The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, November 06, 1913, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
A. \Y. KXIGHT, Editor.
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Thursday, Nov. 6, 1913.
People generally don't enthuse
very much over politics with cotton
at thirteen cents, no matter how
much the ollice-seekers may rant.
John L. McLaurin's friends will be
glad of his decision not to become a
candidate for governor. There is no
opportunity just now for a non-factional
candidate.
it seems to us that it is asking a
good deal of McLaurin to expect him
to take the stump against prevailing
political conditions in South Carolina
just now. To run for the United
States Senate with no hope of being
elected but merely to attack men or
policies, is a mighty thankless task,
and a man's motives are so likely to
% be misunderstood that we are of
the opinion that no one will undertake
it. However, if McLaurin
should take the stump in the race
for the United States Senate, you
can just bet your bottom dollar the
?-- ???1 J ^ ^ torAc tiry cr
campaign wuuiu uc an untic^uuj,
, one.
Our legislative delegation should
have an act passed at the coming
session of the general assembly requiring
the publication of a quarterly
report by the supervisor of the
county. This report is published in
most counties of the State, and the
tax payers of Bamberg should also
have this information published so
that they may see how their money
is being spent. Don't understand
us to say that any money is being
spent unwisely, for we do not think
so, but on the contrary we feel sure
that every dollar of the county's
money which passes through the
supervisor's office is being spent
wiself add economically, but the tax
payers are entitled to know the
condition of the finances of the
county.
Soapless Shaves for Years.
Zaceheus Adams, Jackson township.
Fayette county, has shaved himself
twice a week for 54 years, but
never owned a shaving mug, a razor,
a strop or a hone, says an Indianapolis
correspondent to the New York
Sun. It is Mr. Adams' pride that he
keeps his razor, an old cleaver twice
as big as a common razor, in the
finest trim with the least trouble of
any man in the county.
He wears old-style, high-topped
leather boots and still has one pair
which he bought 26 years ago. Wishing
to shave, Mr. Adams first puts on
these boots. He then smacks the razor
blade back and forth along the
leather leg of the left one for a minute
or two. His next operation is to
moisten his face with rain water?no
perfumed so^p for him?and then he
just shaves.
Mr. Adams was never shaved except
by his own hand. Barbers and all
the perfumes and the gew-gaws of
their trade provoke him to scornful
snorting.
Returns of N. Y. Election.
New York, Nov. 5.?Complete returns
from yesterday's municipal
election in which Tammany met defeat,
showed to-day that John Purroy
Mitchell, the fusion nominee,
led Edward E. McCall. Tammany, by
121,209 votes. Charles Edward
Russell, Socialist, polled a total of
2 2,109. McCall ran behind his ticket
in all five boroughs.
Our admiration ror jonn i?. ,\icLaurin
is greatly heightened. Mr.
McLaurin found himself in uncongenial
company, politically, and had
the courage to say so. We glory in
his manhood.?Gaffney Ledger.
! EXPERIENCE OX A PLAGUE SHIP.
("apt. Ancker Joined Crew as Engineer
for $500 Gold.
The favorite story of Capt. Wa :er
! Ancker. superintendent of the Ba.tiI
i more and Ohio railroad's floating
; equipment at pier No. 22, foot of Jay
; street. North river, who died a few
i days ago. was of his experience on a
| plague ship, says The New York
! World.
Ancker was assistant engineer on
the German steamer Minister Achenbach,
which lay at Nikolaeiv, on the
Bug river. One day he and Capt.
Kahmke were discussing bubonic
plague in the cabin on the bridge
deck when Capt. Stringer, of the
! British tramp Sea Gull, came alongside
in one of his boats very much
excited.
"A hundred pounds in gold for an
engineer!" shouted the captain. "I'm
short of engineers and I must get
to Constantinople. I'll drop him off
at Constantinople and there you can
pick him up."
Capt. Kahmke advised Ancker to
accept the offer, saying the Achenhach
would be at Constantinople in
about a week. Ancker accepted it
1 and turned over half of the 100
pounds in gold to his captain for safe.
I keeping and tucked the other half
I
inside his belt.
Inside of half an hour the young
, engineer was aboard the Sea Gull,
which already had steam up in the
Bug. She was low down in the water.
I She had just returned from India,
and her crew embraced Lascars. Russians
Finns and English. All the
officers were English.
Ancker went at once to the engine
room and found only one man, an
oiler, on duty. He thought this was
| peculiar, but a hasty inspection showI
ed that the engines were all right,
and he so reported to the captain.
The anchor was soon up. the engines
started and the Sea Gull was steaming
down the Bug at eight knots
speed.
Suspicious Hospitality.
The captain was unusually hospitable.
He came to the engine room,
bringing a flask of brandy and a box
I of cigars to the engineer and asking
him not to leave the engine room and
"not to spare the cigars and brandy.
It looked suspicious?such liberal
hospitality.
At four bells of the first watch Engineer
Ancker decided to steal a little
sleep in a comfortable armchair
which the skipper had sent below. He
stepped first into the alleyway, where
were the berths labeled, respectively,
"engineer," "first assistant engineer"
and "second assistant engineer." In
the first room he saw the form of a
man in the bunk. ?In room No. 2
darker than the first, he touched a
man apparently asleep, a bottle of
brandy by his side. From the bunk
in the third room Ancker grabbed a
blanket and wrapped himself in it in
his chair in the engine room.
Ancker knew now what the trouble
was. The Sea Gull's engineers had
taken shore leave at Nikolaiev and
gone on a spree. The oiler woke up
the understudy every 20 minutes until
the first watch, when the oiler
dropped asleep himself, while the engine
throbbed away, unwatched, for
45 minutes.
A splash outside the port awoke
Annkpr and then ramp several more
splashes. Disobeying the command of
the skipper, he went on deck and
found the crew throwing overboard
canvas sacks, each containing a dead
man.
No, It Wasn't Measles.
"What's the trouble?" the new engineer
asked a sailor.
"Do you think it is measles?"' returned
the man contemptuously.
Questioning the sailor more closely,
Ancker learned that nine out of
the crew of 36 were already dead,
including the regular engineer, the
first assistant and the second assistant,
whose bunks the understudy had
visited during the previous night.
Ancker went back to the engine
room and took a long pull at the
brandy bottle and then returned to
the deck and asked the sailor about
the cargo. It was wheat. He remarked
to the man that the consumers of
the wheat would be fish, because
the Turkish authorities would scuttle
the ship.
The man laughed,coughed, choked,
had a slight hemorrhage, complained
of a severe headache and pains, in his
back, and went below. Six hours afterward
he, too, went over the side in
canvas.
A second oiler made his appearance,
but Capt. Ancker did not quit
the engine room, his meals being
sent down to him.
"Nothing Like Being Beady."
At eight Delis or tne torenoon
| watch on the second day Ancker
stumbled into the storeroom and
found the carpenter sewing canvas.
"There's nothing like being ready,"
said the carpenter with a shrug.
Capt. Stringer invited the American
to have luncheon in the cabin,
but the engine room was a good
enough dining room for him just
then.
Twice again on that day there were
NOTICE TO EVERYBODY.
Denmark, S. C\, October 14. 1913. j J
To the tax payers first, and second, | to
to all oi' the other people of Bamberg 1
county, of every faith and order, |
who believe in law and order and |
good roads, listen: On the night of ! ?
October the 1st or morning of the |
i 2nd, before light, there was stolen 1
out of my back yard one black top . g
buggy with side springs in good re- j R
i pair and had been used carefully j
: about two years, and also at same !
time lost a good set of single buggy \
j harness comparatively new, with f
\ brass rings on saddle and harness,
I with tan colored lines. Attention, !
1 will give a reward of $10 for the |
! buggy in good shape like it was when !
i carried off, $5 for the return of the I
j harness if in good shape, and will j
I also give $10 each for party or par- !
i ties who took the buggy and harness J
j from my premises with sufficient evii
dence to convict for the carrying j
; away of the above mentioned proper- j
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I have lived right here by the j
j road side for nearly thirty years and j
! have travelled in different States and i
' have heard and read of almost every i
i kind of theft and rascality, but have
j never read or heard of anything just
like this before under the same mr|
cuinstances. This buggy, was, say,
in ten feet of my dwelling house, and
two men sleeping in the house and
i buggy was pulled out by hand right
! by the house to get out to the road j
! to tie it to wagon, which pulled it I
away towards Bamberg Court House.
1 Now, this buggy did not belong to me,
! but as it was stolen from my yard it
! will . be right and proper that I
i should pay for same if I do not get
j it back, which 1 propose to do. I fe
j had recently paid $13.50 for the B
j harness above mentioned. I
I am in a contract to travel for a i
i shoe hous6 every day or six days I
j out of each week until October the I
1st, 1914. and have no time to look ?
for the buggy and harness. The E
j buggy and harness was worth in I
; round figures say $65.00 and we
need them daily. I have no money
j that I can afford to pay out as re- !
J wards for this property or for the
j arrest and conviction of the thief or
' thieves, but will be very glad to ini
vest in this way under the circumj
stances if it should have any effect in
! checking this new established precei
in Mir fnrnrninifv. I have no ft
! VlCXlt ill VUi ... ^ . ? _
idea that the party or parties who
-committed this felony, had any conception
of the extent of the crime or
the penalty thereof, for such a crime,
j The full limit could be made ten
years in the penitentiary or on the
chaingang of Bamberg county. Of
course the penalty can largely be left
with the discretion of the court. (
Now, let me appeal to every in- g
dividual in the county to make him I
or herselves a committee of one to |
catch this thief or thieves, for all P
who have buggies and harness might 4
lose them if we allow this kind of J
thing to go on. ,Now, to all who own I
personal property or appreciate good 8
roads, let's figure some. Just leave |
the moral out of the question and g
you need not consider our loss either J
if you please. Suppose some of you, I
my friends, landlords, tenants, rent- J
ers, wages workers, all kinds of pro- J
fessional men of the county, could I
furnish evidence sufficient to have I
arrested and convicted a strong J
work hand, and he should get a sen- g
tence by the court which convicts "
j him or them of just one half the |
j full limit of the law of this state for I
j such a crime which is five years in 1
i the state prison or on our county 5
| roads and the court should say five f
i years on the public roads of Bam- |
berg county chaingang at hard labor, I
{ what would a strong man be worth |
to work under a good, strict boss? |
Get out your pencil now, you busi- I
ness men of the county who use our I
public roads daily, whether good or
bad, and to you auto speeders, what g
say ye? A good able-bodied work I
hand worked judiciously would be
worth at least $15.00 per month,
which would be $180.00 per year, at
five times $180.00 is $900.00 for
five years; and suppose the court
should say ten years, why it would
be $1,800 worth of work on our little
county roads, for one buggy and
harness.
Now, friends, this is not a personal
proposition, as much as I like
good roads, for I know I have not
used our public roads as much as
| fifty miles in the last five years
! outside of the incorporate limits of
the town of Denmark. So, you
friends of the county, one and all,
get busy and find this property and
catch the thief or thieves and let me
keep selling shoes.
In conclusion, will say in all probability
our buggy may have crossed
the county line and if this is the case
and the buggy is not in Bamberg
county and the thief or thieves posfiihlv
mav not live in our county. So, (
let's all get busy and find out where J
i they crossed our border and where
they live if you can, and report all
information to our Sheriff, who looks
out for his friends. Please get busy,
one and all. Thanking you in advance.
G. W. GOOLSBY.
"must ride cold.
Passengers on Chicago Elevated
Lines Are Not Cheered.
Chicago, Nov. 5.?The millions of
passengers who patronize the elevated
railroads of this city find no
cheer in a decision handed down by
the appellate court of Cook county
holding that they can not compel the
roads to heat their cars.
Through a technical defect in the
municipal ordinance designed to protect
shivering passengers the court ^
holds that the overhead companies I
are not bound by the law which 8
makes it obligatory that surface cars g
be kept at a comfortable tempera- I
i me. b
splashes alongside. Ancker took fre- p
quent small nips of brandy, smoked t
cigars, drank boiled water only and *
ate sparingly.
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CLOTHING H
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famous Styleplus $17.00 quality of i
ship?the i
Suits and Overcoats that
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the United States. If the
^ Suit or Overcoat is not all ?
K to the good your money
% back or another suit or
] overcoat. Now, suppose we
leave this line and come
J down to the lower priced
] goods. Here you will find
Clothing at any price from
^ $6.50 to $15.00. Every ?BBIB
suit worth more than we
ask.
Boys' Clothing (
Boys' Suits up to 18 ?rr?i
in
years, prices $2.50 to $9.50.
We have them in the plain _
Cornea
style or Norfolk. This is the bes
one line we are especially STYLEPL
$20 to $25.
anxious to work up a large
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STYLEPL
money on every suit bought overcoat?
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Trunks a
Trunks of all kinds, prices range 1
automatic trays down to the pad
Suit cases from $1.25 to $10.00.
Hand bags or grips from $1.50 t(
line, so see them before buying els
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>ts of our customers to town,
ity of salesmen to wait on |
leadquarters. We will offer
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SHOES | |
5 that are very particular about the kind of shoes they |
11 be wise to look at our nobby English Walking Shoes 8
0. They are the best that the Selby Shoe Co. make. |
assy line at $3.00 and $3.50. All of these mentioned are 3
oes. For good serviceable shoes at a low price we have I *
ect from the factory. Prices range from $1.25 to $3.00. I * }
le boys and girls we have a complete stock in all sizes, H
nd price, Red, Tan, White, and Black. tart
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>?and see the big value?the latest styles?the highest
ill-wool or wool-and-silk fabrics?the superior workmanjood
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