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?be Pamfrerg ^eralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Thursday, March 22, 1917. Fly time and mosquito time will soon be here again. Let everybody clean up premises and have things spotlessiy clean in town. We are sure the city authorities will do their part by cleaning out and repairing all drains and ditches and providing kerosene for all places where mosquitoes are apt to breed. Now is the time to fix up all screen doors to keep the flies out. But the main thing is to eliminate all sources of fly-breeding, which means all filth and rubbish about the house and yards, and in vacant lots, as well as in the streets. | Some time ago, The Herald called attention to the fact that Barnwell was going after some paved streets. Now here comes Beaufort, which has J 1 3~ tomo nurnnsp. YOt6Q UUilUS lUi l?ic oumv f r The following dispatch appeared in the daily newspapers the other day: Beaufort, March 17.?By a vote of 64 to 16 the voters of the city have decided to issue $15,000 of bonds for the purpose of getting funds to pave Bay street for about one mile. This is the principal street of the town, all of the business houses being located on it. The city council has taken the necessary steps to sell the bonds. The city engineer has investigated various materials for the construction of this paving and is inclined to cement concrete as the most satisfactory. Now, the question is, how long is Bamberg going to be content with being behind our neighboring towns. Barnwell and Beaufort are small towns and have nothing on Bamberg, but both of them are soon going to be ahead of us, unless we take some action in the near future to' keep abreast of the times. PEDESTRIANS' RIGHTS. Some Hints for Drivers of Motor Cars. Many drivers of motor cars show daily that they know little of the legal rights of the highway. TV./-.I- oro rii-kf on-ora that thp POlirts! JL UUJ ai U UVb U> ff v Whave determined the superior right belongs to the pedestrian, not to the person riding in a vehicle. Notwithstanding this is the law and has been announced emphatically by courts?motor drivers seeing a pedestrian about to cross the street half a block ahead of them, when the pedestrian continues on his way, toot their horn sharply at him, the meaning being: "Get out of the way! This is my road, not yours. Stand back! You may go after I have passed." It does not occur to the driver that he can stop. This is expected of the person on foot, though the driver of $ motor car may be several hundred yards from the crossing, bearing down on it at 30 miles an hour, while the to be an observer and a thinker. Let him see and form conclusions for himself, and afterward he can go to the books, remembering that all that they contain is an account of} the observations and thoughts of others. Let him start out with a mere hint from geology and then see how far his own eyes and intelligence will carry him. He may, at least, find refuge from the tedium of brooding over the shortness of his own existence by considering the long and marvelously varied history of his mother earth, with which she is always ready to entertain him if he will only give her his attention. Colored stationary, 30c a^d 40c box, at Herald Book Store. pedestrian is actually upon the grossing, and is tooted at by way of warning to stop - and retrace his steps while the motor flashes by. There must be very much more consideration by automombiles for the rights of persons on foot, and particularly of children, who take chances that grown persons avoid. The driver should always slow down at crossings when pedestrians are in view, and particularly when the light is poor, which is especially the case in the late fall, winter and spring at just the hour when in city and country thousands are returning home from the day's work, not at the height of their mental or physical alertness. Motor car drivers should exercise special care at such times though in haste to get home on their own part. They have the use of the streets, not the monopoly of them.?Harper's Weekly. Wild Silk. An out-of-the-way illustration of the way the war has affected remote industries is found in the new boom that the "wild silk" industry of Japan is now undergoing. This silk is called habutai and derives its wildness not from the appearance of the finished product upon the wearer but from the fact that it is made from the cocoons of the wild silkworm, which flourish in many parts of the islands but which did not come conspicuously into public notice until 1907. when there was a preliminary boom, following the Russo-Japanese war. Exports of silk in general, meanwhile, have increased to an amazing extent, the amount for the first nine months of 1916 having been $92,077,000, as compared with $48,832,000, an increase of $43,245,000 for the period. The increase is due in part to increased quantities of the raw material, but also to much higher prices paid by the people of the United States and France, the latter country still being a heavy buyer, despite war conditions.?Portland Oregonian. Read The Herald, $1.50 per year. MATCHES OF YESTERDAY. Famous English Flints of a Century Ago. Brandon, a small town in Suffolk, England, still supplies the world with flint-and-steel tinder boxes, which even the developed friction matches of today have not made obsolete, notes the Popular Science Monthly for .March. Elderly persons can still' tell us about the time when flint-and- \ steel were universally used; when! old rags had to be charred for under, and when the sparks had to fly to get these to catch fire. Brandon flints have always been justly famous. They were used in the kitchens at home, and on cafinons in the wars. They saw service at Waterloo, in the Crimean war, and even as late as in the South African campaign. The first one was made in 1S27. A Camp-Meeting Story. Xow that the camp-meeting season is drawing to a close, this good story comes from a representative from Mississippi: . A whangdoodle, hard-shell preacher was holding forth and wound up a flaming sermon with a peroration which came near taking the shingles off the meeting house. He said: "My brethren and sistern if a man's full of religion you can't hurt him. There was the three Arabian children; they put 'em in a fiery furnace, hetted seven times hotter than it could be het, an' it didn't swinge a har on their heads; no, not a single har. An' there was John the Evangeler; they put him?an' where do you think brethren and sistern, they nn* him? Whv th?v niit him in a caladronic of biling water an' ile an* biled all noght an' it didn't crack his shell. An' there was Daniel; they put him in a lion's den, an' what, my fellow travelers an' companions in sin, do you think he was put in a lion's den for? Why, fer prayin' three times a day. Don't be alarmed, brethren and sistern; I don't think any of you will ever get in a lion's den." THE WHITE MAX'S LETTER. / How it is Pranked From Town to Town in Africa. It is a pioneer custom in Africa, East and West, that the white man's local letter is franked from town to town, says Jean Kenyon Mackenzie, in the Atlantic. The black man to whom the white man gives his letter carries it to the headman of the next settlement, who carries it in turn to his brother headman down the trail; and so from hand to hand by day and by night, with a glance from any passing white man, the letter goes forward. Such a letter?carried as the custom is, in a split rod from which there hung, like a flag, a bit of turkey red?changed hands that night before my tent. And now 1 write it in a white man's book that the postmen loitered. To stand and chat there in the moonlight with the exile's letter in your hands?how could you do that, you two old heartless headmen? I watched you from .my little green tent. It is remembered of you that you so delayed, while in some lonely hamlet under that same moon a white man sickened for a letter. And when one gave the forked stick to the other, it was then too late. If indeed, as you would say, you spoke no more than five words of gossip one to the other, those words were five too many. It is remembered of you, and a thousand nights since when I have waited for the mail, if it were a moonlight night, I have toldx myself with an extreme self-pity and a bitterness, "The carrier is gossiping in some clearing." I have seen in my heart that man with the load of mail upon his back, standing for hours by a friend of his, laughing and asking news one of the other. This conjured vision of two black men holding up the mail is the sad issue of an imagination infected beyond cleansing. You see. I saw them do it. Read in Books tlie Thoughts of Others. The man who cannot find the most absorbing subjects for reflection in the rocks and soil on which he walks dishonors his birthright. He has no need to be a geologist; he needs only A VISIT TO PARIS. War-time Scenes Reflect the French Spirit. An example was presented to me r'or the total abstinence of tears as we made our way through the mass of departing regiments at the railway station, says Louise Closser Hale, in Harper's for March. Two working girls were pushing fiercely against us and more violently assailing with their tongues a companion. It seemed that in bidding farewell to her soldier the third girl had been guilty of crying. "We should say things to make them laugh," they shoutingly admonished, "and as they ripnart thpv must remember us smil ing. We must always keep smiling. It is the priest who told us this." We left by the Gare de l'Est, which gathers in the soldiers and sends them forth as they go and come from the zones of war. Strange how a building can put on mobility! It becomes animate as does a false face after we have stared at it for a long while. And this great, gray station is a guadian of the soldier, gruffly, roughly filled with concern of him. The walls are placarded with directions and advice, the waiting rooms given over to such slender ease as can be offered the warrior new to Paris. There is a cantine, where bread, beer and coffee are freely served; a second one secures for the soldier with the expenditure of two cents the dignity of a club. And always there are cots, with a doctor and nurses in attendance, for such of those as have not felt the strain of the trenches until they have left them. The hospital trains come into the Gare de la Chapelle, reserved entirely for this sad transportation, but it is not unusual for a stalwart man to collapse utterly of that ailment without rea.son known as shock. By.day and night the vast creature accommodates the army. At nno anri i?: a rnnprl-nff snafP. where the women wait for those returning on their short "permission," and packed thick to the platforms ? are more women bidding adieu to more men. / - The British Navy. In a recent address at a gathering in London Sir John Jellicoe, first sea lord of the British admiralty,- called attention to the extent of British naval activities. The number of vessels of all .classes that comprise the British navy is about 4,000.' This includes battleships, battle cruisers, light mine sweepers, destroyers,' submarines, mine sweepers and other miscellaneous craft. Activities of the fleet range from the White sea, where the British are assisting the Russian fleet, past the North and South Atlantic, where cruiser squadrons are at work, to the far Pacific, where cooperation is given the Japanese. The navy took a considerable part in the fighting on the west coast of Africa, in the Dardanelles campaign, in the Mediterranean, in the Adriatic, off the east coast of Africa, in the Persian gulf and up the Tigris river. Every part of the seas is touched by the fleet. "Without our mercantile marine, the navy?and, indeed, the nation? could not exist." said Sir John. "Upon it we have been dependent for the movement of our troops overseas?over 7,000,000 of men having been transported?together with all the guns, munitions and stores reniiiroH V?v the nrmv Snilnrc; nf thp merchant marine have also been drawn in great numbers for services on war vessels. Differences between the navy of today and that of a hundred years ago were pointed out. The greater speed of ships, longer range of guns, the menace of the torpedo,* destroyers and submarines, the use of aircraft as the "eyes" of the fleet and wireless telegraphy have revolutionized naval warfare. In the Napoleonic period the ships opened fire at a range of about 800 yards, those of today open fire at about 22,000 yards (about eleven nautical miles), and gunfire at 18,000 yards is very effective. The torpedo fired from a surface vessel is effective up to at least 10,000 yards. I Weather conditions frequently make fighting difficult beyond a range of 10,000 yards, and on hazy days the destroyers with dangerous torpedoes are a grave menace to the heaviest ships of the navy. The submarine is another factor that has helped to change the situation. When used in combination with mines the close blockade of former da>s is impossible. The undersea vessel also adds greatly to the anxiety of the opposing fleet. "Nelson watching Villeneuve off Cadiz had his in-shore squadron close into the enemy's port," said Admiral Jellicoe, "and could see what was actually going on inside that port. The British fleet of today, watching the German high seas fleet, is not in the same happy position."?Indianapolis News. A new plane is provided with a shield for the hand to protect it from being bruised. I DETAINED AT CAMP MOORE. Order From Department Halts Mustering Out. Camp .Moore, Styx, .March 18.? Plans to muster the Second South Carolina regiment of infantry out of the federal service were abruptly halted today on receipt of orders from the department of the East. These orders came in the shape of a telegram from Adjt. Gen. Simpson, of the department of the East, to Capt. J. M. Graham, chief mustering ofnoer. instructing him to discontinue mustering out the regiment, but to let the work of getting the papers of the regiment into shape for muster ing out proceed. The orders to halt the plan to muster out the regiment were received shortly before 1 st'clock and soon spread over the regiment, first being announced to the officers at a meeting. When the officers' call sounded the news soon got out and it was shortly afterwards confirmed. Xo reason for the orders to hold the men in the service of the United States was given and there is nothing but speculation to go on. In official circles of the State government the orders were interpreted to mean either one or two things: That the men are being held for possible duty in connection with a strike on the railroads, or they were being held because of trouble with Germany. In the latter event, it is taken to mean that the men may be given a short furlough and then brought back for service wherever the government may decide to use them. If they are being held on account of the German situation, high officials of the State government are expectnoli fr\v a cranciro 1 mnhiMmtinn 111 ?) Or VUX1 1U1 u gvuviut uivi/iiiouviuii of all the other National Guard units in the State, viz, tl^e First regiment of infantry, the Charleston Light Dragoons, the four divisions of naval militia, the Johnson Engineers and the five companies of coast artillery. Orders for the mobilization of these units would be sent direct to Governor Manning from Washington and none had been received at his office tonight. . Fillmore's Ignorance. Before Millard Fillmore was elected to the vice presidency of the Unit| ed States he was head of the law firm of Fillmore, Hall & Havens, of I Buffalo, says an exchange. It was one of the leading law firms of the State. He was defendant's attorney in a certain action in Buffalo. At the I opening of the trial of the case the plaintiff's attorney stated to the jury that he would fiave to depend entirely upon the justice of his client's case, as the defendant had sought! and obtained aid and counsel of one of the ablest firms of lawyers in western New York, and he might say he had opposed to him the right bower of the legal profession. "What does he mean by that?" said Mr. Fillmore. Mr. Haven replied: "He means you." "Yes, I know," replied Mr. Fillmore, "but what does he mean by that particular expression?" "Did you ever play euchre?"- said Havens. "No," said Mr. Fillmore. "Well," said Havens, "in the game of euchre the right bower is the biggest knave in the pack." Paraffin for Gasoline. A thousand years ago the scientists sought how to turn the baser metals into gold. Today, with no less zeal but with a cnance tor success, is the scientific world searching for a cheap substitute for gasoline for use in automobiles and other gas engines. A device has recently been invented by F. A. Wilkinson, an Englishman, whereby motor cars and internal combustion engines used for driving electric lighting plants and other purposes, designed for running on gasoline, can be run entirely on paraffin, without alteration to the engine or carbureter. Wilkinson's "bypass paraffin attachment" is inexpensive, and can be fitted up in a very short time, and the engine can be instantly converted to run on paraffin or petrol by simply opening or closing a valve. In order to vaporize the paraffin to enable a start to be made from cold, an electrical heater is provided. After the engine has started, the narnffin anri air nassine from the car bureter are heated by introducing a small percentage of the exhaust gases direct into the inlet pipe, which, mingling with the paraffin and air, enters the cylinders for a second time. When the attachment is fitted to a motor car, the two valves used are controlled from the dashboard by means of steel wires run in brass tubes, but in the case of a stationary engine, the dashboard controls can be dispensed with. For controlling the ^electrical heater, a switch and pilot lamp are provided.?The Electrical World. . >. _?? _ ^ J Watch Your Dollars Grow ^ special interest accounts offer exceptional advantages. ^ You'll be surprised how your dollars will pile up. There always comes a time when a little ready cash will start you on the way to an independent fortune. Be ready for that opportunity. | Now is the time to plant your tree. / ^ 1 5\W ll/'Mfcff <are ?Pening new accounts daily. \W Join the procession to our bank. Don't (| delay. In the years to come you'll Jfff Y IMliSMOB reap tfie benefit, tie saving. Jtse wise. m? y 4 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Savings Deposits. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $100,000.09 | Bamberg Banking Co. || n " " SMALL ESTATES |j|J] We welcome the management of small estates. The same care, economy and experience applied to their management.as to large estates. If you have not yet made your Will, or if you have not named, our Company as your Executor or Trustee, we shall be pleased to consult with you about the same and v - ' 0 advise you without charge. May we do so? BAMBERG BANKING COMPANY fjlj Bamberg, S. C. |I aw????? ? THIS TITLE ONCE AN INSULT. I BANK STATEMENT. " . . ,, ? - _ 4tl\I Statement of the condition of the 4 M Walpole Called a "Prime Minister Qf 0Ur loCBt#d at 0tar, g. C? . ^ With Opprobrious Inference. ^ at the close of business March 5th, The terms "premier" and "prime RESOURCES. ' ; -> ? Loans and discounts ....$171,055.24 minister, now in most mens overdrafts '.I:-.- .... 1^267.7-f mouths, came to us by accident, just Banking house *.... .... .... 500.00 ,as the cabinet itself was a "constitu- Due from banks and i v ; -v tional freak." The title of premier ' bankers ... 11,327.00 . .. . . . Currency -1,000.00 under the form of premier minis- gilver ynd Qther minor . - ' . . ^ ter" appeared in 1886, and was ap-j- coin 663.68-1 plied to Lord Sunderland. Prime i ^ r minister, from previous connection I Total ... .A^^. ?$185,813.71 with the sole ministers of foreign \ Capita, stock j,ajd j 20,000.00 i-M despots, was first used opprobriously j Surplus fund ,. 45,009.00" in the following century, and bestow- Undivided profits, less . y ^ ed with insulting inference on Wal- current expenses and . . . .. .. . , taxes paid *14,773.03*?':%.' pole, though indignantly disowned by individual de- > Y * % him, as later by Lord North. But the posits sub- v '* .'^JS word premier takes us back to the ject to ck... 73,137.69 ' golden age of Greece. Describing} Time certifi _ . . I cates of de the dominant influence of Fencies on i p0Sjt 30,931 04 > Athenian politics, Thucydides says. Cashier's cks... L971.95 106.040.6S that "what was nominally a democ-j j racy became in reality rule by a . To?aL""*v"W Vi" . ? ? 4< _ State of South Carolina?County of ? premier (literally a foremost Bamberg. man.")?London Chronicle. Before me came G. M. Neeley, cashier of the above named bank, Soft for the Eskimos. who, being duly sworn, says that the v above and foregoing statement is a * ^ T -py . T , true condition of said bank, as Jen Dangaard Imsen, governor of ahown by the books of ^ bank. : Greenland, has recently been in Eng- G. M. NEELEY, Cashier. ' "7??g| land, where he appeared as a witness Sworn to and subscribed before in a claim of the Danish government me th*s day of March, 1917. . ? " i, j i, a D * ' CHAS. M. CHITTY, to a cargo of nsh seized by the Brit- Notary Public, S. C. : 7 ish as a prize of war. While there Cor rest-Attest: ~ / he gave out an interview vMch C. F. RIZER, Director. proved that while Greenland has ? . * , _ , , . . . . , . .. him make haste to apply the remedy hardships such as intensely coid , _ . .A,. .. ' ... -..J# j * that is within his reach. There is weather and limited food, yet the _ . . . . still worse poverty, a poverty of ?? people'are compensated in a meas- , _ _ , vI ViQor-t Tf nno has nn svmnathv with- ? ~ , . , . , ! those who suffer or are in need, he is Greenland has no army to support. ^ ^ ^ . . poor, indeed, lacking the riches that v There is no navy to worry about, f .n. ,. ~ bring the truest joys. When one can <4 There are no policemen in Green- , , . 3 A x !9 . . close his eyes, or ears, or heart, to l3.Hu. v v?S* .p, ? , , > . .an appeal of real suffering, his is a The Greenlander has no taxes to , . , ' , ^ poverty of which to be ashamed. PaAll doctors' bills are paid by the Whea ?" *? * ? never swells with Danish government. grat.tude, when it never goes out to j . , ... ., . x- ?. friend or neighbor, or his counIn an interview with the AssoCiat-. , . ? . , .. . , . ~ p, , .. ' try or his God, he is poor, indeed.? ed Press, Governor Dangaard said: * , _ . , ... , .. Milwaukee Journal. "The waste of human life makes the , . . , . deepest impression on the Greenland- ^ny thmk themselves poor because - . ers. 'The Eskimo believes it wicked T0,1. a?f?rd deS'red IUXUrle8' ..... ? , , Others, lacking much that is usually to kill humans. He kills all animals ... . . r . u. .. thought necessary, feel rich that they and thinks he has a perfect right to L * lxl_ , . . , , , a. i have health and family and love. . do so, but he shrinks from taking a , , , ... TT , , . , . Thev make the best of every chance human s life. He heard of men being ; , . f. ,. ., good that comes. When anv one sthrown against machinery in the fe . j , . , . purse will not provide sufficient food - X great struggle to the south of him * . * ^ , . , 1 ,? . . . ,, or clothing or shelter, we call him ' and believes the whole thing absurd. TT ^ . , , , ~ , , poor. He may be rich in wealth of' v-^-r The Eskimos of Greenland are , , ' , , - >, . , . , , . .p, the heart. To make the best of what ' probablv the only people in Europe . . . one can obtain is riches in spirit.'. WHO EFG not ill teres Leu ni cue uui-1 come of the war. Fortunate Bskl-| 0ntmay> lpdeed> caI1 himsel? poor " mos!?Chattanooga News. . be ha?.B0 f?riepds' but this a poverty #1 L m for which he himself is probably to Po\erty. blame. There is a poverty of mind Poverty is not an exact state.' One also, but, of this one seldom hears' cannot draw a line and say that! complaint. If an idea does come to I ' -J? above it is riches and below poverty.! one that he suffers such a lack, let ' v" 7