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?fvV . i&unhrrg ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. I ? = ? M Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bamberg, being issued from a printing j office which is equipped with Mer- , genthaler linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, two jobbers a fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by : nrvivor with other material 1 fy w ki iv JK/v ?? v* _ 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 strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch ' for first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed b> i law. Local reading notices 5 cents . line each insertion. Wants and other advertisements under special : v head, 1 cent a word each insertion. ' Liberal contracts made for three, six i and twelve months. Write for rates. , Obituaries, tributes of respect, reso- , iv- lutions, cards of thanks, and all notices of a personal or political char- 3 acter are charged for as regular ad- ] vertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first i r A . 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 offensively personal can find place in , our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. f|, Thursday, May 11, 1916. * If the publishers of the Beaufort Gazette and the Hampton Guardian would print as good papers at home as they do in each other's town, both pv' - oTHhem would be better off. While she did very ugly about it, it will be noticed that Germany acOiuieisced in the demand of the United States. Some of jthe president's g critics have said that the diplomacy ^ of the present Washington adminis- j. tration is the laughing stock or tne e I.X world. Maybe so; but it must be a g |?|E Pretty dry laugh. t ' Unless something develops that is r t . unforeseen at this time, the break c with Germany has been averted. For f this success ul diplomacy on the part * % of President Wilson the nation ren- t ders its thanks. There is no likeli- 1 ^ hood of any change of administra- ^ Itions this year. The diplomacy of j1 Wilson is good enough for us. 11 According to the Newberry Observ|;V>. er, the reason why we haven't been s I, v getting any rain lately is that the t horns of the moon have been turned p up, thus preventing the water from t "spilling." As the left-hand horn is p now pointing downward at a pretty o s dangerous angle, from the standpoint j tl ?-'> \ i > 1 of a vessel of water, it ought to be; p pouring out a little. d By properly screening your house ^ ' and keeping the flies and mosquitoes ^ p| out, you will be protecting yourself against disease germs. This is the worst time of the year for malaria. If you had a pen of fine hogs you J ^ would take every precaution, you bould to protect them against cholera. Why not protect yourself and g( your family against disease which ^ may threaten you? m-d' - ?,? * Get aboard, Mr. Candidate! Send d in your announcement card today V, . while you are thinking about it. Of n course you want the people every^ ^ where to know that you are in the d * v running; so send in your card. The a only condition is that a check must a If ; accompany the card. This is a pay- * as-you-enter business. If you want ^ your card in the best paper in South a * ' n Carolina, you will have to send it to 11 The Herald. * If the State executive committee d allows McLaurin to take an hour at b each of the campaign meetings to ftell the people why his job is the c most important one in the State, t what is to hinder every other inter- y if': \ est from putting in a mock-candi- d date for the same purpose? For in- e stance, the railroads, the insurance u companies, the cotton mill industry, a or any other industry or interest. It c would afford them splendid advertis- \ ing, and the cost would be very little a compared to the number of people s who would be reached. M " ^ Governor Richard I. Manning will be renominated this summer, unless something turns up more apparent ? than is now visible. We base this s prediction upon the fact that the gov- i ernor has given the State the clean- ( est administration in many years, t The past two years have been mark- 1 ed by earnest effort in behalf of the < welfare of the State and its people. . *?? * - .? _ i. i And it is a mighty rare tnmg tnai i earnest effort is not appreciated. We i , . believe that the people of the State 1 want good government and economi- : cal administration. This they have : received at the hands of Manning. We are frank to say that we believe i he has lost votes in certain quarters by his aggressiveness?it was to be 1 expected. On the other hand, we be. lieve that the clean government he has given has made votes in other quarters. I Some of our exchanges seem tc think it is fine to have a State song, since Reed Miller has set "Carolina," one of Timrod's poems, to music. "Carolina" was set to music many 1 ? An /1A_ years ago uy a lauy nuu uas oiutc ucparted this life, and the legislature adopted the song as the official State song some five years ago. The music for the song composed by Miller is sweet and has a patriotic swing to it that will doubtless make it popular; nevertheless, let credit be given where due. A South Carolina lady originated the idea of setting "Carolina" to music, and, through her efforts, it was adopted as the State song. One of the arguments used against the county-to-county canvass was that the canvass is often used for purposes other than office seeking, rhe correctness of this argument is borne out in the recent announcement for lieutenant governor of State Warehouse Commissioner John L. McLaurin. Mr. McLaurin delivers tiimself of the startling information that nobody but an undergrown or a lead man would have the office, and, is he does not accuse himself of beng a dead one, acknowledges that le does not want the office, but he loes ask for an hour at every campaign meeting to discuss the State warehouse system. While lieutenant governor is a mighty poor paying pffice to run for, we cannot agree vith the warehouse commissioner as o the littleness of the office. Whenever a governor dies in office, or reiigns, and they have been known to lo it, the office of lieutenant goverlor would be mighty important. Anyvay it is not at all nice to be so unjomplimentary" to the present occu>ant of the office. But what we started out to say is that the real candilates have hard enough time trying o all speak in the short timp necessary for a campaign meeting, and vith a mock-candidate taking up an lour of the time, it will be still harder. According to our way of looking it it, we don't think the State execuive committee should hesitate a monent, after what Mr. McLaurin has andidly said, to decline to allow him he time he asks. Of course if he vants to run as any other candidate, if Viin nmwiloortt- Villi |Vl Q QtoffS next 13 1113 JJllf uggc, u u v- I.UV uumvw )emocratic party is not running the !tate warehouse business, and there s no reason why it should dabble in t in any way whatsoever. A great many of the weeklies and emi-weeklies of the State are conemplating raising the subscription rice of their papers, on account of he enormous increases in the cost of aper and printing materials. While, n account of the particular style of bis paper, it probably costs us proortionately more to publish than it oes the average newspaper, we do ot contemplate any increase in the ubscription price. But we do take tiis opportunity of asking our riends to meet their subscription amounts promptly. Do not wait until e mail half a dozen statements, hat adds much to our expense. K osts us a good many hard dollars to iail statements to all of our subbribers, so when you see a notice on ^ 1 1 _ u _ 1 O..K our paper near uie iauei, ium ouuuription Has Expired," sit right own and write us out a check. That ttle sentence is stamped there to relind you that your subscription is ue, and that h remittance is in orer. And, while we are talking bout it, we wish to say that we lost good round sum of money by our as we thought) goodness in sending lie paper right on for a year or more fter the war started. Now we have ever been accused of being capltai5ts, so we don't mind acknowledging hat we took this loss to heart a good eal, and it tyirt in more ways than y touching the money drawer. Our riends asked us b> the score to acommodate them, and we did, alhough it was the rule to stop papers fhen they expired. Now, we don't loubt anybody's honesty, but, howver honest you are, if you don't pay ip, it does not help us a bit. Now, ,s we said, we have no idea of inreasing the price of the paper, but ve do ask our friends to help us' ilong by paying promptly when their iubscriptions are due. ^ About the Kurds. The Kurds, whose transfer allegiance from Turkey to Russia in consequence of the fall of Erzerum, is low alarming the official world at Constantinople, trace back not only :o the Carduchi of classical days, but car beyond that to the Turanian Kur3u, who were a powerful nation in Assyrian times. When Nineveh fell ;hey became merged in the Medes and up to today have been subject partly to Persia and partly to Turkey. Be Ing alien to the former in religion and to the latter in language, it is not surprising that they have an indifferent reputation among their neighbors. But this is not altogether deserved, for, though wild and lawless, they are neither fanatical nor cruel, and are by nature brave and hospitable. The Great Saladin was a Kurd.?London Chronicle. ' 1 ' ir /' . 7 \ t FAKK AI>VE3-:TISIX?. Supreme Court Defines Wliat Const tutes Dishonest Advertising. In defining today more clearly th? ever before what constitutes di honest advertising through the mail the supreme court held in effect th; advertisers, even though they gr purchasers value received for the money, are guilty of fraud if by e aggerated advertising propaganc tney nave iea cuenis to exyet-L mor relates a Washington dispatch < April 24. Officials declare the d cision will pave the way to scores < prosecutions and make possible tl enforcement of a much more strinj ent federal supervision of mail ai vertising. The opinion was announced by Ju tice McKenna, reversing the distri< court in the southern district < Florida, which quashed an indictmei against officials of the New Sout Farm and Home company. The ii dictment charged unlawful use of tt mails in selling ten acre farms. Tt Florida court held that if a purchase received the money's worth, exagge ated propaganda was not fraudulen Justice McKenna took the positio that it was an offense if the article sold did not serve the purpose repr< sented, no matter what the valu might be. In discussing what constituted criminal offense under tne statui governing the use of the mails, Ju< tice McKenna said: "Mere 'puffing,' might not be wit* in its meaning (of this, however, n opinion need be expressed), that ii the mere exaggeration of the qual ties which the article has; when proposed seller goes beyond that an assigns to the article qualities whic it does not possess, does not simfcl magnify the advantage which it has and falsely nvests it with advantage and falsely invests it with advantage transcends the limits of 'puffing' an engages in false representations an pretenses. "When the pretenses or represents tions or promises which execute th deception and fraud are false the become the scheme or artifice whic the statute denounces. Especially^ i this true in the purchase of sma tracts for homes." The case against the Florida coir panv goes back to the Florida coui for further proceedings. A Few Placards. Placard at a moving picture show "Young children must have pai ents." In a barber shop window: "Dur ' ing alterations patrons will be shave< in the back." Sign in a Tremont street store "Empty boxes?suitable for Christ mas gifts." In a tailor shop: "We die for oth ers; why not let us die for you?" In a clothing store: "These pant will look better on your legs than oi our hands." A silversmith has a place nex door to a restaurant. The forme having put up a placard, "Jewelry o all kinds plated," the ^estauran keeper followed with this: "Oyster and little neck clams plated."?Bos ton Transcript. Known by Their Fruits. A small boy was discussing th< differences in members of the vege table world. "How did people first know ai apple tree from a pear tree?" he ask ed. "By the bark?" "No," replied his mother, gravely "by the bite."?Philadelphia Publi Ledger. Government meat inspection cost each resident of the country 4 cent a year. The Gra FREE! FREE!! To the first 25 men or young n entering the store on Saturc morning, May 13, and making purchase of $2.00 or over we \ give a pair of pure silk hose, fi with our compliments. Fvivo CnADlol LiAU a iJJJtVlCU For Saturday, May 13th, fr 8:40 a. m. to 9 a. m., we will i J. & P. Coats thread 3 spools to 10c Extra Special For Saturday, May 13.th, fron ' ?r> ? / U p. m. to 6 p. ni., iur one nuur, will sell 10c yard-wide bleach 10 yards for 69c i WJ. Stf s Old Stai %fc-; f 1 : | ,V:. We Don't, Do You? J" Do you like the practice of using a "V" for "U?" And why it is so used by architects especially in inscripLnjtions on buildings? It is simply s~ harking back to the Old Roman s' style. Lots of us do not particularat ly like it. And so we will appreciate what this man has to say in a recent ir issue of Printer's Ink: x~ Now that we possess the U with *a soft and gracefvl cvrve, of vnexce'led e' docility and willingness to serve, why do thev carve Vnited States and Dvb- w e~ lie schools and sveh and make the ft )r English langvage look as fvnny as the . M ie Dvtch, with restavrant and Pvllman car and vniversity and other marks of edvcational perversity? That V impresses some of vs as s~i cheap and gavdy blvff, which parctjvenves may pvll in place of more svbstantial stvff, bvt people who are it 1 ? '' fashioned ovt of vnpretentiovs dvst ' J J view all sveh affection with an vnas7 evmed disgvst. Sveh exhibitions al10 ways make me very glvm and blve. j 10 Now, honest Injvn, don't they have 3r the same effect on you??Greenwood; r" Index. >n Laid the Golden Egg. S ;s 3- "Dad," said the young medical ie graduate, "in your two weeks' absence, I managed to cure Mrs. Golda enby of her indigestion." ;e "My boy," said the old doctor, "I'm 3- proud of you, of course; but Mrs. v Goldenby's indigestion is what put L i- you through college."?Exchange. JL ? MEETING OP TAXPAYERS. = I- A meeting of the taxpayers, voters a of Bamberg School District No. 14, I a is hereby called to be held in the fl r city hall in the town of Bamberg, S. C., on Monday, May 29th, 1916, . y at 4 o'clock, p. m., for the purpose 3, of electing one member of the board ^ of trustees, and for the transaction ^ of any other business that may legaliS ly come before the meeting, d W. M. BRABHAM, d Chairman Board of Trustees. Bamberg, S. C., May 9th, 1916. ? "The Iron Claw" I ? Chapter IV The Name and the Game t FEATURING Pearl White, Creighton Hale and Sheldon Lewis Thielen Theatre. | Matinee f:30; Night 8:00 .. I MONDAY. MAY 15th i a I SYNOPSIS I j ^ I On Windward island Pali- B a B ^ori intrigues Mrs. Golden B i B int0 an appearance of evil, I ? B which causes Golden to cap- fl j J B ture and torment the Italian I | 4 B by branding his face and fl ! ? crushing his hand. Palidori S j s opens the dyke gates and fl i 4 a floods the island and in the i ^ general rush to escape the fl ! flood kidnaps Golden's six- fl j 1 * year-old daughter, Margory. I i ^ r Twelve years later in New H \ J f York a Masked One calling I i J himself "the Hammer' of I j ^ God" rescues an eighteen- I j J, s year-old girl from the cadet H j ^ Casavanti, to whom Jules I [ Legar has delivered her, and H } takes her to the home of B 4 Enoch . Golden, millionaire, B whence she is captured by fl ^ b Legar. Legar and Stein are B J discovered by Manly, Gol- fl den's secretary, setting fire B t ^ to Golden's buildings, but es- fl 3 cape. Margory's mother B fruitlessly implores Enoch I ^ Golden to find their daugh- I } ter. The Masked One again fl ^1 '1 takes Margory away from I ^ ; T.egar. Legar loots the B 4 i I Third National bank, but I ^1 fl again the Laughing Mask I s B frustrates his plans. B 4 nd Opening ,sn Now in Fi len lay ^ The lively trading durin ee' of the sale, has been ws ? m ? pectations. The crowd bought. Great bargain goods must be seen om i f1 HAVE U BEI for if you haven't you mi in these parts and do not meaning of this Grand prices we give you below ? TELL THE RE -THE LE id MAIN STREET V 1 / ..... - ' ' > 7% vTI 4v yy % I 17 'resent ioui With a C You'll be surprised at the system u PAY ALL YOUB BILLS WIT] UCH IT COSTS TO A PENNY : re your wife a sort of business educa itart an Account Wife's A.PITAL AND SURPLUS '4 Per Cent. Interest Pai( Bamberg B< PERHAPS ] Who is your Executor? he a few months ago? In ] cause you necessarily have has money?a man of resp means frequently travel at was abroad you had died, a panicky condition. Then marooned in Switzerland, o: act. What do you think v your Estate? We are alw act immediately for any E; Executor. BAMBERG BANE Bamberg A A A A A ^ Ty Southern Bapti ASHEVILI I MAY 17th T( Very Low Round SOUTHERN Allendale $7.50 Barnwell 7.05 Branchville 7.15 Charleston 9.05 T 5 1 n ljaucaokci ^ ^ Pregnall 7.80 k Sumter 6.45 J Tickets will be sold May 13 to 1 r 31, 1916, but may be extended to W not later than May 31 and paymer k Stop-overs will be permitted al * burg and Asheville on either goinj 't SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY FOR I H. W. McMII ^ BAMBER< r K. .AA. jj Sale at th< ill Swing T s ig the first few days | ly beyond all our ex- ? [ came and saw and ? s await you, and the to be appreciated. F I r hE YET J ist be auite a stranger fully comprehend the _ Opening Sale. The r ASON WHY 3 ? m. Pfe ff" m ; p U t n DENMARK, S. C. 1 Wife Baa? ' you'll inaugurate in your home if 3 CHECKS. You can tell HO w ^ [ 0 RUN YOUR HOME. It will s tion. Today In Your Name \ $100,000.00 1 on Savings Deposits. ankingCo. HE CAN'T Where is he? Where was flj Europe? Very likely, beselected an Executor who 9| onsibility?and people of >road. Suppose while he lilt; olutu 1*10,1 n.ct wa.o xxx m it closed. Your Executor flfl r Berlin, or Paris couldn't rould have happened to ays here and can always . 4 state of which we are an \ i :ING COMPANY r, S. C. . . . h / ,f . ^4. ATA ATA ATA A^A jgfefc ATA ATA A^A y^T ist Convention f . S, N. C. | ) 24th, 1916 | Trip Rates via ^ ? . .. 4 ?* RAILWAY * ! 4 Bamberg $6.90 ^ Blackville ' 6.70 X Camden 6.15 Denmark 6.70 X 14 Orangeburg 6.65 ^ Summerville 8.40 7 inclusive with final limit May X June 15 by deposit at Asheville V it of fee of $1.00. t any station between Spartan- X % or return trip, within limit. - V A TRIP TO THE MOUNTAINS. ^ -LAN, Agent % 3, S. C. A^A jnMFwrTOrwnMnMrwriMrwriMrwr^^ f Leader WF flBBH SB FREE! FREE!! o the first 25 ladies entering our tore on Saturday morning, May 3th, and making a purchase of 2.00 or over, we will give a pair f pure silk ladies' hose, free with ui^ compliments. Extra Special 'or Saturday, May 13th, from 9 ^ . m. to 10 a. m., for one hour, rre will sell 12 l-2c yard-wide luslin TH) yards for ' 73c Extra Special 'or Saturday, May 13th, from \ p. m. to 4 p. m., for one hour, ve will sell yard-wide lineen 10 % arris for 69c t H. Stirs Old Stand ? t '