The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 11, 1906, Image 4
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Thursday, Jan. 11,1906
'
The legislature met in Columbia Tuesday
at noon.. There is much important
work ahead of the body, if they will only
do it. But this is campaign year, and we
Aay expect little or nothing to be accom*
v* plished. #
A bill has been introduced in the,legislature
to increase the salaries of court
stenographers. This is the most ridiculous
thing we have heard of lately. This
position is a soft snap, and the perquisites
alone amount to something handsome,
while the salary is $1,200 a year. It ought
to be reduced instead of raised. *
* *
The town of Bamberg, the county and
State are much poorer today than yester
day. In the death of Maj. E. R. Hays w< j
lose a man'and citizen whose place in this j
community will not be easily filled. Patriotic,
brave and true, charitable and
^public-spirited, to his unselfish work and
untiring energy Bamberg owes much ot
s*" ~ nmanaritv Ever since it has
7 AID V0WUH |/? VW|/V?
been the writer's good fortune to know
him, no movement looking to the welfart j
of the town and county has been started
but what had his hearty support. To his
t friends he was true as steel, and his de- J
- votion to what he conceived to be his'
duty was one of his marked characteristics.
He had high ideals and lived up
to them. The town and community will
> miss him greatly, for he was one of those I
' 1 forceful characters who'leave their impress.
We count it an honor and privilege
to have known and enjoyed his con
^fidenee in some degree. Peace to his
' ashes.
A Drummer Among Legislators.
A drummer by the name of John Dutton,.who
was stopping at a hotel in Montpelier,
Vt., when the Legislature was in
session, found his hotel, the Pavilion,
was the headquarters of most of the rep*
resentatives, says the Boston Herald.
When supper was announced the legislators
rushed in and took their places
and began to call upon each other to pass
the food, saying: "Will the gentleman
from Bradford pie&se pass the rolls?" or
"Will the gentleman from Essex pass the
pie?" or "Would the man from Portland
please pass the butter?"
This did not suit the drummer who had
been unable to get anything, and during
. <a brief interval of quiet he turned to the
colored waiter and remarked: "Will the
.gentleman from Ethiopia please pass the
bread?"
Had Choice of Weapons.
Shortly after the civil war, says the Sat|
nrday Evening Post, Senator Vance was
lecturing in Boston. "Fellow citizens,"
be began, "you are my fellow citizens.
We all belong to this great country. We
of the South wanted to leave you, but you
would not let us go, and now we are with
you to stay. I belong to you. You be5
j long to me."
A voice in the rear of the hall cried:
"Aren't you the man who said one
Southerner could whip ten Yankees with j
p:<" a cornstalk?"
Instantly Vance replied: "Yes, my i
' friend. I am the man. I said that one
Southerner could whip ten Yankees with
a cornstalk. I believed it tnen ana i DeP
lieve
it now. The trouble was that the
Yankees didn't want to be whipped that!
way."
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Properly Pious.
Pious propriety reached high tide in !
the case of a man who was about to un- j
dergo an operation for appendicitis, and
.he declared that he did not want the
operation to be performed until his pastor
could be present.
"Why do you want your pastor present?"
asked the physician.
"Because I wish to be opened with
prayer," was the reply.
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No Harm Done.
The customer at the five cent lunch
counter, with some exertion, had dug a
spoonful from the contents of the side
dish.
"Waiter," he said, "this|tastesdifferent,
somehow, from the mashed potatoes one
usually get here."
"It is different," said the waiter, inapt
cling it. "It's the chunk of putty, for
a broken window pane, that the old man
has been making a fuss about for the last
teu minutes. He'll be glad to get it back.
Tb inks."
iii Dead Earnest.
A traveling man received the following
teiearam from his wife:
"Twins arrived to-night. More by
mail."
EI:: went at once to the nearest office
an - sent the following reply:
"I leave for home to-night. If more
come by mail, send to dead letter office."
Cannot
Escape
Prisoners In Portland
Ha-Oe Tried It and
Failed.
Adventure* qf a Vair Who
UroK? Out qf Tbtfr Viae*
qf Confinement and Were
Captured?Other Case*.
"Escape from Portland: Ton could
as easily flog back the flooding tide!"
The old, gray bearded ex-warder of
the famous English prison shrugged
his still broad shoulders contemptuous
VINCENT, WHILE TRYING TO DESCEND A
' PRECIPITOUS WALL, FELL.
ly. "The man who can get clear away
from Portland hasn't yet been born,"
he added.
And so it would seem to the most unobservant
visitors; There is no point of
vantage upon wnicu a. wtuuer, mm
gun loaded and cocked, is not stationed;
there Is no single prisoner upon
whom is not centered the steel hued
glitter of a score of jealous, untiring
official eyes. The favored convict who
is privileged to enter an officer's house
to execute some necessary repairs in
masonry or woodwork carries out his
task with an armed warder standing
at his elbow.
Should a prisoner, wearied to desperation
by the unending round of unwilling
service and longing to break the silence
to which he is condemned, make
a bid for freedom the black flag is
hauled mast high and the boom of cannon
rolls down from the heights to the
town below. The connections between
the Verne barracks and the prison, telegraphic
and telephonic, are utilised so
that a cordon of soldiers is at once
drawn around the island. Warders, sol
" *
diers, townsfolk, are at once on uie
alert, and the chase, in which the
wretched human quarry has no ghost
of a chance, begins and is sustained
until the too daring convict is again
within prison walls.
"It is the wholesome dread of punishment
that accounts, for the few attempts
that are made to escape,'* said
the ex-warder already referred to. "No
legal quibble can pull the culprit out
of his trouble.
"Lighter diet is one of the penalties
of his offense, and that is no mean
thing in this appetite reviving locality.
Then the convict must don a livery
of bright canary yellow and* wear ten
pound irons day and night These
irons are fastened to the ankles, while
chains pass up his legs and are linked
to a belt around his waist.
"He may be flogged too. It is probable
that he will be. Thirty-six lashes
laid on by a muscular marine are no
ioke."
The ex-warder is proud of his prison.
He exults in its absolute security.
"Whatever people may say, there never
has been an escape from Portland,'
said the old man.
"There Is a rumor that a Frenchman
once crept away in a thick haze, clambered
down the cliffs to a waiting boat
and thence sped over the channel to
his native land. But there is nothing of
this in the official records. Another
story tells bow a prisoner made a dash
for liberty, broke into a chaplain's
house and stole a suit of broadcloth,
which he sent back six months later.
Personally I doubt the truth of it
"There was one fellow who managed
to gain Dorchester road, Weymouth,
seven miles away. That was in 1873.
His name was Beaumont, and he was
really one of the most daredevil men
ever consigned to Portland.
"When he first got away he managed
to conceal himself in a church. There
he stole a surplice, which he somehow
rigged into a respectable imitation of
a smock. Creeping cautiously down
the road, he came across a couple of
milk cans, which he promptly commandeered.
With these he proceeded
boldly on his way, passing scores of
people, who had not the faintest notion
of his identity.
"He did not long enjoy his liberty,
however. A superintendent of police
was driving along the Dorchester road
. '-A - % . ' . ,
when be caught a glimpse of a white
mocked man running rapidly out of
alght He drew the attention of the
constable who accompanied him to the
circumstance, and together they gave
chase. The issue was never In doubt
The tired, hungry, footsore convict was
retaken and suffered severely for his
temerity."
The latest recorded attempt occurred
on Jan. 10 of the present year. Two
men, John Wilkinson and^leorge Vincent
burst through the ceilings of their
cells, crawled along the corridor and
by means or a lengtn or rope wnjcn
had been deftly smuggled gained the
exercise yard. Thence they broke
through four gates, all fitted with patent
locks. They made an attempt to go
seaward. Vincent while trying to descend
a precipitous wall face fell and
broke his ankle. Both were captured.
How fares the prisoner at Portland?
Does the system In vogue make a better
man of him? Is it reformative as
well as penal? The ex-warder had responses
as ready as emphatic.
"Look here," he said, "criminals don't
come here to have their palates tickled
with dainty viands, their bodies rested
upon beds of down, their ears regaled
with racy gossip. They come here for
punishment
"They are not badly treated, and 1
say this In spite of your opinion. Follows
sodden and debased have quitted
Portland with more than some sparks
of manliness In them. Besides, I have
had the same men through my bands
two and three times over, which doesn't
speak badly for the treatment they've
received here," he added, with unconscious
humor.
On the other hand, it is maintained
by some, contrary to the ex-warder's
statement, that the convicts are insufficiently
fed, oppressed by the insufferable
law of perpetual silence and used
as beasts of burden even on the public
highways. "Don't sena me Dack xo
penal servitude," was the piteous wail
of a wrongdoer to the judge on whose
mercy his punishment depended. "The
life is one I wouldn't give to a dog."
Portland is as proud of its notorious
prisoners as It is of its famous prisoners.
From the convenient height of
lone of the hostelrles which face the
quarries men infamous in history are
pointed out. When their hour of liberation
comes, if it evdr does come,
I crowds throng the little local railway
station to witness their departure. And
this severance is not without Its sadness
to the prisoner.
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A 3"RAVE GIH.L
KILLED DEATH.
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| She Did /fort Faint on Sttin#
Drain. but Fat In Fractiee
Still In MarKtmaruhip.
N. F. Spicer, former mayor of Laramie,
Wyo., was recently in Denver and
; to a representative of the Post told ot
an adventure bad by Miss Maud Bigi
gles with a bear. "Miss Biggies," said
j Mayor Spicer, "is but eighteen years of
age, but she shot and killed a cinnamon
bear, using only one bullet from a
122 caliber Marlin rifle. v ?
j "The animal was chasing the calves
in a corral belonging to Miss Riggles'
I father when she made war upon it
| She was so close to the bear, which
bad just thrown a calf, as to make hex
j position Very dangerous, but she did
I not hesitate to fire. She did not faint
I or even turn pale, but proceeded io
I can shot was all that was nxgxbsabt.
summon hjelp and skin the anlmaL It
weighed several hundred pounds, and
die for was In excellent condition.
I4r!hnrl#>? Mnrnhv. who resides at Spl
cer, caught a huge black bear among
his cattle and succeeded in roping it
The bear had killed one of the cattle
and was in a herd of cows. Mr. Murphy,
who had no other weapon thai
his lariat cast that twice missing the
bear, but the third time fastened the
loop upon one of his hind feet The
bear ran after the rope had beer
thrown and tried to climb through a
I barbed wire fence. It became entangled
in the wire, and the rope was fasl
seemingly. Mr. Murphy declared thai
the animal with its forepaws deliber
l ately loosened the loop from Its hind
j foot extricated Itself from the barbed
) wire and ran away. The cowboy gave
chase, but could not again overtake the
| animal."
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for sale cheap. He is agent for
Bickford & Hoffman's Celebrated Grain
Drill, the Woodruff Hay Press, and
Deering Harvesting Machinery.
Also Conducts a First-class
REPAIR SHOP
and builds anything on wheels
to order. Now is the time to have
your buggy repaired and painted
. to look and last as good as new.
Horseshoeing a Specialty
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I have also added a
FIRST-CLASS RICE MILL =
and will grind on Wednesdays
; and Saturdays.
I have also just put in a i
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and can now put on rubber tins 1
and repair Bicycle Buggies in t
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