The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 12, 1916, Page 6, Image 6
THE GEORGIA VARIETY.
Bas a Long Expense Account Every- t
thing Considered.
* The late Bamberg candidates can
, compare notes with the following expense
account recently rendered by
a Georgia candidate:
"Lost 4 months and 33 days cani
vassmg; 1,349 hours thinking about
the election; 5 acres of cotton; 23
acres of corn; 4 sheep, 6 shoats and
1 beef, given a barbecue; 2 front .
teeth and a considerable quantity of
hair in a personal skirmish. Gave f
97 plugs of tobacco; 7 Sunday school
books; 2 pair of suspenders; 4 cali- (
? co dresses; 7 dolls and 13 *)aby rat- ,
feg- ties. . a
"Total 2,889 lies; shook hands
33,475 times; talked enough to have ^
made in print 1,000 large volumes,
size of patent office reports; kissed Q
126 babies; kindled 14 kitchen fires; j
cut 3 cords of wood; 474 bundles of ^
fodder; helped pull 7 wagon loads
of corn; dug 14 bushels of potatoes;
toted 27 buckets of water; put up 7
stoves; was dog bitten 4 times;
watch broken by baby, cost $3 to c
have repaired. *
| "Loaned out 3 barrels of flour, 50 r
p' - bushels of meal, 150 pounds of ba- j
can, 37 pounds of butter, 12 dozen
eggs, 3 umbrellas, 1 mow blade, 2 ,t
hoes, 1 overcoat, 5 boxes, 13 lead j
pencils, 1 Bible directory, none of j
which have been returned. ^
"Called by opponent a perambu'
lating liar?doctor's bill $10. Had
f; v five arguments with my wife?result,
1 flower vase smashed, 1 broom
? handle broken, 1 dish of hash knock- v
a# tlio foHlo 1 chirt hnsnm rninftd. ^
VA1 WUV WiWj J- k/MA* v M W-, |
2 handfullsv of whiskers pulled out, 0
10c worth of sticking plaster bought. ^
||| Besides spending $1,768." s
jp ,.v Getting It Straight. n
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Unless one puts on blinders, stuffs n
i cotton wool in one's ears and covers g
?- them with fur earlaps, involuntary c
sightseeing and eavesdropping are 0
? _. sometimes unavoidable. At a table a
in. a restaurant the other day two i
?|f women friends were exuberantly re- v
counting the varied wonders of their ^
Wmg offspring. a
"And my boy, Charlie?he's four- i
pp teen, you know?is just crazy about S(
* a signorina," wound up Charlie's &
mother, a complacent smile rippling $
|fe?\ her plump features. a
Her lean companion looked shock- ^
H? Adlv amazftd. "Mv. but he's vouna k
11 for that, isn't he?" s
"Yes, he certainly is; but, then, ^
Charlie's a forward boy for his age,
you know," proudly.
"So I would say," dryly remarked
the friend.
"He thinks of nothing else; I'm P
afraid he doesn't even do his lessons u
properly," pursued the mother. v
"But don't you mind that? And a S
signorina, of all people!" e;
A puzzled look chased away the a
calm content of the mother's face. t(
^People? W'y, what do you mean? 7{
He's writing for the movies?a signorina;
they call it." el
"Oh!" The friend looked relieved. C(
"A scenario, guess\ you mean; I t*
thought you meant one of those SI
Spanish things!"?New Orleans VJ
Tiines-Picayune. tl
v > "Purifying" Darkey Songs. w
We learn from the Birmingham ?
Age-Herald that New York music
teachers have started out to "puri- ^
fy" negro dialect songs and tamper
with the "Star-Spangled Banner." ^
The music teachers ask the public '
school teachers to eliminate all negro
dialect from songs appearing in '
tefct books. The purists, says the
Bp" Age-Herald, object to "de" for "the,"
jEt"nebber" for "never," "ribber" for ^
"river," and other words commonly _
Fp . found in folk songs of the negroes.
} This is silly, of course, and won't G
P get anywhere. Why "purify" negro
|f dialect and continue to read Bobby
Burns's poems and the Scotch ^ ly- n
| rics? Vhy not "purify" Irish dia- a
lect songs, and revise the "Road to b
I: Mandalay" and the other poems that d
:fKippling wrote? v
: If New York school children should ti
p 1 not be permitted to sing and read s<
negro dialect, why should they be
permitted to read any kind of dia- e
I lect? Why should dialect be allow-- w
ed to appear in our literature at any c
for.' time and under any circumstances? n
"Marse Chan" should be translat- h
Kr' '
1 ed into purest English, "Uncle Re- r
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mus's Tales" should be burned in the e
f:: public square and the memory of Joel IV
t Chandler Harris obliterated or at a
p least made ignoble. The Foster ti
songs?up to now the sweetest negro
ballads in the world?do this day de- v
file the mouths of those who sing t
^ them, and should be tabooed! t
| Let us run the blue pencil through c
I all literature and strike from it what c
L the characters actually said and subMg
stitute, say through an Esperantist, h
I what the characters should have said, o
E Of course we should be mutton- C
K heads to do it, but it would tickle the ^
R vanity of the purists; besides it is C
possible for the world to survive and ^
K prosper without real literature.?
B Montgomery Advertiser.
K Read The Herald, $1.50 per year, i
WOOD EATING HERMIT.
Japanese Who Calls Himself Incarnation
of God of Fire.
A hermit who has set up his private
shrine by the wayside calls himself
the incarnation of Fudosama, the
jod of fire. This mysterious man
nakes his abode in a little coop near
he botanical gardens, paying a
nonthly rental of $2.25. On the
jlaster just below the paper window
s written:
"The worshiping place of the wood
iating hermit."
Day and night one can see the flare
>f fire on the paper window and a
ow voice can be heard, says the East
tnd West News. Every passer feels
l queer sensation as he goes by. The
isitor knocked at the dismal looking
mtrance. The one who came to answer
was the mysterious man. He
ooked to be about 55 and in his
>rawny and reflective features he
showed a magnetic smile.
It seems he began his pious life by
icorching his body with a lighted
;andle to save the life of his sick
:hild. He fasted 21 days and praciced
water meditation. The child
ecovered. His faith grew stronger,
"or 30 years past he has touched no
ice or other cereal. Before the visior
he chewed some laurel leaves,
"ifty of these, five rawr potatoes, a j
ittle salt and water, were his daily
are. He is said to effect miraculous
ures.
Iceland Not Dreary Waste.
Iceland is far from being a dreary
raste, for it exports large quantities
f the finest grade of wool in the
forld, besides quantities of hides,
heepskins, feathers, oil, fish and fish
roducts, and, curiously enough,
lany horses. The island has sevral
natural resources thdt have .
ever been developed, among them
reat sulphur deposits. One of them
ontains not less than 250,000 tons
f practically pure sulphur. There
re extensive deposits of copper ore.
'his, while of a low grade, could be
forked at a huge profit, since the
fater power is unlimited and always
t hand wherever the copper is found. '
'here are also large deposits of geyerite
which are equal to the best
ad Drotners.
These general musters were great
pents in the times of our grandithers.
They were social, as well as
lilitary, and often adorned with
onts of war-like provender. In one
f his speeches Tom Corwin tells of
general muster in which the brave
lilitiamen, with bayonet and sword,
tiarged on a pile of watermelons and
at the red hearts out of the enemy.
-Chicago Journal.
uardsmen on Border Over 104,000.
Washington, Oct. 5.?War departlent
statistics show that there are
bout 104,000 militiamen now on the
order. The 8,000 ordered south toay
will relieve a similar force which
ill be returned to their home statons
for muster out of the federal
srvice.
While^ officials generally expect the
ntire militia will be withdrawn
rithin a few weeks, no definite deision
on this question has been anounced.
Secretary Baker, however,
as said there would be no general
edisposition of troops in the Southrn
department until the American
lexican joint commission, in session
t Atlantic City, evolves some sysem
of border control.
All army department commanders
rere ordered by the war department
oday to dispatch militia organizaions
still in State mobilization
amps to the border as soon as they
an arrange transportation facilities.
The orders affect only troops which
ave not seen service on the border,
r about 8,000 men in Alabama,
ieorgia, Florida, North Carolina,
lississippi, South Carolina, Virginia,
Colorado, New Hampshire and New
fork.
Free electricity is supplied to the
itizens of Ashland, Ore., for porch
Humiliation.
PROBLEM IN TRANSPORTATION
Temporary Railway More Economics
Than Motor Hauling.
The temporary railway appears 1
be more economical than the mote
truck in handling freight for larg
construction operations. The cit
engineer of San Francisco estimate
that in building the Hetch Hetch
dam the hauling of about 225,00
tons of materials will be necessar
and that by laying a special railwa
of about 60 miles from the neares
availA. hi a nnint. on an existing: lin<
a saving of about $1,000,000 can b
effected. The opening of a highwa
of 29 miles between Hetch Hetch
and Hamilton is a part of the undei
taking required of the city. Thi
would form a portion of the railwa
route and will cost about $600,00(
while the additional outlay necessar
for the railway is placed at $1,065
000. Adding the calculated operai
ing expenditure for the 60 mile hau
the total cost of the line and th
freight transportation is found t
amount to $2,019,000, or 14.9 cenl
per ton mile. If motor trucks ar
used the maintenance of roads wi
be a considerable expense and it i
believed safe to say that transports
tion will cost not less than 25 cenl
per ton mile or $13.75 per ton ove
a somewhat shorter route of 55 mile:
This would make the total cost c
transporting 225,000 tons $3,094
000, or $1,085,000 more than b
-
irkansas nonestone. in aaaiuon
here are several sections rich in
gates and chalcedony, which are ;
ridely used in making jewels for the ]
earings of watches and electrical intruments.
None of them has ever
een worked.?Argonaut.
The Old General Muster..
In considering the subject of pre- (
aredness it might be wise to look J
p tlie old militia system that preailed
60 or 70 years ago, when (
tates were divided into districts, ?
ach one having a company to which
' r
11 men of soldier age were required ,
) belong and give a few days each s
ear to military drill. s
Every year there would be a "gen- 5
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ral muster," at which the various j
jmpanies would gather, and under f
le command of a plumed and be- 1
jangled officer would perform the
arious evolutions' and go through ^
le manual of arms that would strike
ith awe the surrounding crowd of
omen and children, gathered to wit- ;
ess the heroic displays of fathers
railway.
Essay on the Duck.
A little school girl in Michigan ha
written the following essay on th
duck: The duck is a low, heavy-se
bird. He is a mighty poor singei
having a coarse voice, caused by get
ting so many frogs in his neck, an
he likes the water and carries a to
balloon in his stomach to keep froi
sinking. The duck has only tw
legs, and they are set so far back o
their running gears by nature tha
they come pretty near missing hi
body, some ducks when they get bi
curls on their tails are called drake
and don't have to set or hatch, bu
just loaf and go swimming and ea
everything in sight. If 1 were to b
a duck I would rather be a drak
they have a wide bill like they use i
for a spade they walk like a drum
man side to side if you scare ther
they will flap their wings and try t
make a pass at singing.?Chicag
Journal.
"citation notice.
The State of South Carolinabounty
of Bamberg?By Geo. P. Har
tnon, Esq., Judge of Probate.
Whereas, Mrs. Joftie Bessinger hatl
made suit to me to grant her letter;
>f administration of the estate of an<
iffects of C. W. Bessinger, deceased
These are therefore to cite and ad
nonish all and singular the kindrec
md creditors of the said C. W. Bes
singer, deceased, that they b<
md appear before me in the Court o
3robate, to be held at Bamberg, 01
Thursday, Oct. 19th, next, after pub
ication thereof, at 11 o'clock in th<
orenoon, to show cause, if any the:
lave, why the said administratioi
ihould not be granted.
Given under my hand and seal thii
1th day of Oct., A. D., 1916.
GEO. P. HARMON,
Judge of Probate.
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More Profits for Gotton Growers.
*1 Washington, Oct. 4.?Cotton growers
now have one of the best opportunities
of many years to profit by
:q increased care in handling their cot- j
)r ton, according to cotton growing and!
;e marketing specialists of the depart- j
;y ment of agriculture, which today is- j
is sued suggestions for practices which i
iy will tend to raise cotton grades, j
0 Care in picking, assembling and!
y handling seed cotton and in ginning, j
y as well as in the handling of the j
st bales, they point out, may result in [
2, raising the selling value of the fibre. |
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dus Overland 35 horsepower
;ht of its development?
arter of a million in use?
automobiles than any other
ts power ever designed,
re has anyone anywhere ever
g, fine and comfortable a car
anywhere near so low a price.
& SMOAK, De?
* Telephones 26?L
The Willys-Overland Co
"Made in 1
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This is true every year, they sj
but during the present season the ]
stricted crop and limited supplies
the mills, coupled with the stea
demand, have sent prices to hi
levels, making the increase in retur
to the grower for each higher gra
proportionately greater.
Ordinarily the grades do not i
ceive nearly enough attention, t
specialists declare. As a resu
farmers lose several million dolls
annually. This loss would be pi
portionately greater under high ri
ing prices this year if there were
improvement in handling practic<
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lot just received. This shi
d by a member of our firm,
ren if you are not needing
suit you; these measure f
Standard for quality and st
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so have an extra nice lot of
carriage:
?ap robes,
mber of styles in Buggies i
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The wheelbase is 112 inche
It has cantilever springs a
And the price is $795.
See us at once?they are
we can get them.
Model 85-6, six cylinder
116-inch wheelbase?
ilers, Bambe
and 68-L
impany, Toledo, Ohio
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ly, Careful handling and storing of cotre
| ton seed also pays.
at!
^ A small pocket light has no bath
i tery. The current is generated by a
j small dynamo concealed in the hanns
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de j die and worked by one finger.
To Cure a Cold In One Day
re- Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It stops the
hp Cough and Headache and worka off the Cold.
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure.
It, E. W. GROVE'S signature on each box. 25c.
ire
. The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head
j Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXALil
i TIVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary
Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor
no ringing in head. Remember the full name and
. look for the signature of E. W. GROVE. 25c.
Co.
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