The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 28, 1906, Image 4
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Thursday, June 28,1906
Well, you've heard the candidates. Do
tou know how to vote? !
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"Republics are ungrateful." The sacrifice
of Col. Lumpkin's candidacy is evi.
dently not appreciated.
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Really, the people are not taking the
candidates as seriously as they expected.
A free show and yet few citizens care for
the price of admission.
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The candidates had best make up their
minds to get all the fun they can out of
their jaunt around the State, for that's
all many of them will ever t et.
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Cole Blease rails against the negro college
at Orangeburg, and yet this same
Cole served as trustee of this "nigger"
college. "Consistency, 0, consistency!"
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The Greenville News has installed a
new Cox duplex perfecting press. The
2*ews is moving onward and upward. It
lias done good work for Greenville in the
past, and will continue to do so in future.
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Every dispensary candidate, we believe,
practically apologizes for the system.
We don't want an institution for which
one must be continually apologizing and
endeavoring to explain its short-comings.
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The State campaign circus is entirely
too tame and uninteresting. Somebody
ought to "stir up the animals." Let the
lion roar, but for goodness sake don't
make a mistake and make the jackass
l>ray.
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There is one error in the article in reference
to dispensaries in this county, from
' the Dillon Herald, which we republish in
another column. Although Bamberg is
the smallest county in South Carolina,
five dispensaries are located within her
borders, instead of three, as stated by our
contemporary.
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The legislature will have to settle the
dispensary question finally. There the
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send men there who represent our views
we can have no one to blame but ourselves.
The issue has been made?let it
"be settled definitely. Let there be dispensary
and anti-dispensary candidates
in every county. We hope to see legislative
candidates representing both views
in the race in Bamberg county, in order
that the sentiment of our peopel may be
tested.
The Flag.
Johnnie was for a moment lost in
thought after his teacher had asked him
why it was that red, white and blue were
the American National colors, says
Judge. Then he brightened up. He had
not been reading revolutionary history for
nothing.
"Washington," he said, "had been sitting
in the white snow at Yalley Forge,
feeling mighty blue. That accounts for
the white and blue."
His teacher gasped a little, but was
interested by this unexpected line of
thought.
"But how about the red?" she asked. .
"That's the color that he painted things
after he braced up again," said Johnnie,
x promptly.
South Carolina's Share.
Washington. June 25.?When the
$20,000,000 pork barrel was opened to
day it was found that South Carolina
got $225,000 distributed as follows:
Greenville, $30,000 for purchasing additional
land and enlarging the federal
court house and postoffice.
Anderson, $50,000 for postoffice.
Sumter, $50,000 for postoffice.
Chester, $35,000 for postoffice.
Aiken, $10,000 for site.
If the money had been apportioned according
to population the State would
have got about $400,000, but Pittsburg
has a postoffice costing a million dollars.
It needed the postoffice, and besides Mr.
Dalzell lives in Pittsburg and so with a
number of other cases. Several States got
considerable more than they were entitled
to according to population and so
that South Carolina and some other States
particularly North Carolina, had to be
content with much less than it should
have gotten. North Carolina according
to population should have received about
$600,000, but she received $227,000 or
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considerably icsa iu uvu <v j,v^u
lation than South Carolina.
An up-to-date farmer reads his local
paper. He wants to know what his
neighbors are d'>ing, what is happening
in the world around him and he wants,
in many cases, to study the advertisements
and find where he can buy goods
the cheapest. He don't say much about
it perhaps when he goes to the store to
do his trading, but just let a merchant
advertise a special bargain and see if the
np-to-date farmer don't find it out and
take advantage of it.
CHILDREN DO
HORSE'S WORK
Hitched to a Plow, They Torn Dp
the Turf on Wisconsin
Farm.
NECESSITY, NOT CRUELTY'
Tragedy of Race Increase In Farmer
Dumdie's Story?"We Like to Plow,"
Say Brave Children When
Neighbors Interfere.
Four children, one of them a girl,
stood around August Dumdie, their father,
at Oshkosh, Wis., offering a bulwark
of loyal flesh and blood to the
wrath of neighbors who branded the
man cruel, inhuman and a brute.
Dumdie was seen first by neighbors,
then by an officer of the humane society,
driving a plow to which four of
his children were hitched. The little
ones were harnessed to the plow, and
they dragged it like horses. At first
sight it seemed monstrous, and the
neighbors arose in outcry against the
farmer's Inhumanity.
But they did not know Farmer Dumdie's
story and, not caring, did not ask
it His story does not reveal cruelty.
It is the story of a life tragedy on
which even President Roosevelt and
all champions of race increase might
ponder.
Reduced to its lowest terms, this is
Dumdie's story, explanation and defense
all in one:
*T have worked hard on this farm all
my life. I have been getting poorer
and poorer every year, and more children
kept coming until the house is
run over with them. But I love them
anyway.
"I have been sick and so has my
wife. I broke my arm and could not
work? I kept them home from school
during the planting season for ten
days. What of it? Have any of these
men around here raised as many children
as I have?
"If a man has got to raise so many
children, what is be going to do with
them if he is poor?"
Dumdie lives near Wooden Shoe alley,
five miles north of Oshkosh.
At the gate a crippled dog met the
reporter sent to investigate the plowing
story and. finding no energy to
bark, crept back to a pile of old bones
by the barn. A woman came to the
door, her arms dripping with soapsuds,
for Mrs. Dumdie has to take In washing
to help things along. Behind the
woman two children played on the
DB3TBTO A FLOW TO WHICH FOtJB OP H2B
CHIZiDBXK WEBB HITCHED.
floor. The woman gathered the smallest
candidate for field work Into her
arms and sobbed out her troubles.
'The children like to work with the
plow," she said. Tt is light, and my
husband pushes it hard."
Farmer Dumdie was willing to sit on
the plow and talk. At mention of
the plow he led the way without a
word to a barn overflowing with broken
down farm Implements. It.showed
the same poverty as the house. The
man pointed to a wooden plow made
of rough tree limbs with a long tongue
and four prongs.
"There It is," he said in a tired way.
"Is that too much for my boys and
girls to pull? They like it I push hard
on the handle, and It's easy. It is aot a
plow anyway. It Is a cabbage rake."
The reporter pointed at the horse.
"Whafs the matter with the horse
pulling It?" he asked.
"The horse was sick," he said sullenly.
Then his eyes flashed. "What business
is It of the neighbors anyway? I
love my children. I would not mistreat
them. Ask any of them if I ever was
cruel to them."
Then came the children, eight of
them. A great hubbub arose at the
presence of a stranger. Otto and Henry
and Freda and Fred, who had taken
the place of the old white horse, were
barefooted, ragged and shy.
"Do you like to pull the plow?** they
were asked.
"Sure," said Fred stoutly, glancing
at his father, then away to where the
lake shone through the trees, where
came the sound of other boys shouting
in the "old swimmin' hole."
BANANAS ARE TENDER.
They Are Easily Chilled and Easily
Become Too Ripe.
"You would not believe how tender
these bananas are," said a banana
man the other day. "They are more
tender than eggs. They will chill, in
fact, at 52 degrees?that is, the green
ones, while the ripe ones will stand a
somewhat lower temperature.
"A chilled banana never ripens.
While green a banana will bleed when
bruised, exuding a juice approaching
the color of the fruit when it is ripened.
Under the influence of cold this
sap becomes chilled and dried, and the
life is out of the banana. After that
it breaks like a stick and is of about as
much value as a stick for the purpose
for which bananas are usually bought.
"From the time the bananas are taken
green from the trees till they are
sent out by the wholesalers in a condition
approaching ripeness, a period of
nearly a month elapses. At the Central
American plantations they are
loaded on big scows by negroes, poled
out to fruit steamers and carried up to
New Orleans. They are unloaded also
by negroes, who carry the bunches to
the scales before Rlacing them on the
cars. The whole load, negro, bananas,
and all, Is weighed and the African
weight deducted. The produce men
buy the bananas by weight in New Orleans,
though they sell them by the
bunch here. From the time they leave
the plantation till they are loaded on
the fruit train is usually a period of
about four or five days.
"A messenger who knows bananas
'from the stalk to the tarantula' accompanies
each train. He rides in the
caboose, and he watches those bananas
as a setting hen guards her eggs.
The temperature in the car when they
are loaded is usually from 60 to 70
degrees. Seventy, in fact, is a trifle
too warm. The messenger is between
two fires all the time, or, to put it more
accurately, he is between heat and
frost all the time. At 52 degrees the
green bananas will chill, while a slightly
lower temperature will absolutely
ruin them. If a temperature of 70 or
over .be maintained throughout the
journey of about fourteen days from
' New Orleans to the northwest, the
fruit will arrive too soft and ripe and
will very likely be worthless before it
can reach the hands of the retailer.
"The fruit should reach here in a
green condition, so as to require a few
days in the ripening room before being
placed on sale. This is a little room at
the rear of the commission house in
which the bananas are placed after
their arrival. There an attempt is
made to reproduce the warm, humid
conditions of the Central American
plantation. This effect is furnished by
a little gas stove kept burning port of
the time, over which is placed a pan of
water to form the steam.
"Three to five days under these conditions
usually place the fruit in shape
to show to the retailer, who comes
along the street with his eye peeled for
the bright yellow color of the ripened
bananas.
"For northern shipment the bananas
are sent out in an unripe condition,
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Bides the straw wrapping, which is designed
to protect them from bruising
when sent out to the local trade. Some
varieties are totally unsuited to northern
shipment, as they would ripen too
soon and be unfit for use before they
reached the northern market
"It is a remarkable fact in the case
of ripened bananas that, though the
cold will turn the skins a dark copper
brown, giving them a repulsive appearance,
the quality of the fruit as far as
flavor is concerned, is unimpaired. Notwithstanding
this fact the darkening
of the color spoils their sale in the market,
as they 'don't look good' to the
uninitiated, and it is the outsider, after
all, and not the commission man who
eats them."?Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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Trlbonlet, the Jeeter.
Here is a story of Triboulet the
jester of Francis I. and probably the
most famous in history: "A. great nobleman
wbo had suffered from Triboulet's
gibes threatened to have him flogged.
The jester complained to the king.
nave uu iwr, x rauci? cstuu, lur n aujr
one were bold enough to kill yon I
shonld have him hanged in an honr afterward/
'Oh, aire/ replied Triboulet,
'would it not please your majesty to
have him hanged an hour before? Triboulet
happened to be present at a
meeting of the council at which there
was a discussion as to the road by
which the Freeh army should Invade
Italy. 'Gentlemen/ interrupted the
Jester, 'you appear to consider yourselves
very wise, but you are strangely
mistaken, for you have forgotten the
most essential point/ 'And what is the
most essential point?' queried a grave
councilor. 'It is simple enough/ answered
Triboulet 'You have delberated
at great length as to the road by
which you shall enter Italy, but you
have never thought of the one you will
take when you have to leave it again.'"
The Charm ot Hand Work.
In the middle ages and the renaissance
nothing was machine made, for
the machine that turned out things by
the gross had not yet been invented
and hence the individuality of the
craftsman was able to assert Itself.
An artistic instinct made the men of
those days seek for ocular pleasure in
tneir surrounui*_0.- i^ue was 01 necessity
more restricted, more concentrated.
Every Joy had to be sought In the
home or In immediate surroundings;
hence, perhaps, the reason why they
did not neglect these matters as we do,
who buy such objects ready made and
turned out by the hundred. The beauty
of things made by men who delighted
in making them, things made to,
endure and by their endurance to teach
future generations how to improve
upon the best of the past?it is these
that our collectors do well to gather
ground them.?Connoisseur.
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STICKS THIEF
WITH HATPIN
Plucky Mrs. Benacb Wields Woman's
Favorite Weapon With Unerring
Aim.
When a man who said he was Joseph
Miller of 2498 Second avenue, but
who, according to the police, has been
known as Felix Gross, a burglar, was
arraigned in Harlem police court, in
New York city, the principal witness
; gainst him was Mrs. Morris Benach.
a pretty young woman who captured
him in her apartments after he had
beaten her husband down. Jabbing a
long hatpin into his flesh and holding
him by the hair, she had held this man
until the police came.
"It was nothing," she commented as s
she testified against the accused burglar.
The Benachs live with their children
In apartments at 26 West One Hundred
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UBS. BENACH JOINED IN TEE FIGHT.
and Sixteenth street The father and
mother took the children and a cousin.
Miss Fannie Rudnick, to the park.
They returned sooner than they had
expected, to find a burglar in the house.
As Benacb entered the intruder
made for him with a jimmy and sent
him reeling to the hallway. The bur-'
glar then leaped down the stairs. The
children stood in his way, and he
knocked them down with his bard
fists. As be passed the children Benach
grappled with him, and the two men
rolled about the floor. At the same
time Miss Rudnlck closed the apartment
house door and held it
Benach was no match for the burglar,
who was soon on top of Benach,
holding him down. Then Sirs. Benach
joined in the fight She fastened one
hand in the man's hair and with the
other she plunged a hatpin so deep into
his flesh that he writhed and screamed.
When Policeman Fox came he and
the burglar had a hand to hand tussle.
The policeman overpowered the man
and shackled his wrists. HE
IS A REAL
"COLORED MAN"
Human Chameleon Is Sometimes White
and Sometimes Black, Gray
or Blue.
Doctors at Cornell Medical school are
puzzled over the case of Warren B.
Harris of Ithaca and pronounce him
one of the most remarkable human
freaks In the world today. Harris
changes color whenever there are
changes In atmospheric conditions, varying
from a light chalk gray through
light blue, violet Into deep purple,
which causes observers who do not notice
the Anglo-Saxon cast of his features
to mistake him for a negro.
Harris, however, is of pure white
parentage. He was born in Corry, Pa.,
and Is twenty-seven years of age. Cornell
doctors say that Harris Is what is
known-as a blue baby. They seldom
survive the first month after birth, and
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Harris is me omy one unit m tuiunu iu
have lived more than three months.
The chameleon-like qualities of Harris _
are due to a congenital defect of the
heart This causes oxygen starvation,
and the effect is like that of a man
choking, black in the face, or an invalid
blue all over his body from pneumonia.
Harris is small, being slightly
over five feet and weighing about ninety
pounds.
Awaited Death lied In Chair.
Alexander Mitchell of 428 DeKalb
avenue, Brooklyn, was taken to the
Cumberland Street hospital a prisoner
after attempting to commit suicide.
He is a printer and has been ill and
despondent Mitchell got to bis room
late at night and made preparations to
die. He turned on the gas and tied
himself in a chair. Persons in the
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and searched about for title leak. When
It was discovered that the gas came
from Mitchell's room the door was
forced, and the inmate was found unconscious.
He, along with the chair,
was dragged out and a call sent to the =
hospital for a physician. Mitchell may
live. |
Jap Jumps Into "Volcano Crater.
Tamada Naokuma, a noted Japanese
philosopher and pupil of Dr. Inouye, .
recently committed suicide. He Jump- c
ed into the crater of Aso volcano. !
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