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(Ehr Hambrrg tbrralb; ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. \V. KXIGHT, Editor. Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bamberg, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mergenthaler linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a hue Miehle cylinder press, all run by electric power with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an investment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $150; six months, 75 cents; three months, 1 50 cents. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. - ~ u Advertisements?$1.UU per inuu for first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal ad- < vertisements at the rates allowed by law. Local reading notices 10 cents , a line each insertion. Wants and other advertisements under special head, 1 cent a word each insertion. Liberal contracts made for thrqe, six, ( and twelve months. Write for rates. Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and all notices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters or those pertaining to matters of public interest. We require the name and address of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. Thursday, April 9, 1914. We sincerely regret that our friend Jno. L. McLaurin has cast his political lot with the present administration. He has gone into company where this newspaper cannot follow. No matter who he is. we cannot support any man for office who is a believer in and supporter of the present governor. i . Mr. J. L. Sims has retired as editor of the Times and Democrat, hav- , ing been appointed United States ? - marshal, and his two sons, Messrs. Hugo and Henry Sims will edit the paper, while another son. Izlar, will manage the paper, as he has for some time. These boys are bright fellows and know the newspaper game through and through. They are mighty fine young men. and we wish them mighty well. BELATED GRATITUDE. * ' Cold Storage Corporation Remembers Son of Inventor. f Charles Tellier, the inventor of cold " A J /n + l-? Z rt Do wto 1 O cf SlUriigy, ttld.1 > eu LU UCam 111 x auo moi October. He had pawned all his property, ^and at last perished literally from lack of food. Shortly before he "died Tellier was presented with the decoration of the Legion of Honor, but this was not edible. ! After his death the government slipped a 1,000 franc note between his cold fingers, and gave him a fine funeral. France has now completed her measure of generosity by having a 1 medal struck in his honor. Tellier left an invalid son. The young man, now 22 years old. will 1 never be able to work. It appears * that he might, for all France has ( done in his behalf, suffer a fate simi- 1 lar to that of his father. 1 But the International Cold Storage s corporation has proved more gen- { erous than the nation. It has col- ? lected 110,000 francs for young Tel- 5 lier; and all but 5,000 francs of the * sum was raised in Argentina and ' Urueuav. With this to fall back upon ? the son of the man who did so much J to solve the problem of the world's ( food supply is not likely to die for 1 lack of food. 1 The Tellier case is interesting, not 1 because it is typical, but because it is almost unique. The French are the s most generous of peoples in their ap- 1 preciation of the services of their fel- 1 low countryment. No other nation 1 presents so many medals and erects 2 so many statues; and none is more eager to give material aid to those * who have achi^ed greatness. Tellier 1 was merely forgotten. 2 ? i Her Reason. \ "So you turned him down, eh?" j "Yes, 1 rejected him." "But I thought j you loved him?" "I do, I'm just J crazy about him." "Then why did j you refuse him?" "One of my girl ^ friends refused him once, and J can't have her saying that I took one of j "hor. "?Houston Post. , ????c Getting Off Easy. "I'll bet you a dollar you don't remember me." exclaimed the seedy- 1 looking stranger, as he extended his hand. "You win," replied the business 1 man. Here's your dollar. Beat it." ( ?Cincinnati Enquirer. _ < Typical. Bings: "You say your wife is an < anti-suffragist?" i Bangs: "Yes; she spends her i time gadding around the country as- s serting that woman's place is the home." \ (il'NS TO PKOTKCT CAXAL, Some Weigh 130 Tons and Hurl Missiles of 2,400 Pound*-. The military authorities of the United States have been busy for some months hastening the work of fortifying the two approaches to the Panama canal. Once in a while the public has heard something of this, but as a rule the work has gone on rather quietly, and it is only of late that some of the facts leaked out regarding the scope and character of the defenses which are being prepar cu. A little more than three years ago congress appropriated nearly $20,000,000 for the fortification of the canal. So energetically has the undertaking been pushed since then that before traffic passes through the waterway our coast artillery will be prepared there for any contingency. Out of the total appropriation about $2,500,000 has been apportioned to the ^guns and carriages for seacoast batteries. According to official figures the sixteen-inch gun is capable of hurling a projectile of 2.400 pounds a distance of 19,350 yards, and at a range of 2.8 mile that armor-piercing shot will be able to bore its way through 21 inches of steel. The projectile carries a destructive-bursting charge of no less than 125 pounds of Dunnite. The gun alone when hung in the yoke of the disappearing carriage will represent a suspended weight of 130 tons, and this will be augmented by the 2,400-pound projectile and the propulsive powder charge of 666 pounds. But this is only part of the story. The moment the powder is ignited and the generated gases drive that great shell seaward there will be developed within the weapon an impulsive energy amounting to more than equivalent to lifting more than &4,000 tons one foot in one second. There is no action without reaction, and in this case the recoil is equal to the driving energy back of the shot, and all of this must be absorbed by the gun carriage so nicely and easily that the weapon shall sink without violent shock to the loading position with its muzzle again below the parapet. This is like bringing a racing express train to a hal^ within a space of a few feet. The weapons that will count most against a foe at Fanama are the fourteen-inch guns which the army has been developing during the last few years, and these are to measure strength with the best that a foreign naval power can offer. The fourteen-inch guns built and building for Panama are of a superior type. These weapons weigh 137,300 pounds each, or a trifle over 61 tons ?less than half that of the giant sixteen inch gun. Nevertheless these newer weapons hurl their 1.660pound projectiles with sufficient velocity to penetrate at 5,000 yards i matter of 18.1 inch of Krupp armor. This means that at that range the shot is traveling with a i-pinritv of 1.960 feet a second. The pent up energy in the shell at :he instant it leaves the rifle amounts ;o the equivalent of a colliding force Df 58.52S foot tons, and the disappearing carriages which will 3ear these weapons must work smoothly and without injury when ibsorbing the recoil involved. We stand alone practically in the possession of this sort of carriage for big juns. While some of these carriages lave met the tests of the proving grounds none of them has been subjected at target practice to the tax }f full service charges, and it is .his latter which will represent what nay be expected in time of actual sattle. For indirect attack upon a foe the leacoast defenses at Panama will rely nostly upon the new design of :welve-inch mortars. The very latest *eport of the chief or ordnance of the irmy says: "A number of the more powerful ;welve-inch mortars of new design eferred to in my last annual report is being under manufacture for the fortifications of the Panama canal lave been completed and successfuly tested. They wii! have a maxinum range of slightly more than 11 niles. as compared with approximatey 8 1-2 miles for the most powerful ;ype previously in use." To be exact, the total range of :hese mortars, measured by the staniard of length usually employed, is JO.000 yards, and the projectiles fired tvill be of three different weights, lamely, 700 pounds. S24 pounds and 1,046 pounds, the weight of the proiQ Hanonriinor unon the range. j 110 v?rw.. w , :he smallest shell being for, the outermost zone and the heaviest projectile for the inner or closer zone covered by mortar fire. In order to send these missiles up3ii their destructive niissions the mortar can be elevated to an angle Df 45 degrees. At this elevation the shell would soar skyward until it had reached the climax of its curving flight at a height of a little less than XEGKOS HEIGHT SAVES HIM. M T* Seven Eeet 11 Inches Keeps Hini J J Marked Honest. ?\ Chicago, April 7,?His unusual height saved Long Tom, a negro, Ifa from being sentenced to a term in gj the house of correction on a minor ^ charge. A tape measure proved Tom $f\ was 7 feet 1 1 inches tall. ^ "Xo, judge," said Long Tom, when J? he was arraigned yesterday. "I didn't mi do anything wrong. I have led an honest life because if I did anything ^ wrong: I couldn't escape. If I went to the end of.the world I couldn't ^ disguise myself." ^ Long Tom was dismissed. ' IXSURANCEJMEX FIGHT. v g K. J. \\ ood Knocked Out With Blow ^ in Face. ^ Spartanburg,. April 7.?E. J. Wood, a young white man, was painfully injured yesterday by a blow in gf\ the face alleged to have been struck V by J. A. Parker, manager of the Spartanburg branch of the Life and Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee. Parker was arrested, charg- $f I k| ed with disorderly conduct. The disagreement between the men J? is said to have been caused by *1 Wood's dismissal as a field agent for the company. When they met on the 2^ street later Wood, it is said, applied 3* an insulting epithet to Parker, who $f\ retaliated with a crushing right swing to the left side of Wood's face. Wood toppled over and according to hi bystanders,x was ! unable to regain fy his feet. He was carried home and a physician was called. 6,000 yards, and then would begin hi to drop toward the distant target, which is the deck or turret tops of the advancing ship. In this, you see. 3* the army strategist counts upon hit- $f\ hi tin? tI16 T06 Wile re lie is weaivcsi, ivji the decks and the turret tops are only thinly clad with protection |i steel. These cannot be reached by ft the direct and flatter flight of the 9^ guns, but can be attained by the plunging fire of the mortar shell. ^ Because of their particular manner * of action the mortar does not need a ^6 disappearing carnage. Groups of J four of these weapons are placed in ft sunken batteries technically termed 9 mortar pits and the enemy never has J* a chance to see them at all. At Panama the sea approaches to the canal will be theoretically divided into a lb series of small squares, each of J, which will ha ve its counterpart upon a plotting board. 9\ The rangefinders will locate the position of the advancing ships and J) at the right instant four of these *1 great mortars will roar from their fy pits as they hurl as many shells sky- gj ward, seemingly anywhere but at the 3* foe. But if the men responsible for spotting the target have done their work well the projectiles, after describing the path upward, will start |i earthward directly at their objective, jfs If they hit, destruction will follow, ft for each of the missiles will carry a heavy charge of high explosive. ^ Perhaps you think this roundabout way of reaching the target is not a ft promising one, but according to the official reports of the war department, remarkably accurate practice has ft been obtained by expert gunners of the coast artilkry. They are trained to fire at moving targets and despite the difficulties of aiming from ft a hole in the ground at an objective ft which the gunners themselves do not see, mortar crews have been able to ft make the astonishing score of seven ^2 hits *n eight shots at a range of Jpj nearly six miles, or about 10,000 yards. fti Xo dreadnought to-day would care ft to invite mortar attack, because none " * *- e . 01 mom is pruoi a.gctui-bi niaa sui i ui l v i assault, and tljat means that they must try to damage the Panama defenses when lying further seaward, m ?New York Sun. jfti Train up a child in the way he * should go and when he is old he will ^7 strike out for himself. CONCERNING CLEAN LIVING. Modern Sanitation is a Grown ng ffyi Good. 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