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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-07-24
News from Olar.

Olar, July 21.-Last week was a
strenuous one with this writer. On
Tuesday evening we took in the regu-
lar communication of Olar lodge, NO.
163, where four candidates were
raised to the sublime degree OF Mas
ter Masons. The lodge was full,
Barnwell, Blackville, Bamberg, Bu-
ford, Ehrhardt, Richland, and one
or two other lodges were represent
ed. D. D. C. NJ. Charles Hay, Esq,
was present, and was we'll satisfied
with the work, which was certainly
done about as we'll as this work is
ever done, unless experts do it.
On Wednesday we took in the
Fiddlers' Convention at Bamberg,
and Bamberg opened it's doors to the
fiddlers and their friends. This con-
vention has developed. one fact.
There are goodly number of flddlers
in the county, and it's meets will i'm
prove as the years go by. The ultra
religious used to look upon the fiddle
as an instrument of the devil, but 1t
is gaining respect, and till Edison
invented the phonograph, it nearer
approached the human voice than any
other instrument. Mr.. A. P. Poole,
the one-armed fiddler, of Georgia, is
a wonder. Clever Frank Kirkland, a
fine fiddler, who made hit on
Dixie" said: Il had the whole
convention skun block till that
one-armed fiddler came in, and he
lust wiped up the floor with me-
While at Bamberg we went out
riding with President Jones A. Will
Jams, of the Bamberg and Ehrhardt
railroad. He is hopeful of his road
being a paying proposition. We came
back by his new ginnery, and there
we inspected the best outfit in the
county. Jones' is said to be stingy,
but his investments do not bear out
this charge.
Our host and hostess, Mr.. and Mrs.
L. NJ. Aver, treated us royalty. While
in town we met many of our friends
from both country and town and
were delighted to see each any every
one. We hope to be able to attend
several more Fiddler's Conventions
at Bamberg.
Misses Alice and Estelle Smoak, of
Bamberg, Miss Edith Folk, of New
berry, and Mr.. Jas. Fogle, of Den
mark, are visiting Miss Sudie Ritter,
and YOU can wager your last and
lucky coin that the house parties
given in honor of these clever young
folks are very entertaining. Quite
a round of pleasure is planned for
the coming week. !,
Mr.. Roy Rabb, of Charleston. was
visiting friends here last week.
Big meetings have now taken the
place of picnics and fish fries.
Few young ladies in or out OF the
State can boast of such a family as
Miss Edith Folk, of Newberry. Her
father has ten daughters and four
sons. Her uncle, Chris Folk, at Den
mark. has twelve children living.
And few young ladies are more viva
cious than Miss Edith. She is far
cleyerer than a candidate, prett1er
than a whole patch of pinks, and
brighter than a diamond. B.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-07-24

Russia last year sent $3.50 new
settlers to the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30
CHIPS.
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.
Copyright, 1915. by Frank Crane.)

Success is largely a matter of satisfy
ing the conventions. Massenet was a
musician who was too successful. He
pleased the French public with a fatal
perfection II he had made more failures
his posthumous triumph would have been
Surer.
What is called Faith is often intel
Iectual laziness. and Optimism is often a
sugared seK-deception.
To be a man Of strong principles it is
necessary to be a man of few principles.
What we need is not to escape the COM
monplace, but to dignity it.
One of the great words in my store
house is the saying OF Spinoza, that 1--WE
shall never err II we give our consent
to nothing except what We clearly per-
ceive."
Most of the spiritual indigestion and
fever of the world has been to our tend
ency to rush into believing or disbeliev-
ing things we do not at all understand.
If the many moments OF annoyance
caused by attempting to separate two
leaves of book were all collected into
one moment it might be so violent pain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30
Suffers Bad Stab Wound.

William Holmes. colored. thirty years
old, was found at LIST and * streets
southeast this morning about ; o'clock
s,ffering from a stab wound in his left
side. DIR. Joseph Bannon responded VITA
the ambulance from Casualty Hospital
and dressed the wound. Holmes refused
to go to the hospital. He said he was
stabbed while i'm South Washington last
night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30
EXPLORERS GO TO BRAZIL.
Three Department Of Agriculture
Men Will Investigate Fruit

Three representatives of the Depart-
ment Of Agriculture will sail from New
York for Brazil next THURSDAY. They are
A. ID. Shamel, +. III. Dorsett and l., G..
Popanoe. They are going as explorers
for the department and will make a
round of the Brazilian citrus frui, plan
tations. besides picking up anything else
valuable in the way of agricultural ma
terial.
II rs believed from such Investigations
of Brazilian oranges AS have been made
before that there are some valuable types
there well worth introducing into the
United States. The explorers expect TO
sail on the same steamer with Col.
Roosevelt and his party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30

plants have been successfully cultivated
in our own country and in the dryer re-
sions abroad 1t is confidently expected
by scientific agriculturists that millions
of acres of semi-arid regions. where irri-
ga ton is impracticable. by the applica-
ton of the methods of dry farming and
growing drought-resisting crops, will be
made to contribute their share of food
for the worlds growing population.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30
Eczema Is years
face a mass Of it
Says "ResinOl Cured We of One OF
the Worst Cases Anybody Ever

the WORST Eases -AnyOOOy Ever
saw"
DHILADELPHIA PA. II had
eczema for the last twenty
tive years, and have been at
hicted so badly that for weeks l
could not go outside the door. My
face was one mass Of pimples. and
not only the looks Of il, but the
itching and burning pains / eN-
perienced Were just dreadful. / lost
great deal of sleep and had to
keep dampened cloths on my face
all night TO relieve the pain. / had
become disguised with trying diff
ferent things.
One day l made up my mind to
try Resinol, and after using one
jar Of Resinol Ointment and one
cake Of Resinol Soap / saw the diff
ference. and now my face is as
clear as anybody's. and / certainly
don't need TO be ashamed to go
out Resinol Soap and Resinol
Ointment cured me of one of the
worst cases Of eczema. / guess.
that anybody ever saw" tSigned)
Mrs. c. Hellmuth. SOIL Appletree
ST. Sept. 20. 1912
Nothing we can say OF ReSinol
equals what others. such as Mrs.
Hellmuth. say of il. II you are suf-
fering from itching. burning skin
troubles. pimples. blackheads. dan
druff., ulcers. boils. stubborn sores.
or piles. get Resinol Ointment and
Resinol Soap at the nearest drug
Sists. For free trial. write to
Dept. Pr, Resinol. BALTIC. Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30
Oliver Placed Under Arrest.

The police watched the place where Oil
yer had been staying and about midnight
he was arrested in his room The police
say they found several small steel saws
in his clothing and that Boatwright told
them they had prepared to escape should
they be caught and placed in Jail
Boatwright is said to have told the no.
lice that failure OF himself and Oliver to
purchase dynamite and nitroglycerin here
caused him to lose heart
The police said Oliver had confessed and
told them investigation of Boatwrights
record would show he had been connected
with other train hold-upS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30
BANDITS CONSCIENCE
BALKS TRAIN ROBBERY
Tells Police of Plans, and Al
legged Pal Is Cap
tured.

NEW ORLEANS. September 3O-The
hold-up of another mail and express train
in the south was prevented by one Of the
would-be bandits becoming conscience
stricken and unfolding the plans to New
Orleans authorities. according to informa-
ton given out b. the police here last
night The plan. it is said. was to hold
up the fast New York-New Orleans,
Louisville and Nashville train between
here and Bay st. Louis just before it
should arrive in New Orleans where il
is due at $50 o'clock.
According to the story Of the police,
Clarence L. Boatwright came to the CEN
trail station yesterday morning and told
them of the plan. They say he told them
Alfred +. Oliver. formerly of Nashville,
had planned the robbery: that they were
going east on the Louisville and Nashville
yesterday, getting off at Rigoets. They
say Boatwright told them that they in
tended covering the engincman with re-
volvers. cut off the mail and express cars
and dynamite the safes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30
CROP FAILURES.
II.-M0isture and Crops.
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

No other condition to which growing
crops may be exposed is so fatal as dry
weather. Wet weather has sometimes
produced crop failures, and cold wealth
er ccasionally is responsible for deficient
food supplies. but as rule the farmer
finds drought the worst enemy that can
come between him and the growing food
supply.
The major portion of the food of the
world always will come from the north
ern hemisphere. not only because it con-
tains a much greater proportion of ara
BILE land, but also because it has a great
er amount of rainfall. 1t is estimated
that the average rainfall in the northern
hemisphere is at least one-fourth greater
than that falling in the southern hemi-
sphere.
One can scarcely realize that his food
supply is largely dependent upon the
moisture that is lifted up into the sky
from the seas of the antipodes, and car
ried by friendly winds to our latitude
Yet it is a fact Well known to meteor
ologists that the water-carrying winds
from the southern seas make possible
millions Of tons Of food that we would
not get if we had to depend solely upon
our own hemisphere for our supply of
moisture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30

Experience is a good teacher, but cam
not teach those incapable of learning.
There is no doubt that the older some
persons become the more foolish they are.
And the homely line of James Whitcomb
Riley often comes to mind: THE more
travel around the more | hain't got no
sense
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30
GROGAN'S

Cur Carpet Department
offers YOU a free service
which IS not duplicated. SO
lar as we know, bv any
other house in the country.
certainly BY none in Wash
ington.
We make, line and lay all
carpets free, and charge
nothing for what may be
wasted III cutting TO match
figures.
Delivery i 50 prompt that
Carpets ordered before
PM. arc laid on YOUR floor,
the following day.
Cur prices are as low As
can be found and our stock
- large and varied as TO
make this one Of the leading
carpet houses OF the CITY.
Remember. VIC give YOU
AZ open account for all pur-
cha>es. arranging terms so
that divided payments shall
be Just as easy as you wish
them.
Peter Grogan & Sons Co.
Si7 to S23 Seventh St.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30

Ira J.. Welsch OF Springfield. Mo. has
been secured as teacher of tine agricul-
turai department of the BOYS High
Scaoul. Frederick, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30
Overland
Limited

In the mind of the season
ed traveller bears the same
relation to trains as "Sterl-
ing" bears to silver.
Interpret this in any way
you choose and it will be
true.
The only exclusively first
class train, Chicago to
San Francisco. The only
daily extra fare train,
Chicago to California.
A maximum of extra
comforts for a minimum
of extra fare, $40.
Leaves Chicago daily ZOO
p. m. from the new c. &N.
w. passenger terminal,
arriving San Francisco
$50 a. m. third morning
only sixty-four hours
and thirty minutes-sav-
ing a business day en-
route. The worlds best
long distance train.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30
Scientific Aid
Against Drought.

sisting plants, which
nothing grew before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30

If you want work, read the want col
umns of The Star
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30

The happiest life. | have read some
where, is one of the widest possible eX-
perience. containing at the same time
the maximum of order.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30

cruelty of paying him no attention And
dog would rather you Kick him imam
that YOU do not look at hun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30

OF combating
one. The agricul-
turistS of I h c
world arc ran
sackins the earth
for drought-re-
will grow where
Many of these
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30
Early Resort
to Irrigation.


worlds early history We're situated In the
arid and semi-arid regions of the earth.
Their comparative freedom from famines
was due to their utilization of their rivers
as well as of their rainfall. But. as the
earth's population grew from the 10000
coo of the era Of the Emperor Augustus
to the 5000. 100000 of today, the irriga-
ton ditch no longer sufficed to meet the
needs of humanity.
The next effort was in the direction of
the improvement of transportation meth
DDS. But SO long AS the oX-cart and the
man driven boat were the only means of
carrying food into interior regions starva-
ton followed crop failures. Governments
sought to combat the dangers of famine
by forbiddng the expectation of commod-
tiles from regions likely to suffer from
crop failures. But il awaited nothing.
When railroads were built, however. food
found new and constant channels through
which to flow. and wherever they We're
put into regular operation there was little
danger OF excessive famines in spite of
crop failures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30

as to destroy life A good theme for re-
Election: the proper distribution of the
unpleasant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30

and realities.
Curious that in the modern struggle of
women for their rights religion and re-
ligious organizations seem to take no
part.
Is it not one of the highest triumphs
of literature to make a repulsive thought
beautiful by the charm of words? Of this
one of the most ski1lful examples is Poes
verse:
That the play is the trascdy, Man. Man..
And its hero the conqueror Worm
How a soul can read it's mood into ma
ture is, it seems to me, shown unsur-
passedly in Mallarmes Flowers:
The sobbng whiteness Of lilies
Mounting dreamwise TO the weeping moon.
When a singer in Italian opera scars
upon the final high note, is not the en-
suing applause a sort of contagion of
hysteria?
The word truth has two meanings,
an English and religious.
In some natures much that is rude and
offensive is nothing but shyness.
Often the greatest joy dies from the
smallest wound.
No reform can possibly be perma nent
unless it be brought about through the
public schools. What cannot be drilled
into children is of no value.
woman can pardon any offense against
her except that of not seeing her. The
church will forgive any sin except the sin
celebrity will overlook any affront eX-
cept that of spelling his name wrong. \
child will love YOU no matter how cruel
you are unless you are guilty of the final
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30
Sells Tomato Worms.

The girl lived near one of the southern
rivers where there was good fishing. and
one day a couple of the fishermen came
to her and offered her a cent each for
all the tomato worms she would bring
them for bait. She had been catching
the worms and killing them, anyhow. so
in the course of a week she gathered
about $40. and sold them all.
She kept on catching and selling the
worms the remainder of the season. and
when the supply was scanty on her own
patch. she foraged among the neighbors.
and not only was paid for the worms. but
for her work as we'll The worms paid
all her farming expenses for the tomato
crop, and the profit on the crop itself
was simply velvet. She also exchanged
a good many worms for fresh fish She
says that for that region. anyhow, worms
are valuable by-product of the tomato.
1t is possible that next year some of the
girls similarly situated will make a spc-
cialty of raising the worms under glass.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30
BOYCORN GROWERS
WILL VISIT CAPITAL
Girl Tomato Growers Also to
Reach City Early in
December.

| Reports are being received by the De-
partment of Agriculture as to the activ
tiles of the boys corn clubs and the
girls tomato clubs in the southern
states during the past year December
{ IL has been settled as the date on which
the state winners Of the boys corn club
prizes will visit Washington. At
that time there probably will be num-
Der of the girls with them. under the
chaperonage of the woman state or
county agents of the department. 1t is,
OF course. more difficult matter to ar
range for the coming of the girls to
Washington than TO arrange for the boys,
but the department is working out
plan for the coming year by which 1t is
thought all of the girl state winners can
be accommodate.
There now are about 10000 boys in the
corn clubs of the southern states. and
about $4,000 girls in the tomato clubs.
The northern states have just started
organizing this year, but it Is thought
that altogether there are about 100000
children in the club work.
Big Crops Are Expected.
Ii is rather too early to predict the
showing the corn club boys will be able
to make. but from present indications
there will be something over 200 in the
southern states whose corn crop Will go
over TOO bushels to the acre, and this
was bad year for corn in the south, at
that When it is considered that twenty
five bushels per acre has been the aver
age of the United States for several
years. ii is seen that this is an eX-
ceptiona showing.
one of the drawbacks of the corn club
work. from the viewpoint of the de-
partment. has been that when a boy
had fertilized and brought up par
ticular acre and had raised big crop
of corn on il. Sthe natural tendency was
for him to follow the practice of his
elders and stick to that particular land
year after year, ruthlessly robbing it of
its fertility.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30
Work for Crop Rotation.

The department has been working out
a scheme, however. for crop rotation
and pig raising. by which, with two
acres, a boy will be able permanently
to improve the fertility of his acre and
make enough to keep a family of five.
The officials are not Yet ready to give
out the details of the new club plan,
but il has been submitted to lot of
practical men in the south. and they
say il will work.
There is good deal OF amusement In
the farm demonstration division of the
department over report recently re-
ceived from one of the county agents in
Georgia. In this case the heroine was
one OF the small girls of the tomato
club. She was able to make not only
good showing in the work. but she made
one of the most serious pests of the to-
mato crop pay for all the expenses of
her SeaSOn'S work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30

One cause of the stupidity of modern
times is the growing gap between dreams
and realities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30
Power of the Sun
Beyond Estimate.

ment that the heat given off by the gulf
stream is sufficient to drive 4OO.OOOo
ships like the Lusitania. The heat given
off by the gulf stream is only an un-
imaginably small fraction of that which
the sun sends to the earth in it's process
of pumping up water to irrigate the
habtations of man
There is a general and widespread be-
lief that climatic changes occur within
a few generations at most and even
within the recollection of living men.
Some attribute the decline of great
famines to a greater percentage of sea-
sopahe weather. But, as matter of
fact. transportation has solved the prob
lem. The United States is SO large that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30
Worlds Supply
of Rain in Year.

south of the Brahma Pootra valley to
almost nothing in the Sahara Desert
The average is highest at the equator
and lowest in the polar regions. 1t is
beyond the human mind to conceive the
vastness OF the work of the worlds great
pump and water carrier-the sun and the
wind. a mathematician has calculated
that the annual amount of water taken
out of the sea by the sun approximates
eighty-fve trillion tons. In other words,
it would be sufficient to fill lake with
an area equal to that part of the United
States east of the Mississippi river to a
depth of forty miles. To express 1t in
yet another way, the average annual
rainfall per acre throughout the world
approximates 2.1OO tons a Year
Where there is less than twenty inches
of rainfall a year the region is said
to be semi-arid. until il drops down to
ten inches of rain where desert con
ditions prevail. About the highest
known mOmentary rainfall was the
-ecord made some years ago in India,
where at one place it rained thirty
inches I'm a single hour. There have
been innumerable occasions when a
thousand tons Of water to the acre
have fallen in an hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30

tnere Is never time when a universal
shortage is experienced. and the rapid
methods of interchanging commodities
makes 1t possible for community to
meet the needs of another. When one
looks over the production statistics OF
the Department of Agriculture he may
discover that in one year there was a
shortage of corn and in another year a
shortage Of wheat, but the total
production of the farms of the country
has seldom varied more than ) per cent
at the most. New methods of distri-
button are responsible for the freedom
of the population of civilized countries
today from famine conditions.
The assertion frequently made is that
winters formerly We're colder than they
are today, and that
No Changes summers were hotter.
in Climates that fewer SHOWS
now fall and that
greater floods are experienced. These
Impressions find support in the
changes of the distribution of crops
and the dates of harvest. Grapes,
corn and olives are no longer cultivated
in parts of Europe where formerly they
We're widely grown. Some point to this
as evidence of climatic changes. Others
point to the fact that in many parts of
the world lakes are drying up, or that
in other. places the river flow seems to
be greater. But, as a matter of fact,
the climate of any given place has not
changed during historic times. The
record of the grape harvest of Europe
has been kept. since the sixteenth
century. and in all that time there has
been no marked fluctuation.
The modern forester finds mute but
eloquent witness of the persistent quality
of climate in the trees which have
weathered the centuries. For instance,
some of the giants of the forest in Cali
fornia were standing thousands of years
ago, and. as the woodman examines the
rings of a new cut tree. he finds a silent
record of the years of plenty and the
years of famine. During a season of
great drought the growth of the tree in
circumference was small while during
years of a plentiful water supply the
growth was large. Going through the one
or two thousand rings on a monarch of a
California forest. one may see ring cycles
of years. ranging back and forth like a
pendulum from wet to dry and from dry
to wet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30

Man has long struggled to free himself
from the terrors of a drought. His first
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30

The energy of the sun, utilized in the
evaporation OF water, is past magma
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30

The latest method
drouGhts is a scientific o
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30

Curious that in the modern struggle of
women for their rights religion and re-
ligous organizations seem TO take no
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30

1t is estimated that the average rain
fall Of the earth amounts to twenty-four