The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 03, 1913, Page 2, Image 2
CLAMS CATCH SKA GULLS.
Bright Canadian Nature Faker is
There With the Details.
A settler 011 one of the small islands
near Vancouver, who was returning
tn Masset by way of the
north beach, which is a stretch of
hard sand miles in extent, beheld to
his surprise an unusually large flock
of seagulls beating with their wings
upon the sand, evidently in combat
with some enemy which was under
neath the heap, says the Vancouver
(B. C.) Sun.
Curiosity impelled the settler tc
investigate the heap of flapping
wings and screaming gulls. He was
within a few paces of them when
one gave the signal of the approach
of a stranger, and all flew chattering
toward the clouds.
One of the birds, however, was
left flapping upon the ground, and
on investigation it was found a monster
clam held the gull's beak in a
viselike grip. The claim was toe
heavy for the bird to fly away with,
and for all its frantic struggles it
could not loosen the tenacious grip
cf the big shellfish, which measured
probably eight inches across the flat
of its shells.
With his hunting knife the settler
succeeded in prying open the shells.
By this time the gull was all in and
t could only stagger like a drunker
sailor toward the water. It fnally
flew away and very soon it returned
in the van of a cloud of gulls come
to inspect whateve it was had trapped
one of their tribe.
Apples at 40 Cents Each.
Missouri apples were listed on the
menu cards of two or three exclusive
New Yory hotels the past Winter at
40 cents each, which was the cost of
half a bushel of apples anywhere in
the open market. The difference in
cost represents, very largely, exclusiveness
and profit, with a little additional
expense for packing, writes A.
A. Coult.
When the early prospects of a large
apple crop in all sections of Amer'ca
became assured in midsummer, a
grower at Lebanon, Missouri, with an
orchard of one hundred acres, re
alized that something unusual would
nave to De aune iu gei. muic wau a
living price for his crop. He went to
New York to solicit orders. He had
the idea that an exclusive offering
would command high prices, and suggested
to some of the commission
men that they try a few individual
boxed 'apples for the trade, in addition
to their orders for several thousand
barrels of apples for the general
market. One New York commission
man thereupon signed a contract for
6,000 apples for which he was to pay
15 cents each at Lebanpn, the number
being limited to make them sufficiently
exclusive.
Each apple was perfectly sound,
of high color and uniform shape, not
less than three and one-half inches in
diameter, nor more than a quarter of
an inch larger. Each stem had at
least two perfect leaves attached and
each apple was packed in an attractive
pasteboard box and the top sealed.
i Young ladies cut the selected apples
from the tree& with scissors, to
protect the leaves on the stems. The
apples were placed on a cloth-covered
table for inspection, and those that
passed muster were dipped, leaves
and all, in a solution which closed
the pores of the skin and leaves,
causing the latter to retain their natural
color, and conserving in the apple
the original flavor. After the solution
had dried, each apple was
wrapped in a soft tissue paper to hold
it firmly in its box in which it was
immediately placed. The leaves were
carefully arranged on top of the
wrapping paper so that they would
not be folded or crumbled, and the
top was sealed.
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He Was Born That Way.
Charles S. Whitman, the district
attorney, presented to the grand
jury investigating the police graft in
New York a few days ago a flashily
dressed negro, said to be the keeper
of a gambling house in Harlem,
from whom he hoped?in vain, as it
afterward developed?to obtain evidence
of police blackmail, says The
Saturday Evening Post.
"Do you know how to shoot
craps?" asked a grand juryman after
the negro had denied being a
gambler, denied any connection with
the police, and in fact all knowledge
of official crookedness.
"Oh, yas suh, I kin shoot craps,"
said the witness.
"Where* did you learn?in Baltimore?"
The negro had given Baltimore
as his home before he came to
New York.
"No, suh, I didn't learn in Baltimo\"
"In New York?"
"No, suh, not in New York."
"Well, where did you learn?"
"I dian' learn nowhar?hit jes'
come nach'ul to me, suh."
A Rhode Island woman has been
sentenced to jail for three months for
killing her husband. Reno's population
may now begin falling off.
ANCIENT JAPANESE COFFIN
i Made of Stone and Found in a Shrine
Near Okushi.
' There is an Inari shrine in the
town of Okushi, Ibaraki Prefecture,
s in the compound of which some
building operations are going on,
i says a Tokio letter. The laborers en
gaged in leveling the ground were
: digging the other day when they
; unearthed a large stone coffin.
The news was immediately com
municated to the chief priest, who
sent for the head man of the village.
> In his presence the cover of the stone
; coffin was taken oft, and inside were
t found many gold rings and other
l treasures, such as kaudatama, magai
tama and other ancient vessels. Judg
ing from the construction of the coffin
is is 1,500 years old. News of
; the discovery was forwarded to the
i local government office, and an offi
cial was sent to examine the articles
frmnri
> The shrine itself is a very ancient
, one and in it the Kuraine-tma-no-mi;
koto is defied. It was for a while re>
moved from the village by the com1
mand of Mitsukuni Tokugawa, Lord
: of Mito, but in 1702 it was taken
back to its former site. Some eartli
' was taken from the compound of the
. great Inari shrine at Yamashiro, Kyi
oto, and placed under the main buildi
ing of this shrine with formal cere'
mony. Since then it has been cus1
tomary for the Daimyo' of Mito to
i bear the expense for'repairs to the
shrine, and one of his retainers was
always sent as a special messenger
at festival times. ?
. Verdict Given in Libel Suit.
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the case of E. 0. Black against The
State company for libel brought in a
verdict for $20,000 yesterday. Lyles
& Lyles gave notice of a motion for a
new trial. The suit was for $50,000
damages. There are two other cases,
that of F'mgal C. Black and John
Black, based on the same publications
and these may be called next week.
The case decided yesterday was based
on editorial comment and the news
publication concerning the opposition
of Black brothers to C. C. Wilsoi* in
the election for councilman just about
three years ago and the alleged threat
by a reporter for The State to "write
them up."
The defence was that the facts stated
in these articles were true, that
'bey were also privileged and were
made without malice and in the public
interest; that there were no
threats by the reporter and that if
there were he was not an agent pos,
sessed of any authority to carry out
. tne tnrcais.
An incident of the trial yesterday
was when, in opening his speech, Geo.
R. Rembert, attorney for the plaintiffs
said he had been longing and even
praying for this opportunity* to get
the defendant before this jury for
the purpose c f showing up its record
in South Carolina politics. Win. H.
Lvles objected to matter extraneous
to this case being introduced and he
was instantly sustained by the-judge,
who announced very positively that,
"This is a court of law, not a court
of politics."
Both Very Slow.
The steamer was moving very
slowly up the broad, swift rive^r.
Several miles ahead, where there was
a bend, a sharp point of land projected
? considerable distance into
the stream. On the upper deck sat a
young couple, engaged in earnest conversation.
"Lucinda," he was saying,
"we've known each a long time,
haven't we?" "Yes," she answered.
"Five or six years at least, isn*l it?"
"1 believe so." "Don't you think a
girl ought to know a fellow pretty
sell by that time?" "Why, yes, of
course." "You've never heard anything
bad about me, have you?"
"No." "And in five or six years a
young man ought to "know a girl
pretty well, oughtn't he?" "I suppose
so." "We've been together a good
deal, Lucinda." Then there was a
long pause. "And of course you must
have suspected?" Another protracted
silence. "Anybody would naturally
suspect?though I've never been
in position until lately?and yet my
mind has been made up all the time
?and I can't tell you how muchThen
Lucinda spoke. "Henry," she
said, "do you know you remind me
of this steam-boat?" "Er-how?" "It
takes you such a long time to reach |
the point."?Presbyterian Witness.
Accuse Governor of Slander.
Jackson, Miss., March 31.?As the
climax of a long and bitter controversy
between Gov. Brewer, of Mississippi,
and the board of trustees of
the Sta-te penitentiary regarding the
sale of cotton grown 011 State convict
farms, suit was filed in the circuit
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members of the board against the
Governor, charging libel and slander
and asking damages of $300,000.
The Governor is quoted in the bill
' of complaint as having said that
methods of selling cotton employed
by the board were "rotten."
TEETH TEN FEET LONG.
Difficult to Bring Down Elephants
With Great Tusks.
It is the ambition of most big game
hunters to bag a good "tusker"?an
elephant with exceptionally big
"teeth," to use the sporting term?
but that ambition is seldom realized
nowadays, for eiepnanis, particularly
those of record age and size, are becoming
more rare every day, says
London Tit-Bits. Indeed, it is stated
that the African elephant, from whom
the finest ivory is obtained, is doomed.
It has practically vanished from
South Africa, and is being slowly exterminated
in other parts of the
country. This extermination has been
brought about by the great demand
for ivory nowadays.
Only a few years since a single
large firm of billiard-table makers
used in a month as many as 95 pairs
of tusks. Thus to supply this single
firm no fewer than 1,140 elephants
suffered death annually. And the
demand for tusks may be gathered
from the fact that about 300 tons are
sold in London alone during the
year.
The consequence is that the chance
of a big game hunter coming across
such an elephant as that shot by Major
Powell-Cotton in the Congo State
eight years ago, whose tusks weighed
372 pounds,, is very remote. These
were the finest pair of elephant's
teeth ever secured by a white sportsman,
although they are not the heaviest
on record. The heaviest pair of
tusks ever secured are to be seen in
a museum in the United States. One
of the tusks measures 10 feet 4 inches
along the outer curve and scales 235
pounds, and the other, which is an
inch or two less, weighs 225 pounds,
giving a total of 4 60 pounds.
The second of these tusks is eclipsed
by one to be seen in the British
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<eet, 2 1-2 inches in circumference,
and weighs 226 pounds. One of the
longest tusks on record, was that in
the possession of the late Mr. Rowland
Ward at one time. It measured
11 feet 5 1-2 inches over the curve
and scaled 150 pounds. Its fellow
measured 11 feet in length and weighed
143 pounds. The pair now enrich
the American National Collection.
Sir Edmund Loder is the possessor
of a very fine single tusk, which
measures 9 feet, 5 inches, and weighs
184 pounds. In 1911 Mr. W. W.
Greener, the Haymarket gunner, had
in his window a wonderfully even
pair of teeth, which scaled just over
184 pounds apiece, an& a widest circumference
of 25 inches and in extreme
length of 8 feet. They made
a very fine second to Major PowellCotton's
splendid pair.
A remarkable tusk 4n the possession
of Mr. Graham Pownall, which
came from Uganda, measures 8 feet,
5 inches, has a circumference of 23
inches and scales 175 pounds. These
instances will give some idea of the
magnificent ivory produced by the
elephant in Equatorial Africa. It
might be mentioned that the average
weight of elephant tusks is about 50
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Some New Dances.
Advices from the erudite metropolis
are to the effect that the popular
dances this year will not be the "turkey-trot"
and the "bunny-hug," as
they have gone out of the style. This
year's dances are the "chicken-flop."
the "kangaroo fit," and the "camel
cramp." *
We have gone to the trouble of inventing
a few dances, which we recommend
to the Dancing Master's association,
and which we undertake to
demonstrate to anybody who wishes
to see them. Some of the most prominent
dances invented by us and recommended
for the smart set of polite
society are the following:
The angleworm glide.
The spinal meningitis schottische.
The wildcat whirl.
The hippopotamus hitch.
The delirium tremens twit-step.
The tarantula twist.
The St. Vitus slide.
The Salome slide.
rne Diny goai uumy.
There is everything in these dances
which is calculated to offend the
tastes of the most fastidious, so we
have every reason to believe that
they will become very popular.
The Cautious Scot.
A Scotchman went to a solicitor,
laid before him a question, and asked
him if he could undertake the case,
reports the Birmingham Weekly Post.
"Certainiy," replied the solicitor.
"I will readily undertake the case.
We're sure to win."
"So ye really think it's a good
case?"
"Most decidedly, my dear sir. I
am prepared to- guarantee that you
will receive a favorable verdict."
"Ah, weel. I'm much obliged tae
ye. but I danna think I'll go tae law
this time, for you see, the case I've
laid before ye is my opponent's."
Nice line of sample box papers at
Herald Book Store.
GAZE OF THE CRIMINAL.
Confirmed Crooks Can Easily Look
Honest Men in the Eyes.
It is a popular belief that a man
v/ho cannot look'you in the eye steadily
and squarely, is dishonest. For
many generations the writers of fiction
have drawn their dishonest
clmmrters as men for women") with
"shifty" glances.
"He could not look me in the eye
and I knew he was the guilty person,"
01 words to that effect have
frequently been included in fiction
until every one, almost, has come to
believe it. But this is by no means
true.
Ask any veteran police official, especially
such police officials as have
had a part in trying the "third degree"
on prisoners, and they will tell
you that the worst crooks they ever
met had the faculty of outstaring
them.
"I have known the worst thug,
gunman and burglar to look me
steadily in the eye until he actually
tired my optical nerves, so that I
could stare at him no longer," an old
Dolice official recently stated.
And on the other hand, many an
honest man has been unable to look
his accusers squarely in the eye.
Long experience on the #art of police
officials, prison officials and other
experts, who have made a study of
such things, has shown that it is far
more frequently the crook who can
stare you steadily in the eye than
the honest man.
And the reason for this, according
to medical men, is a form of nervousness,
or fright, or both. The crook
is always living in the fear that he
will some time be caught, and he has
trained himself as to just what he
will 'do. He knows that a steady, unflinching
eye has long been accepted
as a sign of honesty, that a steady
glance will frequently disarm suspicion,
and so, when he is caught he instantly
resorts to this method as an
aid.
He will look at the police or whoever
his accusers nay be quite steadily,
calmly and with a brave assumption
of innocence.
He is not shocked by his arrest. He
hac UvpH a rrnnkeH life. He has been
living liable to arrest for many years,
and so there is no shock except that
of chargrin and anger at being
caught.
But with the honest man this is all
different. He sees no reason why he
should be accused. He has been honest,
and to be arrested or accused cf
wrong-doing comes as a terrible shock
to him. He never deserved it, he
knows that and consequently it seems
all the worse. He is frightened, with
the fright of an animal that has innocently
walked into a trap.
When the police or others glare at
him all the honest man can think of
is the shame and disgrace of even being
accused of wrong, and his nervousness
makes him fairly distracted,
so that he looks down at the
iioor or out of the window in his distress.
And there are other reasons for
this. .The wrongdoer is frequently a
sort of degenerate, who really hasn't
the quality of brain to enable him to
understand that wrong is wrong. All
he may know of wrong is that he has
to be careful and not get found out
or he is punished; he does not feel
within himself that he has been doing
wrong, that he has sinned against his
brother man or the community.
Naturally, such a man has no reason
to be shifty-eyed. He can look his
accusers in the eye, for he does not
appreciate any sinfulness in wrong.
To him "wrong" is something that
the government punishes people for.
The honest man knows why wrong
is wrong. He knows that to steal is
wrong, because he is taking from an
innocent party; that to kill is wrong
because he takes a life he can never
restore, and to be accused of such
things jars his sense of honor and
confuses him until he is on the verge
of nervous prostration.
Experts in criminal bureaus no
longer place much weight upon the
fact that a suspect cannot look them
in the eye. In the olden days they
were inclined to think the crook innocent
who was unflinching in his
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stare, and the honest man a crooK micause
he could not return a steady
look, but this is different now. These
experts know that most crooks have
steady eyes, and the bigger the crook
the longer and harder he can stare
back at them, while a great many
honest men, or wrongly accused men,
cannot do this, and so other methods
have to be adopted.?New York
American.
Mangled Under Ice Car.
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W. H. Flagg, a prominent tourist
from Battle Creek, Mich, was instantly
killed here this afternoon,
and several others were forced to
jump overboard, when an ice car,
operated under sail on the railroad
wharf, got away from the negro laborers
and bore down on them. All
escaped but Mr. FJagg, who was horrobly
mangled under the wheels.
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PEOPLES BANK - RICHES
FROM BIAS WHEEL.
How the Famous Jaggers Won $100,000
at Monte Carlo.
In the history of Monte Carlo, Jaggers
has become almost legendary.
He was an Englishman, whose photograph
is a cherished possession in
the hands of the one person now left
at Monte Carlo who seems to have
known him. He was an intelligent
mechanic or engineer from the north
of England. He was not a gambler,
but he had heard of Monte Carlo, and
of the wonderful roulette wheels so
ingeniously made that no one could
beat them. Curiosity took him there
when he had put together a little
money and earned a holiday. He
did not intend to play. It was the
wheels themselves that he wished to
see.
When he found that he was not
supposed to keep a seat at the table
and watch tne game ior any i
.length of time without playing,
in order to study it in peace and
in his scientific way he began to venture
a few five-franc pieces. He had
a favorite table where he happened
to feel more at home than any other;
and while laboriously taking down
numbers in order to make a record,
he hit upon an astonishing discovery.
Some of the numbers appeared more
often in a day's play of about 500
coups than they had a right to do
mathematically, according to the
laws of chance. Jaggers continued
his tests for several days, until he
was satisfied that the particular roulette
wheel under observation had
some mechanical defect?that it was
not truly balanced, but had a bias
aiq whioh caused the
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ball to fall more often in one quarter
of the cylinder than in others.
Not a word had the silent man of
the north spoken to any one of his
first suspicions ot final discovery. .
On the fault, not of roulette in general
as a game, but of this roulette
wheel in particular, did Jaggers then
and there find his unscientific but
amazingly successful "system." He
decided to risk in the venture all the i
money he had, knowing that, though '
he must fail occasionally, he ought
to win far oftener than he lost. i
At first he played quietly, with <
small stakes. Then he increased
them until soon he was playing with
maximums on the wheel's favorite
numbers and winning immense sums
of money. Feeling sure of his ground,
Jaggers now engaged a staff of men
to play for him, t king their turns :
at the table as the croupiers do, and
his wins continued until the Casino :
authorities became seriously alarmed, i
Never had the Casino, in the whole 1
history of gambling at Monte Carlo s
(then comparatively short) suffered '
so severely in its hitherto impreg- ]
nable pockets. Seeing that Jaggers
always played at the same table, the
management removed the cylinder 1
from that table at night and trans- j
ferred it to another.
Jaggers, however, was not a hard- 1
headed Yorkshirem-an for nothing. L<
He had expected every morning to j
find that luck had suddenly deserted 11
him because his wheel of fortune was <
lost to him forever among a wilderness
of other wheels useless for his j
"system." His eyes'were sharpened <
by the knowledge that a pin's point i
of difference was life or death to his <
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Transporting Gold Bullion.
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It would be natural to suppose that
shipments of gold bullion back and : v
forth across the Atlantic on the big v^liners
would be attended by considerable
precaution, requiring the vigilance
of many men, but this is not
the case. There is probably no other
place in the world where the trans-. :
port of great wealth is carried on
with such simplicity. As
a case in point, one of the great ! /?'? ' ..*$
liners has two strong rooms, the >. $.
smaller being in close proximity to '
the captain's quarters, while the
other is next to the provision depart- '"' N
ment. The small strong room has its
walls, floor and ceiling lined with
two inch steel plate, ancl contains
nothing in the way of furnishing
other than shelves. , This has more
than once contained enough gold to ' "
buy the liner many times over. The
locks, which are of the double variety,
are rendered still more secure s.-f " '
by covering the keyholes' with steel
hasps, which are themselves locked
in place with massive padlocks. This # ". jf
strong room, being located in the
most frequented portion of the ship,
is being passed by persons at all hours ' {
of the day and night, which, after all,
is the great protection.
The strong room located near the
provision department is 12 feet long
by 4 feet wide, and it often happens
that both these rooms are filled to
capacity with gold bullion. On one
occasion the two rooms contained .j. ,
$50,000,000 in gold bullion, packed
in small kegs bound with steel hoops.
?Popular Mechanics.
An asbestos lined vest pocket in
which a lighted cigar can be carried
safely has been invented by a Philalelphia
tailor.
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See those wire wall baskets at The A *
Herald Book Store. ' '
interests, and he had observed on
his cylinder a tiny white speck by ^
which he could identify it among
many others apparently alike. Each
morning, on arriving at the table he
glanced at the wheel and made sure 1'
of the white speck .before beginning
"work," and on the day after the
secret exchange hovering inspectors y
saw the terrible Jaggers reducing his
great stakes to a few paltry five'
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try the same small game at another
table and so on until his eyes lighted
upon the blessed speck. Then he and
his staff of clerks began to plunge
again. |l
The "system" began to seem super- < 1
natural, and in a few months Jag- '
gers had taken from the Casino the
unprecedented sum of $600,000. The
authorities began to suspect that all
the cylinders were imperfect. The
maker v/as sent for and each wheel
was subjected to a rigid scrutiny.
The faulty one was discovered and
Laken away and next morning Jag- " ^
gers' tide of fortune turned. For a
few days he went on playing and lost
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back to tbe uasmo some
Df his enormous winnings. Then he
?yas wise enough to see that he was
beaten. He discharged his staff-,
ceased play and retired with the comfortable
sum of $400,000 intact.
NTever did he appear again at Monte
Carlo, but his memory has lived
ther?^*ince as a classic one.?Mc