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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-18
Tremendous Over-Subscrip- ton Is Very Much Desired for Moral Effect
 on Enemy
GERMANY SHOULD BE SHOWN U. s. IS IN WAR
 WITH WHOLE HEART
Responses Not Coming as Fast as Officials Wish. Indicated Great Pub licity Campaign Is
 to Be Waged

Washington, May 17.-Rep- resentatives of the federal re- serve banks and treasury of ficials in direct charge of the task of floating the liberty loan were virtually unanimous to- night i'll the opinion that a tre- mendous campaign must be sue cessfully carried on within the next 27 days if the liberty loan is to meet with the over-sub- scription which officials hope fer.
 Predictions that the big issue would be oversubscribed several hundred per cent, made on the face of the first re- turns of estimates of banks as to the probable amount they and their GUS toners would take, have not material. ized thus far There is a crying need, in the opinion of officials, for the small investor in great numbers to make felt his power and to bring the realization of this home to the coun- try, vigorous campaign is being planned.
 Probably not one-half of the loan has been taken. including allowance for approximately sI5o,Ooo, 900 of treas ury certificates of indebtedness all ! paa d.r faaued
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
St. Johns JOttingS.

st. Johns Jan. 29.-Mr. and Mrs.
H. I. Chassereau visited Mr.. and
Mrs. w. L. Chassereau Sunday.
Mr.. H. w. Carter and daughter
spent Sunday at the home of Mr.. G.
F. HERS.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. HERS visited
their daughter, Mrs. P. NJ. kinard,
Saturday.
Misses Wilma and Elena Kinard
spent Saturday night with Miss Ruth
Bishop.
Misses Lottie and Kate Rentz
spent Saturday night with Misses
Lille and Josephine Kinard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Copeland, of Ehr-
hardt, dined with Mr.. and Mrs. ]. L.
Kinard Sunday.
Miss Edith HERS spent Saturday
night with Miss Sue Carter.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. L. Brant visited
Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Chitty Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Billie HERS, their
daughter, Evelyn, and Miss Minnie
Bishop, all of Lodge, spent Saturday
night with their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. G.. Bishop.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
One Dollar and a Half a Year.
OUR GREAT WONDERS.
Natural Beauties That We Should Ad.
yertiSe.

We are a nation of imitators. We
must have a fad and follow it. If it
is the fashion to go to Europe, we all
must go. Perhaps it is not a bad
idea that we should follow leader
ship. What would the world be with
out it? l speak of this because for
years of late the cry has gone out
from patriotic people in this country
to ''See America First" yet how
many are seeing it even in these
times when the avenues to popular
resorts in other lands are so general
ly closed? asks Kathleen Hills, in
Leslie's.
Will it be believed that at recent
social gathering attended by a large
number of society ladies of New York
city when a paper was read on our
national parks, it was disclosed that
Only two of the party had ever seen
a national park in the United States,
while ten had been to Europe and
raved over the beauties of far-off
lands. Perhaps it is not altogether
the fault of the American people that
they know so little of their own coun-
try. for until within a few years all
the travel talks OIL the lecture plat
forms and in the newspapers had
been in reference to foreign lands.
We had not yet learned to exploit our
own wonders, surprising, as they do,
those of Europe.
When told that they were of won
derful beauty, majestic sublimity and
unceasing interest, those who had not
seen them thought that this was the
American way of magnifying our own
beyond it's merits. Within COM
paratively short time the beautiful
booklets and folders prepared by the
railroads and steamship lines and the
splendidly illustrated advertisements
in well-printed publications have pre-
aanted in a most convincing way the
proofs that we have within our own
borders natural attractions not only
euual to, but surprising, those of any
other land.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
RG, S. c., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY l. 1917
IRISH COMEDY.
Ireland Has Waited Long for Real
Irish Drama.

1t is just at the beginning of the
twentieth century, after three-score
years of incessant agitation have re-
moved most of the wrongs of the
Irish people, writes Brander Mat
thews, in Scribner, that Yeats and
Synge and Lady Gregory have bidden
their fellow contrymen to gaze at
themselves in the mirror of the
drama, and to listen to their own per-
suasive brogue.
Surprise has been expressed at the
sudden burgeoning forth of this new
Irish drama almost at the behest of
Lady Gregory. But when due con-
sideration is given to the long list of
Irishmen who have held their own in
the English theatre there is cause for
wonder, rather, that ireland did not
have a drama of it's own long ago. In
fact, the history of English dramatic
literature, and more especially the
record Of English comedy, would be
sadly shrunken if the Hibernian con-
tribution could be cancelled. We can
estimate the gap, that this operation
would make when we recall the
names of George Farquhar, Richard
Steele, Oliver Goldsmith, Richard
Brinsley Sheridan, John O'Keefe,
Sheridan Knowles, Samuel Lover,
Dion Boucicault, John Brougham,
Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw,
and George A. Birmingham There
is food for thought as we'll as for
laughter in the saying that English
comedy has either been written by
Irishmen or else adapted from the
French" A harsh and cynical critic
might even go further and add-hav-
ing Steele in mind for one, and for
another, Boucicault-that sometimes
English comedy has been both writ
ten by an Irishman, and adapted from
the French.
1t is to English comedy that most
of these Irishmen contributed rather
than to Irish comedy.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
The Grocer.

Nothing is so necessary in any
community, nothing so unacceptable
as the grocery. 1t is the first busi-
ness of the frontier settlement, and
it plays the most important role in
the business drama of any town.
One can hardly imagine a city, in
any age, in which there were no gro
Gerry stores; and yet the institution
is comparatively modern one. Do
you know how groceries originated?
Only a few hundred years ago cer-
tain foresighted tradesmen in France
went about the country buying up
bargain lots of merchandise. They
bought fire damaged goods, bankrupt
stocks, all sorts of commodities.
They bought these things zen gros'
and made money out of them. The
trade was carried to England, where
a man who bought hardware, thread,
furniture, vegetables zen gros," or
in large quantities, called himself an
zen grosser." This was later short
ened to "grocer,' but the term was
still applied to the proprietor of a
general business. The grocery was
a sort of racket shop, like the mod
ern ten-cent store.
Gradually, it appears, l--e grocer
found it more profitable to deal in
tea, coffee, spices, fruits and non
perishable foodstuffs, and he con-
fined his attention to these things.
He took over the business of the
"spicer''-and in France the shop
which we call grocery is still
known as an "epicerie." So far was
the original meaning of the term lost
sight of that a man who dealt ex-
clusively in fresh vegetables came to
be known as a green grocer
The dealer in foodstuffs has not
long been a grocer. Out on our
Western frontier the saloon was for
merly known as the grocery. 1t
sounds strange to read in the border
letters of seventy-five years ago.
"The groceries are the curse of our
camp" Perhaps the proprietor OF
such a place adopted that name as
a blind for his relatives back in the
State-but this is a mere SUPPOSE
Plain Dealer.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01

in not nearly so bad condition as
those of many counties and cities In
this and other States.
Something is going to be done with
reference to the State highway COM
mission and the vocational board.
Both are necessary to secure the
share of federal cooperation that IS
available. There is some conflict as
to how these boards should be con-
stituted. but some effective way will
be devised before the adjournment
is reached. The fund for the support
of the commission is to be derived
from a license tax on automoblles.
AS this tax is only on automobmlles
it is thought one such tax will be
sufficient and fair and the munlclpall-
ties will have to waive their claim
for a city tax to the State to get bet
ter roads to the towns and Cities
August Kohn, in the News and Cour-
ier. T.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

George L. Harvin, of Harvin, broke
his right arm last Thursday while
cranking his Ford.
Miss Bessie Owings, of Greenville
was knocked down and seriously in
jured by an automobile in front OF
her home, Friday.
Congressman Nichols has recon-
mended Pierre H. Fike, for reap
pointment to the position of post,
master at Spartanburg.
Arrangements are being made fol-
the cadets at the Citadel, the military
college of South Carolina, to attend
the Inauguration of President Wilson
in Washington, on March 4.
Lewis Junkins, an 1S-year-old ne.
gro, made his escape from the State
penitentiary last Friday. A reward
of s25 has been offered for his ar,
rest. He is five feet three inches tall
and has burnt scar on his breast,
scar on his right knee and scar on
his shin.
Capt. and Mrs. Newton F. Walker
of the South Carolina Institute fo,
the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, which
is located at Cedar Springs, Spartan.
burg county, recently celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary
Capt. Walker has been connected
with the institution many years.
Alcoholic stimulants are not essen
tial in the practice of medicine &C.
cording to a resolution adopted by
the Columbia Medical society, at a
called meeting held Monday night
The meeting was called by the presi-
dent, DR.. LeGrand Guerry, ''for the
purpose of discussing the admission
of whiskey and brandy into the State
as a medicine
A dog owned by H. R. Marsh, who
lives near Columbia, Went mad Fri
day and bit two of Mr.. Marsh's chill
dren, four milk COWS and several
hogs, tore up several chickens and
played havoc in the neighborhood in
which MIR. Marsh lives. The dog, a
family pet, was finally killed and the
persons bitten by the animal are now
taking the Pasteur treatment.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
FAVORS 6 PER CENT.
House Passes Bill Substitute to Meas
ure Offered by Berry and Cothran.

Columbia, Jan. 30.-The legal rate
of interest in South Carolina would
be per cent. and the contract rate
per cent, if bill which passed it's
second reading in the house of repre-
sentatives this afternoon by an over
whelming vote is passed by the SEN
ate. The bill as finally adopted was
substitute offered by Messrs. Berry
and Cothran. All efforts to exempt
building and loan associations were
voted down, strenuous efforts to this
effect being made by Mr.. Hemphill,
of Chester, and Mr.. Nsuffer, Of Alb
beville.
The test vote was 70 to Al in favor
of the bill, being a motion by Mr..
Hines, Of Lancaster, to strike out the
enacting words of Mr.. Moore's bill.
The forty-one voted in favor of the
motion which would have killed the
bill, while the seventy voted against
striking out the motion and in favor
of the bill.
At Night Session.
An amendment to the Constitution
to place election of judges in the
hands of the people was introduced
in the House tonight by Messrs. Nit
chell and Pursley, of York.
A majority unfavorable and minor
ity favorable report was made on Mr..
Fromberg's constitutional amendment
to allow Charleston to license sale of
light wines and beers. The majority
report was made by Mr.. Young, of
Charleston, and the minority was
signed by Messrs. Daniel, Atkinson
and Redmon, only three out of the
twenty-three members on the COM
mittee.
A divided report, majority un-
favorable and minority favorable,
was made on Mr.. Berry's State high
way commission bill.
Petitions for enactment of ''bone
dry prohibition law continue to
pour into the house of representa-
tives. Two were received this morn
ing, one from ]. l.. Harley, of>York
county, and another by the churches
of Ridgeway.
A favorable report was made on
the Moore and Hamblin bill requir-
ing cotton mills to install hath tubs
and sewerage in the homes of their
employees. An unfavorable report
was made on the Duncan bill requir-
ing written notice to be given dis
charged employees.
The Charleston delegation intro
duced bill putting Beaufort county
in the Ninth circuit with Charleston
county. Beaufort at present is N
the Fourteenth district.
Thirty-one local uncontested MAJ
ters were given third reading in the
house this morning.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
Splashes Flop a Bunk.

"Where can a fellow get a flop
with a splash for about a man and a
half"
The speaker told Sam Mcclure, d
theatrical man he accosted at Forty
second street and Broadway, New
York, that he was circus man just
in from the road. Mcguire finally
learned that he desired a room with
a bath for $50.
Mcclure met the man again.
THE hut was bunk he said.
They slipped me drop instead OF a
snlash." which Mcclure later learned
meant that he had received shower
bath instead of a regular tub.-Balti-
more American.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
Trees Killed by Gas.

The death of many trees in the
streets and parks of New York
usually ascribed to poor soil or para
sites, is largely due to atmospheric
conditions, according to the eminent
Massachusetts botanist, George E.
Stone. In an article in the journal
of the New York Botanical Garden
he says that here are to be found
obstacles greater than in other cities
to the successful establishment and
maintenance of street trees. From
the great variety of manufacturing
establishments surrounding Manhat'
tan (New Jersey is not particularly
mentioned) sulphur dioxide and
other poisons rise, only to fall again
upon our poor trees. The victims
malady is chronic rather than acute
It's vitality is weakened and then the
parasite ends it.
Mr.. Stone declares that with the
exception of the Austrian pine "prac-
tically all the conifers in Central
park are dying from the effects OF
atmospheric gases, and it is rarely
that one observes Norway spruce
anywhere within the vicinity of New
York that is not either dead or in a
state of deterioration" The botan-
ist believes that it is impractical to
continue planting conifers here.
Elms, too, are a comparatively
easy victim to gases. The effects OF
the poison are visible in Riverside
Drive and in Central park. But, as
Prof. Stone remarks, many of the
elms were deplorable specimens to
begin with; not such fine types as are
growing in the Bronx.
The trees that best withstand gas
poison are the Norway maple, black
locust. ailanthus and linden.-NeW
York Sun.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
Oak Grove Greetings.

Oak Grove, Jan. 29.-My, we have
been having some rainy weather for
the past few days.
Mrs. C. C. Smith spent part of last
week with her son in Charleston,
where Mr.. Smith has been i'll.
We are very glad to know that
Mr.. G. w. Clayton is improving.
Mr.. Willie Carter and sister, Mrs.
Eddie Sease, of Barnwell, spent few
days last week with Mr.. and Mrs. B.
H. Carter.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. w. Copeland
spent last Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Joe Bishop.
Mr.. Ham Carter left last Monday
for Savannah, where he will resume
his work.
Miss Pattie Miley, of Lodge, spent
last Friday night and Saturday here.
Miss Grace Hoffman gave party
last Friday night in honor Of Ter
cousin, Mr.. Ham Carter.
Little Miss Lenora Copeland gave
a birthday dinner few days ago,
celebrating her fifth birthday. Her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. l..
Copeland, and Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w.
Copeland and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
O. L. Copeland, and Mrs. D. NJ. Smith
dined with her.
The friends of Mr.. and Mrs. j. l..
Copeland will be glad to know that
their son, who has been i'll in Ashe-
vile, continues to improve.
Oak Grove school primary honor
roll:
Fourth grade-Kate Rentz, Dora
George, Roberts Smith.
Third grade-Helen Carter, Hugh
Carter, Jack Carter.
Second grade-Callie Bishop. ~
First grade-Esther Smith, Mary
Rentz, Elizabeth HERS, John Jacob
Carter, J. c. Cothran.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
THE LEMONADE BATH.
An Experience of Travellers in Ger
many.

Travellers leaving Germany these
days, says the American Boy, when
they are fortunate enough to pass
the rigorous quizzing necessary to Sc
cure passports, are treated to a
lemonade bath. The lemon rub,
which is given in a thorough fashion
to the travellers body, is to bring to
light, or at least destroy, any maps
or messages that might have been
drawn on the skin.
The inspection of the clothing and
baggage of the traveller has been so
thorough that the only way spies
could get maps of Notifications and
other information that it was neces-
sary to carry in writing past the bor-
der, has been to draw it on the skin
with a chemical, which dried out and
became invisible, after the fashion of
sympathetic inks. When the spy
reached his own headquarters an
other chemical was applied, which
brought out the message. The citric
acid, which is the principal constitu-
ent of lemon juice, serves to bring
out these hidden designs, or in many
cases to destroy them.
While much of the spying in Ger
many has been done by men, women
and children have been used largely
for a means of carrying the informa
ton out of the country. AS result
of these lemonade baths many men
and women whose skins revealed
messages and maps have been given
long term prison sentences.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
ANTI-PAINT CRUSADE.
Philadelphia School Girls Will Be
Led Back to Nature.

An anti-paint crusade against the
manhandling of paint and powder in
the hands of the Philadelphia school
girls has been inaugurated, not by a
society for the protection of paint
and powder, but by the Teachers
club and the women's clubs Of the
city. Figuratively speaking, ban
ners with Down With the Painted
Beauties and "Off With the War
Paint outlined on them will hang
out from headquarters. Placards an
nouncing that art is Out of Place
on the Face" and LET Nature
Alone will decorate the walls and
will adorn the transparencies and
banners to be carried in the cam
paign. A throng of women, with
clean, secured faces, garnered from
high schools, clubs and settlements.
will endeavor by means direct and
indirect to lure the young girl OF
Philadelphia away from the paint
box and rouge stick.
Which all goes to lead up to the
news that the Teachers club, with
a membership of about 800 teachers
and principals of the schools, has
started a campaign to eXterminate
the germ-reeking powder puff, the
brazen rouge cake and all other
emergency aids to nature. The
movement, under the leadership of
DR.. Clare Miller, president of the
Teachers club and teacher of science
in Frankford high school, will invite
the cooperation of all other women's
clubs in the city, enlist the support
of the district superintendent and
the board of education and all in
dividuals, male and female, interest
ed in the modern tendencies of art.
Miss Katherine Puncheon, princi-
pal of the girls high school, Seven
teenth and Spring Garden streets, il
quite optimistic about the success OF
the contemplated onslaught on the
decorations envisaged by the young
and immature females of the city.
DR.. Clare Miller, president of the
Teachers club and sponsor of the
crusade, realizes also that the teach
ers alone will not be able to cope
with the problem, so the women's
clubs of the city will be invited to CO.
operate with the teachers. Mothers
will be urged to set a good example
to their daughters, and the teachers
seem to think the modern mother is
somewhat of a Stacker; also that the
crusade should be carried on primarl-
ly in the home, right in the corner
where you are. Men, too, especially
those whose clients come in daily
contact with their office force, have
felt the overwhelming number of
painted beauties in the labor market
and have bemoaned the disappear
ance of the old fashioned girl
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
Half Million to Woman Suffrage.

New York, Jan. 29.-Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait announced tonlgnt
that 100000 of the 100000 be-
Quest made to her under the will OF
Mrs. Frank Leslie will be devoted to
woman suffrage educational pur-
poses.
A corporation, probably to be
known as the Leslie Woman Suffrage
Commission, will be organized, Mrs.
Gait said, to establish a national bu-
reau of suffrage education.
No political work will be under
taken by the suffrage commission, IL
was stated, unless it has an educa-
tional value.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
Sirloin Steaks IL Cents.

New York, Jan. 29.-A butcher
shop in which horse meat is sold ex-
clusively has been opened in Harlem
with the sanction of the board CT
health, it became known today. a
sign over the shop reads:
"Horse flesh for sale here"
Round and sirloin steaks are quot
ed at twelve cents a pound, while in
ferior cuts sell as low as six cents a
pound. Horse meat frankfurters re-
tail at ten cents dozen.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
Tillman Presents Endorsement.

Washington, Jan. Ex-senator
Tillman submitted to the senate to-
day a copy of resolutions adopted by
the South Carolina legislature en-
dorsing President Wilson's proposal
that the United States take the ini-
tiative after the European war to
form league of nations to enforce
peace.
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Very Regular.

He-Do you attend church regu-
larly?
She-Yes, every Easter.-Boston
Transcript.
Evening journal., 1917-09-27
A MercileSS
Judge
Ono Who shows No Favor.

A merciless judge is Father Time.
Before him the weak and the wanting
80 to the wall Only the truth can
stand. For years the following state
ment from a Wilmington resident has
Wlthstood this sternest OF all tests.
B. r. Bacon, railroad engineer so4
Lombard street. says: II believe that
my work caused kidney trouble in NV
case The constant. cramped position
at my work and frequent changes q,
temperature weakened my back and
made it very painful. / got posn's R,d
ney Pills at Danforth's Drug store and
they gave me great relief"
Mr.. Bacon gave the above stateman,
on January ~, 1909. and on March az
1916, he said: II still use Doan's Kid
ney Pills when feel any lameness /,
my back and they always remove In
trouble"
Price Coo, at all dealers. Don't sin,
ply ask for a kidney remedy-ge
Doan's Kidney Pllls-the same that NJ
Bacon has twice publicly recommend
cd. Foster-Milburn Co.. Props, Buffal,
In. Y.
Evening journal., 1917-09-27

Il hadn't been able to get any real
enjoyment out OF life for several
years. said Miss Helen Huebner, 2233
South Fifth street, Philadelphia, be
cause on stomach troubles and indlges-
ton
"Often while out with a crowd OF
young people l would suffer an attack
Of indigestion which meant that would
have to be taken home All Is DIFF
ferent now, however, because Tanlac
has got my stomach working right.
To-day / can eat heartily without
fear OF disagreeable after effects. No
longer do ! suffer from pains in my
back, sides or stomach after eating be-
cause my food digests instead Of laying
IN my stomach and forming gas.
haven't had q vomiting spell since
flrst took Tanlac. My. how ! used to
suffer from sick headaches-but not any
more. I am getting stronger every day
and the glow OF real health has been
restored to my cheeks. / short, I feel
like a different girl. Tanlac did this
for me-"
Tanlac is now being specially intro
duced and explained In Wilmington al
Smith & Strevlg's Drug Store.