Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Mr. D. M. Eaves, of Columbia, was in the city this week. ?Mrs. F. B. McCrackin is spending a few days with relatives in Newberry. ?Mrs. C. W. Rentz, Jr., spent a few days in the city this week with relatives. ?Mrs. J. E. Salley, of Orangeburg, is spending some time in the city I visiting friends. ?G. L. Toole, Esq., of the Aiken bar, was in the city on legal business Monday morning. ?Mr. J. D. Copeland. Jr., has returned home from Como, Miss., where he spent a few days. ?Misses Marion Simmons and Elizabeth Inabinet spent Sunday and Monday in Branchville ?Mrs. G. O. Simmons and children spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Branchville with relatives. ?Elmore Henderson and Ernest a lion ivoro in Orangeburg: and Bam berg Monday.?Aiken Standard. ?Mr. H. L. Allen, of Abbeville, spent a few days in the city last week with his brother, Prof. E. P. Allen. ?Dr. O. D. Faust has returned to the city from Macon, Ga., where he spent five weeks with his children. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Jennings have returned to the city from Glenn Springs, where they spent some time. ?Misses Evelyn Kearse and Ethel 1/ McMillan have returned to the city from Atlanta, where they spent a few days. ?Miss Annie Hartzog has returnhome after spending several weeks at Anderson and otlier points in the State. ?Mr O. D. Faust, Jr., of Jacksonville, Fla., spent several days in the city this weeks with relatives and friends. . ?Mr. J. C. Kearse, of Olar, a student of the South Carolina University, is spending a few weeks in the city reading law in the offices of Carter & Carter. ?Prof. Swain Merchant, of Bamberg, is spending a few days with his mother, Mrs. Fairey.?Spartanburg Herald. ?Messrs. J. E. Shuler, of Aiken, r and E. H. Shuler, of Spartanburg, were in the city a short while Mon/ day morning. ?Miss Sailie Kennedy, of Cope, ,is spending some time with Mrs. Oscar Smoak at Branchville.?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. ?Mrs. W. J. Thomas and sons, \ Calhoun and W. J., Jr., and infant daughter are visiting relatives in Olar, S. C.?Beaufort Gazette. Tobacco, Peanuts and Cotton for 1918 r; ; Editors Bamberg Herald: I am not a practical farmer, nor am I a prophet, but it appears to me that ^ - this is an opportune time for the ? farmers to diversify their crops; especially so in view of the anticipated coming of the boll weevil and the lack of potash. We can not expect a crop of cotton in 1918 without potash and with potash we can't have 1 J a full crop if the weevil comes, w uum it not be better to forestall these hindrances by planting some cotton, some peanuts and some tobacco in 1918? We have some as good tobacco land as can be found within the borders of South Carolina, and if farmers will agree to plant say five acres each I am satisfied that the merchants will build a warehouse that we may have a ready market for what we make. In conversation recently with a farmer from Williamsburg county, I was told that in one small town in the county the farmers had on deposit more than $2,000,000.00, and that the banks were refusing to pay interest on deposits. The peanut industry lias proven successful in ^ Virginia and other states and, while it may not be gen| erally katfwn, there are more peanuts 1[ raj^ecTm Bamberg county than in any tyffTer county in South Carolina. Any! i?.i I ^ of our sandy lands wim some iauu j jr planter will raise 40 to 50 bushels per acre, and these peanuts will readily bring $2.00 to $2.50 per bushel in the markets. If the farmers would agree to plant say 10 acres each next year, 1 am satisfied our ginneries will install the thrashing machines and will also put in the machinery to use the peanuts here. Some planters think no money can be obtained from the banks except K upon cotton as collateral. 1 am conf fident that either of our banks here will cooperate with the farmers looking to an early diversification of crops. If I can he of any service to those interested. I shall be pleased to . do all I can to help them and our county in getting on the proper basis. Don't spend all of your money expecting a big cotton crop next year, for you will be sadly disappointed. Yours truly, H. M. GRAHAM. L\* Xa|K>leoii Died 9<? Years Ago. On October 16, 1S15, Xapoleon landed at St. Helena. He remained until his death, May 21, 1S21. Nowhere in the known world could the Allies have found a more remote place of imprisonment. The island, containing but forty-five square miles, is the summit of a tremendous mountain that rises from the bottom of the ocean, 4,000 miles from London and more than 1,000 miles from the coasts of Africa and South America, the nearest continental land. The tiny speck in the ocean where Xapoleon lived for nearly six years seems to typify his closing years, for St. Helena is an ancient volcano that has ceased to belch forth smoke and fire. The overthrow of Napoleon naturally caused a reconstruction of the map of Europe, and in many ways this reconstruction prepared the way for the present titanic conflict. France was shorn of the territories that the Corsican had added. Holland was set up as an independent kingdom, which included modern Belgium, formerly a possession of Austria. Switzerland was declared independent, as were many of the small Italian States, but Austria, in compensation for the loss of Belgium, was given great districts in Northern Italy. The Polish duchy of Warsaw was given to Russia, and half of Saxony was given over to Prussia. But there were many more changes to be made in the map of Europe before the stage could be set for the present conflict, and these we must briefly glance at j to understand the present crisis. Most important of these changes have been the creation of the German empire and the kingdom of Italy, j Coupled with the former has been the growth of Prussia and the disappearance of many small and feeble Carman States, as well as the absorption of Schleswig-Holstein, important today because the Kiel canal has been constructed in that important neck of: land. Austria has lost the hold that it possessed on Northern Italy; i France has had to relinquish Alsace | and Loraine; Belgium has been created; Turkey has been forced to grant independence to Greece and the other Balkan States. All these changes have had much to do wth precipitating the war of today, which may cause the map of Europe to be made over as radically as it was in 1815. But the changes in boundaries were not the only influence left behind him by Napoleon. He had set up despotism upon the ruins of the ancient order, but it was a different despotism than Europe had ever known before. "I am revolution'' Napoleon once said in one of those brief sentences that show he was much more than a brilliant general. He hated that hart nnnressed the HiC auuoto IUUV UMU ? masses, and. he made it impossible | for many of them to crop out again, [ not only in France, but in many of the nations that had been hostile to the French. The old Bourbon line of kings was restored in France, but the French revolution and Napoleon had left the nation a desire for democracy that made it impossble to revive the abuses fostered under Louis XIV. Napoleon's rise to power shattered the medieval theory that a man could not rise above the class in which he had been born. And the necessity for struggling against his colossal ambition to dictate to Europe had aroused a spirit of nationality in hostile countries, especially in Germany. Through reforms he had introduced and his expressed belief that a unity of Italy was possible, Napoleon had also stirred many Italans into a belief that an independent Italy, free from foreign domination was more than a possibility. For a generation, however. the conservatives were able to keep stifled these sparks of democracy that had been lighted by Napoleon. But they could not extinguish them, and the new and transformed Europe of today owes much of its democratic spirit to the influen'ce of Napoleon, the most dominating, if not the most j virtuous figure in modern history. August Bunstang, said to he an un-1 desirable alien has been lodged in the j Charleston county jail by the United) States authorities. He came recent- j ly from a South American port. There are several Germans who are now in J jail in Charleston. ? Four working parties that are building a railroad across Australia keep in touch with one another by Wireless telegraphy. An instrument has been invented to calculate automatically the length of rafters needed for a roof of any j pitch. Hygiene is being taught to the less civilized natives of the Phillippines with motion pictures. New line of Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pens just received at the Herald Book Store. Apparatus using compressed air has been invented for blowing ice cream from molds M Read The Herald $1.50 the year. I). K. MATHEXY. Whereas, God, in His infinite wisdom, did on the morning of the 26th ult., remove from us by death our beloved brother, D. R. .Matheny; And, whereas, we, the members of the Bamberg Baptist church, of which he was a valued member, desire to place 011 record our feeling of sadness in the loss we have sustained. Therefore, be it resolved, that in the death of Bro. .Matheny our church has lost a most worthy member, the community an honorable citizen, and his family a tender and loving has- ; band and father; Resolved, further, that we extend 'our sympathy to the bereaved family, and that a page in our minute book be inscribed to his memory; also that a copy of these resolutions be published in our county papers and * in the Baptist Courier. T. B. BLACK. J. F. CARTER, C. W. REXTZ, Committee. i Bamberg. S. C. Aug. 20. i MKS \V. 15. MOOKE. It was with genuine sorrow that i we learned of the death of .Mrs. \V. i B. Moore. She was one of Ehrhardt's most devout Christian women. She . will be greatly missed by the church of which she was a member, and by j the entire community, to say nothing of the home she left that will miss j the sunshine of her Godly life. j Whenever there was sickness in the ; town she was there to comfort and j nurse to health again. When there ; was death she was there to close the ! eyes of the dead and to do what she j could to console the broken hearted. ! Now, that her own eyes are closed in j death, she will be greatly missed in i her ministries of kindness, sympa- i thy and love. As a neighbor, she j was unexcelled by any. In the home, j her's was a sweet queenly christian spirit. Somebody has said that "God j could not be everywhere in person. > so he made mothers to represent | him." She loved her little family | aim Iiuiue. one LUHi?aicu a. jj<xi tunable christian pride for both. I am ' sure that the fragrance of her life ! will prove a blessing to others. "Hast thou sounded the depths of; yonder sea, And counted the sands that under it i be? Hast thou measured the height of! heaven above? Then mayest thou mete out a moth- ! er's love. "Hast thou talked with the blest of; leading on To the throne of God some wander- I ing son? Hast thou witnessed the angels bright i employ? Then mayest thou speak of a moth- j er's joy. "There is not a grand inspiring thought, [There is not a truth by wisdom ; taught, . There is not a feeling pure and high, j That may not be read in a mother's eye. "There are teachings on earth, and ! Founta A NEW LOT JDST1 These pens are all fi teed, and we have every hand, rangin from $2.50 to $8.0C We also handle Waterman' Herald B< sky and air, The heavens, the glory of God declare, But more loud than the voice beneath or above, God is heard to speak through a mother's love." To God and the word of his grace we commend the sorrowing ones J. R. SMITH. Fort Mill. S. C. feed out voi r hogs six weeks earlier. In every lot of hogs on feed two or three weeks quickly and actually eat less than others. If all would fatten like these, the entire drove would be ready of the market six weeks earlier and to save six weeks feed is an item that you fully understand. The hog that fattens easily must be in prime physical condition. The B. A. Thomas Hog Powder is a conditioner for hogs. It keeps their system clean and healthy and enables them to fatten quickly without falling a prey to the usual diseases of hogs. The B. A. Thomas Hog Powder is not stock food. It's straight medicine, and we took the agency because it enables you to feed out your hogs much earlier. C. R. BRABHAM'S SONS, Bamberg, S. C. IP HAM PRODUCT NOW BIG SELLER IN 22 STATES. The Remarkable Healing Power of ( Sulferro-Sol Creates Increasing t Demand Over Country. i Oklahoma is the last state to be heard from. Pellagra is very preval- : ent out there and Sulferro-Sol, the only dependable cure for Pellagra is already firmly established in the confidence of Oklahoma sufferers. Mrs. Mattie Moore, of Sallisaw, Okla.. writes to say "I suffered tor tures with Pellagra for ever two years, I was so weak and run down I could not do my housework, and I grew steadily worse in spite of all that was being done for me." "Sulferro-Sol had just been introduced here and I tried it and am pro- * foundlv glad I did, for I have only taken three bottles and am nearly well and feeling strong as can be and doing all my own work again." "Sulferro-Sol is surely a grand medicine and those in my neighborhood who have used it are lavish in their praise of its great healing and building power." Sulferro-Sol is sold and recommended by all druggists in Bamberg and vicinity. Murray Drug Co., wholesale distributers.?adv. ( man's If RECEIVED Lilly guaran- 1 a pen for H ig in price s and Carter's f wk Store UI take pride in the way \1| ?\ kj rlt lit OUr zs ru/I* Our* deposi i a rrj rors inciuae zne oiggesz men in fvi m ; town. U\U ?ac/i individual account is ra I**! | |1 given special attention. I J H 1 Ji We are opening new ac- \| /I $ counts daily. Come in and talk V%E , I over your banking with us. Our 1 / officers will be glad to meet 1 w you. |i I It is the man with cash in ?1 I bank whose voice is heard. w\ Checking and savings ac- Vr r/ i counts. ^ 4 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Savings Deposits. OAPTTAT. AND SURPLUS $100,000.00 Bamberg Banking Co. mmiuuMnmim?aBM?? k0jm WHAT THREE PROMINENT MEN DID , - ; '4 . . - ' * .. r> . ' '? Chief Justice Fuller, Senator Stephen B. Elkins and Marshall Field made Trust Companies Executors and Trustees to manage their Estate for them. By this method they avoided bad and inexperienced management on the part of individuals. May we talk your Estate matters over with ft M you. A conference with us costs you nothing. M r Cye8 ^ BAMBERG BANKING COMPANY I Bamberg, S. C. , I J I ' Mi / B & Southern Railway PREMIER CARRIER OF THE SOUTH. PASSENGER TRAINS SCHEDULES * vt EFFECEIVE SEPT. 17, 1916. i A 'j All Trains Run Daily. so. Arrive Bamberg From No. Leave Bamberg Fof !4 Augusta and intermedi- 24 Branchville, Charleston ate stations 5:05 a. m. and intermediate sta!5 Charleston, Branchville tions 5:05 a.m. - - . or * ??1 ana mtermeaiate sta- aususw auu iutcimotions 6:25 a. m. diate stations 6:25 a. m. .8 Augusta and intermedi- 18 Branchville, Charleston ate stations 8:43 a. m. and intermediate sta15 Charleston and inter- tions .... .... ... ....8:43 a.m. mediate stations ....10:57 a.m. 3o Au?ust3- &n<i intermedi. . a . x ate stations 10:57 a.m. ,2 Augusta and intermedi- 22 Branchville, Charleston ate stations 6:37 p. m. an(j intermediate sta7 Charleston, Branchville, tions 6:37 p.m. and intermediate sta- 17 Augusta and intermeditions 8:17 p. m. ate stations 8:17 p. m. Trains Nos. 17 and 24?Through sleeping car service between Bamberg ind Atlanta. ' j N. B.?Schedules published as information only. Not guaranteed. For information, tickets, etc., call on S. C. HOLLIFIELD, Agent, THE SOUTHERN SERVES THE SOUTH. 1 Nnfi/>a tn tlin Puklipf I I iiuui/U iu uit i uuiiv* a I WE BEG TO ADVISE THE PUBLIC OF ^ THE FOLLOWING CHANGE IN FIRE |? INSURANCE RATES GRANTED. BY || THE INSURANCE COMMISSIONER OF H Basis Rate Town Dwelling $1.05 Wk. Basis Rate Country Property $1.00 l? I Contents, of all buildings, mercantile stock is also advanced 10 i>or cent. |S| EFFECTIVE SEPT. 1, 1017 || I Riley & Copeland i Bamberg, - - South Carolina B