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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-12-18

w A0L ~ eASS
noise?" exclaimed
Mrs. Cumrox.
I'm not sure, "
answered her
b q 8 b a n q. 1T
sounds as II the
waiter had drop
ped a load Of
di 8 b e 8; an d
then again, may
be it's only the
Jazz band tun-
ing up."
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-12-18
Looks That Way.

"What's the debate at the lyceum to-
night, Uncle Heck"
(which is the purtiest name, Doris
or Gladys? And I'll tell you the jedges
have got their work cut out for 'em-
I'll say they have"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-12-18
And They Come High.

Bacon: "If q woman was made from
a mans rio in these days what do you
think he would get in return"
Egbert: "A rib-roast, suppose"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-12-18
A Good Way toDo,
Pafiance

4 u l. ] Z IL T.
When Clarence
attempted to kiss
Peggy, did she
boiler for help?
Pa tricT
should say not.
She just helped
herself.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-12-18
Clothes Make the Woman.

Alice-How do I look in this dress?
Gladys-Charming, dear. Isn't It
wonderful how much a dress can dc
for one?-Boston Post.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-12-18
Explained.

How are they proposing to remedy
the decrease 1q marryingT
'They're not proposing at all That's
the trouble"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-12-18
Omar Was Riqht.

Waste not your hour-especially
when any employer will give you q
lollar for It.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-12-18
SMILES FOR ALL
OF Course.

Of Course.
'Do get Jimmy to tell you about
when they had bottled the enemy up"
. 81 will. I hear it is a corking story"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-12-18
Helpless

Pat-Oi've traced me ancestry back
to an Oirish king.
Mike-Sure, that's easy. What
chanst has q dead man to defind him
self?
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-12-18

In Doubt.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-12-18

What IS thai
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able theory that the civil war was re-
sponsibie for that growth, that the
war educated the millions in the
armies, most of them boys who had
never been away from their home
peighborhoods. while the war at the
same time developed captains OF in
dustry, engineers, organizers, finan-
ciers. 1 saw happening what Emer-
son describes in his mighty utterance:
War passes the power of all chem
ical solvents, breaking up the old ad-
hesions and allowing the atoms of So
ciety to take a new order The West
burst into life. railroads pushed over
the Rockies. literature expanded.
Purely American.
Tho literature of this epoch was
purely American. Much that Long
fellow and Emerson and Hawthorne
had done might have been the work of
foreign writers, though 'Evangeline,' >
Hiawatha' and The Scarlet Letter
were essentially American. But such
men as George w. Gable, Bret Harte,
Mark Twain and Joel Chandler Harris
came along. They observed actual
scenes and happenings. They were
reporters whose productions were
touched by the divine fire of literary
art
Edward King discovered Cable In
New Orleans when going through the
Southern States for our magazine get
ting material for the Great South
papers. He found Gable working by
day in a cotton factors Office and at
night in his own time beginning to
write his splendid tales Of the Louisi-
ana Creoles. King sent some OF
Cables work to DR.. Holland. editor
of the magazine. and Cables revela-
tons of a new world peopled with
Spanish aristocrats. French of the
ancien regime, men of stately grace,
women as delicious as Dresden china
figures touched by god with life, ap-
peared in the magazine during the
next few years until the book contain
ing his stories was published in 1879.
at was after this that Gable jour
neyed TO. New York by steamer from
New Orleans, and I met him as he
landed, a foreign looking man, de-
lighted with the wonders OF the North
ern metropolis. We rode in the ele-
vated-it was quite new then-and
Gable sat in the last seat of the last
car. looking out on the tracks and
buildings with the delight of a boy.
Frank Stockton was in the Office
when ] Joined II, with William Fayal
Clarke. who was helping Mrs. Dodge
edit Sc. Nicholas. Stockton was writ
ing his Rudder Grange stories for
ScrSbnor"s Monthly while doing his
editorial work, and they were so sue
cessful that he left st. Nicholas to
make authorship his profession. He
lived In the suburbs, but he himself
canal boat. He msw some people
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bought the undercoat in Paris and the
overcoat had been ordered from Lon
don. 'Ah.' said Carey. another tale
of Two Cities."'
Henry c. Bunner editor of Puck,
poet and writer of the delightful Short
Skies introduced me to the works
of Robert Louis Stevenson. The
younger generation will think they
have always known Stevenson, but /
had been in New York four years when
one day met Bunner in Union Square.
He said: Ellsworth. 80 over to Bren-
tano's and get a book In the Seaside
Library called The New Arabian
Nights" by a new man named Steven
son. That was happy meeting with
the new man. I'd like to have such
a sensation again.
Years later Stevenson told Richard
Watson Glider, who succeeded DR.. Hol-
land as editor of the Century, that he
once came into our Office and asked II
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who did and he made up Rudder
Grange out Of what he thought might
have happened to them. Stocktons
best known tale is The Lady or the
Tiger" and credit for that fine title
can be given to VIII Carey of the
Century editorial room. Stockton had
given 1t a much less effective title,
Ihe Kings Arena.
Carey was a clever young man who
died In his early forties. Mark Twain
called him the wittiest man he ever
knew. When an acquaintance of mine
was growing deaf some one asked him
IN Carey's presence II he understood
German. Understand German inter-
rupted Carey. bless your soul. he
doesn't understand Enslishl' One day
Brander Matthews came into the Of
fice wearing a very short overcoat
which allowed some six inches of the
tail OF his undercoat to show. On be-
ing twttted he explained that he had
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7 them. They get insomnia trying to
do their respective shares, while l
sleep like n baby. And l do my daily
writing (and reading), with which they
have nothing TO do, in addition to
cutting out their work for them. If
live to be 500 years old l shall never
| be able to do the work have already
mapped out and filed away. 1 have
| the plots of over a hundred novels on
my shelves and possibly 500 short
stories. In addition to the steady out
/ put of fiction now planned have also
| two volumes OF personal reminis-
cences to follow John Barleycorn," the
! first, my experience as n writer, the
! other the story of my nine years Of
! farming. And that brilliant life was
| ended at 40.
I zone Sunday afternoon thirty years
! ago l met Henry James at Edmund
! Gosse's in London. Gosse had de-
lightful Sunday afternoons. when the
servants went out, and the literary
! guests waited upon themselves at an
! informal supper. Robert Browning
was there-an English banker to the
life; never talking about poetry If he
could help 1t.
II remember Kipling the first time
he came into our office, and as he sat
with one leg under him, swinging the
other and peering out at us through
large, gold trimmed spectacles, he
seemed like a being from another
| world-the world of The Phantom
. Rickshaw' and The Man Who Would
Be King One day Kipling told Mrs.
Dodge, who was editing st. Nicholas, a
story OF the Indian jungle. She asked
him to write 1t down for the maga-
/ zine. He never had written for chill
dren, but he would try. Hence we
have the Jungle stories.
Saint-Gaudens's Father.
"I remember walking home one
night from one OF elders Friday eve
nings with Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus
Saint-Gaudens. It was soon after the
unveiling of Salnt-Gaudens's noble
statue OF Farragut in Madison Square,
and as we came toward II we saw an
elderly man, with his hat off, standing
motionless in the moonlight. looking up
at the statue. It's father whispered
Saint-Gaudens in surprise, for the old
man had been reluctant to notice his
sons work. Why, father he said,
hoping for the long deferred word OF
approval. what are you doing out
here2' Never you mind was the
gruff response, Il am attending TO my
own business He kept little shoe
shop on Fourth avenue near by, with
the sign 'Cordonnier pour Danes over
the door. and he had come out In the
night to see the work OF his son. whors
his savings had sent TO Cooper Union
and across the ocean to study in
France. As for praise, however,
that was another story.
"One wonders why, with the tre-
inendous growth of college education,
the number of manuscripts has not
, increased. Perhaps the reason is that
} the colleges are not turning out au-
thors, or II they are then they must
be authors who are contributing To
another class of magazines, and If an
other class than the literary maEa-
zine then necessarily to a less literary
} class. Thirty years ago the manu-
} scripts received by the Century aver
aged 1000 a month. The number Is
the same to-day-and as. then, three
, IN the hundred are accepted. 1t takes
, about two years for a thousand book
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to talk about it. But he was never
sorry he finally consented to let the
story appear first in a literary maya
zine, for 1t gave him a literary Glen
tele and a college degree and much
appreciation.
with great pleasure 1 recall those
| days on the veranda at Jefferson's
plantation. He would read aloud from
| the manuscript, then lean back, put
/ his spectacles up on his forehead and
| tell story. and I would say, why
don't you put that in?'
"'You don't think they'd like it, do
your he asked. I'd say they would,
and in it would go.
Jefferson and Cleveland Meet.
''Gilder brought about meeting be-
tween jefferson and Grover Cleveland,
then President of the United States.
He asked Mr.. Cleveland to invite Mr..
and Mrs. jefferson to dine at the
White House. which he did Jeffer-
son didn't want to go. Why should
I dress up?' he would say, and go TO
the White House?' But he went. and
a long friendship began, based at first
| on their common love Of fishing. In
those days when people spoke slight
| ingly to me OF Grover Cleveland I
always said, Well, IL Glider and JEFF
ferson like him, that's enough for
me-
"Gilder also started HoplSinson
Smith on his career as a novelist by
asking him to make a record of his
stories for the Century. AS a result
he produced Colonel Carter of Carter$-
Vile.
ut never seems to be quite the same
world without Hopkinson Smith.
remember him as he was at Twelfth
Night revel OF the Century Club. He
came as the German Emperor-long
before the war-and he was clad In 8
snow white uniform, with brass he'll
met, and his long mustaches turned
upward. He brought a box of decora'
tions and pinned one on nearly every
breast. He decorated me because, a.
he said, / had doubtless some time
drunk two glasses of beer when one
would have sufficed. Later in the
evening when called upon for 6
speech he delivered a prophetic ut.
terance in keeping with his part. .
am n man of peace he said 4 wanl
J a piece OF Morocco, I want a piece OF
China, want a piece of every country
J that have not the whole of already.
Major Pond, the greatest of lee.
| ture managers, had a way of bringing
what he called his talent into oui
office, and leaving them there to b'
entertained. He brought Anthony
Hope, Ian Maclaren, Zangwill, Hal
Caine. the English Winston Churchill
all very easy men to entertain, whC
gave more than they received Church
i'll came to America to tell the story
of his escape In the Boer war, anC
the Major made a contract 10 pay hin
so much for each lecture, and TO pay
all his travelling expenses. And do
you know what that young man did?
asked the Major. He drank pint O.
champagne for breakfast every morn
ing, and I had to pay for it.
And Jack London-he was tire
mendously energetic. Once he wrot'
to me: Please be GTho got tn,
right line on me. am abominabl!
= energetic. 1 keep half a dozen per
! sons working overtime handling tn
work map out and turn over Il
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we wanted any stories, and was turned
fully at Glider, I believe you are the
man who did itS But Glider wasn't the
man. Stevenson did come in and asked
that question of the boy at the counter
ia the business office, and was told,
as any stranger would be told, that
anything he cared to leave would be
handed to the editors. The boy had
10 way of detecting a genius when he
saw one. and Stevenson, who had just
come off the emigrant ship, probably
did not look that part.
Gen. sherman's story.
II have heard some wonderful sto-
ries in the office of the magazine. and
He stood before Gilder's fire one day.
a tall, lank figure, with his hands un-
der his coat tails. and told how he
marched through Georgia. Then we
we're publishing the war series which
grew out of a suggestion by one of the
editors, Mr.. Buel, that an article on the
Union side OF Bull Run should have a
reply by Southern leader. Other ar
ticles were engaged and a series was
launched. While the series was run
ming Gen. Grant came into the office
once or twice. His throat was wrapped
in a muller and lac was almost speech
less then.
"Two notable books We're produced
in this period by men who had never
written before, Grants Memoirs and
Joseph Jefferson's Autobiography
and neither needed any editorial re-
vision. Twice after Mr.. Glider learned
that Jefferson was writing the story OF
his life I made a Journey to Jefferson
Island his Louisiana plantation. tc
get the life for the Century. 1t was
hard to convince Jefferson that the
magazine was the best place to print
his story. He had an idea that he
wanted It first published as a sub
scription book, with a nice leather back
and gilt top and men going around
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a LETTER
FROM MARK
TWAIN.
TIE REFERENCE
IS TO TIE
ADVERTISING, 4
TIE POSTERS,
'FLTERSn
NEWSPAPER
COPY, EVC.,
PLANNED Foe.
AiS STORY.
TIE MILLION
POUND BANK
NOTE"
~
s-R IL
fa4.-o
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-20
HERE'S TO MP. HOOVER.
production.

The endorsement of Herbert c. Hoover, to head
the committee which will put Pensacola the map
as the city Florida. will make the
worlds fair be held here in 1922 memorable. is
most desirable and would much place this city
in the lmelight while ii honored of the great
est humanitarians and directors the world has ever
produced.
The New World says that there no
from the and he would be the last to desire it.
He comes home plain citizen who had great and
inconspicuous work to do and did it well.
Feeding starving people and controlling the sup
ply and distribution of nations at war all
important though 1t is has of the glory of mil
itary success
Yet the more the character and quality of Mr.
Hoover's work is considered the general will
be the recognition of its supreme usefulness and of
the ability with which it performed AS head
of the Commission for Relief Belgium when the
war began, and subsequently head of the Food Adj
minstration here and Director Allied Re-
lief in Europe after the armistice progressively
assumed responsibilities of organization and man
agernent unique in warfare and requiring rare ad
minstrative powers
sion of ability equal great military
viii credit him with the creation of new sphere
of national activity identify his name with war
relief. He finely exemplified the American spirit
and in his onerous duties largely self assumed
typfied the patriotic devotion service so str-
ngly exhibited by his counrymen civilian as we'll
in military life.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-20
p,r,Eul PARTISAN POLITICS.

what is the matter with the United States? How
As il possible for the country which produced Per-
shing and the who gave their lives on the
fields OF Flanders to have changed over night to a
country mainly composed of poltroons, and imbe-
iesspineless creatures, without the nerve to hold
their against the other nations of the world?
Were the viny Ridge and those at the
battle OF the Marine. the who held back the
Hun hordes and then went TO Germany for the
Watch the Rhine thssonly real Americans? Or
To wait for another generation before 1t may
be said-Americans do not know how to retreat?
Washington favorite topics the inadequacy
of the American army the ineffectiveness of Amer
lean leaders, the asininity of American statesmen.
the weakness OF American principles. Attention is
daily called to the poweressness of America, the
land OF the free and the home OF the brave hourly
notified of the fact that it would be i'm
possibility for this nation to play a manly part,
II involved with other nations of the earth.
This from certain members of the United States
senate. to America; this from the leaders Of the
republican party to the men who fought at vimy
Ridge, at Ypres. and the Marine. and the Somme.
This. to those who carried colors victory
This to the business men of America who rallied at
the first call to arms. and furnished sinews
war which crowned standards with glory. This,
TO the mothers OF America, who gave their sons.
that France might be free. that the channel ports
OF England might remain impregnable. that the AL
pine heights might not continue stepped in crimson
hues; that Belgium might become free country
instead or road to Paris; that the coustry which
their forefathers wrested from German king a
British throne, might not again come under
German dominion.
Is II true that there men left to uS, to take
their in the affairs the earth
Can il be that when sent our troops across the
Atlartic. left none behind worthy the name
Of American Are senators of the United States
right in assuming that. in the become
members OF a league OF nations. poor and
Tuny spineless and powerless, as to be but an
each or that voice, the strength and power which
shook the kaiser from his throne and autocracy
lettering to its ruin?
IL all Americans had forgot the principles on
which this nation founded If the men and the
women of America had forgot honor. If they had
thrown away and lost the strength that comes when
valor buckles the of truth, then indeed
might fear to enter into league with other
nations.
But honor still lives, courage is still sustained
by ideals which are inperishable; America still
the home of freedom, the sons of the mothers of
America still fearless devoted still valor-
Gus. American manhood remains and the
eagle the American dollar has not yet learned
the language of the kaiser.
We have entered into the councils of world
and voice has before autocrats and
ar knees have not bent in homage kings
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-20
CORN coes FOR MORE THAN PIPES.

/ The recent mine OF wealth the scientific men
have discovered in the erstwhie worthless cob
brings mind the early history of cotton seed
fore it's virtues had been found and value DEM
onstrated.
Older people who bread shortened with
cotton seed OIL and it to Rbricate their auto
mobile. and take it under the of olive for
medicine remember when cotton seeds were
hauled from the gnners and thrown into hole or
burned
Now science says been treating the corn
cob the way and therefore have lost a world
dextrine stock feed and glucose, to mem
ton paper and fairly good grade of whfskey-
Surely the cob has been late coming into it's
own but out west where there cobs galore,
they putting up big factory at Salt Lake City,
where all these things extracted from cobs
along with molasses, dyestuffs. etc
The cellulod residue" says the Salt Lake Times
from the syrup makes good stock feed. when
ground coarsey and mixed with moIasses. Or. un-
der chemical treatment II viii yield seventy
five per cent of its weight pure gluclose. yeast
be added" says the Salt Lake paper, "and the
glucose allowed to undergo fermentation it will
produce" but, MOI Such secrets shall not out in
a prohibition country, There can be no harm in
cob disable making artificial leather
and also absorbent of nitrogIycerine In the
manufacture of dynamite.
such personalities the ignored nub-
bin which has been thrown away the of three
billion bushels a year. Think of it. Young man.
collect cobs and get rich"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-20
NOW Is THE TIME

Farmers of this section of the by no
means blind that while increas-
ing acreage in West Florida, and in
Producing better farming methods and higher
grade of live Stock other sections going for
ward in the way, and that Escambia county
has up doing if the blue ribbon won
at the state fair.
One Of the finest farms in Florida situated in
Marion county and its rapid growth is indica-
ton of what may be accomplished in the state and
will give Escambia county farmers idea of the
competition which they must meet, to keep this
county the map.
According to those who have visited the An
thony FARMS Ocala, there 300 acres
fenced, 1000 of which is under cultivation. Half
of this is in corn 800 in peanuts 500 sorghum.
There 1900 hogs the farm Duroc Jerseys and
Poland Chinas. 700 of which registered animals.
There 160 Angus heifers, three registered Angus
bulls of the latter three years old, weighing
1000 pounds.
Here raising being carried on in earnest.
There 100 Persian mares, registered Per-
sian stallion, 80 Persian horse colts 40 mule colts,
and other registered horses and mules among the
livestock.
The managers the Anthony farm attribute
much of their success to the feeding program. which
consists largely of enslage- There three 265-
ton sios the place entirely filled. fourth in
process of ensaging and fifth being construct
ed.
The Florida farmer is rapidly learning that he
Is to be successful he apply business principles
as well scientific methods to farming. While
Marion county farmers will be hard to beat, per-
haps, at the state fair there number of farm
ers in this county who put good, stiff fight
for honors, and are already preparing to do
The prospects for the fair at Moline bright,
and there is every indication that the exhibits
carried to Jacksonville in November will be far
ahead of that which winning the blue
ribbon last year.
But it must be remembered that every county I'm
the state is its mettle to eclipse Escambia and
wrest from her the glory that is hers. and they
are going out do this in way that should make
every farmer take cognizance of the fact
is the time for all good men to to the
the county"