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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02
The Longest Trolley Trip.
Come on, let's take a trolle!

"Come on, let's take a trolley
ride
"Where to-"
"Oh, let's 60 to Chicago
Two men boarded trolley car at
Little Falls, N. Y, and made the en-
tire trip to Chicago by trolley. And,
were they so minded, they could have
gone on to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, to
Bay City, Michigan, to Louisville,
Kentucky and almost to St. Louis.
With only a couple of breaks in
New York State, it is entirely posi-
BILE for one to travel all the way from
New York city to a point near St.
Louis by trolley car. The fares will
cost about $40, and the hotel bills en-
route will be about $12 extra. The
trip will require about four days and
it is needless to say that the route is
through the most picturesque scenery
in eastern America. From New York
city, the trolley lines extend up the
Hudson valley to Albany and thence
up the Mohawk valley via Schenecta-
dy and Amsterdam. Nearly all the
important cities are connected by
trolley lines after leaving Syracuse.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02
Better Times Coming.

Indications point to better things
in business this fall in the South.
This is good news from the federal
reserve board about financing the
cotton crop; there is available money
to finance the entire crop of cotton.
No farmer large or small will be
forced to rush his cotton to market,
he can borrow on it and hold it off
and when all the farmers do that, or
any considerable portion of them, the
price is going up.
The mills in this country are man
ufacturing more cotton than ever be-
fore, and foreign countries are want
ing as much as ever, for they need it
now not only for clothing but for
making gunpowder also.
The allies have put an embargo on
cotton, and the Germans are sinking
all the ships they can that are going
to England, and many that are going
to neutrals; but some way will be
found for all European countries
needing cotton to get it.
At any rate, there is no use in ex-
aggerating the effects of the war on
the cotton crop; the main thing and
the important thing is that our own
government will see to it that the cot
ton grower will not have to sacrifice
his cotton.
When we come to foodstuffs, the
South has larger supply on hand
than it has had in many years. The
cost of living has gone down, and is
still going down. Farmers are better
prepared for living at home than
they have been for half century.
The dark cloud upon the business
horizon is the danger of war; not
only the war in Europe, but that our
own country may be drawn into 1t
also. Let US all hope that some hon
orable means may be found to avert
war, so that our people may enter
upon the long-postponed good
times that they have been looking
and longing for.-Newberry ObserV-
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02

little canal provided for it's outlet.
This particular day we spent there
in true picnic style was seemingly
a short one, as the voice of the
spring kept singing melody unlike
any other. Pushing aside the cur
tain of the future, in our imagina-
ton we see Glendale a health re-
sort of modern style yet of Mother
Natures soothing peace and qui-
etude, connected with the outer
world by the telephone, graph and
the other tell-a woman-as we
look and in Rip Van Winkle style,
see the spring property improved by
handsome buildings, drives and a
resort in general, that will elevate
the morals, health, mental capaci-
ties, and last, but not least, Bam-
berg county, as non-malarial place.
G. E. J.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02
COTTON CONDITION 7o.7
PLANT HAS DETER1ORATED
SINCE LAST REPORT.
Storm Set Crop Back in TeXas.-Year
Ago Condition Was 77.6
Per Cent.

New York, August 29.-The con-
dition of cotton has deteriorated con-
siderably since the last special re-
port of the Journal of Commerce.
Condition on the average date of
these reports, August "a, is 70.7 per
cent, against 773 per cent. month
ago, or a loss of &C. points. This is
largely due to continued drought fol-
lowed by excessive rains, causing
much shedding. A year ago the con-
dition was IT'S; in 1913 it was ia,
and in 1912 it was 1874 per cent.
The ten-year average. is 1874 per
cent.
States of greatest deterioration
we're: Georgia, losing TT points;
Alabama, 95 points; Mississippi, 81
points; Louisiana, 9.5 points; Texas,
IA points, and Arkansas and Ten
nessee, 6.3 and 6 points, respective
ly. Oklahoma gained 0.4 points.
The hurricane was largely accounta-
Bile for the loss in Texas.
Percentage condition by States
with comparisons follow:
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02
To Correspondents.

The Herald wants the news
from every section Of Bamberg
county. If the news of your COM
munity does not appear regularly
in The Herald, make it a point
yourself to send it in. This news
paper is published for it's subscrib-
ers, and news is always welcomed
to it's columns. We want a'regu-
lar correspondent in every neigh
borhood. Stationery is furnished
free to anyone who will use it.
Get your news letters in by
Tuesday morning at latest. Write
only on one side of the paper, and
be sure to sign your letter with
your name. We will not print
your name, but we must know
who writes the letters; otherwise
we have no means of knowing
whether they are genuine or not.
If you write a letter to The Herald
and do not sign your name to it,
do not be surprised if it is not
printed.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02
Established 1891.
EDGEFIELD COFFEE PLANTER.
5. II. Seigler Believes Industry Can
BE Developed in South Carolina.

Edgefeld, August 25.-There is on
exhibition at the office of the Edge
field Chronicle a. coffee plant grown
by S. z. Seigler, of the Cleora Sec
tion of the county. 1t is five feet
high, with seven we'll developed pods
about a foot and a half long, filled
with coffee beans While travelling
in the State of Georgia last spring
Mr.. Seigler remained over night with
a friend, and on going into his farm
was attracted by half acre field on
which was growing a plant unfamil-
lar to him, and upon inquiry found
it to be the coffee plant. He pro-
cured some seed and experimental
with it this year., and is now thor
oughly convinced that coffee can be-
grown in this State, and he claims
with success. He has about six rows
twenty-five yards long and expects to
gather number of pounds of coffee.
He says his friend has grown it sue
cessfully for several years.
"Of course" said Mr.. Seigler,
people will naturally be very in.
credulous about the matter, and will
hoot at the idea of growing coffee
in South Carolina, but if We can
grow tea why not it's companion
plant, coffee?"
Mr.. Seigler not only has faith in
the growing of coffee here, but he is
enthusiastic about it, and wants
others to make the trial. Before
leaving he remarked that "just be-
cause We have never done so in the
past cannot be accepted as absolute
proof that the thing can't be DONE"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02
Spring Branch -Sprfgs.

Spring Branch, Aug. 30.-On Sat
urday afternoon, September 4th, at
S o'clock, there will be an ice cream
festival at the home of Mr.. J. P.
O'Quinn. After the festival the re-
naming part of the afternoon will
be spent as a birthday party in honor
of Miss Eula O'Quinn. The public
is cordially invited to attend.
On Saturday, September 18th,
there will be picnic at Spring
Branch given by the Ladies Mission
ary society. The public is cordially
invited to come, and bring we'll filed
baskets.
We are having some very nice
weather for cotton picking.
The Barnwell and Bamberg Sun
day-school convention will be held
at the Colston church this coming
week and there are quite number
of the Spring Branch folks expecting
to attend. We wish them a very
pleasant trip.
Last Tuesday, August "a, was a
very pleasant day at Glendale
Springs for both the young and the
old folks of Spring Branch and Sas-
safras sections.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02
I'm THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

w. R. Scott has been elected
mayor of Kingstree. He was re-
elected mayor over P. S. Courtney.
Five thousand gallons of gasoline
was lost when a tank car on the A.
C. L. railway was wrecked near Flor
ence on Friday last.
John Edwards shot Jake Peu in a
public road in Saluda county Sunday
night. Both men had been drinking.
Edwards surrendered to the sheriff
the following day.
Walter I. Herbert, of Newberry,
recently sold 43 bushels of beans in
three days. The beans were raised
by Mr.. Herbert, and brought good
prices on the local market.
The Southern railways big coal
handling plant on the Cooper river
at Charleston is about completed and
will be put into service within short
tine. The plant cost 100000.
Letters have been received in this
State calling for a meeting of the
Farmers union to be held in Atlanta
on September 21, for the purpose OF
fixing a minimum price for cotton.
G. D. Boland, a farmer living in
Newberry county, killed snake last
week which measured seven feet
three inches in length and three
inches through the largest part of
it's body.
Two colored men employed by
Melvin Rhodes, near Stokes, killed
a rattlesnake near G. Albert Beach's s
gate last Wednesday which measur-
ed 10 inches around and was six
feet and four inches long.
Bill Bolin, of Blacksburg, is lying
at the point of death and Coke Dun
can, chief of police, is seriously cut
DIS q ISSulL VI q IL dSc1o UCI" OOA IhS
two men at Blacksburg on Sunday.
The affair resulted when Duncan at
tempted the arrest of Bolin.
Sam J. Nichols, of Spartanburg,
recently nominated for congress, is
grandson of the late Sam Jones,
of Columbia, a Methodist minister.
His maternal grandmother was a
Miss Fishburne, of WATERFORD, and
Mr.. Nichols has a large family con-
nection in the lower part of the
State.
Phillip Watts, a machinist, %
years of age, was electrocuted in Co.
lumbia Tuesday night while inspect
ing an elevator in a department store
in that city. Watts was examining
the motor which drives the elevator
when his hand in some manner came
in contact with the current. He lived
only a few minutes after the acci-
dent.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02
BAMBERG, S. G. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
UNITED STATES FINANCES.
Uncle Sam Not in Urgent Need of
Funds, Declares McAdoo.

Washington, August 31.-The
United States treasury is in excellent
condition, and there is no present
prospect that the government will
issue bonds or short term notes to
fill it's Golfers, according to a state
ment by Secretary McAdoo today on
his return to Washington from a
months vacation in Maine.
Its too soon to talk about reve-
nue. legislation" said Mr.. McAdoo,
81 don't know what the estimates
will be, and consequently cannot talk
about revenues" He added, how
ever, that congress probably would
be asked to extend the period OF
operation of the emergency tax be-
yond December 81, its present limit.
No consideration had been given, he
declared to the advisability of re-
placing the duty on sugar, lower
ing the exemption limit of the in
come tax, or other plans suggested
to increase revenues.
But" said the secretary, 81 have
never considered a bond issue. The
treasury is in excellent condition,
and there is no country on the globe
more able to pay more taxes than
the United States if our expendi-
lures are to be increased. I'm not
worrying about the situation, and 1
guess I should be the first man to
worry"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02
One Dollar and a Half a Year
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Clear Pond Clippings.

Clear Pond, August 31.-Mrs. r.
F. Mcmillan is at home from a visit
to her mother at Ehrhardt.
Miss Clara Mae Grimes, of Lees
is visiting Miss Maggie Padgett.
Mrs. Avis Steedly and children
have returned from visit to rela-
tives at Ulmers and Allendale.
Miss Inez Morris, of Lodge, is the
charming guest of the Misses Good
win.
Miss Nettie Mitchell, of Bamberg
visited her sister, Mrs. J. H. Pear
son last week.
Miss Vonetta Crider, of Denmark
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with Miss Wilhelmina Folk.
Mrs. Edward Steedly, Mr.. Henry
Hutson and sister, Inez, OF Ehrhardt
visited the home of Mr.. G. w. Folk
Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Mayme Morris was the guest
of Miss Doris Folk Saturday and
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B., Folk visited at
Lodge last week.
Messrs. Oren Drawdy and Clayton
Jolley, of Embree, visited in this
section Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Folk attend
ed the revival meeting at Hilda last
week.
Mrs. G. w. Folk is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. Neb. Crider, near Denmark.
Mr.. James Johnson, of Denmark,
was a visitor in this community Sat
urday and Sunday.
Miss Mayme Morris entertained a
number of her friends Monday eve
ming. ANXIOUS.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02
KEEPS THE BABIES WE'LL.
Flies and Heat May Make Baby Sick
This Season.

During the months of May and
June the baby death rate begins to
climb, reaching it's height in July and
August. It should not be forgotten
that this is the season when babies
should be given the greatest care and
attention in order to keep them we'll.
There are two causes demanding
this: heat and flies. Heat is depress-
ing. It increases every danger that
baby is disposed to. If there is lack
of cleanliness about the baby or ba-
by's things, heat increases it and
makes it harder to bear; if baby lives
in stuffy air, heat makes it sickening
and unendurable; if it's food is not
handled with greatest cleanliness and
care, heat makes greater it's infection
and therefore increases it's danger to
baby's health and life.
Then there are flies. Flies are ba-
by's greatest enemy. They should
never be allowed to come in contact
with baby itself, or it's food, or any
of it's playthings. They carry numer-
Gus diseases but are the main car
riers of diarrhoeal diseases commonly
known as baby summer complaints. -
The baby death rate from this dis
ease climbs especially high during
these months. And strange as it may
seem to some mothers this is a pre-
ventable disease. 1t is mainly a fly
borne disease, thought it may some
times be carried in impure water and
milk. The mother therefore would
be safe in giving her child only pas
teurized milk and an abundance OF
cooled boiled water, and in keeping
it from flies and fy-infected food. To
keep the baby we'll will be worth all
the pains and more.-North Carolina
State Board of Health.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02
LIST SHOWS RESULTS OF RAIDS.
PIG Have Paid This Year Against
507 Last Year.

Columbia, August 25.-Indications
of the results which it is believed
are due to the raiding by constables
sent to Charleston by Governor Man
ming to enforce the liquor laws are
shown significantly by the great fall
ing off in the number cf persons and
firms paying the revenue liquor tax
of the United States government for
this year as compared with last year.
Figures obtained from the records in
the office of United States Revenue
Collector Hayward, by this CORE
spondent, show that 507 paid the
revenue tax in Charleston last year,
while so far only ZIG have paid the
tax for this year, falling off of 291,
or about SO per cent.
The number of persons and firms
in Charleston county which paid the
United States revenue liquor license
tax for the year ending July, 1915,
was 507. Those who have paid this
tax for the ensuing year, that is, up
to August 10, number 216 in Char
lesion, falling off of 291. The year
runs from July to July and the reve-
nue. liquor tax must be paid in ad-
vance.
The total number in the whole
State for the year ending July, 1915,
that paid the liquor license tax ITO the
federal government was 1,137, divid-
ed as follows: Retail liquor dealers,
956; wholesale liquor dealers, lS;
retail malt liquor dealers, 1872;
wholesale malt liquor dealers, H..
Included in the wholesale liquor
dealers were the wholesale county
dispensaries.
From this is will be evident that
one-half of those paying the tax re-
quired by the United States govern
ment for wholesale and retail liquor
dealers for the past year lived in
Charleston, and with the same per-
centage in decrease shown through
out the State, the figures tell elo-
quently the results of law enforce
ment, as it was put here today by
one high in authority in State official
life.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02
Country Correspondence.

Mrs. Kistler Rentz, of Oak Grove,
has been on visit for several days
to her, brothers, Messrs. Martin and
William Hughes, of our midst.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. M. Aver, of Bam-
berg, spent Sunday with their broth
er, Mr.. w. F. Hughes.
Mrs. l.. E. Holder, of Augusta, Ca,
is visiting relatives in this and other
vicinities.
Mrs. L. Hill, of Bamberg,. is at
her sons for several days.
A heavy hail and rain storm visit
ed us Tuesday morning, with much
electricity. 1t rained in torrents for
about thirty-six minutes. Cotton
gathering will be much delayed as
everything is soaked. ....
Miss George Emma Jordan is at
tending the S. S. convention at Coils
ton this week.
Miss Grace Hill is real sick. Hope
she will soon be better.
Notice in these columns has al
ready been made of neighborhood
picnic held at Glendale Springs last
Tuesday, but must speak something
of the beauty and idealism of the
place and surroundings. The prop
erty, as owned by Mr.. Jno. F. Folk,
has been somewhat improved b, a
cement fount, and this, with the
great bubble of the spring as it bolls
itself upward and rushes onward to
the mighty sea is very attractive
source for all nature lovers. Tne
writer's pen has very little, we fear,
of poetry in it, but the merry, JOY
full sound of this beautiful spring
carries natures children back to
childhood and especially a longing
to wade as in childhood, in the clear,
beautiful water, as it rushes wasting
" over the pure white sand in the
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02
He Was Sarcastic.

A man in the English veteran re-
serves was called up recently. After
week at his new quarters he was
brought up before the officer COM
manding for not cleaning his rifle
one day. Said the officer commanding:
Hem, you're an old soldier re-en-
listed. I see. I suppose it will be
many years ago since you were reprl-
manded? What was your last Of
fense? Can you remember what it
was?"
The old soldier, with irony on ac-
count of the repeated assertions to
his age, replied, For not cleanln' my
bow an arrow, sir!'
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02
MIR. Orange Peel.

Orange Peel is the name OF the
dairyman of the Utah food and dairy
commissioner department.
81 have had more difficulty per-
suading people that am not fooling,
and all but taken an oath that my
name is the same as the rind of the
famous fruit, than you could ever
imagine" said Mr.. Peel. AT school
a fellow called me lemon peel after
he heard my last name was Peel. He
thought he was Joking. But l went
him one better when I explained to
him my full Christian name. Then
he looked on me as a sort of hero,
and ceased Joking
Mr.. Peel says his parents called
him Orange because he was a sweet
child Washington Star.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02
NEW YORK CRIME RECORD.
5000 Were Jail Cases.-IntOXica-
ton is Most Common Offense.

With 80,698 convictions in New
York in the last year, the largest
number recorded in the history Of
the State, the question suggests it.
self: What is actually being done
to keep down crime?
Francis M. Hugo, secretary of
State, furnishes the figures, for it is
one of his duties to compile an an
nual report on criminal statistics,
but it is none of his business to an,
swer foolish questions, says an Al
bany special. Were he to comment
on the increase in crime he might
offer as an explanation New York's
all-around bigness.
A leader in philanthropies, top
ping all other States in population,
with no good second in the race, it
is not strange New York also should
have heavy crime list. But after
all, the great bulk of the crimes that
figure in Secretary Hugo's list are
not heinous crimes; many thousands
of them are so trivial as not to call
for jail penalty.
There were only 4,782 female con-
victions, all the rest of the lawbreak-
ing being the work of the lawmaking
portion of the population.
Secretary Hugo's report shows the
interesting fact that the great ma
jority of the offenders were natives
of the United States, could read and
write and had received religious in
struction. The court records from
which the. statistics are compiled al
so set down the great majority Of
the offenders as temperate in their
habits" Intoxication, however, was
the most numerously cited single Of
fense.
Between 20 and 80 would seem to
be the "bad man" age in this State,
leaving room to hope the lawbreak-
ers will grow into staid citizens in
their maturer years.
Of all the convictions only about
$4,000 were Jail cases, the number
of persons actually committed to jail
being smaller than in 1913. The
growing custom among magistrates
of suspending sentence in unimpor-
tant cases accounted for the differ
ence.
Many Motor Speeders.
The automobile speed violator
helped materially to swell the total
of convictions, and, incidentally, the
revenues of the State. Few such
convictions carried jail sentences.
The State executive during the
year issued three pardons, commut-
ed nineteen sentences, restored nine
ty-four former convicts to citizenship
and granted eight respites in capital
cases. For the preceding year the
figures were eleven pardons, thirty
one commuted sentences, siXty-seVen
persons restored to citizenship and
four respites of condemned murder
era
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02
In the Usual Way.

"How are you going to spend the
summer"
kicking about the climate and the
food, as usual" replied Mr.. GroWch-
er, "although I have not decided
what place I'll go to."-Washington
Star
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02

The municipal building, New York,
is the largest structure under the
Jurisdiction of the bureau of public
buildings and Offices. 1t contains
about 900 Offices and has about 10,-
900 visitors daily. 1t is the worlds
largest building of it's kind.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02

About fve-sevenths of the Bulgar-
ians are engaged in agriculture, most
of them being small proprietors, hold
ing from one to six acres.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-09-02

Glendale springs water for sale at
Herndon's Grocery Store and Mack's S
Drug Store.-adv.
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Read the The Herald, $3.50 per year
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Bank Clearings.

Bank clearings this week are in rec.
Crd-breaking' volume at a number OF
important points. the total at the prin-
cipal cities in the United States, &C
cordng to "Dun's Review" amounting
to s4.064.271 ,0s9. an increase of 65.5
per cent as compared with the same
week last year and of TAG per cent as
contrasted with 1913. Much the great
est expansion continues TO appear at
New York City, that centre making
gains of $40 and 90 per cent, respec-
lively, over the two preceding years.
While the increase over 1913 in part
can be accounted for by the fact that
the week in that year contained only
FIVE business days, the returns cannot
be accepted as anything but excep-
tionally favorable. Every city outside
New York shows substantial Improve
ment over both years, while the total
OF all points is 36 per cent larger
than last year and 4s.6 per cent in ex-
cess Of two years ago.
Average daily bnnk clearings for ;he
year are given below for three years: