The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 25, 1913, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
A. \V. KNIGHT, Editor.
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Thursday, Sept. 25,1913
Wonder why it is the people of
Bamberg county take so little interest
in the question of good roads?
We congratulate our friend, J. L.
Sims, of Orangeburg, on his appointment
as United States marshal for
South Carolina. He will make an
Excellent official, and his appointment
is but a fitting tribute to a
sterling Democrat who h^s labored
for the good of the party all his life.
FAME OF O'LEARY'S COW.
Wicked New simper Man Forced KeD.own
on Kine When Chicago Burned.
Major John B. Jefferv, of Chicago,
who is said to have founded the first
1-cent newspaper, was recalling at
the Hotel Cumberland some incidents
of a career that began as a printers'
"devil" in Hamilton, Ontario, and led
him by way of Chicago and the Phil+
voorc? eove Thii Vou- York Timps.
C %V \J > COl O, OttJW A A4V A1V ?? - W- ?.
Major Jeffery is the man who immortalized
Mrs. O'Leary's cow, an?1 the
part that recalcitrant animal played
in the Chicago fire.
"I went to Chicago in 1862," said
Major Jeffery, "started in on the old
morning Post, now The Inter Ocean'.
I worked on the paper with the late
Charles A. Dana, when it was called
The Republican. I have handled the
copy of many notable men, among
them Mark Twain, Frank Wilkie and
James Whitcomb Riley. Riley, by the
way, was a sign painter when I was
business manager of the Indianapolis
Sentinel. He was writing little squibs
for the theaters on the side. He used
to come over to our office in the middle
of the day and tell us yarns about
the "old swimming hole,' and other
spots he has since written about. *
"At that time The Morning Journal
was Republican and The Sentinel was
Democrats, and there was a lot of
news that neither would print. John
Holliday was president of The Sentinel
company. He and I decided that
Indianapolis needed another paper,
and the result was The Indianapolis
News. Holliday prepared all the copy
for the new sheet himself, and I actually
set the type for the first copy
of the paper. The News afterward
sold for over $900,000, but I didn't
get any of the money.
"For years I was manager of The
Chicago Evening Journal. During the
fire in October, 1S71, while the opposite
side of the river was burning,
we got out the only paper that appeared.
I wrote and set up the story
of Mrs. O'Leary's cow. That originated
in a curious way. My. cashier's
name was Dan Horan. We had taken
temporary quarters in an old building
and Gen. Sheridan had given me
a company of soldiers and told me to
get out a paper if I could.
"I didn't have any copy, but I set
up the first column and a half of type,
with the exception of one tiny paragraph.
The first column was composed
of a headline.
"Well, Dan came in drunk. I asked
him where he had been. 'Sure, sir,'
he replied, 'I've been saving the files
r>f thp Journal: t.hev are in vour sta
bles on the West Side.'
" 'What do you know about the
origin of the fire?' I asked him.
" 'Sure, I know all about it,' he replied.
'It started in a stable on DeKoven
street. A woman was milking
a cow there and the cow kicked over
the lamp.' He added that the woman
was a Mrs. O'Leary. I set up the story
without copy, and it made about a
stickful. It went all over the country.
Mrs. O'Leary denied it up tc
the day of her death, but nothins
could stop the story."
MI LKS HIGH PRICED.
Riggest Dealer in America Tells of
Demand for Them.
| A. D. Cottingham, of Kansas City.
Jsays the word "1111111811" in the die[itionary.
is not properly understood
land that its definition of "sullen.
stubborn" is one that maligns every
. mule in the United States, with the
L exception of a few "outlaws," says
' the Xew York Times. Mr. Cotting
ham is not a lexicographer, but a
[ mule dealer, the biggest in the country,
and in the world, he believes,
and as he has been dealing with
I mules for twenty-seven years and
has known hundreds of thousands
l of them personally he is inclined to
believe that his definition of a mule
r and its derivatives, speaking meta;
phorically. ought to have some weight
as against the evidence of learned
^ doctors, who speak only by hearsay.
It is a source of regret with Mr.
, Cottingham, who came on yesterday
' to meet his wife arriving from Europe.
that the North and East have
. not taken the mule to their bosom
as the South has done. He can only
' explain this neglect by the existence
, hereabout of a tradition that a horse
i is better than a mule for any kind
' of work and the definition in the
dictionaries that leads people to
- think th*e hybrid lazy and unmanagei
able.
"Kansas City sold more mules to
the British government during the
South African war than did any other
market,"' said Mr. Cottingham yesterday
at the Wolcott. "At that
time the American mule was a small
creature, and the sale of the big lot
during that period was not any loss
to this cbuntry. Nowadays the farmj
ing machinery that a mule has to
j work would be too heavy for the
| mule of ten or twelve years ago.
I Since that time muie Dreeamg
| been developed tremendously by the
| use of better mares. Twenty years
ago the top price of mules was from
$60 to $75. The best mules now
fetch anywhere from $225 to $275,
and the average of the S.50.0 sold
last year was $190. I have seen
some sell for $350, and others which
were intended for show purposes
have brought still bigger prices.
"When I started out in the business
they called me "the Gypsy,' because
I used to travel in a gypsy
wagon," continued Mr. Cottingham.
"I used to travel some pretty great
distances. It was a sort of hand-tomouth
existence, but it is pleasant
to look back upon when you have
come to be doing considerably over
a million and a half dollars' worth
of business in a year.
"While the South is a great country
for raising mules, it is not much
for breeding them. Most of the
mules used in this country come from
Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. We
have two big seasons. The season
for what we call 'cotton' mules starting
in September and lasts until
April. Then the season for 'sugar'
mules begins in June and lasts until
September. The sugar mule is the
best on the market, but the cotton
mule is pretty good. We call them
hv those terms because the former
are in demand for work upon sugar
plantations, while the, latter are needed
for working cotton plantations.
"The mule is the nicest dumb
brute there is. Why, in my stable in
Kansas City, which has a frontage
of 645 feet, I don't keep the mules
in stalls, but in pens. They don't
fight, and I can put double the number
of mules there that I could of
horses, and you could handle those
animals all day long without any
trouble. It's all bosh about their
being harder to handle than horses.
I don't know how the term 'mulish'
was derived, except the man who
first used it might have come up
against what we call an 'outlaw,' an
independent cuss of a mule: but
pshaw! there are just as many 'outlaws'
among horses as among .mules.
Why, I could put 100 mules into one
of your streets here with only three
men to handle them, and they
f V> of oil
wwuiun t luicucii: ? mi n uxuv/ at uii.
A mule becomes very much attached
to the man who drives it. If you
were to lead a procession of 200
mules with an old gray mare, they
would follow her all day, especially
if she had a bell on her, and if the
mare went into the water over her
head the mules would go right in,
too. You see they can easily distinguish
a gray horse. They will
not follow a bay so readily.
"While automobiles have had a
big effect on the sale and use of draft
and coach horses, they have not affected
the mule market. We sold
more last year than the year before."
An epidemic of scarlet fever has
caused the suspension of the schools
at Mullins, Marion county.
. F. H. Hyatt, of Columbia, denies
I iJi<41 lie: >> a. 11 ap^ntaiu iv/i n?v
! tion of United States marshal.
I
. | So far suits aggregating 177,000
j have been filed against the Chester &
)! Lancaster railroad on account of the
M wreck at Hooper's creek July 30th
j last.
A BATTLE WITH A PYTHON.
Two Cyclists Have Life and Death
Sfi'iKxiio with Rpntiie. I
! Snake stories, like tish stories, are
} sometimes flavored with a certain j
; amount of imagination. The following
strange and stirring adventure
I with a python, however, is absolutely
j vouched for, says Wide World MagI
azine.
To anyone who is familiar with
Rhodesia, where the incident occurred,
it is common knowledge that
the boundless tracts of veldt, alterI
nated with wooded patches and rug!
ged kopjes, afford excellent breeding
grounds for the python, the everdangerous
puff-adder, the treacherous
boom-slang and several other
varieties of snakes.
During the winter of 1912 (about
duly) two friends of a Mr. Morgan
had occasion to visit him at his farm,
j called Bitton. The homestead is sit|
nated about 30 miles from the town|
ship of Salisbury, the capital of the
j country, and in the Lomagundi dis'
trict. The gentlemen referred to had
I cycled to Morgan's homestead, and
| were accompanied by a very active
j and pugnacious Scotch terrier dog,
| the property of one of the men. Afj
ter transacting their business with
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I .wr. .Morgan uie.\ muuuicu men e.?cles
and started slowly on their return
journey along an improvised
road or track which led to the home!
stead. After covering a distance of
oOO or 600 yards they were surrounded
by bush land, or veldt,
! which is generally covered with long,
coarse, stalky grass eight or ten feet
in height. The terrier had run on
some distance in front of the cyclists,
I and was seen to enter the grass
| which adjoined the track. It was
then heard to bark furiously. On i
reaching a point opposite the dog's i
j location its owner dismounted with j
j the view of ascertaining the cause j
| of its persistent barking. His friend j
! also dismounted on the track, and j
remained there, awaiting results, j
while the owner of the dog passed I
on into the grass. After going a few j
yards he observed a large python in j
close proximity to and facing his dog.
The python took one look at the new j
intruder: then, with lightning rapid-!
itv, it advanced upon the dog and j
wound itself round its body, at the :
same time biting it on the shoulder. J
The howls of the dog were heart-'
rending, and its owner, in deepest j j
despair, hurriedly ran forward and j
planted his foot on that part of the
snake immediately behind its head.
At the same time he loudly shouted
tc his friend, "Come in ? quick."
The call was observed at once; it
also attracted the attention of a
native "boy," who was at hand, mak- j
ing his way to Morgan's homestead, j
The curiosity of the "boy" was of J
course, aroused, and he in turn hur- 11
riedly entered the bush. On the ap- '
proach of Cj'clist No. 2 the python
released its hold of the dog and :
promptly coiled its body around one i
of the legs of the gentleman, who,
struggling and only with the greatest
difficulty, kept his foot on the
monster's neck. The extraordinary
strength which was now exerted by
the snake caused intense pain to
the man who was thus entangled.
By good luck, however, he was wearing
stout leather leggins, which, to a
certain extent, protected him. ;
The snake's crushing grip grew
tighter and fighter, and in his suffer- :
ing he called upon his friend to *.
seize the reptile by the tail, while at
the same time he cast watchful eyes
on the head of the snake. The snakebound
captive next ordered the 1
"boy"?who stood gazing in amazement
at respectful distance?to run
auicklv to Mr. Morgan's homestead
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and bring* a gun and cartridges.
Natives, of course, are not allowed
to carry firearms in Rhodesia, but in
unusual circumstances, such as those
described, exceptions must be tolerated.
At all events, the "boy" was
only too glad to undertake the order, .
and rushed off toward the homestead. 1
Meanwhile, the eyelist, who still? :
though with the utmost difficulty? 1
maintained his footing on the snake's
neck, found that by the strenuous
efforts of his friend in holding the i
snake's tail, the pain in his leg was
less acute. Nevertheless, the
minutes dragged horribly, and all the
time the snake made persistent efforts
to throw off the foot that held
him down. Only those who have
observed the terrible strength of
these creatures can realize the danger
and difficulty of the sitvration
which confronted the captive. Undoubtedly,
but for the handicap of
having its tail held up, the snake
would have accomplished its purpose?thrown
the man off and seized
him in a death grip.
What with the pain and suspense,
the man presently began to stagger
under the tremendous efforts of the
{ snake to free itself, while his friend
j experienced the utmost difficulty in
maintaining his hold of its tail. It
was. however, a case of life or death,
so each held tenaciously.
At last the "boy" arrived with gun
and cartridges, but stood back in
great terror, for the natives have an
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MS IH| aBE^EEBA BBi BBS JkM EgM
MWVVliU
I invite the attention c
customers and the pub
Saturday, the 4th <
and contim
Tuesday, October
I will offer my entire
cept Groceries) at a
have a large stock of
GENERAL MERCHANDI
Which I intend to sell
tively no goods charge
all, you will be met an
j my store headquarters
I have to make room
arrive later. This is
do your early fall sb
forget the date. V<
J. D. DAI
ijk EHRHARDT, SOL
FIVE MORE LIQUOR SHOPS. jHM
Total of Ten so Far Planned for
Barnwell County. mL
Barnwell Sept. 21.?The people of ^
Barnwell county, having declared J
themselves in favor of the re-estab- 4TTHE ;
i.oV,m/snt nf +V10 Hiononcflrv thp hoard I
of control is doing what it can to ^ , place
whiskey where they can buy it T ^
conveniently. At a meeting held here 51 Winte]
this week, it was decided to open .
dispensaries in five iriore towns, as V/H01C6
follows: Kline, Ulmer, Hilda, Snell- ?? A"D"d1p
ing and Dunbarton. This brings the
total up to ten towns that will have 31 Red R
dispensaries. T "P H "M
Mr. C. D. McLendon was elected Xv6Q JM
dispenser at Fairfax, vice Mr. J. T. OFclHgi
Wilson, who was previously elected ^ .
and could not take the oath required vIHIlSC
by the board. The dispensaries will 3 Winte]
probably be opened about Nov. 1.
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extraordinary fear for snakes. The _ semi-dazed
cyclist, however, his iA XwtW \j
limbs racked with pain, vehemently U When
ordered the "boy" to hand him the Scish
gun and cartridges. Gingerly the' 5
native approached, and at arm's SclV6 "!
length handed over his burden; then 51 Hog!
he instantly ran back to a safe dis- I <?>
tance. his face a picture of abject j FcirmO
fear. Mechanically the cyclist placed !
two cartridges in the gun, lowered j J
the muzzle, and at close quarters i *1 1TA
blew the snake's head into pulp. In \ * V
its final death struggles the brute! 4 **
threw its captive to the ground, some 41 ORANGEI
yards away, and also shook off the
tail-holder. XE3SSSS
Both men were exhausted after ^ _J.
their trying experience and glad to b\LCONtY FILLS
get a rest. Afterward they measured
the dead reptile, and found it thirteen
feet in length, and, unextended, Cerry Celebration P
averaged nearly six inches in thick- Tragic Ei
ness.
They 6ktnned the snake as evidence Cleveland, O., Se
of the plight in which they had been the last sect'ion of tl
placed, and to-day its outer covering rjaj celebration par
may be viewed in Salisbury. .,n impr0vised balcoi
The dog fortunately recovered, and taurant here tonight
to-day is as vivacious and pugnacious lapsed upon the crc
as before. walk below, killing
On news of the encounter being an(j two little girls,
communicated to Mr. Morgan, he re- j jn tjie cr0wd were c
called that, while passing the same! -phe parade in whi
place a few days previously, he had j members of patioti
heard a rustling sound among the 1 tnnt- 1
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grasses near the roadside, in close j ^y-g programme of
proximity to a small stream. At the j Nearly half a million
time he concluded it was caused by a j streets along which
buck which had been startled, but ! an(j were Undaur
now believed it was occasioned byi^^ fen for sevei
the self-same python. j
Thus ended an episode which, in To Prevent Bloc
less favorable circumstances, might j apply at once the wond<
well have been fraught with fatal
consequences. the same time. Not a lini
>f all my friends and 1
lie generally that on. I '
fA . 1 1A1A
or uctooer, iuu
ling until
the 14th, 1913
stock of goods (exnd
below cost. 1
ISE AND FURNITURE
off for cash. Posid.
Come one, come
d waited on. Make
during these 10 days,
for goods that will
a chance for you to
opping. Now don't
1
ery truly,
WELLY
TH CAROLINA Jj)
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SEED AND FEED MEN"S
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5-rade Seeds. f*
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r Hairy Vetch. t , ?J
Recleaned Hundred Bushel Oats. |?
Oats, best grade. j* :
ust Proof Oats. fj
[ay and Purple Straw Wheat. 2?
sburg County Rye. y
>n Clover and Alfalfa. Zj
r uaney. ?
Essex Rape and Onion Sets. ?
rround Lime, only $3.65 per ton. |[
you build get our prices on Doors, fl?
l, and Blinds, you will save money. |i
if our Corn and feed Rice flour to [g?
s, far better and cheaper. |*
germe, acre size $2, five acres $9 J?
rs & Williams >
1URG, SOUTH CAROLINA ?
i: MAX DEAD ! C1TAT1Q.V NOTICE. .
? I The State of South Carolina?
arade Marked by County of Bamberg?By Geo. P. Harmon,
Esq., Judge of Probate,
iding. Whereas, W. D. Kinard hath
_ made suit to me to grant him letters
~ of administration of the estate of and
pt. 17.?Just as effects of J. M. Kinard, deceased:
tie Perry Centen-! These are therefore to cite and
o/jg was Dassina admomsn an and singular ins sm~
f ., 0 r? dred and creditors of the said J. M.
ay outside a res- Kjnard> deceasedi that they be
, the balcony col- a.nd appear before me in the Court of /
>wd on the side- Probate, to be held at Bamberg, on
thrpp nthpr mpn Monday, October 13th next, after
C 1 .th.r publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in
Several other* the forenoon, to show cause, if any
ut and bruised, they have, why the said administrach
fifty thousand tion should not be granted,
c and fraternal Given under my hand and seal this
. ? . . . . 23rd day of September, A. D., 1913.
part fnished to- GEC p HARMON, 3
the celebration. Judge of Probate.
people lined the
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ited by the rain, F # W 1 1 > JIV#
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rrful old reliable DR. j
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