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Gtyr Bamberg Uprralb ~ ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bamberg, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mergenthaler linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, two jobbers a fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by ^ electric power with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole ? ... ronpocpiitiiis: an invest cq Uipmci-i c x v^^.. ment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By th? year $1.50; six months, 75 cents; three months. 50 cents. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed b> law. Local reading notices 5 cents - a line each insertion. Wants and other advertisements under special head, 1 cent a word each insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six and twelve months. Write for rates. Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and all notices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first insertion. Communications?We are' always glad to publish news letters or those pertaining to matters of public interest. IWe require the name and address of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. ?? Thursday, March 2, 1916. Hlfey The legislature did not. refund to Gov. Manning the $3,000 he spent out of his own pocket to pay the sal* ary of Superintendent C. P. Williams. fi:. , It was not asked to do so. The politicians who are opposed to the governor tried, of course, to make political capital out of the governor's action in paying the superintendent $6,000 a year. In fact they try to make capital out of everything he does. The governor was not playing politics when he agreed to pay Dr. Williams this increased salary. It was anything but good politics; but ?he was trying to improve the condi tions at the State Hospital, and this, it is generally agreed, he accomplished. For political or other reasons? it is unnecessary to discuss the reasons?the State Hospital had gotten into a pretty bad condition, to state it mildly. .Something had to be done. i It was a question for the governor to decide as he saw it. As he saw the matter, the employment of Dr. Wil; liams, even at double the salary that - had been paid, would go a considerv tirair fowaril rompdvinf the exist O-WIC TW UJ W ft MA VI ? o * ing conditions. The governor doubtless gave no consideration to the *: political consequence of raising the salary; for considering the matter from a political aspect, it was not a popular thing to do. As to whether or not the governor was . correct in employing Dr. Williams,' conditions speak for themselves.! The legislature was so impressed with what it saw, on the visit to the State Hospital, that the governor was unanimously endorsed, and the salary was, before the end of the seasop, definitely fixed at what the governor had paid Dr. Williams, thus vindicating in every respect the chief executive's action. Had Governor Manitfng requested the refund of the $3,000? practically a year's salary in the governor's chair?the general assembly would, without doubt, have refunded It cheerfully. We have never heard of another governor who wras so interested in the welfare of the poor unfortunates in its asylums as to actually pay out in hard cash a year's eoiorv in ?n effort. either honest or ? * otherwise, to better the conditions in such public institutions, pit ?_ tt&r Saved. sl: ? A good story of Belgian espionage i6 attributed to Brand Whitlock, the Belgian minister, says the Philadel1 phia Piblic Ledger. f**:V On the street cars of Brussels, v so the story runs, the Bruxellois are very careful to say nothing against BP their conquerors, for Brussels s,-' swarms with German spies, as the citizens know to their cost. But one day in a street car a Bruxellois was imprudent. He nodded to ward a wagonload of pigs that - -s J J 4-V. ~ was driving past, ana saiu uu mc y,a? in general, with a laugh: "It's queer they don't put the German uniform on those porkers." The #words were hardly out of his mouth^when a hand was laid on his shoulder and a stern voice said: "I arrest you. Conductor, stop the car!" Captor and captive got off together. The spy hurried his charge up one street and down another, and halted fine ly before a large cafe. "Fool that you are!" he hissed. "Imprudent fool that you are, do you want to he shot? There were three German spies to my certain knowledge on that car and if I hadn't arrested you they would have done so. I'm not a spy myself. I did what I did in order to save your own life. If you'll stand me a drink we'll call it square." j CHANCE TO RECOVER. Byrnes Puts Through Bill Restoring to Docket Thousands of Claims. Washington, Feb. 24.?Represen tative Jtsyrnes toaay successiuny piloted through the house the bill restoring to the court of claims docket the several thousand cases dismissed last summer and giving to the court : jurisdiction to render final judgment in those cases. The bill gives the right to claimants having claims arising out of use and occupation of property. The bill also gives to churches and organizations having claims for use and occupation of property the right to file their claim within two years after the passage of the act and authorizes the court to render judgment. It passed the house and has been referred to the judiciary committee of the senate, where it stands a good chance of passing. Mr. Byrnes also had the house enter upon consideration of, his bill, which would give to persons claiming an interest in the so-called cotton claims in the treasury an opportunity to go into court and bring suit to recover. Under this bill it would not be necessary .to prove loyalty to the United States government and conse quently it meets with considerable opposition. Its consideration will be resumed on next Wednesday. Curiosities of Names and Places. This morning, as I was coming into town on the elevated train, I noticed on the face of the passenger sitting opposite an amused expression, which evidently had its cause somewhere in the pages of his newspaper, says the Philadelphia Evening Ledger. The look of amusement spread itself quickly and pleasantly all over the man's broad and steadily j widening 'countenance. Surely he was going to his work in the right mood. But the contagion of his good humor had immediate effect. The smile was by no means content with remaining a smile, and speedily developed into \ chuckle, which drew simultaneously a smile and a glance from his neighbor in i the same seat. The chuckle con- i tinued, and likewise the neighbor's < ! interest. The party of the first part i pointed out the cause of it all and " the other found the place in hrs own paper. Then the two laughed to- : gether and?as the rhetoricians say? were friends. When I reached my ! station I bought a copy of the paper j which they had been reading, and remembering that the item I sought ' was on the page which contained the ] taxicab advertisement I quickly satisfied my curiosity. This is what I ! found (under the heading, "Name of 1 this Town Has Dual Pronunciation"): 1 A conductor and brakeman on a Montana railroad differ as to the proper pronunciation of the name Eurelia. Passengers are often star| tied at this station to hear the con- 1 ductor yell: 1 "You're a liar! You're a liar!" And then from the brakeman at ( the other end of the car: . "You really are! You really are!" ^ Was I disappointed? Not a bit of j it, though I had heard the story years ^ and years before./ Here was proof ^ conclusive that no story is so old that ^ it isn't new to somebody. . There is no place name so poor that it hasn't a story to tell. Pronuncia- T tion is sometimes the source of inter- ^ est?or one of the sources?for every name has a variety of associations, ( etymological, historical and other- , wise, besides still other fascinating qualities. ! , Out in Gallia county, Ohio, is a town named Gallipolis. It owes some ] of its present fame, which isn't yet . of very large proportions, to a name . familiar to readers of the war news. ( Gallipoli, as everybody knows, has the accent on the second syllable. . The people.of the little Ohio town can't get used to it. They have been accustomed from childhood to saying "Galli-Police," with the accent on the first and last syllables, especially the last. Gallia county was settled by the French about 1788. The French gave it the name the Romans gave to the old country, and drew on jLatin and Greek for the name- of their county seat. It is stated that there are 17 places in this country the names of which contain the Greek "polis," the word for "city." They are Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Annapolis, Copperopolis, Demopolis, Kanopolis, Cosmopolis, Metropolis, Opolis and Gallipolis. There's an Indianapolis in Oklahoma as well as in Indiana; a Minneapolis in Minnesota, another in Kansas and a third in North Carolina; while Annapolis is found in Maryland, California, Illinois, Missouri and Ohio. Some place-names are manufactured for descriptive purposes, as "Philadelphia" is Greek for "City of Brotherly Love" and "Cynwyd" is Welsh for "Thou art first." "St. Petersburg," or "Petrograd," is a perpetual reminder of the romance of the founding of the city, and the mere mention of the name "Rome" speaks volumes. The street names of London are a treasury of historical lore. The "C'ty of a Thousand / / CLOSE CALL FOR FOUR. Car Turns Over, Spanning Ditch, and Occupants Crawl Out. Orangeburg, February 23.?When the brand new touring car of Wil-I liam B. King struck a pig in the road just below the city early tonight, the machine turned completely over and the occupants had almost a miraculous escape from at least serious injury. The only thing that kept them from being pinned under the car was XI. - !!_ _x X U _ X Jx f ! ine lac-i uiai n ich auuso a uiau, which allowed sufficient space for the passengers to crawl out. In the car at the time of the mishap were Mr. and Mrs. King, their son, Maxwell, and Curtis Gardner. They were uninjured beyond a severe shaking up and some scratches. The automobile was pretty badly damaged. Mr. King had just purchased the car in this city today and was taking it to his home on the Rowesville road several miles below the city. Young Gardner, a demonstrator, was along to instruct Mr. King in the management of the machine. Mr. King failed to see the pig in the road in time to keep the car from striking it. Xo Significance in Dreams. One reads some very silly articles upon the subject of recurrence of dreams that it is necessary to repeat that our dreams are nothing more than a continuation of the state previous to sleep when we lie with no bodily or mental occupation beyond following out whatever train or thought happens to have been suggested. Two common dream experiences frequently recurring are those of the sensation of flying and of the uneasy impression of being about in public in insufficient attire. The first is caused by the physical fact that we are, at the moment without noticeable Dres sure actually suspended in space; the second by the equally physical fact that few people in these days go to bed in their boots. It is beyond question that dreams are started or suggested, not only by these personal hints, but by external events, usually a noise.?London Observer. Gates" has still its Newgate, the fifth portal in the original Roman wall of London and the scene of the executions; it has its Canonsgate, its Billingsgate, and, one might think, the whole thousand. Mount street is so called because Oliver's Mount, a point in the fortification lines built around London by Oliver CromwelL's meif, 3tood beside the highway in those times. Golden square gets its name from an inn called "The Gelding," which formerly stood in the neighborhood. The square was first called Gelding square, but the people didn't tike it and changed the name by usage. Pall Mall was the scene of many a game of pall mall. So it goes with the other names?Covent Garden, Westminister, Temple Bar, Piccadilly Circus?all having interestng origins and associations. Charles [I kept an aviary in the locality now known as Birdcage Walk, and the keeper of the aviary, Edward Storey, lived hard-by in a neighborhood which is known today as Storey's Grate. Place-names, too, are a record of nigrations. In New England the people of Connecticut and Massachusetts moved in large companies up the Connecticut and settled in Vermont. The towns of Windsor, Weathersfield md Hartsford, closely grouped in Vermont, were settled by people from the closely grouped Connecticut towms of the same names. Barre, Vermont, was settled by people from Barre and Holden in Massachusetts. Originally it was called Wildersburg. In an old record appears the followng remark: "The name of the township has ever sounded uncouthly to the inhabitants and settlers, and is also disagreeable on account of its length." In trying to decide on another name the people disagreed, the Holden contingent strongly favoring the name of the Massachusetts town from which they had come and another party favoring "Barre." The Barre men chose a champion and the Holden men a champion, and the match was pulled off on the common. The Barre wrestler came off victorious, and the name of the town was thus determined. Place-names are useful not only to antiquarians and historians, but also to vaudevillians. There's some deep reason in the psychology of vaudeville why "Oshkosh" is expected to bring a laugh. In Philadelphia "Camden" or "West Chester" is supposed to be funny, and in New York "Yonkers" and "Newark" are de pended on for a laugh. The names of the months and the days of the week are a history of the calendar. They take us back to the quarrel between Julius Caesar and j Augustus as to the number of days Augustus could have in his month and to Woden, God of Saxons, From whence comes wenesaay, tnat is Wodensday. THE TWO-QUART MEASURE. ? Will Reconie Law Twenty Days After Signing. Columbia, Feb. 23.?The bill limiting the importation of intoxicants for personal use to two quarts of whiskey or five dozen bottles of beer per month will become law twenty days after it is signed by Governor Manning. The bill has not yet received the signature of the governor, and it is understood that he will take it up for consideration on his return from New York the latter part of this week. Therefore, it will be at least around March 25 before this law becomes effective and in the meantime every person can order thern a gallon per month. Carrying the Law. Very few of our lawyers carry the green bags which were once a badge of that profession, according to the Baltimore American. "I think the sight of such a bag once kept Joseph H. Choate from doming to Philadelphia to make a speech," Mr. Conlen said. Mr. Conlen and another lawyer had gone to'New York to invite the exembassador to England to deliver an address in Philadelphia. Mr. Conlen's companion carried a green bag, which he laid upon Mr. Choate's table, evidently to the great lawyer's annoyance. "What do you carry in that thing?" he asked. "I have some law books," the young Philadelphia attorney replied. "When I was a young lawyer," Mr. Choate said rather coldly, 'I was taught to carry my law in my head." And the invitation was declined. Setting Things Right. One of the staff of our writers last week made us say that Jim Farris was blown up while kindling the morning fire with kerosene. It was the worst bobble this paper ever made. Not that Jim took any exceptions to the item; in fact, he rather felt proud of it; but his wife was peeved. She said that in all the years that she had lived with Jim that he had not got up once and built fire, and even if he was her husband she was not going to let him get away with glory that belonged to her. The kerosene explosion incident did not take place in their home at all. It was at the John Farris home, and John was the one who was singed.? Exchange. Husband and Wife Both Saved From Suffering I wish to tell you the good results myself and husband received from Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root. About eleven years ago I had a severe attack of La Grippe and was confined to my bed about eight weeks under the doctor's care. He pronounced my case kidney trouble ,and rheumatism and not receiving the results from the doctor's treatment I should have received, I decided to try Swamp-Root. After taking several bottles of Swamp-Root I was able to get up and attend to my work. About a year later my husband was affected with a severe attack of kidney trouble and doctored for some time with the doctors and received no benefit. Knowing of the good I had received, he decided to try Swamp-Root. His condition was such that he was confined to his bed and words cannot tell how he suffered, but after taking SwampRoot he was relieved so he could go on with his work without pain. I wish to heartily recommend SwampRoot to all persons afflicted with kidney and bladder troubles and you may publish this letter if you wish. Yours truly, MRS. A. E. BRIGGS, Eldred, Pa. Sworn and subscribed to before me, this 25th day of May, 1912. IRA MCCARTHY, Notary Public. Letter to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. Prove What Swamp-Iioot Will Ik) For You Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & ^ TV* 1 1 \T XT JS ^ uo., tungnamion, in. i., ior a sampie size bottle. It will convince anyone. You will also receive a booklet of valuable information, telling about the kidneys and bladder. When writing, be sure and mention the Bami berg Weekly Herald. Regular fiftycent and one-dollar size bottles for sale at all drug stores. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. All persons having claims against . the estate of Richard Morris, deceased, will file the same, duly item| ized and verified, with the undersignj ed executors, on or before the 31st of March, 1$16, and failing to file same on or before said date will be barred; and all persons indebted to said estate will make payment to ' said executors. AMELIUS F. MORRIS, JULIUS W. MORRIS, Feb. 21, 1916. Executors. FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that I, G. Frank Bamberg, Executor of the estate of Shady S. Broughton, deceased, will on Saturday, March 4th, 1916, at ten o'clock, a. m., make application before G. P. Harmon, Judge of Prohate, at his office at Bamberg, S. C., for a final discharge as executor of the said estate of Shady S. Broughton. * G. FRANK BAMBERG, Executor. Bamberg, S. 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