The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 21, 1916, Page 5, Image 5
ONE HUNDRED YEARS
Anniversary of the American Savings
Banks System.
"December 2 of the present year is
the one hundredth anniversary of the
inauguration of savings banking in
the United States," says The World's
Work.
"On that day of the year IS 16 the
Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, a
voluntary association that was chartered
by the State in 1819, began to
receive deposits. Eleven days later,
on December 13, 1S16, the Provident
Institution for Savings in the town
of Boston received its charter from
Massachusetts and opened its doors
for business. In March, ISIS, the
oavmgs tianK 01 Baltimore uegan
operations. And on July 3, 1S19, a
fourth institution, the Bank for Savin
the City of New York, welcomed
its first depositors."
60,00T^t)<5lHBusheIs of Grain Seized.
London, Dec. lTXr-Adolph von Batocki,
president of the German food
regulation board, has arrived at Budapest
to attend the Austro-Hungarian
food conference, says a dispatch
from Copenhagen to the Exchange
Telegraph company. Herr von Batocki
is quoted as declaring that the Austro-Germans
seized 60,000,000 bushels
of grain and maize in Rumania,
insuring to the Central Powers sufficient
supplies until the next harvest.
The Life of Bill Bluster, Liar.
Perhaps, after all, Bill was not altogether
to blame. He entered life
with a certain handicap?a handicap
of inherited views, a metal outlook,
that he came by as honestly as he
did his large ears and backwardsloping
chin. His mother, no doubt
a well-meaning soul, to the last
looked on being "in style" as of far
greater importance than a full meal
K barrel; his dad, poor fellow, never
got over his earlier impressions that
bis standing with the boys was the
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tneasure of his success in life.
1 So this twig of the Bluster tree
was bent early in the wrong direction,
and the passing years saw it
still farther inclined. As a boy, Bill
tremendously admired the dash his
father cut; as a youth, he began to
cut a few himself; as a man, his
highest ambition lay in the direction
of sporty clothes, a swagger, a cigar
j or cigarette in his mouth, and the
aroma of booze.
Now Bill's whole trouble lay in
his distorted mental viewpoint. It
seemed to him smart and manly to
smoke a cigarette; a whiskey-drinking
carouse to him was the acme of
all things desirable. However nar
row and painful a shoe-to? might
be, it never pained him unless it
was out of style; however dirty or
contemptible a thing might be, it was
all right if the boys said so.
Bluster had* such a veritable passion
for seeming something he was
not that early in life he actually got
to believing the lies he told himself.
Appearances, "a front," meant
everything; the sound realities of
life,?truth, honor, justice?nothing.
His favorite boast was of his wealth;
but the court house records revealed
that long ago what little he possessed
had, because of insistent creditors,
gone into his wife's name. Beginning
life as a liar, his whole life was
a colossal falsehood.
Chronically fated to see things in
a false light, the beauties of truth
were to him wholly unknown. "Bill
will tell a lie when there is not even
an apparent necessity for it," said
an acquaintance, and the statement
was literally true. Starting on a false
basis, with a false viewpoint, lying
to him was second nature. But all
his lies, all his swagger and bluster,
fooled nobody. Even his associates
knew him for what he was.
Not long ago poor Bill passed on
his soul to the Giver of Truth. All
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ii? leiu cue wuuu ?as <t ics>5>un. dui
can we not, this Christmas time, well
meditate on this lesson his shallow,
unreal life has given us? Can we
not, out of this human wreck, draw
the unfailing moral that Truth, truth
to ourselves and to the world, is one
of the most priceless of all gifts?
If so, then even Bill Bluster has not
lived in vain.?Progressive Farmer.
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Penniless Man Now Morgan's Partner
v* New York, Dec. 17.?Thomas
Cochran, president of the Liberty National
Bank, of this city, who came
to New York from St. Paul virtually
penniless sixteen years ago, will become
a partner in the firm of J. P.
Morgan & Co., on January 1, it was
announced tonight.
in searcu tor promising \uung
men," Henry H. Davidson "discovered"
Cochran and selected him to
aid him in a plan to reorganize the
Astor Trust company. His rise in
financial circles was rapid after that.
Every little while some one dishes
up an article on "The Passing of the
Rube." And the rube has been out of
date for so many years no one even
remembers what he looked like.
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WILL SOME ONE PAGE DIOGENES?
Theatrical Manager Pays Stranded
Actors 7 Years After Failure.
After he had quit the theatrical
business and remained away from
New York nearly seven years, Henry
Jessop, formerly producing manager
of "The Innocent Boy" company, returned
to Broadway recently and
paid $1,0S0 in salaries he owed to
actors and actresses who were
stranded in Willimantic, Conn., in
1909.
In the fall of that year Jessop took
out a company of nine players, but
| business was poor and the tour came
to an abrupt end in about 15 weeks.
Jessop promised to make good some
day. but actors do not attach much
importance to such promises. He
went to Salem, Mass., started in the
electrical business and has since been
very successful.
Returning to New York the first
time since his disastrous venture as
the manager of a road show, Jessop
ran into Paul Abbott, who was comedian
of "The Innocent Boy" troupe.
Instead of trying to dodge, Jessop
shook hands with a sturdy grip, and
said:
"I still owe you and the others,
and if you can round them up I'll settle
in full any minute."
He took out a little vest pocket account
book and showed Abbott that
he owed him $117. Going into the
Hotel Astor, Jessop drew forth a
bank roll and paid the comedian, giving
him an extra $5 as interest with
which to purchase a new derby hat.
Ahhntt snpcppdpd in findiner six other
members of the company, who received
payment.
Jessop told the members of the
company that if they should learn
the whereabouts of the two who are
missing out of the nine?Allen Conklin
and Miss Lottie Foxwell?they
should write to him at his home in
Davenport, Miss.?New York Telegraph.
RAPIERS ROUT CARDS.
Chicago Society Women Substitute
Fencing for Bridge.
The fencing foil and handball are '
going to replace bridge whist and tea 1
dansants among the society matrons
and debutantes of the North Side.
For the women, becoming tired of
the sedentary life of the social world,
have turned to athletics in its most
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active branches.
Two hundred of them living in the
fashionable Sheridan road district
and the North Shore attended the
formal opening of the Edgewater Atlantic
association which is to be
maintained exclusively for women de
siring athletic training. The club will
be conducted under the direction of
Mrs. Antoinette Voss, assisted by a
r
board of advisers selected from the f
membership.
The club will embrace all of the
features embodied in the most exc
elusive downtown clubs, dressing,
reading and lounging rooms will oc- c
cupy the lower floor and the upper *
floors will be converted into a modern
gymnasium where athletic instrucs
tion will be given under the direction
s
of experts.?Chicago Post.
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PERSEVERANCE. a
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How He Earned His Night's Lodg- f
ing.
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There is an article in the Decern- t
ber American Magazine in which the t
man who tells his personal experi- j
ences says: i
"It struck me that right here was t
a chance for me to earn enough to a
pay for my night's lodging. I went
??r\ 4 a n?h a ho/1 o lororo OOrFinf
up LU a iauv n uu uau a. iaig^ vui ^/vt g
bag and, lifting ray hat, asked to >
carry her bag. Among other things c
taught me by my German friends was ^
that politeness costs nothing and is -]
often very valuable. When I had r
placed her bag on the car at the top j
of the hill she gave me a quarter. v
Ten cents was as much as I had c
hoped for. I returned to the station, ^
and soon after another train came in. g
Two men who were together handed f
me their luggage to carry, and one c
of them gave me 25 cents to pay for
both. I had now more than enough *
to pay for my bed and supper.
"The next morning I went back to *
the station, and by evening I had
made 90 cents. The next day the
hoodlums tried to run me away from
the station, but the station police- r
man threatened to arrest them if c
they interfered with me again. He 6
was much interested in my story and r
in my determination to get an edu- 8
cation. It was through him that the s
station agent let me sit in the waiting
room where it was warm, a priv- *
ilege not granted any of the other c
i
ooys."
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When Mrs. Mary E. Peters, age 66, \
of Millville. N. J., became the bride t
of James McNeal, age 6S, the bride s
was given in marriage by her mother. (
Mrs. Jane Facemire, age 99. The I
maid of honor was Miss Blanche
Hughes, granddaughter of the bride,
and the bride's grandson, Harvey W. c
Hughes, was best man. t
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FASHIONS OF FIFTY YEARS AGO. I
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Mien Caps and Aprons Were Worn | W4 J1 * w
With Milady's House Dresses.
Fifty years or more ago the apron j
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Aprons, evidently an imporant
feature of every woman's wardlobe
in those days, were decidedly
ancy, and usefulness was not a
itrong point in their construction.
According to an old copy of Goley's
Lady's Book, aprons were made
>f such materials as black silk and
atin, and were trimmed with lace
md velvet, with graduated ruffles of
he silk; often these ruffles were
scalloped. They were also cut in |
itrange shapes, and a final touch was BL^ ^1^^
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i few bows. The same old-fashioned H BIB
>ook, in "Chitchat on the Fashions BB ?B ilk ^B
or November," says:
"Aprons, or simulated aprons, are
he folly of the day. They are likely Rar
o have as popular a reign as in the
ime of Queen Charlotte, when Beau
Urummel deposed them from their
ligh estate by deliberately, before all
he people assembled, taking off the
ipron of a duchess and flinging it
>ehind one of the settees at a ball
jiven at the assembly rooms at Bath. ^ /
Aprons were made then, as now, of /
:ostliest lace, and enormous sums #
vere spent upon this article of dress. Jf"T "IVO
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lot more than 12 inches, to which "til?
s added a flounce of lace equally flf SMEB .
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or a considerable time."?Christian SjSg Bl [J ^
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he farmers and other friends, who Bamberg, S. C. I
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