A. W. Brabhc of the C ^ Editor Herald:?I have been asked several times in the past year why *? A* 1 nort /-if we in ifle luwer ciuu ectaicni pan the country are having such unprecedented floods during the summers of the past few years. The answer is simple. For 20 years past the southern and eastern parts of the country have supplied commerce \ more than a billion feet of lumber ' cut mostly from our water courses, and the cutting away of the large trees has made the greater part of f our low lands a jungle, the like 4 of which no living person here has seen, at least in these parts. Jungles and floods, followed by excessive drought go hand in hand the world \ over. If there were no jungles there would not be floods?would never have been any floods. Let us divert a moment and trace a few floods of record, for every country in the world having a history, Tecords damaging floods. Where the 'Mediterranean Sea now is was a country, a valley below sealevel, as many parts of Asia and Africa now have. It was thickly peo pled, but owing to the jungled condition of the forests, storms came, floods came, and the Atlantic .ocean ^over the narrow barrier that held in \ obesiance the mad waves from the valley below, and for weeks It poured into this vale, making what is now the Mediterranean. This took place about 1,200 years ago (See * Wells's Outline of History.) About 6,000 years in what we call t" * * the Near East jungles were on every band and there came three destruck tive fldods, one in Babylonia, an* ' other in Assyria and the third in Syria. The few people escaping were saved in boats. The latter is the S % / FAMOUS "ESKIMO PEE.M ft* ' ? - a - j v? Originator's fortune tounieu in su Figures. ^ Christian K. Nelson came to Chicago from Omaha fifteen months ago, with nineteen cents and an idea, says a special from Chicago. Today the nineteen cents has grown to a steadily increasing fortune of ? . six figures. It'll be well over a million before Nelson pays his income tax. What did it? , The idea! * Nelson's idea was to cover a square of cold ice cream with a layer of hot chocolate, thus making a confection N with real ice cream inside. He got that idea while was manag< Ing his father's ice cream plant out in Onowa, Iowa. And !he furthered it while he was studying chemistry at college. When he was graduated he ped. died the idea around from the cream ^ factory to the ^ce cream factory. Everybody laughed at him. "Cover cold ice cream with hot chocolate? Man, you are crazy!" they'd say. But? Russell Stover, manager of an ice cream plant in Omaha, was different. He thought Nelson's idea could be put over. And together Stover and Nelson did put it,over, j That's why you see a big yellow sign advertising "Eskimo Pie" in your confectionery window. For Nelson's the inventor of Eski\ mo pie. Nelson's not making it. His comt pany, composed of himself, Stover and others, is selling licenses to firms in other cities to manufacture the confection. Today more than 1,000,000 Eskimo pies are being eaten daily.. And Nelson's company gets five cents royalty on every dozen pies. I And Nelson's busy with an adding machine trying to figure up his in * WLLLC3. V "Don't lose heart," Nelson advises ^ others. "I kept at my hunch and plugged?that's why I -succeeded. "Just don't give up. It seems to me that too many folks are only too anxious to tell the world they are licked." > iei m* KILLED BY AN EAGLE. Chilean Soldier Meets Death in a Most Unusual Way. The story of a soldier's fatal struggle with a huge eagle in the mountain pass near Los Andes last Saturday is told by the newspapers in Santiago, Chile. . The soldier shot the eagle and. thinking he had killed it, approached, but the bird had only suffered a broken-wing and furiously * attacked him. In the struggle which followed the ' eagle's claws clutched the trigger of ||? the soldier's gun, which was discharged, the bullet entering the man's body. He died in the arms of his companions, who took his body, and also the "wounded eagle to Los Andes. (777 Tells Muse of Floods flood which inundated Sodom and Gomorroh, and three other towns in | the Siddin valley, and many writers j time after time saw the remains of these towns as late as the age of I Tacitus Strabo, Josephus, Stephen, the Byzantine historian, and others. Sodom and Gomorrah were not destroyed by fire but were inundated by a flood. And Lake Asphaltites is to this day a relic of that flood. This lake by the Hebrew chronicles is called the Dead Sea, but it contains only 385 square miles and it would take 75 of such ponds to make one Lake Superior, or if the whole of Asphaltites were poured into the Great Salt Lake of Utah it would not raise it a font! Not much of a sea! In the jungles of Africa originates each year the flood waters of the Nile. In South America the jungles cause floods each year. The greatest flood of all history came 1862 in the hills off the coast of the Bay of Bengal. In a few months 75 feet and 2 inches of rain fell, and the jungles there were wiped out. In the lower part of Bamberg county the rainfall of 1919, and 1921 exceeded over 100 inches in May, June, I July and August. The crops were wiped up, and the people living there can say that another unmerciful disaster as came those two years will depopulate the Salkahatchie valley. The remedy is fire. . Burn every piece of woods that will burn. Fire does not hurt a forest here, and only a fool would say so. Unless the jungles are burned out clean and kept burned out, starvation is come hep, hep, hep. A. W. BRABHAM. Olar, March 1. \ MM??P???????????????? JUDGE REFORMED SAM. Abbeville Negro Tells Judge WatkinS He is Through With Liquor. ? ^ i i ? -i A uu?..:nA bam KyKara, coiorea, 01 auubvihc, i faced Judge H. H. Watkins in federal | court recently and pleaded guilty to the possession of four gallons or liquor, relates the Greenwood IndexJournal. He shifter from one foot to the other and nervously awaited the mercy of the court. Judge Watkins looked severely over (his glasses. "How old are you Sam?" his honor queried. "Fifty-six, jedge." "You and I are about the same age, Sam. When we get to be 56 we begin to look toward the Great Bei vond. don't we Sam?" "Yas suh." "How much liquor did you use when you first began fool with it, Sam?" " 'Bout half ar pint." "And now you get four gallons at a time. Pretty soon, Sam, they'll be passing by your -coffin and saying, 'Sam sho' do look natdhel.' Sam, I believe it is the duty of the court to save the down sliding. I believe you could be cured of fooling with liquor in three years in the federal prison in Atlanta. You're ah old man, Sam. How lonig do you think I ought to give you?" "Jedge, I ain't in na persishun to say bout dat, but I ain't goin' have no more liquor 'round me. I jes' had a nffia etort and npvAr nrezaet.lv meant JLX L UWUA V MU\* * V* r - ? m to sell none." "Is drinking liquor the worst thing you ever did, Sam?" "Yes suh, jedge, hit suttinly is de wust thing I'se ever did." "Then Sam, you are sure to go to heaven. They tell me you pay your debts?" "Yes suh, I does." "Some white people could go to school to you a long time. Sam, your white folks tell me you've always been a good nigger." "Yes suh, I tries ter be." "Well, since thinking about it, three years in Atlanta is pretty long for you. If your white folks will keep me informed about the way you are living, the court orders that you pay a fine of $100 or remain in Ab-? beville jail until paid. But mind you, Sam if vnn ever come before me again, you'll get the limit." "Yes suh." Hurry, Sun. Freddy' had been given a new watch, and was very proud of its timekeeping qualities. Just after nine o'clock one evening he rushed indoors. "What time does the sun set today?" he asked his father. s? rmarfer nast nine." an swered the parent. "Well," replied Freddy, consulting his watoh, "if it doesn't ?>uck up it will be late."?The American Boy. Evey year the number of women in New York city is increasing more rapidly than the number of men. Is Apparently Cured of Cancer Infection Sufferers from cancer will read with hope and interest the following account of what is apparently a cure for cancer, written by Capt. F. B-. Fishburne. of Columbia, the noted checker player of this state, for the Columbia Record. Capt. Fishburne was reared in Bamberg, and resided in this city until his removal to Columbia some years ago. He has numerous friends ':here, who are delighted to learn of his apparent cure. Capt. Fishburne's account of his treatment follows: "I had two operations on glands and two on tongue to remove cancer during a period of two years. During early stage had radium eight times. Wrry a Ck Airi oc\A f/\ vnf nm f r\ Roltim ArD ?? ao au t iacu lu i ^iui u l.kj jlv six weeks after last operation, which I did. Was told that they would have to use needles (sticking them through my tongue) or would have to put it in the tongue with glass capsules. Columbia doctors did not think case as bad as they did, and advised me to see specialist in Pittsburg, which I did. He told me he agreed fully4 with the two Baltimore experts and would go further and say it had already attacked my tonsils. He said that the radium might make a miraculous cure or may cause a quicker demise. I could very well believe the latter, as ray experience with radium was very bad, although I had been told when it was first used that when they used it in early stage, we got 100 per cent, cures. Just prior to my last two operations, I had heard of this wonderful Abrams electric method for cancer treatment, but did not have time to investigate, however, with n0 hope anywhere else. I went to Austin, Texas, then the nearest place the Abrams method was being used. "As the opinion has been expressed that my present condition is due solely to the last operation and' that the Baltimore and Pittsburg specialists had been mistaken when they said my case was practically hopeless, I made no claim that I was helped at all. Will only say I have gained 30 pounds, sleep well, haven't a noin n r\r i a t Vi oro ?snv ari Hflnpo nf ^ruiu, liUl V1AV/A V u-iij V* 1UVUVV/ V/l my trouble. However, as so many have asked me about the merit of this treatment, I will state that I saw people with cancer of considerable size Wiho were given the treatment until the test showed negative, then cancer was cut off and the place healed beautifully. Again I saw a man about 60 with evidence of several cancers having been removed from different parts and wiho was there for treatment for internal cancer that the surgeons could not reach on account of vital points. This man could not rest except when thoroughly doped up on account of terrible pain. He left for home while I was there and told me he had not taken any medicine in a month and had no pain. . a man wirn a tuDercuiar Done below the knee, on crutches, went home minus crutches and walked as good a6 anyone. "I do not blame anyone for being skeptical. Could you blame a man from a barren island if he refused to believe you when you showed him a luscious peach and told him is grew on a hard tree? But if you allowed him to pick one off the tree he would believe, wouldn't ihe? "Well, good people, I have been permitted to see the fruits of this wonderful treatment, and should any one who has, or thinks ihe has, a cancer be in doubt of this wonderful method, just send a specimen of your blood about the size of a silver dollar, on a piece of thin wihite blotting paper, no printing matter on it, to Dr. Albert Abrams, 2115 Sacramento street, San Francisco, Calif., and ask him to tell if you have any such trouble and where. Also ask him to say if it is blood of a man or woman and what nationality. Possibly you will ihave enough confidence to take the treatment when you get your answer. Also ask him the name of the nearest doctor to your home who is using ihis method. Nearest one I know of is in Washington, D. C., to whom I have sent a number of cases. Yours truly, "P. B. FISHBURNE." Not Sure About It. The two ladies were very hot and tired as they seated themselves at the restaurant table, and to the waiter who bustled ud and asked for their order one said as she fanned herself: "Oh, just give us a little respite, please." The waiter looked puzzled. "Ah aint 'shuah we got any today," he said after a moment, "but Ah'll ask de cook. An* will you have tea with it or coffee?" Miss Florence Miligan and Dr. Marjorie O'Connell, of New York, are walking from New York to San Francisco. ^ A VvVVV V V ^ Family at Such Littli A i _ mi t 1 ! Uiight to lake Adra of the Following Club) R $2.00 ve The Bamberg H jrn Agriculturist one ask for this if you want it.) 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