The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 01, 1916, Page 4, Image 4

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?hr lamhrrg ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published every Thursday in Thi Herald building, on Main street, ii the live and growing City of Bam berg, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mer genthaler linotype machine, Babcocl cylinder press, folder, two jobbers J fine Miehle cylinder press, all run b; electric power with other materia -- _ and machinery in keeping, the wnoi< equipment 7 representing an invest ment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $1.50 six months, 75 cents; three months 50 cents. All subscriptions payabh strictly in advance. Advertisements? $1.00 per incl for first insertion, subsequent inser tions 50 cents per inch. Legal ad ertisements at the rates allowed b: law. Local reading notices 5 cent: * line each insertion. Wants an< other advertisements under specia head, 1 cent a word each insertion Liberal contracts made for three, si: and twelve months. Write for rates Obituaries, tributes of respect, reso lutions, cards of thanks, and all no ^ tices of a personal or political char acter are charged for as regular ad vertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after firs insertion. Communications?We are alwayi '% ' glad to publish news letters or thos< * ni.Klirt infor pertaining to matters ui y UUHV luvv* est. We require the name and ad dress of the writer in every case ?No article which is defamatory oi offensively personal can find place ii our columns at any price, and we ar< not responsible for the opinions ex pressed in any communication. ? Thursday, June 1, 1916 The Barnwell Sentinel require* nearly a column to tell about "Oui Duty in Mexico.'' Speaking for your! truly, it requires but a few words t( tell it. " We haven't got any duty ii Mexico at present. y A week or two ago the sheriff o I Aiken county captured an automo bile loaded with blind tiger liquor The liquor was confiscated and th< automobile was confiscated as well , The machine was later sold at auc tion to the highest bidder and th< proceeds of the sale turned in to tb< county treasury. A few days latei the authorities of the town of Eas ley did likewise, confiscating illicr whiskey and the automobile carrying Itc It strikes us that if this cours* were pursued all over the State, i will go a long way toward enforcini the prohibition law. It is a notabl< fact, too, that in the Easley case th< machine did not belong to the sam< party as the whiskey, it it De Knowi |?- rr that to transport whiskey, for either lr f oneself or someone else, will entai loss of the team or machine if caught fe- ^ people will hesitate a good whii< before bothering with it?especially (for somebody else. Friend, paper is worth real money ?advanced from fifty to one hun dred percent, since the first of th< year. If you owe for your paper you had better renew at once. It is -Simply out of the question for us t< continue sending The Herald weel after week when the subscription is out. We have had to cut off a large number of subscribers since the firsi of'the year. Now that we have oui subscription list up to date, we in tend to keep it so. We have founc out by hard experience that it is n< . < use to try to send papers out or credit; and we do ourselves an in '--x justice by doing so. We now have several hundred dollars due us or subscriptions sent on by special re \ quest during the first year of the war. We had to cut off of our lists more than half of the number we S( favored. We hope our friends wil see why we cannot send papers or credit. So, if your subscription has expired, please renew promptly, i: you do not want to miss any copies of the best paper in South Carolina. Betwixt and Between. Mrs. Philip ^powden, the Englisl >* 9 peace propagandist, was talking at i tea on, her recent visit to New York about the war, relates the Washing ton Star. *,' y ' . "Our Scottish soldiers," said Mrs Snowden, "who were sent to France in the beginning of the war, attract v ed so much attention on account o their national costumes that for i time their lives were made miserable for them. The short kilted skirt o gay plaid reaching only to the bar< knees of the Scottish regiments mad< . a sensation among the French whi eaw this old costume for the firs ; time." Mrs. Snowden smiled. "There is a story apropos," sh< said. "A certain very pretty and ver; smart French countess had allowei herself to be persuaded by her Ru de la Paix dressmaker to have on of the extremely short skirts of th i m / VtrNM n/\T JL9JLO la-SiiiULL rnauo 1U1 uci act walking suit. Putting it on fearful ly one morning for her husband' inspection, she said nervously: " 'How do you like my skirt dearie?' "The count answered good-na turedly enough: " 'Well, my pet, I suppose it's al right; but isn't a bit too long fo a kilt?'" WILD GARDENS. I = Suggestions From Nature Worth Considering. B In the cleared lands ,there were abundant daisies; the admirably in; tricate and formal wild carrot; gold enrod of a dozen varieties; purple asv ter, many varieties of lavender aster; j and the tiny white-flowered Michael1 mas daisy, like a flurry of snow e flakes in summer, writes John Corbin, in Scribner. In the rocky under. woods grew masses of wild azalea i. and of mountain laurel, and on the ** woodland border clumps of hazel and ; elderberry. In the high pastures _ brakes of sumac, the velvet-green, - formal leaves overspun in midsum|,r mer with a mesh of deep-crimson j cones?the whole flaming in autumn 1 to a rich and varied red. There were . clusters of bayberries; and, on the K broad hillsides, long-deserted pas'l tures, masses of pungent sweet fern . spread slowly abroad in vast, irregu lar circles?rosettes of deep-green ^ that burned in autumn to a rich rust J color. Everywhere ledges cropped out of s the pasture land?in one place a 3 sheer cliff of granite. Mosses flour_ ished in all the soft hues of green, . pearl gray and brown. In the r crevices of southern exposures grew * huckleberry bushes, and shrubs of . mountain maple that with the first breath of winter flamed scarlet, de? pening to wine color and a golden . bronze. On the northern exposures ? were many varieties of fern, some 5 spreading lace-like leaves in formal r circles, others minutely tracing the 3 irregfllar course of moss-filled seams, j Jack-in-the-pulpits nodded their richj ly patterned hoods in spring, and in autumn raised up their scarlet clubs of seed. Everywhere the columbine f tossed to the winds its delicate, fan tastic flowers of light red and gold. * ) Road Courtesy. The other day I drove up behind a a man who had a wagon load of fertilizer. The road was rather nor r row, but I could have passed with the use of one rut. I tooted for gangt way. The man not only gave me the y one rut, but pulled entirely out [ where the way was rough. It was ^ unfair to his horses and unfair to r him. I thanked him for it, but as I 9 drove on I marveled that such coura tesy still exists in a land where most I everybody is a road hog. ' There are common rules of courtesy for the use of those who travel j the public highways. Not everybody knows them. Few follow them. I A loaded wagon should always be * given the full road, if the full road 7 is necessary to make the load easy for the horses or mules. 7 A faster vehicle should always be - allowed to pass; but the driver of the ; faster vehicle, if the vehicle is an au, tomobile or a Ford, should get en3 tirely oht of the road, go quickly by ) on high,, or stop his car entirely, or i take any other necessary steps to 3 avoid frightening foolish horses and 3 the nervous women or meh driving t them. r When a vehicle turns out to per mit another to pass, it should always 1 turn to the left, never to the right. > This is purely a precautionary measi ure. If the turn is made to the right, - a vehicle coming in front may accept 3 it as liberty to pass and a collision is . inftvitahlft on sliDDerv roads or in the - dusk of evening before the lights are > turned on. 3 The man who refuses to give half > the road is not only a hog. He is 1 holding something that does not bei long to him rightfully, and the spirit 3 of it is the spirit of theft. f In this day of many automobiles, 3 the driver of slower vehicles is subject to many annoyances, for there are many fools driving cars. But common courtesy will straighten out i all the kinks.?Fountain Inn Tribune. i All Citizens Are Officeholders. 9 This city, the smallest in the State, has a registered population of twenty one and only nine of these are men, 3 says a Coram, Cal., dispatch. C. W. Baker, a city trustee, does not want * to run again, as he is justice of the 1 peace of Keswick township and has 3 honor enough. The other men have 1 all consented to accept other city ofB fices, of which there are eight. B No nomination petitions have been 3 filed. The election on April 10, will * be conducted on the "write in" plan. Women will sit on the election board, as it is against the law for candidates & to conduct an election. Mayor George O'Grady is mining ^ at present in Siskiyou county with his * partner, City Clerk Kinyon. The city e marshal and city treasurer are both e gone. 0 The only source of revenue is the v $25 a quarter license collected from each of the two saloons. The money s is ample, for there are funds in the treasury and there are no debts. "Some of the greatest problems ol life are yet struggling for solution." "Yes, but don't worry. Gradua 11 tlon day essays are on me way. r They'll settle 'em."?Browning'* Magazine. ? < V- - - i- - '-j - V " . * . . . Keep Out of Petty Law Suits. r I am no lawyer, but I am going to give some observations and suggestions about farmers going to "law." Of course, there are some cases that the only way to settle it is to carry it to court, but in the majority of cases the expense of court proceedings will overbalance any supposed advantage that either party to the suit may gain. It is an easy matter to call to mind numerous law suits that have occurred between owners of adjoining farms; maybe it was about the boundaries of their two farms. Many 1 are the law suits that have been over a disputed line or boundary between ' two farms, and many times the difference was not more than onetenth of an acre, and that not worth ! more than a few dollars at best, but ! rather than let the other fellow, who, by the way, was a close neighbor, have possession of it, many have carried such things to court, which was always expensive, and af; ter the court had rendered a decision, the matter may have stood just as it was as far as restoring the - friendship of the two neighbors was ' concerned. Just think of the law suits that have been about one farmer's stock getting into another's field or crops. It will happen that no matter how careful one may be to keep his stock confined, there will be times when, from one cause or another, some of his stock may get through the fence into a neighbor's crops. Well, the first thing many think of when they see some of their neighbor's stock in their crops is to put them up and make the owner pay the damages before he can get the stock. It is right for the owner to pay for any damages that his stock does another, but many times, when one puts up a neighbor's stock because it has eaten some of his crops, he thinks he has the other fellow at a disadvantage, and so he estimates the dam 1 - 1 A x 1 X 11. ages just aDOUt iwiue wuai uiey are. Then the owner of the stocks says he won't pay any such damages, and here is the beginning of a broken friendship. Maybe they are both "hard-headed," and rather than "give in" or do'the right thing, they will go to court. One Instance. I remember two farmers wrhc went into court about a hog. One farmer had a hog to stray from home. In looking for it he found it with another farmer's hogs, or, at leait, he thought it was his hog. They carried it into court. The last 1 I heard from this case it had been in court over a year, and each had spent over $400, and did not know which would get the hog then. These are ! facts. It was just an ordinary scrut ! hog. All of this was useless. The first thing these two farmers did was to get good and mad at each other, After that it would be no easy mattei to "reason" things with them. A far better way to settle all such differences is to settle it out of court. Get some disinterested parties to settle it. Let each party pick a man and let these, two pick the third man. Then let these three men settle it, and what they agree on will, if they are given the facta in the case, usually be just about as near right as the court would decide, and not near as expensive. It is far better to spend money for the settlement of the home or farm than in useless law suits. It has been my personal experience that most disagreements can be settled out of court. When I find I cannot agree with a person in a matter ot business I simply go straight to him and tell him the facts in the case just as they are, and tell him I am .willing to do the right thing, and I think he will do likewise, and I want him and me to go over this matter and find just what is right foi each of us to do, and if we find that I am in the wrong I am then ready to make it right, and if we find that he is in the wrong, then I will ex. pect him to make it right. There are not many men who will turn dowr a proposition like tms. i nna mai I have no right to get angry at a peri son because they disagree with me, i or because they think I have made a i mistake. The fact is, I do make . many mistakes. The things that 1 have been most positive about have been the things that I have been the worst mistaken about. My experience has been that most people are , ready to deal fairly with me if thej [ think I will deal fairly with them, especially in settling any disagree; ment. We farmers have few enough j associates at best, and if many ot - these are our enemies, because oi i some pretty law suit or minor differences, we are the one that is hurt i most thereby. Of course, I don't L mean to say let the other fellow - have his own way in order to keei i from going to law. Not at all. Bui think twice before you sue youi TTVo/i To to in WnmA anr liCigJU UU1 . X- A XV?V^, w : Farm. Professor?If a physician is called . to see a patient, what is the firsl j question he should ask? Student?Where he lives.?Judge v From Pastor J. It. Smith. > Quite a number of the brethren! have been telling about many good > things that have taken place in their s fields of labor. Some things have ; transpired down this way that I ! think ought to be known outside of : the circle in which they occurred. In > the first place, I have the honor of ? serving some of the best people I have ever known, and they do not [ do things by halves when it is possi^ ? 4U A a a Vv An T *1 of foil UltJ JLUr LUtJIll LU UU UCllCl. uaot ia.ii ; the "field committee" held a meet! ing and decided that my salary ought ' to be increased for this year, there fore, one hundred and twenty-five i dollars was added to i-t. They also said, "Our pastor must have a better way to get about among us," and as l a result of such thoughts and ex; pressions the field of churches have , presented me with one hundred dol lars towards the purchase of an au tomobile, and now my family and , myself are really riding about in a "Ford touring car." And that is not all. Ever since the first of the winter I until now, we have had an abundance i of fresh meats, and on the 18th of i last month my people came together here at the parsonage and gave us another pounding that we will not get through with for some time to come. A forty-foot table was well laden with the best things the land can afford? such a dinner as it was! We received eight hams and three shoulders | of meat and altogether we now have in our smoke house fifteen hams, three shoulders arid two sides of meat. Among other things received was one barrel of flour in wood, one sixty-pound kit of lard, a two bushel sack of Hudnuts grits, five gallons and three quarts of syrup, jelly, pickles,'laundry and toilet soaps, a lot of canned goods, such as beans, apples, peaches, corn, tomatoes, peas and sour kraut. Also a quantity of coffee, baking powder, starch, sugar, butter, sweet potatoes, pudding and sausage, etc., etc. If any of ye traveling brethren come this way now, we can certainly give you something to eat, so com? along, the latch string hangs on the outside of the door. The four churches constituting this field own the parsonage jointly. ^ When we came here I found that they owed fifteen hundred dollars on the parsonage, and that the Ehrhardt church also owed six hundred dollars 1 on their church bjuilding. The debt ! on the parsonage has been reduced 1 considerably by all of the churches. - There are only thirty-nine members ' in the Ehrhardt church, nine of them are not resident members. The ' thirty available members have, dur1 ing the past three months, paid one * hundred and forty dollars on the par1 sonage and four hundred and seven ' dollars on their church debt, making > a total of five hundred and forty' seven dollars. Besides they pay their 5 pastor up at the end of each quarter, 1 and last year they came within less than five dollars paying their appork tionment to all objects. There are many objects not included in the budget of my churches that they would like to contribute to, but until 1 they can get rid of the debt that now ' hangs over them, they will necessarily ' have to deny some of them, e. g., the Ehrhardt church would like to contribute towards the erection or a 1 twenty thousand dollar church build1 ing at Rock Hill, but untH they can 1 finish paying for a three thousand * dollar building for themselves they : will be forced to decline. Notwith' standing the churches are in* debt, every one of them hope to pay the ' mission claims and contribute to all of the regular objects fostered by the 1 denomination. k In conclusion let me say that there are three churches in this town, viz: Baptist, Methodist and Lutheran, and there is a beautiful Christian spirit existing between them all. (Why should it be otherwise?) We have a mid-week union prayer meeting which is supported by the three congregations and goes from one church to another. , I hope at no distant day to tell . the readers of the Courier some more good things about the good people in my churches.?J. R. Smith, Ehrhardt, S. C., in the Baptist Courier. I k ouiiiticut x rvui* i ' A citizen was standing on a street corner looking a bit depressed when a friend sauntered along, according r to the Philadelphia Telegraph. "What seems to be the trouble, . old man?" solicitously queried the L latter, extending the sympathetic P hand. "You are a sight like sad ? scenery." "I have just had something of a jolt," answered the sad one. "I was . bequeathed a silver service as the r solid thing a few weeks ago, and > now I know that it is only plated I ware." "Sorry to hear that, old fellow," [ returned the friend. "But you may be mistaken." "Oh, no, I'm not," was the mourn - ? ii? ?J '' HP Vi o I ful rejoinder or me sau uuc. xm= t service was on the sideboard the other night when burglars' broke in . but they never touched*it." - KEEP A ROO YOUR^ - GOOD BUSINESS LIVING RESUL' CONDUCTING YOUR AFFAIRS THRC CAPITAL AND SURPLUS 4 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Bamberg Bai I THE PEACEABLE SET YOUR ESTATE WILL COMPLISHED BY 1 POINTMEK of us as your Executor. It er?NOW?to do much to avoi< settlement of your Estate, by ha1' drawn in clear language and coi by our appointment as your Exe carry out impartially your wisl wills and careless administrate individuals often involve costly 1< frustration of your wishes. We suit with you without charge al BAMBERG BANKING Bamberg, S. Record of Achievement. BB A few days since we referred to B the accomplishments of the Manning B I administration. A friend of the gov- B I ernor has recently made a list of B I j some of these achievements. It fol- B I lows and is one of which Governor B < I Manning and his friends both have a B I right to be proud: B I A respect for and the enforcement B I of the laws of South Carolina. B H Local option compulsory educa- B I tion. B Reorganization of the State Hospital for the Insane. IBB Equalization of taxation through the State tax commission. ( or groi Improvement of the common at cost I school system, with special reference Reqi to the rural and mill schools. operati Separation of races in cotton mills. Prov A primary election law which gives culture to every white man the right and op- Regi Dortunity to vote once at every pri- cotton mary election. J docKinj Establishment of the State board Crea of charities and corrections for the tractor betterment of conditions surround- upon r ing the inmates of all institutions of or mat a penal and charitable nature. Esta A law making the wages of a dis- ciliatio charged laborer due immediately up- and dij on his discharge. employ A law to prevent the purchase and Rais discount of trade checks for laborers' yea wages. Refu Separation of prisoners suffering' 800,00 from tuberculosis from other prison- rate 01 ers. per cer ~ nroroni7Qtfnn rvf ore the JrTOVlSIUli IUI uic ui^uuiuuwiuu v. v.u v?4 cooperative credit unions. interes Law requiring sources of nitro- $1,500, I gen and ammonia in commercial fer- heretof tilizers to be marked plainly on sack Borr or barrels. jng CUI Furnishing inoculation material coj] I for leguminous crops at cost to the cent j farmers of the state. rate ev Using blind tigers to build good j\ion, roads by placing them on the chain . in 191 jci n c Su"0Provision for consolidated and graded schools in country districts. Torrens system of land registra- Tlie tion. lina ar person Limiting hours of labor on inter- T vi Journa urbin railways. Furnishing crushed and dried marl Read \ F OVER MEAD :5k - ? y^#r w ** i i AND GOOD r FROM FINANCIAL >UCH A BANK % 1 - - - - $100,000.00 Savings Deposits. iking Co. "j ?1| ELEMENT OF BEST BE AC- < fOURAPTT ; is in your powi litigation over the ring your Will made, iforming to law and cutor to enforce and ies. Loosely drawn Dn by inexperienced. egal contests and the shall be glad to con3out your Will. i COMPANY o. 1 \ V y. r??i I ' COMING JUNE 141 I - -?. I I . inc Ktfsarjr m? Benefit Civic League * H Be Sure and See It! I Thielen Theatre I B A and limestone to the farmers of production, liring cotton mills to pay their ? ves once a week, ision for the teaching of agri! in public schools, llating the hours of labor in mills and provision against Pr b* ; tion of lien in favor of con- X s, material men and laborers eal estate for labor performed ;erial furnished. blishment of a board of conn to prevent and settle strikes sputes between employers and ees. ing the child labor age limit to rs. mding of the State debt of $4,0 and reducing the interest^ * * 1 the bonds from 4 1-2 to 4 it., thus saving to the taxpay> sum of $24,000 per year in t alone, besides placing about ,000 on the tax books that 'ore escaped taxation. owed money for use in pay rent expenses of the State uniection of taxes, at 2.44 per . [ nterest in 1915, the lowest er known up to that time. ey borrowed for same purpose 6 at 2 per cent, interest, the rate known in the history of ite. average taxes in South Caroaounts to only $1.33 for each in the State.?Spartanburg , 1. i The Herald, $1.50 per year. v.