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I BRYAN TO QUIT NEBRASKA? Reported He'll Move to Florida or * North Carolina. William Jennings Byran, thrice candidate for president, is to quit Nebraska, according to gossip among the Commoner's neighbors. This was ^ the story brought to Washington re- G cently by Xebraskans. According to t the story, Mr. Bryan is to take up his ^ residence in either North Carolina or Florida and make the race for f the United States senate. "It is pretty well understood, that Mr. Bryan is not going to live much longer in Nebraska," said Harry T. Smith, of Omaha, at tne wiuaiu. jj "Mrs. Bryan, it is said, recently told t friends that Fairview, the home of f the Bryans, at Lincoln, will be re- v opened while Mr. Bryan is partici- n pating in the campaign, and that after the campaign it. will be closed, t perhaps forever. Friends of the Bry- c ans declare they purpose moving to n North Carolina, where Mr. Bryan has v an estate at Asheville, and that he j aspires to be elected to the United States senate from that State. Bry' an owns a farm in Texas, one in j Florida and one in North Carolina, + as well as his home in Nebraska. n Some years ago it was reported that ^ Mr. Bryan intended to move to Texas ^ and run for the senate from that i State. ^ t "The former head of the Demo- s cratic party, it is believed, will earnestly support the president in this g campaign. His influence in Nebraska is not as great as it was, though ^ he still has a large personal follow- g ing. His defeat for delegate at large c to toe recent nauonai cuuveuuuu wao g a blow to him, but it was well un- u derstood among his opponents that c it was due to his action at Baltimore p, in 1912, when he bolted his instruc- j tions for Champ Clark, and Nebras- c kans will not stand for a bolter, j Then, too, he attacked the 'wets,' and this was not popylar. Altogether the Bryan influence in Nebraska is pracI: ' tically gone. "Mr. Bryan became a resident of t Nebraska in October, 1887. He was * not a successful lawyer, though he practiced in Lincoln for some time J before he was elected to congress in c l^r 7 1890."?Washington Post. ^ The Political Demagogue. T He caters to the PEOPLE, I His voice is harsh and loud; f > He never is "so happy as t When speaking to a crowd P . Like this." He almost breaks his I fist, ' v As in his desp'rate ire \ He strikes it on the table top, v His face as red as fire. e ite: s He brags about the things he's done c And what he's going to do. 0 He's been in office these two years, c And will be there two more, too. 0 He tells the PEOPLE that his friends g ?And just his friends alone? t) Need look to him for favors, for c * The others would get none. ^ I He "points with pride" to his rec- a AT?/1 nocf S u paoi, And then not satisfied s With singing praises of himself At once he gets astride e v The horse of PERSONALITIES, p |\* ' -> f T, And charges desp'rately ? Against his fair opponents, who ^ Heed not his vanity. p But he can't fool the PEOPLE. ^ They fight with all their might T For law, and order, justice, peace? t For what they think is right. h They understand him perfectly. t] Yes? that, indeed, they do. b And when it comes to voting. They show him who is who. i'; .' f > ^ A Stinerincr Snake. o , Mr. Sam Crouch brought to town ^ Saturday a curious snake that he s: killed the evening before in the big p road near his home at Silverstreet. J It was 32 inches long and as black as f] ink, except that its belly was cover- a ed transversely with alternate stripes e Cr"'" of black and pink about a half inch ri -'u wide. The body was nearly the same c< size all the way, except about four d inches of the tail. w The strangest thing about the var- $ mint was that it had a stinger id the J end of its tail, that moved in and out h like the needle of a doctor's syringe. After the snake had been dead more than twelve hours, this stinger, a half or three-quarters of an inch mmiM nnr?/\ nnf n'Vlon fllo toil ^ 1UJL|5) vv v;uiu WU1C UUt n tuu tan was struck lightly with a stick. Mr. r< Crouch says the snake objected decidedly to being killed, and tried to e: defend itself, making for him tailend foremost, as if trying to sting him. j ^ Only one person of the hundreds who saw the snake had ever seen one of the kind before; he said it was a "horned snake;" others insisted that the "homed snake" has a horn on ni his head. It is said a snake like this one was killed three weeks ago three miles ^ from Silverstreet.?Newberry Observcc er. ? tl: Read the Herald, $1.50 per year. ? CANALS IN THE GREAT WAR. Germany's Fleet at Kiel as Safe as p Though in a Berlin Park. The historian will tell the next eneration about the enormous value f canals in this European war. Over v xactly the caravan route traveled ? y the Crusaders 800 years ago the ^ lermans have a canal from the Rhine o the Danube. It is therefore possile to send a submarine from Co- * \ Dgne to the Black Sea with as much reedom from a hostile shot as to * avigate a canoe on the Schuylkill n iver. That Black Forest canal is playing n vital part in Germany's swift mobi- n ization of war munitions, just as ^ h? Kiel canal makes its fleet as safe * rom an enemy's battleships as if it e rere in the great park at Berlin and n liles from a navigable stream. ' f, The Egyptians had canals before he days of St. Paul, but the lock 0 anal which made it possible to cross * lountains in a boat came only a few n ears before Columbus discovered imerica. a To be told that Raphael in his s pare moments when not painting a b taphael was constructing a locomo- p ive, would scarcely surprise you ^ aore than to be told that Leonardo c r a Vinci was a pioneer canal lock v i < uilder. But the hand that put upon he walls of that historic church in lilan 'The Last Supper" also de- * igned the locks for Milan's canal. p America's first canal wras dug at y outh Hadley, Mass., when Washing- s on was president. It was completed n 20 years ago. That little waterway b ave De Witt Clinton his idea for the * anal across New York State?the 11 reatest single impetus ever contrib- 1 ited to the upbuilding of a large ity. It was the Erie canal that gave s Tew York the needed speed to pass c *hiladelphia as the metropolis of this s ' TM..,. I 1 I ontinent.?uirara, in rnnaaeiymci >ublic Ledger. 1 . 1< Wilson Will Sweep Country. s I "I never was a Democrat, but I e hink Woodrow Wilson will sweep e he country for reelection this fall." 1] This is the remark of ex-Gov. St. v ohn, of Kansas, who is not a Demo- a rat. He went on to explain: "I am p asing the assertion on the attitude c >f the people in Western Kansas. Vhile I was in that part of the State h uring my recent ninety days' tour, t took occasion to sound out my dif- t erent audiences on the candidates L hen looming most largely in the a ublic eye. Successive references to t lughes, Roosevelt and Wilson al- t rays brought the most applause for n Vilson. Wilson's Mexican policy, for p rhich he has been so bitterly attack- g d, is, in my opinion, an element of y trength. I am not capable of criti- i] ising the government's policy. The s Id plan of tying two fighting torn \] ats' tails together, throwing them p ver a clothes line and letting them b ght it out, seems to apply forcibly > o the situation in Mexico. But Mexio is no scrub as it was in 1847. It as fourteen millions of people and n advanced civilization in many re pects. To whip Mexico into line, as t ome demand, would be a job, necesitating at least two years' time, the xpenditure of billions of dollars and t( robably the lives of 200,000 men. d a addition, as an item of expense, rould be the formation of a great ^ ension roll. c "What would we gain by such a rar? We don't want that territory. j 'he whole proposition is absurd. Q / 'aking i( as a whole, we never have c ad a president more level-headed tian Woodrow Wilson."?Orange- ^ urg Times and Democrat. n Mrs. John Jacob Astor. g Mrs. John Jacob Astor, last widow 0 f the multi-millionaire land owner, n rho went down on the Titanic, inLsts it costs $27,593 a year to sup- 11 ort her four-year-old son, John ^ acob Astor, Jr. There was allowed e rom the estate of his father $20,000 6 year for his support. That is not 11 nough, says Mrs. Astor, in her last t] eport to the surrogate of New York 2 ounty. She spent over $7,000 ad * ' J- ? X - t] ltionai. ine Astor estate was rorth between $80,000,000 and a 100,000,000 at the death of John ? acob. The major portion went to v is eldest son, Vincent Astor. ^ w Motive Power Gives Out. is o Jimmie owns a $1 watch which he o ought six years ago. Recently it sfused to run, so Jimmy took it to a p iweler. He made a post-mortem n lamination and wnen Jimmy called )r the verdict next day his watch h as handed him with a piece of crepe Ii ed to its stem. "Xo hope!" was the mournful ver- c< ict of the jeweler. "Alight as well o: md it to Davy Jones's locker." "What's the matter?" asked Jim- U iy, alarmed. bi << T7<~ 3 _ ?. >> i-, ruuuu a, uuuivi uacn ui&iut:. ic "That's what plugged up the oj orks, eh?" al "No," replied the jeweler. "The >ckroach had been keeping the o] ling going, but lie died at his post." as -Baltimore Sun. cc THE CHIMES OF THE CAT. preside Pet is Found to He an Exj>ensive Little Ornament. It is a very damning indictment rhich Mr. Edward Home Forbush, tate ornithologist of Massachusetts, raws against cats in the Journal ot iinerican Museum of Natural Hisory. There are 25,000,000 cats in he United States, and those in New rork alone kill 3,500,000 birds a ear, he estimates. They have exterlinated certain species of birds, 'hey destroy frogs, rabbits, shrews: 1 A /I ~ amA li rrn rrl o on/1 i f or lUlfciS, lUilu& anu. iiiai uo, uuu 11 ov. iany insect destroyers hadn't beer ut off in their prime who knows but bat the gypsy moth, the brown-taild moth and the elm tree beetle light have been kept in their proper lace instead of erupting all over the ace of nature and costing the State f Massachusetts $9,000,000 in one ear? Expensive little fireside ornaients, you see. If you must have a pet other thar dog or a pony or a baby, have omething useful, suggests Mr. Forush. A nice little shrew, for example, or a cold handful of toad, or peraps a lizard or a salamander. We onfess that ever since Mr. Kenne'ti Iraham wrote about Mr. Toad in his Wind in the Willows," we have enertained a rather amiable interest ir he family. In addition to such comanionship as you would get frorr our little friend you would have the atisfaction of knowing that he was obly raiding the insect world in youi ehalf when not on duty in your lap ..icenses for cast is Mr. Forbush's de Qand. Such a system would cul heir numbers in half, he believes. There is something on the othei ide of the ledger. If we destroy the ats, who destroy the toads, who de troy the gypsy moths, who will be 9ft to destroy the rats and mice' rish terriers, you answer. An excel ent idea if every cat destroyed hould be replaced by a good ratter Jut good ratters are not frequeni ven among terriers, and there ar( ndless honest, law-abiding humar eings, strange as it may seem, whc rill have a Tabby and will not hav( , dog. So the rats and mice would lay, we fear, if any large raid upoi ate were effected. That is one reason why it will b< lard for Mr. Forbush to prevail. Anc here are others. Cats utterly refuse o die. The>y propagate with miracu ous efficiency and their defenders ,re legion. They have a way witl hem, a feline, feminine way, ant here is no denying its lure. Many, ciany things and beings ought to hi ut out of any just and intelliggni vstem and yet they persist in this rorld of ours year after year. Hogs a the shape of men and cats in th< hape of women, for example. Anj ittle thing we can do to help Mr 'orbush we shall be glad to do. Bui is goal is the millennium, we fear.? Jew York Tribune. Military Terms. The following explanation of miliary terms may help you in following p the Mexican situation: Army?The entire force operating ogether, composed of one or several ivisions of troops. Corps?Two or three divisions o) afantry, with cavalry and artillery ommanded by a major general. Division?Two or three brigades oi afantry, one regiment of cavalrj nd two regiments of field artillery ommanded by a major general. Brigade?Two or three regiments i Europe sometimes only two regilents, commanded by a brigadier eneral. Company or troop?The unit or rganization with from 100 to 250 ren, commanded by a captain. Regiment?In the United States an ifantry regiment is composed ol liree battalions of four companies ach, aggregating in war about 1,42 officers and men; a cavalry regirent, of three squadrons of four roops each, aggregating about 1,86 officers and men; a field artilir?v rflffimonf nf twn VkQ ft q lirrn e r* f yi J 1 V Vt L " V Vi hree batteries each, aggregating bout 1,227 officers and men. In the British army the regiments are of arying composition and size. In ontinental European armies the -ar strength of infantry regiments > usually from 2,500 to 3,000, and f cavalry regiments from 750 to 1,00. Battalion or sqpadron?Four comanies or troops, commanded by a lajor. Platoon?From one-fourth to onealf of a troop, commanded by a eutenant. Squad?One-half of a platoon, mimanded bv a non-commissioned fficer. Section?In artillery?one gun. sually four guns to a battery, two atteries to a battalion and two batilions to a regiment. Also that part f an infantry regiment which operLes a machine gun. Detachment?Any number of men Derating for some special purpose, > scouting. Usually a sergeant's or >rporal's squad.?Kansas City Star. I TAGGING FOK WHOOPING COUGH. - Babies With Disease Should Thus lie Marked, Says Physician. ; Tag your baby if it has whooping , cough; such a measure will go a long , way toward retarding the spread of ! the disease. This is the advice of several local physicians. l A small sign with the words "whooping cough" placed on the i baby's carriage or attached to the M-iiiH's <irpss would be a means of I , notifying other persons or children , that they should not go too near the > child affected, it is suggested. l The physicians advocating the tag; ging of the children do not urge - quarantine, as they declare fresh air i is best for the child when suffering from the disease. They say that the > malady has spread considerably more j this year than for many years and > declare it is due to the fact that - enough precaution is not taken.? Washington dispatch to Philadelphia i Inquirer. BILLIONS OF GERMS { Bamberg People Should Learn How , To Combat Them You can fight off the billion of t ferms which you swallow. How about the uric acid which your own system creates? 1 Can you conquer that, too? Yes, if your kidneys work right. 3 But if they don't backache, dizzi* * ness or discolored urine Soon warn you of graver peril. You must live more simply? h That's what Bamberg has found. Use Doan's Kidney Pills to strengthf en your kidneys. Easy to verify local testimony. Read this case: Mrs. A. D. Jordan, Bridge St., Bam berg, says: "I had pains in my back and dizzy spells at times. In the - morning when I got up, I was sore I and stiff. I was bothered by excess VT' O ? ] r> w?v Cf ...WO. I tic pains. I used Doan's Kidney s Pills with good results ahu uon t hesitate to recommend them." 1 Price 50c. at all dealers. Don't } simply ask for a kidney remedy?get 5 Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that 1 Mrs. Jordan had. Foster-Milburn Co., l Props., Buffalo, N. Y. I Now Well I 1 fl "Thedford's Black-Draught I s H is the best all-round medicine fl t fl lever used," writes J. A. B 3 fl Steelman, of Pattonville, Texas. fl ^ fl "1 suffered terribly with liver I troubles, and could get no relief. I t fl The doctors said I had con- fl - H sumption. I could not work at B B all. Fmally 1 tried fl I THEDFORD'S I I BLACK- I I DRAUGHT I B and to my surprise, 1 got better, B F B anc* am to-day as well as any B fl man." Thedford's Black- B ? fl Draught is a general, cathartic, fl B vegetable liver medicine, that fl fl has been regulating irregulari- fl fl ties of the liver, stomach and B I kmiralc frtr n\rar TH vMrc fJpf IA/ fT VM| 1U1 VTV1 IV J wui v? Vwt a package today. Insist on the H H genuine?Thedford's. E-70 H 1 SUMMONS. State of South Carolina, County of Bamberg?Court of Common .Pleas.?JKritisn & American Mortgage Company, Limited, Plaintiff, against Sam Copeland, J. 0. Patterson, C. F. Rizer, W. H. Ritter, Mrs. p J. A. Byrd, as Executrix of the last Will and Testament of J. A. Byrd, | deceased, S. E. Neeley, Bank of Olar, H. H. Kfearse, J. J. Wilson, and Saltkeatchie Lumber Company, , Defendants. To the defendants above named: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his office at Orangeburg, S. C., within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated, April -Sth, 1916. J. STOKES SALLEY, E. H. HEXDERSOX, Plaintiff's Attorneys. To the defendant, .T. J. Wilson: Take notice that the complaint in this action, together with the summons, of which the foregoing is a copy, was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court of Bamberg County, S. C., on the 2nd day of June, 191 6. J. STOKES SALLEY, E. H. HEXDERSOX, 9-26. 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