The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 23, 1913, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 189.1.
A. W. KNIGHT, Editor.
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Thursday, October 23, iyia
Do not hesitate to make your contribution
to the new dormitory because
you cannot give a large amount.
All contributions, large and small,
are needed and will be appreciated.
It is unlawful now to shoot partridges
before November 15th, and as
this is a Federal law our local hunters
had best be very careful lest they
run afoul of Uncle Sam.
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Mr. W. W. Smoak, who formerly
owned and edited the Walterboro
Press and Standard, but who moved
to Madisonville, Ky., some months
ago, writes us that he is coming backto
South Carolina this week, and will
be with the Anderson Intellingencer,
which was recently purchased by a
stock company. Mr. Smoak says he
is delighted at the prospect of getting
back to the Palmetto State, and we
are glad to have him in the journalistic
ranks of South Carolina again.
One white man who killed another
and who is supposed to be serving a
sentence for the crime is permitted
to go on a hunting trip, and another
who is serving a sentence in the
penitentiary for taking the life of a
human being is paroled by the governor
for a while to go home and attend
to his business affairs. With
such things as these being allowed
by omciais, is it any wonuer mat
human life is so cheap in South
Carolina? Honestly, we are ashamed
of our State.
CONSTABLE KILLS PRISONER.
Spartanburg County Officer Claims
Self-defence?Gives Bond.
Spartanburg, October 19.?Alvin J.
Wood, constable for Magistrate Henderson.
killed Charlie Thompson, a
negro, near Carlisle school house,
several miles from Spartanburg, Friday
night. He was endeavoring to arrest
Thompson on a charge of dis-1
posing of mortgaged property, and
the negro, it is said, refused to accompany
him until he had eaten his
supper. Wood started to drag Thompson
away by force. The negro resisted
and the constable shot him. Wood
cave that Thompson drew a nocket
knife and started to cut him, and lie j
killed the prisoner in self-defence, j
. Wood was committed to the county
jail on a charge of murder, and remained
there all night, but Saturday
was released on $2,000 bail.
Coroner John S. Turner conducted
an inquest into Thompson's death.
The jury found he died of a gunshot
wound inflicted by Wood.
Silberger Admits Tlieft of $11,000.
Roanoke, Va., Oct. 18.?After
pleading guilty to the theft of $11,000
from the Pocahontas post office,
former Assistant Postmaster Edward
Silberger was remanded to the Roanoke
city jail this afternoon by
United States Commissioner Goodloe.
Mrs. Silberger, wife of the prisoner,
neia as an accessory, vsaneu scaling.
She has a six-months-old baby
and for that reason was not sent to
jail. She will remain at the headquarters
of the local Salvation Army,
the wife of the captain in charge
signing a bond to insure Mrs. Silberger's
appearance before the United
States court at Danville in November,
when her husband's case will
go to a federal grand jury.
An effort will be made to secure
bail for both of them.
The prisoners were arrested in
Cleveland several days ago, to which
place they had fled from Pocohontas.
They were brought here this after
noon.
TO STAM> TRIAL FOR MFKDER.
i Two Xegroes Xabbed Xear Spartanj
burs; by West Virginia Deputy.
j Spartanburg, Oct. 19.?Charged
I with the murder of a special officer
I employed by a coal mining company
; in .Mingo county, W. Ya., John Henj
derson and Henry Hall, negroes, were
I arrested as fugitives from justice on
( a Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway
train at Chesnee Friday night.
The arrest was made by \V. O. Power,
a West Virginia deputy sheriff?an
old man of patriarchal aspect, with a
white beard reaching almost to his
waist. Power started back to Mingo
county with the negroes Saturday.
Nothing was said of extradition.
Power had been on Henderson's
trail for a week. He traced linn
from Mingo county to St. Paul, Ya.,
at the northern end of the Clinchfield
Road, and reached the conclusion
that the negro had headed for his
home, at Greenville. S. C. The deputy
sheriff started down the Clinchlield
Road, making inquiries of trainmen
and others. During the trip he
ran across Henry Hall, whom he knew
to be a pal of Henderson, but of I
whose alleged connection with the j
killing he had no suspicion when !
he started out. Following Hall, the
deputy sheriff saw him join Henderson.
Both boarded a south-bound
train. Power boarded the same train,
and when it reached Chesnee placed
the negroes under arrest. The
charge against Hall is based on the
assistance he is alleged to have given
Henderson in the latter's attempt to
escape. Hall is accused of being an I
accessory to the murder after the
fact.
ELIJAH'S STORY PROVED.
California Redwoods Index to Past
Climatic Conditions.
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The discovery that the big trees of j
California are an index to climatic
conditions almost from the beginning j
of time has just been announced by |
Ellsworth Huntington, a government |
scientist, in a publication entitled The
Secret of the Big Trees.
In the growth rings of the big
trees, the Sequoia Wasbingtonians,
.Mr. Huntington finds evidence that
California suffered from the same
drouth that ended in Asia Minor
when the prophet Elijah prayed for
rain 870 years before Christ.
Famine afflicted Palestine in the
days of Elijah, according to the Biblical
story. No rain fell, the brooks
ran dry, and distress was prevalent
all over the land. King Ahab sent
for Obadiah and commanded him
to "go through the land, unto all the
fountains of water and unto all the
brooks; peradventure we may find
grass and save the horses and mules
alive, that we lose not all the beasts."
Obadiah met Elijah on his journey
and escorted the latter to King Ahab.
Elijah prayed for rain and the famine
was stopped. From this famine, 870
years before Christ, to the Sierra Nevada
mountains seems a long cry,
but Mr. Huntington claims he has
bridged the distance by growth
curves on the trees.
The curves begin with the epoch
of the Trojan war, about 1200 B. C.
There both curves dip very low, indicating
an epoch of sudden and severe
dessication. That particular period,
historians tell us, was one of the
most chaotic in all history.
The famine in the days of Elijah
appears in both curves. Apparently
at that time the climate did not become
extremely dry, nothing like so
bad as it had been a few hundred
years earlier during the 12th century,
but there was rather a distinct fall
ing off in the amount of ramian, as
compared with the uncommonly good
conditions of the preceding century.
About 700 years before Christ both
curves stand high in the day when the
Greeks were laying the foundation of
their future greatness and the empires
of Mesopotamia were at their
height. Then comes a pronounced
falling off, with a recovery 300 or
4 00 years before Christ, anothe.' decline
culminating reaching a high
point 50 B. C.
The time of Christ, the great era
of universal peace under tne sway or
Rome, was apparently an epoch of
favorable climate, a time of abundant
rain and consequent good crops
in all the countries around the Mediterranean
sea and eastward in Asia,
as well as in California. Next comes
a long period of decline culminating
six or seven centuries after the time
of Christ. No period in all history,
save that which centres about 1200
B. C., was more chaotic, and that
early period also appears to have
i been a time of greatly diminished
i rainfall.?Kansas City Star.
i Farmer Killed By Negro, Who Flees.
Wilmington, N. C., Oct. IS.?Seat|
ed beside his little nephew in a buggy
I in which they were driving to mar|
ket at Wilson. N. C., late today, Ross
I Flowers, a well to do farmer of Wil
i son county, was shot to death by Tom
| Debren, a negro whom he met in the
j road e?id with whom he quarreled.
I Debren escaped to the swamps and a
J posse is in pursuit tonight.
MEAT CHOKES CHILI) TO DEATH.
Morsel, Lodged in Throat at Breakfast,
Causes Death at Night.
Gaffney, Oct. 20.?Emma Hughes,
iIia :nar-vear-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John Hughes, choked to death
Sunday night, about 9 o'clock, presumably
on a piece of meat. The little
girl had been sick throughout the day
but it was not known what the trouble
was. When the family retired
she was given a dose of castor oil.
but at 9 o'clock the family was
awakened by her cries and it was
found that she was rapidly choking
to death. A physician was summoned
and the meat extracted, but not
before life was extinct. Members of
the family say that the child had had
no meat since breakfast, and it is
therefore presumed that the lodgment
had been in her throat since
morning. The physician who removed
the meat stated that there was no
evidence of digestion having set in,
proving conclusively that the substance
could not have been in the
child's stomach throughout the day.
IX WOMAN'S WORLD.
Interesting Figures and Facts About
Feminine Folk.
A woman 5 feet 6 inches in height
should weigh 144 pounds.
The mortality of women is greater
between the age of 20 and 40.
Seventy-two married women live to
the age of 45 against 52 unmarried.
Smoking jackets are the latest addition
to the attire worn by London
women.
Turkey has a daily newspaper
%\hich is managed and edited entirely
by women.
The ban which prevented telephone
girls in the employ of the Italian government
from marrying has been lifted
through the influence of Queen
Helena. As a result of the new order
70 switchboard brides in Rome alone
will be led to the altar within the
next month.?Birmingham Ledger.
ACC 1DENTALLY ELECTROCUTED.
Prominent Florida Man Dies when
He Touches Lives Wire.
Tampa, Fla., Oct. 19.?W. A. Lemeiu,
one of the most prominent
real estate and insurance men in
CrtiitV! TTlnfMa wac pi Pf>t TOP 11 tpd in
UVUtll i. 1VA AViUf ?.
his garage at St. Petersburg at 9
o'clock to-night, according to a special
to the Tribune. Mr. Lemeiu
went to his garage to get his machine,
and when he reached up to
turn on the electricity he touched
an exposed portion of the wiring and
was almost instantly killed. Mr.
Lemeiu came to St. Petersburg several
years ago from Adrian, Mass..
where he is well known.
Drunken Monkeys.
According to a recent letter from
the Congo region on the west coast
of Africa the monkeys there are inordinately
fond of a kind of beer
made by the native, who use the beverage
to capture their poor relations.
Having placed quantities of beer
where the monkeys can get at it, the
natives wait until their victime are
in various degrees of inebriation, and
when they mingle with them the poor
creatures are too much fuddled to
recognize the difference between necrr-n
on/j one wiion n rpfm takes
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the hand of one of them to lead him
off, some other fond creature clings
to the hand of the latter one, and another
to his hand; thus a single negro
may sometimes be seen carrying off a
string of staggering monkeys. When
secured the beer is administered in
decreasing quantities, so that they
may only gradually awaken to the
sad results of their spree.?Tid-Bits.
National Beverages.
Norwegians are one of the most
temperate of Northern nations, consuming
but 46^4 pints of beer and
4 y2 of brandy per head of population.
The Dane drinks on the average
156 pints of beer, but little wine, and
only 6 pints of brandy each year. The
Swede manages to consume 84 pints
of beer and 13 pints of spirits. The
D.ioeion arinlrc 7U nints nf vodka
and the same amount of beer. The
Frenchman, however, takes 100 pints
of wine, 15 of beer and 48 of brandy.
The Britisher soothes himself
with 9 pints of whiskey or gin, 3 of
claret and 228 of beer.
The Dutchman will drink 54 pints
of beer and 12 of brandy. Taking
every German province to obtain an
average, it is found that the German
consumes 187% pints of beer, 102%
of wine and 9% of spirits. In Munich,
however, the average amount
per hear rises to S50% pints, being
the highest of any province, while
the lowest average obtains in the |
northern province of Alsatia. Here
the inhabitants are satisfied with only
144 pints of beer per head.
The Italian is the least of all addicted
to alcoholic beverages, taking
only 3 pints of beer, 1 % of alcoholic
beverages and 144 of wine per head.
?Answers.
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of all kinds neatly done. Dixie Tailors,
opposite post office.
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BAMBERG, S. C.
urchases of Bamberg County Dispensary Board, Friday,
October 10th, 1913
FREIDMAN KEILER & CO., Paducah, Ky.
mount Brand Cost Price Selling Price
0 cases Old Possum Corn @ ?8.50 in qts. ?1.00
5 cases Old Possum Corn (ft ?9.00 in pts. .60
0 cases Old Possum Corn (ft ?9.50 in ^pts. .30
0 cases Crescent Club Rye (ft ?8.75 in qts. 1.00
5 cases Crescent Club Rye (ft ?9.25 in pts. .60
5 cases Crescent Club Rye 'ft) ?9.75 in %pts. .30 ^
MERCANTILE DISTILLING CO., Cincinnati, O.
0 cases Rogers Corn (ft ?8.50 in qts. ?1.00
5 cases Rogers Corn @ ?9.50 in pts. .60
0 cases Rogers Corn (ft ?10.50 in ^pts. .30
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0 cases Private Stock Rye @ $8.50 in qts. i.vu
5 cases Private Stock Rye @ $9.50 in pts. .60
5 cases Private Stock Rye @ $10.50 in ^pts. .30 ^
JACK CRANSTON CO., Baltimore, Md. J
0 cases Upper Ten Rye @ $10.50 in qts. $1.25
0 cases Upper Ten Rye (7? $11.50 in pts. .75
0 cases Diadora Corn (7? $8.50 in qts. 1.00
5 cases Three Feathers Rye @ $10.51) in qts. 2.00 1
5 cases Three Feathers Rye @ $17.50 in pts. 1.00 I
5 cases Scotch Whiskey (5 $13.00 in qts. 1.50
PEOPLES DISTILLING CO., Cincinnati, O.
0 drums Magnolia Corn (3 $24.50 in qts. $'..60
00 drums Magnolia Corn @ $25.50 in pts. .35 A
00 drums Magnolia Corn <71 $26.50 in %pts. .20
50 drums Club Flush Rye (7? $24.50 in qts. .60
00 drums Club Flush Rye @ $25.50 in pts. .35
00 drums club Flush Rye (77 $26.50 in -^pts. .20 ^
00 drums Overholt Rye <Q $30.50 in qts. . .75 ,
00 drums Overholt Rye (77 $31.50 in pts. .40
00 drums Overholt Rye (77 $32.50 in ^pts. ,25
PEOPLES DISTILLING CO., Cincinnati, O.
'Gal. Qts. Pts. ^p.
0 barrels 100 Proof Corn (77 $1.49 gallon $2.75 .75 .40 .25
0 barrels 90 Proof Gin (a $1.32 gallon 2.25 .60 .35 .20
0 barrels 90 Proof Corn @ $1.36 gallon 2.25 .60 .35 .20
2 barrels 188 Proof Alcohol @ $2.64 gallon .95 .50 ^
0 barrels 100 Proof Rye @ $1.55 gallon 2.75 .75 .40 .25 ^
0 barrels 90 Proof Rye @ $1.36 gallon 2.25 .60 .35 .20
ROSSKAM, GERSTLEY & CO., Philadelphia, Pa. * *
20 cases Old Saratoga @ $13.25 in qts. $1.50
25 cases Old Saratoga (3 $14.25 in pts. .75
30 cases Old Saratoga @ $15.00 in %pts. .40
30 cases H. A. Rogers Rye 'Tz $9.00 in qts. 1.00
20 cases H. A. Rogers Rye (a SI0.00 in pts. .bu
20 cases H. A. Rogers Rye @ $11.00 in %pts. .30
BERNHEIM REXINGER CO., Cincinnati, O.
50 cases Tom Gin @ $7.25 in qts. $ .75
75 cases Tom Gin (d $7.75 in pts. .40
00 cases Tom Gin @ $8.33 in ^pts. .25 * i
50 cases Private Stock Rye @ $8.50 in qts. 1.00 J
75 cases Private Stock Rye (f? $0.00 in pts. .60 ~ ^
00 cases Private Stock Rye <q> $9.50 in HPts. .30 1
50 cases Silver Dent Corn <5 $8.75 in qts. 1.00 I
75 cases Silver Dent Corn $9.75 in pts. .60 '
00 cases Silver Dent Corn @ $10.75 in ^pts. .30
50 cases Mett Grove Rye @ $12.00 in qts. 1.25
75 cases Mett Grove Rye @ $12.50 in pts. .65
00 cases Mett Grove Rye @ $13.00 in ^pts. .35
15 cases Manhattan C. Tail @ $8.00 in pts. .50
20 cases Manhattan C: Tail @ $8.50 in %pts. .25 ^
15 cases Rexmore Special Rye @ $12.00 in qts. 1.25
25 cases Rexmore Special Rye (q $13.00 in pts. .65
25 cases Rexmore Special Rye @ $14.00 in %pts. .35 ti
BERNHEIM REXINGER & CO., Cincinnati, O.
5 drums Apple Brandy @ $25.00 in pts. $ .40 ^
5 drums Apple Brandy @ $26.00 in ^pts. .25
5 drums Peach Brandy @ $25.00 in pts. .40
5 drums Peach Brandy @ $26.00 in %pts. .25
5 drums Rock & Rye @ $24.00 in qts. .75
5 drums Rock & Rye @ $25.00 in pts. .40
5 drums Rock & Rye @ $26.00 in %pts. .25
0 barrels 100 Proof Gin @ $1.55 gallon $2.75 .75 .40 .25
0 barrels 100 Proof Corn @ $1.60 gallon 2.75 .75 .40 .25
WRIGHT & TAYLOR, Louisville, Ky.
Tavlor Golden Rve (a) $8.50 in qts. $1.00
cases Taylor Golden Rye @ $9.00 in pts. .60
cases Old Charter B. in B. @ $10.50 in qts. 1.25 ft
E. G. LYON & RAAS CO.. New York. V*
cases Dubrenil Brandy @ $8.50 in qts. $1.00
cases Rock & Rye @ $7.00 in pts. .75
WHITE CREST WINE CO., Norfolk, Va.
5 cases Scuppernong Wine @ $4.00 in qts. $ .50
5 cases Scuppernong Wine @ $4.75 in pts. .30
5 cases Blackberry Wine @ $4.00 in qts. .50
5 cases Blackberry Wine @ $4.75 in pts. .30
0 cases Sherry Wine @ $4.00 in qts. .50 i
5 cases Sherry Wine @ $4.75 in pts. .30 J
5 cases Am. Champagne @ $12.00 in qts. 1.50 t
5 cases Am. ChampagDe <? $13.00 in pts. .85
CONSUMERS B. & B. ESTABLISHMENT, Charleston, S. C.
0 barrels Premium Pale @ $8.00 in pts. .85
ANHEISER BUSCH B. ASSN. St. Louis, Mo.
5 cases Budweiser @ $11.49 in pts. $ .15
5 cases Budweiser (g. $10.49 in qts. .20
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fine Horses and Mules that have gp |
just arrived. If you need a good jfl 1
Horse or Mule for any purpose A
see the ones I have before buying. |? 1
I also have a swell line of buggies, |? ' 1
harness, whips, etc., at prices and 11 . - j
on terms that will please you. m -v?
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WO MORE GOOD JOBS, MAYBE. ROMANTIC QUEST BY WILL.
his State May Get Special Income Student Must Find Unknown Isles
Tax Collectors. and Pearl Treasure. 'j
Washington,"October 22,-Internal A search for treasure in Southern ,
evenue Commissioner Osborne to- waters w'? sh?rtly be undertaken by j
W said that two of the special in- Roland P' Kelly' a Harvard jun,or' I
.me tax collectors, who have been in compliance with the terms of the 1
uthorized by Congress under the wiU of hls 8randtather, T. L. Kelly. M
nderwood-Simmons law, would The wil1 provldes that youns Kelly
. ., . . . 0 should have the savings of his grandrobablv
be assigned to South Caro- ? , ?
. . * <?o -on father's oO years of trading as a ship V
na. The places pay close to $2,o00 & ^ V
. , , . . . master in the Far East on condition M
year and are not subject to the , ? , . ,. ^ ^ , f M
.. that before his 21st birthday he fl
vil service. , /. H
. , ,, x should attempt to locate pearl fisher- H
As these special coueciors aie uu-i . . ? _ .
,, A .. , ., . les in an estuary of the Amazon river H
*r the collector for the State, it is ? , , . . . . .. JH
. . , .. > and two unchartered islands in the H
resumed that his recommendations - . ,
,, . .. . .. - i Pacific. These islands, according to
ll have considerable weight m their ;
,.i. . . I the will, were found by the old ma- V
election, though political endorse-1 . . . W
... . . . , ! riner to contain a large amount of m
ents will bv no means be ignored. ,, _. ,
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is thought that the appointments . . . . M
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ill be made within the next month I m
01 his voyages. The pearls were seen m
^ix weeks
' j cn another voyage.?Boston dispatch
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