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Bamhcrg i|cralh! ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Thursday, Feb. 15, 1917. The session of the legislature is fast drawing to a close, and very little has been done as yet. We pre-1 sume that some sort of a liquor bill will be passed and the State highway, commission will be established. But) the results are hardly worth the ex- j penditure. We see no necessity of I annual sessions of the legislature, but i* cflomc ahcnlntplv impossible tO get! X X, M WV-v%vv.,. -?x the biennial sessions bill through. J Every year it is put on the shelf. We! noticed that Senator Black intro- \ duced a biennial sessions bill, but; there appears to be no likelihood ofj its passage. Here is an item that attracted our attention. It was first printed'in one j of the State's daily newspapers. It j had been reprinted in the Camden j Chronicle, and we clipped from that paper: Barnwell, ,S. C., Feb. 2.?On account of the muddy, almost impassable condition of a large portion of Main street, the rapidly growing business of the city, and the heavy traffic near the business area, it has been definitely decided to pave this street with concrete or cement. Now the point is, things like this) attract the attention of people far! ? * ?" 'v"'v'3 *V*/v 4-T*?r? on ! rtJIXlOVCU 1 I UIll L11C n UV1 u suvu Improvements are proposed. Camden is a good long way from Barnwell; yet the fact that Barnwell is to pave its main thoroughfare was: considered a news item of importance in Camden. Another thing: If Barn-' well can pave its Main street, whatis the matter with Bamberg getting! busy? We notice the Chamber of; Commerce is already thinking of this, j and if it never accomplishes anything but the paving of Main street, its organization will not have been in vain. The advertising agencies are getting better than they used to be, but still many of them send out their j orders calling for "top of column, j next to pure reading matter." Such contracts s Vuld always be returned for revision and changed to "run of /paper," or an additional charge made for position. But it is still better for the country paper not to sell position at all, for advertising contracted for special / position greatly interferes with a neat make-up, and when a paper has a goodly number of position contracts, the necessity offulfillingvthem all becomes distracting to the foreman, and the results are positively grotesque, little rivulets of reading matter squirting out between the different advertisements.?Inland Printer. , This is the position that The1 Herald has taken for a long time. It; has been the rule of this newspaper to decline to accept position adver tising except at about double the or-; dinary rate, and it does not care to' handle them at that. Unfortunately' so many newspapers accept position; advertising that it makes it harder , on those tha*. do not; but there has been a decided improvement in this! direction. We believe that the average advertiser prefers a paper that has a neat make-up, rather than those that try to please every advertiser by printing news all round his advertisements. The Chamber of Commerce organized last Thursday night has promisdoing great things for the city and i surrounding territory. It is some-j thing the needs of the town have been demanding for a lohg time. It! is now a recognized fact that there; should b9 a commercial body iif! every town that wants to grow and i progress. New enterprises and industries will not locate where they are not wanted, and, withoilt a trade \ body, there is no one whose business; it is to interest new capital yi locat-j ing here. Bamberg needs more in-! dustries?enterprises that will in- j crease the city's pay rolls and bring j people to town. And, then, there is the matter of civic improvements.! The Chamber of Commerce can do j much in educating the people in the! way of making permanent improvements. The town and county needs advertising; the chamber can see to it that the resources and opportunities and possibilities of the city and county are heralded abroad. It can do much to disabuse the mind of the people elsewhere that this section of the country is less healthy than other 8?ctio?is-?or, if it is less healthy, to go about removing the things that make it so. It was mighty good to see the interest and enthusiasm with which tae movement was received. The membership of 123 in a town'of the size of Bamberg can accomplish just about anything for the town that it goes after. We hope the people will r\r? a r-? mnttor onrl oot \jLi luavv^i y MA?V4 ow j out of the organization what theyj should. The board of directors is< composed of good, live, progressive business men, and we can see no reason why the organization should encounter anything but success. Bamberg is undoubtedly a place of great opportunities. One of the smallest counties, it is also one of the richest, in the State. The business carried; on in Bamberg city is far greater than j that in many other cities much larg-J er. This indicates that the town is capable of development. Let us build up the city; make it an attractive place in which to do business, and in which to live. We cannot posi sibly do this without attracting the ! attention of the outside world, and | there are hundreds of persons everyj where looking for just such a place tc locate in. Every new family locating in Bamberg means more business, more progress, and more growth. MARVELOUS SPEED OF DOGS. Greyhounds Travel as Swift as the Flight of Carrier Pigeons. Few people realize of what remarkable speed dogs are capable of. Some statistics in regard to this have been gathered by M. Dusolier, a French scientist, according to Our Dumb Animals. After pointing out the marvelous endurance' shown by little fox terriers, who follow their masters patiently for hours, while the latter are riding on bicycles or in carriages, he says that even greater endurance is shown by certain wild animals that are akin to dogs. Thus the wolf can run between fifty and sixty miles in the night, and an arctic fox can do quite as well, if not better. ' Eskimo and Siberian dogs can travel forty-five mi-les on the ice in five hours, and there is a case on record in which a team of Eskimo dogs traveled six and a half miles in twenty-eight minutes. According to M. Dusolier, the speed of the shepherd dogs, and those used on hunting ranges, is from ten to fifteen yards a second. English setters and pointers hunt at the rate of eighteen to nineteen miles an hour, and they onn maintain this sneed for at least two hours. Fox hounds are extraordinarily swift, as is proved by the fact that a dog of this breed once beat a thoroughbred horse, covering four miles, in six and a half minutes, which was at the rate of nearly eighteen yards a second. Greyhounds are the swiftest of all four-footed creatures, and their speed may be regarded as equal to that of carrier pigeons. English greyhounds, which are used for coursing, are able to cover at full gallop, a space between eighteen and twenty-three yards every second. CUT DOWN SUNDAY DIET. Eat Less and Exercise More and Eliminate "Blue Monday." Grouchiness is more prevalent on Monday morning than at any other time in the week, and to such an extent that life is made disagreeable temporarily for many faipilies and for many coworkers. That such manifestations of ill feelings are detrimental to private and public interests is widely acknowledged, but it has remained for Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, State commissioner of health, to direct public attention to the Monday morning grouch and to tell how7 it can be done away with. "The majority of people," Dr. Dixon says, "are apt to fall into two general divisions. One class tries tp crowd too much into the time between one week's end and the beginning of the next week's labor. They take up their business on Monday morning exhausted and overtired instead of refreshed by the 'day of rest.' The other class goes to extremes by overeating and underexer/ cising, and the result is equally unhappy." To these causes the doctor could have added the "hang over" from Saturday night, for that there is more dissipation then than during any other night in the week is beyond dispute. This is followed by late rising on Sunday morning and, if the stomach will permit, the eating of three meals, which are always heavier on Sundays than on other days. The remedy then lies with the individual, and it consists in abstinence from liquor Saturday night and less eating and more exercise? nothing better than a long walk?on Sunday. By following this plan what is known as "blue Monday" will be wiped off the social and business calendar and everybody will be fit to enter upon the duties of the week. Taking a Chance. Andy Donaldson, a well known character of Glasgow, lay on his deathbed. "I canna' leave ye thus, Nancy," the old Scotchman wailed. "Ye're owe auld to work, an' ye couldna live in the workhouse. Gin, I dee, ye maun marry another man. wha'll keep ye in comfort in ver auld age." "Nay, nay, Andy," answered the good spouse; "I couldna marry anither man, for whit wull 1 dae wi' twa husbands in heaven?" Andy pondered over this, but suddenly his face brightened. "I ha'e it, Nancy," he cried. "Ye ken auld John Clemmens? He's a kind man, but he's na a member o' the kirk. He like ye, Nancy, an' gin ye'll marry him, 'twill be a' the same in heaven. John's na a Christian and he's na likely to get there." \ : DliRANT MEASURE PASSED . SENATE HILL PROVIDES FOR ONE QUART A MONTH. . Physicians' Inscription Required, i Provision for Recr is Voted Down. Ends Long Debate. Columbia. Feb. 12.?The senate last night, after a prolonged discussion of the prohibition situation, i passed the DuRant bill by a vote of 29 to 10. Provisions of the bill are that but or.e quart of liquor may be obtained each month, and this on a physician's prescription. Xo provision is made for the use of whiskey as a beverage. .Ministers of the gospel may procure a quart of wine each month for sacramental purposes. The vote was: Yeas: Beamguard. Beattie, Black, Brice, Buck, DuRant, Durst, Epps, E. C., Epps, R. D., Evans, Friday, Ginn, Griffith, Gross, Johnson, Johnstone, Ketchin, McCown, Nickles, Nicholson, O'Dell, Padgett, Purdy, Spigner, Wharton?29. Nays: Bonham, Harvey, Harrelson, Hughes, Lanev, Rogers, Sinkler, Stacy, Stuckev, Williams, J. F.?10. Prior to the passage of the DuRant bill numerous amendments were offered in substitution. Last Friday night, the Bonham amendment, which was an emasculated form of the bill by Senator D. Reece Williams, of Lancaster, had been substituted. This provided for a quart of whiskey each month, to be obtained on a permit from the county clerk J of court. Senator E. C. Epps, of Wilj liamsburg, and Senator R. D. Epps, ! of Sumter, offered a "bone dry" I ? f ,1 f i An Af f-li o aiiieiiuiiiciii in sukfsiiiuuuu \jl Bonham amendment last night when the prohibition issue first came up for discussion. When this had been tabled by a vote of 29 to 11, numerous other amendments were offered to the Bonham amendment. When this had been somewhat modified as to minor details, the Bonham amendment was the indefinitely postponed by a vote of 23 to 15, but not until Senator Hughes, of Union, had made another fruitless effort to have it amended so as to provide for the monthly allotment of 4 pints of beer. INAUGURAL BALL. Formerly Important, But Now Seems Passing Into History. Once again a president of the United States is to be inaugurated without the ceremonial accompaniment of an inaugural ball, but as to whether the omission involves any seri-t ous social loss is an open question. No doubt at an earlier day in the history of the republic, when inaugurations and everything else were on a smaller scale, the ball formed a fitting enough link in the ceremonies I of inducting a new president into ofI fice. It was a function which made I an especial appeal to Washington | trade interests. But what essential i relation an inaugural Dan nas Dome | recently, under the new and expanded order of things, to an inauguration I has not been apparent. Except that | it attracted a crowd and offered cxj ceptional facilitites for women to j have their gowns torn and for men i to be spattered with salad dressing, | it was without distinctive character. There was not even the satisfaction of dancing under federal auspices, with the government acting as host j to the governed. j If precedents count for anything* j in the matter, the inaugural ball has I probably now passed into history. It | was long a national institution, a | quadrennial celebration of a combined social and patriotic rite, but it has passed with the growth of the country and with the passing of the sentiment which sustained it.?New York World. Too Shrewd for Him, An old laboring man appeared Detore the court as a witness. The lawyer for the defendant tried to confuse him. "You are Frederick Miller?" said he. "I am," replied the laborer. "Are you the Frederick Miller who was sentenced under mitigating circumstances for robbery?" "No, I am not that Miller." "You are, perhaps, the Miller who was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for theft?" "No, I am not that Miller, either." "Were you ever in prison?" "Yes?twice." "How long the first time?" "A whole afternoon." "An afternoon? And the second time? You must make truthful statements, you know, for you are sworn. If you were in prison for so short a time what did you do?" "I only whitewashed a cell ready for your brother, who had been committed for cheating his clients." The lawyer did not ask any more questions on that subject.?Philadelphia North American. Read the Herald, $1.50 per year. _ PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Dr. J. H. Roberts, of Ehrhardt, was in the city on business Monday. ?Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Graham spent a day in Charleston last week. ?Dr. \V. T. Herndon, of Laurenburg, X. C., spent Sunday in the city. ?Mr. R. R. Creech, of Olar, was in the city Saturday.?Barnwell Peo pie. ?Prof. R. Fair Goodwin, principal of the Olar school, was in the city Saturday. ?Mrs. J. J. Cudd has returned from a visit to her home in Bamberg.?Spartanburg Herald. ?Mr. Herman Crum, of Denmark, is the guest of Dr. A. D. Bedenbaugh in Shandon.?Columbia State. ?Mr. J. J. Heard attended a meeting of county demonstration agents at Clemson college last week. ?Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Black, of Walterboro, spent a few days in the city this week with relatives. ?Senator J. B. Black and Representative B. D. Carter spent the weekend in the city from Columbia. ?Misses Mildred Jones and Hazel Armstrong spent the weak-end with Mrs. G. D. Sanders in Fairfax. ?Mr. N. R. Hays, of Apalachicola, Fla., spent several days last week in the city with friends and relatives. ?Mr. J. F. Kilgus returned to -his . home in the city last week from Savannah, where1 he went for treatment in a hospital. ?Mr. Roy Cooner returned to the city last week from the University of South Carolna, from which institution he recently graduated. ?Mrs. A. McB. Speaks spent last week in Atlanta, where she bought goods for Mrs. A. McB. Speaks & Co., and other points in Georgia. ?Miss Bessie Lee Black has returned to her home in Bamberg after a week's visit to Mrs. H. A. Wright on Lovell street.?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. ?Mrs. E. L. Price, Jr., was carried to a Charleston hospital last week for an operation for appendicitis. Her friends will be glad to know that she is doing nicely. ?Mr. V. J. Hartzog and Miss Mamie Hartzog went to Atlanta last week. Mr. Hartzog is spending some time with his son, Mr. Robert Hart-J zog, recuperating from his recent illness. Miss Hartzog has returned to the city. ?Miss Lola Folk, of Denmark, has been the guest during the last week of Mrs. Clarence Richard. Accompanied by Miss Leola Bedenbaugh /v 1 1 r?rv/\? + L i-? trr/\rtlr /I ttrif oiic w m apcuu liic vicca-cuu nuu Miss Alma Folk, at Bookman.?Columbia State. CARD OF THANKS. I wish to take this method of expressing my deep and heartfelt thanks xto my friends for their recent kindness to me during my illness. I shall always remember these acts. * J. F. KILGUS. . ASSESSMENT NOTICE. The Auditor or his deputy will be at the following places on the days and dates named below for the purpose of taking returns of personal property, transfers of real estate, and income tax returns: At the court house until Monday, January 15, 1917. Farrell's store, Tuesday, January 16, 1917. Denmark, Thurs'day and Friday, January 17 and 18, 1917. Lees, Monday, January 22, 1917. Govan, Tuesday, January 23, 1917. O.lar, Wednesday and Thursday, January 24 and 25, 1917. St. John's, Friday, January 26, 1917. from 9 a. m. to 12 m. Kearse's, Friday, January 26, 1917, from 1 p. m. to 3 p. m. Ehrhardt, Monday and Tuesday, January 29, and 30, 1917. At the court house until February 20, 1917, after which date the 50 per cent, penalty will be added. Every taxpayer is requested to learn the name and number of his school district before coming to make his return. Taxpayers are also urged to come prepared to make separate returns for town property, giving number of acres and buildings, and lots in town. Persons living in town will please state the fact to the Auditor so that they will not be charged with comrv? nfofi r\r\ rnoH toy Ui ULU11U11 I VUU VMA. All real and personal property must be returned in the school district in v/hich it is located. R. W. D. ROWELL, Auditor Bamberg County. I RIZER'S STABLES | 88 OLAR, S. C. I|? ^ ffi 8g ...on the... jjgl m 2nd and 4th Monday's |? I DR. J. M. LOVE I pSg Veterinary Surgeon gal t J <p- ???< Do You Love Your Family? 0 * F course every parent loves his family. The question seems superfluous. Yet many thoughtless parents spend as they go. They live up to every penny they make. The best way to obviate the money spending habit is to start a bank account. You'll not be so ready to draw a check as you are to break a bill. Let us explain our banking system. j 0 <> 4 Per Gent. Interest Paid on Savings Deposits. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $100,000.00 ;| Bamberg Banking Co. J Estate of Henry George Smith, Dec'd. Smith, aged 37, drowned with wife. Left 3 children?all boys?and Estate of $80,000. No other known relatives. Court named a Guardian, a stranger. As boys came of age their shares were paid them. No Trust Estate to protect them during their B early years of business ignorance. One boy was /-.Vic-mo rlrrmnpH his nil. Another I SWllluicu K/J a laixu avuvuiv y ? boy "blew" his for fast living. The last lost on Wall 'A Street his share. All could have been avoided by a 1 Trust estate protecting the boys until they had learn- ' -ed the value of money. /\| May we tell you why this could not happen to ANY Estate where we are Executor? We will be glad to advise you without charge. All consultations strict- ; j ly confidential. ? - ^ | BAMBERG BANKING COMPANY - J Bamberg, S. C. ' '!|jj ?uuinna*?. 'J * . ' .^'.5 C>> -- rTHir>"i -r (T HH iii in i . Comfort, ease and elegance is his reward. He didn't get it in one day or a week, or a year. He didn't "strike ; /j it rich." He didn't have a rich relative die and leave it to him. He BANKED his money. The amounts were smaU at first, but he KEPT AT IT; then the amounts grew larger, opportunities carrie and the little sum he started with became a great big FORTUNE. -You can do it too?if you TRY. We pay 4 per cent interest on savings accounts. I*fll NOTICE. a stBam0bersg0Uth caro,ina-county ?f u Aunette Kellermaii To all whom it may concern, please H in That the undersigned has lost a 1 NEPTUNE'S DAUGHTER certificate of the capital stock of the Ha Ehrhardt Banking Company, of Ehr- H 11) 1 1 PI tin hardt, S. C., said certificate being No. mm JfCuIlCSflHy, I CDlUciry Zo 5, and application will be made to g| Matinee and \hrht said Bank on February 19th, 1917, Hj .>iannee ana Mgnt for a duplicate certificate of same. IM rriffTPT PI! TIII^ 1 THF |TH1ELENTHEATRE , Superior, Wis., for the first time ^ in sixty years is without saloons. > - . / y t 'fcjti A