress the fact that there is no occasion for alarm and panic. True, the coming of th,e weevil to any cotton country., particularly south of the latitude of Birmingham and. Atlanta, is a serious problem; but no problem has ever been successfully met and solved by fright and demoralization. The only proper-and . sensible course is first to learn what is necessary in the. fight against the weevil, and then thoroughly apply what., has been found " most effective. In aiming at the best plans of effective action, the. followj ing suggestions based on past ex? perience with the weevil, will, we bea lieve, be of value -to our readers: 1. In all territory infested this fall for the first time, weevil damage next year will not be heavy?rarely 3 if ever more than 25 per cent. This comparatively light damage the second year is due ,to the fact . that ? weevils the fall before are not sufficiently numerous to thoroughly infpst all fields, and consequently the number living through the winter is not large. 2. Panic and fright may do more b damage than the boll weevil itself. This is a point wTe would impress es pecially upon business men in newly invaded territory. We have, in a fewr instances, known of what vire tually amounted to disaster to come b with the boll weevil, but where this has been the case it has largely been due to fright: bankers, supply mer - chants, landlords, refused to continue to extend credit where credit had been the rule, and in other ways plainly showed by their action that they believed that agriculturally "the a jig was up." Quite true, our credit I system is by no means ideal; but to r eliminate it or to substitute a better e is something that cannot be done ,over night. It is important to understand the seriousness of the situation, but don't get stampeded. 3. A live at home policy is the first step in beating the boll weevil. -. We believe the majority of our readv ers will continue to grow some cote ton despite the weevil, but they car - never do this on "store-bought" sups plies. The policy of living at home - and soil building is sound the world over, but the coming of the boll weevil serves to accentuate its tremendous importance.?The Progres r sive Farmer. s Getting Rid of Tommy, e Willie?Ma, may I have Tommj i- Wilson over to our house to play Saturday? y Mother?No, you make altogethei i- too much noise. You'd better gc | over to his house and play. I Colds | X should be "nipped in the Mm L/ bud", for if allowed to run j/wj lr unchecked, serious results[\j [\li may follow. Numerous k\(i |J| cases of consumption, pneu- ||jS I monia, ana oiner iaiai ais- ? eases, can be traced back to i a cold. At the first sign of a cold, protect yourself by thoroughly cleansing your system with a few doses of | THEDFORD'S BLACKDRAUGHT the old reliable, vegetable | iver powder. I Mr. Chas. A. Ragland, O' I Vladison Heights, Va., says: I 'I have been using Thed- I ford's Black-Draught for JUU stomach troubles, indiges-f/Il tion. and colds, and find ittoKAl be the very best medicine lAAfl ever used. It makes an oldM/l man feel like a young one." r^rj Insist on Thedford's, thefDW original and genuine. ?-67 FREE FLOWER SEEDS Hastings Catalogue Tells You AS About Them ' No matter whether you farm or onb plant vegetables or flowers in a small lo you need Hastings 1916 Catalogue. It is filled (100 pages) from cover ti cover with useful farm and garden infor mation. It tells of seeds of kind and quality tha you can't buy from your merchant o druggist, seeds that cost no more bu give you real satisfaction and a real gar den. It tells how every customer can get, ab solutely free five packets of easily grown yet showy and beautiful flowers. Hastings is both the best and larges eed Lrm in the South, the only firm tha you should buy seeds from. When you plant Hastings Seeds, yoi meet "Good Garden Luck" more thai half way. Write today for their big 191) Catalogue. It is free.. A postal card re quest will bring it. H.G. HASTINGS CO. Atlanta, Ga.?(Advt) TAX NOTICE. r; The treasurer's office will be ope for tho collection of State, count; school and all other taxes from tb 15th day of October, 1915 until th 15th day of March, 1916 inclusive. From the first day of;. Januar; 1916, until the 31st day of Januar; 1916, a penalty of one per cent, wi be added to all unpaid taxes. ?* Froi the 1st day of February, 1916, penalty of 2 per cent, will be adde to all unpaid taxes. From the li day of March, 1916, until the 15t day of March, 1916, a penalty of per cent, will be abided to all unpai taxes. THE LEVY. ' For State purposes ?7 mil For county purposes A 1-2 mil Constitutional school tax 3 mil Total .....'.i..l..........' 14 1-2 mil SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. * Bamberg, No; 14 9 mil Binnakers, No. 12 ? 3 mil Buford's Bridge, No. 7 ........2 mil Clear Pond, No: 19 .2 mil Colston, No. 18 ......................4 mil Denmark, No. 21 6 1-2 mil Ehrhardt, No. 22 : 9 mil Fishpond, No. 5 2 mil Govan, No. 11 4 mil Hutto, No. 6 2 mil Hampton, No. .3 2 mil Heyward, No. 24 2 mil . Hopewell, No. 1 3 mil Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 4 mil Lees, No. 23 4 mil ; Midway, No. 2 2 mil Oak Grove, No. 20 2 mil Olar, No. 8 9 mil St. John's, No. 10 2 mil Salem, No. 9 4 mil Three Mile, No. 4 2 mil i All persons between the ages < twenty-one and sixty years of ag | except Confederate soldiers and sai 1 ors, who are exempt at 50 years < ; age, are liable to a poll tax of or i dollar. Capitation dog tax 50 cents. All persons who were 21 years < ' age on or before the 1st day of Jai - nary, 1915, are liable to a poll ti . of one dollar, and all who hive n< J _ ^ An^itnr o ro n Iliaue ItjLUiilS IU LUC nuuitui , u> W A quested to do so on or before tf ! 1st of January, 1916. I will receive the commutatic . road tax of two ($2.00) dollars fro the 15th day of October, 1915, unt the 1st day of March, 1916. 1 G. A. JENNINGS, Treasurer Bamberg County. ; RILEY & COPELAND Successors to W. P. Riley. Fire, Life A AUUiUCilU INSURANCE Office in J. D. Copeland's Store BAMBERG, S. C. . Cures Old Sores, Other Remedies Won't Cur The worst cases, no matter of how long standir ) are cured by the wonderful, old reliable I Porter's Antiseptic Healing: Oil. It reliev Pain and Heals at the same time. 25c, 50c, $1. I Sample Bo> I The Biggest ship] sample box pa] have received in time arrived thij Values up to $1 box, we sell nothin 40c per box. Gf early. Our sam not stay long. Herald Boo GLENDAL MINERAL ; | SPRINGS K BAMBERG, S. C. t .... For Sal? Bj HERNDON'S GROCERY STORE AND l a L?? Tvnewriter .. -Jr .6 =1== 16 ?7> a Just received full stoc II . a ty guaranteed typewr h All makes machines. 7 J ...... . ' d to Augusta, Columbia js ton for you ribbons. Is Bamberg. Is Is SS 5 Herald Boo Is . Is Is Is E ENGINEERING AND Is is Land Surveys, Draftir Is Blue Printing, Estimat Df e, MAP WORK A SPE< 1ll FOR FURTHER INFORMATION LENAIRE F. WOLFE or VII ilx Phones: 269, 241-L, 72 ' I YOUR MI "" I They should be the best ob- ent M 1 tainable. Yet the price Give should be as low, as consist- sold j I PARLOR Mi I 'Phone 97 ?????? ? ? n.i I r ,1 e. typewriter Kibbons tor any stanaa I at the Herald Book Store for 75c. .00 \ i nHMBBHUH i: Paper tnent of ser we i a long s week. .00 per ig above it yours pies do - k Store i J ==n ^1 | if 13 ' m ? , ' 3 -'I f MACK'S DRUG STOKE Ribbons ' w ' >\ k best qualiiter ribbons. Don't send i or Charles- | Buy 'em in * k Store ? ~?????? 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