The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 27, 1916, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.,
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|, 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,
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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
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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.
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THE ALABAMA'S LAST FIGHT.
= Famous Confederate Raider Was
. Sunk 51 Years Ago.
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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.
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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
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' 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.
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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.' "
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WHALE skin for shoes.
An Odd Story Going the Rounds in
Regard to Footwear.
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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.
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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.' "
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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
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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.
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Mail Orders Filled Promptly.
MOSELEY'S
Orangeburg, S. C. 'Phone 500
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