The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 16, 1912, Page 2, Image 2
WERE LOST IN
COMBS
Two Young Travelers
in Underground
Deserte
Thirty years aao I was a girl
18, spending my first Easter in Ro:
with old family friends?Mr. a
Mrs. Anderson and their only s<
Maurice, a bright, jolly Cambric
undergraduate, whose spirits, al<
were in a much better state of rep.
than his lungs.
Mostly for his sake we had drift
slowly down the Riviera and dawdl
on in Rome, until now it was ab,
lutely imperative that the next <3
should see us start for England.
Maurice and I had determined
visit the Catacombs of St. Calyxti
but, with the usual dilatoriness
youth we had postponed the trip i
til the very last day of our stay. I
Iing anxious to see some fine fresco
that had recently been uncovered,
decided, though it was getting h
in the afternoon, to drive out to t
Catacombs and see if we could p<
suade a guide to take us down.
On arriving at Porta San Sabas
ano, we found that all the regul
guides had gone home, but a hea^
1, -disagreeable-looking man, sitting a
drinking outside a small tavern,
last consented to take us through
we would wait while he finished 1
>'>. supper.
We agreed that it would be
darker inside the Catacombs at
o'clock than it was at midday, so 1
ilj.r possessed our souls with what i
tience we could muster while t
. . surly looking ruffian ate and drat
The tether of an undergraduat*
h patience is proverbially short, a
soon Maurice would allow the m
no peace, but, by worrying in 1
broken Italian, at length cajoled h:
Jr>- into leaving his meal unfinish<
Arming eacn or us wun long piet
of twisted candle and grumbling v
der his breath, the guide led the w
and we descended into the Cai
k combs.
All went fairly well for some tin
and as we traversed passage aft
passage and turned this way and thi
in the tortuous windings of t
vaults, our guide explained the ru
frescoes adorning the roof and sid*
But, alas! that was where t
trouble began, for his English w;
if possible, a shade more peculi
-.V than Maurice's Italian, and, frc
shouting questions and answers
what each fondly believed to be t
other's native tongue, they finally ?
intensely irritated with the difficu'
of understanding one another,
spite of my earnest entreaties
Maurice to be careful and not net
lesslv annoy the man, he persisted
; v yelling at him, and at length with
oath, our guide roughly told us
stand still. A moment later he strc
V down one of the numerous ti
pfe" nels, which extended, as we kne
for many miles beneath the earth,
As long as the glimmer of his lig
could be followed we ran after hi
calling upon him to return, but pr
entiy i caugnt my iuut uu a
broken masonry and fell heavi
dropping my precious piece of can*
| in the fall.
On recovering my senses I fou
that Maurice had picked me out
the mud and seated me on one ol
the little shelves or recesses, abc
a foot from the ground, which?c<
turies ago?had been cut to rece
the bodies of the early Christia
The guide had vanished.
By the dim light of Maurice's ta]
I could see that he looked very wh
and anxious, but a gloom of joy
luminated the poor boy's face wi
lie saw that I was regaining cons
ousness.
One of my earliest questions v
as to whether he had found my p
cious piece of candle, darkness
such a place being the worst possi
misfortune that could befall
Luckily, he had discovered it af
careful search, and, though it ^
much damaged, he had pinned it
to the crown of his soft cap to insi
its protection from further harm
It was now nearly 7 o'clock, i
we reckoned we had been in the C
acombs rather over two hours.
How we inwardly cursed our fc
Vh, V
in not having told any one at
hotel of our intentions.
Although by this time we had,
doubt been missed, no one wo
have the slightest idea in what dii
tion to search for us, and there fla
ed through our minds terri
thoughts of the extent of the Cz
/>nmhs For manv scores of m
the labyrinths extended beneath
city, sometimes at a depth of 40
{ 50 feet. What chance, therefi
had we of making our escape
guided?
The passage we were sitting
was very narrow?barely two 1
across, in fact and very damp?so
decided to move on until we cam<
one of the larger chapels, fi
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THE CATAOF
ST. CALYXTUS
> Have Terrible Experience
Passage After Being
d by Guide.
of' wichh the minor alleys branch off.
me j Presently we came upon quite a
,nd j large cubiculum, from which five
Dn, | small passages radiated. There was
lee ! a tinv niche here in which we placed
w-1
is! our candle, and Maurice and I sat
air down on a broken piece of marble
that had, no doubt, been an altar in
ed ; the early days of Christianity.
' I
led | Hardly had we placed our treasso-!
ured candle in safety and settled ourlay
j selves than, to my horror, a loud
; whispering and rustling commenced,
to j and before we could determine
us, j whence it came a shadowy something
of j swooped down and extinguished the
in- j light!
5e_! With the darkness came utter si>es
J lence,, and it was some seconds bewe;
fore we could recover our courage
lte j sufficiently to consult each other as
he to this new terror.
3r~ At last Maurice whispered to me
. that he had matches and that he
would relight the candle. Hardly
lar had the tiny flame flickered into life
W, than once more that indefinite something
rushed forward out of the
at inky darkness, and again we were
! enveloped in darkness.
lis i This time the extinguishing was
j accompanied by a curious swashing
110 j sound. In my terror I grasped Mau5
I rice's arm with what, I am sure,
j must have been a painful grip, and i
)a~ | could hear him breathing hard in the
he i velvety, impalpable blackness. Each
I moment we expected bony fingers to
s's | clasp us by the throat, or some other
nd | horror to emerge and confront us.
an! How long this tension continued I
lis' do not know. It seemed like hours,
im j but was probably only a few minutes'
id. I duration. Then, far up above our
;es | heads the rustling recommenced, acm-!
companied by shrill, bird-like chirpay
ling! Oh, the relief to our strained
:a-; senses! Simultaneously we gasped,
"Bats!" and could have laughed at
le, our terrors of the moment before.
;er> After this, as it was useless to atat,
i tempt to light the candle, we sat very
he; quietly for a long while in the darkde
ness. Maurice had his case full of
es. I cigarettes, and, by shielding the
he | match very carefully in his cap, we
as, were able to light one each, and I
iar j felt grateful indeed that my educa>m;
tion comprised the unlady-like acin
complishment of smoking,
he1 I think, after a while, we must
;ot | have fallen asleep, for it seemed a
Ltyj very long time before Maurice spoke
In again. He said he felt so thirsty that
to j he must go back to the passage we
id- had first been in and try to scoop up
in j some of the water lying there. He
an icnidho knew unite well which turning
to! it was, and he would only be away a
>de few minutes. He left me two matchin
es and another cigarette, and I heard
sw, him stumbling away over the broken
ground. It seemed to me that several
jht minutes elapsed, and still I heard no
m, sound of his return, so I called him?
es- softly at first, then louder, as my
of panic grew more intense,
ly, At a certain pitch of my shouting
He it struck upon some sound-wave in
the caverns, and immediately all the
nd vast extent of the labyrinth took up
of the cry. Every tunnel and passage
I a echoed "Maurice! Maurice!" and the
)ut name was repeated in every possible
3n- gamut of whisper and growl. The
ive bats shuffled and stirred overhead,
ns. i ghostly forms seemed to rise out of
I the darkness, and at last my nerves
3er i gave way and I broke down, sobbing
ite | myself into a state of semiunconsciil
| ousness.
ien | When I awoke again Maurice had
jci-1 not returned, but I felt that it was
I impossible to remain longer in this
tTas | state of inaction, so, taking the taper
re- with me, I felt my way very careiuny
in around the wall until I came to the
ble opening by which I fancied we had
us. entered.
ter When I had gone a little way down
ras it I used one of my precious matches
on and lighted the candle, as we had disare
covered that the bats were only to be
found in the high vaulted cubicula.
ind Shielding my light with the utmost
!at- care, I proceeded down these interminable
passages, but nowhere did I
>lly come upon any trace of Maurice,
the neither could I recognize any of the
frescoes or decorations upon the
no walls.
uld My watch told me it was nearly 3
ec- i o'clock, and after walking on in this
,sh- | way for about half an hour a panic
ible; seized me that Maurice might have
ita- returned to the cubiculum during my
iles absence and, not finding me there,
the had gone again to look for me. In
or this way we might wander round
>re,! after each other till death put an
un- end to our sufferings, as it was evident
that few tourists visited this
in i distant part of tne uatacomns.
feet: Terrified at this new idea, I turnwe
ed to retrace my steps if possible,
3 to to our original cubiculum, when, tc
rom my joy, I heard the sound of some
?
SHE'S 100?NEVER DANCED.
Doesn't Want to Vote and Scorn
the Automobile.
Mrs. Mary F. Hodgdon, of thi
town, observed her 100th birthda
to-day at the home of Mrs. ElizE
beth Moulton, at West Wenham. Sh
is in possession of all her faculties t
a remarkable degree and talked wit
many visitors. "Votes for women
find little favor with her.
"I think that the women hav
enough about their homes to loo
after without bothering about vol
ing," Mrs. Hodgdon said to-day.
In all her long life Mrs. Hodgdo
never attended a dance. She classe
dances as frivolous and believes tha
young people can put their spar
time to better advantage. She ha
never ridden in an automobile, al
though her son owns one.
"The old way is the best, and
would rather ride behind the ol
horse I had than all the automobile
there are," she said.?Wenham
Mass., dispatch to New York Tribune
Chattanooga Gets Next Reunion.
Macon, Ga., May 9.?Chattanoog
landed the next reunion of the Con
federate veterans by a vote of 1,04;
to-day. San Antonio received 47
votes and Jacksonville 606 votes.
The contest was keen and som
feeling was created by the part play
ed by Secretary Hyman, of the Ma
con Chamber of Commerce, who an
nounced that bis influence had beei
bought for San Antonio.
one running quickly toward me dowj
a fairly wide passage that joined th>
one I was in at right angles. Thi
must be Maurice returning,
thought, or perhaps the guide, whi
would help me to find him.
I raised a glad cry, and started o1
running to meet the new-comer
Then to my horror, the footstep
ceased. Instead, round the corner o
the wall appeared a narrow whit
face, surrounded by a moving mist
like a spirit shroud. From that pal
countenance gleamed two enormou
eyes, fixed upon mine in an awfu
glare! A strange and offensive smel
smote upon my failing senses, am
once again I fell to the earth uncon
scious.
The next time I opened my eyes
was still in the passageway, but?oh
the blessed change! Several smok
candles illumined the jagged walls
and two or three men of the peasan
class were talking excitedly together
while another man with a badge o:
his cap was dabbling my face wit;
water and telling me in broken Eng
lish not to be afraid.
A few minutes walk down the wid
passage brought us to a large hoi
in the wall, through which to m
surprise, streamed the gloriou
morning sunshine. Maurice, lookin
very white and tired, was there, wit
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson and two o
three gentlemen from the hotel.
My watch still indicated a quarte
to 3 o'clock, though they told me i
was really 8:30. Evidently it ha
stopped at that Pour, un me wa
back to the hotel they told us tha
when we did not return in time fo
table d'hote a hue and cry was rais
ed, but it was not until nearly mic
night that a cab driver came forwar
to say that he had driven a young Er
glish lady and gentleman late tha
afternoon to the Catacombs of S
Calyxtus. He had stopped ther
about three-quarters of an hour, bu
then, as they had not ordered him t
wait, he had returned, supposin
they had gone home some other wa]
A search party had immediatel
been formed, and for hours had bee
exploring the miles of labyrintl
hoping each moment to come upo
us.
At about 2 o'clock they had m?
Maurice, wandering blindly in th
dark, half dazed with exhaustion an
misery. It seems that after leavin
me he had found a pool of unknow
ripnth from which he had quenche
? his
thirst, but on rising from h:
knees his cap, to which was pinne
the precious taper, had fallen int
the water, rendering his candle us<
less. He had vainly used up the la:
of his matches endeavoring to religt
it, and had henceforth wandere
aimlessly about in the dark, a pre
to every terrible imagning.
Hours afterward they had com
upon a large white goat?the cam
of my last fright?rushing wildly t<
ward a distant 3pot of light?tt
i hole in the rock by which it had ei
tered. Following back in the dire<
tion from which it had come, the
i found my inanimate body.
The ruffian who had so basely d<
serted us was never discovers
though every possible investigate
, was made.
l Though much exhausted by 01
I trying experience, we left Rome i
i the earliest possible moment. Ui
fortunately, however, the exposui
t of that dreadful night, acting upon
constitution already delicate, wj
too much for poor Maurice, and c
, the twenty-first day after our adven
> ure he died, a victim to Roman fi
ver.?Wide World Magazine.
SLEW WIFE AND HER MOTHER,
is E. B. Alford Assisted to Gallows at
Macon, Where He is Hanged.
s Macon, May 10.?E. B. Alford,
v who, three years ago shot and killed
L_ his wife and his mother-in-law, had
e to be assisted to the gallows to-day
0 to be hanged. He was in a very weak
h and emaciated condition. He had
? hopes of being respited until the last,
and his attorney, John R. Cooper,
did everything possible to save his
k client's neck.
Every loophole of the law was barred,
however, and as Gov. Brown refused
to interfere further, Sheriff
n Hicks carried out the order of the
s court. Alford was hanged at 1
o'clock, and was pronounced dead in
e a few moments. He was suffering
h from tuberculosis, due to long confinement
in the jail.
When brought from his cell he was
1 barely able to walk and it was necesd
sary for two deputy sheriffs to help
s him.
'? Alford was given several respites
by the governor and a lunacy commission
was appointed to examine
into his sanity. He was pronounced
-a r* r* r j 4- a : ~
sane, ana uuv. joiuyyll reiuseu lu iua
terfere further.
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^ The United States exported more
than 12,000,000 pounds of dynamite
and nearly 1,000,000 pounds of gunpowder
last year.
European factories that make imi?
tation butter with cocoanut oil as a
a
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the product a week.
A refrigerator to keep the contents
a in good condition features a new
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1 Roller skates propelled by two0
cylinder motors of one-quarter horsepower
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An electrically heated tray for
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y Economy in Epitaphs.
5,
t In a certain town of Nebraska
lives a man who has ben so unfortn
unate as to lose three wives, who
h were buried side by side. For a long
_ time the Nebraskan deliberated as to
>
whether he should erect a separate
8 headstone for each, commemorating
e her virtues, but the expense deterred
y him. Finally a happy solution of
s the difficulty presented itself,
g He had the Christian name of each
h engraved on a small stone?"Mary,"
r "Elizabeth," "Matilda"?a hand cut
on each stone pointing to a large
r stone in the centre of the lot, and
it under each hand the words:
d "For epitaphs see large stone."?
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Scraps of News.
?r
>' Sixty-three airmen were killed
last year.
d The shortage of labor in Australia
l" is not improving.
Lt Mexico's government is planning
to have postal savings banks.
e Radical changes in the clothing of
Lt Chinese in all stations of life are
0 indicated by the expanding of the
g Chinese market for clothing.
For ironing laces and dainty faby
rics an iron has been brought in
n England in the form of a polished
steel roller, fitted with electric heatn
ing units.
Resembling a huge pneumatic
* hammer is a new compressed air pile
e driver, which delivers its blows so
d rapidly that a pile can not spring
S back between them.
n Pulp remaining after the sugar
d has been extracted from beets in beet
sugar factories has usually been
d thrown away as worthless, but now
0 it is used for feeding cows. The
^ assertion is made that it is a good
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d Pointed Paragraphs.
,y
You can always tell a belle by her
ie rings.
52 The man who can please himself
>_ is easily pleased.
ie A man never complains of his
wife's relations if she hasn't any.
c_ Physical culture doesn't necessary
rily make a woman strong minded.
But a man who leads a double life
B_ never does two men's work.
3 Don't be a quitter. There is still
,n plenty of room in the hall of fame.
It's easier to lead some men to
ir drink than it is to drive them away
from it.
a_ Many a woman lets her neighbor's
re affairs worry her more than her own.
All women are more or less credu
1S lous and some have faith in their
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FEWER KILLED, MORE INJUREI
Results of Railroad Accidents fo
Last Quarter of 1911.
Washington, May 8.?Two hue
dred and forty-two persons wer
killed and 4,706 were injured in trai
accidents in the United States durin
the quarter ending December 31
1911, according to an accident bull';
tin issued to-day by the Inter-Stat
commerce commission.
This is "a decrease of six in th
number killed and an increase of 97
in the number injured, as compare
with the corresponding quarter o
1910.
NOTICE OF REFERENCE T<
PROVE CLAIMS.
Notice is hereby given to all pei
sons having claims against the estat
of E. Morris, deceased, that a refer
ence will be held at the office o
the Probate Judge of Bamberg coun
ty, at Bamberg, S. C., on the 24tl
day of May, 1912, eleven o'clock a
m., for the proof of claims agains
said estate; and all persons havin
claims against said estate will appea
at said time and place and prove th
same, and failing so to do will b
barred.
G. P. HARMON,
Judge of Probate of Bamberg Cc
April 27th, 1912.
MEETING OF TAXPAYERS.
A meeting of the taxpayers
voters of Bamberg School Districl
No. 14, is hereby called to be hel
in the city hall in the town of Bam
berg on Thursday, June 6th, 1912
at 4 o'clock p. m., for the purpose o
electing one member of the board o
trustees, and for the transaction o
any other business that may legall
come before the meeting.
W. M. BRABHAM,
Chairman Board of Trustees
May 8th, 1912.
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