The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 12, 1906, Image 4
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A, W. KNIGHT* Editor.
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Thursday, July 12,1906
The State summer school for teachers
?o rtnvj in Qpccinn at. Rock Hill, but We
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presume it is about as much of a frolic as
anything else.
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iSo Col. W. W. Lumpkin has withdrawn
from the race for the United States Senate.
A sensible act, and one which will
save him both time and money.
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J. Fraser Lyon gave some letters to the
newspapers last week which will stop the
mouths of some people who have been
trying to create the impression that he
acted wrongly. The letters are from
Senator Hay, chairman of the dispensary
investigating committee, and others.
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Mr. Herbert A. Moses, associate editor
of the Sumter Herald, is a candidate for
the legislature from that county. Herbert
inherited a love for politics, his father,
Altamont Moses, being in his life time
one of the strongest men in the county
and a leader in the legislature for years.
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While we disagree with Senator Tillman
as to his right to interfere in the dispensary
fight, we ask that our people give
him a quiet and respectful hearing when
he speaks here on Friday, and we feel
sure they will do so. If anybody wants
to ask him any questions we suggest that
they be written out and handed to the
Chairman of the meeting before the
speeches commence.
Wfeir *
Mr. C. C. Langston, of the Anderson
Intelligencer, has sold out his interest in
that paper and will retire from active
: business on account of his health, which
has been bad for some time. Mr. Chesjte*
V hire has bought Mr. Langston's interest,
fc' We regret to see Mr. Langston leave newspaper
work. He is very popular with the
newspaper men all over the State, and
h|s been secretary of the State Press Association
for years. We trust his health
may soon be restored.
i,_ Did you ever think about the small
number of mortgages foreclosed in Bamberg
county? The Master's sales of real
estate in this county under foreclosure
proceedings are a great deal less than
any county in the State, vln fact, not
more than a half dozen mortgages have
been foreclosed in this county in the last
two years or more. The few sales which
do take place are for partition of property.
^ This is a healthy sign, and shows the
Ek*'- prosperity of our people. Very few busily
ness failures take place here, and, taken
all in all, we feel sure Bamberg's people
are on as solid footing generally as those
' of any county in the State.
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I Senator Tillman's campaign in me
State is merely a fight to save the dispenSary.
He spoke at Sandy Flat in Green;"
ville county last Saturday and at Columbia
Monday. In both speeches he discussed
nothing but the dispensary. It is
Safe to presume that he will do the same
thing in Bamberg to-morrow. If this is
Slot meddling and an attempt at dictation
- on his part, then we don't know what to
?# . call it. Why should he mi* up in this
matter? The dispensary is being defend*
?d by several candidates for governor,
*nd the system is not an issue so far as
i : : < Senator Tillman is concerned. He hopes
to save it by his personal popularity,
giT; "but our people will hurrah for Tillman
and vote against the dispensary.
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Senator Tillman says that every legis.
lator who voted against the Raysor-Manaing
bill ought to be defeated for re-*
election. Mr. LaFitte of this county
voted against this bill we believe, and is
a candidate for re-election. The Senator
Will no doubt bring up this matter in his
speech here Friday, and we very much
regret that Mr. LaFitte is sick in a hospital
in Savannah and cannot be present.
We would like very much for him to be
here in case this vote of his is alluded to,
for we feel sure that he would be able to
take care of himself in a bout with Senator
Tillman, and of course he would be granted
the privilege of a reply. It is coming
rt TM-ottrr note if Spnatnr Tillman is to
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choose our representatives for us. We
imagine the people of Bamberg county
are capable of selecting men to represent
them without any suggestions from the
Senator.
The unwise man is always in a hurry.
He eats in a hurry and gets apoplexy.
He talks in a hurry and says too much.
He does business in a hurry and goes
"broke. He reads ina hurry and is superficial.
He votes in a hurry and produces
corruption. He marriejs in a hurry and
gets a divorce. He trains his children in
a hurry and hurries them into evil ways.
He gets religion in a hurry and forgets
it in a hurry. He'makes his will in a
hurry and leaves a legal contest. He dies
in a hurry and goes to the devil and his
tribe increases.
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Broderick swung off the 4:35 express,
walked quickly up the steps
leading from the railroad platform and
took his first look at Pineville. Those
who Bred In Pineville proper were eontent
to call it Pineville. Gerald had
written that they did not live in PinerHiio
nwnpr hnt In Pineville-by-the-Sea,
otherwise Pineville improper.
All that Broderick saw were pines,
plenty of them, a flat white ribbon of
roadway and a bit of a postofflce,
roughly shingled, In the midst of the
nearest dump of pines. Be stepped
Into the postofflce as the central spot
of civilisation. Borne one was stamping
letters behind the glass lnclosure,
a girl with smooth dark hair. Beatrice
had smooth dark hair.
He watched the glrl'stamplng letters
with Interest ahd wondered why some
one did not tell her to wear ber smooth
dark hair In two soft braids around her
bead, crown fashion, as Beatrice did.
"Where do. the - Vaugbans live,
please?" he asked .finally, when the
stamping ceased.
"The Vaugbans? Oh, Mr. Gerald
Vaugban and his wife? Ifs a brown
bouse down near the shore, with a
wide veranda and a funny roof. About
a mile straight down the road."
A wide veranda and a fupny roof.
That sounded like Gerald. He won/laMM'a
Hked it. Bea- I
uct^vs uv n \jrv>* m?v* ?#
trice was artistic, but not artistically
eccentric. She had a horror of things
odd, bizarre, so called bohemlan, and
yet she had married Gerald. And Gerald's
brother knew that Gerald was
utterly odd, bizarre and bohemlan, so
called.
He walked on down the flat white
ribboned road-fray and wondered
whether he would And her like the
girls Gerald had always admired. A
lithesome, limp, blessed damozel type,
with close silky gowns and loose floppy
hair. Last summer she bad not been
that type. He thought of the trim girl
figure holding the rudder of the Water
Lily that last day. She had been more
than the sort of a girl to fall in love
with. She had been a good fellow, a
stanch friend. And as be watched her
he had stopped rowing, and they had
drifted slowly In the sunset glow that
flooded the lake while he told her.
There had been no actual engagement
He had nothing to reproach her
with. He had not been in a position to
ask her to be his wife then, but he had
thought a girl like Beatrice had meant
more by a kiss, a hand clasp, a few
vague words of understanding, than
other girls. He had thought she might
wait until next summer. And now, In
April, he had returned to New York
to learn that Gerald was in disgrace,
had married on nothing, eloped to Pineville-by-the-Sea,
N. C, and his wife
was Beatrice Stafford. ,
Gerald's mother had said they were
penniless. Gerald's father had remarked
that he didn't give a rap. They
could exist upon love and art
More or leas for Beatrice's sake and
a little for Gerald's, Gerald's brother
had taken it upon himself to visit the
bridal couple and help Gerald. Smothering
his own love, he had made up his
mind that as long as Beatrice had
married a Vaughan she should not suffer
from it
There was no bell at the =door of the
little brown house with the funny roof.
It was merely a bungalow in weathered
shingles, and he pounded on the
door lustily until it opened and Beatrice
stood before him.
She was not the -blessed damotel
type yet Her smooth dark hair was
wound about her head in just the same
crown fashion, and she wore a short
dark blue linen skirt and a while shirt
waist The sleeves were rolled to her
elbows, and from her finger tips to elbow
dlmpleq there was flour sprinkled.
He had not expected to see her face
to face so soon or alone. Neither had
he expected her to act as she did. The
color rose in her cheeks, tipping even
her ears with pink. It was an old habit
He remembered It
"I thought you were in London," she
said.
"You don't give a fellow a very decent
welcome after he's traveled from
London to this wilderness to say congratulations."
Wp atpnned into the after her.
She hesitated and laughed, looking at
her floured hands.
"I can't shake hands with you, and?
and the biscuits are In the oven. I
shall have to watch them. Do you
mind coming out to the kitchen?"
He didn't mind. There appeared to
be only three rooms?the studio-sitting
room, the dining room and the kitchen.
Collapsible ready-ln-a-mlnute studio, divans
were in the sitting room and dining
room in lieu of bedrooms. It was
all charmingly, most uncomfortably
odd, bizarre and bohemian.
"Where's Gerald?" he asked when he
had found a chair in the kitchen.
Beatrice knelt beside the stove to
look at the biscuit He could not see
her face.
"He went to the postofflce for the
last mall. You must have missed
him."
"Well, what ever made him come to
this lost corner?'
"Oh, because it was the chance of
? i ?t
sometnmg aenrnte, you uiuw; juuu i
you know?" she added quickly, seeing
the puzzled look on his face. "Well,
Gerald's chum, Netherby Ames, broke
all to pieces last fall from overwork
and so on, and he was ordered down
here. And he couldnt afford to come
and stay Indefinitely, so he pulled a
few wires, and things happened. He
was made postmaster bere at PineYille.
And he got lonesome and healthy
and workful again a month ago, so
Gerald's in his place, and he's in New
York. Don't yon see? It was really
very definite and businesslike and
right under the circumstances."
"Oh, certainly, under the circumstances,"
agreed Broderick. "So old
Gerry's postmaster instead of artist."
"Both," she corrected. "He has lots
of time to study, and It's good for him
?the responsibility, I mean. You
wouldn't know him."
MI suppose not" assented Broderick
uneasily. He tried to reconcile his little
circle of the universe, to make the
chaotic jumble fall into place harmonise.
Gerald, Gerald the hapless,
erratic, ranxasuc, lrrauuuai, ju.wus
hearted, penniless artist & person of
matrimonial responsibility, a postmaster.
Bnt then he remembered the
young smooth haired person stamping
letters. Of conrse Gerald had found
his usual way out of the difficulty. He
had hired some Pinevllle lass to do tb?
heavy work, and he drew the salary.
It was like Gerald. But there was
Beatrice, Beatrice making biscuit He
lt>oked at her with troubled eyes, seeing
endless vistas of Beatrices making
biscuit throughout the years.
"Don't you miss New York?"
"Oh, so much!" she said. "I'll never
be happy until I get back."
"Have you given tip your own
work?"
"Only for the time being. I shall
take it up again, of conrse. I shall
have to."
Broderick's hands tightened in a sudden
grip. So she was to work again,
turn out her endless succession of little
wash illustrations for second rate
monthly magazines. Gerald would not
mind, would not see the point He
would think he was being broadminded
and bobemlan to let his wife carry
on her own art Irrespective of him.
But Beatrice saw the point
He rose from his chair suddenly, his
face white with the anger and love he
had smothered. Before he could stop
himself the words came leaping to his
lina*
"Why dldyoo doltr
-Do what?"
She stood beside the little bare
kitchen table, her face raised to his.
her eyes bright with startled wonderment
at his tone.
-Why did yon marry Gerald T
-Marry Gerald! I?" Some one was
coming along the white roadway. From
the kitchen window two figures could
be seen, and she pointed to them.
"There is Gerald, and that Is his wife,
my sister Barbara! I am merely attendant
star to the honeymoon. They
brought me along to?well, to make the
biscuit"
A minute later and Broderick met
the bridal couple on the wide veranda
under the funny roof. The bride was
the girl with the smooth dark hair who
had been stamping letters, and she
laughed at him.
"i Knew who you were, out x warned
Gerald all to myself, and I knew
Beatrice would take care of yon."
"She did," answered Broderick happily,
and as the rest went Into &e
boose he paused to brush off traces of
flour from his coat collar. But Beatrice
burned the biscuit
The "Father of Leprosy;"
The gecko belongs to a family of
thick tongued lizards, which are widely
distributed; over the tropical and
subtropical countries of Europe and
Asia, and in all countries where he is
known he Is thoroughly despised. Because
of his repulsive appearance he
is called the "father of leprosy." Down
to times comparatively modern it was
firmly believed that contact either directly
or indirectly with the little reptile
was sure to communicate leprosy.
The investigations of modern zoologists
have proved that the little animal
is undeserving of Ms name of "father
of leprosy" and that be is indeed a
most harmless and useful creature.
Since the old belief in the ability of
this reptile to communicate leprosy to
any human flesh which might come in
contact with his warty, sore looking
skin was exploded he has retained his
objectionable name solely on account
of the bad appearance he makes. His
skin is one mass of scaly and tuberculous
excrescences that cover his body
from the tip of his tall to the end of
his nose. Every quarter inch section
of this repulsive looking body has a
general resemblance to the thickened,
callous protuberances that appear on
the human body in cases of leprosy.
On this account and no other the harmless
little gecko was given the name of
being the progenitor of the worst form
of disease.
Ugly Athenian Coins.
It Is little surprising that tne Atneman
coins are less beautiful than some
others. They always preserved an affectation
of archaism. The Attic drachmas
bore the head of Athene and on
the reverse an owl often standing on a
lyre, the whole in a myrtle wreath.
Plutarch in his "Lysander" tells an
amusing tale bow Glippus had been
sent to Sparta with a great sum of
money as a bribe and how he unripped
the bottoms of the sacks and stole
large sums, sewing up the sacks again,
not knowing that there was a writing
in each sack saying how much coin it
held. On coming to Sparta be hid his
plunder under the tiles of his house,
showing the Ephors the unbroken seals
on the mouths of the sacks. When the
Ephors opened these they were in
great perplexity, but Glippus' servant
betrayed him, saying "that under the
tiles roosted die owls." The consternation
was great Glippus fled, and the
stern Spartans declared that for the
future they would use iron coinage
made redhot and quenched in vinegar
to make it hard and unpliable. In the
laws of Solon, 600 B. C., the punishment
of death is recorded against forging
the coinage.
AUTOMOBILE
WRECKS STORE
Crashes Through Plate Glass Window
and Scares. Ckrks to Hurried
Flight
An automobile owned by John Jobas
of New York city caused a sensation
in Xyack, N. 1\, by running into one
of the largest stores In the town, crashing
through the front plate glass windows
and smashing everything that
stood in its way.
The machine, filled with a party of
pleasnre seekers, came down from
West Point and was passing through
THE MACHINE CBASHED THROUGH THE
PLATE GLASS.
Nyack on its way to the ferry. It was
driven by Mr. Juhas' chauffeur. At the
corner of Broadway the machine wa9
running so fast that it was impossible
for the chauffeur to turn, and the auto
took a header for W. W. Devitt's store.
The machine crashed through the
plate glass, wrecking nearly the entire
front, and then demolished counters,
boxes and barrels. The dozen
clerks and their customers made a dash
for the back part of the store, a couple
of them leaping out of a side window.
The occupants of the machine clung to
the seats and were uninjured. They
promised to pay for the damage. '.
BITTEN BY OVER
FIVE HUNDRED DOOS
Jersey City Cor Catcher Says No One
Need Have Hydro*
phobia.
Is there such a thing as hydrophobia?
If there is, can it be overcome by the
mind?
With his body a mass of scars from
516 dog bites, Herman Rocktoff of Jersey
City goes merrily on catching unlicensed
dogs and insisting that science
is a failure and that there is no such
thing as hydrophobia.
When he applied at the Jersey City
hospital recently to have a gash in his
right hand cauterized he told the doctors
how to do it The new doctor marveled
that a doe catcher should know |
so much about the cauterization of a
wound.
"Why shouldn't 17" said Bocktoff.
"That is the five hundred and sixteenth
time at least that a cur buried his
tee"i In me, and this is die two hundred
and sixty-third time I have had a
wound cauterized. Let me show you."
And Herman, who is a husky, big fellow,
bared his.arms and legs and showed
a jumble of varicolored scars which
in a museum might be mistaken for
the bungling work of a tattoo artist
Rocktoff has been a dog catcher for
ten years. From the first time a yelping
pup sank its fangs in his thigh
Rocktoff has firmly believed that he
would never have rabies, or at least he
has never let himself believe that he
would have rabies.
"I've seen parents scare their kids
into having hydrophobia," said Herman.
"I've been bitten by the same
dog, and nothing ever happened to me.
Perhaps I'm Immune, as the doctors
say, but I guess I could go mad if I
wanted to.
"I think that anybody who doesn't
want it need not have hydrophobia. I
always know when I have a bad bite,
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ana men 1 uave n tauicu/^u. xuuv
all the precaution I take, and I guess I
have been bitten by the really mad
dog3 as often as any one."
Crook Posed as Model Citlaen.
The residents of Coraopolis, a suburb
of Pittsburg, were astounded to learn
that "Samuel F. Fletcher," arrested as
an expert bank swindler, was Boyd H.
Stoneroad, who has been a respected
inhabitant of the semlrural community
for five years, during which he has
been carrying on his fraudulent operations.
Stoneroad was a telegraph operator
employed by the Wabash railroad.
During his spare time, the police say,
he forged certificates of deposit and
despoiled banks all over the country of
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Hanged Hlmaelf, Pipe la Month.
The body of fifty-nine-year-old Joseph
Spachmann of Terryville, who had
been missing since May 8, was found
hanging from a tree in a grove near
Bristol, Conn. He had not removed his
spectacles, and his pipe was in his
mouth. The medical examiner declared
it a case of suicide. .... .....
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