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The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-30
Golden Guineas Hatched.

guineas on his Bartholomew county
farm, but Grace, pupil in Columbus
high school, was ready to turn over
all the blue ribbons for guinea raising
to Silas Mariner. She made the ac-
quaintance of The Weaver Of Rave
Toe" in her English class and she read
guineas, for all of her fathers guineas
were of a dull gray color. Then test
time came and Grace. describing the
miser's JOY with his gold pieces, wrote
bravely: THAT morning Silas was
happy for he had Matched a new brood
of golden guineas to add to his flock"
Indianapolis News.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-30
JUST JoTTINGs

If you would become a student Of
human nature begin by studying your
own.
There is no possession so valuable
as good habits, and none worse than
bad ones.
A man who owns good COW is al.
most as conceited as man who has a
good garden. 4
The trouble with some girls is that
they are only giddy when they think
they are gay.
The average man doesn't know the
difference between dimple and a
crease of fat.
Some men spend half their time
framing promises and the other half
in making excuses.
Gratitude is the most inexpensive
commodity of which the world never
had an over-supply.
We know of some fellows who are
bowling for justice who would be sur
prised if they should get it,
Any woman who hasn't seen her
husband fishing doesn't know what a
patient man she has married
1t is a pleasant task for a man to
pull the weeds that grow upon a
pretty widows bonnet-sometimes
The reason man scratches his
head when puzzled has never been
satisfactorily accounted for by scien-
fists.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-30
ANNOUNCE MENT.

To the Taxpayers and Voters of
Bingham County:
will be a candidate for nomination
on the Republican ticket for the Of
flee of Clerk of the District Court and
Ex-officio Auditor and Recorder at
the Republican Primary to be held
August /, next.
/ believe that these offices should
be conducted with the object of CIV
ing efficient service and at the same
time keeping in mind the reduction
of the expenses | have at all times
these offices in keeping with the best
regulated business in commercial life
/ have reduced the expenses of these
offices for the year 1921 and expect
to make further reduction in 1922
The actual cost to the taxpayers by
direct taxation for the office of CLERK
of the District Court and EX-officio
Auditor and Recorder for the year
1921 was $61716. | expect the office
to be self sustaining in 1922
l seek the nomination on my past
record in these offices, investigation
of which is cordially invited l have
been resident of Bingham County
for the past thirty-six years.
F. M. FISHER,
Clerk of the District Court and Ex-
officio Auditor and Recorder of
Bingham County.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-30

to be a political question at ALL It
should, as the steel man points out,
be decided strictly upon scientific
principles and from the standpoint of
fairness to every part of the country,
TO every department of human indus
try, to every line of employment and
to the public welfare.
There is nothing novel in tn is
thought. The National Tariff Com
mission, at great expense to the coun-
try. studied the problem, gathered
data enough to sink a ship, prepared
reports, made recommendations and
went through the usual multitude of
inquisitorial gymnastics that mark
practically every official probe" and
when it was all over, everyone said
it was splendid and then promptly
went to sleep. The tariff being no
longer needed as pressing political
issue, was set aside and forgotten.
Now we have it bobbing up again,
with the forces all set and primed to
upset the business conditions of the
country Surely, it is time the public
took the matter in hand to put an end,
once and for all, to this perpetual
economic menace. Regardless of whe-
Their men believe in high tariff, low
tariff, tariff for revenue only, or no
tariff at all, certainly they must unite
in the conviction that mingling tariff
with politics is as vicious as it is dis
astrous. When all is said and done,
tariff schedule advocates always are
selfish They fight for their own in
terest. There may not be much amiss
with this because in the last analysis,
obedience to intelligent selfishness
means service to the majority The
danger comes when selfishness is ar
med with a political black jack. BY
all means get the tariff question out
Of politics.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-30
Doubtful Proposition,

Representative Frear of Wisconsin
said at a dinner in Milwaukee:
There has been lot of talk to
the contrary but nevertheless the cost
of all kinds Of wearing apparel keeps
unreasonably high.
"A rich Milwaukee banker sat at
luncheon the other day when a serv-
ant entered and said:
There's a secondhand clothes man
at the back door, SIR
"'Good. said the rich banker. ASK
him if he can let me have second
hand pair of shoes at reasonable
price,"
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-30

ment that it is necessary to sell liquor
On american ships in order to COM
pete for business with the foreigners,
gives the reason in a nut shell. The
American nation is in the saloon
business for the profit there is in it.
That is to say, coming farther down
the line and to be more explicit and
definite, that you and l, gentle reader,
being an integral part of the people
who compose the government of the
United States, are saloon keepers for
profit. OF course, we are not wash
ing the glasses and setting the bottle
on the bar, but we have hired SER
wants who are doing this lust as in
the old days. In the ultra-prohib days
the drys asserted that Uncle Sam was
in partnership with the saloons to fhe
extent that it accepted tax revenue
from liquors. Now, however. Uncle
Samule is described in the comic car
toons with a cigar in his mouth, mop
ping off the bar, which is decidedly
clever illustration of the affair as il
stands today. Uncle Sam has appar-
emily dissolved the partnership and
gone into the business himself for
what there is in it so if any of the
travellers who frequent the floating
saloon should take an over supply,
fall into the ocean and drown or COM
nit some crime while under the in
fiuence OF the liquor purchased over
our bar, we are morally and legally
responsible. 1t hasn't been so many
years since the court dockets con-
tanned a number of cases wherein
some saloon keeper was being sued
by the widow for the death of her
husband, and it may be said that they
generally collected. In those days it
was considered blaze to be known as
saloon keeper and disgraceful in GER
place; SO much so that the good
Lord-good devil fellows who couldn't
resist the temptation of putting their
foot on the iron rail and taking it
over the mahogany top, slyly used
the back door when they thought no
one was, looking. II the saloon was
bad on land, is it any better on the
sea WHcu JuIS COuuCTy accepted
prohibition and agreed to do away
with the liquor traffic, it took the
question just as it found it at that
time. There were no provisos that |
liquor might be sold on ship board |
and today there is no legitimate rea-
son why it should be. If prohibition
will lose money to American shipping
well and good That is one of the |
things we accepted when we made
the country dry, along with a lot If
others that we may not have intend
ed. Having done so, let's stand our
ground and make the quarter deck
dry too. If prohibition is to be pre-
served everything that runs counter
to it must be smashed This includes
the floating saloon. The sooner
Uncle Sam takes of his apron, locks
the bar room door on the outside and
throws the key into the deep blue sea,
the sooner people will believe that |
prohibition really prohibits and was
not passed as the result Of a moral
spasm in the interest of any class.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-30

1t remained for Adolphus Busch,
the much advertised st. Louis brewer,
to pull the big sensation that We are
a L ion of saloon keepers notwith-
standing our attempts to make it ap-
pear that we are all prohibitionists.
Il appears from the evidence and al
so from the admission of the manager
of the shipping board that the state
ment Of Mr.. Busch is true, i. e. that
the United States is "incomparably
the greatest bootlegger in the world"
How Mr.. Busch obtained the informa-
ton that American ships carried a
stock of all kinds of liquor and OPEN
ed up the bar for the sale of them as
soon as the three-mile limit is passed.
is unknown. unless he had recently
been passenger on one of the ships
which is quite likely. However the
admission of Mr. Laskar, chairman of
the shipping board. that the charge is
true coupled with the further state
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-30
MADE HIS MEANING CLEAR
Old Darky's Description Of Wife's
Failing APPLY Spelled Out Word
He Didn't Understand.

Moses Diggs, an old Alabama darby,
had been arrested for having more
than one wife, the last woman being
the complainant. He happened to be
well known locally and considered an
orderly character.
"How many wives have you hadY
demanded the examining judge.
six, yo' honah," was the reply.
why couldn't you get on with
them?"
"Well. sub, de fust two spilled de
white folks clos when dey washed
EN-; de thu'd worn't no cook; De fo'th
was ject nacherally lazy; an de fifth
I'll tell you, jedge, de fifth, She"
"Incompatibility?'
mo, yo' honah," said the negro,
slowly, sit worn't nothin' like dat. Yo'
Jest couldn't git on with her onless yo'
was somewhars else."-Harper's Mag
aZine.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-30
She 10 Considered Talkative.

A Northeast .InatrOn is considered
laxative. Her chatter usually is
bright and entertaining and her good
friends only laugh at her loquacious-
ness. Others, not such good friends,
sometimes complain they can't "get
word in e0gewise." when she is the
company. TWO friends called Sunday.
They were met at the door by Elmer,
nine years old. He admitted them,
then went to the stairs and called:
Mother, come down. There's some
one here wants to hear you talk
Kansas City Star.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-30
No Press Facilities.

According TO this authority. Me-
thuselah lived only trifle more than
eighty years"
If that's the case, how did he get
the reputation of being So old?"
I'm blest if know. There were no
newspaper reporters in those days to
interview him every time he celebrat.
ed birthday and add ten or twenty
years to his age SO the story would be
worth a front-page position."-Bir-
mingham Age-Herald.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-30
He Would Work Then.

Tired Tim knocked at the door of
cottage. 1t was a chilly day. and he
was very hungry.
The old lady who opened the door
was a good sort She asked him into
the kitchen and placed before him a
nicely cooked meal, and asked him
why he did not go to work.
Il would" replied Tim, IF / had
the tools"
What sort of tools do you want ~
inquired the old lady.
"A knife and fork" said Tired Tim.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-30
GET TARIFF
OUT OF POLITICS.

Ebert H. Gary, head of the U. s.
Steel Corporation, and president of
the American Iron and Steel Insti-
tute, puts much thought into few
words when he states that revision of
the tariff is an intermittent disease
that it appears if not with every ses-
sion of Congress. certainly with ev-
cry change in the administration.
The tariff seems to be an import
ant political question, but it ought not
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-30
SPLINTERS

Laugh, II you are wise.-Martial.
1t never kills law to execute It.
Any sincere thought is irresistible.
Morning brings back the heroic
ages.
Good intentions shed no perspira-
ton.
Tact lies in knowing when to 60
home
1t is better to be lonely than
bored.
Our real life is not behind, but be-
fore US.
An honest books the noblest work
of man.
There is no such thing as a success
full liar
Why shouldn't a wife act like one
possessed?
No innocent bystander ever had
misgivings.
The universe is wider than our
views Of it.
Fame is more lasting, but notoriety
pays quicker.
Good spelling doesn't make friends
with millions.
Willingness to work will make q
hit in any job.
Smiles being sunshine, frowns are
cloudy weather.
Nothing so stimulates industry as a
healthy appetite
Modest merit may be recognized, but
if takes longer
II one can't say it in prose, he can't
say it in poetry.
Our race is growing sturdier. Few
people now faint.
We are all sorry for the man who
never feels sorry.
The road TO bankruptcy shows few
automobile tracks.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-30
FOR ASSESSOR.

wish to announce to Republican
voters of Bingham County, that have
filed my nomination for the Office Of
County Assessor. l have been a resi-
dent Of Bingham County since 1905
Your support will be appreciated.
e. w. HAROLD,
Aberdeen, Idaho.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-30
To the Voters Of Bingham County.

/ wish to announce that l will be a
candidate for the nomination for the
office of Probate Judge of Bingham
County, Idaho, subject to the will of
the voters at the Republican Primary
Election, to be held on August 1st,
1922. JAMES E. GOOD.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-12-28

France is sending a military mis-
sion of five officers to the United
States for the purpose of advancing
good will between the two countries.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-12-28
New Years
i'm Egypt

TF A group of people were ship
~ wrecked or otherwise cast upon
their own resources and were to lose
track Of the date they would have no
easy means Of finding it again. Our
year is an artificial one, and so must
be made by careful study in well
equipped observatories. Without pre-
else instruments it would be difficult
to fix the day when the new year be-
gins.
The ancient Egyptians experienced
no such difficulty. Their year, from
which ours is derived, had perfectly
natural beginning. It always COM
menced on the day when Sirius and
the sun rose together.
The temples Of Egypt were really
observatories, built to face this or that
star as it rose. They were more or
less elaborate, but all had as their
fundamental plan long narrow pas
sage down which the stars rays came.
and dark chamber at the far end
where the priest made the observa-
ton and where the image was kept.
The beginning Of the new year was
an important event. We can picture
the scene as the priests, followed by
the scribes, lawyers, merchants, and
the curious crowd, wind their way up
to the temple in the first streaks OF
dawn, and take their appointed places.
AS daylight comes on the interest Of
everyone is centered on two groups.
The priests on the roof are strain
ing their eyes for the first glimpse Of
the coming sun, while those down In
the dark chamber are watching for
Sirius. Soldiers are stationed around
the temple to keep the crowd silent
and to prevent stragglers from cross
ing the path Of the stars rays in front
of the temple door at the critical
moment.
A shout bursts from those on the
roof as the sun tops the horizon. The
observers below watch their water
clocks carefully now as the minutes
are told off, and strain their eyes at
the narrow opening where Sirius is to
shine. In few moments Sirius itself
flashes into view, and the new year
has begun.
The Egyptians discovered that the
year has an extra quarter Of day In
it. They did it by noting that on some
years Sirius and the sun rose almost
together, while on others there was an
arpreciable difference in time, and that
these changes repeated themselves
every five years. They found the
length of the year to within II minutes
Of it's true value, which was a remark
able thing to do with the primitive ap-
pliances they had at hand.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-12-28
Her Kind Heart.

The dear old Scotchman tramped
miles over the hills to get a bottle of
medicine for a small boy who was i'll
in her remote village. When she had
described the symptoms, the doctor
set about preparing the mixture, one
ingredient Of which was a poison
which could be administered only in
the smallest quantities. She watched
him pouring it out with the utmost
care into the measuring glass.
He poured little from the
bottle, held the glass up to
the light, and then put in few
more drops "Ah, DOCTOR" she said
reproachfully, "you medina be sac
stingy. Remember, it's for a puir
wee orphan laddie. the Argonaut
(San Francisco).
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-12-28
TheEvergree Tree
By Christopher G. Hazard


10, 1922, Western Newspaper Union.)
THE servants had retired and left
l. the old lady alone. She sat be-
.ore the decorated and lighted tree
hat was burdsned with gifts that
,eemed to have no destinations. For
Mrs. Str was long past the wanting
IF gifts and no companions, young or
I'D, sat with her, because she wished
% be alone with her memories.
She was not as alone as she seemed
% be, for, in the great chair opposite
to hers memory placed the fairy figure
Of the child who had glanced and
danced about the house and under the
Christmas tree Of long ago. Beside
her there sat one who seemed to lay
his hand again upon hers in happy
and satisfied affection, while there
bent over her the strong and tender
youth who was once her hope for later
years. Again the old house seemed
tul Of joy, and noisy merriment drove
put the deathly stiffness, while the
tree that is always green spoke Of the
Immortality of happiness.
The next day, when the servants
dismantled the evergreen tree, it was
found that every gift was marked
with name, and they were busy that
Christmas morning in distributing new
happiness about the neighborhood-
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-12-28

"A. L. Edwins of Charleston, spent
Tuesday in the city.
j. F. Brickle and family, of Au
gusta, visited relatives in the city this
week.
Mrs. J. E. Berry, of Branchville
spent several days in the city this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Zimmerman
spent Christmas day in Augusta with
friends.
N. P. Smoak, Jr., has returned
to the city after spending few days
in Camden, n. J.
R. P. Bellinger, Esq, is spend
ing the Christmas holidays with rel,
atives in Atlanta.
MIR. and Mrs. ]. B. Brickle and
children spent Sunday near Branch
vile with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. NJ. Bruce and
children spent Sunday near Branch,
vile with relatives.
Quincy Kinard and DR.. Jack
Kinard, of Ninety-Six, were visitors
in the city this week.
Mrs. D. H. Owings, of Mt
Pleasant, is visiting at the home OF
Mrs. J. r. Sandifer.
MIR. and Mrs. J. Carl Kearse
spent Christmas day with Mr.. and
Mrs. G. F. Rizer in Olar.
Francis T. Rice, law student OF
the University of South Carolina, is
at home for the holidays.
Miss Nettie Mitchell, who teach
es at Mullins, is spending the holi-
days at her home in the city.
"A. l.. Kirkland left yesterday for
Greenwood to spend a few days with
his sister, Mrs. H. NJ. Graham.
Robert B. Hartzog, of Atlanta,
spent Sunday in the city with his
father, V. J. Hartzog.
Miss Leila Mcdonald returned to
her home in Blackstock Saturday af-
ter a visit to her sister, Mrs. c. G.
Moore.
DIR. F. B. McCrackiil and chill
dren, William and Alexander, are Wis
iting the formers old home at New
berry this week.
Misses Lena Epstein, Martha
Iubow and Ethel Rosenblen, of
Orangeburg, were guests of Miss
Daisy Smoloskl Tuesday.
Wilkes knight, Fred Sanders,
Louis Klauber and James Grimes are
spending the Christmas vacation at
their homes here from the Citadel,
Charleston. /
Mr.. and Mrs. C. D. C. Adams, of
Walterboro, and Mrs. w. L. Stokes
and family, of Charleston, spent
Christmas day in the city with Mr..
and Mrs. J. G. Moye.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-12-28
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF BAMBERG.
IN PROBATE COURT.
In Re: Administrator of the Estate OF
Mrs. M. H. Copeland, Deceased.

Pursuant to an order made by ]. J.
Brabham, Esq, Probate Judge of the
County of Bamberg, directing me as
administrator of the estate of Mrs.
NJ. H. Copeland, to sell all and singu-
lar, the personal property of the es-
tate of Mrs. NJ. H. Copeland. I will
sell on Monday the 18th day Of Janu-
ary, 1923, in the storehouse situate
on Main Street in the City of Bam-
berg, S. c., all the stock OF goodIs
consisting of dry goods, notions, hard
ware, furniture, an. iron safe. books
accounts, notes, secured and unse-
cured, and all other property of every
nature and kind whatsoever all OF the
late Mrs. NJ. H. Copeland, doing ousl-
ness as J. D. Copeland, Manager.
Terms of sale, cash, sale beginning
at 10 a. M, and continuing until sold
J. D. COPELAND,
Executor and Administrator.
Bamberg. S. c., December %, 1922.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-12-28
NEW YEARS THEN AND NOW.

AS long as people can remember,
there have been New Year parties.
The old Romans gave theirs in honor
Of Janus, the two-faced god. One
face looked back at the old, spent
year, and one face looked forward to
the new, fresh year. They gave pres
ents to him and to each other with
the hope that the new year would be
good to them. Some Of the people who
lived long ago waited until the end OF
March to celebrate the New Year,
since that was the time that the trees
and grass began new life.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-12-28
TRAIN KILLS FOUR

Box Cars Prevent Party From Seeing
Locomotive.
Lima, Ohio, Dec. 24.-Two men
and two women were killed here to-
night when the Broadway Limited,
fast eastbound Pennsylvania passen-
ger train, struck their automobile at
the Charles Street crossing. The dead
are: Mrs. Julius Roessner, 25, and
Miss Zelma Binkley, both of Lima,
and Otto Steele, "a, and Frank Will
son, 30, of Piqua. A string of box cars
standing near the crossing was said
to have prevented the party's SEEING
the train, which was late and said to
have been running at high rate of
speed.