The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 24, 1919, Page 5, Image 5
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MENTION.
People Visiting in This City and at
Other Points.
- ?Mrs. E. O. Kirsch is visiting
relatives in Savannah this week.
?Mrs. A. M. Denbow left Tuesday
morning for the mountains of North
Carolina.
^ ?Mrs. L. P. McMillan has been
visiting friends and relatives in
Charleston. 1
?Mrs. Crawford Easterling. of
Columbia, has been visiting Mrs.
Paul Zeigler.
?Col W. A. Klauber left last week
* for New York to buy goods for the
fall and winter.
?Mrs. H. M. Graham, of Greenwodd,
has been visiting relatives in
the city and county.
?uaptain J. J?. nuuier ca^ccis iu
leave this week for Glenn Springs to
spend a few weeks.
?Master Clement McEachern left 1
last week for Wallaceville to s>pend a '
few weeks with relatives. '
?Miss Dorothy Taylor is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Ehrhardt, at Ehrhardt.?Newberry
Observer.
* ?Mrs. J. W. Barr, Mrs, Hattie M. (
Stubbs and Mrs. M. A. Bamberg left
Wednesday for the mountains.
?Mrs. W. C. Miller and Miss 1
Blanche Brabham, of Ellenton, are ]
visiting Mr. and Mrs. F. 0. Brab- ;
ham. t
?Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Carter and t
Mr.! and Mrs. F. M. Moye have gone j
to Chimney Rock, N. C., to spend '
a few weeks. i
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?Mr. Walter Curry, who was recently
discharged from the army, is 1
in the city visiting Mr. W. M. Brab- i
ham, Jr. i
^ ?Mrs. Moore and children, of 1
Charleston, are spending some time
in the city with Mr. and Mrs. J. B. .
Blhck, Jr. '
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"VCy. onrl \fi?e "R HP "RprrV STld
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daughter, Jessie Belle, of Branchville,
spent Sunday in the city with
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relatives.
' ?Mrs. W. H. Ehrhardt and chil- '
dren, of Ehrhardt, are visiting her .
mother, Mrs. Alma Taylor.?Newberry
Observer.
x - ?Mrs. J. W. Price and children \
and Miss Mildred Bailey left Wednes- day
morning for Asheville, N. C., to
spend a few weeks. \
?Mrs. J. Frank Brabham and Mrs. 1
B. T. Felder left Tuesday morning <
for the mountains of North Carolina ]
to spend a few weeks. <
?Mrs. H. J. Brabham and Misses 1
Adelle Brabham and Helen Free left
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Tuesday morning for the mountains
for a stay of several weeks.
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?Misses Ethel and Urma Black 1
went to Charleston Tuesday to visit '
their father, Dr. J. B. Black, who is '
in a hospital for treatment there.
?Mrs. J. A. Byrd, Miss Lalla j
Bvrd, Mrs. George S. Smith and Mr.
and Mrs. E. H. Henderson left this
'week for the mountains of North
Carolina t6 spend the summer. ,
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?Mr. George F. McMillan, Jr., who i
was recently discharged from the ar- ]
my and who has a position in Spartanburg,
spent" several days in the (
county last week and this week with j
relatives. (
?Judge Hayne F. Rice spent a i
few hours in the city last week, com- ;
ing down to hold a short session of i
court. This is Judge Rice's old home j
he having spent his younger days i
in the lower part of the county. 1
?Mr. Alex F. Henderson and family
have gone to Hendersonville, N.
C., where they will spend two weeks,
the time of Mr. Henderson's vaca- <
tion. He is cashier of the Farmers
and Merchants Bank of Walterboro.
?Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wyman, Miss
Mary Aldrich Wyman, Mrs. Elise B. I
Walker and Miss Ida Brahham left !
Friday for Hendersonville, N. C. (
They stopped over at Greenwood for '
. a day with Mr. and Mrs. A. F. McKissick,
and then proceeded by auto
tn the mountains for a stay of sev- 1
eral weeks, accompanied by Mr. and 1
Mrs. McKissick. . (
Robinson-Black. '
The many Barnwell friends of Mr. (
David Black were surprised Saturday
morning to learn of his marriage on <
Friday evening to Miss Debbie Robin- 1
son, of Ridgeland, Jasper county, 1
> which occurred in Hampton, the Rev. 1
W. H. Dowling performing the cerei
mony.* The bride is an attractive s
young lady and has many friends in
Olar, where she was employed for
some time by Mr. C. F. Rizer. The :
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groom is a young business man of 1
this city, having an interest in the 1
Black Furniture Co. Their many '
- friends wish them a long life of hap- 1
piness and prosperity. ? Barnwell
People.
Just So.
Mary?Once I was engaged to a
prize fighter.
Nell?Why didn't you marry him?
Mary?Because he wouldn't give :
_ % up the ring.
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TRAGEDY OF THE OPAL.
Reputation for HI Luck is Founded
on Myth.
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When Miss Edna Bills, a pretty
Chicago, high school girl, won a first
prize with an essay on opals, she
thought she had accomplished what
she had set out to do, but it develophor
occor loir! hpfnrp thp wnrlri
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facts regarding the gem that had
been lost even to jewelers themselves.
Miss Bills is the daughter of a
jeweler who recently bought a collection
of Austrian opals. She was fascinated
by the rainbow gems and
wanted to know why they were considered
unlucky. Her father was unable
to tell her. Other jewelers did
not know. Nobody could throw any
light on the enigma.
Miss Bills was determined to find
out. At the annual competition of
the class in English she chose opals
as the theme of her essay. She
did some remarkable research work.
3he delved through extensive bibliography
of precious stones. The se#5
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Esteemed by Ancients.
She found, that in ancient times
and in the middle ages the opal was
one of the most highly esteemed
?ems. It was regarded as a tallisman,
but, to her surprise, she learned
that it was supposed to bring good
luck and to make the wearer beloved.
N'ot a word did she find which attributed
bad luck to the gem. Then
a chance cross reference in her reading
guided her to John Ruskin's
"Deucalion." There she found the
story of the libel and its refutation.
Sir Walter Scott was the creator of
the opal myth. In "Anne of Geierstein,"
one of the last novels, written
in the' early part of the nineteenth
century, he introduced an opal which
was supposed be endowed with majestic
power, and which brought disaster
and tragedy to all who came
within its influence. The story of the
master romancer of his time was
widely read and the superstition
that all o^als were unlucky was born,
ft traveled around the world and became
firmly fixed in popular imagination.
The Lightning Ridge opal field in.
Australia was discovered a little after
Sir Walter set the myth agoing.
When Queen Victoria ascended the
thrpne in 1837 her coronation gifts
included some magnificent opals sent
by her loyal subjects in the island
continent. The young queen was de
lighted with the gorgeous gems. She
ieclared nothing so beautiful could
be unlucky/
An Absurd Superstition.
The queen began a crusade to
break down what she regarded as
in absurd superstition and her personal
efforts in behalf of the opal
continued through her life. She wore
spals in profusion on every state occasion.
. She gave them as wedding
?ifts to her daughters. She sent
them as bridal presents to foreign
princesses. She never neglected an
opportunity to show her contempt
for the myth and to praise the desirability
of opals and their iridescent
loveliness.
But despite the efforts of this royal
champion, the myth persists vaguely
throughout the world today. It has
cos't dealers in opals hundreds of
thousands, if not millions of dollars,
and'has robbed one of the most beautiful
gems of the popularity that is
its natural gift. Yet the world
tragedy of the opal is a trick of fate
built upon a dream of a novelist.
FUEL SHORTAGE NEAR.
Consumers Should Buy Their Supply
Now.
Washington, July 17.?Urging congressional
investigation of the coal
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Situation government umtiaia ?uu
ioal operators told the house rules
committee today that fuel shortage
svas impending.
"Coal men fear the situation may
?et away from them and that prices
may rise $4 or $6 a ton," declared
C. E. Lesher of the Geological surrey.
"Their advertising of the situation
is in hope that this may be
averted, for they know that the condition
would reflect on them."
Anthracite production since January
1 was 10,600,000 tons less than
last year and bituminous 74,700,000
tons, said Mr. Lesher, due to lack or
demand.
"The only remedy is for the consuming
public to lay in supplies now,"
he said.
George H. Cushing, managing director
of the American Wholesale
Coal Association said the coal shortage
in the East and the Northeast
during the war would be repeated
this winter adding that its extent
would depend on the industrial activity
in those sections.
Only Way Left.
Crabshaw?Why do women wear
furs in this weather?
Mrs. Crabshaw?My dear, is there
anything more expensive??Town
Topics.
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MOVIE ACTRESS MISSIXG.
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Producers Seek Ethel (layton, Last
Heard of in Japan,
Ethel Clayton, heroine of many a
thriller of the screen in which mystery.
disappearance and similar melodramatic
ingredients were plentifully
mixed, is herself a real life central
figure in a mystery which is causing
consternation among officials of the,
Paramount-Lasky Picture Corpora-j
tion and no end of speculative gossip
in Filmland.
Miss Clayton jias vanished completely,
and all efforts to locate her
whereabouts have failed, according to
word received here from Los Angeles
and New York. She was last
heard from in Japan, where she had |
gone for a vacation am? to assimilate
some of the atmosphere of the Orient
for use in future productions.
The beautiful picture star was due
to return to Los Angeles on June 1.
When she failed to do so the New
York headquarters of the ParamountLasky
firm were consulted and -the
cables kept hot with messages to
Japan in an effort to locate her. But
from the land of Nippon word came
back that nothing was known of Miss
Clayton.
There is a chance that Miss Clayton
may have gone to some out-oL
the-wray corner of Nippon and been
unable to return on time, or that she
may be making the return trip on
some tramp steamer. But, while mystery
surrounds her fate, her producers
are making every effort to find
her.?San Francisco Bulletin.
Quillen is a Grouch.
Robert Quillen is editor of the
Fountain Inn Tribune. Most of we
editors would expect to be looking
down the barrel of a big shotgun if
we wrote like Quillen, but somehow,
he gets by with it. Hear him as to
styles:
"Frequently mere comes to my
ears the complaint of some lady addicted
to hobbles that rude men turn
to observe her exposed calves when
she steps into a car or buggy.
"The complaining lady always
ma., as a fine show of indignation?
or so the matter is always related to
me?but I never fail to laugh at the
joke.
"What joke? you ask. Why, wooden-head,
the pretended indignation of
the lady.
"When a woman puts on a hobble
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skirt, does not she know that it will
expose her to the stares of the multitude
every time she takes a step up?
"Of course she knows it.
"Then why does she persist in
wearing such a skirt?
"There is only one answer to that
question, Horatio. She continues to
wear 'em because she wants the public
to examine her calves occasionally.
"You think otherwise? Then^vou
are stupid. If the dear things didn't
want to show themselves they would
wear different clothes.
"If a man stopped on the streets
every few minutes and pulled his
trousers above his knees, could he
have any other object than showing
the shape of his legs? Assuredly not
?unless he was endeavoring to break
into the asylum of the feeble-minded.
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"No, there is no room for argument
on this matter. When a woman
dresses so as to necessitate frequent
exposure of her,legs, she knpws exactly
what she is doing. She may
pretend to be offended when men
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stare, out, dear neart, sne wouia oe
really and truly offended if men did
not stare.
"But, at that, there is not much exposed
that is worthy a second glance.
A well turned ankle is a rare thing.
Either the design is that of a salt,
from the ankle bone to the knee cap,
or else the ankle is swollen to Clydesdale
proportions and looks stove-up.
^ "There ought to be a law to prohibit
showing deformities and oddities
in public, anyway."
We have only a "newspaper acquaintance"
with Quillen; we don't
know what kind of an individual he
is outside his official sanctum, or
whether he carries a revolver, or is
accompanied by a bodyguard. But
he's evidently a grouch of the worst
sort. There's nothing the matter
with the styles; the women, some of
the women, it's safer to say, go to
the extreme in dress, to be" sure, but
even Quillen will not say that the
hoop-skirt looked better than the
present-day styles. And, furthermore,
the more that styles are talked about
the more room there will be for talk,
because if styles fail to attract attention,
they fail of their purpose. Tne
only remedy we know for Fountain
Inn is to provide lower steps on the j
trains and buggies and automobiles
thereabouts; then perhaps Quillen
will be satisfied.?Lancaster Xews.
Quite Naturally.
''A man offered to treat me the
other day and then made me pay for
it."
"What a mean fellow."
"Not at all. He was a doctor."
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Baron Sato.
There still lives in Japan the single
Japanese, in all probability, who was
in the Franco-Prussian war. for he j
is also the first Japanese who ever
obtained a passport to go abroad for
study. Circumstances, however, de-!
prived him of the distinction of be- i
ing the first Japanese student in Ger-'
many, for he found on his arrival that;
two ethers had smuggled themselves'
out of the country as a stowaways and j i
" ere there a year or so before him. i
The adventurous student is now i
Baron Susumo Sato and the difncul-1 .
ties of his adventure have recently
been told by him in the Japanese i
Magazine. He started from his native
town of Sakura wearing a topknot
on his head and carrying the* two 1
swords of the samurai, and had
much trouble at Yokohama in secur- ;
ing the first student passport that the ?
govefnment had ever issued. He succeeded
in the end, however, and then i
he cut off his queue, discarded his
swords, arrayed himself in western
costume obtained from a foreign tail- :
or in Yokohama, and took a ship for ,
San Francisco, whence he crossed
the continent and eventually reached
Berlin from New York. In Berlin
he studied medicine, and later served
as a doctor during the Franco-Prussian
war. As lie set out on his
travels in 1869, Baron Sato can review
the whole period from the end
of feudelism to the present position
of" Japan as a world power.?Christian
Science Monitor.
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Patron Saints.
Two sailors, an Irishman and a
Scotchman, could never agree, and
the rest of the crew had become
adepts in starting them on an argument.
One day "patron saints" was
the subject of which the Scotchman
knew nothing and the Irishman just
a little.
"Who was the patron saint of Ireland?"
said Jack.
"Do you mean to say that you
don't know?" said Pat. "Why, the
holy St. Patrick."
"Well," said Jack in deliberate
tones, "hang your St. Patrick."
In a towering rase the Irishman
hesitated a second while he thought
of something equally offensive, and
then burst out with, "And hang your
Harry Lauder!"?London Tit-Bits.
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But She Brought Him.
"Dorah," said the literary woman,
"I wish you would go down to the
library and bring me 'Flavius Josephus'."
The new girl left the room and
hastened to execute the commission.
Presently a terrific noise was heard
and Dorah pushed the door open with
her foot a moment later, dragging in
by the collar a reluctant Newfoundland
dog.
"Here he is, Mrs. Dinnis," she said,
"but ye ought not to have sint me f'r
'im.. It's a man's job. The brute ,
tried to bite me an' I had to fight 'in?
iv'ry fut o' the way."
"Time!"
A garrulous lawyer was arguing a
case. He had rambled on in such a
desultory way that it became very
difficult to follow his train of thought,
and the judge yawned ominously.
Whereupon the long-winded lawyer
with a trace of sarcasm, said:
"I hope, your Honor,. I am not unduly
trespassing upon the time of
the court."
"My friend," observed the judge,
"there is a considerable difference between
trespassing on time and encroaching
on eternity."?The Chica.
go News.
Properly Stringed.
"What is that string around your
finger for?"
"That is to remind me that I forgot
something my wife tied it there
for me to remember."?Baltimore
American.
I CANNON'S V
fl I want to say that w<
ranged warehouse in the I
fl my warehouse building, '<
fl planters.
fl I am a farmer myself
fl conduct my own sales, anc
fl am a native of South Car
fl dhe State. I would advis<
fl tobacco. Know it will be
fl Ship in sheets,, each i
fl Kumber each barn in fign
B I would appreciate a
fl ]>e second to none. Kespe
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CRIMES INCREASE IN STATE, j
Board of Charities and Corrections j
Gives Statistics.
Columbia, July 20.?That homi-1
cide, assaults, larceny and other fel-j
onies ^re increasing in South Carolina
is established by the Board of
Charities and Corrections in its anal-!
ysis of reports from jails and* chain ;
gangs of South Carolina for the quarter
ending June 30. According to the
board's information, based on accurate
reports from 75 per cent of the
jails, there were during the last three
months eighty-one arrests for homi
cide, and, according to the law of
percentage, there must have been
10S homicides in South Carolina.
This might be compared with twentyfive
homicides reported in December
and eighty-one in March. Violation
of the prohibition law also' showed
rapid increase. According to the December
reports there were twentytwo
commitments on this account; in
March forty-six; invJune 145. The
number of assaults reported for the
June quarter shows 175, while eighty-six
were reported for the March
quarter. The June quarter shows
240 commitments for larceny, which
might be compared with the March
quarter, which had 215. June reports
show 2,024 commitments; the
March reports show 1,902 commitments.
From these figures it is evident
that crime is on the increase in
this State.
G. Croft Williams, secretary of the
State Board of Charities and Corrections,
said that there were four main
causes for this state of affairs?first,
that there is a psychological reaction
from the war, which cheapens human
life, that the people have read so
much of slaughter and have gotten
their minds atune to the theory that
wrong must be stopped by physical
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from the war were of the age at
which most crimes are committed,
the reports of South Carolina showing
that a third of the crimes in this
State are committed by negro males
from seventeen to twenty-nine years
of age; third, that the enacting and
enforcing of prohibition laws in other
States, diminishing the supply of intoxicating
liquors and forcing the
price therefor to an exhorbitant
height, has encouraged those who
were determined to use or sell- such
to manufacture them or to employ
extracts, patent medicines or other
substitutes; fourth, that the instability
of prices and the restlessness of
the population always have reflection
in the acts of those that are
passionate or of a weak will.
Talk About the Retort Courteous.
"I had a pretty bad fall once,"
said Jones, "when I fell out of a
window, and on the way down I
thought of every mean act I had ever
done."
"Horrid!" said Thompson, "you I
must have fallen some distance."
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THE TOBACCO FARME]
e liave the oldest, strongest a
State. I own my own spur t
md can handle your tobacco
, ten years'experience in thi
I each pile of tobacco gets m;
olina, and feel a personal int
3 farmers to pick the burned
to their interest,
armor's name on same, and
res, with name,
ny shipments made me, and \
ct fully,
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BATEMANS SLAYER DIES.
Vi<tim of Raid on T)istiIIery Near
Camden.
Columbia, July 21.?Sant Barratt,
white farmer, who shot and fatally
wounded State Constable J. F. Bateman
near Camden last Thursday afternoon
and who in turn was shot
four times by the officers making the
raid 011 a distillery, died in Camden
hospital late Saturday night.
The Wrong End.
The navy boy was home on leave
and the old man was a,dmiring his
uniform.
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out ten me, me uuv, ?uy uu tuyjr
make the pants so wide at the bottom?"
"So we can roll them up quickly,"
explained the lad.
"You're no son of mine," warned
the old man, "if ver goin' ter fight
wid yer feet. ' 'Tis yer jacket sleeves
that ought to be wide at the bottom.
Scotch Thrills.
Sandy McPherson came home after
many years and met his old sweetheart.
Honey-laden memories thrilled
through the twilight and flushed
their glowing cheeks.
"Ah, Mary," exclaimed Sandy, *
"ye're jist as beautiful as ye ever
were, and I hae never forgotten ye,
my bonnie lass."
"And ye, Sandy," she cried, while
her blue eyes moistened, "are Jist as
big a leear as ever,4 an' I believe ye
jist the same."?Reedy's Mirror.
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NOTICE.
Of Meeting of Stockholders of Ehrhardt
Manufacturing Company to
Pass Upon Resolution to Increase
Capital Stock.
' Pursuant to a resolution of the
Board of Directors of Ehrhardt Manufacturing
Company to increase the
capital stock of said company to the
sum of forty thousand ($40,000) dollars,
a meeting of the stockholders of
said company is called, at the office
of the president, Ehrhardt, S. C., 10
o'clock, a. m., Monday, August 18th,
1919. to pass upon said resolution.
EHRHARDT MANUFACTURING CO.
By J. M. Kirkland, President.
Ehrhardt, S. C., July 21st, 1919. 8-13
DOG TAX DUE.
Notice is given that the dog tax of
$2 in the city of Bamberg is now due
and payable. Until the first of August
no penalty will be attached. Dog
tags may be secured from the mayor's
j office. On Aug. 1 a penalty of $5
will be levied. Dogs will be held five
days pending payment, after which \ ,
animals will be killed.
NITRATE OF SODA.
I am expecting a shipment on or
about Friday, the 25m, of thirty tons
of Nitrate of Soda. As there is a big
demand for soda, prospective purchasers
will do well to see me at
once, as the Tot will not last long. C.
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