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Cije piamfoerg derails I 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 29. No. 11. Thursday, Mafch 11,1920. TWT o vnk A 1Q90 I xiiui ouajr j iuaivu ^ avmv. THE APPROPRIATIONS. I As was to be expected, the general assembly passed the biggest appropriation bill in the history of the state, carrying with it expenditures of approximately six million dollars and a twelve and one-half mill levy, in addition to a general levy of two mills for roads. Under present conditions it would have been quite unreasonable to expect a small tax levy. For the greatest part, doubtless, the appropriations were absolutely necessary, in that salaries are increased and current expenses have likewise increased. We think, if we had a voice in the making of the appropriations, we should not have included the enormous expenditures for buildings at the present time. Some of n these buildings, perhaps most of them, may be necessary, but a great many cou1! very easily have waited until a retuu. to normal times. The tfact that to erect a building now costs perhaps double or more the actual villue of the building in normal times , would have influenced us to let the building stand, unless an absolute necessity. For instance, the large - appropriation for the greater Citadel project is not an absolute necessity. The Citadel has been getting along pretty well with the equipment in band. The state will now spend several hundred thousand dollars for property that in a few years will be worth perhaps half what it cost. There are a good many other similar items. However, we do not presume to say we are right. We did not have the matter presented to us as the legislators did. A^>'- , If the tax matter were adjusted, the appropriation would be a burden on none. With the present method of tax assessment, the payment of taxes will be rather burdensome on J some. And, by way of increasing the burden, $36,000 is to be wasted again on the state tax commission. H. S. S. Report for February. The following is the most recent ease settled of a secretarial nature. ?ast summer Thomas Butler requested assistance in tracing a delayed allotment due his mother, ' Jenette Thomas, Denmark, S. C. 11 A report has just been received from the bureau] of war risk insurance which states that check number 20,231,915 in the amount of $187.00 for allotment from July to July in* elusive has been forwarded the allottee. Another case 'of late settlement is that of an old negro man, Fletcher Wright, whose son died in the service of the U. S. during the late war of the nations. I am not informed as to just what compensation the government makes in case of the death of a man employed in the service of the U. S., but at any rate compensation in the amount of $85.00 was made this old southern darkey, who resides at Midway, S. C. Yesterday afternoon "Uncle Fletcher" called for a personal interview with me. He, has been sick the effects of whose illness seem to be those of that much dreaded disease, influenza. The next case pending settlement is that of Robert Brabham, colored, son of old Mum Tilda Brabham. It seems that Robert is having trouble securing his compensation checks, all of which have not been received. Robert partially lost his hearing while in the service, and the government requests medical examination in Columbia, for which railroad fare has been sent Robert. I have the names of several allottees whom I can not locate, among whom are Willie Anderson, and Dozer Anderson. It seems that the Federal Board has been unsuccessful in their efforts to locate these men, and are writing me to get in touch with them if possible and render any service they may need in an after oare way. The next case in hand is that of Frank Murphy, of Embree, to whom a check for a $100 bond has been sent, but until now all my efforts at reaching him have been in vain. The government is still offering hospital treatment to Edward U. O'Brien, and each letter urges him to accept as his physical condition appears to be poor and he evidently is in need of careful medical attention. This covers the ground of my work of a secretarial nature for'the past month. Material aid, such as clothing and provisions, has been rendered sev oral families, the needs of which have been duly supplied. Report of a personal service na- | ture: Flowers sent Mrs. Wolf, a widow, who lost a little babv and who herself is quite ill. : Flowers sent Mrs. Tumbleson, who has been real sick. The services of a nurse were rendered by me in a case of extreme need and emergency. While knowing noth-| ing of a nurse's calling I was able 1 to be of some little service and was! j srlad of the opportunity of helping; | with this particular case. I i Should any one know of any cases 1 where assistance is needed and has not been given, kindly inform me and ( I shall be glad to give any help pos- ^ sible. JULIEN EASTERLING, ! Sec. H. S. S. of A. R. C. \ SAGACITY SHOWN BY BEARS Observers Have Seen and Noted Instances of Reasoning That Are 1 Little Short of Human. 1 The grizzly bear, says Mr. Enos A. 1 Mills, is superior In mental power to 1 the horse, the dog and even the gray wolf, and In his book, "The Grizzly," 1 he offers convincing evidence of his < statement A grizzly cub in Yellow- 1 stone park, he says, once found a ham 1 skin?a prized delicacy. Just as the 1 little fellow was lifting it to his mouth ^ a big bear appeared. The cub Instant ? a ~ -Lf * nn 1 ly aroppeu uie nam s&.iu, uv??u vu It and pretended to be greatly interested In watching something in the 1 edge of the woods. ' Another young grizzly in the Yellow- 1 stone one doy found a tin can that was open at one end and partly filled with 1 fish. He raised It in his forepaws and i peeped in, then deliberately turned the can upside down and shook it Noth- 1 Ing came out. He shook again, but still nothing came out. He then placed j the can on the ground, open end down, and hammered the bottom of it with a ( stone until the fish dropped out In a zoo one day a piece of hard-tack that a grizzly bear wanted fell into the hands of a black bear. The black bear dipped the hard-tack in water and ] started to take a bite. Evidently it j was too hard. He put it In the water , again, and while it soaked gave his j attention to something else. When the , black bear was not looking, the grizzly, ; \standlng on the farther edge of the , pool, stirred the water with a forepaw j and started the hard-tack toward him ( on the waves. The instant the first | wave touched the black bear he looked j round, grabbed the precious hard-tack, t which was rapidly floating away, and, , pushing it to the bottom of the pool, I put one hind foot upon It. How very like the mental processes of human beings! HILLS MOLDED BY GLACIERS Peculiar Formation of "Drumlins" Makes Them Appear as Though Intelligently Designed. Between Syracuse and Rochester, N. Y., lies a country of hills, known as drumlins, which is one of the most beautiful bits of scenery in the eastern United States. The term drumlin Is an Irish one, and is applied to low, rolling hills of glacial origin which exist in that country, and also in parts of New York and New England. This section between Syracuse and Rochester is the very heart of the American drumlins. < Most American mountains and hills ! were formed by violent disturbances i of the earth's surface, and their rude origin is reflected in their ruggedness. But the drumlins were built by the great ice sheet which once covered all of North America. The materials of which they are made were pushed together slowly by the crawling glaciers, molded and tamped and smoothed by . the great ice fingers as a child makes mud pies. The drumlins look as though they had been designed by some great intelligence with a sense of beauty, for they rise in smooth, gentle curves. They are remarkably uniform in height, usually a little less than 200 J feet, and so smooth and lenient are their slopes that many of them are cultivated to their summits. Some of them are as round as half an apple, , and others are long welts or rolls. Scattered among the hills are a ^ cumber of small lakes and ponds, clear and pretty, aijul there is good fishing 1 in many of them. The drumlins are a favorite playground of the people in Syracuse, Rochester and other nearby towns, but they are little known beyond the counties in which they lie. ] Ground Hogs. ] In the American Boy Enos A. Mills 1 says: "Two summers while I was ' guiding on Long's peak, a ground hog < summered on the summit A l'ew 1 minutes after I arrived on top with ' a nartv of climbers he showed him- < self and waited for lunch scraps. 1 After he was better acquainted he did ' not wait but expected to have help- 1 ings from the first table. His winter 1 <3en was 2.000 feet below the top. { 3round hogs, especially in spring. i ?ander in search of the first green I y'ants; usually, from their tracks, they know just where these are, most likely to be found." c Rare, However. "Are they happily married?" : "How can they be? Why, his w?rG won't let him smoke in the house." "That isn't always fatal to domestic 1 < bliss. There are cases on record where j i a man was so taken up with a womaai i thai h<; actually put her ahead of pipe, I i cigar or cigarette."?Birmingham Age / rHEATER'S ORIGIN FAR BACK Way Be Traced to Festivals Held In Honor of the Mythological God Bacchus. Thinking back for the origin of any theatrical performance, our minds naturally revert first to Shakespeare and oiaKo hoofop Snmp of US would Aio Uivut HiVU LV4 K/w 10 back a little further; and many of as would choose Moliere, the plays he tvTote and staged, often in the open, for the vain Louis and then, in his own theater, where, while he was the favorite of the king, he was the rage of France. But these were only steps In the evolution of the theater and the play. For the origin of all dramatic representations we must go back to the Says of Idol worship, when many gods were thought to rule the destinies of man. Two brothers, Danaus and Aegyptus, sons of Belus, shared the throne of Egypt. After a particularly heated juarrel, Danaus, with his followers, set sail In search of a new land where be could rule alone. They landed near the Greek city of Argus, of which he shortly became king. Here, to celebrate his good fortune, he instituted festivals in honor of the god Bacchus, who was supposed to bave helped to make his unaertaaing successful. These festivals consisted of nothing more than riotous revelry, Interspersed with songs, which, after the manner of the day, were most primitive and often coarse. But the festivals soon became very popular and were held periodically all over Greece. Fr6m this beginning, in the form of a kind of public worship, which was the first entertainment or performance known, evolved the theatrical projects of later ages which developed into the institution of the theater as we know it today. AGE AND THE POINT OF VIEW How the Impression of the Youth of Twenty-One Is Properly Resented by His Elders. That reporting Is a young man's business is illustrated In some newspaper every day by some news item telling about something, usually unfortunate, that happened to an old man or an aged woman, the Ohio State Journal observes. Often the iged person. It develops somewhere in the story. Is fifty-threp, we will say, Dr somewhere between fifty and sixty. As every editor has reason to tnow, this youthfw point of view of the reporters not infrequently is re sented by itie aged person referred to. To be run over by the motorcar was Dad enough, but to be called aged Is adding insult to injury. Nobody unier seventy seems old to himself, and nany between seventy-five and eighty ivould rather not be considered aged. We talk hopefully of a man's being >nly as old as he feels, but no matter iow he feels a man of fifty impresses ?e youth of twenty-one as verging upon the sere and yellow, if not already there. Our memory goes back to the time when a woman of thirty3ve looked almost hopelessly aged to is, and now we know vivacious girls )f forty. And Daisy# Ashford opened ler immortal work by remarking: 'Mr. Salteena was an elderly man of .'orty-two." We don't know at what age elderliness begins for Daisy now, !>ut If she lives long enough fche will reach the point where her way of classifying Mr. Salteena would be to say that he was a young man of fortytwo. Seeing With the Soul. What you see with your sou! helps Jetermine what you are. The mind rannot contemplate visions without reactions. The deeper the vision the more potent the reacting influence. Only surface men. men of the noniiinking type go through life without noments of sober sitting at the shrine af conscience and there weighing the problems of life. When man sees his power and appreciates that every unased vestige detracts in multiples he ?eeks to turn it to account. And it alesses in proportion to the enthusiasm with which it is advanced. The ?ood we do returns with greater power when it is done without thought of regard. We are in the world to make the iiost of it. We must see the soul if we are to gather the full reward of our possibilities. This is every man's right.?Grit Swiss "Mourning Urn." At the death of a person in Switzerand the family inserts a formal, )lack-edge announcement in the papers asking for sympathy, and stating :hat the "mourning urn" will be exlibited during certain hours on a cpe;ial day. In front of the house where :he person died there is placed a little jlack table covered with a black cloth, in which stands a black jar. Into this die friends of the family drop little slack-margined visiting cards, sometimes with a few words of sympathy 3n them. The urn is put on the table 5n the day of the funeral. Only men ?ver go to the churchyard, and then generally follow the hearse on foot Bright Idea. "What Is the name of this new lance?" "A name hasn't been found for it pet." "But that must be done." "Of course. A committee Is going jut to the 'zoo' this afternoon and R-atch the antics of the animals. An ippropriate title is sure to suggest itself."?Birmingham Age-Herald. ' HONOR CLAIMED BY WELSH > ! I i Writer Asserts Natives of That Coun- 1 try Were the First White i People in America. ; In an amazingly interesting old book, published by the author, John j Williams. Vale street. Denbigh. Wales, j In 1856. entitled "Ancient and Modern Denbigh," there appears the following rare bit of information: "In A. D. 1169, Madogap Owen Gwynedd, and his followers, are said to have left the Vale of Clwyd (in North Wales), and to have reached America 300 years before Columbus discovered that vast continent Returning, next year, they took many more with them, and are said to have founded a tribe of Welsh American Indians." England had been conquered by the Normans in the previous century, and the sons of the great barons William the Conqueror had brought with him from France were taking possession by force of the conquered kingdom, as they could. They were not always successful In their little individual wars, and a good many Saxon earls and squires held their own against them. Especially did the Normans | have a bad time trying to oust the ! ancient Britons from their property in Wales. It was not until 12S3 that David, last king of the old British empire, was defeated, and King Arthur's royal crown was taken by the Norman-English, as was the Welsh relic "croesenydd" made of the true cross and inclosed in gold and silver, embossed with jewels by St. Helena, the British princess through whom it may be said that the Norman-English became Christian. The author fails to quote the documentary evidence of the discovery of America by the Welsh. PICTURESQUE IN THEIR RUIN Famous Old Abbeys and Priori?* Abound in the English County of Yorkshire. When It comes to selecting the region of abbeys and priories In England there is but one county to think of. That county is Yorkshire, which has no less than 25 famous abbeys and priories within its boundaries, several of them renowned all over the world as being the finest and most beautiful ruins and scenes one can possibly expect to view in this connection. Twenty-five, at least, of these beauty spots, the ancient founders of religious J houses selected in Yorkshire centuries ! ago. Of course not all those 25, In their ruins and environment, are so amazingly beautiful and picturesque today. Kirkstall abbey, charming as It still appears In certain ways, is too much overshadowed by the smoke of Leeds and the murky, evil-smelling I water of the Aire. But when the old j monks first came to this abbey, the j vale where it rested was almost surely as delightful as Fountains' wondrous scene Is today! However, most of the 1 Yorkshire abbeys even yet retain their ! pristine delightful surroundings, their I falryllke loveliness, and have thus won | a world-wide renown, and are visited ! by tens of thousands of folk from | every quarter of the globe year by I year. j 1 Influence of Lunar Cycle. I Physical and mental alternations are j well marked in chronic invalids and In i the Insane. In the casewof a sufferer i from heart disease, with asthmatic ! symptoms, a careful record was kept ; of the singularly regular lunar monthI ly attacks. The cyclic excitement of j lunatics has also been studied by phy! slclans, and In one of the Investigaj tions it was found that 40 per cent of men and 46 per cent of women in 388 j asylum patients had definite periods of I relapse. ! The influence of the lunar cycle upI on the prevalence of suicide has been j observed by several Investigators. I More cheerful Is the evidence that the I phase of the moon affects the marriage ! rate. The rhythm of the aptitude for j mental attention is a topic of great slgj nificance in the conduct of life. Laundry of the Millionaire. J Order is pleasant. If I were a milI lionaire?which I thank heaven I am ; not, nor scarcely a millionth part of ! one?I should take pleasure in the ' silent orderliness that shadowed me through my home. Those invisible hands that patted out the pillows and shined the shoes and picked up every V.?rr oron tVia QnnHou nptt'cnp nori | U1IU5) V T V/U iMV VU4JV?**jr "V. ?? ~ j those I should enjoy. I should enjoy j especially the guardian angel who hid i from me the casualties of the laundry i and put the surviving laundry away. ; In heaven there Is no laundry, or i mending of laundry. For the millionaire the laundry Is sent and the launj dry Is sorted away, blessed be the | name of the millionaire. I envy him j little else?except, perhaps, his linen ; sheets.?New Republic. Disinction Without Difference. Donnld went to get a drink, when i Randall said: "Hand me a drink, Don; aid!" Mother said: "You mustn't I order it nice tnat, Kanaan, or Donald won't have to get it for you. Say, j 'Please hand me a drink. Donald."' i So Randall said: "Please hand me a drink, Donald. Pin ordering it!" i i Those Girls! j "Tell me just what sort of a man | your fiance is." "Oh. he's everything that is nice." ! Vm so glad. You know. I have alI ways said thai people should marry , their opposites."?Boston Transcript i Expert Kodak Finishing ! VKLOS PRINTS THE AIKEN GIFT SHOP Aiken, S. C. BEST MEDICINE | HE EVER SAW; Son Gains in Weight and Strength After Taking Meritone. "I want to recommend Meritone as the best medicine I ever saw," said W. H. Prather, a well-known employe of the N.f C. & St. L. Ry., of ' N. 4 Bessie street, Chattanooga, j Tenn. "My son's health was all run down I after he got up from an attack of the influenza. He had no energy at all and could hardly drag around. His appetite was so poor that he didn't care for anything to eat. "He kept going down and fell off in weight and nothing did him any good. "Finally I heard of Meritone and what it was doing for others, and decided to let him try it. "Since taking two bottles he has gained five pounds and just can't get enough to eat. "That tired, draggy feling has left him and he delights in doing his school work now. "He has a better color and sleeps fine. In fact, Meritone has made a new boy of him and he is as happy as can be." Meritone is sold exclusively in Bamberg by Mack's Drug Store. STATEMENT. Of the condition of the Bank of Denmark, located at Denmark, S. C., at the close of business, March 1, 1920. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $283,370.72 in nnc nn WtJl uidit5 ............ ....... i Vjwu?v v Bonds and stocks owned by the bank 17,550.00 Furniture and fixtures.... 1,875.00 Banking house 4,691.98 Due from banks and bankers 239,208.04 Currency 4,609.00 Gold 17.50 Silver and other minor coin 142.00 Checks and cash items.... 61,989.52 Exchange for the clearing house 3,195.00 Other resources, viz: W. S. S 1,000.00 Total $627,654.76 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $ 50,000.00 Surplus fund 10,000.00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 14,194.76 Individual deposits subject to ck..333,377.67 Savings deposits 219,525.00 Cashier's cks. 557.33 553,460.00 j Total ( .!....$ 6^7,6 54.7 6 j State of South Carolina?County of I Bamberg. Before me came J. Arthur Wiggins, I cashier of the above named bank, I who, being duly sworn, says that the | above and foregoing statement is a | a - 1*1* / ! J 1 1. 1 true condition 01 saia uaim, as suuwu . by the books of said bank. J. ARTHUR WIGGINS, Cashier. I Sworn to and subscribed before me ! this 8th day of March, 1920. SAMUEL B. RAY, Notary Public for S. C. J Correct?Attest: D. N. COX, W. H. FAUST, J. ARTHUR WIGGINS, Directors. THERE ARE MANY GOOD, STRONG E VALUE Our unalterable poli est possible value to number of people, r< I or not they are custc Our welfare is depei of this community, s terest in each individ | RESOURCES OVE i 4%lH7EREST $11P^ fcwfcfcaa 1 SAVINGS ACCOUNTS / STATEMENT. Of the condition of the Bamberg Banking Co., located at Bamberg, S. C., at the close of business March let. iyzu. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts....$ 637,183.95 Overdrafts 2,068.59 Bonds and stocks owned by the bank 25,974.00 Furniture and fixtures 3,238.19 Banking house 4,518.24 Due from banks and bankers 321,724.03 Currency 13,301.00 Silver and other minor coin 1,762.44 Checks and cash items.. 200 01 ,r Total ?...$1,009,970.45 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in....$ 200,000.00 Undivided profits less current expenses and taxes paid 17,208.63 Dividends unpaid 240.00 Individual deposits subject to check ....$464,442.83 Savings deposits 315,027.20 Time certificates o f deposit.... 12,794.48 Certified checks .. 77.42 Cash. Cks. .. 179.89 792,521.82 Total $1,009,970.45 State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg. Before me came H. H. Stokes, cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of the said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. H. H. STOKES, Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of March, 1920. H. L. HINNANT, Notary Public. Correct?Attest: A. M. BRABHAM, N. P. SMOAK, G. M. DICKINSON, Directors. STATEMENT Of the condition of the Bank of Olar, located at Olar, S. C., at th* close of business March 1, 1920. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $251,708.87 Overdrafts t 9,138.35 Bonds and stocks owned by the bank 20,025.00 Furniture and fixtures and banking house 500.00 Due from banks and bankers 79,906.98 Currency 4,000.00 Silver and other minor -t oo t c coin ....... ..... ioa.iu Total $375,411.35 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $ 20,000.00 Surplus fund 57,000.00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 16,372.68 ndividualde ject to ck...$192,595.57 Savings deposits ^ 78,960.84 Cashier's cks. 482.28 272,038.61 Total $375,411.35 State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg. Before me came R. Fair Goodwin, cashier of the above named bank, who being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. R. FAIR GOODWIN, Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day of March, 1920. H. F. STARR, Notary Public for S. C. Correct?Attest: C. F. RIZER, Director. Read The Herald, $2.00 per year. WAYS IN WHICH A '.ATTIC MAY BE OF TO YOU." cv is to be the greati the largest possible Bgardless of whether >mers of ours. ident on the welfare o we have a vital in!ual who composes it. & ;R $1,000,000.00 DHHnHBHDHHi