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?be parnberg ?|>eralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. . Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. Entered as second-class matter April 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. $2.00 PER YEAR. Volume 28. No. 51. Thursday, Dec. 18,1919. t Bamberg is taking a leading place in paving matters. Preparations are now being made to pave the sidewalks on Railroad avenue. Every bit of paving helps to get other paving.. If the present progress is maintained for a few years, Bamberg will be a well paved town. Anyhow, we won't have war with \ Mexico just; now. Although things A 1 are very dark down Mexico way, me president has pulled us through before, and there are just plenty of us who are willing to leave the matter entirely in his hands. If it is war, then we will know that nothing was to be done but war. In a statement in the daily newspapers, an official of the Anti-saloon League denies that the league hao - any intention of waging a campaign against the use of tobacco, as has been currently reported. This official states that the circulation of this / report was made by the liquor interests in an endeavor to poison the league in the minds of the people, and adds that the entire purpose of the Anti-saloon league is to consistently fight liquor as. long as there is a drop manufactured for beverage pur poses anywhere in the world. Whether or not the movement met with your hearty approval when started, you will have to own up that the "white way" looks mighty good. In fact, it is a great advertisement ^ ' for the town. Columbia, Augusta nor Charleston has a better lighted business district than Bamberg has. A passenger train passed through town when#the lights were first turned on, and it is stated by those around the station at the time that the people looked out the windows as if they expected to see the town burning up. It appeared to be a matter of consid* t erable wonder that a little burg like t Bamberg* should have such a brilliantly lighted street. No doubt those people had a very favorable impresslon of Bamberg. The news print scarcity Is a very serious matter with newspapers, esv pecially the weeklies which, necessarily, buy in small quantities. To give some idea of the situation, The r Herald has bought a small supply of ' T' paper within the past week or two, for which eight, and one-half cents a pound was paid for a part and nine cents for a, part, with the present quotation even above these prices. Tho nanar Tha WpralH is hAine nrint ed on now cost four and one-half cents. A few years ago the standard price of news print paper was 2.65 per hundred pounds, in ton lotp, and cheaper still in larger quantities. Not / '* ' only is the price exorbitant, but it can scarcely be bought at all. About three weeks ago we found our supply would be exhausted ab^ut January 1, and immediately sent in an order to our house, but we received the reply that not a pound could be had. We finally managed to buy a small lot from' another house, which put us through an emergency. Various measures are being talked of to prevent a news print famine. The Herald has never wasted paper, and we really know of nothing we could do to reduce our consumption of paper ?other than to shut down. The reduction in consumption will have to be started irKthe big offices that use thousands of tons, and use it very recklessly, as the Sunday editions bear plentiful evidence. ^ mm nm* ? I riavlicl*! .QnTinnl Wntoc ! VUMLiiMV MVUVV1 XlVVVWi Clipped From The Bugle, v Carlisle to Be Enlarged. 7 The session of the South Carolina conference which closed Monday at McColl, was doubtless the greatest ever held. The matter of chief interest to Carlisle was the-action of the board of education in approving oui asking for $160,000 of the fund to be raised for education. This money will be used for the erection of new buildings and increasing our endowment. When it is realized, it will place Carlisle in the very front rank of all preparatory schools of the whole South. It is the purpose of the authorities to enlarge our plant so as to accommodate 350 boarders, and increase the endowment to $75,000 or $100,000. The campaign for the money will begin next year. Carlisle Laundry Begins Operation. Perhaps the matter of chief interest and importance during the past week was the completion of the Carlisle steam laundry. The work of installing the machinery was finished on Thursday, and on Friday the launJ ~? j arl/~i/~i-re fr?r hncinp<;R ui\y uycucu *? o vxwvj o ~ and business was rushing. The cadets, many of whom had been unable to have sufficient laundry done, literally stormed the entrance. The laundry fills a long felt and growing need at Carlisle. Since the student body has become so large it has ben practicably impossible to secure washerwomen to do the work, and, as Bamberg does not afford a steam laundry, the school authorities realized the necessity of installing a plant of our own. It was hoped that the laundry could be ready by the opening of the session, but a good deal of delay was experienced in securing the machinery and having it installed. The plant is modern in every respect. It is designed especially to do the school work, and no machinery other than what ife needed for this work has been installed. But every machine is of the latest improved type, and turns out the work rapidly and splendidly done. Miss Cleckley in Charge of Infirmary. Another change necessitated by the enlarged enrollment at Carlisle this year was the securing of a nurse to have charge of the infirmary. Up to this year, Mrs. Beach has been looking after the sick boys in addition to her work as matron, and she served the school many years faithfully in that capacity. But the large number of cadets this year made the burden too great, and Miss Mamie C. Cleckley, of Aiken, was secured to take charge of the infirmary. Miss Cleckley has had several years of experience as a nurse in the hospital in Aiken, as well as in private families. She is starting off the new work in earnest, and will doubtless prove a valuable friend to the boys when they are sick. She will give her fuir time to looking after the cadets in the infirmary. Band News. Our battalion band, now, to use the correct words, is beginning to get started. Three or four new selections have recently been added to its repertoire, and the battalion is beginning to hear strains of other pieces besides the "Star Spangled Banner." ? The boys are still toiling hard at daily rehearsals, and, as a result of this, their tone quality and execution are improving immensely. Every man in the band is convinced now that the worst has passed, and that now, since they are really beginning to play, rehearsals will be much more fun than they were, when scales and exercises occupied the hour. Lt. Shealy Manager Foot Ball Team. The student body held a short meeting Wednesday morning for the purpose of electing a foot ball manager for the 1920 season. Lt. E. O. Shealy was unanimously chosen for th's important honor. Lt. Shealy was manager of the 1919 team. He had very little time to arrange a schedule, but gave us some good games anyway. He will begin work on the 1920 schedule in the near future. Personals. Capt. Shieder spent Monday in Columbia on business. Cadet Lt. Laurence Peeples spent the past week at his home. Capt. W. R. Watson spent the week-end at his home in Johnston. Capts. Herlong and Lupo spent Sunday evening in Orangeburg. Mrs. S. P. Rowe, of Charleston visited her son, Francis, Sunday. Mr. Phillip Collier, of Bowman, visited Cadet Carl Felder Sunday. Miss Winnie Kearse spent the week-end at her home in Ehrhardt. Mr. R. A. Felder, cf Bowman, accompanied by his family, visited his son, Carl, Sunday. Miss Lucia Myler spent Sunday with Miss Reeves. Dr. W. B. Johnson, of Est'll, a former Carl'sle student, visited Cadets Hooks, Coy and Jordan Johnson re:ently. Used Buick Four running nice. $275.0^. Northrup's Garage, Denmark, S. C. ltn HELD IN MOCKERY i "Kangaroo Courts" Instituted by Australian Convicts. Prisoners at Botany Bay Said to Have Invented Idea to Relieve the Monotony of Their Existence? Spread to United States. Kangaroo court Is an expression which, however stru....s it may be to the layman, is familiar to most United States marshals, post office inspectors and the police forces of large cities, remarks a writer in the Detroit News. What it really stands for is explained by a post office inspector who has had much experience with offenders and criminals. It appears that in a number of the larger prisons in this country the prisoners, from time to time, are accustomed to hold what they call kangaroo court, and that every notorious criminal in the United States is probably not only familiar with the term, but has no doubt presided often enough as judge or prosecuting attorney in this relation, or perhaps has been tried for some of the numerous mock charges that are preferred against those who have the misfortune to be haled before such & tribunal. Such a court is held only in the great prisons of the country, being entirely unknown in the country jails. The institution of kangaroo court seems to date back some 40 years in the United States. In the days when Australia was a penal colony the convicts at Botany Bay, by way of amusing themselves and relieving the monotony of prison life, used to organize a sort of mock court at which the shrewdest and often the worst criminals of the lot presided as judge, while others acted as jurymen, prosecuting attorneys, bailiffs, criers and the like. At such trials the prisoners were wont to take on recent arrivals from England on all manner of mock charges, such as snoring too loudly, washing their faces with soap, and so " a OIL II II was lounu uiai uiiioug uic batch of new-comers, convicts just from the old country, there were several who possessed money, court was immediately convened and the ones suspected of having funds were haled up on the charge of having red hair or wearing box-toed shoes. The trial was held with mock gravity and decorum, and in the end the prisoner would be found guilty and fined whatever amount he was known to have on his person for the offense charged. The money thus obtained would be divided among the old. longterm convicts, wlw) would buy tobacco and other luxuries with it. while the victim of this form of extortion would have no recourse except to await the time when he himself got a chance to preside as judge or sit on the jury at the trial of some new arrival. It was called kangaroo court because in those days the Botany Bay convicts spoke of themselves as kangaroos, an animai very abundant, as everybody knows, in Australia. The institution, as well as the term, traveled from Australia to England, whither it was brought by returning Botany Bay convicts, whose terms had expired. It had a short life in England, however, where it was speedily discovered by the jailers and turnkeys and broken up; but it was not long afterward that it found its way into the prisons of the United States, where <* Vioo ramainaH ovor fiinfp ac uao a v;auuiuvv? v ? v-? Girl Advertises for "Dates." An advertisement which, (he advertising department of Columbia university's daily newspaper, Spectator, says is the legtimate appeal of a young woman, appeared recently in the publication as follows: "Are you bound by convention? A Columbia girl from out of town, cultured, well bred and fairly good looking, wishes to make the acquaintance of several men in order to be introduced at Columbia functions. She is entirely unconventional and is willing to meet the men half way by paying all expenses. Strictly confidential. Address B 36, Spectator." The students who publish Spectator, the New York World says, profess ignorance of the identity of the young woman or wrhether the number 36 had any reference to the age or figure of the advertiser. Hundreds of masculine students are awaiting replies from her, the advertisement having been well answered. First Sight of a Pig. * Along the bard, dry, wind-swept road In a suburb came a arove or pigs?a most unusual spectacle in London of recent years. From the by-streets the children of the poor came hurrying to see, and it was clear from their comments that many of them had never seen a pig before. "Look, Lizer!" cried one of the smallest among them. "Look, there's a piebald one." "Course there is, stoopid," said Llzer, who was clearly well versed in natural history. "Where else do yer think they get streaky bacon from?"?Lon_ don Chronicle. China's Industrial Future. In 1018, regardless of the gTeat world war and unsettled internal political conditions, China's foreign trade increased, keeping the grand total well above (he billion-dollar mark. Observing commercial investigators agree that; industrially, and as a manufacturing renter, China has s great tore. EASY PICKING FOR SCOTSMAN Canny Individual Right in His Element in German Prison Camp? Got All the Money in Sight. A Scotch corporal was appointed by the commandant to look after our boots and to serve our soup. His name was Allen, "but we called him "Steamboat" for short. Steamboat immediately began a siege upon the affections of the German nurse who had charge of the officers' mess and our fare began to improve. He stole beef and potatoes for us and schnapps for himself Steamboat was not the only one who was stealin cr Thore were n few ton? of DO I ? ? ! tatoes in the basement and a guard would take a fatigue down occasionally to pick out the rotten ones. They spent most of the time putting good potatoes by a window for the Belgians and invariably came back upstairs with their breeches legs fnted with the'best These were boiled and issued through the ward at night. You can imagine what a row there was when an inspector went down and found the basement innocent of potatoes. Steamboat had with him a crownand-anchor board, a great gambling game of the British army. He soon found when the Germans would get their pay and made plans accordingly. He spread his board on a table and began rattling the dice in a tin cup and with familiar accents began spieling. "Old Joe, the man with the dough." "If you don't speculate you can't accumulate," speaking in English. The German walking wounded avminH I rvnt HrtWTI O fAW I tlirtYucu aiuuuu> x puv uv < u u pfennigs and won. Rnett came in for a little loss. The night nurse tried her luck ancj it was bad. In a few ' minutes play was in full swing and they were almost fighting for standing room about the table. In two hours Steamboat had all the money. Crown and anchor became an institution, with Steamboat winning at nearly every session. With this money he bought vile German cigarettes for his comrades and wine for himself. When I left Peruwelz he had a beau| tiful diamond ring and several hun! dred marks.?From Captain Morris' J Letter in Memphis Commercial Ap1 peal, relating experiences a? a Ger' man prisoner. Health in City and Country. Are city dwellers less subject to dis| ease than the country bred, after all? ; Statistics from the cantonments seem i to show it, and an editorial writer in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that although the ; city may harbor more disease germs than the country the dwellers in it may ! have become comparatively immune. It is well known that the natives of 'remote islands to which the "diseases of civilization" have never penetrated are ravaged by them to an unheard of degree when they are Introduced .by the white man. Possibly a rural district, though inherently free from disease, may for that very reason yield more rapidly to infection when it comesv Study of conditions such as these, the writer notes, has been g^eatItt htr fh? PYisfpnrp nf lnrfire ij i.avmtutvu isj vmv w 0 _ bodies of men mobilized in army camps subject to systematized medical supervision which has furnished unique opportunities for gathering statistics on an. unprecedented scale. Wireless Works Best by Night. , As a result of certain observations made during the solar eclipse of May 29 last, further evidence is forthcoming with regard to the phenomena of day and night wireless signaling. Under normal conditions the wireless station at Meudon, Paris, is unable to receive daylight signals from . Ascension island, but can do so during the hours of darkness. During the eclipse, which was not visible in France and only partially visible in Ascension, special tests were made between the two stations, and it was found ?that while the moon's shadow passed between them Ascension was quite audible at Meudon, the signals failing as the shadow passed away. This may be taken as additional proof that the increase in the distance at which a given transmitter is able to affect a given receiver as a result of nightfall, is due to the diminution of the effect of solar radiation on electromagnetic waves. To Preserve "Paul J ones House." j The threat to destroy the "Paul Jones house" in Portsmouth, N. H., has resulted in the formation of a ; new historical society in that city, | which is determined to purchase tne place and preserve it for future Americans, to commemorate the memory of Capt John Paul Jones. The house is that in which he lived, as a boarder, during the time the United States ship Ranger, which he afterward commanded, was being built. The house | was forty years old when he found | lodgings in it, having been built in 1730 by Captain Gregory Purcell, an oldtime merchant I Precious Stuff. i I heard Charles call to his dog: "Say, ain't yer goin' to come when I . call yer?" and I said: "Why, Charlie, t what was all this talk about using j good English that I heard you telling about?" I "Oh, well," he replied, "I don't think teacher ever expected us to waste It on a dog."?Chicago Tribune. ! j 5 Quite Gone. | "What makes you think he Is halfj wittedr" "He wants to go to Califom.a to give elocution lessons to moving picture i actors.'^Cartoons Magazine. n NOTICE OP ELECTION. * In Town of Ehrhardt to Approve Granting of Franchise to Ehrhardt Manufacturing Company to Install and Operate a Telephone Plant and j System in the Town of Ehrhiirdt. j The Town Council of the town of j Ehrhardt, S. C., having passed an' ordinance granting a franchise to the j Ehrhardt ManufacturingJCompany to J install and operate a telephone plant j and system within the town of Ehrhardt with exclusive rights, for a period of twenty-five years, the original { of which ordinance can be seen by j applying to the clerk of the* Town Council, it is hereby ordered that the approval of said franchise, so granted, be submitted to the qualified voters of the town of Ehrhardt, and that an election for that phrpose be held ' in the town of Ehrhardt, at the Town Hall, on the 16tli day of December. 1919; and the following named persons are hereby appointed as managers of election, viz: F. H. Copeland, Frank Hiers, and J. F. Chassereau, and it is further ordered that the j polls of said election shall be open i at 8 o'clock a. m. and close at 4 i o'clock p. m., on said day; at said j election only qualified voters of the said town, as determined under the laws of this State shall be allowed to vote, and the election shall be conducted as required under the !aw&: of this State, in such cases made and i provided. Those approving the grant- | W\ PROM NOW I ? IRON ] SPRIN MATT] CHAIR G.R.SI BAMBE] COMMISSIONER! WORKS, BA1 / I I / Beginning January and light customers debtedness on their lowed any discount v of their bills. i good business cod quent big prod tional pro: happy em for ev: From patriotic mo regular policy of tlx solicit calls for func for justified expan; production. I You 'will find us parties I requirement I Capital and Surp ing of said franchise will vote "for ' . J franchise," and those opposed to said J franchise will vote "against fran- ; chise;" printed or written ballots ] may be used. The managers will * i conduct said election as required by \ law, tabulate the vote and make a report to the Town Council in writ' ing. Done in council meeting of the town of Ehrhardt, S. C., this the 8th *** day of December, A. D. 1919, and passed by unanimous vote. J. C. ivINARD, ltn " Intendant. NOTICE TO I)EJVTORS~\\TD GREDu { IT/4I3C ivn '\TOT,TY,,l,'' HI? T7TVA1. ' I lUDkl Aill/ AIV/XAVAJ \/A - DISCHARGE. | Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will file her final account- * ing as executrix of the estate of Dav d Cooper, deceased, on the 12th day of January, 1920, at 11 o'clock a. m., with the judge of probate of Bamberg county, and will at the sam^ time apply to the judge of probate for letters ' dismissory as such executrix. And notice is hereby given to all persons having claims against the said estate to file the same duly itemized and verified on or before the 1st day of January, 1920, and all persona indebted to said estate will make payment to the undersigned. ' MILLIE COOPER, . J Executrix of the Estate of Dayld Cooper, Deceased. / 1-5 rnNi SMS mBk rNTIL XMAS. . * -V^|m BEDS J GS JESSES S, ETC. < ;<f>| MMONS BG, S. C. | 3 OF PUBLIC * ttBERG, S. C. ; i V , " a 4 AAA -11 ? i. f 1st, lyzu, au water having any back in- | bills will not be alwhatever on any part J. G. BLACK, > v . Superintendent. rDITIONS AND CONSE- ] NOTION MEAN NA- I ? SPEBITY AND 1 [PLOYMENT I EBYONE. I ti vps as well as the | is Bank, we specially ; Is that are to be used I > sion of business and ? ilarly ready to meet your I ;s in this line. I ilus $100,000.00 I . I ^ffS J ( s ; _j3S