The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 29, 1920, Image 1
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INCOME OF NATION
EXCEEDS EXPENSES
FIRST REDUCTION OF DEBTS IN
THREE YEARS.
Houston Optimistic.
More Than Billion Paid on Outstanding
Obligations in TweD'e
TVfnnfhs.
Washington, July 25.?The government's
income for the fiscal year ending
June 30 exceeded its expenses for
the first time in three years, Secretary
Houston declared today in a
statement in which he announced a
reduction in the gross public debt
and forecastea further "important reduction'"
for the coming 12 months.
While the annual operations of the
/ government showed a surplus . of
$291,221,548?the more- iniportant
change, treasury' officials said, was
the cutting o| $1,185,184,692 from
the gross public debt during the year.
The national debts aggregated $24,299,321,467,
on June 30 and $25,484,506,160
a year previously, but in
the meantime the obligations of the
nation had mounted to their highest
point?$26,596,701,648, om August
31?due to the operations incident
to the handling of maturities of trec-^j
urv certificates of indebtedness. Thus,
a reduction of $2,297,380,180, from
the peak is shown.
Outside of the transaction involving
the gross debt, treasury receipts
for the year aggregated $6,694,565,?
388, while expenditures totalled $6^.
403,343,841. The statement, revealed,
however, that the surplus was due
largely to a partial liquidation of the
war finance corporation.
"The operations * incident to the
handling of the maturities cf treasury
certificates from June 15 to July
15, have not been completed," the
statement said, "and have resulted
in further reduction in both the gross
debt and the floating debt ,of the
'United States. The gross debt on
June 30, 1920, on the basis Oi daily
treasury statements amounted to
. - $24,299,321,467, as against $-2o,484,506,160
at the end of the previous
fiscal year on June 30, 1919, and $26,596,701,648
on August 31, 1919,
when the gross debt was at the peak.
In other words, the gross debt on
June 30, 1920, has been reduced by
$2,297,380,180 from its peak of August
31, 1919, and by $1,185,184,692
from the figure on July 30, 1919.
On July 20, >1920, on the basis of
daily treasury statements the gross
debt amounted to $24,264,309,321,
showing a further reduction of about:
$35,000,000 after taking into account
the $201,051,500 face amount
of treasury certificates issued under
date of July 15. The floating debt
(loan ana tax cenmuaies uuma CUlCU)
on June 30, 1920, amounted to $2,485,552,500
as against $3,267,878,500
at the close of the previous fiscal
year on June 30, 1919, and $3,938,225,000
on August 31, 1919." .
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NEGRO DESPERADO KILLED.
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Hilliard Nowling, Refused to Submit
to Arrest.
Hilliard Nowling, a negro of Latta,
was killed in the town of Latta, Dillon
county, Thursday morning while
resisting drrest. It appears that this
negro had whipped a negro woman
the night before and that he threatened
herMife. After whipping the wo
man he went to a hardware store,
broke into the store and provided
himslf with weapons and ammunition.
He was detected by' Deputy
Seymour, whose room was close by,
as he was leaving the store, as Mr.
i Symour was awakened by the unusual
k noise made by the negro when' he
brok? into the store. A search was
mad for the negro at ?he time, but
no trace of him could be found.
Thursday morning another search
was made for him, which resultea in
locating him in a stable at ine house
of a negro who lived in town. I. N.
Minshew, chief of police, with two
or three others, went to make the arrest,
and as the door was opened. the
negro fired on th party, making a
.slight wound upon Minshew. Several
shot were then exchanged. He escaped
from the building, but fell dead
some distance away, as he was fir
ing at the officers.
A Revised Version.
The following is a darky preacher's
version of the parable of the Good
Samaritan: 1
"Dere was a traveler on a lonely
road, robbed an' left wouncfed an'
helpless by de wayside. As he laid
dere various pussons passed him, but I
none of dem offers him 'sisitance. T3y
and by, however, a pore Samaritan
comes along, an', takin' pity on de
wounded man's trouble, helped him
on his mule an' took him to a tavern,
where he orders food an' drink an'
-i -n J ? ' An tovfti-n. 1
ciotnes lor ue nictn au icno u.^> wyciukeeper
to send de bill to him. An' dis!
is a true story, brethren," concluded
the preacher, "for de taven is standin'
yit, an' in de doorway is standin' de
skeleton of de tavernkeep waitin' for
de Good Samaritan to come back an'
pay de bill."
~The Trouble.
"Yes, I need a housemaid. Why
did you leave your last placer"
"Why, it was because the master
kissed me."
"And feeling outraged, you left.
Quite right and commendable!"
"Oh, I didn't mind, but the mistress
happened to be coming down
|" the stair.
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COURIER OF GEOGRAPHY.
Relation of Mail Man to Growth of
Civilization.
Did it ever occur to you that your
city letter carrier, your village portmaster,
or your rural route carrier,
has a past?
He is the agent by which the long
arm of Uncle Sam taps your shoulder
one, two, maybe three times a day,
yet he is so unobtrusive that you
probably do not know him half' as
well as the policeman or the school
teacher. *
Recently, however, he has been in
the public eyes by the presentation of
his need for increased pay, and, in
this connection, the National Geographic
Society calls attention to him
as an historic figure.
"The history of the postal service
and its employees extends to the days
of the Romans when the earliest
kno\^n means of transmitting a message
was by courier," says a bulletin
from the Washington, D. C., headquarters
of the society. "These admirable
organizers, the Romans,
marked by a 'post' the place in the
road where the relay of one runner
by another was effected; thus they
named our system long before it was
born.
"The first letter post seems to have
existed in the Hanse towns in the
nnnHlrr i r? /"ITtI OT tfk ff) Pill
txili tCCHLII tcuuui,! ill wiuvi
tate relations between the merchants
of the various members of the Hanseatic
League.
i "The British postoffice had its beginning
in the sixteenth century and
our own colonial methods of handling
mail were inherited from our British
forefathers. Long before the people
had any means of exchanging either
personal or official letters, the king
had established a system for conveying
his personal messages and official
documents by royal messengers. In .
the reign of King John this petulant
monarch paid out a large sum for a
postal service "and charged it to the
household and wardrobe accounts.
Messengers who were thus entrusted
with matters of state had t<? be above
suspicion. They, went the whole distance
and were paid according to the
length and danger of their journeys..
"When Edward IV found the Scots
were too hot upon his trail he decided
that he needed a system of communication
between his own headquarters
and those of his fighting forces, so he
had horses placed at twenty-mile intervals
on the road between England
and Scotland. That was our present
ipostoffice system in embryo. Finally
in 15.12, Sir Brian Turke became the
'first Postmaster-General of Britain,
and personally took charge of all the
royal messengers.
"Persons or less importance than
kings had to arrange to send their
letters by their servants, messengers,
merchants, or friends, but there is
evidence that by the close of the
fifteenth century regular couriers between
a few main points were employed.
-"In a Privy Council Proclamation
in 1603 the duties of mail carriers
were made extremely arduous. The
postman had to have two leather
v 1 J 'Kovne ' onttnn for
uags liucu witii uojcii, vx w>,vv^, his
letters. He had to toot a horn
whenever he saw anyone approaching,
or at least four times in every mile,
he might not delay more than fifteen
minutes at any point, and he had to
make at least seven miles an hour in
summer and five in winter. Beside
this, he had to keep a record of the
name and address of the sender and
recipient of each letter.
"In ^<538 New England proposed to
''the British sovereign that a postoffice
system be established in the colonies,
as it was 'so useful and absolutely
necessary.' His majesty paid no attention
to the plea, but Richard Fairbanks,
in the same year, set up an office
in Boston to receive letters from
ships. He undertook to deliver the
letters received and charged a penny
for each letter. He also received mail
for out-going ships, but no one was
forced to send mail through his office.
"What a step it is from these days
to a system that specially delivers our
eager and anxious words, carries our
parcels, registers our valuables, banks
our money or transmits it to pay our j
bills, and was the Paul Revere of our .
drafts for service in the World War,
calling Americans to Concords and
Bunker Hills on the fields of Flanders
! ,
"Today, in many sections of our
country, the farmer has his daily paper
just as the Wall Street banker has
his, and often he has a superior advantage
in that the mail man who delivers
it to him is his friend, and may
add verbal bulletins on items of local
interest.
"A thrilling story of the devotion
of mail men to their duties is that of ,
the Pony Express, the first rapid ,
transit mail line across the 1,966
miles of prairie deseK, snow-capped
mountain peaks, and alkali wastes be
tween the Missouri river and the Pa- (
cific coast. It was inaugurated in
1860 in order that the west might be
kept more closely in touch with the ;
north in view of the trouble brewing
from the slavery question, and, j
though it had an existence of only (
sixteen months, it made the east and
west only ten days apart at a time of
crisis.
"The date of starting was to be
March 26, 1860, and Forts Kearney,
I Laramie, Bridder, Great Salt Lake
| City, Camp Floyd, Carson City, the
Washoe Silver Mines, Placeville, and
Sacramento were to be the points of
j delivery of mail. In St. Joseph Mis,
souri, eager and excited crowds gathered
in the streets to see the first [
courier, the wiry, twenty-year old
Johnnie Frey, as he dashed away on
j his jet black steed for the first lap
of the race of flesh, blood, and determination
against the desolute spaces
of an unpeopled country.
"These riders were clad in buckskin
shirts, ordinary trousers, high)'
EQUAL SUFFRAGE
CAMPAIGN ISSUE
RANKS WITH LEAGUE OF NATIONS
QUESTION.
Tennessee in Doubt.
Confusion as to Constitutionality of
Granting Vote By
Amendment.
Washington, July 24.?The two big
political issues which have evolved
themselves out of the cloud of miasma
and fog which the Republican
leaders have endeavored to cast over
the Democrats since the San Francisco
convention ended, as seen here by
wise politicians, are the result of the
action of the Tennessee legislature
on suffrage and Governor Cox's
speeches over the country on the
league of nations as part of his presidential
campaign. The Republican
plan of campaign has already settled
itself into "one of both crimination
and recrimination. Had Governor
Cox not conferred with President
Wilson he should have done so, according
to G. 0. P. ideas, and now
that he did so he should not have
done it.
At this time there are few other
issues which will come squarely before
the people and the larger part of
the front porch speeches of candidate
Harding and the city to city speeches
of Governor Cox, will, if noqe other
come up for consideration, be largely
confined to these two issues.
Cox No Dodger.
In its weekly "yellow sheet" issued
from Washington headquarters" today
the Republican campaign managers
of Candidate Harding believe
they have hit the bull's eye when they
declare that Cox has surrendered to
Wilson and that he can not, as they
say, dodge the issue. If there is one
thing above all others which can
truthfully be said of the Ohio governor,
it is that he has never dodged an
issue?an important one?in his life.
In substantiation of this it is pointed
out that his record during the "war
when the country was tied up in the
grip of long cold blizzards and railroad
transportation had almost-come
to an end and coal shipments were
passing through Ohio, when the people
of that state were nearly freezing,
he personally took hold of the situation
and stopped enough cars loaded,
with coal going to other places tcj
prevent further suffering among his
own people.
Another instance of personal courage
on the part of Oovernor Cox is
shown in the floods of 1913. * The
state of Ohio was covered with-water
everywhere and it looked for a time
as if that whole country would be
ruined and many thousands of persons
drowned. He again took hold
of th?/situation, got into communication
with the outside world, in time
brought order out of chaos, relieved
untold suffering and saved many
lives.
Throws Light on Situation.
' Those familiar with the suffrage
situation said today that it is entirely
unlikely that Tennessee will ratify
the suffrage amendment. They assigned
as their reasons the following:
"The socal:ed amendment is not
an amendment but a radical change,
such as John Marshall, in the Virginia
constitutional convention, declared
could not be made under our
system. There is an intrinsic limit
to the power of an amendment, under
Article V of the constitution. A valid
amendment must be in harmony with
our-svstem 'of government guarantee
ing certain reserved rights to the
states and the people?not destructive
of that system."
It is pointed out that the United
States supreme court, in its recent
decision on the prohibition chse, declared
that the abolition ^of the liquor
traffic was "within the amending
power." This clearly implied that
certain proposals are without the
amending power such as, for example,
an amehdment abolishing- the Republican
form of government, or creating
a monarchy, or destroying the
states, or establishing a form of religion
or "nationalizing" women. The
suffrage qualifications, being fixed by
the state constitutions, as Madison
so clearly pointed our. in The Federalist,
and reserved to the states by the
federal constitution, are not alterable
by congress and state legislatures
under guise of a federal amendment,
but among the powers distinctly "reserved"
to the people both in the
state and federal constitutions.
Prohibition Different.
It is also shown that the prohibition
cases were not at all in the same
class with the suffrage question, as
it goes to the foundation of our Republican
form of government. If the
question of who shall vote is determined
by those elected (that is, if
congress and 3 6 state legislatures
can decide who shall be eligible to
vote for congressmen and legislators)
the entire theory of a Republican
form of government is jeopardized.
A Democratic congress and 36 legislatures
could disfranchise all Republican
voters bv constitutional amend
ment. A Socialist congress and the
state legislators could disfranchise
every property holder in the country
also by constitutional amendment.
In truth, there is so much doubt
boots, and soft slouch hats, and were
armed with sheath knife and Colt's
revolvers and Spencer carbines. The
best time they made across the trackless
waste was in carrying President
Lincoln's inaugural speech to San
Francisco?seven days and seventeen
hours."
THE BAMBEIIG SPIRIT.
Barnwell Sentinel Cites Bamberg as
an Example of Progress.
The following is from the Barnwell
Sentinel of last week:
"There is a very fundamental truth
that a stream can rise no higher thaji
its source. A similar truth is applit
cable to towns. A poet asked once,
what made a state? We might ask,
what makes a town?
"Sometimes we are apt to think
that the location of a town has much
to do with its making, or the way in
' which its streets are laid out. We
think about its facilities for doing
business, and its'being a central accessible
point to get away from, or to
teach: We alsb think that the back
.country of a town has much to do
"with its being a town. Again we are
apt to believe that its schools and
facilities go a long way toward making
the town a good town.
"After all, it isn't anything more
or less than the people who live there
'and the use made of their advantages.
We are very much interested
these days in the census reports and
how many more people are living in
a town now than ten years ago. Numbers
do not make a town, but the
kind of people.
"Take, for example, the neighbori
ing town of Bamberg. In ten years
time it will nearly double its popu!'
lation. Somebody there was -far.
sighted enough to see the advantage
of making it an educational center.
' Last year they saw the advantage of
making it free of malaria, at a cost
of about $25,000. They are now putting
over a movement for larger public,
utilities. Recently they did a
much needed bit of paving in the business
part of the town. When the
war exigencies demanded that we go
back to wheat raising in this part
of the country, some of their peo'
pie put into operation a roller flour
mill. Now that something must be
done to meet the boll weevil Situation
they encourage the neighboring
farmers to plant peanuts and tobacco
and arrange to handle these products.
"What has been done there might
have been done in any or every oth;1
er section of the state. A town may
j have all the natural advantages that
' i heart could wish for, but it is the
; people living there who make the
) town."
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Such >is Fame.
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The secretary of a periodical pub;
lished not far from New York city and
noted for the literary flavor of its
: educational page once received a let
ter from a subscriber asking for the
i address of George Meredith, the novelist.
The secretary had a careful examination
made of the long payroll
of J;he company, but the search was in
vain. A reply was therefore, sent to
the subscribed couched in this language:
.
"We are sorry that we are unable
, to give you the address of George
Meredith, or our St. Louis office. Perhaps
you can ascertain it from him."
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FARMER-LABOR CANDIDATE.
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Leader of New Party is a Lawyer
Who Formerly Owned Newspaper.
Parley P. Chris'tensen, presidential
candidate on the new farmer-labor
party ticket, is a bachelor, 49 years
old, 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs
287 pounds. Pie is a lawyer and practices
in Salt Lake City. Christensen
was born at Weston, Idaho, and
was reared on a farm.
Ho "'was forced to leave high school
when he was 16 years old to support
a widowed mother and five brothers
and sifters. Later he was graduated
from Cornell university.
"The first thing I am going to do
is to go home to my mother and attend
the September term of court,"
he said, "I am surprised at my nomination.
I hadn't the least idea that
this was going to happen when I came
here as a delegate to the convention
of the committee of forty-eight, as
well as the_ labor party."
Christnseli had been speaker of
the Utah assembly, prosecuting attorney
in Salt Lake City and chairman
of the Republican state convention
.in Utah.
! Christen sen had been speaker of
the third newspaper man running.for
t - ? tt j i. V. _ O ~ T4
president, ne onue uwiiea me oait
Lake Statesman, a weekly paper, and
has done writing for daily newspapers.
An Informal Affair.
"Tommy," cautioned bis mother,
"be sure to come in at four this afterno.on
t# get your bath, before yfeu
go to the Jones's to supper."
"But, mother," protested the lad,
"I don't need a bath for that. They
said it was to be most informal."?
Harper's Magazine.
Chid Wanted to Know.
A little boy in a Pennsylvania town
was industriously engaged early one
Sunday morning in rolling his hoop
up and down before his house.
He was summoned insider by his
mother, who thus admonished him:
"You musn't roll your hoop in front
of the house, dearie. It is Sunday.
Go and roll it in the yard."
"Mother," asked the child solemnly,
"isn't it Sunday in the back yard
too?"
about the constitutionality of the suffrage
amendment that few persons
believe the Tennessee legislature will
go on record as favoring it, however
else they might view the matter. But
if they ratify, then the Republicans
will claim that they did it; if they
do not ratify, the Democrats will be
blamed for the failure. Republican
leaders are groping in their own fog
and are hoping to destroy the Democrats
at the same time.
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HIGHEST PRICE FOR
TOBACCO IN STATE
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BAMBERG MARKET BETTER BY 1
$10 PER HUNDRED. j
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Large Crowd Present. i
' Opening of Market Thursday Marked J
New Epoch For Bamberg. <
Much Tobaco Sold.
1
The Bamberg tobacco market >
opened last Thursday by breaking the :
record in South Carolina for the high
est price. Eighty cents a pound was
paid for tobacco in one of tbe local ,
warehouses the second day the
market 'was opened; and expert tobacco
men, who were present at the
opening of the Pee Dee markets, unhesitatingly
say that the local prices ,
are around $10 per hundred pounds (
better than anywhere else in the state
for the same grade of tobacco. The
result is that Bamberg is highly elated
over its new industry. It is freely
predicted now that Bamberg is going
to have the best and biggest tobacco
market in South Carolina. The fine
prices have stimulated the farmers
into action, and already plans are
being made for the general growing
of the product throughout Bamberg .
county next year.
Thursday morning at ten o'clock,
when the market was to have opened,
the weather was very inclement.
Three days of rain prevented scores
of 'farmers, from getting tobacco on
the warehouse floors, and especially
did the weather serve to prevent the
bringing in of the finer grades of tobacco,
as the planters did not wish
j to risk their good tobacco being ruin!ed
in the rain. However, many thous|
and pounds of the product was placed
in neat piles -on the spacious floors v
of the two large warehouses, the Den- '
bow warehouse and the Farmers 1
warehouse.
As indicative of the great interest
that has been-nrouseebthroughout this
entire section in tobacco, there were <
several hundred visitors present from
a number of neighboring counties,
most of whom had never seen a pound
of tobacco sold> and many of whom
had not even seen a leaf of tobacco.
The opening was postponed to nearly
12 o'clock to permit the people to be
present on t?e occasion of this opening
of a new epoch in the history of
southern South Carolina. *
The sale started in the Denbow
warehouse. The first pile of tobacco i
placed on the block belonged to Adam
Boatwright, one of the county's colored
farmers. There were 185 pounds
in the pile, and it brought. 2 7 cents .
a pound. The next sale was of a
basket of 170 pounds, also the property
of Adapi, which brought 41
tents.
After the sale was completed in the
Denbow warehouse, the auctioneer,
buyers and visitors we it to the Farmers
warehouse, where the first pile of .1
'tobacco was sold for jlO'cents a pound,
belonging to Sheriff S. G. Ray. * This
was very poor tobacco, bur the :ie*t <
sale was the best of the day/ Three
hundred and three pounds of the
weed from the crop of Mayor J. J. ;
Smoak and Sander3 was bid in for 43
cents a pound. <
The average price of the day's sale
at both warehouses was 21.61, which
compares very favorably with th9 big.i
markets of the state and when it is ;
considered that very little good to- :
bacco was offered for sale, the price
is better than paid on any market
in the state on the opening day.
The second day's sale averaged j
about 22 cents, but one basket of tobacco
from the crop of A. M. Den- (
bow and M'. B. Burch brought
state,. 80 cents a pound. This price /,
the record price in the state,
80 cents a pound. This price
has not been equaled, so far as ,
known, at any market in this section
of the tobacco belt. * % ,
Another fine sale Friday was from
the crop of Thomas Jenkins, a colored s
farmer, this tobacco bringing 68 .
cents. The 80-cent sale was made in
the Denbow warehouse, and the 68cent
sale in the Farmers warehouse.
Some ten or twelve buyers were
present at the local market Thursday
and Friday and more arrived in town s
Monday. With these buyers, Bam- 1
berg undoubtedly has the best facilities
for the sale of tobacco anywhere *
in this section of the country. These 1
buyers represent every big tobacco \
poncern in America as well as the ex- port
tra* . A great deal of the xo- :
baccoffculd here is bought by the ex- i
port buyers, and there is animated i
bidding for every basket offered for i
sale. 2
The ladies for a time lost their (
feminine abhorence of the "weed" 1
and came to witness the unique system
of selling tobacco. The ware- ]
house floors were graced by the pres- 1
ence of a large number of women t
from town and from other sections, c
and they took a keen interest in the t
unusual proceedings. t
The nerald has repeatedly promis- I
- - ' - il writ- X
ed the people mai-tuey nuum ?n,-ii
ness something very much out of the |
ordinary if they would visit the to- t
bacco sales, and the people were not c
disappointed. Indeed, they crowded f
around the auctioneer and the buyers 1
so that it was necessary for the floor i
manager to request the crowd to t
make room for the sales. (
The auctioneer, Mr. Saunders, is an 1 (
expert in his line. He commands a;c
high salary for his services?much (
higher than most people would sup- t
pose, unless they were acquainted j
more with the tobacco business. He ?
is fast, and his expert salesmanship t
depends in a large measure on his
acuteness in receiving bids. To the 1
onlooker, it was all French. Nobody 1
but the tobacco men understood what ]
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NO VOTES FOR WOMEN.
Japanese Are Opposed to the Measure.
Universal suffrage was defeated in
the lower house of parliament in Tokio,
Japan, last week, when a resolution
providing for it, introduced by
the opposition, was rejected by a vote
Df 155 to 283. .
While the measure was being debated
immense crowds assembled In
nearby parks and held pro-suffrage
demonstrations. Although they permitted
meetings in more distent parts
f the city, the police refused to allow
speech making/ near the diet
building and mingled with the crqwds
which marched shouting through the *
streets. Students held an indoor
meeting x at. which an Attempt was
made to adopt resolutions censuring
the cabinet for "hindering^ the devel- "
opment of the nation," but the-police
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liuenerea. .?
Newspapers criticize what they call
the "outrageous attitude of the police
and a company of armed gen-darmes"
which was sumomned to
luell possible disturbances at a recent
suffrage meeting. The claim is made that
a bystander was seriously maK ?
treated and that the uniformed men
were unnecessarily brutal.
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COWS GET DRUNK.
And by Their Conduct Tipped The
Officers Off.
Two drunken cows that rpmped
about their pasture until exhausted
and then fell to the ground in a stu- ,
por ledx to teh discovery of a large
still on the farm of John King, about
15 miles northwest of Durham, N? Cr., %
recently. Dr. Petty, a local veterinarian
who was called to treat the ani^
mals, found they were intoxicated, - *
and after a long search the still was
located by the farmer. It proved to *
b- ODe of the largest in the history of ,
ue unty. The cows had eaten some
of .^h mash prepared by the moonshiners.
NO GIRLS SOLO IN HONGKONG.
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Correspondent Says British Will Not, N
Permit Chinese Custom.
An "Indignant English Woman,"
writing in a current newspaper, says:
I read in your paper a few days
ago a report to the effect 'hat rectain *
questions had been asked in the Brit- A
ish parliament as to whether a state
of slavery emongs: Chinese women
existed in Hongkong, i was very \ X
nuch pained to hear that such a ques ^
tion had been, asked atdiome, for it
is liable to give an impression that
such a state does exist and was ^ie
raison d'etre for the question being
asked.
I am sure persons who sent information
to that effect to the labor
member who put the question must
have done so in order to discredit V
the British authorities in Hongkong,
and to make the rest of the world $
rbink that Britain-was making or per- |
mitting Hongkong to be used as. a
vast slave market for young ignorant
Chinese girls%~ I was in Hongkong
for some time and I think I found
the Chinese girls very happy there.
Xever did I once hear that such a
thing as bartering young girls fory
hard cash, to be the property of the
purchasers, took place. I f wonder,
how this libel on; the authorities in
Hongkong?British colonial authorities,
and therefore the libel is derogatory
to the dignity of Britain, tfpo
?got about and had collected sufficient
momentum to induce a labor
member to put such a silly question
n the commons. Is this an indication \
of the way labor is getting ready to
do away with the coalition, and is
beginning by inserting the thin end "]
of the wedge against colonial governors,
appointed by the present government
operating in England? .No
one who has been .in the Par Ea&t
will deny that Hongkong is a haven
of refuere and safetv to all Chinese
in South China, and particularly ?o.
to young Chinese girls, however unsophisticated
these may be.
Getting Along Nicely, ^
"How's your boy getting along in
school?" asked a friend of the boy's
nother.
"His standing in toothbrush drillj
jxercises are excellent, but he does
lot seem to make any progress in
-eading, writing and arithmetic."?
Northwestern Lutheran.
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t was all about. It required only
ibout thirty seconds, or less, to compete
a sale, when the party would
idvance to the next basket. Thii
;ontinued up and down each row of
)askets until all was sold.
The first two days of the sale, approximately
50,000 pounds of Bam)erg
county grown tobacco was sold
;o the big tobacco concerns of the
country, representing some $12,000,
o $15,000. This week it is expected
hat more good grades of tobacco will
>e sold, and that the average will be
)etter.
mi T? ? ^ Vtnn o^frQ
X J-lfcJ Detxuuci 5 &ci ixao atMovfuu
o Bamberg quite a number of tobacio
men, many of whom have their , :
'amilies with them. They are a fine
)unch of people, and have already
nade scores of friends here. Owing
o the unfortunate lack of hotel facilities,
most of these people are
luartered in the private homes of the
ity. They are all loud in their praise
)f Bamberg, and they one and all say
;hat Bamberg is a fine town?barring
ts hotel accommodations, which are
>o limited that the visitors have to ake
refuge elsewhere.
R. J. Works and J. L. Knight, local
warehouse managers, are two live
wires, and they are pulling strong to
make this the banner market.
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