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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
past Is or 20 years. Where former

past Is or 20 years. Where former
ly few houses and rail fences clus-
tered around a county court house
chiefly devoted to trying moon
sinners, few weeks every year,
there are now factories turning out
millions of dollars worth of cotton
fabrics to clothe the people of South
America, Central Africa and the Far
East.
An automobile trip southwark
from the North Carolina line would
undoubtedly open DR.. O'NIalley's
eyes. He would see the hills, the soil
of which was formerly washed away
as fast as the land was cleared and
the first crops were harvested, now
terraced with scientific skill in or
der to retain the soil and raise sue
cessive crops year after year. In
place of the log cabin of few years
ago he would see we'll constructed
houses and broad fields of corn, cot
ton and cowpeas. And this improve
ment is due to the white race in the
section of our country which he be-
lieves is not fit for it Ito thrive in. y
Editorial by F. R. Dawley, Jr., in
Providence (R. ~ Journal.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
ASSESSMENT NOTICE.

The Auditor or his deputy will be
at the following places on the days
and dates named below for the pur-
pose of taking returns of personal
property, transfers of real estate, and
income tax returns:
At the court house until Monday,
January Is, 1917.
Farrell's store, Tuesday, January
16, 1917.
Denmark, Thursday and Friday,
January II and IS, 1917.
Lees, Monday, January %, 1917.
Govan, fuesdaW January %, 1917.
Olar, Wednesday and Thursday,
January "a and Is, 1917.
St. Johns, Friday, January 26,
1917, from a. m. to II m.
Kearse's, Friday, January 26, 1917,
from / p. m. to p. M.
Ehrhardt, Monday and Tuesday,
January 80, and 80, 1917.
At the court house until February
20. 1917, after which date the so
per cent penalty will be added.
Every taxpayer is requested to
learn the name and number of his
school district before coming to make
his return.
Taxpayers are also urged to come
prepared to make separate returns
for town property, giving number OF
acres and buildings, and lots in town.
Persons living in town will please
state the fact to the Auditor so that
they will not be charged with COM
mutation road tax.
All real and personal property must
be returned in the school district in
which it is located.
R. w. D. ROWELL,
Auditor Bamberg County.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01

palmy days of Greece and of Rome,
when rulers and wealthy mobiles dis
tributed largess with equally lavish
hand.
No American has been more ex-
tolled- few more execrated. He
has been invested with all the virtues
of a saint-and condemned as a
blood-stained tyrant and slave driver.
To him some have ascribed wisdom,
foresight, and ability not less than
super-human; others have portrayed
him as popinjay, the incarnation of
SNUG dissatisfaction, the fortunate
creature of circumstances, whose on
ly claim to distinction he himself set
down in the epitaph he composed for
his tombstone-"Here lies one who
knew how to get around him men
who we're cleverer than himself.
He has been called both capital
istic Socialist and a car who refused
to countenance any man, even the
brainiest, as his equal in the realm
of business. Because he has no fixed
religious belief, the epithet "atheist''
has been hurled at him all through
his career, yet he has given donations
for 1000 church organs. Listening
to music, particularly that of the or
gan, is form of religious expression
to him." declares an intimate.
He has been accused Of having
quarreled with and cheated more OF
his associates than any other man in
industrial history. NO man ever
made so many men millionaires or
shared his profits so lavishly' is the
verdict of such men as Schwab and
Corey who shared freely of his boun-
ties and bonuses.
The modern Patron Saint of Scot
land he has been called-yet the
people of his native town, carried
away by this indignation at his peace
views in the early days of the war
splattered his statue with mud and
filth.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
Calnegie's Millions.

Andrew Carnegie will leave the
smallest fortune of any modern Amer
lean Croesus-probably S1,000,O
900 less than John D. Rockefeller,
100000 less than Frick, and
less, too, than was left by Morgan,
Hill, Hartman, the Harnesses, Rus
sell Sage, Hetty Green or John Jacob
Astor. Carnegie has given away
1925, 100000 and has, am told, less
than s3O,OO0,000 left-a statement
that will cause astonishment.
Carnegie's original investment in
steel making was s250,000. In twen-
ty-seven years he sold out the Carne-
gle Steel company to Morgan's steel
corporation for 100000, 1000, bonds,
nearly s1O0,O0O,0OO in preferred
stock and $50, 100000 common stock.
Carnegie, canny Scot, took the bonds
and left the stock for his forty part
ners, who owned about 40 per cent,
and Carnegie about so per cent of
the Carnegie company.
In his Gospel of Wealth" he for
mulated this cardinal article of his
faith:
''The day is not far distant when
the man who dies leaving behind him
millions of available wealth, which
were free for him to administer dur
ing life, will pass away 'unwept, un-
honored and unsung,' no matter to
what use he leaves the dross, which
he cannot take with him. Of such
as these the public verdict will then
be: The man who dies thus rich
dies disgraced'"
Elsewhere he has recorded: 81
would as soon leave to my son d
curse as the almighty dollar
Carnegie has no son, only one
daughter, born in 1897. She will not
be one of the worlds richest heir
esses.
Carnegie, relatively speaking, will
die poor He is now 81 and feeble.
An adequate character-sketch OF
Carnegie is here impossible. Modern
history contains only one character
comparable to Carnegie-John b
Rockefeller. Carnegie created "a
new era the era of stupendous
philanthropy-no, not exactly new
era, for he had his prototype in the
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
PERSONAL MENTION.
People Visiting in This City and at
Other Points.

MIR. G. w. Hunter, of Branch
Vile, was in the city Friday.
F. F. Carroll. ESQ.,, of Charles
ton, spent Tuesday in the city.
MIR. G. w. Goolsby, of Denmark.
was in the city today.-Barnwell
People.
DIR. H. J. Stuckey attended the
meeting of the medical association in
Barnwell Monday.
MIR. R. C. Stokes left Wednes-
day night for Petersburg and Rich
mond, to spend week.
MIR. Roy Cooner spent last Sun
day at home from the University of
South Carolina, Columbia.
MIR. J. NJ. Ryan, of Boston, spent
a few days in the city last week with
his nephew, Mr.. G. D. Ryan.
Miss Alice Smoak, of Columbia,
is spending some time in the city
with her mother, Mrs. E. A. Smoak.
MFR. Rudolph Strom is spending
this week in the city with relatives
from the Medical college, Charleston.
MIR. J. Carl Kearse, law stu
dent at the University of South Caro-
lima, spent Sunday in the city with
relatives.
Mrs. ]. D. Higgins, of Denmark,
[ was the guest of her son, DR.. Frank
Higgins, for several days last week.
-Barnwell Sentinel.
Miss Julia kibler, of Newberry.
is spending several days in town with
her sister, Miss Lillian kibler.-
Orangeburg Times and Democrat.
MIR. AMI Mrs. R. E. Smith, of Sa-
Vannah, spent a few days in the city
last week, en- route to Greenville,
where they will reside in the future.
Miss Carrie E. Bamberg left
Tuesday for Augusta to visit her
cousin, Miss Julia Doubet, who is
very i'll at her home at 626 Centre
street.
Senator J. B. Black and Repre-
sentative B. D. Carter spent the
weekend at their respective homes
from their legislative duties in Co.
lumbia.
Mrs. G. w. Garland and Mrs. NJ.
L. Johns went to Beaufort last week
on account of the illness and death
of their nephew, Mr.. Brown, return
ing Monday.
Mr.. Munro Nichols, of Rich
mond, Va, editor of the Southland
and Modern Progress, spent a few
days in the city recently securing
data for write-up of this section.
Editor w. w. Smoak, of Walter
boro, who is also representative in
the general assembly, spent a short
while in the city en- route home for
the weekend from his legislative du-
ties in Columbia.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. R. Matheny re-
turned from Johns Hopkins hospital,
Baltimore, Tuesday, where Mr..
Matheny has been under treatment
since November. Mr.. Matthew's
friends will be glad to know that he
is much improved.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
NOTICE.

State of South Carolina-County OF
Bamberg.
To all whom it may concern, please
take notice:
That the undersigned has lost a
certificate of the capital stock of the
Ehrhardt Banking Company, of Ehr-
hardt. S. c., said certificate being No.
5, and application will be made to
said Bank on February 18th, 1911,
for a duplicate certificate of same.
2-15 JNO. F. FOLK.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
BIDS WANTED.

Wanted, sealed bids for the old
school property, containing about
two acres. with buildings thereon, in
the town of Olar, S. c., to be opened
February 7th, 1917, with privilege
to reject all bids.
c.. F. RIZER,
w. B. CHITTY,
J. E. COOK,
Trustees.
Olar, S. c., Jan. 27, 1917.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
NOTICE..

Books of subscription to the capi'
tai stock of the Ehrhardt Heading
Mill Company will be opened at the
Ehrhardt Banking company on Feb
ruary 2, 1917, at 10 a. m.
It. E. E. HUGHES, Secretary.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01
NOTICE.

All persons who have claims
against the estate of Scipio Moore
will present them duly proven with
in thirty days from date to the un-
dersigned. j. H. KINARD, Agent.
Ehrhardt, S. c., Jan. 4, 1917. At.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01

There is a shortage Of paper and
also shortage Of twine, and the lat
ter, being more difficult to procure,
is now being made out Of scraps OF
the former.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-02-01

the circulation and disinfectiop with
borated camphorated soaps are ad-
vised.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-02-01
BECOMES A MOTHER AT 62.
Woman Welded to Young Man Has .
Baby In Her Old AGE.

Milwaukee. Wis.," Fifty-eight years
years old? My dear boy. they said that
about me four years ago when | went
to Kenosha with Albert to be married
where our friends could not make too
much Of hubbub about disparity In
our ages. They said then that he was
twenty five and | was fifty eight. What
Of it? Love knows no years"
Thus spoke Mrs Balone Manzke, a
mother at sixty-two or thereabouts. as
she fondled the baby girl which some
time ago came to their home In Mil
waukee to gladden. the declining years
Of the mother and to rejoice the heart
of the youthful husband. And ii was
a real motherhood that Mrs. Manzke
portrayed as she played with her own
baby, mother with her hair showing
the advance of years In its suggestion
Of gray.
Four years ago the couple went from
Zion City to Kenosha to be married
rhe husband is an expect 'hemist la 0
Milwaukee laboratory which special
izes on perfumery.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-02-01
"GLAZE," NEW WEATHER WORD
Old Fashioned "Sleet" Will Be Out of
Style This Winter.

Washington. - The old fashioned
"sleet" is going out of style this win
ter before the newer lice storm" and
glaze" weather bureau officials re-
ported in their campaign for more ac-
curate terminology for various kinds
of frozen rain. Sleet is officially de-
scribed as small globules of rain frozen
before striking the earth. When rain
freezes after falling and forms a CLASSY
coating on the ground. trees and wires
the condition is called a glaze, and
when this is severe and accompanied
by wind, ii is reported as an ice storm
The weather bureau hopes TO elimi-
nate what il considers improper use OF
the word .sleet," as il has caused sub
stitution of the term tornado" for
Cyclone" when violent storm of
small diameter is meant.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-02-01
TIED DUCK WITH CRAvAT.
Left Diamond Stud on IL, and That May
Account For Turkey Find.

Cuero. What Thomas Loyett of
this county believes to be the previous
history Of the recent story from Chi
cago telling of diamond stud valued
at $50 found In the craw of Thanks
giving turkey had its inception In
duck hunt here.
According to Loyetts story, while
hunting two years ago he slightly
wounded duck and decided to carry
the bird home He used his necktie to
bind the birds feet, neglecting TO re
move a diamond stud fastened therein.
Placing the supposedly helpless bird In
the rear of his conveyance. he started
home. when a futter few minutes
later attracted his attention. He turn
ed in time to see the duck flying off
with his necktie dangling from its feet.
Cuero Is I'm the center Of a large tur-
key raising portion of Texas. and
many of the birds. which roam over a
large range. find their way to the Chi
cago market
Mr. Lovett so far has entered no
claim to the stud
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-02-01

Amundsen Buys Six Hundred Pounds
to Last Six Years.

When Roald Amundsen. the explor
er, left Chicago the other day for
Washington II was apparent that the
food supply on the expedition to the
north pole upon which be is prepar
ing to embark will consist of some.
thing more than whale blubber and
soup tablets.
Preparatory for the six years all
sence In the arctic he purchased 600
pounds of candy and quantities of 9th
er delicacies. including ripe olives.
sweet pickles. picked pigsfeet, dried
fruits. nuts and apple butter. A ton of
meat has been purchased for each of
the ten men who will set out on the
expedition. This includes roast NUT
ton. roast beef. OK tails. pork. stewed
kidneys. OK tongue. lamb tongue. ham
oaf, veal loaf. OK marrow and summer
sausage
Captain Amundsen said that he had
also purchased tea. coffee. cigarettes
baking powder. dried eggs. dried milk
cheese and canned vegetables. In al
10000 cans of food will be carried on
the voyage. During the trip each OF
the ten explorers will consume 40o
pounds of coffee. if he drinks his share
The ship will carry two tons OF 1t and
two tons of sugar.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-02-01
PREDICTS SEA BEEFSTEAKS.
Why Not Eat Choice Joints Cut From
the Ocean MammaIs2

An ever resourceful commoner. seiz
ed with a realization that three-fourths
OF the surface of the earth is water
and practically waste as far as pro
duction of varieties Of diet Is concern
ed. believes that the mammals of the
sea are worthy Of cultivation as food
says the Popular Science Monthly
1t is estimated that the meat of one
sixty foot whale. for instance, Is equal
70 that OF seventy head OF cattle and
astes like choicest beefsteak In flavor
when properly prepared
Other marine mammals which are
good for food as well as for CONNER
cial purposes are the seal. the walrus
the dugong and the sea COW. The du
gong has always been priced for food
by Asiatics. Africans and Australians
and the sea COW formerly found In the
waters OF the Bering sea was so noted
for the palatableness of its flesh. its
size and for its gentle fearlessness OF
man that 1t has been almost entirely
exterminated through mans greed.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-02-01
Federal Census Bureau Issues
First Birth Statistics.
ALIEN POPULATION LEADS
Among Foreign Born Inhabitants OF
40 to 300 Per Cent Greater Than
Among Natives-Negro Death Rate
Very High.

Certain states containing a third of
the countrys population show a IS
per cent greater number of births than
deaths in 1915 in a survey just com
pleted by the federal census bureau.
The statistics disclose that in the ter
ritory included in the investigation for
eign born parents gave birth TO many
more children than did the native born
and that among the negro race the
death rate Is higher and the birth rate
lower than among the white.
The areas covered In the survey in
Guided New England. New York. Penn
sylvania. Michigan. Minnesota and the
District of Columbia. The figures are
the first federal birth statistics ever
published In the states given the birth
rate was 249 thousand and the death
rate IA thousand.
Without considering migration. the
country's population at this rate was
increasing IL per cent annually. The
lowest birth rate found was 2l.l. In
Maine. and the highest 26.1, In Con-
nc; ticut and Massachusetts. The death
rate ranged from l0.l In Minnesota to
l6.l in New Hampshire The greatest
excess of birth over death-l4.4 thou
sand-was in Minnesota. and the small
est-5.5 thousand-was In Maine.
Births Among Alien Population.
An astonishing preponderance OF
.ilths is revealed among the foreign
IN population. In Connecticut. where
in 1910 approximately 80 per cent OF
the population was foreign born. the
children born of foreign parents com
prised 63 per cent of the total. The ex
cesses of the birth rate among the for
eign born over the native born ranged
from 40 per cent In Minnesota to BOO
per cent i'm Connecticut.
The infant mortality rate was 100 t.
thousand births. This means that
one child out of every ten born died
before reaching the age of one year
| The figures disclose that high infant
mortality rate did not necessarily ac
/ company a high birth rate.
The statistics. compared with foreign
tables, show that England. France
Belgium. Sweden and Switzerland be
fore the war had a lower birth rate
than the United States had In 1915
Countries with a higher rate were
Germany. Austria, Russia. Italy. Spain
Denmark. Holland. Japan and Austria
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-02-01
THREE SESSIONS URGED
FOR EACH CONGRESS
Representative MCArthur's Bill
Fixes Specific Dates on Which
They Shall Meet.

A bill designed to designate fixed
dates upon which the congresses of
the future shall meet In regular ses
sion has been introduced in the house
by Representative &. ~ Macarthur of
Oregon The measure. which provides
that there shall lie three instead of two
sessions each congress, stipulates that
they shall begin on the following dates
First.-The first Monday after the
fourth day of March in the year follow
ing the election of members of the
house of representatives.
Second.-The first Monday In October
of the same year.
Third first Monday in Decem
Der of the following year.
1t is pointed out by Representative
Macarthur that the volume of congress
sional business has attained such pro
portions that 1t has become a physical
impossibility to do justice to all i'm
portant measures In the short time now
allowed for the two regular sessions
He believes that IL his proposed meas
ure is adopted that the time of mem
bers will be much more advantageous
ly spent. and instead of being com
PEELED to take vacation for the first
nine months OF their term members
would be at work In the transaction OF
public business except during brief
period In midsummer and that the
present congestion of business In both
houses would be avoided by the early
consideration of much important legis
lation.
1t Is pointed out that during the sum
mer months many members absent
themselves from Washington. and II
frequently happens that quorum Il
not in the city. If congress would ad
journ during the hot weather periods
and put In the balance Of its time In
the consideration OF legislative busi
ness the country would be the gainel
I'm the matter of efficiency.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-02-01
A SYNTHETIC SOUP.
Mineral Substitute For Consomms
1osuf Invented by Chemist.

Mineral Substitute For Consomms
eosuf Invented by Chemist.
Science is hurrying to the rescue.
Along sanitary and military and me-
chanical lines 1t has made marvellous
progress. In the culinary field 1t
leaves much to be desired. Now comes
a Philadelphia chemist and offers man.
kind mineral soup that is pronounced
fully as nutritious as the finest beef
extract. says the Cleveland Leader.
He told the Franklin institute the
other night how the substitute Is pre-
pared. 1t is a decidedly peculiar rec
ipe and one that might well make the
ordinary cookbook shudder. You take
portions of sodium phosphate and cal
cium carbonate and ammonium sui
phate. add little sugar and a small
amount Of yeast These ingredients
are mixed and set away until reaction
by autolysis ensues. and a brown,
sticky paste that has all the nutritive
qualities OF beef extract Is produced
According to the chemist. 1t Is the
yeast that transforms the inorganic
minerals into the pronounced organic
meat substitute. The yeast contains
Preventative agents called engines.
which are responsible for the altera.
ton and produce the food qualities
from the chemicals.
incidentally the chemist announced
that the cost Of this soup" which he
called synthetic meat. is less than that
from the OK or sheep.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-02-01
SMILE CURES Mind
Fiancee Helps to Lift Veil When
Science Fails.
REASON SLOWLY RETURNS.
Detroit Man Proves Puzzle TO Physi-
clans After Partial Asphyxiation In
Auto-Sweetheart, In Same Hospital.
is Wheeled into His Ward. and Eyes
Brighten For First Time.

Detroit. Mich.-A sweetheart's smile
won where science failed. The smile
lured back a wandering mind that all
the little bottles. all the cleaning in
struments and all the solemn books
had failed to cure.
The case of Arthur Connor. twenty
eight years old. puzzled physicians for
days after he was taken to Grace hos
pital suffering from form of gas as
phyxiation induced by inhaling gaso-
line fumes from his automobile. He
slept for hours, calm, deep sleep.
with normal pulse and respiration. but
a sleep that could not be driven out.
When 1t did lift its veil for few min
utes at time 1t was found his mind
had somehow slipped in Its delicate
mechanism. and Connor muttered and
chattered of things foreign and uncon-
nected with reason.
They dug in his spine and brewed
serums. and they tapped with inquisi-
tive fingers and touched the nerves
with the wizard dow of electricity and
the veins with the cleaning hypo-
dermic. In vain all these things-and
then came the cure. a greeting smile
and CHEEKY Good morning" from the
girl he is to marry.
Nellie Winters, dark haired and
brown eyed. sought her fiance. know
ing something had happened to prevent
the filling of an engagement. She
found him after a long search lying In
his car in the garage, asleep. He had
sat down to rest. and the fumes had
overcome him and started the long
slumber. But the hunt through the cold
day had wrought another misfortune,
and Miss Winters found herself
threatened by pneumonia In the same
hospital with Connor.
She grew better. and, once able to sit
in wheel chair. she demanded to be
/ taken TO the side of her sweetheart.
/ They wheeled her in just as one OF the
moments of his consciousness came
And the eyes that had been filled with
vague dreamings suddenly cleared. and
/ the girls smile and glad greeting
4 found an answer.
Hello, Nellie! Gee. it's too bad we
are both sick In the same place"
1t was almost the first rational words
he had uttered. The veil fell again
but the doctors had found key to the
mystic door and hope for a complete
recovery.