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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.
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THE APPROPRIATIONS.
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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."
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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
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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 >
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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.
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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!"
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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
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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 $11P^
fcwfcfcaa
1 SAVINGS ACCOUNTS
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STATEMENT.
Of the condition of the Bamberg
Banking Co., located at Bamberg, S.
C., at the close of business March let.
iyzu.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts....$ 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. &
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