The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 22, 1917, Page 4, Image 4
?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