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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. 13
Thursday, March 25,1920.
LIKED AMERICAN FOOD.
Baking Powder Biscuit Took Stevenson's
Fancy.
Nellie Vandergrift Sanchez, in her
colorful book on her sister, the wife
of Robert Louis Stevenson, has
thrown new light on the author of
"Treasure Island." In August, 1879,
Stevenson sailed from England, as a
steerage passenger, for this country.
From New York he proceeded at once
across the continent to Monterey to
marry Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne.
In August, 1880, he returned to England
to present his wife to .his people.
Though a willing and brilliant
conversationalist?he has been described
os "deuced explanatory"?he
enough "land of gold," and wiih
expressed very few opinions concerning
his first impressions of the United
States. Now we have them.
Stevenson liked our food. In a letter
to Sidney Colvin he said: "You
eat better here than anywhere else;
fact. The food is heavenly." He had
hardly reached Monterey before he
told his friends of the wonderful
"little cakes" he had bought at the
restaurants along the way. He meant
baking powder biscuits. Later he fell
in love with hot tamales and meat
stew and rep peppers.
He round tne names ei our western
'c states?Arizona, Colorado?most poetic.
The perfume of the pine forest,
. , the Spanish missions on the Pacific
coast, the blue of the California sky,
and our 20-dollar gold pieces he found
?& beautiful beyond comparison. He was
impressed by the way the Indians
. pronounced Latin at a church service
* and the mechanical cleverness of our
,, women. He regarded Francis Parkman
as our best historian, "Marching
Through Georgia" and "Dixie" as our |
hest songs. For "Home, Sweet Home," I
he had but little use.
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Second Chance of Peace.
If it were possible to hope that the
democracy of the United, States had
the instinct, and its leaders the diplomatic
resource to make American
participation in an international loan
contingent upon political conditions,
America might yet write her signa?"
; ture below a great and constructive
peace. By all means let the peoples
and governments of Europe be required,,
to practice mutual aid. Let
the British empire shoulder its full
y share of the sacrifices and the risks. |
There is, however, among the European
powers none which has the capacity
for leadership, none which has
%> *0 ?T A VMQ VV ^ ...V
prosperity."
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Joe. "But when Tarantula Tim holds
three ace fulls in succession, we're
entitled to indulge in a certain
amount of inquisitiveness about the
deck and the deal."?Washington
Star.
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me maienai resources, uu juuitaic as
a condition of financial help, the nech
essary political changes. The American
republic alone stands out, alike
?y ity wealth and its aloftness from
our many selfishnesses, with the
>' power and the moral authority to enforce
the political preliminaries of
any economic construction. If the
* Russian war could be ended, if the indemnities
could be reduced and if
free trade could be restored over that
needy central area a relatively modest
loan might suffice to restart work
- in Europe.?The New Republic.
CLOSE CALL FOR OFFICER.
r Highwayman's Gun Emptied, But
Something Happened.
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r Newport News, Va., March 19.?
;> Officer Benjamin Bradford, a Newport
N?ws policeman, is thanking a
, t small metal cartridge case, the splinters
of his revolver stock and a handcuff
key for his life. While attempting
to arrest a negro highwayman
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Bradford had the gunman's weapon
emptied full inlo his body. One bullet
stopped after tearing the cartridge
case from the policeman's side. A
second smashed Bradford's pistol
stock into bits, while a third struck
his handcuff kgy which he wore on
the front of his belt, and was deflected
so as to only leave a skin wound.
As the policeman wrenched the highwayman's
arm upward two remaining
Tmllets ripped the negro's hat brim
eway. Officer Bradford sent six shots
from his broken weapon after the
hastily retiring desperado, but his
aim was ineffective and the man escaped.
Where Friendship Ends.
??T* -ie mrrtn? tn Ptivv a man his
FRENCH CHILDREN
ARE BEGGARS
MOST OF WHOM SOLDIERS KNEW
WERE TOUCH LOT.
Tobacco For "Chocla."
Lower French Regarded Soldiers As
Natural Beasts of Prey?Encouraged
to Beg.
French people?the lower classes
of them (the only classes of them
with whom American enlisted men
ever came in contact) always regarded
us as legitimate beasts of prey and
themselves as leeches whose natural
duty it was to suck our financial
blood dry. They not only gouged us
on/1 otinnoil 11c o+ ovorv r\nnnrtnnitv
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when we wanted to buy anything;
but I think that scores of them used
to lay awake at night devising ways
and means whereby they might induce
us to depart from our filthy
lucre. And with most of us they succeeded.
If there was nothing they
could sell us at ten times its worth
they would actually beg?that is a
great many of them would. Some of
the hard luck stories that some ,of
those French men and women would
put up would make real Belgian war
sufferers look like pikers. The village
of LaPallice, near which I was
stationed for several months of my
period of service overseas was far removed
from the war zone and the
people of that district experienced no
suffering from the vi^situdes of war
but on the other hand were as fat and
sleek and prosperous generally as
were the people of Columbia, while
Camp Jackson was at the zenith of its
existence as the mecca for York county
lads who were caught in the draft,
f^icouraged to Beg.
These Frenchmen would often use
their children to procure money from
us, and many a time did the little
rascals come around the works crying
for money and food and tobacco and
candies. Soldiers were glad to have
the kiddies around at first. They
didn't know them at first and the
novelty of giving presents of various
descriptions to the poor unfortunate
waifs of "poor France" struck their
fancy at first. But they soon got over
it because they were not long in realizing
that little Frenchies were like
most of their parents?just simply
little humbugs. They hung around the
mess halls around the machine
shops, in the barracks?they were
everywhere. They would occasionally
swipe great pieces of meat, numerous
loaves of bread, sugar and other
foodstuffs from the mess halls and
they put many a gray hair in the
heads of the various mess sergeants.
Wrenches and screwdrivers and
pliers and other tools would disappear
and sooner or later such disappearance
would be traced to the door of
these pesky little French kids. More
than once a Ford was missing and
several days later was traced to the
home of some Frenchman living in
the village. Orders were issued by
various commanders prohibiting the
little Frenchies from coming within
the areas occupied by troops. It
didn't do a bit of good; because they
knew nothing except to come and go
as they pleased. Their parents were
told to keep them at home; but the
parents \^ould only shrug - their
shoulders and extend their hands as
French do. 1
Caused Annoyance.
Tell the kids to "beat it," in French
and they would make off, making various^
signs with their nose and fingers
as some bad little American boys
will sometimes do. Yet in a short
while they would be back again crying
for cigarettes and "chocola," as they
call candy.
There were three of these little urchins
who used to cause me a great
/lr.ol af onn Aironno TfVion T fircr trot
utai ui aiiuujaiiV/C. m u^ii x mot
into LaPallice, I jayed them a great
vleal of attention because I am naturally
fond ?f little children, t was inexerienced
with French children
though and had I had previous experience
with them I would have given
them a wide berth. These three
hung around a good deal and I spent
many a franc on them for candy and
cigarettes before I wished I hadn't.
They swiped my wrenches, they swiped
my clothes and they made life fairly
miserable for me. Every morning
they would come around and there
was no getting away from them. Finally
one day I decided I would take
extreme measures. I purchased a plug
cf chewing tobacco?thick and black
and strong. Few French men chew
tobacco, none of the women do and
none of the kids.
The three musketeers hung around
me all day as usual, crying for cigarettes
and "chocola." I gave them
cigarettes and candy which they
greedily accepted, coming back several
hours later for more.
Then I took that plug of chewing
tobacco out of my pocket and calmly
cutting off a generous slice for each,
handed it around. They knew nothing
of chewing tobacco; but taking it as
Questions Asked.
A small boy of the Jewish persuasion,
was playing at the end of the
pier, fell into the sea and was only
rescued after great difficulty by an
intrepid swimmer, who dived off the
end of the pier and succeeded in getting
the boy into a rowboat.
Half an hour afterward, much ex
hausted by his effort, the rescuer was
walking off the pier when a man came
up and tapped him on the shoulder.
"Are you the man who saved my
son Ikey's life?" he said.
"Yes," answered the much exhausted
hero.
"Then,"'said the Hebrew in indignant
tones, "w'ere's his cap!"
Not Clear.
"Isn't it too bad," Mr. Jones observed,
looking regretfully across
the dinner table at his better half,
"that the things we love most never
agree with us?"
Mrs. Jones stiffened warningly.
"I'll thank you to be more specific,
Mr. Jones," she said coldly. "Are
you referring to something to eat
or to?to something else?"
The mistress of the house engaged
a new servant and gave her instructions
how to behave when answering
her bell. One evening she rang for
a glass of milk and was surprised to
see Martha appear with the glass
grasped in her hand.
"Oh, Martha," she said, "always
bring the milk to me on a tray."
Martha apologized and promised to
remember in future.
A week later the bell rang, and the
same request was made. This time
Martha appeared with the tray and
the mjlk emptied into it'. Anxious to
please, she curtsied and inquired:
"Shall I bring a spoon, ma'am, or will
you just lap it up?"
Right.
. "When water becomes ice," asked
the teacher, "what is the greatest
change that takes place?"
"The greatest change, ma'am," said
the little boy, "is the change in price."
?Our Dumb Animals.
He Missed His Pot.
Employer?Don't yau take ofl
your hat when you ask for a job?"
Demobciized Poilu?"Excuse me.
I'm so used to my helmet that I feel
bareheaded with this darn piece of
felt on."?Le Pays de France (Paris.)
Knockers.
"We have an old family knocker
on our front door."
"We have one inside."?Baltimore
American.
Shameless.
?
"I fear Glithers is a political trickster."
"His conscience doesn't seem to
bother him any."
"Probably not."
"At least, he has no objections to
being known as a practical man."
Where Danger Lurks.
There is one American sergeant in
France who is still uncertain whether
or not he gets a wound stripe.
He had gone forward in the charge
against machine-gun nests and shrapnel
without receiving a mark. Then
says the Stars and Stripes, the time
came to halt and dig in. While at this
place he attempted to open some condensed
meat, and the can exploded
and injured his right hand.
a matter of course that I was giving
them more "chocola" proceeded to eat
that Brown's mule quite ravenously.
Most of it was wallowed before I saw
bv their change of facial expression
that they had discovered that the
"chocola" wasn't.
Of Course They Were Mad.
Then they started spitting and
coughing and cussing me in French.
Considerable vomiting and writhing
and groaning was also on the programme
of the evening and taken all
in all it was the maddest trio of kids
I have ever seen either in the United
States or Europe.
They soon heat it for home, balling
me out and making faces at me as
they went. 'I was never bothered with
that particular trio again and I think
they must have passed the word to
the rest of the little arabs of that village
and vicinity to lay off of me because
the "ch'ocola" I \gave thevm
wasn't any good. I felt just a little
ashamed of myself later for my action
and yet I don't know that it was very
mean' because those French arabs
were as much trouble to some of us as
the cooties were to some of the rest
of us.?L. M. Grist in Yorkville Enquirer.
I have just received my last lot
of seed Spanish Peanuts and King's
early Big Boll Cotton Seed. Place
your order at once for same, as this
is the last shipment of the season. I
have also just received one carload of
wire fencing. See me for prices. S.
W. COPELAND, Ehrhardt, S. C. 4-8
The famous Holman Bibles are on
sale in Bamberg only at the Herald
Book Store. A few family Bibles on
hand.
STORES CLOSE 0:00 i\ M.
We, the undersigned merchants of
Bamberg, do hereby agree to close
our stores at 6:00 p. m., beginning
April 1st and continuing until September
1st, 1920, excepting on Saturdays:
J. D. Copeland, Mgr.
E. A. Hooton.
Klauber's.
> M. E. Aver Company.
Spann Mercantile Company.
Kirkland Graham Furniture Co.
Milton Shapiro.
A. Rice.
D. A. Reid.
J. Cooner & Sons.
Kearse-Padgett Company.
Mrs. A. McB. Speaks & Co.
G. O. Simmons.
G. R. Simmons (at 5 o'clock.)
Rentz & Felder.
LaVerne Thomas & Co.
C. R. Brabham, Jr.
Smoak & Moye.
H. C. Folk Co.
J. B. Black.
\V. D. Rhoad. *
P. Greenberg. <
Sam Zimmerman.
NOTICE OF CITATION.
The State of South Carolina, County
of Bamberg. By J. J. Brabham,
Jr., Probate Judge.
Whereas H. C. Herndon hath made
suit to me to grant him letters of administration
of the estate and effects
of Mrs. Mollie E. Herndon.
These are. therefore, to cite and
admonish all and singular the kindned
and creditors of the said Mrs.
Mollie E. Herndon, deceased, that
they be and appear before me. in the
court of probate, to be held at Bamberg,
S. C., on the 3rd day of April,
next, after publication hereof, at 11
o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause
, if any they have, why the said administration
should not be granted.
Given under my hand this the 18th
i day of March, anno domini 1920.
J. J. BRABHAM, JR.,
Judge of Probate.
CITATION NOTICE.
The State of South Carolina.?
County of Bamberg. By J. J. Brabham,
Jr., probate judge. '
Whereas H. C. Herndon hath
made suit to me to grant him letters
of administration of the estate ana
effects of H. W. Herndon.
These are therefore to cite and ad'
monish all and singular the kindred
and creditors of the said H. W. Herndon,
deceased, that they be and
appear before me, in the court of
probate, to be held at Bamberg on
the 3rd day of April, next, aftef
publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in
the forenoon, to show cause, if any
they have, why the said administration
should not be granted.
Given under my hand this
- the 18th day of March, anno domini,
1920. J. J. BRABHAM, JR.,
Judge of Probate.
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method, though so mild a one in
comparison to our feelings, of thanking
ail who rendered service to papa
and mama, and to us, in their sickness
and death. The many acts, tokens
and expressions, during this
double, sad bereavement, have added
to our former list of friends and loved
ones. May the richest blessings
of Heaven ever be shedded around
every one.
CLIXTOX W. HERXDOX,
MRS. JASPER B. PADGETT.
March 23, 1920.
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