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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27,1917. Established 1891.
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Colston Clippings.
Colston, Sept. 26.?The Colston rural
graded school will begin the
fourth session on next Monday, Oct.
1, with Miss Sadie Boyd, of Chester,
as principal, and Miss Annie Lou
Hutson, of Springfield, as assistant.
Mrs. P. M. Yarn has returned home
after spending some time with her
son, Mr. Hammie Varn, of Columbia.
Mr. and Mrs. Laurie Copeland and
little daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
Fender and litle daughter, of Ehrhardt,
spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Beard.
Mrs. J. F. Clayton was the welcome
guest of her daughter, Mrs.
B. W. Beard, Saturday night and Sunday.
Misses Bessie and Minnie Kirkland
spent Saturday night with Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Jennings.
Mr. Reuben Kearse, of this section,
was among the men who left Saturday
for Camp Jackson. His many
friends here hope for him a safe return.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Clayton dined
with Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Bishop Sunx
day.
Rev. Walter Black was the welcome
guest of Mr. and Mrs. S. W.
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V^iav lUU Odiuiua< uigui.
Misses Evelyn Kirkland and Alberta
Kearse; Messrs. Gerald and
Dawson Kearse and Edgar Folk dined
with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jennings '
% Sunday.
Mr. Will McMillan spent Saturday
night with Messrs. Claude and Frank
Kirkland.
Messrs. Perry Lee McMillan and
Malone Varn, of Columbia, spent
Sunday and Monday in this section.
Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Clayton and
children and Rev. Walter Black dined
with Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Beard
Sunday.Messrs.
John and Hammie Folk
were the Sunday guests at the home
of their uncle, Mr. R. F. Kirkland.
Misses Cora and Dora McMillan
^ and Mr. Copeland Zeigler spent Saturday
night with Misses Alberta and
Natalie Kearse.
' Buford Bridge Budget.
Buford Bridge, Sept. 24.?The Bu
3 caVi/v/n! ononoH \T An H <J V
1UIU onugc amuui .uvuuu^
: morning with a large attendance.
Miss Ruth Shuler, of Elloree, who
< taught here last year, has charge of
the school again. Both teacher and
pupils are glad to be back together
again.
/ Miss^Ada Kearse, a recent graduate
nurse of Fayetteville, N. C., is
at home now.
Mrs. Carrie Miller, of Appleton, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. R. M. Kearse.
Mr. J. H. Kirkland and family
spent last week in Beaufort.
Mr. Toney Kirkland is attending
school in North Augusta.
Mr. Fletcher Kirkland, Miss Elizabeth
Kirkland and Miss Cleo Kearse
have returned to Bamberg to resume
their studies at Carlisle school.
Mr. Clyde Kearse, of Camp Jackson,
was at home last Sunday.
Mr. R. L. Kearse and family, of
Colston, spent last* Sunday with Mr.
J. B. Kearse and family.
BOAGUS.
Clear Pond Callings.
Clear Pond, Sept. 24.?Mrs. E.
Hutto and family and Mr. and Mrs.
John Schwarting were visitors at the
home of Mr. G. W. Folk Sunday,
j Miss Clara Priester. of Bamberg,
visited Miss Ruth Morris last week.
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Miss Florine Hughes and brother
spent Sunday with Miss Me'ta Hughes.
Mr. and Mrs. Q. H. Sandifer and
children visited at the home of Mr.
G. W. Folk Saturday and Sunday.
The Baptist State-wide go-to-Sunday-school
day will be observed at
r>hnroh npvt Snndav morn
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ing. An interesting programme will
be carried out. We hope to have a
large crowd present. The collection
will go to State missions.
Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Johns, of
Lodge, spent Sunday and Monday at
Mr. G. W. Folk's.
Sehofield Sketches.
Schofield, Sept. 24.?Mr. H. T.
Kearse spent several days in Savannah
this week on a business trip.
The little daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. G. C. Sanders is very ill at this
writing. We hope to see her out
again soon.
Messrs. L. E. Drawdy and George
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GOSPEL TO FOLLOW FLAG. j
Khaki-bound Testaments Are Printed
in All Languages.
Complete testaments bound in khaki,
so that they can go into the field
in regulation fighting clothes, are being
prepared for the soldiers of the
country, and Bibles in every tongue,
from' Chinese to Yiddish, are being
published by the hundreds of thousands,
so that the Gospel may follow
the flag. Ministers and priests of all
the churches in the United States,
Protestant and Catholic, are offering
their services for religious work at
the training camps.
New York and New Jersey Guardsmen
have received invitations from
the ministers of Spartanburg, Petersburg,
Atlanta, Louisville and Houston
to accept the religious hospitality that
is to be provided in the vicinity of
their camps. Twenty million Sundayschool
children are being organized
to take part in the war work, with all
sorts of tasks assigned to them. Sixty
societies of Catholic women are busy
forming a war board to help the
Knights of Columbus to furnish the
buildings that are to be erected in
this country and France.
The demands for newly appointed
chaplains for equipment has caused
the American Bible Society to ask for
$150,000 to be used in printing new
works. One about to fight to make
the world safe for democracy can get
St. John's Gospel for two and a half
cents and the Proverbs on the same
scale, with complete Testaments for
eight cents.?New York Sun.
Who Can Equal This Canning?
"Never having done any canning of
fruits and vegetables, I felt a little
uneasy about my undertaking," said
.Mrs. E. D. Brown, of Norwood. "However,
when the campaign for food
conservation became so acute, I wasdetermined
that I would be no slacker.
If every woman has succeeded
as well as I have, no family will be
poorly supplied with canned goods
for the winter's use. So far I have
filled about eight hundred cans with
beans, tomatoes, okra, beets, peas,
carrots, corn, squash, gherkins, black <
berries, peaches, apples, pears and
other things. Besides I have several
hundred glasses of jelly. Neither
have I completed my work. You
should see my storeroom shelves.
They are so attractive, and in neatness
rival those of a grocer's place.
Tf th^ ?nvpmmpnt shmild enmman
deer all the canned food in the shops
my family would not suffer. Best
of all, I have lost only two cans of
the entire lot, and the work has given
me the keenest pleasure."?Birmingham
News.
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Book Store.
Beard and their families motored over
to Donora last Sunday.
Mr. F. M. Elliott went to Columbia
Saturday and will probably be away
for several days. He is at the Baptist
hospital under the care of a physician.
Mr. F. B. Drawdy has returned
from a trip to Owensboro, Ky., where
he went to accept a position with a
lumber company. He says there is
no place like SchoJBeld.
Mr. P. K. Shultz spent the weekend
in Savannah.
Mr. D. L. Shiplett spent Sunday at
Fairfax.
Miss Grace Inabinet, of Ulmers,
visited relatives here this week.
Mr. J. L. Owen spent Sunday last
at Columbia. DRAEBLR.
Fairfax School Opens.
Fairfax, Sept. 25.?The Fairfax
high and graded school opened yesterday
morning with an enrollment of
160 pupils, the largest number in the
history of the school. Addresses bristling
with encouragement and good
cheer were delivered by the Rev. E.
A. McDowell and the Rev. D. B.
Groseclose and J. E. Johnston and
J. F. Lightsey, of the board of trustees.
An innovation for the school
is the woman principal and all of the
other teachers are women, as follows:
Miss Myrtle Epting, of Pomaria,
principal: Miss Lucile Youmans,
of Hendersonville, high school assis
tant; Miss Lillian Miller, of Salis-j
btiry, X. C., sixth and seventh grades; |
Miss Louise Durant, of Clinton, j
fourth and fifth grades; Miss Alma
Knight, of Fairfax, third grade; Miss
| Grace Rickenbacker, of Greenville,
first and second grades; Miss Mary
Stansell, of Elko, music.
This is an addition of one teacher.
All of these young ladies are experienced
teachers and another successful
year is looked forward to with
confidence.
HISTORY OF COTTON TINTS
PAPER READ BY A. W. BRABHAM
BEFORE PLANT BREEDERS.
Cotton Wizard Says That Originally
Color of Lint Cotton Corres%
ponded to Color of Seed.
The following paper on colored cot
ton was read Dy ;\ir. a. w. jBraonam,
of Olar, before the Plant Breeders association
at Florence on September
4th:
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Mr. president and gentlemen: ?
It seems to me that the average writer
on scientific subjects tries to obscure
the meaning of what he writes,
and when I read such articles I am
reminded of what an old darkey of
my section said of a bombastic
preacher. "Why," said the old man,
"it is no use for me to hear Brother
Brown. He leads me into deep water
and leaves me there. He preaches
in Greek, and uses those ericks,
those iricks, tfcoe jetticks, those
cyreleons and keeps me lost."
In this paper I shall endeavor to
make my meaning plain, at least I
shall use no Greek or words like
the above, but will employ the simplest
diction of our language.
I fear the subject of colored cotton
has become to the public as tire
some as a {wice-told tale, and I daresay
results are expected.
At th.e outset let me say that this
has been an ill-fated year to me with
all sorts of cotton. The weather with
us till the first of June was cruel,
then hail the 3rd and 4th of July did
some damage. The cold rains in April
and the frost in May caused much of
my cotton of color to fail to germinate,
and that much of my work must
bfc gone over again.
There is not the least doubt that
cotton of many colors can be produced,
for of the primal sorts we have
in ^existence the brown and red or
buff of Peru, the yellow-brown of
Siam and the brown and eucre of
Egypt. I have been trying for several
years to get these colors together,
but owing to the demoralized state
of the world, it has been impossible
to do so, and to get such colors as I
have, I have had to cross the Egyptian
of almost a white color with selected
native seeds. From these results
have been secured that made
me hopeful of reaching the goal of
my ambition in a few more years, but
alas!
"The plans of mice and men oft
gang aglee!"
However, sometimes misfortune is
the forerunner of fortune. Let us
hope so, anyhow. ?
You ask, why strive for cotton of
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COiUr l DCL'dUSC 11 lO axx uuunvnu
science, an undiscovered country, a
fertile field for work and thought.
The colored cotton produced abroad
meets with ready sale, or if not so
the growers there would plant the
white as we do. All cotton of color
mercerizes better than the white. The
eucre shades of the Egyptian stand
second to the Barbadoes or sea island,
and in strength and evenness
of fibre it surpasses some of the
grades of the above. The red Peruvian
is used in upholstery, while the
brown is a good mixer with wool.
How many colons of cotton are possible?
That depends on how many
of the primal sorts can be found or
restored, and the limit to which crosses
are made. I am a firm believer in
the restoration of a lost variety, and
I am sure that several primal colors
have been lost during the lapse of
time. So long as the species exist
there is strong hope of the lost variety
being restored.
Let us take a philosophical view
tho cnhippf hv pnmDarison. Take
man, the highest type of life. Of the
human species there exists today pure
specimens of five huge families having
sprung from five primal pairs.
I am aware that this declaration is at
variance with the teachings of the
Pentateuch, but I also know that
these same misleading statements
found there, incompatible with common
sense and all natural laws have
made and is making atheists of a
large majority of the students of na *
T^1 rtf VifttVl nlont
cure, i ue leu ge iiuuiuct \jl
and animal life testify conclusively
to the plurality of primal pairs, of
different shades and hues. No man
can get around nature's laws. Like
begets like for all time. White will
breed white forever unless bred with
a color. Black will do the same. It
would be a biological impossibility
for one pair of human beings alike
in blood to have progeny as varicolored
as man is today. A glance up
the human family tree as drawn by
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FERGUSON OUSTED.
Texas Governor Impeached by Senate
Court. .
Austin, Texas, Sept. 22.?James E.
Ferguson was tonight completely severed
from his office as governor of
Texas, to which position he was twice
elected by the people of the State, the
senate higli court of impeacnment
this afternoon having sustained ten
of the 21 charges in the bill returned
against him by the house committee
of the whole. Acting Gov. William
P. Hobby, an editor of Beaumont, assumes
the full power of office, his
tenure extending to January; 1919.
Next Tuesday at noon the senate as
a high court will formally pronounce
its judgment. Conviction carries disbarment
from future office, but it is
understood this condition may be
ameliorated. ,
Read The Herald $1.50 the year.
Prof. Huxley reveals more than 100
types of men living and the white
man is responsible for the greater
part of these manifestations of
variations, because he has been
a nomad, a rover, going from
place to place, besides white has
the power to master any color with
which it is bred.
Take a lower step in life. Look at
our domestic animals, and see the
different types and colors. No sane
man can possibly believe that each
species or genera sprung from one
primal pair, regardless of the tfeachMncoc
All natnro doolaros
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that primal pairs were plural.
Animal and plant life are the same.
One, is animate, the other inanimate,
but the natural laws that govern one
govern both. It is a fixed decree of
nature that there should be variations
in both plants and animals, and
each one is a perfect ashler, it fits
in its place. But variations must
come by crosses and/ hybrids?must
be bred out of the regular line. There
would be no variations without crosses
or hybrids.
The reason why there are so few
colors of cotton is because the colors
have been widely segregated. Only
once in the history of man or cotton
has cotton of colors had a chance to
mate or cross and that was when a
Frenchman by mere accident, 50-odd
years ago, discovered that cotton
would grow in the Nile delta. A cotton
famine was world-wide at that
time, and the news of its growing
in the land of the ancient Pharaohs
flashed around the world like the
golden rays of the rising sun. Seeds
1 from every cotton growing country
in the" cotton producing world poured
into the Nile valley and were planted
indiscriminately. The one giving the
best results was a light brown long
staple. The other sorts were all discarded.
In after years the Coptic
planter was amazed to find the inferior
Hindi cotton growing with his
superior staple cotton. "From whence
came you?" asked the Coptic of this
cotton. The experts of Europe were
appealed to who came to their aid?
men educated in the highest seats of
learning in Europe, and who perhaps
had had practice in the royal gardens
of.-Kew. They came upon the scene;
took a fine mesh wire and made sections
insect proof, planted under this
wire seeds selected with great care,
yet for all this care the Hindi cotton
grew even under this wire. They
never thought for a moment that this
poor grade cotton had years ago mated
with this fine cotton and had become
part and parcel of it. Now, this
same indiscriminate planting of cotton
in the Nile valley more than 50
years ago, makes it possible to
grow cotton of colors from Egyptian
strains. More than this: Somewhere
in the lapse of time white cotton assimilated
or overpowered cotton of
colors that do not now exist. We see
this by the color of the seed. Green
seed at one time grew green lint,
black seed, black lint; brown seed,
brown lint, and so on. The seed is
an index to the color of the lint in
ages past.
The plant breeder has much to do.
When men were few^and flocks and
herds plentiful, man waxed fat on the
fruits of his herds and flocks. Plant
life was secondary then. Now the
order is reversed. Men are plentiful
and flocks and herds are growing
scarcer year by year, and ere long the
human family must look to plant life
for sustenance. The field is fruitful.
To restore the lost colors of cotton,
,to bring into being new colors, is a
task for the plant breeder. I am sure
both can be done and concur with Balzac,
who says: "As soon as we seek to
penetrate the secrets of nature,
where nothing is secret, and where it
is only necessary to have the eyes
' to see, we perceive the simple produces
the marvelous."
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
There are now approximately 5,000
soldiers of the national army at Camp
Jackson.
Nobles of the order of the Mystic
Shrine are to have a great confab in
Columbia November 9th.
J. H. Rogers, a young white man,
is under arrest in Spartanburg charged
with enticing labor from the State.
William J. Cormack has secured
the position of Columbia correspondent
of the Charleston News and Courier.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke, one of the
most noted ministers and authors in
the world, will visit the boys at
Camp Jackson some time next month.
The First Baptist chyrch of Anderson
has furnished 59 men for service
in the army and navy. A roll of
these men has been made and will
be placed on the walls of the church.
Fitz Hugh McMaster, insurance
commissioner, who will not seek reelection
before the general assembly
has accepted a position as city editor
of the Columbia State, and will
enter upon his duties as a newspaper
man early next year. He was employed
as a'newspaper man before he
became insurance commissioner.
Foodstuffs Used in Liquor.
According to the report of the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
for the year end.ed June 30, 1916,
there were used during that year for
the production of distilled spirits in
the United States the following materials:
Bushels.
Corn 32,069,542
Rye 3,116,61?"
Malt 4,480,588^
Wheat' 3,373
Barley 148
Oats 9,807 .
Other materials .... 68,8"22
Gallons.
Molasses 152,142,232
Omitting wheat, oats, barley, and
"other materials," and reducing corn
rye, malt, and InOlasses to pounds,
we get a totaUof 3,603,911,916 lbs.
of grain and molasses.
The census for 1900, volume 9,
page 602, gives the following figures
as to materials used in the manufacture
of fermented liquors:
Corn, pounds 483,998,984
Malt, bushels 36,385,365
Barley, bushels .... 11,232,599
Total pounds....2,260,266,146
These seem to be the latest positive
figures available. The materials used
in 1916 may be estimated as follows.
thouah there is a possible mar
gin of error: The production of fermented
liquors for the year 1900
was 38,664,584 barrels. By 1916 it
had risen to 58,633,624 barrels. (See
report of commissioner of internal
revenue for 1916, page 145.) The
production increased 51.6 per cent.
Assuming an increase of at. least
50 per cent, in the materials used,
we get 3,390,399,219 pounds.
Combining the figures for the manufacture
of fermented liquors and
distilled spirits, we get a total of
6,994,311,135 pounds of grain and
molasses.
This omits all minor ingredients
and says nothing about the fruit
and glucose used in the production
of various other alcoholic beverages.
In a time of food shortage, when
conservation of foodstuffs is an important
public question, the 7,000,000,000
pounds of food materials
which are used in these industries
form an item which is worth considering.
Double Tragedy.
A Washington man tells of a dinner
at a hotel in that city at which
were a number of gentlemen interrofflrrnc
Ahmit th P
CaiCU 1U > a.i iuuo t^iu'uuu.
most conspicuous of these was a man
who talked loudly against both
vivisection and the eating of meat.
He afforded great interest to a certain
obscure physician.
Toward the end of the dinner the
latter leaned forward and said to the
man first mentioned:
"Pardon me, but am I not to understand
that you are both an antivivisectionest
and a vegetarian?"
"Your understanding is correct."
"Then," continued the doctor,
"you will probabilv be greatly
shocked to learn that you have just
eaten a live caterpillar with your
j lettuce salad."?Chicago Herald.
WANTED TO BRIBE CONGRESS.
Bernstorff Asked Germany for $50,000
to Use "as Previously."
Washington, Sept. 21.?The American
Government's publicity spotlight
revealing German intrigue in \
neutral lands turned today upon the >
expenditure of money by the Berlin
foreign office in an effort to influence
Congress on the eve of the ruthless
submarine campaign which drove the
United States to war.
Secretary Laiising made public
without comment the text of a messent
by Count von Bernstoff to Berlin
last January asking authority to
use $50,000 to influence Congress
+ V* rnii orli on nrViioVi IVia
buiuu^u au v/1 ^aux^oiivu n uiv^u tuv
foreign office was reminded had performed
similar services before. To
supplement this move von Bernstorff
suggested an official declaration in
favor of Ireland for its effect here.
Organization Not Named. ''
The organization to be employed
was not named. It was freely suggested
among other officials, how- ^
ever, that it was one of the societies
which flooded members of Congress
with peace messages when President
Wilson was asking that a state of
war be recognized.
This disclosure adds another chapter
to the amazing story begun with
publication of the famous Zimmermann
note. It connects the German
government dnd Count von Bernstorff
directly and conclusively with ma
chinations which the American public
had assumed was a part of the z/ i
world-wide Teutonic intrigue, .but
which many people firmly believed
were carried on or financed by Ger- man-Americans
without actual au- '
thority from Berlin. . *1
Caused Little Surprise. v
Little surprise was occasioned
either in official circles or at the
Capitol, although members of Congress
were highly indighant. There
was some talk at the Capitol of demanding
an investigation and Senator
Overman, chairman of the Senate lobby
committee and Representative
Flood, chairman of the House foreign
affairs committee, arranged to go 4
to the State Department tomorrow
and ask for more information.
On the floor of the House, Representative
Heflin, of Alabama, as- . "> *
serted that he could name-thirteen or _
fourteen members of the two branches
of Congress "who had acted suspicuously
and expressed the opinion ,
that they should be investigated.
Generally, however, the disposition
was to regard as absurd any suggestion
that any part of the $50,000
sought by von Befnstorff was intended
for members of Congress. . ,
The vori Bernstorff message, dated
January 22, follows: i "
BernstorfTs Message.
"I request authority to pay out up
to $50,000 (fifty thousand dollars') ?
in order as on former occasions to in- <fluence
Congress through the organization
you know of, which can perhaps
prevent war.
"I am beginning in the meantime
to act acordingly.
"In the above circumstances a public
official German declaration in .favor
of Ireland is highly desirable, in
order to gain the support of Irish influence
here." * .T'J
Comparative Market Prices. -*
The Augusta Chronicle 7)f March
16, 1816, contained the following
market quotations for that date:
"Whiskey, 87 4-2c per galloft; cotton,
26 l-2c per pound; tobacco, 13c, .
per pound; flour, $6.50 per barrel;
pork, 8c per pound; lard, 12 l-2c per
pound; corn, 75c per bushel; coffee,
27c per pound; peach brandy, $1.00 % v
per gallon." / v
Fifty years later, May 16, 1867,
the following were the Augusta quo- ^
tations.
"Cotton, 30c per pound; bacon, 17c
per pound; corn, $1.15 per bushel; " *
flour, $14.00 to $16:00 per barrel;
molasses, 55c per gallon and scarce;
butter, 50c to 54c per pound; eggs,
20c per dozen."
It seems that cotton is the only
thine now lower in price, flour, corn
and pork being worth about two to
three times as much as it brought
10.1. jears ago.
The quotations of 1816 and 1867
1 and the quotations of today are the
besi examples for the farmer to see
that the raising of foodstuffs for himself
and stock is tjhe only way to
bring about a change in prices. < riJ
I Though the farmer is paying three . v
times as much for food as he did 101
! years ago, he is not getting as much
for his cotton, though it costs considerably
more to produce cotton now
than it did then, and the South was
then the richest section of the country.?Augusta
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