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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8,1917. Established 1891
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Clear Pond Cullings.
Clear Pond, Feb. 6.?Dr. Ed Kirkland
and son, Jack, of Olar, were
guests at Mr. George Padgett's last
Monday. Mr. Padgett and family
have recently moved into our community
from Govan, and are occupy
ing the house vacated by Mr. B. F.
Hill.
Miss Mayme Morris is at home
from Augusta, where she has been
attending school.
Mrs. Aquilla Drawdy, of Farrell's,
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Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Tant were .
guests of Mrs. Tant's father, Mr.
George Padgett, Sunday.
Mr. B. F. Folk, of Bamberg, spent
Friday and Saturday at Mr. G. W.
Folk's, last week.
Miss Vera McMillan, who attends
school at Ehrhardt, is at home for
a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Hill and children
visited at Mr. J. R. Morris's
last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Q. H. Sandifer and
children visited at Mr. G. W. Folk's
last week.
Buford Bridge Budget.
Buford Bridge, Feb. 6.?Owing to
the extreme cold we have had in the
past few days the wood piles are being
visited yet and have been visited
frequently. Just a few days before
we had such pleasant weather and
the farmers were busy plowing their
land?the personification of spring.
Last week Dr. Frank Kirkland
celebrated his birthday. Several of
his children and grandchildren \^ere
present. A delightful dinner was
served by Mrs. A. L. Kirkland and a
. _ grand day was spent.
Mrs. R. M. Kearse is in Ehrhardt
with her daughter, Mrs. Max Walker.
Mr. John Rush was taken to the
hospital at Columbia this week for ]
an operation. His friends wish for
him a speedy recovery. Mr. J. H.
Kirkland went with him.
Mrs. Henry Kirkland was called
suddenly to Ehrhardt last week on ,
account of the death of her mother,
Mrs. E. C. Sease. Mrs. Kirkland has
the sympathy of her many friends.
Mrs. John Smith's sister, of Virginia,
is with her now. y
Honor roll of Buford Pridge
school, month beginning January 2,
ending January 26: First grade,
Jenette Brabham; advanced first
grade, Frank Kirkland; second
grade, lone Kirkland, Asbury Kirkland,
Jr.; fourth grade, Wilton Reynolds;
sixth grade, Eugene Brabham,
Inez Kirkland, Doll Brabham, Mell
Brabham.
Schofield Sketches.
Schofield, Feb. 6.?Some winter
weather we have been having for the
past week, the thermometer going
lower than it has in several years. A
light snow fell here last night.
Mrs. Ogreta Beard, of the Colston
section, is spending a few days here
with relatives.
Mr. Robt. W. Schofield, of Philadelphia,
was a visitor here last week.
Mr. Gordon Beard, of the Ehrhardt
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last.
Mr. W. A. Hay, Jr., spent the
week-end in Savannah on business.
The recent cold spell put some of
the cars in our town out of commission
by the water freezing in the
radiators.
Mr. J. G. Bessinger left tonight for
Savannah on a business trip.
DRAEBLR.
Colston Clippings.
Colston, Feb. 6.?February has
begun with the coldest weather of
the coacnn n n r? the pnlrtost that has
been felt in these parts in a long,
long time. A little snow fell Sunday
right, but not enough to amount
to anything.
Misses Sadie Boyd and Ethel Logan
spent Thursday night at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bishop.
Misses Cora and Dora McMillan
spent Tuesday night with Mrs. Leila
Bessinger.
Mr. J. F. Clayton has purchased a
touring car.
Miss Ethel Logan spent Saturday
night of last week with Misses Natalie
and Alberta Kearse.
S. G. Mayfield, Esq., will lecture
next Sunday, February 11?"Go to
Sunday-school Day"?at Colston
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SECRETS YIELD TO CONVICT.
Oliio Prisoner Finds I>ye and Rubber
in Chu Tung Tree.
With a crude home made laboratory,
which he has set upon his desk
in the penitentiary library, Dr. Emrich
W. Ritter, formerly a Cleveland
chemist, claims he is extracting rubber,
tannin and a red dye from the
bark of the chu tung tree, grown in
China.
The department of agriculture is
assisting him in his experiments, he
says. It shipped him five pounds of
the bark, the first ever sent to this
country, after Dr. Ritter says he
pointed out to the department that
the bark contained rubber.
The man, who startled the country
on his arrival at the penitentiary last
year by his inventions of "liquid fire"
and aniline dyes, declares that not
only has he extracted a rubber of remarkable
resiliency from the bark,
but tannin, used in the tanning industry,
and a dye the exact color of
the dye used in the 2-cent stamp.
From a pound of the bark Dr. Ritter
says he obtains two ounces of
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ounces of tannin and three-fourths
of an ounce of coloring matter.
"The tannin is valuable because
its scarcity has helped cause the high
price of shoes," Dr. Ritter said. "The
shortage of the postage stamp dye is
so acute that there has been talk of
using some other color. This new
supply will eliminate both shortages."
Dr. Ritter says he was first attracted
to the possibilities of the chu tung
bark while in China 15 years ago as
a member of the German navy. A
great flood of the Jan-Toche-Kiang
and Pei-Ho rivers, in whose valleys
the trees grow, destroyed thousands
of them and he noted then the resiliency
of the bark.
"The tree can be grown from
Massachusetts to Virginia," Dr. Ritter
says. "One of my first steps
when I get my freedom will be to arrange
to plant the tree in this country
and form a company to extract its
Droducts."
The prisoner chemist has received
a large number of letters from the
department of agriculture relating to
his investigations.?Columbus (Ohio)
Dispatch. *
A movement is under way to turn
the vacant lots of New Orleans into
vegetable gardens.
Branch church. The public is invited.
Mr. Rob Carter, of the Oak Grove
section, was a visitor in this section
last Sunday afternoon.
Miss Sadie Boyd spent Saturday
with her sister, Mrs. C. B. Rax, of
and Sunday nighths of last week
Olar.
The friends of Mrs. Sudie Barnes
regret to know that she has been very
ill and by the advice of her physician
she will leave some time this week
for the Baptist hospital to undergo
an operation. Her friends hope for
her a speedy recovery.
Miss Dora McMillan, of the Bamberg
graded school spent last week
at hnmp
Spring Branch Sayings.
Spring Branch, Feb. 6.?The good
old pinder shellings have started. Mr.
and Mrs. Elige Goodwin gave one last
Tuesday night.
Mr. Russell Sandifer and family
were the guests at Mr. and Mrs. J. P.
O'Quinn's last Sunday.
Mrs. H. W. Herndon and Miss Nell
Clayton spent last week-end in Columbia.
Miss Clara O'Quinn was the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Herndon Monday
afternoon.
The many friends of Mrs. L. A. Bessinger
are glad to learn that she is
improving.
Messrs. Mayfield Bessinger and
Frank and Charley Goodwin were
visitors in the Clear Pond section
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. B. A. Bennett, of St. George,
spent last week-end at Mr. P.
O'Quinn's.
Miss Lessie Sandifer, of Bamberg,
spent a few days last week with her
sister, Mrs. Leila Goodwin.
Miss Eula O'Quinn spent last
week-end with Mrs. L. A. Bessinger.
Miss Lottie Crider spent last Monday
night with Miss Reba O'Quinn.
Miss Reba O'Quinn spent last Tuesday
night with Miss Lottie Crider.
Miss Ethel Zeigler spent last Wednesday
night with Miss Reba O'Quinn.
Mrs. S. A. Compton, who has been
visiting her brother, Mr. J. P.
O'Quinn, has returned to her home in
Colleton county.
The weather was very unfavorable
for the pinder shelling at Mr. J. J.
Hughes's last Friday night, and it
still remains cold.
PROM BILL RECOMMITTED
HOUSE VOTES TO RECOMMIT AIRTIGHT
MEASURE 46 TO 44.
Cause Great Surprise.?"I>rys" Stunned
by Reversal of Three-toOne
Majority on Friday.
Columbia, Feb. 6.?A great surprise
was sprung in the house of representatives
this afternoon when the
Richey "air-tight, iron-clad, bonedry"
prohibition bill was recommitted
to the committee by a vote of 46
to 44. The prohibitionists, stunned
by the complete reversal of the nearly
three-to-one majority on Friday
for the bill, into a majority of two
against the bill, rallied their forces
and demanded a roll call on the motion
to put the parliamentary clincher
on the motion to recommit. Again
the opponents of the bill won by a
! majority of one vote, the clincher being
applied by a vote of 47 to 46.
This action practically kills the
Richey bill and the house will tomorrow
take up the Daniel bill, which is
even more drastic than the Richey
measure, under a special order at
noon. "We will either amend the
Daniel bill or kill it," said one of
the leading opponents of the bill as
they filed out of the house for dinner.
The opponents of the Richey bill
were elated over their coup which
was one of the quiefest and greatest
legislative surprises of the session.
Everybody thought the motion made
by Mr. Searson to recommit the bill
would fail, but opponents of the bill,
among them Messrs. N. G. Evans, H.
H. Evans, and T. P. Cothran, lined
up their side quietly. Messrs. Daniel
and Richey, the leaders of the
prohibitionists, spoke again for the
bill and it was Mn Toole, another
prohibitionist, who made the motion
for the previous question on the
whole matte?. On the roll call when
the speaker announced that by a vote
of 46 to 44 the motion to recommit
had carried, the prohibitionists could
hardly believe their ears and they
made a frantic effort to postpone further
action by adjdurning until tonight,
but again they failed. The
rmnrinpntfi rtf the bill. COmDleted its
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chloroforming by putting on the
clincher, despite the frantic efforts
of the prohibitionists to save the
measure from the discard.
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Great speculation was expressed
by the opponents of the "bone-dry"
movement over the putting to sleep
of the Richey bill, and, they are confident
they can handle the Daniel bill
in the same way tomorrow. "The recess
from Friday until today was the
death of the bill, for the members
found the people didn't want it,"
said Mr. N. G. Evans, who helped to
frame the coup which disposed of
the bill.
Prohibitionists are tonight rallying
for a new effort to get the Daniel
"bone-dry" bill through tomorrow,
and a battle royal is promised.
In Loving Memory.
A little, old man came into the
r?flRpp nf the Chieaeo Charities and
laid down $150, "to help out some
needy families." Then he told them
a story: | '
"Years ago, when all of my folks
were living, I couldn't afford to ^ive
presents. Things are different now,
but most of my folks have gone. I
went shopping, just as if my folks
were alive. I picked out a shawl for
an aunt of mine. She's dead and so
I didn't buy it, but I put down the
amount of money I would have spent.
Then I went and got some things for
my dead brother and for my father
and mothet, and for a few old friends
of mine. I didn't really get them,
you know, but I priced the things I
thought they would like. When I
added up all the money I would have
spent, it came to almost $150, so I
added a little to it, and here it is."
Has anyone heard of a finer, more
beautiful way of showing a man's
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wanted to do, it was too late to do
now. He might, it is true, have spent
money on stone to make move artificial
and melancholy the ouiet hillside
where "his folks" rest. He
found a better way to spend his affection,
to remember in fancy those
he could no longer reach and then to
see that his loving memory cf them
went to make others happier. He
made his love for his dead a power to
gladden the living. He laid tribute
on grief and mado it a bless:;ng. It
is not a sad story, we need not pity
him. But we cannot helD loving him.
?Milwaukee Sentinel. ,
Full line of Ledgers and Day
Books at Herald Book Store.
IMMIGRATION BILL PASSED.
Congress Overrides the President's
Veto.
Washington, Feb. 5.?Congress
has overridden a veto by President
Wilson for the first time and enacted
into law the immigration bill with
its long fought literacy test provision.
The senate voted late today, 62 to
19, to pass the measure notwithstanding
the veto and in spite of
eleventh-hour information that Janan
ntrnin had nrotested aerainst the
language of the Asiatic exclusion section.
The house overturned the veto last
week by a vote of 287 to 106, so the
senate's action ends the contest ofj
twenty years' standing in which
three presidents have repudiated
similar bills passed by congress.
The international situation was
brought into the closing debate in
the senate, Senator Reed calling attention
to the Japanese objection and
pleading that nothing be done at this
time to disturb or impair the country's
relations with a friendly nation.
Senator Smith, of South Carolina,
chairman of the immigration
committee, answered with the declaration
that the present state of international
affairs emphasized the necessity
for a pure, homogeneous
American people such as this bill
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Sugar History.
Granulated sugar such as is^ used
nowadays by nearly every one was
unknown a hundred years ago. In
colonial days, sugar was sold in the
loaf, lump or piece, and the consumer
broke it up to suit his needs. It
was a luxury, and many people used
coarse substitutes, according to a history
of the sugar industry in this
country, as prepared by Joseph E.
Freeman, secretary of the American
Sugar Refining company. White
sugar in loaves was, however, manufactured
on a limited scale long before
the settlement of the American
colonies. Soon after the Dutch settled
on Manhattan Island, a sugar
refinery was built in Liberty street,
and continued in operation for more
than a century and a half. On August
-17, 1730, the' New York Gazette
contained the following advertisement:
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"f UD11C notice is nereuy giveu iuai
Nicholas Bayard, of the city of New
York, has erected a Refining House
for Refining all sorts of Sugar and
Sugar-Candy, and has procured from
Europe an experienced artist in that
Mystery. At which Refining House
all Persons in^Oity and Country may
be supplied by Whole-sale and Retale
with both double and single Refined
Loaf-Sugar, as also Powder and
Shop-Sugars, and Sugar-Candy, at
Reasonable Rates."
As evidence of how1 the industry
has grown within the last century, it
is stated that in 1816, less than 9,000,000
pounds of sugar were refined
in New York. Today one of several
large refineries in New York turns
out more than 9,000,000 pounds
every forty-eight hours. Sugar refining
has never been profitable in the
interior of the countr., for it has
been found that a seaboard water
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over inland cities in the
price of raw material. However, in
1833 the secretary of the treasury issued
a report on the sugar refining
business in this country, in which he
mentioned a refinery in Cincinnati,
and made the following observation:
"It is thought that the consumption
of loaf or refined sugar will not
in the West keep pace with the progress
of population, because of the
cheapness of coffee, which to a considerable
extent is taking the place
of tea, as well as of ardent spirits;
and in coffee brown sugar is generally
preferred. Still, much refined
sugar is used to qualify whiskey,
which unhappily continues to be used
in the West by certain classes of persons."
His prediction was wrong respecting
the consumption of sugar in the
West, but he did foresee the passing
of Western refineries.?Indianapolis
News.
.Tnmn Into Shafts.
Through accidental imprisonment
mines, acquire a surprising fauna
from the surface. Live fish?a species
of barbel?were lately noticed in
a Transvaal gold mine, 6,800 feet
down a vertical shaft, and are supposed
to have fallen into the mines
as spawn. When discovered, they
had grown to a length of 6 to 12
inches. In very dry weather, young
bullfrogs have been seen to jump deliberately
down the shaft, evidently
after water and seem to have survived
the fearful plunge.
RELATIONS BROKEN OFF
DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH GERMANY
SEVERED.
Count Von Bernstorff Given Passports.?Similar
Action Has Always
Resulted in War.
Washington, Feb. 3.?President
Wilson has broken off diplomatic relations
with Germany and warned the
kaiser that ruthless sacrifice of
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America.ii uvea auu ngiua mcauo nut.
Similar action is waiting for Austria
when she notifies this government
that she joins in the campaign
of unrestricted submarine warfare.
The president made formal announcement
of hys action to the country
and to the world today at a joint
session of congress.
Passports have been handed to
Count von Bernstorff; Ambassador
Gerard with all his staff and all
American consuls have been ordered
out of Germany. All German consuls
in the United States are expected
to withdraw that the severance of relations
may be complete. American
diplomatic interests in Berlin have
been turned over to Spain; German
diplomatic interests in the United
States have been taken by Switzerland.
Foreign diplomatic interests
which the United States had in
charge in Germany have been turned
over to various neutrals,
j The years of diplomatic negotiation,
marked with frequent crises and
attended with the loss of more than
t
200 American lives on the high seas,
have culminated with an act which in
all the history of all the world always
has led to war.
Every agency of the American government
has been set in motion to 1
protect the country against acts of
German sympathizers. These moves
are of necessity being kept secret.
Financial Caution.
Gates W. McGarrah, president of
, the Mechanics and Metals National
Bank, believes that it is the duty of
bankers and business men to guard
against future contAigencies, and in
a letter just issued to correspondents
he advises the exercise of caution in*
the financing of new enterprises.
"Industry throughout the United]
States/' says Mr. jvicuanau, WU- I
tinues at an active paee. Money
rates are at a low level, and New
York bank loans are at the highest
record of history. It was shown by
the controller of the currency a f$w
weeks ago that loans of 27,500 banlts
and trust companies in the United
States were on July 1, $3,243,000,000
in excess of the loans of three years
ago.
"This is phenomenal expansion.
Of course, the elements contributing
to bring it about have been abnormal,
and none of us can tell how much
longer they will continue. To guard
against future contingencies is a duty
that has Deen imposed upuu c?cij I
banker and business man of the nation,
yet there is so little that the future
holds which one can count, with |
confidence, that the duty h^ become |
a trying and oftentimes a confusing!
one.
"Thus we have, just now, the spectacle
of our financial leaders considering
means of stemming gold imports
into the United States, because
of the danger of inflation, at the same
time they are discussing the likelihood
of gold exports later on, because
of the possibility of deflation.
Gold added to the country's total supply
in the last two years has been
$800,000,000, an amount far more
than necessary to carry on the business
of the country. With further
large additions to that supply through
the payment for goods exported
aboard, it can be seen how enormous
a credit expansion is possible.
"We cannot store gold in idleness;
neither can we. prudently, at once ab
sorb all we have recently received.
To exercise caution in financing new
enterprises, and at the same time to
permit proper expansion a free rein,
is the special duty of the bankers of
the country today. Their duty is one
of ultra conservatism, notwithstanding
the fact that by extending credit
and taking up the money market
'slack' they would lje enabled to name
more remunerative rates for their
funds in the future."?New York
Times.
West Virginia's Wliiskey.
While no whiskey has been made
in the State since July 1, 1914, when
the State-wide prohibition law went
into effect, there are still in bonded
warehouses in the State 825,139 gallons
of whiskey.?Wheeling Intelligencer.
EIGHT MILLS LEVY SUGGESTED.
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Only New Project Allowed is Enlargement
of Tuberculosis Sanitarium.
The general appropriation bill, carrying
$2,650,870.30, was introduced
in the house last night. A State tax
levy of 8 mills will be required to
meet the demands on the State government.
One mill of the 8 mills
will be to make up the deficit of
$300,000 brought over from last
year. No new projects are provided
for. Many of the appropriations askp.r?
hv thp various Hpnartmp.nts of thO'
State were pruned to the bone by the
committee under the direction of J.
T. Liles, chairman. An appropriation
of $475,000 is provided for the State
Hospital for the Insane. This provides
for continuance of the improvement
work. The maintenance cost
of the institution was greatly increased
because of the "high cost of
living."
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Provision is made in the bill for
the enlargement of the State tuberculosis
sanitarium at State park. A
total of $40,000 for several buildings,
$20,000 this year and $20,000 in
1918, is provided. The erection of
these buildings was made necessary
because more than 30 beds were conditionally
endowed.
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Bucharest Still Gay.
Bucharest is different from all the
other captured capitals. With the
exception of Cettinje I have been in
all of them. And for ways that are
wild and piquant Bucharest is unequalled.
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Brussels was stunned for hours aft
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ter the Germans marched in. Belgrade
was desolated and Warsaw wae
satisfied.
But Bucharest is crazy?crazy with
excitement and curiosity. If it feels , .
sorrow it conceals that emotion perfectly,
and seems mainly intent upon
getting the greatest possible amount
of fun out of the present situation. . v.
Since the German entry it has attained
the limits of topsy-turveydom.
Here you find partriots?genuine old
patriots like the Nestor of Roumania,
Peter Carp?rejoicing in the fall of
their capital. When the first detachments
of the invading troops marched
in, the women of the Germanophile
sections of the population
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stood on tne siaewaiKS ana snowerea
the soldiers with chrysanthemums, >'
cigarrettes, cakes, cigars and candy.
Ten miles north of Bucharest I
have seen Roumanian women cashing
themselves in the black, icy puddles
by the roadside, but inside the
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town .the wine is flowing, and the
people are singing and dancing.
Look into the Grand Modern or the
Trocadero at night and you are greeted
with a pandemonium of sound?
music and so&g and the hectic greetings
of the women from Paris, Sofia,
New York, Buenos Aires, Budapest,
Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam and PeI
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trograd.
There comes the steady "scuff,
scuff" of two hundred Russian prisoners,
who represent Gen. Falkenhayn's
last overhaul north of Bucharest.
He sends them to Gen. Mackensen
with his greetings, Bucharest sees
the tirecfc procession and then goes
into the cafe and drinks another glass
of vermouth. Some of the prisoners
are gnawing at the cabbages which
they have torn from the fields on the
outskirts of the town.
Dignified Turks, silent and well
groomed, and behaving with moretact
and courtesy than any other of
the occupying troops, are the next
figures in this ever-changing kaleidoscope
of occupation.?J. O'D. Bennett,
in the Chicago Tribune.
Motor Ambulance for Border.
Motor car ambulances of an apparently
durable type have been constructed
for the Red Cross corps and
put in service at the Mexican border.
So accustomed have most persons become
to pictures of the elaborate
fighting equipment used by the warring
forces abroad that it is possible
many have lost sight of the fact that
our own troops are not in all instances
similarly outfitted. It therefore
may be news to some that the
new machines replace mule-drawn
ambulances that were in use until tne
National Guard was mobilized some
months ago. Each of the cars is supplied
with four stretchers, two of
which rest on the side seats beneath
the others, which are suspended
when in use. At the right of the
driver's seat a medicine cabinet is
provided, while lockers, in which various
supplies can be carried, are fitted
lengthwise beneath each of two
long seats.?Popular Mechanics.
Industries of the United States are
advertised in Bolivia> South America,
by means of motion pictures.