tETfie pamberg Strait)
ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
Thursday, March 8, 1917.
The health of Bamberg is pretty
good at present, but we are expecting
to hear of a good many cases of illness
after the 25th of April.
The paper situation must be pretty
bad when the Yorkville Enquirer
uses ordinary news paper instead of
high grade book paper to print its
"Take out my advertisement," said
a gentleman Saturday who had inserted
a 25c "For Sale" advertisement
one time: "I have received
enough applications already." Advertisements
in The Heraid bring results.
When you try every other
kind of advertising, and fail to get
results, put an ad. in The Herald.
1 nat is a very iu teres 11115 yictu suggested
by Dr. V. \V. Brabham, health
officer of Orangeburg county, to
stamp out malaria in that county.
Dr. Brabham proposes that every person
residing in a malarial section, or
who has in the past suffered from
malaria, take quinine every Saturday
during spring and summer
months. This is a simple plan, one
that can easily be carried out by
everybody, and would be just as effective
in Bamberg as Orangeburg
county.
You will soon have to be sick to
.get even one quart a month; and it
is not at all certain that you can get
it then. We have not yet seen an
authoritative opinion as to whether
or not, under the Reed amendment,
liquor can be shipped into South
Carolina, even for "medicinal" purIf
tViQ T?ooH amonrimpnt rinPK
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not make the State "bone dry," one
quart a month may be had, under the
State law, by making application to
the probate judge, declaring that the
booze is to be used for medicine, and
paying him a fee of ten cents.
A measure has been offered in the
Ohio legislature to forbid any newspaper
from printing an advertisement
of any financial proposition unless
the same has been passed on and
approved by a financial department
of the State government. We don't
believe in so much legislation regulating
newspapers, but, at the first
glance a measure of this kind commends
itself, We don't think any
reputable newspaper would print an
advertisement of any proposition
which is known to be doubtful, but
it is a fact that many people are
swindled by alluring advertisements
of disreputable financial schemes. If
the people would first investigate for
themselves, no such measure would j
be needed, but as the public generally
loves to be buncoed, it is hardly
to be hoped that they will ever do
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We presume that Senators La Follette
and Stone thought they were
doing their country a great service
when they blocked the legislation
that President Wilson asked for. We
presume that they were sincere. But
there is something wrong with a system
whereby a handful of men can
prevent a vast majority from carrying
out such a programme as proposed
last week in congress. The
poll of senators showed that the senate
stood 76 to 13 in favor of backing
the president up. The ^thirteen
completely ruled the 76. Now it
seems squarely up to the majority of
76 to enact such rules that such a
thing will be impossible in the future,
and then go ahead and do what
the president asked to be done. We
have learned from past experience
that when Wilson asks congress for
anything, that thing is needed, and
needed mighty bad.
Joke Was on the Counsel.
The fair plaintiff's counsel in the
breach of promise case thought that
he would make life a burden to the
unfortunate young man who was the
unwilling defendant.
. "Do you mean to say, ne asKea,
^fter a lot of embarrassing questions,
"that after you had been absent for
an entire month you did not kiss the
plaintiff, to whom you were engaged
to be married, when you first saw
her on your return?"
"I do," responded the defendant,
firmly.
"Will you make that statement to
the jury?"
"Certainly, if necessary."
"Do you think they would believe
you?"
"One of them would, I know."
"Ah, indeed, why should he?"
"Because he was present when I
first saw her. He was at the gate
when 1 rode up, and she stuck her
head out of the second story window,
and I asked her. 'How d'ye do?' and
said I'd be back to supper in half an
hour. I'm no giraffe."
And everybody in the court smiled
except the barrister.?Boston Journal.
Names have been given to 727
minor planets and new ones are being
discovered all the time.
BRUSQUE TO LA FOLKTTK.
Tillman Wouldn't Allow Wisconsin
Senator to Sit in His Seat.
Washington. .March r>.?An incident
which was much noticed in the
senate chamber during the ceremony
of swearing in the vice president was
the brusque manner in which Senator
Tillman repulsed Senator La Follette,
leader of the filibuster, which
defeated the presidential empowering
bill yesterday, when La Follette
came into the senate late and attempted
to take a vacant seat by
which "Pitchfork" Ben was standing.
Senator Tillman thrust the
Wisconsin man aside, remarking with
vehemence: "You can't sit here, this
is my seat"?and perhaps something
more.
The Singing Quail.
It is, perhaps, a matter of some
chagrin as well as of satisfaction', to
the q.uail to learn that he has been
put into the list of song birds. He
realizes, of course, that we have, at
last, done the right thing by him, but
there is considerable, humiliation in
the thought that it had to be left to
us?that sing as he might he was unable
to establish his reputation as a
j songster. It is not his voice which
has saved him from being eaten, but
! that, on the contrary, a sympathetic
world, in order to have an excuse for
not eating him, has decided to pretend
that he has ^a voice which is
worth protecting.
Things do mix themselves up that
way and there seems to be little justice
in such a mixture. As a matter
of justice the quail should long &go
have been recognized as a song bird
for the sake of his song. It is only
that part of the world that hears with
its ears alone that has never recognized
the quail as a song bird. Of
course the quail has known all along
that he was a song bird. He knew
it from the way he felt when he whistled
his bit of melody as he scurried
about among the meadow grasses or
swung over the tall spears of wheat.
Those of us who know less perhaps
j of musical values as registered by
our ears have learned to hear with
I something inside of us and we have
heard the quail sing many and many
a time.
We have wandered along country
roadsides where rail fences were a
jumble of blackberries, elders and
wild roses, and have listened to the
quail's persistent lilting call from the
fields behind the fences. It has set
us whistling "Bob White" and led us
into a ridiculous duet that began and
ended with the 'same delightfully
senseless words. Such a duet was,
maybe, not a musical thing to hear,
but it was a musical thing to take
part in, and those of us who have
joined in the quail's song have never
considered him anything else than ai
song bird. He has always seemed to
be full of song, although he never
got beyond the beginning of it as far
as vocal expression was concerned,!
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ana uiere is many a uuu wim a iuus~
er repertory that knows nothing of
what he sings. It is, of course, a
singing heart that counts with a bird
as with the rest of us, and though a
cat bird may trill and staccato his
imitations from morning till night he
is not so good a song bird as is the
quail with his two happy notes.?Indianapolis
News.
A Wife's Repartee.
A party of young men were taking
dinner at a fashionable cafe a few
nights ago, when one of them who is
somewhat a jester, called the waiter
and said: \
"John, go and call Main on the
'phone. If a woman answers, it will
be my wife. Tell her that I instructed
you to say that I am in the police
station for a few hours and will not
be at home for dinner. Say to her
that the possibilities are that I shall
not be at home tonight. Understand
me, sir?"
John winked a couple of times in
a knowing way, bowed defferentially
and suggested:
"supposm ?
"Supposing nothing, sir! If she
asks who is talking, tell her it is the
turnkey at the central station, and
she'll never know who told her the
lie."
The waiter ambled away and was
presently seen to be having a good
deal of fun with himself. The jester
inferred that it might have something
to do with his case and called
him over.
"What's amusing you, John?"
"Wouldn't like to tell you, sir; at
least right here."
"I guess these fellows understand.
Let'er go!"
"Missus says to tell her husband
she is glad he is so nicely located for
the night. She knows where he is
for once."?Cleveland Leader.
An inclosed car that is heated by
electricity is used as an ambulance
in a large Wyoming coal mine.
It is estimated that the daily attendance
at the moving picture theatres
in the United States is more than
25,000,000.
NEUTRALS DON'T STOP WARS.
With One Exception, Modern Conflicts
Have Reen to the Finish.
Just how much ice does a neutral
cut with belligerents at war? Open
your history and see.
Only one great war in recent times
was ended by a neutral. Xo neutral
ever ended one of Frederick the
Great's conflicts.
The Napoleonic wars ran over a
period of 20 years. Xo campaign
had a period inserted after it by a
neutral power.
We fought the American Revolution
to a conclusion, as the seven
years' war and the accompanying
struggle between France and England
had been fought to a finish
never heeding the word of a neutral.
Bismark engineered three important
wars against Denmark, Austria
and France. He won them all, and
stopped when he was ready, but not
when a neutral suggested it.
Neutrals talked and suggested an
end of the Civil war long before Lee
and Johnston surrendered their
armies, but Lincoln's idea was that
a peace that left the real issue unsettled
meant that tens of thousands of
soldiers would have died in vain.
The Crimean war ended when the
belligerents got good and ready. So
did the Boer war end when one combatant
was unable to continue.
Theodore Roosevelt is the only
neutral who has ended an important
war in 150 years. He won the Nobel
peace prize for bringing Japan and
Russia to the United States to stop
their battles.?Girard, in the Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
Fined for Winning His Case.
"When I graduated from the law
school," said the old lawyer, with a
reminiscent smile, "I took Horace
Greely's advice and went west. I located
in a little town that then was
on the frontier and waited with the
confidence of youth for clients. Before
I had fairly opened my office I
was retained to defend a man for
stealing a horse. This elated me
very much, for I was not aware at
the time that the case had been refused
by all the other lawyers in the
town, as defending a horse.thief was
not a thing to be desired if a man
valued his life. The case came for
trial before an old judge and jury
composed of bewhiskered ranchers.
There was no doubt that the man was
guilty, but he had a number of
friends who were willing to swear
anything, and I thought it my duty
to make the, best possible use of them.
They were all willing to swear that
the defendant was 40 miles away
from the spot when the horse was
stolen, and the prosecution was unable
to break down their testimony.
I saw that I was going to free my t
client, so it was with a satisfied air
that I saw the jury leaving the room
to prepare the verdict. They were
back in five minutes, and the old
judge asked them if they had suc|
ceeded in arriving at a verdict.
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""We nave, answered tne iure-j
man, as he shifted the gun he car-!
ried on his hip. "We find the de
fendant not guilty, an' recommendj
I the defendant's lawyer, owin' to his
youth and innocence, to the mercy of
the court."
'"While I was gasping for breath
the judge fined me $500 and suspended
sentence long enough for me to
get out of town. It wasn't law, but ;
I didn't stop to argue the matter."?J
Seattle Post-Intelligence.
An Elopement Spoiled.
I "Papa is just too mean for anything,"
said the girl in blue bitterly.
"What's the matter?" asked the;
/girl in gray. j
"Well, of course you heard of my;
marriage?"
"Oh, yes, of course. Wasn't that;
just lovely?"
"No, it wasn't," returned the girl
in blue, sharply.
"Why, I thought it was," said the:
girl in gray, in surprise. "I heard i
that you eloped."
"We did."
"And that your father was chasing'
all over the country for you."
"Well he wasn't. He acted just
as mean as he could about it."
"'What did he do?"
"He didn't do anything. I thought
he'd make an awful fuss and get the
story in all the papers and then peo'
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I pie wouia nave laiaeu auout uui iumance,
and we'd have been somebody.
But he didn't make any fuss about
it at all."
"That was strange," said the girl
in gray.
"It was more than strange: it was|
downright mean. It just spoiled all
the effect of the elopment. And that
wasn't the meanest part of it either."
"What else did he do."
"We came back and tried to
get up a little something dramatic by
walking into the parlor and announe-,
ing that we were man and wife, he I
spoiled it all by just looking up from j
his paper and saying, 'Well, that lets |
me out of the cost of a wedding, j
doesn't it?' Why, I was so disap-!
pointed that I almost cried."?Chicago
Herald.
44BOXK DRY" BILL SIGNED.
House Passes Resolution Designed to
Postpone Enforcement.
Washington, March 3.?President
Wilson today signed the postoffice Appropriation
bill, containing the "bone
dry" prohibition provision.
The "bone dry" provision became
effective when the president signed
the postal bill.
Six Southern States, Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi, and at least
eight others are added to "bone dry"
States, and hereafter it will be unlawful
to import liquor in any quantitv
rorcnrnl nco A rlrsirtcq<a nnrl
Tennessee already were bone dry under
State law. Florida, Louisiana
and Texas are not affected by the
"bone dry" provision.
The same bill prohibits delivery in
the mails of any publication or cori
respondence bearing liquor advertising
in States which by their own
laws prohibit such advertising within
their borders.
House Resolution.
By a vote of 284 to S6 the house
today adopted a joint resolution designed
to postpone enforcement of
the "bone dry" amendment to the
postoffice bill, which became effective
today, until July 1. Supporters of
the resolution entertain a faint hope
that it can be rushed through the
senate before adjournment.
Some members of congress, including
Representative Randall, of California,
the prohibitionist, contend
that the resolution would not legally
extend the effective date because the
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U1I1, IliUlUUing, tile IICCU auicuumciu,
already had been signed by the president,
and its provisions could be
changed only by passage of a law
amending it.
Others said if it passed the senate
the resolution could be signed by the
president on the legislative day of
March 3, the same date of his signature
of the bill, and would stand in
court as a part of the bill itself.
Might Have Vetoed It.
Representative Moon, of Tennessee,
chairman of the postoffice committee,
who offered the resolution,
declared that President Wilson, who
signed the bill today, would have vetoed
it if he had not been assured the
extension until July 1 would be
granted by congress.
Some of the most active "dry"
workers, including Democratic Leader
Kitchin and Representative Sims,
of Tennessee, joined with "wet" representatives
in urging adoption of the
resolution. They were opposed oy |
Representative Howard, of Georgia,
and Representative Almon, of Alabama.
Supporters of the resolution insisted
fairness should warant its adoption.
They declared that many distillers,
taken unawares by the law so
suddenly enacted, had large stocks
of liquor on hand, which they could
not possibly move under the statute
as it stands except at a loss. Many
banks, too, it was declared, hold large
amounts of warehouse certificates
upon which they have advanced
money, that would be of doubtful
value if the law were not amended.
Representative Howard denounced
the resolution bitterly. Enough
"wet" spots, such as Chicago, St.
Louis and Cincinnati, remain, in
which distillers can dispose of their
stocks, he said. He predicted these
cities would be "dry" in two years.
. Free.
"Scribbles is a freethinker, is he
not?"
"Well, no editor will give him anything
for his thoughts."
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The Quinine That Does Hot Affect The Heao
Because of its touic and laxative effect, LAXATIVE
BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary
Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor
ringing in head. Remember the full name snci
look for the signature of E. W. GROVE. 25c.
XOTICK.
By virtue of order of the Court of
date February 24, 1917, we will offer
for .sale on Friday, March 16,
1917. at 10 o'clock, a. m., on the J.
A. Spann Guess place near Bamberg, .
S. C., the following described per- ?
sonal property: g
Three mules, certain wagons, corn, *
fodder, cotton seed. hogs, and prob- g
ably other articles in connection with g
the said farm. The terms of the said j
sale, cash. t
Anyone interested can get informa- ^
tion at the Peoples Bank, Bamberg .
S. C. A. M. DEXBO W.
BANK OF TROT, \]
As Receivers for the Estate of J. L
A. Spann. 2't. L
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The State of South Carolina, Court- |
ty of Bamberg?By J. .J. Brabham, j
Minor, made suit to me to grant her z
letters of administration of the es- ^
tate and effects of John R. Minor. t
These are. therefore, to cite and k
admonish all and singular the kin- lr
dred and creditors of the said John
R. Minor, deceased, that thev be and
appear before me, in the Court of ,
Probate, to be held at Bamberg, on
March 16th. 1917, next, after publication
hereof, at 11 o'clock in the
forenoon, to show cause, if any they
have, why the said administration
should not be granted.
Given under my hand this 28th
dav of February, Anno domini, 1917.
J. J. BRABHAM, JR..
Judge of Probate.
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Willful Waste Brings Woeful Want.
DON'T spend as you go. Don't scatter your dollars. Plan
to set aside a certain sum for the bank. None can tell'
when a business reverse, loss of position or siege of illness, .<
will overtake him. You'll find that in adversity your
bankbook is your best friend. We offer every banking facility... K
Call on us and we'll be glad to explain our system.
$ <1
4 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Savings Deposits.
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS ----- $100,000.0?
Bamberg Banking Co.
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1 TCSTATE OP PHILIP SEYMOUR, Dec'd. I
I Philip Seymour, aged 48, died suddenly, heart
disease, leaving no will, but a widow, and two young
children. Court named administrator to wind up ^
Estate. Administrator never knew Seymour or his :f
dffairs. Because of ignorance at end of year Estate
showed loss of $10,000. Seymour had taken a chance
?put off making his will?and his neglect cost his
wife and babies $10,000.
May we tell you why this could not happen to
ANY Estate where we sfre (Executor? We will be
glad to advise you without charge. *A11 consultations '
strictly confidential.
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DAI I U7ETVII I KLECTIOX NOTICE.
DULL YYEiEiYlL ! Notice is hereby given that upon
.. Tr .. ~ the written petition of more thaD
. At a meeting at ^aldosta, Ga., ^ e 0ne?tliird of the resident electors,
Planters or soum tarouna, ucuisia, i j 1;i
j t^i - j . .. . . . in?? ana a like proportion of tne resiaent
nntfnn Qnri fiHit tbl Rnii Wpp? ' free-holders of Govan school district
staple: cotton and fight the Boll Wee-, Xo n> of Bamberg countVf s> c# at.
+ J ma" o- n*H vmi pvif the age of -1 years? an election will
steadily increasing Did ou eve be held at the Govan school houSe on
t.? think about the q,uanLt\of Tuesday March the 13th, 1917, for
ong staple cotton used m automobile the of j j a s iaj v
v8m . L vf t 1 !of 4 a? ^al a?d personal
Webber long staple No. 8-, Harts | property in Govan school district No.
i if n ?e * ni p ? i 1 ! Only such electors as return real
i halt Couliette long staple. Pr1^ or personal property for taxation, are
>L per bushel. Every farmer should residents 0f Govan school district No.
lsk sevral acres it no more We al- ^ and ex]libjt their tax receipts and
i? have Cleveland Big Boll, $l_.7o per registration certificates as required
jushel: Moss Improved, per in generaj elections, shall be allowed
rnshel, and the DIXIE WILT RE- tQ ? t
5ISTAXT that will flourish on your Electors favoring the levy of 4
.?lit lands, per bushel. Our seed m|iis special tax will cast a ballot
ire irom reliable farmers only. We containing the word "YES" printed
vill quote prices on large quantities. or written thereon, and electors op- J >
t can suppiy you v,lth velvet beans, p0Sed to the levying of the 4 mills
south Carolina grown soy beans, pea- Specja] tax will cast a ballot contain- ;
luts, millet, peas and seed corn. jng j.be wor(] "XO" printed or writrrust
us with your order. jr probace Judge:
F. MASON ( HIM & CO. Whereas. Mrs. Emma Owens *
Orangeburg, S. C. ten_ thereon.
i r The polls will be opened at 7 a. m.,
- - ~ . I and closed at. 4 p. m.
J. P. Carter B. It. carter "Mcp Eubanks_ j B Brownin?f
PAPTPP At PAT?T!i,"R an(* fj- ^enne(iy are appointed
^w wxiXi???iXL managers to conduct said election.
Attorneys-at-Law . ?
GENERAL PRACTICE j. H. A. CARTER.
BAMBERG, S. C. County Board of Education.
^^Bamberg, S. C., Feb. 21, 1917.
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