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Thursday, June 21,1906
"Never touched me" says the Columbia
Bpcord. We like its gall.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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? 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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'*>
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
"It Is a physical Impossibility to
keep a watering place exclusive.''
"Why so?"
"Because there anybody who pleases j
can be in the swim."?Baltimore American.
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