The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 09, 1914, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
A. \V. KXIGHT, Editor.
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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.
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Cold Storage Corporation Remembers
Son of Inventor.
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Charles Tellier, the inventor of cold
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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
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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. ,
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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.
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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."
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(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.
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: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
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Seven Eeet 11 Inches Keeps Hini J J
Marked Honest.
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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.
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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
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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.
No man or woman can perform full
duty to themselves or to others unless
they keep themselves clean within.
wj
An upset liver or sluggish kidneys
will spoil your work and worth. ft
Regularly take CARSWELL'S LIV- mi
ER-AID and you will be a new being
in this climate for it will cleanse
your system as soap will cleanse your
hands.
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the place of calomel?takes its place
excepting the AFTLrt effects. m\
It generally acts RIGHT NOW on
the liver and kidneys and eliminates ^
the poisions and accumulations.
Results?internal cleanliness and jh
by means of a pure VEGETABLE 9\
compound.
No danger, no discomfort.
On sale at Mack's Drug Store, *
Bajnberg, S. C., in 50 cent bottles. Ih?
Purchase price refunded in full if
you wish it. But you won't, when
you try this scientific remedy. m\
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