Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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lambrrg ipralli ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bamberg, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mergenthaler linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, two jobbers a fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by electric power with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an investment nf si0.000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $1.50; six months, 75 cents; three months. 50 cents. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first 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 special head, 1 cent a word each insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six and twelve months. Write for rates. Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and all 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 or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we fcre not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. ? fa??-* . Thursday, August 31, 1916. = The first primary is over and the Deutschland has reached Germany. If the Bremen only shows up, we can settle down to a period of quiet until ' the second primary two weeks from now. The former governor denounced Governor Manning at the Winnsboro meeting, employing for the first time during the campaign characteristic epithets. We suspect that the former governor was wise in waiting until fife- _ the last meeting to do this. It will he noted that at all the previous meetings he had couched his speeches in respectable language. Also it will be noted that not only did he wait until the last meeting to engage in personalities, but he also waited until Governor Manning had caught a train for Columbia. Now that politics is on the wane, the people had better look to other f. . \ things. For instance, there is the coming of the boll weevil to be prepared for. The farm experts all tell us that, the weevil is headed this way and is sure to arrive soon. They tell us that the best way to fight this enemy is to plant something else than cotton. Raise plenty of hogs and as many cattle as can be advantageous ly disposed of. Plant a good sized patch of wheat this fall, and prepare tb raise enough corn to do all of next .year, and then some to spare. After you have planted enough of all food crops to last you through the year, T-i on nlont pnttnn Tt is likftlv t.O vuvu vvrvvvM, A V bring a good price; but if it does not you won't be hurt Silence is sometimes a better compliment than those spoken. \ We notice many of our newspaper1 friends v complaining that candidates had declared they were misrepresented in newspaper reports of campaign meetings. The Herald enjoys the distinction of not having heard of a single complaint from any candidate in Bamberg county of any of the reports of the county campaign meetings published. There were fifty-seven candidates for various offices in the county, and The Herald had something to say of nearly every one of them in the reports printed. If any candidate was not satisfied with the fairness of the reports he has not made his complaint known, and we accept this as a compliment to the newspaper. iteporung speecnes is no easy matter. A candidate speaks for, say fifteen minutes. From that speech, which, if printed in full, would take about two columns, the gist must be gleaned and reduced to two or three hundred words, or less. Errors are likely to happen, but we know that our reports were written a!}?Sg%r with only the intention of presenting fairly in a condensed form what every candidate said. Not hearing ? anything to the contrary, we take it r-^s|j&at the reports were correct. The Big Dam. mw ? Uncle Sam's new dam at Elephant Butte, N. M., was completed on May 13 at an estimated cost of $5,000,000. For the quantity of water storx ed it is the greatest storage dam in the world, holding enough water to cover the entire State of Connecticut to a depth of ten inches. If set at the outlet base of the dam, the Washington monument. 555 feet high, would rise above it a bare 200 feet.? Popular Science. Impressment?the seizing of men for the British navy?was practiced for centuries, and did not become obsolete till just before the Crimean war. Sometimes the crewrs were taken from foreign ships on the high seas. B/ & IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About* Men and Happenings. Zemorah Chisholm, a negress, was fatally shot by Nathan Sanders, a negro, at Sandy river, Monday. San_ ^ , ders made his escape atter tne snooiing. A fire at St. George last Thursday morning destroyed the homes ot Dr. D. F. Moorer and Felix A. Moorer, entailing a loss of about $15,000, with $7,300 insurance. Brie? Crawley, of Ruby, was found in an unconscious condition in the yards of the Southern railway in Columbia Tuesday. He had been struck ! on the head in some unknown manj ner. The stables and barns of Max Fass, Sheriff S. V. Lane and Hugh Harrelson, of Dillon, were destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon. The loss amounts to about $2,000. The stock was saved. Herbert Lee, a young white man of Lexington county, has been brought back from Knoxville, Tenn., to answer to the charge of seduction. He has been released under bond in the sum of $1,000. The Farr-Barnes Lumber company, recently capitalized at $50,000, has established offices in St. George for the purpose of getting out thousands of acres of timber lands which it owns in Dorchester county. t a MoPrnrev. who lives near Chester, sold the first bale of new crop cotton in Chester last week. The bale was bought by Joseph Wylie & Co., and weighed 446 pounds. It brought 14 cents per pound. Dan Goodman, a: negro, died at Great Falls on Sunday night of wounds received in a general fight which occurred in a negro dance hall at Great Falls early Sunday morning when Robert L. Pierson, superintendent of the Hardaway Construction company, lost his life while trying to quell the disturbance. L. W. Bridges, a Confederate veteran, aged 73, was instantly killed by lightning at Greenville Thursday. His nephew, John Bridges, was shock-1 ed by the bolt, which passed through the roof of a cotton house in which they had taken refuge from the storm. When Deputy Sheriff Young, of Chester, went to arrest a sleeping n? gro hobo, the negro suddenly leaped to his feet and was prevented from shooting the officer only by the failure of the pistol to fire, when it was pressed against the officer's side? The negro escaped. WHAT HAREM LIFE MEANS. The "Holy Place" is a Tranquil Home, Not Prison for Beauty. Tne west orougm us civiuzanuu to the East, but one thing the Western people were unable to drive away from the Orient was the harem. The Oriental will stick to his harem. To overturn this old institution would make an end of culture in the Orient. The harem is a home for women members of the family, widowed mothers, old maid aunts and others of the family branch. Even old servants, unfit for further service, are taken into the harem. The word harem means "holy place," a protected home, and not what is falsely understood, a place where rich Orientals hide and maintain their many wives. The children born in harems are kept there and carefully nursed by their mothers. Therefore, the death rate in these refuges is very small. Conversations in the harems are carried on so that the children do not understand what is said in their presence, and as the children are always under the special care of their mothers, servants have no opportunity to teach such children things they should not know. Western people have accused the Turks of polygamy, which is denied by the Oriental, and the accusation returned with the remark, the Western men are worse, for they flee from flower to flower, but no one brings any of these flowers home to make her his wife. Turkish men seldom are rude to the female population, but many Europeans, who don't know the laws and customs of the Orientals, are the cause of the harem ladies being compelled to veil.?Land and Meer. Prince Edward is the first Prince of Wales to go into active service abroad since the Black Prince fought in France. Dr. Malcolm C. Grow, of Philadel phia, who has been in the Russian army as a surgeon, has been decorated by the czar. Evil that makes easy money for | the evil doer is the hardest to fight. ENGLISH TRIBUTE TO POE. De Maupassant and Kipling's Debt to American Writer. The detective story and the murder mystery are not forms of any great literary value, but I must confess to predilection for stories about crime, and there is some authority for the view that "murder is the most gentlemanly crime that anybody can commit." Those who share my taste for homicide in fiction?and I find it fairly widespread?have reason to be grateful to Poe. His Dupin is a prince of detectives and the father of an illustrious progeny, while such contemners of the law of the land as Raffles and Arsene Lupin are Poe's illegitimate children. Indeed, Poe's influence in France has been greater than among the English-speaking peoples. Every student of French literature knows that but for Poe Baudelaire, Mallarme and Villiers de l'Tsle-Adam would have been some thing very different from what they were, and M. Remy de Gourmont says in one of his penetrating essays that "Eugene Sue, Gaboriau and Dostoevsky, in 'Crime and Punishment,' have all taken lessons from Poe."?"Penguin," in the London Nation. Firearms, Although the discovery of gunpowder is attributed by some to China, there is no positive evidence that the Chinese ever made use of it. At an early period they produced certain kinds of fireworks, accounts of which came through Persia, Egypt and the Moorish countries in Southern Europe, but gunpowder for use in firearms, it is believed, originated in Italy, Spain or Germany. While cannon of a sort were built in the early part of the fourteenth century, hand firearms were slow to be adopted on account of their unreliability, and it was not until about 1381 that they are known to have appeared in Germany, while Europe in general did not take them up until the mid- i die of the fifteenth century, when they became known as hand cannon. A form of flintlock, called the snaphaunce, came in 1540. This substituted in place of the old wheel,! ? 1 ^-*1* L J A I a IOCK, W111U11 lltJIU 1U its jowa a i of pyrites, and when released hit the cover of the pan, striking a spark which ignited the charge of powder. A pair of pistols of this type from Constantinople illustrate the principle well. Further improvements in the snaphaunce resulted in the flintlock gun, in which a piece of flint replaced the pyrites. Examples of this style are more common * and some sixty are included in the museum collections, representing nearly every country, and well illustrating the various changes and improvements made. One of the most interesting and valuable arms in the collection is the John Cookson flintlock breech-loading magazine gun, made in 1586, which has a magazine in the stock capable of holding ten rounds of loose powder/ and bullets. One t movement of a lever feeds the ammunition into the barrel, cocks the nammer and primes the pan. In spite of the English name of the maker this odd piece is believed to be of Spanish origin on account of its general type iiTi/l tho stvlp nf its decoration It was probably brought to Maryland by th? early English colonists; at least it was fount? in Baltimore and confiscated in 1863, and held by the government until 1867, when it was thrown away. In 1888 it was bought for a small sum and put in its present perfect condition by a gunsmith of Baltimore, from whom it was secured, by an American collector and presented to the museum. From a military point of view the design of this gun evidences great advance of its time, for, with the magazine charging appurtenance, ten cVirife ooi-ilH ho firori in hilt littlo more time than is required with a modern magazine gun. Altogether the antiquity, d. n, workmanship and beauty of this gun^ make it a most valuable and remarkable relic. The collection also contains several pill-lock and the percussion cap guns, which followed the flintlock, and the Prussian needle gun and the French chassepot, which appeared somewhat later. The development of the gun and1 ammunition in the United States is well illustrated by a series of historical cases showing the types used in the succeeding wars from the French and Indian to the war with Spain, thus connecting closely history and invention. While many foreign guns are represented they are not all of the latest patent, or of the type now in use in the European war; in the case of our military rifle, however, the latest developments are shown, and it is interesting to note that the Springfield rifle, generally known as the 1903 model, though it has been improved upon since, is to be found in three separate series, the target, game and military, showing that it is suitable, with different Tobacco Aids Soldiers. The beneficient effects of tobacco at the front were affirmed by the Lancet as long ago as 1870, when the question was being discussed in connection with the Franco-Prussian war, "The soldier," it was said, "wearied with long marches and un- I certain rest, obtaining his food how I and when he can, with his nervous I system always in a state of tension :: from the dangers and excitement he ;; encounters, finds that his cigar or ij pipe enables him to sustain fatigue jj with comparative equanimity. * * * i; For the wounded it is probable that ]] tobacco has slight anodyne and nar- jj cotic properties that enable the suf- jj ferer to sustain pain better during jj the day, and to obtain sleep during Ij the night."?London Chronicle. sorts of ammunition, to many uses, ii Some of the museum specimens are j: the gifts of individuals, others are ii from American manufacturers, tha ii war and navy departments and the ii patent office. The collections from ii the government departments came to ii the museum by virtue of the fact that i i at is the legal depository of all na- ii tional collections. i i CANDIDATES' CARDS ? The rates for cards inserted under this head are as follows: For magis- Q trate, coroner, cotton weigher and county commissioner, $3.00; for all _ other county offices, $5.00; for con- | gress and all State offices, $10.00. I Checks must accompany card. Please J| do not ask that we insert your card unless you send check or cash along = with same. All cards will be published until the primaries. CONGRESS. I desire to announce to the people of the Second Congressional district that I am a' candidate for the national House of Representatives. I will give my best services if elected and will at all times be faithful to the interests of my people. I respectfully ask your support. ALVIN ETHEREDGE. I hereby announce my candidacy for reelection as Representative in Congress from the Second District of South Carolina, pledging myself to abide by the rules of the primary and to support the nominees thereof. JAMES F. BYRNES. SOLICITOR. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Solicitor of the Second Judicial Circuit, and pledge myself to abide by the rules of the Democratic party and to support the nominees thereof. R. L. GUNTER. CLERK OF COURT. _ I hereby announce myself a candi- ol date for the office of Clerk of Court of Bamberg county, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. R. L. ZEIGLER. di P< I hereby announce myself a can- b( didate for clerk of court of Bamberg re county in the Democratic primary, m and pledge myself to abide by the ? rules of the party. H. D. FREE. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Clerk of Court of Bamberg & county, subject to the rules of the in Democratic primary. to J. D. COPELAND, JR. si I hereby announce myself a candidate for Clerk of Court of Bamberg county, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic pri- ?* mary. A. L. KIRKLAND. P1 Pi I hereby announce my candidacy n< for the office of Clerk of Court of Bamberg county in the Democratic primary, subject to the rules of the party, pledging my support to the nominees thereof. r J. Z. BROOKER. _ I have decided to become a candidate for the office of Clerk of Court for Bamberg county, and will appreciate the support of my friends at throughout the county for that posi- ti( tion. H. C. FOLK. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Clerk of Court of Bamberg county, subject to the v. rules of the Democratic primary, pledging my support to the nominees of the party. J. S. J. FAUST. _ j PROBATE JUDGE. I nereby announce myself a candi- f0 date for the office of Probate Judge Se of Bamberg county, and pledge my- je self to abide by the rules of the th Democratic primary. R. S. SIMMONS. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Judge of Probate of Bamberg county in the Demo- dJ cratic primary, subject to the rules si of the party. D FRANCIS F. CARROLL. ri I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Probate Judge of Bamberg county, subject to the cc rules and regulations of the Demo- b} cratic primary, and pledge myself to re support the nominees thereof. C< R. P. BELLINGER. ai pi I hereby announce myself a candidate for reelection to the office of Probate Judge of Bamberg county, di subject to the rules of the Demo- si cratic party. G. P. HARMON. tli I hereby announce myself a can- ? didate for the office of Judge of Pro- ^ bate of Bamberg county, subject to the rules of the Democratic party, pledging my support to the nominees thereof. J. J. BRABHAM, JR. at re if-nttrtp i\n ctipt f!m;riattnv. iliU/ WV1 JX? A' ^ . I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Auditor and of Superintendent of Education of n< .Bamberg county, subject to the rules 1 ti : I I BKEPAREDNESS is the is on every tongue. - . sickness or business m enough cash to tide haven't a bank accoun to open one today. Ii decide to increase it. The man with the substantial 1 the world in the face. A good b confidence. It makes for indepei man with a good balance in bank take advantage of an opportunii ready cash. BE PREPARED WITH A ANY EMERGENCY. ? a '* 4 Per Cent. Interest Paid oi IAPITAL AND SURPLUS Bamberg Bai FOUR INDIVIDUAL In Pittsburgh four men ^ same time, charged with ha> Trust Funds. It may be son: men in jail after they have doi but that doesn't bring the mone to annoint us as vour Executo A A %/ your Trust Funds are kept se{ watchful eye of the law at all by Resources much larger th possess? May we serve you? BAMBERG BANKIN Bamberg, S f the Democratic party. in th EDGAR PRICE. the ri I hereby announce myself a candiite for the office of Auditor and Su- I h srintendent of Education of Bam- date : 3rg county, subject to the rules and at Ba jgulations 'of the Democratic pri- regul ary. G. W. FOLK, Clear Pond. ty. ^ SHERIFF. EHI I hereby announce myself a candi- j I h ite for Sheriff of Bamberg County j date 1 l the Democratic primary, subjectj at El i the rules of the party, pledging my the D ipport to the nominees thereof. D. J. DELK. I h I hereby announce my candidacy date \ >r reelection to the office of Sheriff at El ! Bamberg county in the Democratic the E imary, subject to the rules of the irty, pledging my support to the Dminees thereof. S. G. RAY. I h date i I hereby announce myself a candi- subje ite for the office 01 Sheriff of Bam- of th ;rg county, subject to the rules and pledg sgulations of the Democratic party. J. P. O'QUINN. MA STATE SENATE. 1 h I hereby announce myself a can- ^ate date for reelection to the State sen- Ehrhs o onhicpt tn the rules and resula- I n* * 'V/t guMj vw ww ? ? ? ? ons cf the Democratic party. fn Q11 J. B. BLACK. 10 SU I hereby announce myself as a can- j j. date to the State Senate from Bamjrg county, subject to the rules and E^rh. igulations of the Democratic party. r,pm' B. W. MILEY. toe*? rtOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. I hereby announce my candidacy J ^ ir reelection to the House of Repre- 2,?te, ntatives from Bamberg county, sub- Ehrin ct to the rules and regulations of SV le Democratic party. Pu B. D. CARTER. tnere COUNTY COMMISSIONER. ^ I hereby announce myself a candi- j j ite for the office of County Commis- didat, oner of Bamberg county in the Bamt emocratic primary, subject to the regul lies of the party. mary OTIS L. COPELAND. port Thanking the voters of Bamberg ninty for their past support, I here- j ^ j announce myself a candidate for selection to the office of County garni ommissioner, subject to the rules subje id regulations of the Democratic piedg 'imary. W. D. BESSINGER. there I hereby announce myself a candiite for the office of County Commisoner of Bamberg county, subject to j j ie rules of the Democratic party. f W. W. STEEDLEY. OTTOX WEIGHER AT BAMBERG, marv ty, p I hereby announce myself a candi- nees fr\r> + Vi/-> r\f fnttnn Wpi^hpr ?? ItC 1VJI luc l/iiik/U VI ^ ~ ^ - 0 ^ ; Bamberg, subject to the rules and CO igulations of the Democratic party. NEB CRIDER. I h date Deeply appreciating the confidence C. I ! the voters in the past, I hereby an- my f )unce myself a candidate for reelec- the E on as Cotton weigher at Bamberg / iimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiini inn iiiiiiiiiinif <!! r magic word today. It j j j Are you prepared for jj; isfortune? Have you jjj you over? If you t make up your mind i j I ? you have an account j j; J 4 1 \ )ank account can look j alance in baflk begets j j \ 1 idence. The business jj: always is prepared to j jj :y to buy cheaply for jjj BANK BOOK FOB ill 1 4 a Savings Deposits. - $100,000.00 nkingCo. A EXECUTORS 1 vere in prison at the M ring misappropriated ML le satisfaction to put le these illegal acts? MM iy back. Isn't it wiser r and Trustee, where ' ^Bj >arate?are under the times?and protected an most individuals g company !. C. . I e primary election, subject to lies of the party. F. E. STEEDLY. ereby announce myself a canditor the office of Cotton Weigher f mberg, subject to the rules and ations of the Democratic parJOHN H. PEARSON. tHARDT COTTON WEIGHER. ereby announce myself a eandiPor the office of Cotton Weigher irhardt, subject to the rules of emocratic primary. BRADLEY C. HIERS. ereby announce myself a candifor the office of Cotton Weigher irhardt, subject to the rules of emocratic party. GEO. F. MCMILLAN, JR. ________ ereby announce myself a candi:0r Cotton Weigher at Ehrhardt, ct to the rules and regulations e Democratic primary, and i e myself to support the nomiBOYCE W. BISHOP. GISTRATE AT EHRHARDT. ereby announce myself a candifor reelection as Magistrate at irdt, subject ^o the rules of the cratic primary, pledging myself pport the nominees thereof. 4 J. H. KINARD. lereby announce myself a can- ^ > 2 for the office of Magistrate at irdt, subject to the rules of the cratic primary, pledging myself pport the nominees thereof. J. A. JOHNS. ereby announce myself a candifor the office of Magistrate at irdt in the Democratic primary, ct to the rules of the party, and ing my support to the nominees of. J. C. COPELAND. LGISTRATE AT BAMBERG. ^ lereby announce myself a cane for the office of Magistrate at >erg, subject to the rules and ations of the Democratic pri, and will appreciate any sup- * given me by the voters. E. C. BRUCE. ereby announce myself a candifor the office of Magistrate at >erg in the Democratic primary, ct to the rules of the party, ing my support to the nominees of. e. Dickinson. MAGISTRATE AT OLAR.' lereby announce my candidacy selection to the office of Magisat Olar in the Democratic pri, subject to the rules of the parromising to support the nomithereof. O. J. C. lain. TTOX WEIGHER AT OLAR. ereby announce myself a candifor Cotton Weigher at Olar, S. 11 nrvriKooJotia tHck cunnrtrf r>f Will appi cv-iaio H4V I, u4 riends and abide the result of >emocratic primary. D. J. TEMPLETON. '