The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 22, 1914, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
A. W. KNIGHT, Editor.
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Thursday, Jan. 22, 1914
Editor Wallace, of the Newberry
Observer,, certainly has his nerve
v with him all right. In his issue of
last week his leading editorial was
headed "Women Are Strange Creatures",
and then he proceeds to discuss
the sex through about a column
and a half of space. We thought he
had learned better by this time.
That rumor about Jim Byrnes run
ning for governor was evidently not
started by any friend of his. Of
course Byrnes would make a good
;4 governor, but he is going to run for
his present job, and is not casting
any longing eye on the executive
chair. He appreciates the confidence
ot the voters of the second district
and will continue to serve them as
congressman.
We fear that Bamberg will not
have a sewerage .system for some
time to come, as many people who
have water works are putting in septic
tanks. Mr. Hatchell, who has
been here for some time putting in
these tanks, says that he has built so
far a dozen -or more and others are
putting them in. If so many persons
go to the expense pf having
these tanks put in, they will not be
in favor of. extra taxes for sewerage.
The hospital project is not dead*
by any manner of means. Dr. J. J.
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Cleckley, who has taken much interest
in the matter, is still at work 011
?- i* nnA wo fool euro fho msttpr will
^ II, auu ut JLWJ, >JU? V v?*v vvvw.
be pushed forward to success. It
is probable that the residence of the
late Mr. Hi H. Copeland will be purchased
for the hospital in case the
necessary amount of subscriptions
to the capital stock of the hospital
company can be secured, and this:
seems practically assured.
We received a few days ago the
first copy of the Anderson Intelligencer
as a daily paper. It has not
been on our exchange list for some
time. The issue referred to contains
twenty-four pages, made up of interesting
matter and a liberal advertis
ing patronage. Win. Banks is editor
and W. W. Smoak is business manager,
both of them hard-working and !
competent newspaper men. The pa- j
per is owned by the business men j
of .Anderson, and has strong financial j
backing. With such men as Banks j
a QmnoL- tn smiiia it thp naner'
, - should prove a success, even though j
the field is a limited one. But An- J
derson is a mighty good town, find |
possibly can support a morning and I
afternoon paper. Our best wishes
are with the new daily and its editor
, and business manager.
Whiskey Stolen During Fire.
Augusta, Ga., Jan. 19.?Quantities
of whisky were stolen by negroes and
white men this morning when the
North Augusta, S. C., dispensary was
threatened by a fire which consumed
a big warehouse of the Industrial
Lumber Company, nearby. The
whisky was removed through fear of
destruction by the flames. The fire
damage will result in a loss of from
$40,000 to $">0,000, covered by insurance.
The Industrial Lumber
Company is in the hands of a re-1
reiver.
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Why <?f Course.
"Stockings?" said the salesman.
"Yes, ma'am. What number do you
wear?"
"What number?" snapped the
stern-v.isaged lady. "Why two, of
N course. Do you take me for a centipede?"?Ladies
Home Journal.
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MAX WITH CAMERA EYE. J
Andrew Irle, Famous Sleuth, Xot Only
Possessor of Unerring Memory. A!
Most of us frequently experience
more or less embarrassment from the
inability to associate faces with
names. Our memories of the face a
and the name are stored, as it were,
in separate mental compartments,
and we cannot quickly bring them
together. In Andrew Trie's brain ba
they seemed to be stored in the same PC
compartment and always apparently, co
came out together. ai
Many public men have owed much Si
of their popularity to their ability at vc
once to call a man by name when K
they see his face. The average man Tl
is pleased to be thus instantly and or
accurately remembered. The late la
.Tames G. Blaine was a notable example
of this faculty. Andrew Irle's as
went much further. His eyes, like jn
the photographic camera, seemed to in
record all details of appearance, and to
his brain put under the same index sc
all things seen or heard about any h<
person in whom his business inter- w
ested him. w
He seemed to have for men whom gi
he had met what may be called a 111
"complete" memory. When he saw as
the face again, or a picture of it, he
recalled at once the name, the time, hi
and place where seen before, the o!
circumstances, and the companions, jn
Scores of stories are told about his ki
wonderful identifying memory, out of gi
which one must suffice here. " er
One day there came into the Pink- ri
erton agency, with which Irle was
connected, a photograph from the d<
police of Portland, Ore., of a man cs
under arrest in connection with a ri
bank robbery. The direct evidence d(
against him was not strong, and he tl]
was not at all known as a criminal d(
to the Pacific Coast police. As soon v<
as Irle saw the picture he declared fc
it to be that of a man arrested and ai
convicted for a similar offense at gi
Binghamton. X. Y., about 10 years
before, giving the exact date, cir- rc
cumstances, and the names of ac- hi
complices. And so it was. bi
On his release from prison, after tl
about four years, the convict ,had ai
either turned to honest ways or at re
least had kept .out of sight of the nt
police. He had simply disappeared
from his old haunts in the East. K
Either he had failed to make a success
of honest industry or had
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thought it safe, in a distant part of
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the country, and after a lapse of
nearly 10 years, to-resume a criminal w
career. "
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Mr. Irle had the same complete
memory for handwriting. Only a few ai
weeks ago he was shown a portion C(
of a letter. He at once named the a?
writer, though more than 10 years ^
had passed since he had last seen
any writing by the same hand, and
then, only a short note. By Andrew Je
Irle's death society has lost a member
whose special faculties and pecu- c?
liar powers made him remarkably
useful and efficient in its protection
against its predatory elements.? w
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Wanted Uncle to Kill Mother. ta
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Galesburg, 111., Jan. 20.?Prosecution
of 15-year-old Julia Flake for tc
participation in the conspiracy which, cc
it is charged, resulted in the murder cc
of her mother by Robert Higgins. the tli
stepfather, will not be pushed too 01
harshly because of her youth. State's S<
Attorney Wilson said to-day. si
"As for Higgins?well, that's dif- al
ferent," he added. ' C
The alleged conspiracy, terminat- m
ing in the murder of Mrs. Higgins on ef
January 5. the movements of Higgins
and of his step-daughter and their
confessions disclosing their infatuation
form almost the only topic of S<
conversation in this neighborhood.
The attitude of the girl toward her
mother, as shown bv two letters ?
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which she wrote, is beyond the com
prehension of countv officials. C. \V. !-IJ
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Ernst, of Galesburg. brother of Mrs.
Higgins, and on bad terms with her.
was offered pay to kill Mrs. Higgins.
This was in a letter written by the
a cc
gii* last November from North Hen- '
derson, the home of the Higginses. In
October, knowing of the differences
between Ernst and his sister, Julia, p
it is alleged, wrote to Ernst's daugh- ^
ter, Marie, saying: 4'I wonder if '
your father is still of the same notion
of killing mother. If he is I wish he
would hurry and do it. as I am getting
awful tired."
Ernst asked Julia if she was crazy.
After the supposed accidental killing
of Mrs. Higgins he gave the letters
to the county authorities. Higgins 0,
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slept soundly last night and awoke j0
with an appetite for breakfast. He is
in jail at Aledo and his step-daugh- Q1
ter is under surveillance there at the
home of her uncle. Gus Flake.
Confesses Killing Wife. in
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Galeshurg, 111.. January 19.?
Robert Higgins late to-day confessed
to the mifrder of his wife thre weeks .
1*1
ago. He implicated his fifteen-yearold
stepdaughter, who yesterday told .
her story of conspiracy to murder
Mrs. Higgins to county officials here. I
IGER ATTACKS BALLOON.!
HERICAN HAS FIERCE BATTLE
OX SIBERIAN PLAINS. ^
jast Clings to Car When lialloonist
md H|s Fiance Attempt to Make a
Landing.
A thrilling adventure of American
illoonists with a tiger has been rented
at St. Petersburg, Russia. Acimpanied
by his fiance, Mr. Fobster,
1 American airman well known in
beria. made an ascent from Vladi>stok
with the intention of reaching
habarovsk, a town on the Amur,
tie weather, however, proved unfav'able,
and the airman decided to
nd at the first favorable place.
He accomplished the descent, and
ai? i. _ 11 f ha o-rnnnrl
> me uaauuii ucaicu s^uui.
imped out, holding the trail rope,
tending to drag the balloon down
i earth and assist the girl to deend.
As soon as he had jumped,
iwever, he noticed a Siberian tiger,
hich jpmped over the American
ho had thrown himself on the
*ound, sprang at the car and reamed
hanging while the balloon reicended.
Mr. Fobster had no weapon with
im but a knife, and it was out
the question to urge the girl to ?
imp out, since she would have been B
lied on the spot. Shouting to the
rl to keep quiet, he grasped the J
id of the guide rope and ran to the
ver, 200 or 300 yards away!
Meanwhile the tiger was making
asperate efforts to climb into the
ir, and the airman, reaching the
ver, which happily was not very
>ep at that point, jumped in and
len shouted to his finance to jump
iwn. The girl hesitated, but at that
?ry? moment the tiger, struggling
?r life, made a last desperate effort
id climbed into the car. Then the
rl took the leap.
Mr. Fobster then let the guide
>pe go and swam to the rescue of
is companion. At the same time the
illoon, lightened of the weight of
le girl, rose quickly up with the
nazed tiger in it. The couple were
sscued by peasants. The tiger has
Dt been heard from.
yines Xot to Hun for Governorship. ^
Washington, Jan. 19.?Represenitive
J. F. Byrnes of the Second
Duth Carolina congressional district,
lio has been mentioned several
mes recently as a probable candi- ?
ite for governor of South Carolina
ad whose name appeared in this .
mnection in a paper a day or two ji
?o, stated positively to-day that he
ad no such idea at the present
me, although it is true, he said, that
3 had been approached on the sublet
recently.
When Mr. Byrnes was seen at the
ipitol and asked the specific queson
as to whether or not he would
5Come a candidate for governor, and
hether there was any truth in the
imors which during the past day or
vo have become current, he unhesiitingly
said that such rumors could
j denied at the present time.
He also said that he is a candidate
> succeed himself in the Sixty-fourth
mgress, and for the present he will
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'Hire ins energies uu leiummg iu
ie house of representatives and not
i filling the office of governor of
juth Carolina. Today there was conderable
interest from the gossips
)OUt this matter here among South
arolinians, but the statement just
ade would appear to dispose of it
Tectuallv.
BEFORE SUPREME COURT.
?veraI South Carolina Lawyers Admitted
to Practice.
Washington, January 19.?Charles
arroll Sinims, of Barnwell, is here
t consultation with the case involvig
the property of S. G. Still &
Dns, of Blackville. who recently
tJlll 111 IU tlic nanus ui a. icicivci.
reditors have appealed from lower 1
mrts to the United States Supreme
ourt for a writ of certiorari. }
Mr. Simms was to-day admitted to
ractice before the Supreme Court
tid so were the following other South
arolina lawyers: Stanwix G. MayBid,
of Denmark; T. J. Kirkland, of
amden. and Eugene D. Blakeley, of
ershaw.
Quits Pulpit to Teach Tango.
Hammond, Ind., Jan. 19.?Xorth*n
Indiana farmers are tango mad
id the rural dwellers are gettiiyb
ssons ton tangoing and hesitation
altzing from L. H. Laroy, who was
ice a clergyman and a circuit ridHe
found preaching the gospel
d not pay; now he has bought a j
lonograph. hired a femin'ne dancg
partner and is. giving inslruc_
i
on at farmhouses and crossroad
llages.
There is now '"too much mustard"
nearly every farmhouse up this
;iy, and the former preacher is dog
a land office business. ^
Read The Herald, $1.50 a year.
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