The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 24, 1906, Image 4
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Thursday, May 24,1906
Those of our citizens who are lukewarm
on the building of a cotton warehouse in
Bamberg should read the article in another
column from the Abbeville Press
and Banner.
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In the race for governor, we don't
know but that we will vote for Joel E.
Branson. We do not believe much in
prohibition, but we know he is the
straightest man in the race, and character
-counts more than policy.
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The people of Bamberg have suffered
long on account of having no freight depot,
and we have appealed to the commission
in vain. The members of that body
need expect no support in Bamberg hereafter.
We have heard numbers of citizens
say the commission was of no benefit
and they would not vote again for a
single member. Just wait till the election.
What our people will do for the
members who stand for re-election will
be a plenty. Chairman Wharton is to
ran again this year. Our people are being
treated outrageously and we will re
resent it.
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For our part we can see no reason why
? every man who wants to run for governor j
should feel called upon to express himself j
upon the whiskey question, and to make j
this the most prominent. There are
numerous other matters more important
than the dispensary, and we are sick and
tired of this running for office largely on
a whiskey platform. The voters of the
State have heard the thing discussed for
the past ten years or more, and campaign
speeches along this line have ceased to be
interesting to them. Our campaign orators
should find something more elevating
to discuss than the whiskey question.
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All candidates for County Supervisor
in this county had as well make up their
minds to live in town if elected. The
present Supervisor has set a precedent
which the people will demand be followed
by his successor, and they will demand
that the Supervisor live in town so as to
attend to the duties of the office properly.
Certain it is that a ffian cannot attend to
the duties of Supervisor and stay at home
nearly one-half of his time. When people
come to town from a distance on business
with the Supervisor they want to find
kim in his office, and they have a right to
do so. The office pays a salary of $800 a
year, and the tax payers feel that they
have a right to require all of a man's time.
In fact this was the understanding when
the salary was raised.
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Messrs. Manning, Ansel and Blease are
rnnning for governor on a dispensary
platform. They are liable to be badly
fooled as to the temper of the people on
this question before the campaign is over.
Mr. Ansel's position is more satisfactory
than Mr. Manning's, but one hardly
knows whether he will be of the same
mind a few months from now, especially
if he should find that it was
unpopular with the people. Mr. Ansel
is a great man for the "peepul." If he
can just find out their wishes he is delighted
to go which ever way they want
him. As to Mr. Manning, he had to go
np to Washington too many times before
he could make up his mind to run. As to
Sloan and Blease?oh pshaw! Mr. Smith
is to be heard from yet, and if he has felt
the public pulse to some purpose, he may
prove an important factor in the race.
Revenue Officer Said to be Missing,
Greenville, "May 21.?H. M. Barton
and Magistrate James, of Chick SpriDgs
township, stated here today that it is rumored
that a revenue officer sent direct
from Washington to the Dark Corner is
missing. He appeared near Glassy Mountain
Church as a fruit agent. When last
seen he was with a notorious moonshiner.
It is reported that this revenue officer
was to report to headquarters at Washington
every other day, and it has been
two weeks since a report has been received
at Washington, and the authorities
in Washington have sent two other offioer?
tn the Dark Corner to'investigate.
The name of the missing officer is~unknown.
Closing Exercises Denmark Graded School.
The commencement exercises of the
Denmark graded school will be held in
the school auditorium on the nights of
Thursday and Friday, May 31st and June
1st, at 8.30 o'clock. Thursday night will
be devoted to drills, choruses, and plays
by the pupils; and Friday night will be
devoted to the regular graduating exercises,
consisting of class day papers and
an address by Dr. E. M. Poteat, of Furman
University. To all of these exercises
the public is cordially invited.
The new bishops elected at the general
conference of the Methodist church are
J. J. Tigert, Seth Ward, and James Atkins.
The general conference adjourned
Monday of this week.
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WALKED TWENTY
MILES FAST ASLEEP
Amish Boy Awoke In Strange City and
Got Lost In Woods Going
Home.
From Tuesday night to Thursday
night the people of Middlefield, 0..
were greatly excited over the mysterious
disappearance of Jonas Petershelm,
a fifteen-year-old Amlsh lad of
that town. He was missed from his
room some time in the Mght of Tuesday.
and as he was In the habit of
walking In his sleep his parents thought
he might have wandered out and would
soon return. But he did not show up
HE WANDERED ALL THE WAT WITHOUT
WAKING.
Wednesday forenoon, and a search was
at once started by the whole Amish
settlement It was then feared that he
had fallen into a creek near by. The
search was kept up until Thursday
evening, when he returned home.
He says that he was waked up by a
train of cars early Wednesday morning
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ana rouna mmseu in a strange ei iy auu
completely bewildered. Upon Inquiry
be found that he was In Warren, a distance
of twenty miles from home. He
must have got up In his sleep and
wandered afoot all the way to that
j city without waking. He immediately
started for home up the Baltimore and
j Ohio railroad track afoot, as he was
! without money.
t He walked the track to within a
short distance of his home and then
cut across lots for the house. It was
now after dark of Wednesday evening,
and he had to pass through a piece of
woods, In which he became lost and
wandered about all night and nearly
all day Thursday, bewildered and unable
to find his way out Finally he
happened to run across a familiar
fence that led him to his destination,
completely tired out from his forty
mile tramp and nearly starved, as he
had had but little to eat since Tuesday.
BIRDS COMPETE
WITH PREACHER
Fifteen Hundred Sparrows Chatter Constantly
In Quaker City
Church.
It Is not every church that can have
a bird chorus In addition to its regular
choir and its congregational singing.
While it cannot be said that Bethany
temple, at Fifty-fourth and Spruce
streets, Philadelphia, enjoys this distinction,
yet it Is true nevertheless
that the services are accompanied by
the singing of 1,500 English sparrows.
It was while the windows were being
put in place and after the roof had
been completed that the birds made
their ingress to the church. The workmen
paid little attention to them, |
thinking they would go out as they
came, but the birds are still there, and
their presence causes no little worriment
to the officers of the church.
They nest up on the big joists that
brace the roof and during the day fly
about the church, keeping up a continual
twitter.
Were it not necessary to open the
windows occasionally to ventilate the
edifice the birds might be starved out
But this seems to be impossible. Every
time a window is opened twenty or
thirty fly out and go in search of food.
If the windows are all closed when
they return they wait another opportu- j
nity to re-enter.
Evening services are never disturb- J
ed, for the birds have then gone to nest,
and the church singing evidently does
not arouse them. It is while prayer is
being offered or a sermon preached
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speaker has to talk continuously
against a twittering chorus.
Muskrat Attack* Mail Carrier.
Standing at the corner of Haddon
and Kaighn avenues, Camden, N. J.,
the other day waiting for a trolley car,
H. C. Pine, a letter carrier, was attacked
by a muskrat, and during a
lively fight, in which Pine tried to beat
the muskrat away with his mall pouch,
a policeman put in an appearance and
shot the animal. This is the third
time a pedestrian has been attacked in
j the same neighborhood by one of these
rodents.
Too Brittle to Go to School.
In a case at Blackpool, England,
I in which a man was charged with neg;
lectlng to send his two children to I
! school, he stated that both children had
I suffered from broken thighs, and every
time they walked or ran their bones
snapped. In the circumstances he dare
not send them to a public school, as he
was afraid the other children would be
rough with them.
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WHEN THE DO'NES WALK.
A Sand Storm Experience In the
Deeert of Sahara.
To flee from a sand storm In the
midst of a drenching rain seems an absurd
performance. The Arab, however,
experienced in the ways of Sahara,
knows that when the rain stops the
dunes are apt to begin their most terrible
"walking." He seeks shelter
while there is yet time.
Our worst experience of the desert in
one of its mad fits, says the author of
"In the Desert," was on a morning
liiftlrUtt no nofhono tpo ircrfl
nutu, 4uvauj ivi uo jpv&uu|/?) ??v ?? v*v
Bearing the large oasis of Nefta, near
the Tunisian frontier. The flapping of
the tent and the drumming of raindrops
upon it awoke us, and Ahmeda,
in some excitement, hurried our depar-.
ture. He explained that so long as the
rain lasted it would keep the sand
quiet and that this was our opportunity.
Accordingly, in a very short time
we had struck tent, loaded camels, saddled
ponies and were under way.
It seemed to us a somewhat purposeless
proceeding. The rain was and had
been heavy. The ground was saturated.
There seemed no prospect of its
drying in a hurry. As Nefta was only
half a day's march away it seemed
unnecessary to start In frantic haste in
the middle of the night in a pouring
rain. Ahmeda, however, made no answer
to our protests. The other Arabs
seconded his efforts with all their energy.
Morning broke wan and sickly. As
the light grew the rain slackened; The
big warm drops became less frequent
and at last ceased. The dull, opaque
sky was pasty white and the air hot
and oppressive, but the wind still blew
as hard as or harder than ever.
Hardly had the rain stopped when I
tasted between lips and teetn tne rami
liar, gritty texture of sand. Hardly
had the light increased sufficiently to
disclose to view the drifts when all
their edges and crests could be seen
crawling and flickering in the gale. Already
there was the droning sound in
the air which meant that the dunes
were walking. We saw at last the reason
for the hurry. The rain cannot hold
the sand for more than the Instant it
is falling. As soon as it strikes the
earth it sinks in. One moment you may
be streaming with water like a drowned
rat, the next you are choking in
clouds of sand.
The air grew darker and darker, and
the roar of the sand as it rushed along
the desert made speech, except by
shouting, impossible. I could just distinguish
our tall camels in the gloom,
their ungainly action giving th^m
something the look of ships pitching
and tossing in a gale.
Ahmeda led the way by some mysterious
instinct to us totally incomprehensible.
We followed as best we
might, breathing sand as we went, our
heads bent to protect our faces. My
recollection of the next two hours is no
more definite than would be the recollection
of being rolled over and over
by a huge breaker. A singing and
roaring in the ears, almost total blindness,
a sense of suffocation and the
feeling that I was in the hands of
elements more powerful than myself
are the vague impressions that remain.
When we at last got to Nefta we
could not have been more saturated
with sand had we been buried in it
and dug up again. Hair, ears, clothes
were full of it Our cheeks were scarlet
and sore with the ceaseless battering,
and on them had formed hard
crusts of sand, cemented by the water
that had streamed from our eyes.
Tke Bloodstone.
Almost every Jewel has superstition
of some sort attaching to it, and the
bloodstone is not wanting in this particular.
The story is told of it that at
the time of the crucifixion some drops
of blood fell on a piece of dark green
jasper that lay at the foot of the cross.
The crimson crept through the structure
of the stone, and this was the
parent of this beautiful jewel. The
dark red spots and veins were supposed
to represent the blood of Christ,
and many wonderful properties were
attributed to the stone. It was
thought to preserve its wearer from
dangers, to bring good fortune and to
heal many diseases.
Great Xea Hare Eeen Erect*
The first object of physical methods
should be to straighten and expand the
body. The world may In a broad, general
way be divided Into two great
classes?the erect and the Inerect, the
strong and the weak. The epoch makers?the
Cromwells, Luthers, Napoleons,
Wellingtons, Washingtons and
Websters?have been men marked by
a straight sDine and a broad, high,
deep chest The mastered millions, the
defeated ones, have been the inerect?
Outing.
Extenuating Clrenmatancea.
A woman was charged with stealing
a dozen cases of silver. She appeared
before the second judicial chamber.
Said the judge, "Come, tell us the
truth." Said the woman: "The truth,
my good judge, is that I have,not been
able to resist the temptation. Consider,
your honor?they all bore my Initials!"?L'lndependance
Roumaine Bucharest
No Wonder.
"What makes Archie Feathertop
have such a strange, preoccupied look
about him lately?"
"Preoccupied is the right word for It
He's engaged to a girl, but he has
found another girl that he likes better."?Chicago
Tribune.
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Accomplished m Good Demi,
Mrs. Hoyle?What do you think of
my , dressmaker? Mrs. Doyle?She's
great She has almost given you a
figure.?New York Press.
Let thy speech be better than silence
or be silent?Dionyslus.
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KIDNAPED BY
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Exciting Experience of Elsie Sarkiewicz,
Who Doesn't Like
German Hnsic.
FAT BANDMAN LOVED BABIES f
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Comedy Dram* of Central Park, Ployed
by None Girls, Policemen and Peram- $ |
bnlators, With Infant Girl and
Teutonic Tooter as Stars.
The upper east side of New York
city near Central park was the scene J
of a little comedy drama the other day,
In which the characters were a pretty
nurse girl, a baby, a policeman, a Ger- j
man trombone player and what is technically
known as a "Jag." * ^
Patrolman Bnrbern of the East One / \ y
Hundred and Fourth street station was
sauntering along Madison avenue,
swinging his "billy," about 8:30 o'clock, ^
when a nurse girl ran up to him breathlessly
and exclaimed: . ;
"Oh, Mr. Policeman, my baby has J',
been kidnaped!"
The young woman, whose name was v;J:
Anna Schrenk. said in the next breath vij
or two that she was employed by Dr.
Marcus Markiewlcz, 1539 Madison are- ;
nue, and that she had started out with '
his two-year-old baby, little Elsie, In
the baby carriage.
"I left the baby for only a minute*?
she continued, still gasping for breath
"to go Into the house for a pair of mit- %
tens, and when I returned baby
gone! Oh, what shall 1 do?what shall
Just then Miss Etta Greenbaum, who- .^3||
lives opposite Dr. Markiewicz, rushed;.;^,
up to the patrolman and exclaimed^
"I saw the man kidnap little Stsiel
He was a German, with a horn under -V
his arm, and they have gone in that diShe
pointed toward Central park. 4
Then action began. 1 j
Anna ran ahead of the patrolman,
while Miss Greenbaum followed the f3fl
two. As they dashed across the;?ti|ij
nue they were followed by scores of
other nurse gills, some pushing baby ^ "
carriages, others screaming at the <p|? ^ ^
of their lungs.^
"There he is!" cried Anna at last.'
Sure enough, about fifty feet from ? ^
the avenue there was little Elsie sitting
upon a bench, her curls all awry, ,.$?
crying as if her heart would break. Die&w
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DT FBOXT OF HEB STOOD A FAT OZBHAJT
PLAYdO UPON BIB TBOXBOXX. /: V|
rectly In front of her stood a big fat v "J
German, playing upon his trombone /
Between selections of nursery ditties ^
he sang:
"Rock-a-bye, baby, In the tree top; ^
When the wind blows the cradle will:
rock;
When the bough breaks the cradle will
fall,
And down will come cradle, baby and alL
Then the German put his trombone
to his lips and started another selection,
but he did not finish it, for Anna, '?
who had sprinted ahead of the police- ?
man, seized him from the rear, a la. . 2
Jiu Jitsu, and threw him to the ground,'
where he sprawled in the dust
Patrolman Burbern then caught tbe-Y^||j
fat German by the head and held him
down, while Anna turned her attention
to little Elsie. She caught the baby in
her arms and sobbed and sobbed and \ |
sobbed. The baby had been crying all -?0
the time, but the minute she felt the '
was safe In the arms of her nurse she
began to coo.
But the German kidnaper did not
coo. Patrolman Burbern had sat down
on him so hard he could only grant. __ Jm
His trombone had also bent out of
shape in the struggle. A moment later, %
without further ado, he was taken to
the East One Hundred and Fourth
street station house.
"Why did you Kidnap me uauy r .
Captain Tappen asked him. ? A-j
"Och, dat vas a fine leetle baby,** ^i?8
smiled the German. "I like babies.
You see, I vas on my vay home ven
I saw the baby all alone mlt itself. I
vas mad dat a nurse girl should leave * %
It alone. I ranted to play It a leetle ,
tune, so I Just took it to the park." v < J2
As the German was still noticeably
under the Influence of various moist
productions be was escorted to a mag- ^
Istrate, who let him go with a fine of fS. '