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?? Gtyp lambrnj Ijrrali ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891., ^???? Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, ir the live and growing City of Bamberg, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mergenthaler linotype machine, Babcoci cylinder press, folder, two jobbers s " "* " " - Jaw rvi*AO O oil -run line iviienie qhuuci picoo, Utt A V% M electric power with other materia and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an investment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $1.50; six months, 75 cents; three months 50 cents. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. Advertisements?$ 1.0 0 per incfc for firsi insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by law. Local reading notices 5 cents a line each insertion. Wants and other advertisements under specia1 ; x head, 1 cent a word each insertion Liberal contracts made for three, sis and twelve months. Write for rates Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and ail 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 oi 1 ?~ nlono iti offensively personal uau 1XUU tu our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for tbe opinions expressed in any communication. |, Thursday,- July 27, 1916. Speaking of hot politichl fights, / we call the battle over in Congressman Ragsdale's district a warm one., Newberry county is distinctly a land of barbecues. No less than \ eight of these affairs are advertised in this week's Observer. Newberry v ought to be a good place for the young doctor to locate. t We do not believe that the people of South Carolina would vote so oyer" 4 " / whelmingly in September to stamp out the liquor business, and then fturn around the following August "and vote to undo all the good that ' has been accomplished. The liquor traffic is being controlled in South Carolina as it has never been controlled before. And it , makes the liquor interests and their ! sympathizers very cross. By the way, which crowd are you going to line up with August 29? Below is a significant paragraph from, the News and Courier's story * A ?' tmoQf in<jr of tne unanesiou uatupaisu. Mr. Cooper has seen fit not to give any reply whatsoever to Mr. Manning's interrogation: Governor Manning stated that at ! Barnwell he Jj-ad called upon Mr. r . Cooper to explain why he was in the -f t race for the governorship this year. "Two years ago," he said, "Mr. Cooper stood 6n the same platform practically that I did. I have carried out - my pledges. Now Mr. Cooper is in the race to defeat me and I want to ask him what he would have done j s with law enforcement in Charleston and other places, what if elected he would do about the tax commission, t . the board of charities and other measures passed as administration measures, and what he would have V - done as to the asylum. Mr. Cooper *, has not seen fit to answer what I asked of him at Barnwell. Nevertheless, I think he owes it, not simply to me, but to the people of the State, to clear these matters up." * Watch Your Purse, .j3 . 5* i i gjg*. j This is one of the times when the fake promotor, the shady broker and the careless exploiter are reaping a golden harvest from the pockets of people who are making easy money and who have seen other people make easier money in the last year. Beware of the thousand-and-ont enterprises which are offering you the chance to invest a few hundred or thousands of dollars with the prosSi"-'"1"' ? pect of becoming wealthy for the rest of your days. Investigate carefully the claims of people who want you to buy stock or bonds in concerns which have been recently floated and in concerns which are going to be floated. Look out for trouble il . you throw your money confidently into the new stocks you can buy foi > _ a few dollars or cents a share. In the last year and a half there ? * . have been many honest and successful floatations in various industrial lines whichUiave paid a rich returr to those who believed in them and which will doubtless continue to pay There have been many other companies floated in these exceptional times the fate of which will undoubtP_ edly be in question when the time ol test comes, as it must inevitably come some time. Thejakirs are taking the usual advantage of strictly legitimate developments. Realize when you consider putting mrmov intn a npw pnternrisp or J newly recapitalized old one that yoi are speculating, not investing. Es pecially, beware of the type of brokei who tells you that you are investing when he asks you to speculate. Remember that in good times th< old, well organized companies in th< various lines generally get the majoi portion of real prosperity.?Odd Lo Review. ?' , y \ . THE ALABAMA'S LAST FIGHT. = Famous Confederate Raider Was . Sunk 51 Years Ago. j t For two years during the civil wai ' the Confederate privateer, Alabama ! was the terror of the merchant ships [ bearing the United States flag. 11 1 is estimated that she destroyed onet half of the American merchant maj rine, up to that time second in ton nage only to that of Great Britair among the nations. The Alabama was built at Birken, head, England, by the Lairds, undei contract with the Confederate States 1 at a cost of $250,000, and was sent to sea in the spring of 1862 as No. - 290, in spite of the protest of Charles > Francis Adams, United States minis[ ter to Great Britain, against the sail ^ing of the ship. The privateer sailed ; to the Azores under command of a . British captain, and there was turned over to Capt. Raphael Semmes and twenty-four young naval officers: from the Confederacy. After her ; armament, which had been sent to the ' same rendezvous, had been placed ^ aboard the privateer ran up the Con > federate colors, took her name as or' dered by the Confederate government and started out on her career as de! stroyer of commerce. l The Alabama continued her work \ of plundering and destroying United States vessels until June 11, 1864, whpn shp nut into the harbor of Cherbourg, France, for repairs. The ? , news of her arrival spread over the , land, and soon Capt. John A. Wins low, commander of the U. S. S. Kearsarge, then at Flushing, was apprised of the fact. He sailed his ' ship into Cherbourg harbor and out again without coming to anchor, and ^ Semmes rightly construed this conduct as a challenge to combat. On June 19 Semmes sailed out of the harbor to fight the Kearsarge, acj companied by a French frigate to . a point beyond the territorial waters , of France. The Alabama had-149 men and eight guns to the 163 men : and seven guns of her antagonist, but the metal carried by the Kearsarge guns was heavier than that thrown by the Alabama. At a distance of seven miles from the Cherbourg breakwater the Kear sarge made for the privateer, and when within 1,200 yards the Alabama 1 opened fire, the Kearsarge replying 1 with telling effect. They fought for an hour, both vessels moving in a circle, and then the I Alabama, being at the mercy of her opponent, displayed a white flag. Respecting this, Winslow ceased firing, but two minutes later the Alabama fired two guns at tne Kearsarge and attempted an escape to neutral waters, not more than three miles distant. Winslow again opened fire, and conn afterward a messaee came from the Alabama announcing that she surrendered and was sinking. An English pleasure yacht, the Deerhound, came near and was requested by Winslow to aid in saving the crew of the Alabama, which in twenty minutes went to the bottom of the sea. The Kearsarge rescued sixtyfive of the crew, while the Deerhound picked up Semmes, his officers and a few marines and carried them away from the lawful custody of Winslow to England, where Semmes was received with great honor. As a result of the depredations of the Alabama and other Confederate ships built in England the British government > eventually paid?an indemnity of $15,1 500,000 to Americans who had suf fered losses.?Washington Post. New Sleeping Car. Berths. i The embarrassing inconvenience . commonly experienced in a sleeping i car are done away with in a recently [ patented sleeper. The car provides all berths with room in which the s passenger may stand upright dress ing or undressing. The portion of ; the mattress and spring under each pillow is made separate from the rest, and so hinged to the end of the ; berth that it can be turned up out : of the way. In the lower berth this r leaves a space at the head of the bed which the passenger can enter by opening the hinged end of the seat; > here he can disrobe while standing - upright and hang his clothes, full I length, at the end of the hinged seci tion, which does not extend q,uite to I the side of the car. When undressed . he gets into bed and then turns down - the hinged section and puts the pilI low in place. The upper berth is ar ranged similarly, the head being at t the opposite end. Over the foot oi r the lower berth hangs a narrow plat-| form, enclosed except at the aisle r end, to which the upper berth passenger easily mounts by opening the ; hinged end of the seat and using a i step supplied by the porter.?Popui lar Mechanics*. A German electrical society offers c a gold medal annually for the besl jr 9 device or process produced in the world for safeguarding life or limt " or promoting health in the electrica 3 industry.r t Young men often visit a pawnshoi merely to pass away the time. "CRACK" TROOPS. i How They Are Used in Modern Warfare. During the first part of the war, , careful watch was kept by the French > general staff over the way every regi; ment and division acted, says the - World's Work for July. In the acid test of battle, this division proved its - ability to advance under fire, that l regiment failed. Gradually the "crack" organizations were known. - These picked men are quartered about twenty or thirty miles behind , the lines, and they live like athletes ; training for a prize fight. They have , great athletic fields, where they play \ football and practice field sports. Theatres and music are provided for their amusement. While things are [ quiet at the front they are kept in as l perfect physical and mental condi tion as art and science can devise, s Then, when the commanders at the > front need men for a charge against German trenches across the shell> swept open fields, Word is sent back i for these special troops. The needed number are told off, they are load ed into automobiles, carried swiftly ; to the front, singing and eager; they make their charge; trench troops move up and occupy the ground they have gained; and the attackers? such as are left of them?go back to , their football and training, to get ! ready to go to the next point in the i line that needs them. What the French have done the Germans and the British have done likewise. These "troops of attack" are a development of modern warfare. Women in Trousers. The wholesale withdrawal of men from the commercial and industrial ranks has resulted in a huge substitution of 'female labor for the purpose of maintaining the industrial output of the country. Many hundreds of women are training to become milkers and dairy hands. In Scotland and Northumberland this sort of work is being regularly undertaken by women, while in Devonshire and other countries milking is being done even by young girls before they go to school. : Women are at the lathe, in overalls and cap, in the powder . shed, working twelve-hour shifts on the motor busses or fashioning metal, timber and leather, carting, driving and distributing. Before the war it used to be said that every Jack had his trade. The same can now be said of every Jill. , Women in trousers are becoming - more and more numerous. They are donning them in greater numbers every day, in order to cope with work where the skirt is found to be a i hinderance. They do not dislike the change and it can not be said to detract in any way from their native arana or narriasra Napoleon, it seems, was a great believer in arraying women in masculine attire in time- of war. "Dress does not make the man," says the proverb; but Napoleon found that it made the women, and that putting her into trousers made a world of differences to her work and strength. Reliable English opinion is inclined to encourage women to adopt masculine attire for what, after all, ought to be man's work, convinced that so dressed woman will give as good an account of herself as her absent mate. Many thousands of women and girls are serving the nation as munition workers. The ministry of munitions considers every case thoroughly, placing the work> ers not only according to industrial fitness and home locality, but also with thought for the lives women , have previously led and are likely to lead after the war. Many of the Ti-nman an era erari in mnnitinn wnrlr ora IT VUQMQVU iU UJlUAA4bAVU TV VTA Ik MA V ' art students, musicians, embroidresses?girls who had been engaged in ! the fine arts and hope to be again. ! Once drafted into a factory, the work; ers are specially looked after by the i ministry as to hours, accommodation and rate of payment. The wages are $5 a week as a minimum, .and fit workers are soon able to earn $15 to ; $20 a week by piece work. [ The ministry of munitions has es. tablished nearly seventy free training i centres where learners are prepared I for the lighter varieties of muniL tion work. In the newly organized . air department, in the various gov. ernment offices, in banks, insurance ; offices and commercial establish ments, thousands of young women . are now struggling with stacks of 5 official books, ledgers and official . documents.?From London Letter to j New York Sun. L Is a Sure Plate. First Undergraduate?Have you ' telegraphed to the old man for k money? ' Second Undergraduate?Yes. ^ "Got an answer?" "Yes. I telegraphed the governor. 'Where is that money I wrote for?' > and his answer reads, 'In my pocket.' " t WHALE skin for shoes. An Odd Story Going the Rounds in Regard to Footwear. , ^ For weeks papers throughout the country have been printing information that ten tons of skins of the beluga or white whale, have been received at Seattle from the Behring sea and have been shipped East to be made into leather for white shoes for women. Very like a whale. The stuff reads well. White whales for white shoes. Doubtless the report got credence owing to the extremely high prices asked for white shoes for women, which may have indicated to superficial minds that white leathers of all kinds were becoming rare. The white shoes that have been sold to women have nothing fishy about them. The white sole is made from the hide of the humble, but necessary cow. The uppers of the shoes are made from kid or calf leathers, with sheepskin used where cheaper prices were imperative. Why whale skins should be advertised by the daily papers as being used for the dainty shoe creations we see daily passes comprehension. Fish skins have their uses, but are not plentiful enough to attract much attention. Years ago laces made from tanned porpoise skins were so strong and supple that their popularity begat imitations that could be sold cheaply. And before long the ever accommodating calfskin furnished enough porpoise laces to meet the great demand for them. Shark skin in the leather industries is known as shagreen and is used for specialty purposes. Walrus hide, when tanned, is so thick and coarse that it is used for making polishing wheels. Seal . skins, that are not considered good enough for fur garments, can be made into handsome and serviceatye leather. But fish skins, as a whole, cut very little figure in the shoe and leather world. However, the white whale wiggle is a good story for retail shoe clerks to impose on credulous customers. If shoes really made of whale skins were offered to women they would regard the officiating salesman as more curious than the white whale itself.?Hide and Leather. , The Barber's Pole. A curious citizen asked us on the fourth of July if the red stripe on the barber's pole had any connection with the colors of our national flag. It has not. It relates back to the period when in all European countries the barber possessed the right to practice elementary medicine and surgery. They were then known as barber-surgeons and the red band around the barber's pole represents the bandage with which they stopped the bleeding incident to their medi cal services, for at that time bleeding was the universal remedy for "all the ills that flesh is heir to." Barbers practiced phlebotomy and arteriotomy in England as early as 1461, when they were first incorporated. In 1546 they were united with the surgeons, but in 1745 an act was passed declaring the barber business to be "foreign to, and independent of, the practice of surgery." It is impossible to say how old an institution the barber is, but the Prophet Ezekiel says, "And thou, son of man, take thee a barber's razor and cause it to ?pass upon thine head and upon thy beard." The Egyptians shaved both the head and beard, as some of the Chinese yet do. The barber shops of Athens and Rome, it is said, "were great meeting places for idlers and gossips," as some of them still are, especially in a hot political year. A story is told of the bafber who daily shaved one of the French kings. One day the "tonsorial artist" said to his majesty, "Sire, I am your best friend." "How is that, my fellow?" inquired the king, as he reclined in the chair and crossed his lefs in solid comfort. "Why, your majesty," replied the royal barber, "I am your best friend because I have in in my power to cut your throat every day and do not do it." His majesty said nothing, but it was the last time that barber ever shaved him. Even though it is no longer a part of the medical equipment of the community, the barber shop is making great advances in the way of sanitation, and in that fashion is doing its share in the public health movement. Fifteen years ago, they paid little attention to sanitation as we now consider it, but now the best barber shops are sanitary and devote a good deal of time and trouble and attention to such protection of their equipment as will make for better health. Representative Lynch, of Florence introduced at the last session of the South Carolina legislature a bill providing for a State Board of Barber Examiners, but the bill failed of passage. Whether that was because of objections from the trade or lack of demand for the measure we do not know.?Greenville News. NEW YORK HAS A MIGHTY DEBT. n< City Owes $210,169,591 More Than United States Government. ^ New York city's total funded debt at the end of the last quarter was $1,325,555,986.11, says the New York American. The net debt of the United States government, commonly known as the national debt, is $1,115,386,394.44, or $210,169,591.67 less than New York' city's funded debt. Comptroller William A. Prendergast has made public a report summarizing: the city's financial transac tions for the first quarter of this year. It gives these figures as the city's total funded debt. The Comptroller has added a table to his report, showing that the total amount of interest on the city debt is $54,592,188. Over $28,000,000 in Three Months. The total receipts from revenue sources during the first quarter amounted to $28,853,394, as compared with $23,649,553 during the same period of last year. The "expenses of the city government" during this period -were $39,187,560. That was only for the general operating and current adminis- ? tration of the city. In addition to that amount, the city paid $4,658,340 to the State comptroller on account of the direct State taxes of 1916; $8,829,813 of revenue and special revenue bond redemption. Plenty of Cash in Treasury. Despite these enormous expenditures there was in the city treasury at the close of business on March 31, $22,985,015, in addition to a cash balance of $2,471,240 in the sinking funds. The city pay rolls for the quarter amounted to $24,251,115, which was $15,973 less than during the similar ? a i i. Y__ . a a *i.? J.1. penoa 01 lasi year, in aaaiuon mere was a special pay roll amounting to $1,641,525, which was $1,105,206 more than last year. The increase is attributable, according to Comptroller Prendergast, to the additional cost for snow removal this year. Outlay On Subways. Under the heading of rapid transit construction, Comptroller Prendergast shows that the total outlay and commitments for subway work the first quarter of this year aggregate $227,272,122, of which the expenditures were $164,635,010. The outlays by the city on the present subway operated by the Interborough company have amounted I to $56,216,458. 'The commitments under contract No. 3, which cover the additional railroads now in course of construction, total $65,925,888, of which there has already been $42,225,565 expended. Under contract No. 4, which comprises the Centre street loop lines, the Fourth Avenue subway and the other lines to be operated by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company or the New York Municipal Railway corporation, the city's commitments aggregate $102.211,190. Simple. Frederick Palmer, the war correspondent, said at a dinner in New York: "Girls all over England are making ammunition now. Lady Hamilton, Miss Nancy Cunard, Lady Diana Manners?all these lovely girls are making ammunition. "They say a girl was talking one day at a tea about her ammunition factory work. " 'Oh,' she said, 'it's just as easy as anything to make a high-explosive shell. You take a tablespoonful of nitroglycerine, two cupfuls of guncotton, half a cup of trinitrotoluol, three cups of lyddite, and so on, just like the cook books you know.' " I IF I I 11 I H your watch or clock- H H doesn't run, take it to H IREIDI All work -guaranteed. H I Clocks called for and H I H delivered. Cash paid H I for old gold jewelry. H 1 IHillgraving uune uu eh gold, silver and ivory. H D.A.REID I BAMBERG, S. C. 8 "The rain broke up the prepared- ^ >ss parade didn't it?" \ "Yes. Nobody thought to bring 1 umbrella."?Lampoon. NOTICE! To My Customers: On account of my financial condition and stringency of wholesale houses in extending I credit, I will be compelled to I sell for cash only in order that I might keep goods in my house to sell. My customers ? have been both faithful and kind to me, but with all that, I have been unable to give ^ them good service, simply be- I cause I did not have the capi- 1 tal to handle them on a thirty 4 day basis. It is not for lack of confident, but my inability to * do, and I trust none will be of- / < fended, but will continue to give me your patronage in a cash way. I hope all will understand my position. I am most humbly yours, R. S. SIMMONS ? Red Feather Photo-Plays Present ? Hobart Bosworth "DR. NEIGHBOR" . d WITH Dorothy Davenport and a brilliant cast. ^BN This beautiful picture will strike a responsive chord in M the heart of every man, wo- m man and child who sees it. ^ased on the question of the ' ^B right of a physician to end JB the life of a. suffering patienf. The story is big, thrilling and intensely emo- ^^B tional. Preceded by an al- B^| legorical prologue, a beauti- / ful visualization of the scriptural story of the Good Sa- 4 maritan, it is a marvel of artistic production. Thursday, July 27 THIELEN Early Buying FOR FALL We suggest early buying for your family needs. Our stock is very complete just now. These items ; musf be of interest to every economical buyer. < Galatea Cloths, light colors, per yard 15c , 36-inch Linsdale Middy Drill at, per yard 15c < 100 pieces New Fall Ginghams at 10c and 12 l-2c Androscoggin Bleeching at, per yard lOt /* 36-inch Best Grade Bleeched Pa jama, per yard 10c Solid Color Heavy Chambrays, per yard 10c 32-inch Ivanhoe Ginghams, / per yard 15c New fall Kimona, Serpentine Crepes 15c Best grade Ducking Fleece Flannels 15c Short Ends of 36-inch Middy Twills 10c 36-inCh v Cannon Cloth, Soft 4 Finish 10c 100 pieces light Percales for Waists 10c Best quality Val and Torchon i Laces 5c ' Ask us for prices on sheeting, spreads, blankets, pillow cases, towels, etc. We prepay delivery cliarges on purchases of $5.00 or over. J Mail Orders Filled Promptly. MOSELEY'S Orangeburg, S. C. 'Phone 500 / 4 *, ' / / ' ? : '' - -in "*ij