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WHERE CYCLONES ARE BORN.
Cradle of the American Tornado is
Located at Yuma, Arizona.
Science has at last placed its finger
upon the exact birthplace of the cyclones,
which from time to time work
devastation through the west. According
to Dr. Emil Schildenkrantz,
an eminent German meteorologist,
who has been visiting this country,
the cradle of the cyclone lies in the
town of Yuma, Ariz. There is born
and nurtured the whirling tornado?
the deadliest type of destructive
winds, a veritable dancing dervish oi
the gales.
Yuma lies one hundred and thirtyeight
miles east of Denver, in the
foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
Its altitude is 4,100 feet.
It is generally agreed among the
weather experts that the destructive
whirling winds are caused by a funnel-shaped
cloud, tfcot whirls about
with tremendous force in the man(ner
of a summer resort merry-goround.
As soon as the vacuum forms, the
air rushes in to fill it, because, as
the text books say, nature abhors a
vacuum. The air is then apt to
swirl about in a circle or spiral,
I which results in a twisting wind, or
cyclone.
Bearing these things in mind, Dr.
Schildenkrantz determined to locate
the spot where natural conditions
made the formation of vacuums most
likely. He studied the trail of the recent
cyclone that swept through
North Kansas and expended its chief
fury on the city of Omaha, and followed
it in its mysterious beginning
in Colorado, He was not satisfied
until he came to Yuma, the little
town on the eastern slope of the
Great Divide.
Careful study of the environment
of this town soon convinced the
scientist that his task was completed
?he had found the cradle of the
cyclone.
Dr. Schildenkrantz gives two reaVie
enntontinn thor Vnma
OUild ll/l 1110 v. vaivuiivu a uuau
was the birth-place of the recent cyclone,
and was probably responsible
for many previous ones.
In the first place, he observed that
the climate had sharp alterations of
heat and cold. This is but one condition
making directly for the creation
of vacuums in the air. The days are
intensely warm in summer. Last
month, for instance, the thermometer
climbed several times to 10S degrees.
Yet the nights were always
* cool. Sometimes they were so cold
that the townspeople found it necessary
to close the doors and windows
and to build fires in the stoves and
fireplaces.
In the second place, the soil at
Yuma is covered with the short,
crisp, curling grass named after the
? buffalo, because it resembles the hair
of his coat. Like the buffalo, buffalo
grass is becoming extinct, but in and
about Yuma it still grows in profuse
quantities. This grass, curling close
to the earth, the scientist avers, reflects
the heat more strongly than
any other natural medium. Dr. Schil^
denkrantz says the dreaded paving
stones of the city streets have only
half the reflective power of this closely
curling grass. A walk about the
prairies covered with it will confirm
this theory, for it flings back the
heat so strongly that it causes the
face to become sun-burned even on a
cloudy day. The grass, by forming a
blanket covering the earth, prevents
f the absorption of the heat by the
earth. The burning sun's rays that
would otherwise be absorbed in the
ground are flung back by the grass
into the air, twice heating it, and so
creating the vacuum that is the preparation
for a cyclone.
During his visit there in weather
which the oldest citizens pronounfoH
nr^inarv cinH mnHorato otiifti
ed the air with his telescope and distinctly
saw through that magnifying
medium the formation of three
tiny but unmistakably funnel-shaped
clouds.
A Yuma itself, Dr. Schildenkrantz
says, is like a typhoid germ carrier,
of whom we have examples occasionally
in a comunity. While diffus.
ing germs of typhus these persons
never suffer from them, and while
breeding and cradling tornadoes and
cyclones, Yuma is itself peacefully
immune from them.
Yuma is situated in the middle of
a wide prairie. It enjoys the cool
breezes that sweep downward
through the canyons of the Rockies.
It is vaunted by its 400 inhabitants,
t and justly boasted, a natural sanitarium.
Asthmatic patients, convalescents
and neurasthenics flock there
for cure and find it; but luma, like
its human prototypes, has faults, and
its fostering of cyclones is the chief.
?New York American.
The schools of Bamberg county
p will receive $482.66 from the State
dispensary fund, this being a part of
the fund which has accumulated from
various sources since 1912. The total
sum now available is $42,060.43,
which is to be pro rated among the
schools of the various counties. Barnf
well gets $856.35.
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STORIES OF BAI) WRITING.
Sometimes Brings About Funny Complications.
Sheridan's writing was a scandal to
his school and puzzled the town. He
once wrote a "pass" to Drury Lane,
and the doorkeeper stopped its bearer
and immediately pronounced it to
be a forgery, because he could decipher
it! To make matters worse,
Sheridan was also uncertain in his
spelling. A "which," a "where," and
a "whether" in his hands, for instance,
were as often as not deprived
of their "aiches," and a "thing" was
tn him nlwf,vs a "think" and nothing
more.
The atrocious writing of celebrities
recalls the cl^im once made on behalf
of Baron Bramwell that he wrote
three hands: "one which he alone
could read, another which his clerk
could read and he couldn't, and a
third which nobody could read," and
the last named was his usual style.
Lord Curzon, when a young man
at college, once found his bad handwriting
stand him in good stead.
Writing two letters, one to a relative,
the other to a chum, he enclosed
them in the wrong envelopes. It
chanced that in the second letter he
made some uncomplimentary reference
to his relative, and on discovering
the mistake he had made he
awaited developments with anxiety.
There presently came a letter from
the uncle. "I have tried to decipher
your epistle," it ran, but your writing
is so atrocious that I cannot make
head or tail of it. However, I guess
the drift of it to be that you need
some money, you rogue, so I enclose
a cheque."
Bad handwriting is not always a
handicap in life. The late I^ord
j Goschen once said that his father
attributed the foundation of his fortune
to the fact that he was obliged
to found a firm because he wrote such
a bad hand that no one would take
him for a clerk. Of Goschen himself,
Arthur Elliot records that "his
handwriting got steadily worse, and
in the later years he might have spelt
as he chose. At length his script
became undecipherable even by himself.
He could not, when speaking in
parliment, make out what it was that
he had put on paper, and he thus
came in later days to abandon almost
entirely his old practice of making
notes."
Prof. Blackie had a peculiar "fist."
An elderly compositor on the Scotsman,
however, knew nearly all about
the professor. One night there was a
particularly difficult manuscript from
the professor. It was put before the
expert, with an inquiry as to whether
or not he could set it. "I could not do
tViot " ooid tVio rotoran frnm Tnvor.
tuaty ouiu ? v^iv* uu aawaaa AAA ? v*
ary; "but if I'd ma pipes here I could
play her."
Another instance of the usefulness
to other people of illegible handwriting
is included in the vast collection
of anecdote and fable that deals with
the writing of Horace Greeley. One
compositor could never get used to
his appalling scrawl, and, in rage at
the continued "typographical errors,"
Greeley sent a note to the foreman
to discharge the man at once, as he
was too inefficient a workman to be
any longer employed on the Tribune.
The foreman did it, but the compositor
got hold of the note and took it
to another office, where the foreman,
after much puzzling, finalllv read it:
"Good and efficient workman, and
long employed on the Tribune," and
promptly took him in.
Joaquin Miller, the "Poet of the
Sierras," who died a few months
since, has been put forward as the
worst writer that ever lived. The
secretary of a literary society once
invited him to attend a banquet, and
received an answer, of which no one
could decipher a word. He wrote
again to the poet, stating the difficulty.
and suggested that, in replying,
he should make a cross at the foot of
his letter if he were coming, and a
circle if he could not be present. Miller
complied with the request, but nobody
could decide whether the mark
he made was intended for a circle or
a cross!?Philadelphia Ledger.
Sheriff Eludes Mob.
Bronson, Fla., Sept. 11.?Sheriff
Kalker, of Levy county, has spirited
Sam Lanier, a negro, to unknown
parts to-night to prevent, if possible,
a lynching. Lanier was arrested today
for a criminal assault on a young
white girl of a prominent family near
here a few days ago. As the mob
commenced to gather around the jail
to-night the sheriff left in an automobile
with his prisoner, but his
whereabouts are not known.
One Man is Killed and Another Hurt.
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 14.?Donald
Johnson, an electrician, was instantly
killed and E. D. Garrett, a
bank clerk, had an arm and leg brol
vi n Ar? An til A Vl A A aVi Via
ILL CL tUHiOIUil Wll LI1C UcaLlI UtJ~
tween Pablo and Atlantic Beach late
this afternoon. An automobile driven
by S. G. Burrell, approaching them,
skidded and struck the motorcycle.
Almost every bone in Johnson's body
was broken.
WORLD'S RECORD STURGEON. !
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One Fish Provides Meal for One 1
Thousand People.
Very seldom indeed is the stur-!
geon, the finny monster which Ed- j t
ward II made a royal fish, and which t
when caught in the Thames, becomes c
the property or tne crown, capiureu i
in English waters nowadays. j t
For this reason not a little inter- j s
est was aroused a few days ago j t
when it was announced that a stur- t
geon nine feet nine inches in length, a
weighing 439 pounds, had been I
caught in the River Delph at Weney 1:
Washes, near Littleport, Norfolk, 1
says London Tit-Bits. c
This fish, which according to the I
estimate of a salesman at Spitalfields. who
ultimately sold it for six pounds, >
would provide a meal for nearly 1,000
people, had been noticed in the
river, and attempts had been made
to shoot it. But the cartridges used ^
were loaded with shot too small to ^
Lave any effect on the sturgeon's
hard skin. A large net, therefore, c
was drawn across the water to pre- *]
c
vent the fish from escaping down the ^
river, after which a boat was rowed d
, alongside the fish, when one of the 1<
men succeeded in forcing a large and a
. powerful hook attached to a strong ^
pole into his throat. This enabled t
him to keep its head out of the
water just long enough for the fish
g
to be killed with a gun. c
Some idea of its size and weight <j
may be gathered frem the fact that r
i five men were required to land it.
This, however, is by no means the e
largest sturgeon which has been i
| eaugni in Hiiigusii waieis. 1 iie re- jcord
was a fish weighing 460 pounds, *
while in the North sea, fish weighing j
as much as 562 pouds and 735pounds c
have been captured by travelers. 1
It is pointed out that one of the j
most remarkable facts about the ^
fish netted in the North sea is that
they are similar to the American
. species, whence it would seem that ^
( the specimens caught from time to
time in our waters must have made
the voyage across the Atlantic, since
the fish appears to have died out as
. a regular inhabitant of British water. {
Sturgeons pass the greater part of <
the year in the sea, but periodically i
; ascend large rivers, and it was due t
to this characteristic that the speci? *
men was caught recently in the River \
Delph. (
Not only do they attain great size t
and weight, but, according to the estimates
cf some experts, they some- |
times live as long as 200 years, Apro- \
pos of tne Fact that Edward II made I
the sturgeon a royal fish, it is inter
esting to note that its flesh, quite i
apart from the fact that caviare is ]
made from the roe, is always held in 1
great estimation, ana in oiaen aays
was reserved for the table of the
king.
BOY IS HANGED FOR MURDER. ]
Killed His School Teacher Last February
and Pays Death Penalty.
Fort Smith, Ark., Sept. 11.?Omer
Davis, an eighteen-year-old country
boy, was hanged at Fayetteville, Ark.,
today for the murder of Miss Nellie
.Money nun, twenty-six, his school
teacher, near Springdale, February 2,
last.
Davis assisted the sheriff in placing
the noose around his neck, and before
the black cap was adjusted said to
the spectators of the execution: "I!
want all of you to meet me in hea- !
;
ven." i
Against the wishes of her husband
and many of her friends, Mrs. Davis !
carrying an infant walked many miles i
through northwest Arkansas getting '
signatures to a petition, asking the J i
governor for commutation of Davis's i
sentence to life imprisonment. After j
getting a considerable number of i
names, Mrs. Davis lost the petition j
one night. It was stolen from her. ; I
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iyrnes Introduces Resolution in National
House for 2d District.
Washington, Sept. 11.?Represenative
James F. Byrnes has just reinroduced
a joint resolution which he
>ffered during the last Congress deleting
the Secretary of Agriculture
o cause a survey to be made of the
wamp and tidal lands of the 2d disrict
of South Carolina, to determine
lid fAOcil\ih>ir o ri ooot /if 1 AmCli n O*
iic icaoiuiiit> anu tujimd
draining ''these lands, and the
>enefits to agriculture and the public
lealth which would result therefrom,
rhe resolution was referred to the
ommittee on agriculture of which
Representative Lever is chairman.
NOTICE OF PROBATE JUDGE'S
SALE.
Pursuant to an order of the Prolate
Court in the case of W. C.
Hack, plaintiff, against Maggie HamIton
et al.s defendants, I, G. P. Har:ion.
Judge of Probate in and for the
ounty of Bamberg, will sell at pubic
auction to the highest bidder for
ash, in front of the court house
loor, Bamberg, S. C., on the 6th.
lay of October, 1913, between the
egal hours of sale on said day, in
.id of the personal assets of the
state of Martin Hamilton, deceased,
he following described tract of land,
o-wit:
All that certain tract or parcel of
and situate in Buford's Bridge townhip,
county of Bamberg, State of
iouth Carolina, containing one hunIred
and fifty-eight (158) acres,
nore or less, and bounded as folows:
North by lands of A. F. Free, for- =
idmerly lands of H. M. Ray, and by
ands of estate of J. C. McMillan;
Cast by lands of the Halyard estate
.nd lands of H. D. Beard; South by
ands of H. D. Beard and lands of
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;>ULitri .uujiindii, emu vv col uy iauuo
>f J. W. McMillan and J. C. McMilan.
Said tract of land is more fully
[escribed on plat made by L. N. Belinger,
Surveyor, dated February
11 St., 1894.
G. P. HARMON,
Judge of Probate for Bamberg
ounty.
Bamberg, S. C., Sept. 15th., 1913.
NOTICE OF MASTER'S SALE.
By virtue of a decree of the court
)f common pleas in thte case of Ida
Richardson et al., against Pearl Folk
Jt al., I, H. C. Folk, Master for Bamberg
county, will sell at public auc.ion
to the highest bidder for cash,
it the court house door, Bamberg,
5. C., on the 6th. day of October,
L913, between the legal hours of sale
)n said day, the following described
ract of land, to-wit: ?
All that certain tract or parcel of =
and situate in the county of Bam- I
)erg, State of South Carolina, confining
two hundred thirty-two
[232) acres, more or less, and bounded
on the North by lands of the es:ate
of Conrad Ehrhardt, East by
ands of W. D. Bennett, South by
ands of the estate of C. R. Folk, and
West by lands of Wm. L. Warren.
Purchaser to pay for papers. 1
H. C. FOLK,
Master for Bamberg County.
CARTER & CARTER,
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Bamberg, S. C., September 15, 1913.
NOTICE OF MASTER'S SALE.
By virtue of a decree of the court
)f common pleas in the case of Nettie
Simmons, plaintiff, against J. E.
Kennedy, et al., defendants, I, H. C.
Folk, Master for Bamberg county,
Rill sell at public auction to the
lighest bidder for cash at the court
louse door, Bamberg, S. C., on the
>th. day of October, 1913, between =
he legal hours of sale on said day,
he following described tract of land,
o-wit.
All that certain tract or parcel of
and situate in the county of Bamjerg,
State of South Carolina, conaining
ninety-five (95) acres, more
)r less, and bounded on the North
)y lands of M. B. Kennedy and Richnond
Wroton, East by lands of Dave
leter. (known as Bolen lands,)
South by lands of Mrs. D. E. Hutto
md Nettie Nimmons, and West by
ands of the said Nettie Nimmons.
Purchaser to pay for papers.
H. C. FOLK,
Master for Bamberg County.
CARTER & CARTER,
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Bamberg, S. C., September 15, 19?3.
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