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tKPjje Bamberg ^eralb # ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. j Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. Entered as second-class matter April 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. \ $2.00 PER YEAR. 1 ? Volume 31. Number 18. ^ Thursday, May 4, 1922. * The county convention has been 1 held. Now is the time for all good * Democrats to announce their candi- 1 dacy for county offices. The columns . of The Herald are open for the ad- s vertisements of all candidates, pres- c ent and prospective. Rates: $10 for 1 state offices, congressman, and solici- j tor; $5.00 for county offices, except 1 county commissioner and coroner, * which are $3.00, and magistrate and a difficulty of attaining this much desired end of getting taxes lowered h to a pre-war basis was strikingly f shown at the convention when one of n the speakers called attention to the t v fact that on nearly every item of the e appropriation bill there are some who c( / insist that this and that item must I not be reduced. The argument is generally made that, for instance, n schools must not suffer r-that this ap- v } propriation must not be reduced un- t der any circumstances. .The same d argument is used on many other e items. The fact is that there can be s no material lowering of appropria- 1 tions unless there is a drop in all t items. It is true that the schools 1< must not be allowed to suffer. The o ' teachers are not paid too much, we g thin#; in fact, they should be even t better paid, but it is quite impossible t to. pay high salaries to any class p and keep the appropriations low. We i: should like to see the time when r r: v teachers and preachers, who are i: yr- probably in closer touch with more ? people than anybody else, get salar- t ies in keeping with their intellectual training. But, so far as the public 'v school question is concerned, it cannot be done without liberal appro- j priauon 01 money, a fttryuuie ?? struck in the convention x^hen it was suggested that the administration costs are too heavy in all departments j of the state government. Bamberg's delegation was right in voting to abolish many of the commissions and r -w \ , boards in Columbia. Many of them are useless and provide nothing more ?/ '} than jobs for those employed. Thous- M ands of dollars are employed annu- ^ v \ ally to pay inspectors, yet things are ' about the same as they have always c v ' been. The highway commission dr^-ws tremendous money to superintend the building of roads that each ^ county is qualified to superintend itself. The tax commission gets yet ( other thousands to take money out or ine leit pocKer msieaa 01 me rxgut g where it used to come from. The ^ railroad commission is now com- . posed of seven useless members ine stead of three. The public welfare ' board "saves" the state thousands of dollars by giving scholarships Bamberg county pays for to other coun- _ ties, and so on down the litfe it goes. First, fire out about nine-tenths of the boards and commissions from -Columbia |*then reduce all appropriations where the overhead expense is too heavy^ and make the reductions uniform Except, perhaps, in extremely few instances. Next, stop the lobbying during the session of the legislature. PoW- r\# H i*y? \ CM V VA A1A1U llCIUf V? l}* ^ ??? i* * "Are you a native of this parish?" ashed the Scottish sherip of a witness. 0 "Maistly, yer honor," was the re- > ply. ; "I mean, were you horn in this parish?" "Na, yer honor, I wasna born in this parish. But'm maist a native for a' that." "You came here when ygu were a child, I suppose you mean?" said the sheriff. * "No, sir; I'm just here about sax year noo." "Then how do you come to be nearly a native of this parish?" "Weel, ye see, when I cam' here sax year sin' I jist weighed eight stane an' .'I'm seventeen stane noo, sae ye see that about nine stane o' me belongs to this parish an' the ither eight comes from Comfachie." w'li ' QUEER ISLAND FOUND. 'acific Island Contains Great Deposits of Guano. A description of what is believed to )e one of the most peculiar islands in he world and one of the loneliest ;pots in .the Pacific, Walpole Island, vhich has been submerged by the >cean at least six times from all inlications, was given at Sydney, Ausralia, recently by O. A. Mackay, F. R. j. S. representative of the Australan Guano company on the island. Walpole is about 150 miles east by outh of Noumea and contains great leposits of guano. With Surprise Isand and the Chesterfield group, it is eased by the Australian concern. It s a limestoi>e table, 230 feet from he ocean accessible at only one spot ,t a break in the cliffs where steps lave been but. Mackay said that there were renarkably clear indications on the liffs of successive water levels and hat pumice, coral and other shells in the curiously raised platform , howed that at least six times it must ave been at or under sea level. Mapy , races of ancient human habitation rere found in the forms of walls, obiously built by man, columns of coral ight and nine feet high, large tombs nd clam-shell bladed instruments, everal specimens of which Mackay as presented to the Australian ; auseum. Fresh water supplies were , iscovered in two caves. Mackay ex ressed the opinion that formerly here was a much greater land surace than at present.. ! "I found undoubted signs of pretistoric habitation," he said. "I also ound in places, where the guano < aents on to the carol, tne remains 01 i he horned turtle which I am inform- : d have been found nowhere else ex- j jpt in South America and Lord Howe slands." Mackay said that probably the for- , aer inhabitants had escaped in boats 1 rhen the ocean rose and submerged he islanjd or that they hatf been rowned in the rising tide. The pres- ; nt population of the isle consists of ix white men, 30 Japanese and about 00 Loyalty islanders. The singing of 1 hese islanders serve to make life < ess monotonous than it would be 'i therwise. Mackay said, poultry and ;oat3 are raised for food j^hile vegeables and fruits grow luxuriantly, i omatoes growing as large as 2^ lounds in weight. Cricket and fishng are the main diversions of the esidents. On Sundays the Loyalty slanders hold two church services, srhich the whole population attends,ie said. / CARRIER^ TO HELP. t. F. D. Men Will Assist in Gatherin Crop Data. Utilization of the services of rura: >tter carriers for gathering crop data nd other agricultural statistics was uthorized last week by Postmaster leneral Works. * "T'Vin r?r\ofnflR^o rior>n rtm pti t realiz X |/votv*uvv s," the postmaster general said, that the services rural carriers ould render would be of tremendous alue to agricultural interests of the ountry and we would be heartily lad to have them co-operate with be agricultural department, by servig as crop reporters. "It is understood that the filling ut of the blanks requires but a few loments each month so that work of reat importance and interest could e performed with the expediture of ut little time, and without interferpce with postal duties of the cariers." Renew your subscription today. IK They are' I Good! J Buy this Cigarette Finds Gold Ring in Chicken Gizzarc G. W* Hunter, a prominent citi zen of Hunter's Chapel section, was in the city Monday to attend the county convention of the Democrats party, and while here showed The Herald two gold rings that bear ? rather interesting history. The smaller of the rings, alonj with a blue setting, was found Sun day in the gizzard of a chicken the Hunter family enjoyed for Sunda} dinner. The setting was out of the ring and bore evidence of the attempi of the digestive organs of the fowi to dissolve it. The second ring, a much largei one, was found some months ago ir a cow Mr. Hunter butchered. This ring was in perfect condition. Both the chicken and the cow were raisec on Mr. Hunter's place, and a peculiai fact in regard to both rings is thai none of Mr. Hunter's family has ever possessed such rings as he recovered from the chicken and the COW. Mr. Hunter is afraid people wilj think he is conducting an advertising campaign for the products of his farm, but he declares that such is not the case. Of course, he is compelled to admit that buyers of -his farm products have an excellent chance at getting valuable jewelry for prizes,' although he did not say that he has any for sale just now. ?250,000 Bond Sale By Orangeburg, Orangeburg, April 30.?City council Friday night sold $250,000 worth of bonds, the sale several weeks age having not been accepted due to ar alleged discrepancy in the bid. The bid of the Trust Company in Georgia was accepted, it being for $250,00C at five per cent. The amount is practically $8,000 more than the highesl bid the council received in Marcl when the bid of the Southern Bank and Trust Company of this city was the highest. It was announced todaj by T. 0. S. Dibble, city clerk, that advertisements for bids for the paving of five and one-half miles of streets covered by the above issue, would bs made at an early date, and that wor* would proceed with dispatch as soor is the contract was let. About $750,000 will be spent in the next year oi so in building, permanent streets ir the city, the city paying one-thirc and the; adjoining property owners paying each a third.. Renew your subscription today. j BAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS Pt OLE bMANJ KIN-FOLKS ' 6INALLY FETCHES LONG A T>ECK O' TATERS WEN PEY COMES T' VISIT WE-ALL ?EN PEN PEY STAYS LON6 'NOUGH T' EAT UP A BUSHEL^ Qppyr^W. 1910 t? McOw* Hrwp.par 19 cigarettes IF- f and Save Money TELLS OF WATER SPOUTS. S] sl I One Who Has Made Number of Sea a ' Voyages Tells of Experiences. s] a The Associated Press report, pub- n * lished in the State on Sunday of ,g * tc ' the narrow escape of the Cunard liner " Carmania, from a waterspout, when " 800 miles from New York, recalled 1 the pictures of dreaded waterspouts C( in the physical geography books of j j, ' long ago. ? A visitor to the State office yester-! j i day, who was known to have made J = many sea voyages, was asked if he ? 5 had ever seen a waterspout. "Several i times," he answered, "and once three & at one time. si Asked if he had ever been in dan- ^ ger from one of them, he replied: o< "Only once, you may remember the * West India hurricane of September , 8-10 in.1919, when the?City of Mexi- , i . co, Captain filler in command, ran j. into the vortex of that storm about n: 200 miles east of Habana. A water- si spout formed several miles away C1 , and, in the dead calm of the wind but with the ocean heaving with t storm waves, it moved diagonally to. wards us and crossed our bows so P1 C< near that spray from the spout fell si on the forward deck. The speed of tc ' the spout was estimated at 30 miles . an hour. When the spout appeared JJ . not a soul was on deck. I was on ^ \ the bridge with Captain Miller and ? we took refuge in the pilot house. The captain said that in 45 years at sea that was the nearest call :he had ever had from one of those f blankpty things. It is probable the M passengers on the Carmania who told 9 the story in New York* thought the S( , spout was nearer than it was. Had e] there been danger of its striking the a: fr . ship the commander would have or- t ' n dered them all below. Should even a ,b( ( small spout strike a ship, it would d carry off every movable thing, life . boats and all, on the decks. Just how much of a shock of this kind a big ocean liner will stand has not j been determined. , "But I saw a spout once," continued the visitor, "four miles from us, * p whose 'waist' or the, smallest point ! between the surface of the sea and > , the clouds, was estimated by the captain of the ship I was on to be 300 feet in diameter. There were, therefore, tens of thousands of tons ; , of water raised in the air and if the ==?=?==?===========!===!==? L, To Cure a Cold ia Ooe Day F Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE (Tablets.) It c > stops the Cough and Headachg and works off the 9 Cold. E. W. GROVE'S signatolfe on each box. 30c. I $20.1 I ToBeC I ERE B | night of June I I I cost to you as f( I One ticket w B $1.00, and a tick m account due, eit B These tickets B purchase by the B and the person fl get the cash pri: MB I I vn I mi IU J. B. I J Auto Garage O mmmk^ cotton weigher $3.00 each. The 1 Herald will publish ^free the card for the first* lady in Bamberg county to 1 announce for a county office. c The internal affairs of the Demo- o cratic party of South Carolina are s not a source of a great deal of wor- h Ty, as was evidenced at the county t conventions Monday, but one of the v questions which took hold of the v: voters in several counties was that of e taxes. The Bamberg convention was a practically turned over to discussion s of high taxes and the remedy there- h for. The general trend of argument n was that the state is run at too high d speed; there did not appear to be p fc'' - much solution offered except a gen- t atoI inworinf nf all exmmses. The f ?out is broken that waterfalls. No lip ever built could withstand such Shock. A big waterspout, with the pray falling from its sides as from thousand gigantic fountains, is, ext to agitation oi the ocean in a enuine hurricane, the most specicular sight of the mysterious sea." -The State. Fencing is regarded as a great aciraplishment for young women in apan. INNUUJNUUMEJMTS ounty Commissioner, Lower District I hereby announce myself a candiate for the office of County Commis- ! oner from the lower district in the ! emocratic primary. I pledge myslf to abide"by the rules of the Dem:ratic party. J. B. McCORMACK. I hereby announce my candidacy )r the office of County Commissionr for the lower district. I pledge, lyself. to abide by the rules and j lpport the nominees of the Demo*atic party. R. H. JOLLY. Habitual Constipation Cured in 14 to 21 Days -AX-FOS WITH PEPSIN" is a specially epared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual mstipation. It relieves promptly but lould be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days ) induce regular action. It Stimulates and egulates. Very Pleasant to Take. 60c ir bottle. OTICE OF TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. mi. 1 - . : ~ me regular spring eAaimuauun l\ji iachers' certificates will be held at le court house in Bamberg, S. C., on riday, May the 12th and Saturday, [ay the 13th, beginning promptly at a. m. each day. The examination ill cover primary licenses?first, >cond and third grade, and general lementary licenses?first, second d third grades. The examination >r Jiigh school certificates will be ela later. The usual subjects will e given at the examination on Friay and Saturday. W. D. ROWELL, County Supt. of Education. April 22, 1822. PORTABLE AND STATIONARY Engines "and boilers Saw, Lath and Shingle Mills, Injectors, Pumps and Fittings, Wood Saws, Splitters, Shafts, Pulleys, Belting, Gasoline Engines ?OJ3tock LOMBARD ound^y, Machine, Boiler Worke, upply Store. AUGUSTA, GA. I DOiiP jivenAway. 4 I T""* ft * On June 6th. W J give a Cash P iJLjI to the holder mi bearing a cer ? The contest c 3th, and tickets may b;e sec >llows: ill be given for every cast :et will be given for each $1.0 her old account or current a< ; will be placed in,a box ai } holder, number will be dra^ whose number appears on t IffiACCODKr BRIC BAMBERG, S. C. ORDER OF NOTICE. 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT I EASTERN DISTRICT OF SOUTH ^ CAROLINA. 1 IN BANKRUPTCY. It i In the Matter of L. Morris, Bank- ' rupt. On this 18th day of April, A. D. fg 1922, on reading the foregoing petition, it is - 1 Ordered by the Court that a hearing 'be had upon the same on the 1st day of June, A. D., 1922, before % said Court at Charleston, S. C., in said District, at 11 o'clock in the * forenoon, and that notice thereof be published in The Bamberg Herald, a * \ newspaper printed in said District, and that all creditors and other per sons interested may appear at said *J| time and place and show cause, if ? any they have why the prayer of the said petitioner should not be granted. And it is further Ordered by the Court that the Clerk shall send by mail to all known creditors copies of said petition and this order ad- *jj| dressed to them at their places of residence as stated. Witness the Honorable Henry A. M. Smith, Judge of the said Court, it and the .seal thereof, at Charleston, S. C., in sadi District, on the 18th f day of April, A. D. 1922. U | RICHARD W. HUTSON, 1; 5-18 Clerk. R. P. BELLINGER 1 ATTORNEY-AT-LAW C General Practice in All Courts 'J] Office Work and Civil Businesl a J Specialty i Offices in rear over Hoffman's Store y ROMBERG, S. C. ^ J. P. Carter B. D. Carter , 1 J. Carl Kearse Carter, Carter & Kearse A ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW B Special attention given to set- if tlement of Estates and Investiga- 1 tion of Land Titles. Loans' ne- : gotiated on Real Estate. ' 1 [ ? 4 j J* WESLEY CRUM, JR, j ATTORXEY-AT-LAW fl Bamberg, S. C. Jjl Offices in Herald Building 1 Practice in State and Federal Courts. 1 Loans negotiated. | RILEY & COPELAND I' J Successors to W. P. Riley. Fire, Life Accident 1 INSURANCE | Office in J. D. Copeland's Store BAMBERG, S. C. J ni7r ill I KILL ; ^B | Iune6 I | ^1 BB , 1922, we will 9 rize of $20.00 I of a ticket h tain number, h loses on the I 4 ured without S * l purchase of S < paid on any H ^count. t the time of M 4 ;vn on June 6, ; n 1 he ticket will B 1 TODAY I j Service Station 1 ffl M?"""aniBBBinBMa"?nBMMa ' I ' ' H '. M J .. - . 1 M