The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 24, 1914, Page 3, Image 3
AGED WOMAN BURNED TO DEA'J
Mrs. Elizabeth Muggins Victim o!
Hoirible Tragedy.
Orangeburg, Dec. 17.?One of th<
most shocking and heart-rend;nj
tragedies ever enacted in this city was
that at the home of .Mr. 11. C. Hug
gins, on Glover street, early this
morning, when the mother of .Mr
Huggins. who resided with her son
was found about 5 o'clock burned t(
death and the body fallen througl
a hole in the floor of the room maci<
by the fire.
Mrs. Elizabeth Huggins. the de
ceased, was 72 years of age and quit*
^ feeble. She was fond of smoking anc
the theory is that at a late hour las
night she arose from her bed and li
her pipe an<} sat in the old armchaii
which stood in her room, and whiN
enjoying herself fell asleep, and thai
from the lighted pipe the acciden
^ occurred. With the charred bod:
/ there fell also through the hole parti
of the chair and parts of a blanket
which she had evidently wrappec
about her body, for it was very col(
nere.
About three o'clock this morninj
Mr. Huggins went to the room of hi:
mother, which he frequently did, an<
found her in bed asleep. About 1
o'clock Mrs. Huggins arose, bein;
aroused by the odor of fire, and t<
her horror found the gruesome spec
tacle above described.
The story is a short one, but shock
ing. Mrs. Huggins leaves two sons
The remains of Mrs. Huggins wen
interred at Sunnyside this afternooi
after the funeral at the home.
Flags of Warring Nations.
Hardly had man emerged from i
state of barbarism than he felt i
necessary to adopt some distinguish
ing sign or badge to indicate his par
ticular tribe or nation; and this ver;
...-nil,, not- the fr>r?+> nf flasrs am
uaiuian> luun "
banners, says Hereward Carrington
in the Buffalo Express. From th
very earliest times we find traces o
these standards which were guardei
with the utmost veneration am
i usually kept in the temples, save ii
time of war. From this we hav
the tradition, now ingrained in us
that the flag of a country is a thini
to die for, to preserve; that is al
most sacred, and the "fight for th
standard" has been the subject o
many a wonderful painting. It wil
be of interest briefly to indicate th<
history and meaning of the flags o
the various warring nations.
Take, first, the flag of Germany
It must be remembered that prio
to the Franco-Prussian war of 1S70
the German Empire was little mor
than a group of scattered States
When they combined into a singl
empire, however, it is only natura
that we should look for traces of al
their flags in the resultant standerd
f " And we find such traces.
. To be sure, the colors of Prussiablack
and white?and the Prussia:
Eagle, enter very largely into it. bu
it must be remembered that thi
country became at that time the hea
and ruler of all the others. It wa
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by far the largest country, both i:
5 T r nstiiraTlx
area, anu jjupuiauuu.
; therefore, became predominent. Be
sides the smaller. States, there wer
also the flags of the East and Wes
Prussia to be included. That of Wes
Prussia was black, white, black, thre
stripes of equal diameter, runnin
the length of the flags: that of Eas
Prussia consisted of two such stripes
the upper black and the lower white
The jack of the imperial navy con
sists of three horizontal stripes, th
upper blafck, the middle white an
the lower red. The' much-prize
iron cross (dating back to the em
of the 12th century.) is in the cen
tre. This stripe appears in the fina
war ensign of the Empire in whic!
the tri-color (black, white, red,
appears in the upper quarter wit
the iron cross upon it, while the re
maining three-quarters are white
with the royal arms in the centre
A black cross divides the whole fla
into quarters.
The flag of Austria is a very com
? * nr>? Koffir urith tho vs
pi^x duau . i \j ?wv4m v..v . \
rious Austrian provinces have thei
own flags; Bohemia is red-white
Tyro! is white-red; Dalmatia is blue
yellow; Galicia is blue-red: Croati
is red-white-blue: Istria is yellow
white-blue. Them again. Austria
Hungary, being a dual monarch}
both Austria and Hungary must b
separately represented?and fully?
on the flag. Fortunately, this combi
nation was rendered more easy t
the fact that portions of the flags o
both countries were already th
same. Thus, the Austrian flag wa
red-white-red. The Hungarian wa
. ,
rea-wnue-green. vuuipi mmoc
affected by dividing the lowest liori
zontal stripe in two, and leaving lial
red, while the remainder was greer
The arms of both countries also ap
pear on the flag. This was decide
on March 6, 1S09.
The imperial standard of the Tsa
of all the Russians is of brillian
yellow, in the centre of which is
large double-headed black edge. Thi
flag dates from the year 1472, whe
Ivan the Great married Sophia,
r| WOMAN* FREER BY MAYOIl.
r Had Serveil 25 Days ol a 20-Day
Sentence.
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Walterboro, Dec. 17.?Much inter'
est has been taken here in the case
of Mrs. I. Padgett, who was convicted
in the municipal court for the
s town of Walterboro on November 23,
' charged with the saie of whiskey.
Mrs. Padgett entered a plea of guilty
and was sentenced to serve thirty
days in jail or pay a fine of $10').
'; Soon after conviction she was paroled
. by the governor. But the town officials
did not concede the power of
j the governor to pardon for offences
against city ordinances. Mrs. Padgett
had. however, been released and
was later recommitted to jail where
P
she has served up 'till to-day twenty- =
a
* five days of her sentence.
*! Mayor W. B. Ackerman decided,
i however, that a sufficient showing
'[ had been made for her release toi
day and accordingly himself issued
j to Mrs. Padgett a parole for the ofI
fence of which she was convicted,
j making it a condition that in case
! she should ever again be reconvicted
9 of the same offence she shall serve
s '
. out the unserved portion of this sen.
tence.
! At the time of the trial the woman
!
9 entered a plea of guilty and the next
day her husband was convicted before
j a jury of the same offence. An apI
peal was entered for her husband to
| the court of general sessions.
a' ? 1
nice of Constantine Palaeologus, and
1 thence assumed the arms of the great
I empire (the Russians embrace the i
religion of the Greek church.) On
j the breast of the eagle is an escutch- j
' eon bearing on its red field in silver
t the figure of Saint George slaving'
i Jiio Tirairnn?the whole being sur-j
,_! rounded by the collar of the Order;
of Saint Andrew. On the displayed I
3 wings of the eagle are other shields!
bearing the arras of Kiew, Novogo-i
' rod, Yolderniirz, Kasan, etc. The I
e
fl'flag of the Tsarina is similar, but]
j ] smaller. The Russian Union Jack I
2 is very similar to that of England,;
save that the principal crossbars are
blue instead of red. This is the well-;
( i known Russian war flag. The cross j
is that of Saint Andrew, the patron]
saint of Russia.
| The flag of Servia is the flag of;
j the Russian merchant service revers-!
I led; for, whereas that is white-blue-!
e'red, the flag of Servia is red-blue-,
f white, arranged in three horizontal
j stripes running across the flag. The
. ' royal standard is similar, save that1
r the royal arms are placed in the cen,
; tre of the blue stripe,
g I The well-known tri-color of France
. is made up of three stripes?blue,
e! white and red?running not the: J
, i length but the width of the flag. It
1; dates from the era of the French rev-|
olution and came into existence in '
j 17S9. It has been the national flag
_! since, with but slight variations. In
n ! 1794 the tri-color was also made the
-ijack of the French navy.
sj -3"he Union jack of Great Britain?'
^ j the flag known to all?is composed
s' of the three crosses of Sadnt George, j
_i Saint Patrick and Saint Andrew.)
r ; That of the first was a broad red;
/(cross, dividing the white flag into
e-j four white squares, the white
;t i cross of Saint Andrew, on a
t blue background, ran from corner
e to corner diagonally, while the red j
g' cross of Saint Patrick rain in the
11 same direction. If the Union Jack
. i be examined it will be found to be
,'icomposed of these three crosses, asj ,
J stated. Besides this, Great Britain
e' has, of course, the royal standard
jj and innumerable other flags?army,
j j navy, merchant, etc. The flag was
d | unfurled in 1801, on the union, in
_| that year, of Great Britain (England,
| Scotland, Wales and Ireland.)
h j The flag of Belgium is composed
^ j of a tri-color?black, yellow and j
d I red?running up and down?that is,
,J the width and not the length of the
, j flag. The royal standard has- the
, : arms placed in the centre of the yelg
i low strip. This was adopted as the
| national flag in 1831, being original_
j ly the colors of the Duchy of BraJ
brant.
r' From 14 77 until 1566 Belgium be.
longed to Austria, but on the latter
date it fell into the hands of Spain.
_ In 1795 and for some years followcL
ing it was held by France, and in
| 1814 was handed over to the Prince _
. ! of Orange, but in 1830 the Belgians
e' rose against the Hollanders and es_jtablished
their independence. The
! flag which Is now flown was then
0 1 adopted.
I X*>r\r>r>n flip T.and Of the
? j otlyau, ~ .
e Rising Sun?has adopted the rising
gjsun as its emblem. Japan claims to
j possess a writen history of more than
g: 2.500 years: its authentic portion be
! gins about the year 000 B. C.. when
j the present hereditary succession of
! rulers commenced. Tt was only in
" i
185?,, however, that the country was
? open to foreisners. The red ball j
; without the rays is used as the jack j
r when it is placed in the centre of;
the white nem. a somen cnrjsnuthemum
on a red background is the
s standard of the emperor.
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