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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25
Learn to Darn Well.

Childrens stockings are an expen-
sive item of dress, so that any plan
which will make them last is welcomed
by the economical mother. First Of
all, be willing to save money in the
"long rum by spending it generously
at the outset Mark them we'll with
the child's monogram. These initials
tSn be had, in any combination of two
letters. at the department stores. BY
offering her some slight incentive, the
dear little owner may generally be in
duced to sew them neatly upon her
own stockings.
Before beginning your "stitch in
time" which is the most worthy and
usually neglected of all housewifely
arts, array yourself in your most at
tractive and restful house gown.
Place your pretty work basket beside
you. Be sure you have silver hand
led scissors, and everything dainty to
tempt you often to sew. Put on your
aristocratic gold thimble, for any Wom-
Oil Sou toNO huCl, " CIliCi SLiISiiSS
when wearing a pure gold thimble.
Now take the blessed little stocking
(and it is blessed, for it will not be
long your privilege to darn little stock
ings, so fast do the baby feet stretch
OUT, turn it wrong side out, and place
it upon the darning gourd. Run the
heels and toes up and down with good
ball darning cotton. Be sure to take
e. long stitch and then tiny stitch,
putting the stitches side by side. Re-
inforced in this way the heels will
withstand many months of hard wear
ing and washing. And it might not
be out of place, good mother, to re-
mark that If you have many steps to
take the same device will serve your
own stockings as well as those of the
little ones.
Could your great-grandmother look
down upon you she would give you
her smiling approval at this revival
of one of the old-time lost arts.
Star.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25
MRS. JENNIE f.. O'DONNELL,

MNSS JcNNlE Ia. ~ DONNLLL,
President of Oakland Woman's Riding Club.
the wonderful curative value of Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. For eight years l had female
trouble, falling Of the womb and other
complications. During that time was
more or less of an invalid and not much
good for anything, until one day l
found book in my hall telling OF
the cures you could perform. I became
interested ; 1 bought bottle of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and YVES helped; 1 continued it's
use and in seven months was cured, and
since that time l have had perfect
health. Thanks, dear Mrs. Pinkham
again, for the health now enjoy
Mrs. JENNIE O'DoNNEI.L, 27S East 31st
st., Chicago, III. - $1,000 forfeit u aboue
Testimonial IS not genuine.
Women suffering from any
form of female ills can be cured
by Lydia T.. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound. That's sure.
Mrs. Pinkham advises sick wo-
men free. Address, Lynn, Mass.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25
Repairing a Mackintosh.

To mend a macintosh procure
small tin of india rubber cement or
dissolve some strips of pure india
rubber in naphtha or sulphide of car
bon to form a stiff paste. Apply
little of the cement on the surface OF
a strip of the same material Of which
the macintosh is made. which can be
purchased by the yard or in remnants
from the waterproofers; also apply
little cement to each side of the torn
part, and when it begins to feel tacky
bring the edges together and place the
patch nicely over and keep in position
by putting a weight over it until quite
hard, which will be in few days.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25
PAID TOO SOON.

Here's a quarter, Bobby, for tell
ing me about your sisters refusing to
let Mr.. Ellis give her any presents.
You're sure it's true?'
Eyes, indeed, sir. She told him ne
must begin saving all his money now
II they expected to marry in the fall"
New York World.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25
Valuable Jewels Seldom Worn.

A jeweler says that valuable family
Jewels are almost never worn by their
owners; they are kept in safe deposit
vaults and are not used more than
half a dozen times in half century.
Ladies have them copied and always
appear wearing the imitation jewels,
which look quite as well. Why" he
added, "a lady would not dare to ap-
pear always in the valuable gems she
is known to possess; she would be
robbed and perhaps murdered for
them"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25
The Frisco System

Offers 10 the colon.sts the lowest
rates with quick and comfortable ser
vice to all points IN the west and
northwest. Thirty dollars (S30.OO)
from Memphis Tickets on sale daily
during September and October. Cor
respondingly low rates from all points
in the southeast. For full information
address w. T. Saunders, G. A. P. D.;
F. E. Clark, T. P. A., Pryor and Deca-
tur streets, Atlanta, Ga.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25
An ExCeDtiOn.

Everybody is more or less ambi-
tious to have the good opinion of his
Maybe so," said the sceptical per-
son, but it seems to me that after a
man has a food trust under way, he
doesn't care two pins what the neigh
bors think, so long as they give up
their money."-~Washington. Star.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25
scfora In China.

The Empress Dowager of China is
a great supporter of the stage, says
The London Express. Since her re-
turn to Pekin she has been the round
of the theatres, and is disappointed
at the talent. so has sent to Shanghai
for Hsaio Chinotien, the Celestial Sir
Henry Irving. If he succeeds in
pleasing her Majesty he may be given
peacocks feather; if he fails he
will be accorded a public funeral.
Actors are appreciated in China.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25
The Reason.

Wife, think these new women who
affect masculine attire are ridiculous.
Husband-'m sure there's no dan
ger of you wearing mems clothes.
Wife-Well, 1 should Say not.
Husband-No, mems clothes couldn't
possibly be made expensive enough
to suit you.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25
DAWN AND SUNSET.

At dawn,
A modest trill is heard,
A signal from some unseen olrd,
Some trusty harbinger Of morn;
Then from the tiny, swelling throats
A hailelujah Of rich notes
In greeting to the day just born.
At sunset,
When the rosy light
Is fleeing from approaching nj ght,,
And woodland shades are growing deep;
A chirp, flutte- here and there,
A beat Of wings upon the air,
And night has hushed the birds TO sleep.
Frank n. Sweet.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25

FITS permanently cured. No fits OF nervous
ness after first days use Of DR.. Kline's Great
NerveRestorer. *2trial bottle and treatisefree
Dr.R.H. KLINE. Ltd. 991 Arch St., Philo., Pa.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25
MRS, J. E, O'D0NNELL
Was Sick Eight Years with
Female Trouble and Finally
Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

"DEAR Mrs. PNKHAA have
never in my life given testimonial
before, but you have done so much for
me that I feel called upon to give you
this unsolicited acknowledgement Of
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25

while curving under the wide brim at
the left side is one pure white ostrich
feather.-New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25

A person may have good ear for music
and still have q bad voice for it.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25

J. C. Simpson, Marques, W. Va, says
"IIalls Catarrh Cure cured mo Of very bad
case Of caterrh." Druggists sell it, 75c.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25

Piso's Cure Is the best medicine We ever used
for all affections OF throat and lungs.-WM.
o. ENDsIEY, Vanburen, Ind, Feb. 10, 1900.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25

Few mel are so accommodating as to be
willing to make fools Of themselves.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25

Mrs. Winslow Soothing Syrup for children
teething soften the gums, reduces in1amma-
tiou ,allays pain cures wind collie. 25c. bottle
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25

A man always looks foolish when you
ask him how he proposed.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25

A new broom may sweep clean, but it is
apt to raise blisters.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25

There are now more than 100 pulp
and paper mills in America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-15
Fare of British Workingmen.
Engineering Magazine.

FROM fnSineerlnS haBazlne.
In gathering matter for the purpose of
this paper I studied for some time a very
representative class of laborers in an area
In which the standard rate was 16 shillings
per week. Many Of these men carried din
ners to work. and the appearance of these
parcels when opened at dinner time gave
no little insight into the reason for lack of
''go," and the almost complete absence of
staying power, by which these men were
characterized AS Is usual with this class,
the quantity and quality of the food fell as
the dinners usually consisted of bread and
cheese or OF bread smeared with lard or
margarine, and occasionally dry bread only
washed down with tea. One set of four
men were in the habit of clubbing together
and purchasing a luxury when their par
GELS happened to contain, as was not infre-
quent, bread only. They would subscribe a
halfpenny each for the purpose of this lux
ury, which often as not consisted of a two
penny bottle of doubtful pickles. Should
this seem exaggerated to any reader,
would ask him to divide carefully a weekly
income-when full weeks are worked--of
sixteen shillings. and make 1t cover all
charges for famlly-rent food, fuel, cloth
ing and contingencies such as sickness, alb
sence or scarcity of employment, ETC. Such
an arithmetical exercise will doubtless
demonstrate the fact that not all Britons
fare on the time-honored roast beef and
plum duff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-15
Leprosy and Fish.
From the London Chronicle,


Jonathan Hutchinson has again detailed
some interesting facts regarding the cause
of leprosy, which he refers to the use of
putrefying fish, Food of this kind he finds
largely consumed in South Africa where
Mr. Hutchinson has been making series
of investigations. Where the habit of eat
ing fish in state of decomposition is preva-
lent leprosy Is found; hence the relationship
between the habit and the disease Is pre-
sumed to be that Of cause and effect. Mr.
Hutchinson is careful to point out that or
binary salt fish, well cured. is not the food
he indicates as giving rise to leprosy. It is
putrefying fish. often not sailed at all-for
salt In many areas is scarce-which Is to be
regarded as the cause Of the ailment The
germ of leprosy has been described II
was discovered by Hensen. II mistake not !;
hence the fish may be considered to be the
SOIL In which the bacilli thrive. Infection
must occur through the food If the views
of Mr.. Hutchinson be correct. He regards
ieprosy as not being infectious from person
to person. but the case of Father Damien
would seem to cast at least some little
doubt on this point
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-15
Jack Tar's Surplus.

From the San Francisco Coast Seamen's Journal
A captain OF one of the steel trust boats
asked one of the wheelmen (union) what he
did with his surplus earnings. Here Is the
conversations:
How do you like to work for the COM
pany?" he was asked.
Pretty we'll" answered the man at the
wheel.
How much do you make month";
81 make more than get, which is $50 so, L"
lie wheelman replied.
What did you do with 1t all ?"
''Oh 1 pay grocery bills, butchers bills
and support myself and family"
What do yeA do with the rest?"
st buy shoes for the children and books,
so they can go to school,"
What do yen do with the rest?"
We'll, 1 have to pay rent, of course"
What do you der with the rest?" asked
the persistent rasestioner.
II pay DOCTORS bills, because, >you know,
people fall sick sometimes.
But surely" yentured the captain again,
that can't take all of your months earn
ings. What do yozi 10 with the rest?'
sWell. I'll tell YOU, whispered the wheel
man, confidenttallY, 1.-The rest 1 pack in
barrels and store away In the hold,''
The captain turned In below.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-15
An Old Partisan Bookseller.
from the London Telegraph


One Of the most popular, as we'll as most
erudite Paris vendors Of rare books. M. Por-
quet, has died at an advanced age, In his
rooms in the Avenue de rOpera, whittier he
retired when he gave up his remarkable
shop on the DUAL Voltaire. The deceased had
superntended in his time sales Of such
libraries as those Of the Comte de Behange,
the Marquis de Gamay. the Baron de la
Roche Lacarelle and NJ. Lignerolles. During
space of seventy years NJ. Porquet kept
his shop, and would never have it lighted
by gas. For fifty years he had single as
sistant. who was a specialist like himself.
This was Amadee, who was well known to
many booklovers, and with whom the Due
d'Aumale never failed to shake hands when
he looked into the shop on the Quai Vol
taire. NJ. Porquet made good deal of
money out of his sales. His only recreation
after he shut up his shop was to go to the
Coincide Franchise to witness one Of the
classical plays, for he abhorred the roman
ticists and the realists. The old bookseller
had presented the Coincide with a very rare
edition of Molliere, Published in 1896. In re-
turn he was allowed a permanent free seat
In the leading playhouse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-15
He Bought "Pants. /"
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
Ex-President Gates Of Amherst College
was a man with three salient Characters
tics-belief In compulsory worship as a
means of grace, nicely of language and
fondness for bargain hunting that Vas al
most feminine. AS illustrative Of the lat
ter it Is told that on a certain occasion Mr..
Gates bought for So pair of trousers that
had been marked at S. and had them
charged The first of the month bill came
in:
ITO one pr. pants, 49,"
Mr. Gates crossed off the pants" and
substituted trousers" then remailed the
bill The first of the next month another
bill came in:
ITO one pr pants, So
This time the bill was returned. as be-
fore but with the following legend: Dear
Mr. Thompson: I am always careful about
the language l use, and like other people to
be the same" The first of the third month
Mr. Gates received bill:
ITO one pr. pants, 49,"
This time he went in person to visit Mr..
Thompson. He explained his position.
Thompson looked at him a moment, and
then replied:
president Gates. I've been in the cloth
ing business for twenty-five years An
during them twenty-five years everything
In nv shop above s. has been trousers and
everything below So has been pants It's
pants you got. and egad. sir, It's pants
you'll pay for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-15
He Was an Irishman.

From the London Daily News.
A fine specimen of the bull is to be cred
tied to Sir Thomas Myles. an eminent Irish
surgeon and an ex-president of the College
of Surgeons in Ireland He made it in the
course OF speech delivered at the meeting
of the Solicitors Apprentices Debating So
ciety in Dublin. The subject of the address
was Cecil Rhodes Sir Thomas paid a
high tribute to the force of character. the
spirit of personal independence and the in
domitable courage of Englishmen. He pic
tnred the British empire as having been
in danger at the time of the late war. and
asked with emprasis. WAS England to
stand with her arms folded and her hands
in her pockets?" When he realized from the
attitude of his audience what he had done.
ne observed that his only apology was that
hc was an Irishman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-15
Work for Engineering Students.


there is a growing opinion that the instruc-
ton given in our universities and techni-
cal colleges needs. to be supplemented by
concurrent practice in actual engineering
work. There is a complaint that the teach
ing is too academic. Moreover. 1t is thought
that the university terms occupying on the
whole not more than seven months of the
year, are too short for the proper training
of engineering students. and involve unnec-
essary breaks in their work. 1t has been
suggested therefore that students in engl-
neering should divide the session into two
parts. and should spend six successive
months in each year at the university or
technical college. and the remainder of the
year in engineering practice. This arrange
ment would certainly prove advantageous
to the students, and might be equally so to
the professors. who would thus obtain a
continuous period Of leisure for their own
Investigations or private practice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-15
A sparrowless Spot.
From the Kansas City Journal.

From the Kansas City Journal.
1t may seem impossible to most readers
that there can be single place In the
united kingdom where the sparrow is never
seen. and yet. on the authority of Professor
Newton. FRS. there Is such a spot-the
mooriand village Of Shepstor. In Devon.
Why the ubiquitous bird should shun this
place Is not explained. but 1t is an iniis-
putable fact that it does. 1t Is all the
more remarkable because the sparrow. like
trade, follows the flag" Wherever the
British go there the sparrow Is found. It
has O tendency to gradually drive out all
the native birds of the country In which IT
chooses to settle. Its pugnacity Is well
known and 1t n1uidpiies rapidly. the prog
to no fewer than 2I5, 900 birds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-15
Origin Of German Bands.
From the CT icago News.

Where do the little German bands, come
from? A writer in Blackwood's Magazine
says: Inhabitants of the northwest Pala-
innate generally are of rowing disposition
The shoe hawkers of Pirmasens, the brush
&c alers or Romberg and the shewmen and
pc ddlers of Karisberg are to be met with Ali
over the valley of the Rhine. But these
must yield the palm in numbers and enter
prise to the musikanten of the Hartz noun
tains. who have made the whole world their
own. They are not 90 often seen on the
eontint mt as they forme.tS were but thew
go to England. the Cape Australia. the
states. Canada. Brazil. Argentina. and one
band has yentured as far as Chile / have
known of only two bands that did not come
from this district. The one was from Mas
sau, the other from Pforxhelm. In Baden"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-15
Coin-Freed Gas Meters.
From the New York Press

single gas company in London owns
over $50, 600 coin-freed meters. through which
the public purchase gas by the pennyworth.
Consumers are numbered by millions, and
they are increasing daily. The innovation
is immensely popular. The consumers pay
as they go. There Is no worry over the
approaching visit Of the collector at the
end of the quarter, no terrible ultimatum.
IF you don't pay up your gas Will be cut
offI' Every person buying gas by the
pennyworth is visited once every five weeks
by the collector who unlocks the meter and
carries away its bronze contents In bag.
There are 100 collectors in all. and the mass
of coin they handle In the course OF year
is enormous. Imagine 81 100000 in pennies.
the annual takings Over 100 tons or
bronze.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-15

There is one serious defect In the educa-
lon of large proportion Of those who make
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-09-26
BOARDING UP THE MONEY
Controller Eckles Attacks the
Banking Theories Held by the
Treasury Department.

Philadelphia, Sept. 26.-In an address
before the state bankers association
Former Controller Eckles said:I 49,
THE. plea which 7 make is for less
governmental intimacy and influence in
the business world. I wish to speak for
the right of the business man to manage,
regulate and control the interests in which
he has invested his own property, un-
hampered by any improper legislative en-
3actnent and free from useless supervision
of regulating commissions and other
bodies, both national and of state origin
= THE treasury department in any gov
.ernnent should find the exercise of it's
legitimate functions within the confines
Of collecting, under the law, the needed
of the government in all it's departments
of tn government in all it's departments
and the disbursement of the same.
THE government in it's treasury depart
ment, by force of law, undertakes to be
a bank, but the futility of the undertaking
becomes manifest when it is known that
it is founded upon no banking principles
and conducted in accordance with no
recognized banking rules. In its sab
treasury system it is the bank Of the
mere safety deposit vault, or the stocking
of the ignorant and suspicious citizen.
In this government safety box each day
are being lodged vast sums of money,
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-09-26

taken out Of the channels Of trade and
commerce at q time when most needed
Z 1.-THE glaring inadcquacy OF the treas
ury department was never more strongly
evinced than to-day.
IF the safety deposit theory OF bank {
ing, as exemplifed in the subtreasury,
is the true one as applicable to national.
governmental fiscal affairs. it should prove
equally essential in the governmental
finance of states, counties cities and vii
lagos, and these all should go outside the
banks and each establish it's own respec-s
tive strong box and withdraw still more.
Of the country 8 ysurrency from daily bust
ness life; so, too, the Individual bust
ness men should do the same. for there
can be no correct rule for one which re-
uuires the management OF money ana
credits whether it be corporation or,
an Individual.
IF all in business received deposits only,
to hoard them, soon Interchange OF COM
1nodities would cease, manufacturing
come to a standstill, agricultural interests
languish and transportation lines gro"
idle. That which no business man ac7
cepts as a correct principle In his own
undertakings, his government enforces' TO
the wasting of his own and his fellows
subsistence 81 --.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-09-26
Larson has not yet decided upon his future
plans but says he will accept one of his Of
TOLD IN A LINE

London-Welsh coal has advanced SOC ton.
The Hague-stanford Newell dined with the
queen. e.. ~
New York-Charles M. Schwab's new granite
house will cost $9OO,OO0 ~ s..sE
Topeka Kan-Justice A. II. Ellis, Of the
Kansas supreme court, lis dead. .--sE
Rock Falls. 1n.-Miss Nellie voss, 1e years
old, was arrested near Freeport, accused OF steal
ing horses. . ..,.5-if95 5@sss-us.s .
Rome-The volcano on Stromboli island, off
the north coast of Sicily, has been active for
several days past.
Buenos Ares-It is believed that the marriage
of Putnam Bradlee Strong and May Yohe will
take place next Saturday. ,.. .5
st. Louisa local firm has practically cor
nered the black pepper in the United States,
after two months Of quiet bidding.
Berlin-An earthquake in Russian Turkestan
has killed over 1000 people. The town of
Aksuk sitche was completely destroyed.
st. Louis-Richard E. Murphy, 13 years old,
1.-The boy editor has been arrested for for
gerry. H..
- New York-For the first time in several years.
what appears to be a case Of leprosy has been
discovered in a patient at Bellevue hospital.
The victim is aCtinaman. 10
London-Alfred Moseley's recently selected in
dustrial commission will leave for New York
about the end of next month to inquire into the
conditions and methods Of labor in America.
Chicago-Canada will send many players to
compete in the Olympia games in 1904, accord.
ing to Major Gordon Strong, in football, ca
noeing, cricket, hockey, lacrosse and field ath-
| letics. H.. -.
prospect Of being separated from her lover ir
the expectation of marrying whom she haC
| nearly circled the globe, Alexandra Joseph 6
young Syrian girl, in an effort to escape from