Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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X Order Your Goods from Us Y If you really care for the best in merchandise and ^ at reasonable prices you should come to our store and let us sell you. We have a large stock of goods & and the best to be had. We are anxious for your business and will appreciate your trade. X X CLOTHING ?* X We have several suits that we are offering at reduced nrices. We know we can save money for you | ^ I if you are n the market. T ? SHOES We are selling shoes now for about the price of & shoes in wholesale lots. Shoes have advanced a ^ great deal, but these that we arc selling were bought early. ? We beg of you to get our prices before ordering or buying elsewnere. | C. R. Brabham s Sons X BAMBERG, S. C. * Puf Prime An TiVpq I VUl IIIVV0 VII 1UVV > We have just received a large shipment > of the famous | BRAENDER TIRES % and are able to offer them at the follow& ing very low prices: X Size Price 30x3 $ S.80 + + 30x3% 11.75 . I 31x4 17.90 . 32x3% 13.50 * f32x4 18.35 33x4 19.15 j 34x4 19.50 Y These Casings are guaranteed 3,500 Y miles, and are the same grade as Y has been sold in the past for Y much higher prices. Y We also carry a complete stock of Inner Y Tubes and can fill mail orders Y promptly. ^ Non-Skid Casings, 15 per cent, advance on these A price?. Terms: Cash with order. f BAMBERG AUTO CO. Bamberg, S. C. | Ladies, Attention I = T We can save you from 15 Y to 20 per cent on your ? high boots A. SEE US V Before Ordering t I KLAUBER'S ' T % "The Store of Quality" SEVEN ECLIPSES THIS YEAR. eclipses, the greatest r ?- possibly occur in any Watch Superstition Lift Its Herd. three of these will b( Writes Garrett P. Serviss. j the greatest number o I that can occur in one In connection with the psychology tbese, the first total of war, which was considered by the nioon that has been s American scientists at their recent has alreadv happened meeting in New York, a special dis- place just one week a l cussion might have been devoted to gve. The next lunar the superstitions that are let loose cur in the middle of , . like flocks of night-birds whenever | the third in Decembe the human spirit is deeply perturbed. are the four solar eel; The tendency to superstition is j year is to witness, all strong in all of us. It is our inward j them will be total, so confession that we do not know lack spectacular feati everything. J \ precisely simila As knowledge widens, supersti- has not occurred since tions retreat, but it always remains and will not recur be in the background, towering, or extraordinary eclipse "standing over" (the root meaning there are seven ecli , 1 of the word), because there is ai- j iS more usual for five ways a region of mystery surround-; only two lunar. * ing the frontiers of science, no mat- ] it is hardly necessa ter how far they may have been; what a magnificent o pushed. But one may have driven sublime play of cele the area of superstition so far away the moon and the ea that its clouds are hardly noticed on thrust and riposte w the remote horizon of one's mind, i nous swords like gi: while another is closely enveloped in; while below them hui their shadows. ; ing itself up with dy Take, for instance, the matter of for the superstitioneclipses. This is going to be a re- seize every such chant markable year for those awe-inspir- the clouds that sciene ing phenomena. There will be seven pelled. For a hundn 4 k A^A ATk A^A ATk A^A ATk ATk A^A ATk A^A ATfc. ATA A^A A^A ATk ATk AT4. AT FRUIT CAKE BEST QUALITY NATIONAL BISCUIT CO. CONDON BAKING CO. BUY THEM PkOiM HERNDON'S GROCERY Phone 24 Bamberg, 5 X. "GET WISE' WHY not get wise in time? Why wait north, south, east and west, are getl town buying. Thinking people are no Are wre going to wait until we are knocked do us spend our time and money in building up s< business means the building ud of a strong in of home business interests means the building without mercy. Let us build for ourselves an "get wise" before it is too late. BLUE-BIRD PHOTOPLAYS THIELEN "THEATRE On Wednesday's and Friday's THEY ARE ALL GOOD RIGHT HERE IN YOUR TOWN A Select Line of 5c, lOc, and 25c Goods Before you send to the mail order house, call and see our line PRICE & JOHNSON ^vvvvvv v v Y ^ Y v v ^ v v lumber that can credulously listen to astrological S' one year, and I vaticinations based on aspects and ol e of the moon, occurrences in the sky, is there one a] f lunar eclipses who reflects that all of these phe- u] > year. One of! nomena have long since been proved b< eclipse of the | to obey laws as simple and as un- w een since 1913, connected with human fates as the [, having taken j rotations of the wheels of a watch? ui fter new year's i The Man Who is Superstitious is p< eclipse will oc- Himself to Blame for His Ignorance, re the year, and There are persons who believe that p< r. Then there it is unlucky to pass under a ladder la ipses which the leaning over a sidewalk, because tr though none of somebody has told them so; there al > that they will are others who for a similar non-rea- at ures. son will not cross a street ahead of a ir combination funeral procession; others who carry ci i the year 1787, a horse chesnut to keep off rheuma- tt ifore 1992. In tism; others who are thrown into a te i vears. when shudder if a cross-eyed man happens ol pses in ah, it | to look them in the face, or if a fi: to be solar and j snake glides across the road ahead ri | of them! The man who is afraid cc .rv to point out! of the shadow of an eclipse or thinks of pportunity this j that it portends either good or evil k] stial shadows, i is on the same intellectual level. Ig- re i rth exchanging j noranee puts him there; soothsayers ta ith their fulig-1 would keep him there, but it is his1 ?antic fencers, own fault if he remains in that hu- in inanity is blow-i miliating position. j tli namite. affords | The moon does not come between' re -mongers, who j the earth and the sun except in theigi :e to bring back regular performance of her dutv, I a e has partly ex-| which duty is simply to hold the pathj fr ?d persons who I that gravitation prescribes for her. ( w ' ' 1 GIRLS and LADIES MAKE HOOTON'S STORE YOUR STORE. Always the newest and best in Dry Goods, Millinery and Suits Hooton's Ladies Store & Millinery Parlor T-l 1 o -? I Ramkaoiv C C ya.Ul'W'fet ^eicpnoHC QJ-J ~ \-J^ '?IN TIME till too late? People all over the country, ;ing wise to the ruinous results of out-ofw refusing to patronize out-of-town houses, wn and run over before we "get wise?" Let Dmething that is ours. Patronage of home dustrial community of our own. Neglect up of a machine that will one day crush us d for our friends and neighbors. Let us Why Order Legal Blanks From the City when you can get them right here at home for the same money, less the postage? We have a full stock. HERALD BOOK STOKE, Bamberg, S. I. YOU XEED XOT suffer the ill effects of a bad cold or grippe any longer. The speedy action of MAXTOXE will do you more good in a shorter length of time than anything yet devised. Yes, every bottle is fully guaranteed. If you are displeased call for your money. MACK'S DRUG STORE Bamberg, S. C. be does not pass into the shadow i ing swadows i the earth as a token that wrath sticks with wh id misfortune are about to descend j made in the ga pon any man or nation, but merely! sun masterfully 3cause she cannot avoid the shadow j the field of spa< hich lies across her way. ers after him. If eclipses sometimes occur with They swing nusual frequency, it is because the end of their r :>sitions of the moon in space with times to becom iference to the sun and the earth j gled, but alwayi ?riodicallv changes in obedience toj ing at proper ws that are well understood by as-1 And now the mc onomers, as is proved by their with the point o Dility to predict all eclipses long in stick, and the si Ivance of their occurrence. might call out: There is nothing mysterious or oc- But a momei lit about it. But there is some- omicai moment) ting about it that is immensely in- to line and ret iresting. It has all the fascination sweep that seem : a great game, played according to the little playe ted principles, but with certain va- face reappears ations allowed which introduce eager for anoth( implications requiring the exercise j These sky pi ! sharp attention, close observation,.- continue their s aowledge of the rules, and acute i as the sun shii (asoning on the part of the spec-jgether through tors who follow its developments. ! fenced by the st We are the spectators, instructed' Milky Way, and . the rules; the sun, the moon and; guffaw of Olyn te earth are the players, bound bvj which they wou filiations that they cannot trans- announcement ( ess, but permitted to pull and haul: that they were little for position. Gravitation I trologer's lamp, irnishes the system of ropes by {shadow the littli hich they hold one another. Sway-j fortunes of ephe Our Fall Goods | are now arriving, and we shall be J glad for* you to call and inspect them. We especially call your attention to our line of Hats, Shoes, Clothing, J etc. ^ > Don't forget that we also carry a ^ complete line of groceries. We ask you to give us a call before buying, as we are in a position to give you J close prices in bulk. i Remember it is now time to plant J Rutabagas and Turnips. We have a fresh supply of seed. Come get them. X % H. C FOLK I J; Y Satisfied with small profits. , y y f m. r__ d?i it. 5: TTC tdll DCttl UIC Y Y Mail Order Houses t 1 f t Y We have been acknowledged as Lead- ? ers in Ladies', Misses', and Children's V outfitters. Y We bid for your business with the world's best merchandise and honest prices. X T . LaVerne Thomas & Co. I Telephone 41-J Bamberg, S. C. X Buy Goods at Home f ' We have all you need at lower prices than you can get from Kalamazoo to ^ Constantinople. If you prefer trad- / Cp ing with foreigners, we have with us , "Sleigh" and "Buck," and they have & at your call all you need to eat or ^ wear?to dress up with or to work in. Patronize the old reliable. A J f | RENTZ & FELDERJ Bamberg, S. C. I I A V A jJA A^A ATiAtkAA ATA ATk ATAATLAA ATA ATA ATA ATA ATA A^kA are the intangible j Champion Potato Grower. ich the touches are | me of eclipses. The | F- B- Rucker, of the Bethel neigh' rushes on through borhood is the champion potato raiser :e, dragging the oth- ! an(* saver of Calhoun county. He | sent us some this week that were and oscillate at the' grown in 1915, which he had banked opes, threatening at! through 1916, and to all appearance ie hopelessly entan-1 the-v were nearly as sound as last ??yvi Afn i?Aon, { \ 6cir s crop. 1ICVC1 UiClCSO, lYtrcp- average distances. ! ^Ir- Rucker had one bank of 1915 >on reaches the earth | cr?P that h? did not use last year, f her slender shadow- and during the summer the potatoes in, if he could speak, sprouted and came through and cov"A hit." ered the entire bank with vines. He at later (an astron- has not dug those yet, and if he the earth swings in- uiakes as many from those he planturns the hit with a ! ed. we presume he has potatoes to s to have annihilated j sPare in the neighborhood of that r, until her smiling ! hank. We suppose it will take a long ?* ? j while to dig those, or better still, he uul ui uie &xiauu>v,| ? round. Just hav? aI1 of them banked ayers will tirelesslyI around that one bank and use them hadow frolic as longi as he nee(*s them. Who can beat that aes. spinning on to-' for growing and saving potatoes in the illimitable arena <his county? Don't all speak at arrv gonfalons of the once. St. Mattheus Calhoun Adyou can imagine the vance.plan laughter with Unl.amlsome. Id greet the oracular )f some horoscopist Hig ?"Charles dear, you are the slaves of an as- . ,, . , A growing handsomer every day. condemned to foree terrestial fates and * m sorry? Isobel, but I m rather mieral man. hard up at present."?Life.