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FAMOUS MODERN SIEGES. 'r 1 ?Longest Was That at Gibraltar, Lasting Nearly Four Years. Gen. Townshend's gallant defence of Kut for 143 days against overwhelming odds will go down to history as one of the most magnificent episodes of the great war. In the war between Russia and Japan, Port Arthur only gave in after a siege of 210 days. By far the longest of modern times was the last siege of Gibraltar. It commenced on June 21, 1779, and ended in February, 1783. It thus lasted for the long period of three years and eight months, or more than 1,300 days. ? The besieged were the British garrison, under the command of Gen. G. A. Elliott, a most abstemious and methodical man, who never slept more than four hours at a time. The besiegers were a joint French and Spanish force, 30,000 strong, who attacked from land and sea. The siege utterly failed, and Britain still clings to the rock which held out so va Uantly and for such an unparalleled length of time. I Perhaps the most desperate siege was that endured by Jotchefstroom in the Boer war of 1880-1881. In that a handful of British, 300 strong, held out for three months in an area , . of only twenty-five square yards. The town itself had to be abandoned, and the small garrison, which could muster only 105 rifles and two nine-pounders, retired, with the Brit Ish civilians, to the tiny fort of the IS; limited dimensions above stated. With mealie sacks, biscuit boxes and tins of beef the walls were strengthened, but with the exception of trenches, which were dug, there were no other means of defence. Yet for ninety-four days the garri* * son held out. It was not till death from starvation stared him in the face that the commander, Col. Winelaw, felt constrained to surrender. On a certain Sunday in March, 1881, the remnant of the garrison marched out with all the honors of war, only to learn that a truce had been long before declared. Knowledge of it had been kept from them until they were starved into surrender. The siege of Plevna lasted exactly as long as that of Potchefstroom. For ninety-four days, from- September 7 to December 10, 1$77, the Turks, under the redoubtable Osman Pasha, ' held back the flower of the Russian army. During that time they made repeated sorties, inflicting serious losses upon the Russians, and this while suffering the keenest pangs of hunger. Indeed, they were practically without food throughout the siege, and > even when the last scrap had been consumed there was no question of giving in. They essayed to cut their way through the besieging forces but the latter were too many for them. Tf ic no ckvactrorntinn tr? aav that in the siege of Plevna the Turks astonished the world. ?v No town in Spain ever covered itself with more glory than did Saragoesa when invested by the French for the second time in 1809. After being defeated just outside the town, the citizens, under their leader, Palafox, prepared a desperate resistance within. Street by street, house by house, room by room, was most fiercely contested for, being, like the outworks of a fortress, frequently lost and recovered. The French found this method of progression far too costly, so they abandoned it in f^vor ot mining. After they had become masters of a very small portion of the city, they ' received the help of an irresistable ally in the shape of an epidemic ot fever, which broke out among the besieged. By this Palafox himself was stricken down, and ultimately the whole town was forced to capi tulate. No fewer than 54,000 of the besieged had perished, among whom were nearly 14,000 soldiers. Heroic Gen. Gordon held Khartoum for% eleven months against the Mahdi and his hordes. The siege was also remarkable for the fact that Gordon was the only white man within the beleaguered city. The investment began on February 18, 1884, and is believed to have terminated in the tragedy of the great general's death on January 26, 1885. A Boy's Size. A New Yorker who recently returned from a visit to Boston vouches for the truth of the following: One afternoon he found the 6-yearold son of his host settled in front of the drawing room fire and with a sheet of paper before him and a pencil clasped in his chubby fist. Stealing a look over the boy's shoulder, he saw the little fellow was making pictures. "Well Bobby," he asked, genially, "are you drawing an engine?" Slowly the child looked up and slowly he spoke: "It would take a very strong boy to draw an engine; but I am making a picture of a locomotive."?Youth's Companion. * our beings, as it were, a part of it. For some, it is mountains; for some, meadow-lands; for some, a Northern austerity; for others, a Southern softness. For some, the palm; for others, the pine. Some affect a landscape of strongly marked features, snow-clad peaks, rocky gorges; others, the bizarre contrasts, the fantastic vegetation, of the tropics. Many?though these hardly count in these present considerations ?see beauty only where others have seen it before and have given to it the official stamp of conventional artistic expression. They admire Niagara or the Grand Canyon as ignorantly as they admire the Venus de Milo. Set them down, however, say, in the Lincolnshire fens, and they are as uncomfortable as in the presence of a Monet. They always need a Wordsworth or a Ruskin to give them their* cure. If they have no one to quote, they have nothing to say, or even to feel. Now it is just the opposite with those who are in vital relation with natural scenes. The more they have been painted or praised, the more difficult it is for them to get into any personal rapport with them. The life seems to have been painted or written out of them. Thev suffer in the same way as certain overquoted literary masterpieces, like Poe's "Raven," or Tennyson's "Come into the Garden, Maud." It seems impossible to see them with a fresh eye. A friend and I were recently sitting in a beautiful tropical garden, giant palms, immense banana fronds all around us?a scene, indeed, very lovely. "But," said my friend, "in spite of all the beauty, don't you fell as though it is rather like a scene out of a comic opera?" \ There is just what I mean. He might have said much the same thing had we been seated on a terrace overhung by the Swiss mountains. Alas! such scenes have come to seem too much like nature's stageproperties. AID IN BLASTING. Germans Use Liquid Air in Mining Operations. Liquid air has been used increas ingly in Germany for blasting, since the outbreak of the war, and so satisfactory has it been found that doubtless it will be used even more after the war, says July Popular . Mechanics. One advantage that liquid air has over other explosives is the safety with which it can be handled. In blasting, black mouselike bags, which are called cartridges, are saturated with the liquid air and used as charges. Though one of the cartridges is more powerful than an ordinary charge of dynamite it can be trampled under foot without any danger, a hissing sound like escaping steam being the only noise produced. The miners take several of these cartridges and with a stick jam them into a hole that has been drilled into the rock. The charge is set off by means of electricity. According to German figures, the liquid air, under present methods of manufacture, costs about one-half as much as dynamite. AN INVITATION. Easy Ways by Which to See a Big City. New York city has 3,542 miles of streets, and 1,730 miles of surface, elevated and subway railroad tracks, declares the Christian Herald. Besides the 3,200,000 of population on Manhattan island, the adjacent boroughs and suburban towns pour a daily contingent of hundreds of thousands more on business, pleasure or shopping bent. From all parts of the country and the world other thousands are brought into the city to spend a day or a year, as the case may be. There is no honor in the day or night these miles of streets and railroads are empty of human beings. For eighteen of every twenty-four hours the city is alive with travel. The traffic problem is never wholly solved, though experts are gaining 4- Is m rf-s a ? 4 ? m ? ? 1 1 ? vs n ?% /s a r* i v\ OP A _ ua uie uuiiuiiuaii^ mu caomg ucmands. The casual visitor will derive an immense amount of interest from spending some of his time on one or another of the various kinds of conveyances at his disposal, mostly at five cents foj a ride. 1 NATURAL SCENERY. What Happens When Nature is Too Much Like Art. All of us, or at least those of us who have more than a passing picture-postcard acquaintance with natural scenery, have, I imagine, a spiritual affinity with one type of landscape more than all others, writes Richard Le Gallienne, in Harper's. That landscape, whatever it may be, answers to our inner selves, our prevailing temper, or our varying moods, as none other. With it we feel spiritually at home. Other landscapes may impress or delight us, but with this alone we can satisfying ly live. It is as though we were horn for it. Our eyes are at peace in it, HOW ABOUT IT, BAMBERGIANS? Think This Over For our Own Town's Sake. The Chronicle isn't in the job printing business any longer?thank j the Lord, or fire, or something?but we haven't been rid of our own troubles in that line long enough to be able to forget the other fellow. So, here is a word for him, and one very much to the point, as we find it in an exchange: "A Kansas printer has notified the merchants of his town that he will soon be in need of a pair of shoes, a new shirt, and a sack of flour, and that he will call for bids on these items, as that is the custom of the merchants when they want four dollars' worth of printing." That's about the way of it. Nobody would think of asking a merchant to "bid" on a pair of $4 shoes, but the merchant will turn right around and ask a half dozen local printers to bid on a thousand letter heads, with $4, and the chances are some foolish printer will cut the price to $3.25 before the "bidding" has ended?thus losing his own profit, and keeping some other printer from making one. If there was ever any line of business in Augusta that has had to fight for its very life, it is the job printing business. And yet, there is no particular reason why a city shouldn't want its job printers to be fairly prosperous?at least, to make a legitimate profit?which will never be the case as long as the present system of "bidding" on every blessed . little job is in vogue. It is something for the merchant and business people of Augusta generally to think about very seriously; for it is a matter that concerns every one who is interested in seeing every line of business in the community succeed. The remedy is?give your job printing to whatever printer you please, and tell him to charge you what it is worth. Or ask his price first; but don't waste a whole lot of your time, trying to find some printer!. who will do your work without a profit to himself. You wouldn't expect that of any other line of business in your ci>ty?except, of course, the newspapers.?Augusta Chronicle. The Good Roads Bill. President Wilson has signed the good roads bill and it is now a law. The law provides for the expenditure of $5,000,000 on the public highways of the country during the next five years. Of course this is only a starter. Much more will be annroDriated later on, for the government is now committed to the policy of federal aid for good roads. The law just enacted provides that the money shall be proportioned among the States by three *ways. First according to areas; second, according to population, and third, according to miles of road used in the rural delivery of mail. No money will be expended on any road that has not been laid out by a competent engineer, and passed upon by federal agents. This is to insure against wastage of money. The States or counties must put up as . much money as the federal government for the initial'work and must keep the road in repair after they are built. No State can receive any of the federal money unless it has a State highway department and has made f a start toward a comprehensive, welllaid out system of highways. This means that South Carolina must pro vide a State highway department be fore she can receive any of the money. This State is one of the few in the union that has no such department. The last legislature was asked to act on this matter, for it was assured then that the good roads bill would be passed, but no action was taken. This is a matter that the people of the State should be studying. ' We have been clamoring for federal aid for good roads, but now that the aid is available we are not in a position to get any of it. We have been giving so much attention to factional politics during the past few years that we have neglected the practical things?things that are really worth . while.?Anderson Mail. Entered the Ministry. * Dr. Elijah E. Hoss, the Methodist r bishop, relates the Boston Globe, said t at a dinner in Muskogee: c "The Methodist minister is noted I all over the world for his love of t chicken. t "Once, when I was stationed in 1 Knoxville, I wanted a pair of chick- * ens for our Sunday dinner, and so I g called on a suburban farmer's wife jwhose fame as a chicken raiser was j remarkable. i "There had been a Methodist con- _ ference in Knoxville that week, and ? when I told the farmer's wife the na- I f iirA P rvi Tf n r\ cV* a aK a/\U K /Nt* I tuic ui 111 v ui iaiiU) one oiiuuiv iici head: " 'I'm sorry, Dr. Hoss,' she said, 'but all my chickens have already entered the ministry.' " ^sSSSSS Slip a few Prince Alb< smokes into your syste J You've heard many an earful >atented process that cuts out 1 oke your fill without acomebac oves out every hour of the dc :e Albert has always been sc at coupons or premiums. V to give quality 1 Ht There's sport smoking a pipe or rollii m your own, but you know that you've g fif to have the right tobacco! We tell y< fa Prince Albert will bang the doors wii | open for you to come in on a good tin fjj firing up every little so often, without ? ^3S ^6en W thousand-do - ness co Mb I I tgj | tout m a Iif viii vim || nave (MM ri rMt&,"&? II Relief by % numerous ailments to II # ^ which an women are sub- U USIIIy ject. Headache, back- 5 ache, sideache, nervous- TM-m-aw** ness weak fired feeling, fk alMriae3peaimLIt0V0mea;t0I frf c anH vnii mif?S nH ^ petite, clears the complexion, a tOi-.S, and you must rid ri Une&udt Get it today. $1 at y yourself of them m order 11 w*?wav.wwy to feel well. Thousands 11; THACHER ME of women, who have II _______ been benefited by this 11 remedy, urge.you to II ^ m taks Mbouth a Cardui ? i wmi mmi f| passenc II The Woman's Tonie || ** 11 Mrs. Sylvania Woods, 11 I I Mills, Ky., SayS- 11 Xo. Arrive Bamberg IE Before taking Car uf, II 24 Augusta and intern II I was, at times, so weak\I II at? stations could hardly walk, and I 25 Charleston, Branch the pain in my back and and intermediate head nearly killed me. HP tions After taking three bottles 18 Augusta and intern of Cardui, the pains dis- mm m ate stations appeared. Now I feel as II 3o Charleston and ii it t ~ ~ A-A 11 mediate stations well as I ever did. Every GO . + , . . ~ 11 22 Augusta and intern suffering woman should 11 a^e stations try Cardui." Getabottie II 7 Charleston, Branch\ today. E-08 I I and intermediate II tions Trains and Atlanta. CHILDREN NO EXCEPTION For Ii Bamberg as Elsewhere Youth ?nd H. W Ag? Suffer Alike from Kid- THE S ney Weakness ~ ? Is your child weak, frail and pale? SEASHORE ROUND 1 No control over the kidneys' actior ? From Ehrhai Kidney weakness is a serious thing? Far too serious to overlook. WEEK-END EXCURS It may mean a life of sickliness. $2.95 to Isle of Profit by Bamberg experiences. $2.95 to Sullivan'! Use Doan's Kidney Pills. Tickets on sale for Endorsed by Bamberg parents . each Saturday and ] Read this Bamberg monther's en- trains on each Sunday lorsement t0 Septemberl, inclusiv Mrs. * C. Folk. Jr., Carlisle St.. ^njnL.t0 ^ch origi , . ' Point prior to midnigh Bamberg, says: "A younger member next fo!lowing date of , if my family was troubled by kidney SUMMER EXCURSIC veakness and a lame and aching back. to jsje fhere was no control over the kid- $4.15 to Sullivans ley secretions at night. I got a dox $11.70 to Myrtle >f Doan's Kidney Pills from the $20.75 to Nor] 5eople's Drug Store and gave them Tickets on sale fron o the child. They were of great October 15, inclusive, li jenefit. He can now control the kid- until October 31. iey secretions at night and doesn't over Privileges. iave any trouble." Schedules^ furthe ?. . " .. , . ^ ,. cheerfully furnished u Price 50c, at all dealers. Don t tion t0 ^ T jqhn imply ask for a kidney remedy?get Aeent Bamberg S C * loan's Kidney Pills?the same that ATLANTIC COAS drs. Folk recommends. Foster-Mil- The Standard Railroad ?urn Co., Props., Buffalo, N.'Y. C. ff. RENTZ, JR. A- B- UT! Life, Health, Accident and LIFE INSURE Fire Insurance ALL RELIABLE COMPANIES Bamborg, South * K ? ^ assess.*. ^ an! I about the Prince Albert^^V , bite and parch and lets you '"'s1,1 U 1 11 AL-I. M OICLK.C yUUT UcllIK TU11 UUU VgW ? >rjnge\ 1 Albert! ne the national joy smoke 0 fouH feel like your smoke past |J ' asted and will be sorry you cannot H a fresh start. fit on this say-so like it was a tip to a iM liar bill! It's worth that in happi- Jf ntentment to you, to every man tq who knows what can be iJ \ gotten out of a chummy // .. . , . , L-SM *rl 1immv nirvA nr a mobin c JZ-'f via j ? J Mr t; w Mrj J iC^?arette with yy \? Prince Albert for . 11 "packing"! Jar . J\ \m ? jT*jf q^HB Prince 7 iC Yma f Albert tidy W.VM R.i. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO. red tin, and in \\U \\\m Winston-Satan, N. C. ScJr fact, every Prince \\vft Albert package, has ' \t0 \\l ^24*** *h?*2Xeri? a rea' message-to-you r^ii \M ^hS? * on its reverse side. YouTl VtlSr m read:-"Process Patented i\ilSi Hi July 30th, 1907." That means \vB that the United States GovernVment has granted a patent on the % r\vi\ yJSSFI^Jprocess by which Prince Albert is _n^_r^Si made. And by which tongue bite end iVCESrlr throat parch are cut out I Every'nTuW*. where tobacco is sold youll find uuLi\ \1^N\\V% y Prince Albert awaiting you ^ ,i in toppy red bags, 5c; tidy \\\\\\\nl^M?^k -4. red tins, 10c; handsome Q'uWuvA pound and half-pound l\\VA\Viii?l\? \ humidors and in kC ftnYvru Ilk. ^Jsfioflh 1 that clever crystal\ glass humidor, with fl ' MoI> 1 |?V\ \ sponge - moistener N fl keeps the i of Suffering Women 11 1Ym. teua v itae ed to do for 70U what it haa done for others. It correct* the irreg* iea, strengthens and vitalizes the womanly functions; restores the apnd builds up the wasted energies. Your money back if yonr are not oar dealers'. Your dealer will explain the guarantee. DICINE CO., CHATTANOOGA, TENN. tern Railway HER CARRIER OF THE SOUTH. IER TRAINS SCHEDULES FECTIVE JANUARY 23, 1916. All Trains Run Daily. 4 From No. Leave Bamberg For ledi- 24 Branchville, Charleston 5:05 a. m. and intermediate staying tion6 5:05 a.m. sta- 25 Augusta and interme J ~ ~ a _ A : _ ?.OS ? w. blISi) a. m. uia/ie siauuiis v.?.o a. w. iedi- 18 Branchville, Charleston 8:43 a.m. and intermediate sta- j lter_ tions &: 43 a.m. m 35 Augusta and intermedi**"" * ' ' ate stations 10:57 a.m. ' iedi" 22 Branchville, Charleston 6:u7p. m. an(j intermediate stable, tions 6:37 p.m. sta- 17 Augusta and intermedi 8:17 p.m. ate stations 8:17 p.m. 24?Through sleeping car service between Bamberg blished as information only. Not guaranteed, information, tickets, etc., call on . 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N.Y. , , Carolina I _____ Read The Herald, $1.50 per year.JJ 4 ~ X 4