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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
Thursday, April 5, 1917.
The next time you hear a German
sympathizer saying that the United
States brought on the war, ask him
how many Germans the United States
has killed and how many Americans
have been killed by the Germans. For
your information, we will say that
something over two hundred Americans
have been slaughtered by the
Germans.
The Orangeburg Evening Xews. organized
in 1 904, has discontinued
publication. Last Saturday the Xews
had the following announcement:
"With T;his issue, the Orangeburg
Evening News will be discontinued.
On account of the increased cost of
paper and other materials, together
with the limited patronage in the
way of advertising given the paper,
the publishers find to continue the
publication of the same would be unprofitable."
Although it may be true that
misery loves company, we deny any
pleasure in seeing the Baptist Courier
printed on paper almost as shoddy as
that now being used by The Enquirer.
But we are sure that the publishers
of The Courier, like the publishers
of The Enquirer, would not stand
for such a thing if they could help
themselves.?Yorkville Enquirer.
We do not see, however, that it detracts
from either of these excellent
journals to be printed on "common"
paper. They do not look exactly
right, but they are just as good to
read as ever?in fact better.
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How many people know that it is
a misdemeanor for any person under
the influence of whiskey to drive an
automobile on a public highway?
Such a law was passed at the last session
of the general assembly. It is
a good law, and it ought to be enforced.
It might be of some inconvenience
to joy riders, but it.would
certainly be beneficial to the public
to cut out drunken and half-drunken
auto driving. The following is the
law, as quoted by an exchange:
From and after the passage of
this act it shall be unlawful for any
person or 'persons while under the
influence of intoxicating liquors or
narcotics, to drive or operate upon
the public highways of this State any
automobile, motorcycle or other motor
vehicle.
Any person or persons violating
the provisions of this act shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof by a court
of competent jurisdiction, shall be
fined in a sum of not less than twenty
nor more than one hundred dollars,
or imprisoned for a period of not
less than twenty nor more than thir- j
ty days in the county jail or upon j
the county chaingang of the county
in which the violation occurred.
* Chester and Laurens counties yesterday
voted bonds for good roads.
Cherokee county and Union township
have already voted bonds.
Greenville. Spartanburg, McCormick
and Pickens counties have already issued
bonds for good roads. Abbeville,
Charleston, and Colleton counties
will vote on the question this
spring. It would seem that the people
of South Carolina are at last
awakening to the importance of good
^ roads.?Spartanburg Journal.
Here are seven South Carolina
counties that have voted good roads
bonds, and three more that will in
all probability be added to the list.
The sentiment is rapidly spreading in
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appears, for some reason, to be a
deep prejudice in Bamberg county
against issuing- bonds, but we believe
that the time is not far distant when
Bamberg will fall into line. It will
be a big job for somebody to convince
our people that they need roads
bad enough to issue bonds to build
them, but some one will rise to the
task. Each one of the counties nofr
issuing bonds will get a large slice
of the government good roads funds.
We understand the plan is to distribute
the money to those counties
putting up a like amount. We do
not think Bamberg will ever be able
to appropriate any considerable
v amount of money at one time without
resorting to bonds; and past experience
has taught us that money
spent on roads in driblets will never
get us the system of highways that
the county needs.
Male and female slaves were sold
publicly in the fairs of England during
the fourteenth century.
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The coal production of Iowa in
1915, according to figures made public
by the United States geological
survey and the geological survey of
Iowa, amounted to 7,614,142 short
tons valued at $13,5 77,608, an increase
of 163,121 tons and $213,538
value. It was exceeded in only two
previous years, 1909 and 1910.
L. F. Gordon, of Gossville, Pa., believes
he has established a record for
hatching game, bird's eggs with a
hen, one of his fowls recently coming
off a nest of twenty-five English
pheasants eggs with a brood of twenty-two.
When the little birds are old
enough to care for themselves Mr.
Gordon plans to liberate them in his
game preserve in Venango county.
PLANT FOODSTUFFS.
D. I*. Coker Emphasizes Importance
of Raising Sufficient (irain Croi>s.
Just at this time there is no more
interesting and instructive reading
for the farmers than the market page
of the daily papers and every farmer
should subscribe to a paper that regularly
quotes the markets 011 ail commodities
that he is interested in.
Can anything be more instructive
than these extracts from the market
page of today's paper?
"Highest war prices yet were
touched today in the wheat market."
"Cash wheat No. 3 red $2.06 to
$2.06 1-2" (Chicago.)
"Corn No. 3 yellow $1.21 to $1.213-4"
(Chicago).
"Cash wheat No. 2 red $2.19 to
$2.20" (St. Louis).
"Cash corn No. 2 white $1.23 1-2
to $1.24" (St. Louis).
"Hogs?Receipts 21,000; steady at
15 cents above yesterday's average;
bulk 15 cents to 15.25" (Chicago).
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v^attic irvc^ciyLi> t,vvv, bicau y.
Native beef cattle 9.10 to 12.90"
(Chicago).
"Cotton October delivery, New
York closing 18 cents."
"Ribs July delivery?Chicago
18.50" (October not quoted).
"Corn?July delivery $1.75" (October
not quoted).
Cash corn is quoted at several different
townS over the State at an
average price of about $1.45 per
bushel. ;
Let the farmer who is planning to
put in all the cotton he can without
making adequate provision for foodstuffs
and live stock study these figures
clos^Ty. Can he figure a profit
if he pays $1.45 for corn, 20 cents
for meat and $10.50 for flour, and
sells his cotton next October at 17
1-2 cents per pound? Based on yesterday's
market the above are about
the figures that he must use in his
calculations.
There are market tendencies, however,
that should also be taken into
consideration. Provisions have recently
advanced much more rapidly
than cotton and may continue to do
so. Cotton, it is true, is scarce, but
foodstuffs are scarcer and the world
can get along without cotton very
much better than without foodstuffs.
European countries will have to depend
very largely on ^merica for
food for the next two years whether
the war lasts that long or not, as
their productive capacity cannot
reach an average figure until some
time after .the close of the war.
I am not pessimistic as to the future
prices for cotton, but I can't see
any excuse for more than a moderate
acreage in cotton under present conditions,
with foodstuffs at the highest
point we have ever known and the
boll weevil on the threshold of our
State. A little study and intelligent
cooperation between farmers will enable
them to raise hogs at moderate
cost and market them at a price to
net on present market around 13
cents on foot.
Many .farmers have lands which
will provide good summer pasturage
for a few head of cattle and hogs,
and these could be carried through
the winter and fattened almost without
cost by grazing them during the
fall and winter upon Abruzzi rye
nlnnrpd in thpir rnttnn fiplds and vel
vet beans planted in their corn fields.
There is still time for our farmers
to respond to the appeals of our
State and national authorities and of
the newspapers to increase their acreage
of foodstuffs. The outcome of
the great world war is going to depend
very largely upon who controls
the supply of foodstuff. The farmer
who draws from instead of adding to
the country's supply of foods will be
a hindrance to the nation instead of
a help in the prosecution of the war.
Patriotism and self interest both say
plant corn, plant beans, raise plenty
of garden truck, raise hogs and cattle
and waste nothing that can be utilized
as feed for man and beast. Will
our farmers rise to the occasion??
David R. Coker, Hartsville. .March
30.
Author No Asset.
At a local bazaar they were offering
autographed copies of books by
Indianapolis authors.
"Hpro ic a vprv dftliffhtflll book.
suitable for a gift, and autographed
by the author. One dollar and a
half," said the smiling manager of
the booth.
"A dollar and a half!" gasped the
prospective purchaser, a little woman
who held her tempted purse close to
her breast.
"Yes, a doliar and a half. The autograph,
you know, has an especial
value."
"Why, I can get a copy of that
book at a downtown store for a dollar."
"Yes, I know you can, but not autographed
by the author."
The prospective purchaser's face I
suddenly took on a look of high wisdom
and then she blurted out:
"Oh, well, I know who wrote it,
anyhow."?Indianapolis News.
Read The Herald, $1.50 per year.
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$690,000 CASH.
Rolls From liag Checked From Aiken ]
to Chicago.
When a suit case, the property of
.Mrs. J. K. Stewart, who died in
Aiken, S. C., last Monday, was opened
in the offices of the Merchants
Loan and Trust company on Adams
street Saturday $690,000 in currency
?in $5,000 and $10,000 gold bills?r
rolled"out on the table.
Certified checks to the amount of 1
$296,000 also were found in the bag, :
which was supposed to contain articles
of some value-clothing and
some jewelry, and possibly a second
will. Scant attention had been paid
to it on its trip to Chicago. '
Mrs. Stewart was the widow of the
late founder and president of the
Stewart-Warner Speedometer com- :
pany. He died ten months ago in
New York.
Two to lie Buried Here.
The body of Mrs. Stewart reached
Chicago Thursday morning and was 1
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taKen to a vauit in uraceianu cemetery.
Mr. Stewart's body is in a
vault in Brooklyn. It will be brought
to Chicago and the two will be
buried side by side in Graceland.
Unless a second will is discovered
in the vaults in New York the entire
Stewart estate will go to the two
daughters?Marion. 14 years old, and 1
Jean, 5 years old. The eldest daugh- *
ter came with the funeral party from
the South and is now at the home of 1
Mr. and Mrs. Leander H. La Chance,
1020 Ardmore avenue, Jean was left
in Aiken under the care of her governess.
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The finding of nearly $1,000,000
in the suitcase was as great a surprise
to friends of the family as to
the officials of the bank, which is 1
trustee of Mrs. Stewart's estate un- j
der the only will her Chicago attor- j
ney, John Dj Black, who drew this
will, has any knowledge.
Suit Case Checked?
It was reported that the suit case
with its precious contents was checked
in the baggage car when the
funeral party left Aiken the fore part
of the week and that the baggage
master threw it about like any ordinary
bag. While members of the
family would not talk about it, acquaintances
said it was carried along
with other hand luggage and no heed
was paid to it, as none of the party
knew what it contained.
That it should be sent to the bank
in Chicago was generally understood
and it was known that some valuables
were in it which the bank
should take charge of as trustee,
that it contained nearly $1,000,000
was not suspected.
Turned Over to Bank.
When the funeral party arrived in
Chicago an official of the local bank :
met them. The suit case was then
turned over to him with the remark
that it should be left in the custody
of the trustee until they had an opportunity
to itemize the contents.
The official took it to the bank and
put it in a vault, little dreaming that
he carried hundreds of thousands of
dollars in currency, besides other
hundreds of thousands in certified
checks.
The denomination of the currency
is the largest in circulation. Few
$10,000 gold bills are seen in any
of the banks and only occasionally do
the larger denominations turn up.
From all that could be learned
yesterday the members of Mrs. Stewart's
immediate family had no in
timation that such a fortune was
kept in the winter home in the South '
especially in currency that was immediately
available for use. '
The suit case was forgotten until
after the funeral services at Graceland.
Disposition of Kstate.
The death of the widow revives
interest in the disposition of the estate,
accumulated by Stewart with
the invention of the speedometer.
At his death, ten months ago. a
contest was instituted in the effect to
break one of two wills he was said
to have made, the last will except for
what purported to have been a copy,
having been lost.
In his first will, made two years
hofnrA his death, he bequeathed
$125,000 outright to Thomas F.
Clark, of Pasadena, a son of Mr.
Stewart's former partner, created a
trust fund of $1,000,000 for the two
daughters, and provided a life interest
in the remainder for the widow.
The second will, the original of
which was lost, and which was gave
only the income from $150,000 to
young Clark and divided the remainder
of the estate equally between
the widow and the two daughters.
This is the will that finally
was proven up as the last testament.
?Chicago Tribune, March 19th.
What Kngland Has Borrowed.
Total borrowing of the British government
between August 1. 1914, and
December 31. 1916, was $15,000,000,000,
of which $900,000,000 has
been repaid. Short-term loans and
floating obligations" accounted for
$10,500,000,000 of the gross total.?
New York Post.
OIL IX MARLBORO COUNTY. I
In Rigging for Foundation of Flour
Mill, Kerosene is Discovered.
C. H. Jackson was digging a pit on
his farm at the Five Forks last week
in which to put machinery for a flour
mill and a distinct scent of oil was
noticed. He paid little attention to
it till Saturday, when the accumulation
of an oily substance was so pronounced
that he began an investigation.
It now developes that there is
a small quantity of crude oil seeping
through the earth's surface to within
five feet of the top.
Examinations are being made and
it seems altogether probable that we
will have some gushers right here at
us.
The strata on which this oil is
found is the flat lands, and if a true
production of crude oil, there is a
very large territory affected, as this
low, flat land is said to extend from
near the fair grounds at Bennettsville
to a point near Latta. A great deal of
it is covered with timber yet. As
soon as definite surveys and tests are
made there will be something doing
in this section, if we are blessed with
oil.
Since the above was written by the
Advocate's Clio correspondent, the
editor went to Five Forks Tuesday
afternoon and examined the oil.
which was found oozing from the
chalky clay at the bottom of the fivefoot
excavation which Mr. Jackson
had made for the foundation of his
flour mill. The odor and looks of the
oil show undoubtedly that it is crude
kerosene. It burns freely when a
match is applied.
Water is also trickling irfto the excavation,
and stands about a foot
deep if not pumped off in several
hours. The oil floats on the top of
the water and forms a yellow scum. ]
A sample of the oil was obtained
from the excavation and is on exhibi-;
tion at the Advocate office.
Mr. Jackson said that telegrams
had been sent to Columbia and Washington
for experts to come and make
an examination. He expects them in
a day or two.
Mr. Jackson is a son of Rod Jackson,
of Dillon county, and a nephew
of J. M. Jackson, of Bennettsville.
The 360-acre tract of land on which
he resides at Five Forks is part of
the estate of his wife's grandfather,
Col. T. N. Edens. It is between Clio
and Blenheim, about four miles from
each place.
It is probabie that there is a large
quantity of oil down in the earth at
that place and possibly over a large
area^in that section, and is seeping
through the chalk to near the surface
at that point. In oil sections wells
are often bored hundreds of feet deep
to reach the oil.
Dozens of people from miles
around were viewing the oil flow at
Five Forks Tuesday afternoon. Hundreds
have been ther.e since the oil
was discovered.?Pee Dee Advocate.
Stage Fright.
Inexperienced speakers, when called
on to make public addresses,
sometimes suffer from4stage fright,
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wmcn. causes actual iuncuonai uerangeraents
of speech. A French
physician has made a study of the
subject and made public the results
in an address to a recent congress
of alienists in France. There are
two principal causes, he says, vacillation
and stammering. These can occur
either separately or together,
usually there is perturbation of the
respiratory function. The speaker
takes in the air too rapidly, expires
when he should inspire, or vice versa.
He speaks in too high a tone, fatigues
his larynz, grows hoarse and,
if his address be long sometimes
loses his voice altogether. These defects
can be overcome, according to
the French physician, by breathing
properly, speaking slowly and in a j
deep tone of voice. Special practice
is required to attain this. The
speaker must take a course of exercises
designed to regulate and retard
the movements of respiration and he
must accustom himself to speaking
in a low tone. The best results can
be obtained by the use of a friend to
check too rapid speaking. A certain
vmm? nhvsician. according .to the
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Review of Reviews, corrected this defect
by discoursing in front of his
mirror and obliging himself to pronounce
a certain number of words in
a certain length of time.?Indianapolis
News.
Aiken County Selling Cattle.
Aiken, March 24.?During the past
few weeks a number of cattle buyers
have visited this county and bought
around 500 head of cattle. This is
something new for this county to be
such a large shipper of cattle. Last
week 262 head of cattle were sold
and the value of the herds was about
$1 6,000. The shippers were: Wallace
McXair, 26; M. E. Holley, 60;
Dan Crosland, 110; J. P. McXair, 66.
Recently Thomas Hitchcock sold 117,
and B. F. Holley and Fabian Summerall
104.
FAMOUS WELL GOES DRY.
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Legend of Beautiful Welsh Girl and
Wicked Prince Recalled.
The dispatches telling that St. Winilred's
well, in Holywell, Flintshire,
Wales, has gone dry observe that it
had been flowing "from time immemorial,"
but legend is more specific
as to the date of its origin. Winifred,
or Winefride, as she was known
in the Catholic church, or Guenevra,
as she was called until the conquest
of Wales, was born about A. D. 600.
Her uncle, St. Bueno, built a monastery
in Flintshire, where the girl
lived with her father, Thevit, a Cambrian
magnate.
Cadadoc, son of a neighboring
prince, tried to carry off Winifred.
She fled toward her uncle's church,
but the wicked youth overtook her
on the slope above the site of the
present well and with his sword cut
off her head. The head rolled down
the incline, and where it rested gush
ed the spring. St. Bueno left the altar,
returned the head to the body
and covered them with his cloak.
After mass he removed the cloak and
Winifred was as well as ever, except
for a thin white circle around her
neck. Presently Cadadoc fell dead
when he stood insolently leaning upon
his sword, and it was the popular
belief in Wales that the earth
opened and swallowed him.
There was a stone in the well pool,
and St. Bueno, standing on this, made
the promise that "whosoever on that
spot should thrice ask for a benefit
from God in the name of St. Winifred
would obtain the grace he as?ed if
it was for the good of his soul." All
this we have from the British monk,
Elerius, whose manuscript is in the
British museum, and from another
script supposed to have been written
by Robert, prior of Shrewsbury. The
well has been regarded by pious persons
as another Lourdes.?New York
Sun.
Her Little Failing.
We had another visit with great
grandmother the other day, relates
the Cleveland Plain Dealer. She
said, in part:
"Yes, the girls do things now that
would have been considered wicked
in my day, but girls aren't any
wickeder. But points o^ view change
back and forth. I have been told
that some women who are otherwise
respectable, smoke cigarettes nowadays.
Think how that would have
horrified us fifty years ago! And
yet?my dear " old grandmother
smoked a clay pipe.
"How that would horrify my
grandchildren!"
"What form of tobacco do you ptefer?"
we asked her.
"Get along with you! One is barbarous
and the other is degenerate.
The woman Who would smoke a pipe
is a hag and the woman that would
smoke a cigarette is a hussy. - n
"But listen"?and here she whispered?"I
do enjoy a mild cigar after
my dinner."
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For Mayor.
i Mr. C. W. Rent2 is hereby an- '
nounced as a candidate for mayor of
Bairiberg in the approaching -town
; election. CITIZENS.
! NOTICE OF TOWN ELECTION.
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! Notice is hereby given that on . .
, Tuesday, May 1st,. 1917, an election
will be held in the Town of Bamberg
for mayor, six aldermen, and a comj
missioner of public works. All electors
for said election will have to
! register again, and books of regis- . tration
will remain open, in the office %
of E. H. Henderson, supervisor of
registration, until April 23rd, 1917.
, 4-5. CITY OF BAMBERG..
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND 3
CREDITORS.
All nAVnAnn Vlovinnr flloimS 5 tTQ 1 n of
Alt pctsuua uanug VUU1US
the estate of James Parlor, deceased,
i (will file the same, luly itemized and
| verified, with the undersigned quaiified
executor within sixty days from ';3|
the date hereof, and failing so to
comply with this notice, will be
barred; and.all persons indebted to
i said estate, will make payment to the
1 undersigned executor forthwith.
H. M. GRAHAM,
[j Executor.->< . :(?
Bamberg, S. C., March 16, 1917. 4 V;c3f
CLEVELAND BIG BOLL
. i of the Wannamaker Strain,
grown and ginned on those farms
. where ten huhdred and fifty acres >vs
planted in Cleveland came up in June # Vi
! last year and under adverse weather ' -?
I conditions yielded seven hundred and
'f fifty bales. Lnts same percentage
I as best little boll vaiyeties. These
seed are not 100 per cent, pure, but
are as pure as seed can be kept and
i grown under general farm conditions.
State chemist tested germination
and reported ninety per cent. Six
dollars for four-bushel sack. Two
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