The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 11, 1908, Image 7
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Thursday," June 11,1908
HEN HATCHES SNAKES.
Her Owner Then Kills Her on Account
of Her Stupidity.
Peter Wise, living near Omega,
I1L, had tfie surprise of his life
when he pulled a sitting hen off the
nest that she had made in the edge
of a straw stack. He had noticed he)
sitting there for some time and began
to suspect that she was sitting
on a door knob or a nest of spoiled
eggs.
When he lifted her np, instead of
a brood of chickens or a batch of
.spoiled eggs, there was a bunch of
snakes, little sleek black fellows,
- each about seven inches long' and
' wriggling furiously.
Mr. Wise promptly dispatched the
snakes, 11 in number, and the hen
was disposed of by having her neck
wrung. ~ Mr. Wise said that he had
no use for a hen that could not tell
the difference between a snake's egg
and her own product
What a Newspaper Means.
it used to be said in derision tha
"all one needs to start a newspape
is a box of blacking and a shirttai
full of type."
It did not take much to start a
newspaper in former days?a Washington
handpress and a few cases
of "long primer," and a few more of
4 "brevier," with a case or two of "display"
type?all costing something
. like five or ax hundred dollars new;
if second hand, much less than that.
It is different now, and the difference
can best be illustrated by example.
Take The Bamberg Herald for.
% instance?in a new and small and not
v;i 5 imto TuooHhv with a small
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population. Not counting the
? job type and many other articles, it
has:
& >. A large newspaper press, to be run
by an individual motor.
Two job presses, each run by ai
individual motor.
A thirty-five hundred dollar linotype,
run by an individual motor.
The entire plant, not counting in
the building, represents an investment
of about ten thousand dollars.
There are many county print shops
that have equipments equaling that
of the Bamberg paper. This is simply
characteristic of the spirit of the
age. Old styles and methods have
been left behind. It is an age of
, progress, and he who wishes to meet
the demands of the day must "get a
move on" and keep up with the procession.
This is nowhere more true
than in the newspaper business and
the printing business generally.?
% Newberry Observer.
Polished and Vigorous.
Observing a passenger with the unKghted
butt of a cigar in his fingers,
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the street car conductor requested
him to put it out.
"It is out, you chump," responded
the passengpr.
"Pardon me," resumed the con.'.1
' doctor, "if I have failed to make my?
self clear. The condition to which I
had reference was not one of mere
temporary noncombustion, but of
elimination, the .eradication, I might
say, of the physical presence of your
nicotine laden remnant, this process
followed necessarily by cessation of
the odor now permeating an atmosphere
somewhat deficient, I fear, in
the essential element of ozone. I'm a
humble conductor, and my aim is to
please; but, you big porcupine stiff,
you throw that cigar through the
door or I'll thit>w you and it both out.
x See?"
"Excuse me, professor," replied
the passenger meekly, and the incident
was closed.?Philadelphia Led
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Optimistic to the End.
Sometime ago there was a flood
in Western Pennsylvania. An old
fellow who had lost nearly everything
he possessed was sitting on the
roof of the house as it floated along
when a hoat approached.
"Hello, John."
"Hello, Dave."
"Are your fowls all washed away,
John?"
"Yes, but the ducks can swim,"
replied the old man.
"Apple trees gone?"
"Well they said tfie crops would
be a failure, anyhow."
"I see the flood's away above your
window."
"That's all right, Dave. Them
winders needed washin', anyhow."?
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Humor and Philosophy
By DUNCAN M. SMITH
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HAS ITS USES.
The hammer is a useful tool.
And if you ever doubt it
Just try to build a chicken coop
Or picket fence without it.
But if you use the iron sledge
For other kinds of knocking.
Go tapping at your neighbors' faults.
Results are somewhat shocking.
Do not be a knocker.
| Kind, impatient sirHammer
out for every one
Sharpened, as it were.
Though you're armed for business
With a tinner's kit.
Vnn Mn hdrrtlv #>Vf?r
Make a three base hit.
There's nothing wrong about it if
You're listed with the toilers
And hooping barrels is your trade
Or building iron boilers.
But if you only wield a pen
And toy with words and grammar
It isn't very bright in you
To use it as a hammer.
Do not be a knocker
As through life you pass.
If you're looking out for faults,
Get a looking glass.
Throw away your hammer
And your friends surprise.
Do some boosting if you're
Needing exercise.
Just as Good.
"You can't'tell
what a man (ffip(t )
knows by look- ^ \
ing at him." 1
"Yon can tell tiff
something else. I
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him, though." Is I [
"What?" P \yf A I
"What he does
not know."
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His View.
"How did you like the story you just
finished?" * . '
/Too pathetic." replied the old bachelor.
"Anybody killed?"
"No."
"Lose their money?"
"No."
'Then, where was the pathetic part?'
'They got married."
Part of the Routine.
"Hear about that incident in the
navy?"
"No. What was it?"
"Boat sunk, and every soul on board
went down with her."
.. "Incident! I should call that a calamity."
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"Not when yon knew it was a submarine."
Right In His Line.
"Did you tell the judge you just took
the overcoat as a joke?"
"Yes, I mentioned it to him."
"Did he see the point?'
"I should judge so from the way he
acted. He has a fine sense of humor."
Didn't Catch Him.
It would nave Deen e*pu?uxc
If he had been a grafter.
He met it with composure
And guyed them ever after..
Yourself, For Instance.
"I hate a hypocrite."
"Still, he has his uses."
"As how?"
"When you stave off a bill collector."
? Malodorous.
She hides the fact
her life is sad
Because of corns
and bunions,
But then she cannot
keep it hid
That she 1q fond
of onions.
The Only Way.
"Do you find that a man can live on
less in a small town than in a city?"
"If he has to."
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
Knowing what not to do with a thing
helps some to.
In a display of stationery one doesn't
care to see a scarcity of pay envelopes.
It is hard to hire a man to pray for
yon as efficiently as he prays for himself.
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It isn't hard work to give some people
an Intellectual treat and the returns
are often out of all proportion
to the cost
The trouble about the bread or iaie
ness is that it has a way of not materializing
when too many of us ?et
Idle.
It begins to look as if the poor we
shall always find to be of us.
Neither a song nor a sermon is as appetizing
as a loaf of bread.
The man who has a good time when
times aren't good has either an imagination
or a million.
Cleanliness is next and maintains its
position.
The uplift somehow doesn't seem to
concern itself sufficiently with the
source of pantry supplies.
Farm arid
Garden
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WINTERING BEES.
Packing Colonies In Straw In an Open
Storm Shed.
At the back side of the bee building
at the Montana experiment station and
running the length of it is a room with
o nivf Hr?r?r fittpd mi with two skeleton
shelves of 2 by 4 so that some forty
or fifty colonies of bees may be wintered
under as uearly normal conditions
as possible, with the entrances
connected with the outside, permitting
tlie bees to fly at will.
Above these rooms in the gable roof
is ample storage room for empty hives
and for surplus combs when not in use
for the honey harvest.
During the first two winters prior to
the erection of this bee house expert
SHELTER FOB BEEHIVES.
meuts were carried on in outdoor wintering
and in packing a number of colonies
in straw under one roof. The experiments
during the last two years
were not only modified by the indoor
wintering with packing only above the
colonies, but also by packing colonies
in straw in an open shed against the
side of the hOuse. (See the accompanying
figures.)
Outdoor wintering is usually accomplished
in chaff hives, and one great
objection is the expensiveness of these
hives. Otherwise, since it is the most
normal condition for bees, this method
is to be recommended for inexperienced
beekeepers. The feature of these
chaff hives is a double wall with from
three to eight inches of space between
the walls on all sides, including the
bottom, filled with some nonconductor
of heat like straw, chaff, paper or
ground cork. The effect of this packing
is to retain the heat and at the
same time permit the moistufe produced
by the bees to pass off.
To further permit moisture to escape
niiilt iicoH In
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summer Is removed and a canvas quilt"
placed over the frames. Above this
newspapers, a piece of old quilting or
a chaff tray may be used to retain the
heat Then4 above' this material to retain
the heat there should be an open
space with free ventilation, accomplished
by auger holes through the ga
ble ends of the roof. The roof and
whole hive should be thoroughly painted
and the hive placed several inches
off the ground to prevent freezing and
thawing and the attendant soaking up
of water. The entrance formed by a
bridge passageway through the packing
at the usual place is contracted to
HIVES IN PLACE.
[Ready for a winter protection of boards
and straw to be put across the front.]
an inch or so for the winter. There
should be in most instances no trouble
in wintering bees so packed if they
are strong In numbers and with plenty
of stores?Montana Experimental Station.
Dried Leaves Useful.
Plenty of dried leaves should be
gathered for bedding and to bank up
cellars and pits, suggests American
Cultivator. Bog hay is also good for
this purpose. In some localities large
areas of brook hay and bog hay have
this year not been considered worth
cutting for stock, but now that work
Is not so pressing some farmers could
find time to cut this grass for bedding
and mulch. Simply mow it, leave it
for a day or two, then turn the swaths,
and next day it will be cured well
enough for these purposes.
An Osage Hedge.
An osage hedge if trimmed up Ave or
fiix feet may be converted into a first
class hoe and cattle tight fence by
adding about six barbed wires, writes
a farmer in Iowa Homestead. In a
year or two when the branches grow
out again over the wire it makes an
impregnable barrier to live stock's exit
or entrance.
Care of the Horse.
Since your horse does for you the
work you cannot do yourself you are
under obligation to do for your horse
the work your horse cannot do for
himself?curry and brush him.?Farm
Journal.
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It Is to Laugh.
Durapiat (returning home at 4 a. m.>
?Hello! Don't shout into the appara
tus like that, miss; you deafen me.?
Pele Mele.
Too Late.
The Small Boy?Please, sir, will you
help teach my little brother to swim?
The Old Gentleman?But I don't see
your little brother.
The Small Boy?Oh, he's tied on the
string.-Sketch.
* Not Him;
Kindly Old Gent?Don't all those papers
make you tired, my boy?
Little Boy?No. I doe^p't read 'em,
stir.?Punch.
It Distressed Him. __
"Doesn't it distress you, Mr. Wawbawsh,
when you notice how much
the current slang phrases seem to appeal
to so many "people nowadays instead
of good, pure English?'
"It does, for a fact! Looks like they
had the dictionaries skinned a mile!"
?Browning's.
Love's Young Dream.
"You used" to tell me you would love
me always."
"Yes, and we were both young
enough to believe it."?Philadelphia
Press.
Physiological.
First Boatman to Second Ditto?'E's
got more brains In 'Is 'ead than you
and me 'as got In tbe rest of our .bodies.?Ta
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