Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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<?hj> lambmj lirralb 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 Vrf cylinder press, folder, two jobbers a l"~~ fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by electric power with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole - equipment representing an investment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $1.50: six months, 75 cents; three months. 50 cents. All subscriptions payable in advance. OVA ? 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 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. We require the name and address of the writer "in every case. No article which is defamatory or f offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are fnot responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. Thursday, March 16, 1916. ?? ?? ? If we were not ourselves, we have several persons in mind we would ? * , rather be just now than General, Francisco Villa. ?.. - - I Had Solicitor Cooper waited two i years longer, we believe there is very little doubt that he would have been < elected governor of this State. By entering the primary this summer, he is simply committing political suicide. Local supporters of the solicitor are very much surprised that he should consent to make the race under the circumstances this sumV mer. ./ y ?:?^ According to Insurance Commissioner F. H. McMaster, farmers in ! several counties of South Carolina can get insurance on their dwellings at from 25 cents to 50 cents per $100; in two counties, Abbeville and jv Greenwood, at 80 cents per $100; in other counties of the State the rate is around $1.20 per $100. The insurance commissioner adds that in the counties where low rates prevail, the farmers have organized mutual companies of their own. This seems ?8f to show that unjust rates have been charged by the tariff association. If the mutual companies can afford to ^ carry fire risks at the above figures, ^ why is it that an old line or foreign company should charge several times as much, in some instances? And the mutual companies are not ex periments, either; for many of them I j Jn this State have been doing business for 18 or 20 years, and several are now carrying risks of more than a million dollars. The insurance commissioner recommends that mutual ^companies be organized in every county of the State, where there are not now such companies in existence. r-.. Solicitor Cooper has announced fc?! * that he will be a candidate for governor this summer. Governor Manning announced some time ago that he would be a candidate for reelection. Governor Manning's predecessor in office has also announced that he will be a gubernatorial candidate. We are very sorry indeed th^J Mr. Cooper has decided to enter the contest. We had hoped that he would not be persuaded to offer this sumj mer. But the siren song was too sweet; he has succumbed. His "friends" have persuaded him that he is needed in the governor's office. Frankly, we do not believe that Mr. Cooper has a shadow of a chance ol TTT-v ?nn/];]Tr o rrrnn tViat TVTV eiecuuil. vvt? rcaunj 05,1^ Cooper is a most estimable man, and we really believe that he is making a big mistake in trying to wrest from Manning the second term that he has truly merited. We think that every one of the governor's friends should stick fast, for the carrying out of his law enforcement programme has not increased his popularity in certain circles. Every person who has felt the strong arm of law in the past year will go out in earnest after the governor. These same persons two years ago were perhaps contented only to vote against Manning. The governor needs the support of every person in South Carolina who is in sympathy with law- enforcement, and we hope that every such person will not only vote but work in the interest of the continuance of the present administration for the next two years. Mr. Manning has accomplished much, although he had almost insurmountable difficulties to overcome. While we do not for a mo? i _( ment think that the people nave any idea of overthrowing the present administration, the entrance into the race of Mr. Cooper can assist only one candidate?the former governor ?and we hope no one will cast a vote with his eyes closed or clouded. jr* We read in the newspapers a few days ago that a habitual user of tobacco died at the age of 107 years. We always did say that tobacco would get you sooner or later. The Orangeburg papers state that the dispensary stock in that county, amounting to nearly $5,000 worth of whiskey, was sold to "Heyman & Barron, of Augusta," Ga." Will some one kindly tell us how a firm in prohibition Augusta can purchase this liquor above board? "Old" Mary Parks. More than fifty years ago Mary Parks and her babe, Eliza, made their appearance in Union, Mecklenburg and other counties in North Carolina. They lived on whatever anyone saw fit to give them but would not beg. They traveled through the woods and slept in old houses and barns, carrying a small bundle of dry goods tied up in a rag. As we remember them, Eliza was a cripple, one leg being shorter than the other. The story is that her mother let her fall out of a tree when she was an infant, crippling her for life. Mary was afraid of dogs and one day as she was passing by a house a dog made after her and she went up a tree. In descending she let Eliza fall. Mary had become estranged from her family and was an exile from the parental roof. She had seep better days. Because the hand of misfortune had smitted her she had become i. floating wreck driven by every breeze. The doors of mercy was shut against her. She sought revenge in the life of a "virago." She had evidently had some culture in her youth as she al-! ways carried a Bible in that little bundle and frequently referred to its teachings. She vanished from the Carolinas in 1860 and did not return until after the Civil war. She had spent her vacation in Florida and was not seen during the war, but soon afterwards reappeared.- "Liza" was now grown and soon a son was born to her. She named him King David. Thus was added to the little band another member. As time went on they still traveled from pillar to post killing snakes and cussing everybody that had dogs. The very name Mary Parks made the youngsters shudder. She would climb a tree and hale at a house. If the inmates were not prompt to come out and invite her in, they were sure to get a good cussing. Mary was always spokesman for the party and she never forget a favor nor forgave an insult. Liza gave birth the second time to a girl and named her Miss La Varr. The band -was now in its height. Mary was getting old and Liza with her crippled leg and two babies found it difficult to supply their daily needs. After hard persuasion she succeeded in getting Mary to relinquish her tramp life and they rented a small hoffse near Stones, in Union county. It was here that Mary gave up her commission as a tramp after more than fifty years' service. She died, being past her three score years and ten mark. ? Thus the most noted band of tramps ever known in the Carolinas was disbanded. Liza with King David and Miss La Varr moved to Charlotte, where they still reside.?Waxhaw Enterprise. A Courageous Governor. When Governor Manning took hold of affairs in South Carolina, he began to do things which ordinary politicians feared would be the end of his career after a term of two vears. ? For one thing, he regulated the State hospital and so revolutionized affairs at that institution that whilom criticism of his vigorous handling of the asylum has give away to approval. His aim was at efficiency in its management, and in order to assure it he wanted ?a $6,000 man to be at its head. He brushed aside the many difficulties that confronted him, and the Charleston News and Courier says there were those who predicted he had made all sorts of trouble for himj self. Now, however, the general assembly has endorsed his courageous and ; decisive course by appropriating the $6,000 for the salary of a capable superintendent. This shows that when a governor is right and goes ahead without regard to his own political chances, the public will give him credit for his high purpose and con structive conscientiousness. As the News and Courier is moved to say, "Gov. Manning's faith in the good sense of the people of the State has been justified." The South Carolina governor is in a fair way of making himself the people's man. The lamented Vance used to put implicit faith in the people in North Carolina and he be+ Vir? Vn nr*liHr*ian rnilld VdUl^ Ultil lUU*. ever persuade him that the people would go very far wrong if their erood sense were appealed to and depended upon. Vance used to say that if the people were wrong he would have to go with them and help them get right.?Wilmington Star. FABULOUS SUM FOB CHAPLIX. Chief Slapstick Film Comedian Will Draw Over $10,000 a Week. Almost daily for a week or two, as readers absorbed in the comings and goings of eminent artists perhaps will recall, says the New York Sun, various press agents have released for publication at least one brand new reel of publicity acquainting an anxiouslv waiting world with the. in I a manner of speaking, fact that at last the So & So Fillum company. Inc., have come next door to sewing up Charlie Chaplin with a contract, the consideration being a controlling interest in the Standard Oil plus the gross receipts of the new Chaplin pictures as a bonus. The only details lacking in the publicity reels released previous to yesterday were closeup pictures of Charlie signing the contract, with a final dissolving fadeaway picture of Charlie and his entire feet securely crated for shipment to California to go to work, the hand that grasps the little bamboo cane also holding tightly a dinner pail to show that Artist Chaplin now means business. There was a typewritten publicity reel released yesterday, however, which seemed to deliver the commercial and aesthetic punch. On the authority of Terry Ramsaye, of the Mutual Film Corporation, Charlie Chaplin, amid the clicking of cameras and the cheers of the entire Mutual offices on Twenty-third; street, led by President Freuler, of the Mutual, unostentatiously signed a contract which will pay him $500,000 a year nnt fn moniinn 9 P Vl pplr for Sdldi J ? IIU I IV 111VU V1VAI. %M a-vr. $150,000, which was handed to him as a bonus before the ink was dry on his signature. To be exact, the salary will be $10,000 a week. Multiplied by fifty-two, his yearly wages will amount to $520,000. These details are added because there may be some precise folk who'll be tempted to write in letters of protest and otherwise quibble over a stingy little matter of | $20,000 a year. He's Charlie No Longer. On an occasion so momentous Charlie Chaplin, according to the j publicity reel released by Mr. Ram, save, did not do anything so commonplace as to "sign" his name to the contract. He "inscribed" his name not once but thrice. Also he is now, if Mr. Ramsaye's typewriter is to be trusted,'either Charles Chaplin or Mr. Chaplin. One can't very well nerve onself henceforth?not even Winnie Sheehan, of the Pox com- \ pany, who . can get Mr. Chaplin's autograph on anything but a contract any time for the asking? to holler, "Atta boy, Charlie! How's every little thing?" across Forty-second street, Manhattan, or South Spring street, Los Angeles, to an artist with an income of .02154? plus -cents a second, or $1.295? and then some?a minute, or $77.551 an hour! Oy, such a neaaacne: No "Mr. Chaplin solemnly," said the Ramsaye publicity reel yesterday after a preliminary thousand feet or so of introductory typewriting had been run off, "firmly took pen in hand and inscribed his name at the bottom of the contract. "Next to the war in Europe, Mr. Chaplin," further says Mr. Ramsaye, who is no piker, once his typewriter hits its stride, "is the most expensive item in contemporaneous history"? Mr. Ramsaye thereby proving that he never had to pay a doctor's bill for trying to lick a head waiter at Jack's. "Charles Chaplin," the Ramsaye reel continues, "was accompanied by his brother, Sidney Chaplin (applause), who conducts the younger comedian s ousiness uausauuuus, emoluments and salary negotiations. The eminent lawyers assembled looked over the 20,000 word contract (a voice: "Some look over, Ramsaye!") and announced that everything was correct. The ponderous seal was brought forth from a vault by a law clerk and placed with precise care on the president's mahogany table. "The lights flared up and the office shimmered with the rippling glare of a studio. Charles Chaplin was draped over the edge of the table in one of his characteristic poses (poses is partly crossed out here) attitudes, eyeing the proceedings with a casual air of shocking disinterestedness"? Mr. Ramsaye hereby intimating that mere money doesn't mean that to Mr. Chaplin. (CUT IX HERE; "Charles signs the papers!") ? " 'Sign here and here and here, brother,' explained Sidney Chaplin, indicating the neat beckoning dotted lines on the last page of the ponderous 20,000 word contract evolved by at,,+,,o1'o octrmiqhinciv industri 111 C .M uiuai o , ous legal department. Amid an impressive silence, broken only by the clicking of the motion picture camera, the faint buzzing of a battery of arc lamps, crooning like the wings of some poor butterfly imprisoned under glass on the first fair day of spring, and the deeply bated breathing of the tense group gathered about, Mr. Chaplin wrote his name out. "The deed was done! "'Take it, brother, take it!' cried Charles Chaplin to Sidney, passing the bonus check on gingerly after looking it over critically. lake its away from me, Sidney?my eyes hurt! It gives me such a headache, such a sickness!' " Comedian's Life Insured. There is much more to Director of Publicity Ramsaye's typewritten reel, such, for instance, as the fact that President Freuler has insured Charlie?.Mr. Chaplin's life for $250,000; that the new Mutual Chaplins will be produced in studios now being built in Los Angeles, where Mr. Chaplain will begin to pack his dinner pail by March 20 at the latest, and that one two-part comedy will be released each month. Details of what Mr. Chaplin did after signing the papers are lacking. It was rumored around town, however, that after spilling the rest of the ink in the bottle over President Freuler's head he turned two somersaults over the desk, skidded to the door on his right ear, fell down all the flights of steps to the street, paused in the lobby of the building only long enough to turn the faucet to which a roll of fire hose was attached and then after kicking a poliVomon i r> +Vin r\ f fh a V?1r?r?lr HVgUlMll AAA l>il \s lllAUU'V VL l> ii V_/ tyiVVU the great artist ran over Twentythird street, turned into Broadway on one foot that skidded and then < ran up Broadway to his apartments at the Astor with four of the funniest i cops in town chasing him. If the light holds good today it is : said that the publicity reel, "Charles Chaplin signing the papers" will be finished off with one of two contemplated situations. Mr. Chaplin today may complete the picture with a reel showing him strolling through Fifty fourth street, where he will pause in front of the home of John D. Rockefeller and smile at the front door indulgently and then turn about and ; face the house of John D., Jr., across the street and laugh right out loud. On the other hand he may call a taxi in Longacre square and direct the chauffeur to drive him to 1602 Spring Garden street, Philadelphia. There he may climb out of the machine at the foot of the steps leading up to the United States Mint, pose rigidly with eyes toward the mint, and as the last of the reel begins to fade from view he may place his right thumb in juxtaposition to his nose, four fingers spread wide and all bis mobile features registering scorn. Then he may go to the Girard Trust 'cumpany and have himself locked up 1 in the vaults for safekeeping and turn in fqr the night. End of a Round of Fun. With the signing of the Mutual contract Saturday night the series of social functions in Mr. Chaplin's honor, which nightly for the last few weeks have gone far toward enlivening our theatres and restaurants, doubtless will come to an end. When Clifford B. Harmon, of the Miror Films, Inc., wasn't entertaining Mr. Chaplin at a large dinner and thea- ' tre party Winfield R. Sheehan, of . the William Fox motion picture . works was the host. But yesterday when Cliff and Win- ( nie and the rest of the boys learned that Mr. Chaplin had finally been , roped and branded by the Mutual, they all ^aid it would be only fair to Mr. Chaplin to call off the rounds of . social gaveties and let the star get ? rrs\r\/i irvnp" ro?t hpfnrp he's crated a ft VUU iVH-) * VK.-V - w _ I and shipped to California. A Matyr to Duty. It is as a martyr to duty that Mr. Robert A. Cooper comes before the public as a candidate for governor. Long has he resisted the pleadings of . his friends that he sacrifice himself \ to save the State. In his announce- < ment it is stated that they have been ( appealing to him from all sections for the last six months. This statement, ( we are sure, is over-modest. Eighteen i months would probably be more near- 1 ly correct. This, however, is of no very great moment. The main point is that Mr. Cooper has yielded, under a sense of duty, to the importunities of his friends. < Who these friends are the public 1 has yet to learn. Their names and 1 views and affiliations will be wortl/ studying. So also as to Mr. Cooper's platform. There are many who as < yet are puzzled to know just how Mr. j Cooper is going to save the State and just' what it is he is going to save it from. Mr. Blease's case is different. We < all know what Mr. Blease stands for. ( why he wants Governor Manning de- ' feated, what policies he would substitute for those which the present administration has enforced. Mr. Blease ( and a part at least of his former fol- j lowing have just and abundant cause for dissatisfaction and disgust with the way things are now being run in South Carolina: but who are these J friends of Mr. Cooper who share this ; feeling so strongly that they are de- i termined to sacrifice him upon the altar of duty? ^ For of course Mr. Cooper's claim j that he is to be a candidate upon hisj ] v lEEClM JySi A Pj if Alter me Honeymoon Young married couples starting o: bank account at once. Nothing makes account. After it is once started you gives young people a feeling of securit Start With CAPITAL AND SURPLUS 4 Per Cent. Interest Pai< Bamberg B< own #merits alone, however honestly j P put forth, will not be able to stand the strain to which it must presently be subjected. He can win, if at all, only by beating down Manning or by d conniving at the arraignment of Man- ? ning by others. Unless Mr. Cooper t] and his friends are prepared to de- ti nounce the Manning administration ~ and its achievements how can they insist that it is Mr. Cooper's duty to oppose Governor Manning in his race d for reelection? What is their case o against Governor Manning? Where- ^ in do they claim that he has fallen short of what the people had a right to expect of him? Let us hear the indictment. Governor Manning's record is his only c claim to reelection. It is a legiti- o mate object of attack. Mr. Blease ^nd Mr. Cooper are within their rights. There is no doubt but that Mr. Blease 3 will say plainly what fault he has to 0 find with the Manning administra- r tion. He has a positive alternative to ? offer for those who liked the kind of government of which he is the exponent. What of Mr. Cooper? Why does he contend that public endorse- ^ ment should be refused Governor p Manning? What xloes he offer the p people that Mr. Manning has not given them??News and Courier. d p Action Limited. si ~~ C] The legislature of a Western State contains several women members. At a recent banquet they were invited to speak, but all with one accord began to make excuses, and one of the men p was asked to represent them, relates tl the New York Post. He accepted, saying that he was willing to act, so far as in him lay, but that his case was similar to that of a naughty l^'jg tie girl who was told that if she j g didn't behave she would be shut up o in the chicken coop. "You can shut me up in the chicken coop if you want to," replied she, "but I ain't going to lay any eggs." ?? d Read the Herald, $1.50 per year. " ! t< CANDIDATES' CARDS s' The rates for cards inserted under :his head are as follows: For magis- *( trate, coroner, cotton weigher and 0 bounty commissioner, $3.00; for all p Dther county offices, $5.00; for con- p ?ress and all State offices, $10.00. n Checks must accompany card. Please io not ask that we insert your card anless you send check or cash along with same. All cards will be pubished until the primaries. g CLERK OP COURT. E 't( T hArehv announce invself a candi- ? iate for the office of Cierk of Court )f Bamberg county, subject to the rnles of the Democratic party. R. L. ZEIGLER. g S I hereby announce myself a caniidate for clerk of court of Bamberg g ;ounty, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. 0 W. MAX WALKER. t> ri I hereby announce myself a caniidate for clerk of court of Bamberg 2 uounty in the Democratic primary, j tl ind pledge myself to abide by the j ji rules of the party. H. D. FREE. j ir j n I hereby announce myself a can-1 tl iidate for Clerk of Court of Bamberg a :ountv, subject to the rules of the j tl Democratic primary. j tl J. D. COPELAXD, JR. ! 3 i si I hereby announce mvself a can- ! c< iidate for Clerk of Court of Bam- ; fi berg county, subject to the rules and ! a regulations of the Democratic pri-! d a t iriRin.i vr> I p mary. a. u. uhvxx^jl4^. . L I ti I hereby announce my candidacv for the office of Clerk of Court of Bamberg county in the Democratic | primary, subject to the rules of the : I 4 / "Tl [ autbm ~ ^HBI J 7-J\ / v Vri n 9 &W Start Right! ff on life's journey should open a more for independence than a bank .'11 be surprised how it grows. It y. Us Today $100,000.00 I on Savings Deposits. anking Co. arty, pledging my support to the < ^ ominees thereof. J. Z. BROOKER. I have decided to become a candiate for the office of Clerk of Court or Bamberg county, and will appreiate the support of my friends m hroughout the county for that posiIon. H. C. FOLK. flH PROBATE JUDGE. I hereby announce myself a candiate for the office of Probate Judge f Bamberg county, and pledge myelf to abide by the rules of the )emocratic primary. R. S. SIMMONS. I hereby announce myself a candiate for the office of Judge of Proate of Bamberg county in the Demoratic primary, subject to the rules f the party. M FRANCIS F. CARROLL. ^ I hereby announce myself a canidate for the office of Probate Judge f Bamberg county, subject to the ules and regulations of the Demoratic primary, and pledge myself to upport the nominees thereof. R. P: BELLINGER. _ I hereby announce myself a candiate for the office of Probate Judge f Bamberg county in the Democratic rimary, subject to the rules of the arty. ALBERT M. DENBOW. I hereby announce myself a candiate for reelection to the office of robate Judge of Bamberg county, ubject to the rules of the Demoratic party. G. P. HARMON. I hereby announce myself a canidate for the office of Judge of Proate of Bamberg county, subject to le rules of the Democratic party, ledging my support to the nominees ' lereof. J. J. BRABHAM, JR. J UDITOR AND SUPT. EDUCATION. fl| I hereby announce myself a can- j/t idate for the office of Auditor and . uDerintendent of Education of lamberg county, subject to the rules f the Democratic party. , EDGAR PRICE. 1 SHERIFF. I hereby announce myself a candiate for Sheriff of Bamberg County 1 the Democratic primary, subject ) the rules of the party, pledging my iipport to the nominees thereof. D. J. DELK. ' . I hereby announce my candidacy 3r reelection to the office of Sheriff f Bamberg county in the Democratic < rimary, subject to the rules of the arty, pledging my support to the ominees thereof. S. G. RAY. MAGISTRATE AT EHRHARDT. I hereby announce myself a candiate for reelection as Magistrate at Ihrhardt, subject to the rules of the lemocratic primary, pledging myself d support the nominees thereof. J. iri. KliNAKU. BANKRUPT NOTICE. In the District Court of the United tates?For the Eastern District of outh Carolina?In Bankruptcy. In the matter of G. E. Hudson, ankrupt. To the creditors of G. E. Hudson, ^ f Denmark, in the county of Bamerg, and district aforesaid, a Bank- A upt. \ Notice is hereby given, That on the 9th day of February, A. D., 1916, tie said G. E. Hudson was duly adidicated Bankrupt, and that a meetlg of his creditors will be held at ly office in Orangeburg, S. C., on le 22nd day of March, A. D., 1916, t eleven o'clock, a. m., at which time le raid creditors may attend, prove leir claims, appoint a trustee, exmine the Bankrupt and transact nch other business as may properly M Dnie before said meetiner. Notice is i Lirther given that at this meeting pplication will be made for an or - * J ~ ^ 1 er for sale of Dotn reai auu ycisuuax roperty, and if offered, a composion to creditors will be voted on. ANDREW J. HYDRICK, JR., Referee in Bankruptcy. Dated at Orangeburg, S. C., March 1, 1916. 4 /