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?ljr Hamhrrg Ipralii g= ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891 A* W. KNIGHT, Editor. Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for ?ix months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion; 50c. for each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, or twelve months. Want No* * -* ? ?t /\oo1 pegs one cem a wuiu. caui msu uuu. jww? Notices 8c. per line first week, 5c. afterwards. Tributes of. Respect, etc., must be paid for as regular advertising. Communications?News letters or on subjects of general interest will be gladly welcomed. Those of a personal nature will not be published unless paid for. Thursday, June 21,1906 "Never touched me" says the Columbia Bpcord. We like its gall. ** Governor Heyward's handling of the Black-Lyon affair was a great disappointment to many of his friends in this section. Even some of Mr. Black's friends thought he should have been removed by the governor. * * Bo Senator Tillman is to have opposition for re-election in the person of Col. "W. W. Lumpkin, of Columbia. Well, the Colonel is said to be a fine orator and will possibly make the campaign meetings entertaining. *# That fellow at Walterboro who offered to bribe the county board of control knew a good thing when he saw it, even if he did miscalculate as to the calibre of the men comprising the boar d. Too bad they wouldn't give him the opportunity to pay off that mortgage on his farm. # # &>' * If we can save 1,000 a year by an inTestinent of $5,000, wouldn't it be good business to do it, even if we had to borrow the money? The interest on $5,000 * * at six per cent is $300, which would be a clear gain of $700. Yet we would have 'protection from fire as well. # * * ? When the Black matter was first referred to Governor Heyward, numbers of people here in speaking of it to us said that the governor would not remove Black; that he did not have the backbone to do it. We strongly defended the governor, but he .has disappointed us ss well as many other friends of his in this county. ** It is a fitting thing that J. Fraser Lyon should be a candidate for attorney general, for in case of his election he will be in position to prosecute the grafters his efforts as a member of the dispensary investigating committee have disclosed. Aside from this, however, he would te our choice against either of the gentlemen in the race against him. m s * From Mayor Dickinson. Editor The Bamberg Herald: Aa you will no donbt have something to say this week in regard to the establishing of a water works system for Main street, it might be instructive to some of our property holders to submit a few figures: I find that there is insurance carried on Bamberg srteet, to say nothing of the cotton mill, court house or any* property on the North side of the railroad, $160,000, upon which there is paid annually in premiums $3,600, and as the proposed installation would certainly reduce this amount of premiums 25 per cent., it would mean a clear saving of $900 per year, and granting that this system could be put in for $5000 and that all of it would have to be borrowed, at six per cent, it would mean three hundred dollars as interest, leaving still the sum of $600 saved, or nearly $4.00 on each $1,000 carried, or come cheaper to pay four mills more taxes, and thus keep this money at borne instead of each year sending it to the big Eastern insurance companies, Which we now have to do, to say nothing of the loss that necessarily falls on every one who is unfortunate enough to have a fire, as no insurance company insures for the full value. 1 am submitting the above simply as a business proposition, realizing at the eemo timp that. it. means a nersonal loss to me in commissions *on premiums of several hundred dollars annually, but I am convinced that this is a BURNING question and the pride which I feel in our town and the desire to see her put on the same footing with the more progressive towns of our State, prompts the suggestions. Thanking you for the courtesy. Respectfully, G. Move Dickinson, Mayor. Mass Meeting. At the request of the mayor and members of city council, a mass meeting of the citizens of the town of Bamberg is called to meet in the town hall this (Thursday) afternoon at six o'clock, to consider the proposition 01 putting in waterworks for the protection of Main street property. A system which will cost $4,000 will result in a saving of about $1,000 a year in insurance premiums, to say nothing of protection, and this will be the foundation of a modern waterworks system for the town?one which can be added to any time and not one thing will have to be laid aside. The proposition will be explained fully at this meeting, and the citizens of the town will be asked to say whether they want it or not. Council believes it to be a wise move, but they want to know the wishes of the taxpayers, so come out to the meeting, hear the proposition, and state your tiews. Let there be a full meeting, as this is an important matter. * w - -V . ??v 1 ^ v- '* " : \ ?# . ? r.' to V.' '-".iv: ^ v YEARS OF THE EARTH THIS WORLD OF OURS COUNTS THEM BY THE MILLIONS. T*ri(AI Calculations 'by Wbleh the Famous Scientists Hare Endeavored to Fivnre Ont the Age of the Planet Upon Which We Live. The time has admittedly gone by for attempting to "reconcile the facts of nature," to use a recognized phrase, with the chronology of the Bible, which makes the age of the world rather less than 6,000 years. Tnrfood in the EcrvDtian rooms at the British museum the visitor can see for himself objects which go back to au i authenticated period long antecedent to 4000 years B. C., and great is the | wonder produced on the minds of those who first make their acquaintance. In that same department, among the mummies, there is what is in many respects the most striking of the exhibits in the department?the body of a man who belongs to the stone age. It lies in an accurate representation of the peculiarly shaped grave in which It was found, and it has been in consequence somewhat irreverently nicknamed by. the habitues of the museum "the man in the pie dish." The particular interest In that corpse, which men, women and even children look upon without the least thought or suggestion of the fear or horror usually inseparable from death, is that it is unquestionably the oldest exhibit in the museum, and scientists have been rather struck by the fact that the authorities of the great institution in Great Russell street have not, so to say, taken the bull by the horns, boldly labeled that exhibit as dating from 60,000 B. C. Thus with one single stroke of the pen Bishop Usher's Biblical chronology is multiplied by about nine, and it may be that an even high er number would be required to satisfy the requirements of the age of that particular specimen. ' How long has the earth been a planet capable of supporting not only human, but all forms of life? In an address Lord Kelvin once delivered on the subject he gathered together the opinions of various scientific men which cannot but be of interest to every thinking being. Darwin, in his "Origin of Species," stated that, "in all probability a far longer period than 300,000,000 years has elapsed;" while later on, in the same book, he wrote: "He who can read Sir Charles Lyell's grand work on the 'Principles of Geology,' which the future historian will recognize as having produced a revolution in natural science, yet does not admit how incomprehensibly vast have been the last periods of time, may at once close this volume." . Lord Kelvin himself?then Professor William Thomson?later made an attempt to calculate the length of time during which the sun has been burning at its present rate, and in that connection he wrote: "It seems on the whole most probable that the 6un has not illuminated the earth for 100,000,000 years and almost certain that it has not done' so for 500,000,000 years. As for the future we may say with equal certainty that the inhabitants of the earth cannot continue to enjoy me , light and heat essential to their life for many million years longer unless new sources, now unknown to us, are prepared in the great storehouse of creation." It is a remarkable evidence of the acute perception of Lord Kelvin's mind, as of the rare previslbn of his intellect, that the last words?"unless new sources, now unknown to us, are prepared in the great storehouse of creation"?should have been added to that remarkable sentence. As an example of the very extraordinary range of time given to the age of the earth, consider the following statement from Professor Jukes' "Students' Manual of Geology." He wrote: "Mr. Darwin estimates the time required for the denudation of the rocks of the weald of Kent, or the erosion of space between the ranges of chalk hills known as the north and 60Uth downs, at 300,000,000 years. It may be possible, perhaps, that the estimate is a hundred times too great, a^d that the real time elapsed did not exceed 3,000,000 years; but on the other hand, it is just as likely that the time which actually elapsed since the first commencement of the erosion till it was nearly as complete as it now is was really a hundred times greater than his estimate, or 300,000,000 years." Professor Phillips in a lecture at the University of Cambridge considered ~ /-.* ftmomn HofTTToon tho rnnppa UiC laic VI UVOJVU Winvva vmv ? of the north and south downs to be rather one inch a year than Darwin's estimate of one inch In a' hundred years, so that on mere geological grounds he reduced the time to about a hundredth. Calculating, however, the actual thickness of all the known geological strata of the earth he came to the conclusion that life on the earth's surface may probably date back to between 38,000,000 and 96,000,000 years. Professor Sollas of Oxford, working on new principles applied to the stratified rocks, reduced this time very considerably, for he wrote, "So far as I rw?*? <?* nMCflnf coa tha IflnsA rvf Hmfl since the beginning of the Cambrian system is probably less than 17,000,000 years, even when computed on an assumption of uniformity, which to me seems contradicted by the most salient facts of geology." What are the data, it will naturally be asked, on which calculations of this magnitude are made? Among the most important are the consideration of the underground heat which is constantly being conducted out of the earth?in other words, the cooling of the earth?the speed at which the earth rotates on its axis as well as physical properties of rocks at high temperatures. The loss of bjtat by conduction was . * t Lord Kelvin's first argument for limiting the age of the earth. He. found that if the earth had been losing heat in the past "with approach to uniformity for 20,000,000 years the amount of heat lost out of the earth would have been about as much as would heat by 100 degrees centigrade a quantity of ordinary surface rock of 100 times the earth's bulk. This would be more than enough to melt a mass of surface rock equal in bulk to the whole earth. No hypothesis as to chemical action, internal fluidity effects of pressure at great depths or possible character of substances in the interior of the earth, possessing the smallest vestige of probnhiHtv ran lustifv the SUDDOEition that * v*V f # V ? the earth's tipper crust has remained j nearly as it is, while from the whole or ! from any part of the earth so great a j quantity of heat has been lost" By considering the cooling of the | earth and by tracing backward the [ process of cooling Lord Kelvin came to "a definite estimate of the greatest and least number of million years which can possibly have passed since the surface of the earth was everywhere red hot" This estimate he expressed in the following words: "We are very ignorant as to the effects of high temperatures in altering the conductivities and specific heats and melting temperatures of rocks and as to their latent beat of fusion. We must therefore allow very wide limits in such an estimate as I have attempted to make, but I think we may with much probability say that the consolidation cannot have taken place less than 20,000,000 years ago, nor more than 40,000,000 years ago, or we should now have more underground heat than we actually have."?St Louis GlobeDemocrat BLACK ROD OF THE LORDS. Bi> Lafct Public Appearance ma an EaecatiTe Oflcer. Black Rod is an important and picturesque functionary of parliament He is at once the policeman of the house of lords and the parliamentary messenger of the sovereign. He executes the warrants issued by the uppei ( chamber for the arrest of the persons who have been adjudged guilty of a breach of its privileges or a contempt of its dignities. But in these days the curiosity of the public or its love ol sensation is never piqued by the appearance of Black Rod in the role of a policeman. Indeed, it Is nearly a century now since a poor, trembling wretch stood, in the custody of Black Rod, at the bar of the house of lords, charged with, having outraged its awful majesty. He was a tradesman ol Westminster. One winter evening, after he had put up the shutters of his shop, he strolled across Old Palace yard to hear a debate in the house of lords. He had with him an umbrella, which he deposited in the charge of one of the doorkeepers before he entered the strangers' gallery. He never saw the article again. Another stranger, yielding to a too common weakness of frail humanity, carried it off while its rightful owner, trustful of the might of the imperial parliament to protect, at least within Its own sacred precincts, the property of its subjects, was drinking in political wisdom from the lips perhaps of the Duke of Wellington. The tradesman of Westminster was naturally indignant over the loss of his umbrella, but the expression of hie feelings assumed a form highly subversive of the ancient privileges ol parliament. He actually Issued a procficninst th<? doorkeener of the house of lords for the recovery of the value of the lost article. This was more than the house of lords could stand One of its doorkeepers summoned to appear as a defendant in a court of law! Black Rod was dispatched to arrest the daring shopkeeper, who was brought forthwith to the bar and soundly rated by the lord chancellor on his presumption in outraging the dignities of the house of lords because of the loss of a miserable umbrella. Happily he was not consigned to the tower. He humbly apologised for hia conduct, promised to take no further action against the doorkeeper and after another severe reprimand was escorted by Black Rod to Old Palace yard and there discharged. That wai the last public appearance of Black Rod as the executive officer of the house of lords.?London Chronicle. Butterfly Farms. Most people when they look at a magnificent cabinet of butterflies, gleaming and glowing with a hundred iridescenl hues, think that each butterfly wai caught by hand?caught after a chase of a mile of two under a net or a hat As a matter of fact, butterflies are raised on little farms, like chickens. There is such a steady butterfly demand thai it pays men to raise them. These men, experts in the employ of museums, as a rule, know larvae as a chicken farmer knows eggs, and they have no dif'*> BAllInn af a oaivI nrnflt oil the lH'Ulkjr ju sciuug ui u gvvu ?? butterflies they grow. The stock room of a butterfly farmer Is a rare and beautiful sight It is a room of glasi filled with sunshine, and in the krlllianl light hundreds of the loveliest butterflies flutter and float. In the profound silence their colors seem to sing, sc bright are they, so splendid.?Minne apolis Journal. Despotism of Jewell. Coquetry and the fashion of unstable forms cannot explain the despotic attraction that precious stones exercise over our senses. Their fascinating power has never ceased. They subjugate and enslave even the most austere, and man esteems as priceless the charm of their yoke. Art strives to discover original reductions, to create virgin enthusiasms, to enrich with new tremors the subtle gamut of our sensations, but without being able to dei tach us from these necklaces, bracelets and jewels.?Paris Eclair. \ -. - ?- +, " * ;;' " . rZ'\~ - _'* & CONTROL OF ENERGY. la It Possible For the Hamas Race to Avert Extinction f The only conceivable way In which the human intelligence can ever succeed in averting the "procession .of the great year" is not by postponing the issue, but by reversing the process. The question is this: While energy is being dissipated in accordance with the natural law, can we so manipulate things as to accumulate energy, making the unavailable available?notwithstanding the fact that cosmic processes A. 1 seem 10 oe WHHJUumijr irrevereiutci Now there is assuredly no inherent reason why we should not accomplish this. It is true that hitherto all the atomic evolution that has been observed is atomic disintegration. We may speak now, Indeed, of the analysis 1 of the elements. But so it was, we f may remember, that the older chem' istry began, and yet analytic chemistry was the precursor of synthetic i chemistry. We began by breaking up ; compounds, but now we can make them?can, indeed, make compounds hitherto unknown in nature. Similarly, It is more , than probable that we shall ere long learn to achieve the 1 synthesis of the elements as well as i their analysis. No energy is ever lost ; Even when the radium atom, itself the i child of the uranium atom, breaks i down and dissipates its energy, ending, it is' supposed, as the dull atom of lead, the original energies are not destroyed. Why should they not be gathered up i again and thus again become availi able? Are matter and energy to go on [ their way, ultimately destroying the i human race? For myself, I Incline to the view that victory will rest at last with "man's unconquerable mind."? C. W. Saleeby, F. R. 8., in Harper's Magazine. LIZARDS OF BARBADOS. They Gen Chance Color and Drop Their Talla at Will. Tbe green lizards which swarm on . every tree certainly have the hardest . life of any creatures in Barbados, since . their flesh is so delicate that every, thing eats them which can catch them. Cats, fowls, birds, monkeys and snakes ; all devour the poor lizards, which have f only two methods of defending them> selves, both very, inadequate for the . purpose. One is their power of chang ing their color, whereby they can appear bright green at one moment on . the leaf of an aloe and then dark chocJ olate brown on a piece of damp earth. If this does not conceal them from ! their enemy they drop their tails. Tbe ? caudal appendage jumps from the ground and makes a frantic dance all - by Itself, and if the pursuer is delud[ ed into seizing it the lizard avails it. self of tbe chance to escape and grow another tail. For the rest the poor lizards are . harmless things, with pathetic eyes, in . which lurks. an expression of weari? ??< >?i' o a fhnnoti fhpr UVOO OUU UIBUIUOIUU, ua buvu^M were as old as the world Itself and had 1 found It all vanity and vexation of [ spirit They are fond of plaintive mo, sic and will enter at the open windows ; when a piano Is playing, and sit listen* i Ing and nodding their queer fiat heads ; and looking out of those wistful eyes ! at the player till he or she, If of an imaginative temperament might fancy i she were playing to an audience of i transmigrated souls.?Chambers' Jourt nal. Clear Smoke and Love. In Slam the lighting of a cigar indl? cates a betrothal. In that country a [ person wishing to become betrothed to | the girl of his choice offers her a flower !, or takes a light from a cigar or a ciga\ rette if she happens to have one In her > mouth, and thereupon, provided there Is no impediment in the birth months , and years of the respective parties, I steps are at once taken to arrange for , the payment of the dowry. The faml, lies of the bride and bridegroom have \ each to provide at least fl,000. In Calabria, as in certain parts of India, a | lighted taper or a lighted pipe betokens , the acceptance of the suitor for the , hand of a lady in marriage. In Siberia , it is the custom that when a suitor has been accepted by a girl she presents ( him with a box of cigars and a pair of , slippers as a sign that he 4s to be master in the house. Aa Oddity la Toca and Dlglta. There Is one carious fact respecting the animal creation with which you will never become acquainted if you depend on your text books for information. It Is this: No living representative of the animal kingdom has more than five toes, digits or claws to each , foot, hand or limb. The horse Is the type of one toed creation; the camel of the two toed; the rhinoceros of the three toed and the hippopotamus of four toed animal life. The elephant and hundreds of other animals belonging to different orders belong to the great five toed tribe. Fame. Stranger (in Vienna)?Then fills is the hotel which Beethoven used to frequent! I say, waiter, can you not show me the table at which Beethoven used ' to Bit? Waiter?Beethoven? Stranger ?Why, he very often came here! Wait1 er (bethinking himself)?Ah, yes! The gentleman Is out of town. UmImi Labor. Teacher?Johnny, I don't believe yon ' have studied your geography. Johnny ?No, mum. I heard pa say the map of ! the world was changin' every day, an' ' I thought I'd wait a few years till ' things get settled. ? Milwaukee Wis' eons In. Natural Privileges. 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