The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 15, 1915, Page 7, Image 7
> 8TKAXGK SHIPWRECK STORY. I
Waves Break Over Burning Oil Vessel
and Put Out Fire.
A strange shipwreck story, unreported
by cable from the Azores, arrived
yesterday from Horta, Fayal.
by the Holland-American freighter,
Zaandyk, which was forced to put
into this port by heavy weather that
reduced her coal supply. Capt. Barendsen
says he learned from the
skipper of the Norwegian tank steamship
La Habra. which arrived at Hor?
ta on February 7, bound from Talara
L Bay, Peru, by way of the Panama
r canal, for London, that her cargo of
(benzine caused an explosion aboard
as she was nearing the Azores to replentish
her bunkers.
La Habra was quickly ablaze from
stem to stern. About half of the
crew were on the forward part of the
tank and the other half aft. Fearing
that the falls and other boat gear
, would be burned, the tank's skipper
ordered all hands to leave her in
lifeboats and stand by. The engines
had been stopped, and La Habra
drifted into the trough, and, as she!
was deeply laden, the seas, which
were very high, washed over her.
The chief officer and five men were
in a boat towing astern when the
hatches of the tank were blown off
and cataracts of?blazing benzine shot
over her sides and stern. The boat's
painter was burned off and the chief
officer and his men went drifting
down the blast, being without oars
or sail, and disappeared. The other
boats were threatened with destruc>
tion by the burning benzine, which
spread out all around La Habra.
making her look like a fire ship in a
' lake of flame.
; ' The skipper of the tank expected
her to be destroyed utterly before
his eyes. He was elated when a
giant comber broke aboard her. dousing
the fire almost completely. Other
seas helped in the work, and all
hands, except the chief officer and
those in the vanished boat, went back
on their ship.
They found that all charts, books
and instruments of navigation had
? been destroyed. How far the tank
was from the Azores the skipper of
the Zaandyk said he did not learn,
but the Norwegian skipper, steering
by dead reckoning, found his way
thither. The engines had been only
slightly damaged. The last ship
news from the Azores reported La
Habra still in port. She needed
rmmh rpnairine.
. It Isn't Your Town?It's You.
+
If you want to live in the kind of a
town. *
Like the kind of a town you like.
You needn't slip your clothes in a
grip.
And start on a long, long hike.
You'll only find what you left behind,
For there's nothing that's really
new.
? It's a knock at yourself when you
/ knock your town;
It isn't the town?it's you.
'
Real towns are not made by men
afraid
Lest somebody else gets ahead.
^ When everyone works and nobody
shirks,
p You can raise a town from the
deal.
And if while you make your personal
stake,
Your neighbors can make one, too.
Your town will be what you want to
see.
It isn't the town?it's you.
i .
If you want to live in a town that is
clean
In politics, business and smoak,
Yon needn't try to the passer-by
To make your town a joke:
But give your heart an<i brain and
hands
To helping your town along
In every cause that will make the
laws.
Establish the right from wrong.
If you want a place for music and
' art.
And speakings and rallies and
plays.
Then put your thought on the things
you ought.
And think of the means "and ways.
Then get to work from boss to clerk,
' And remember when you do,
The motto the league has given us
f all?
"It isn't the town?it's you."
r A Hard Luck Story.
A member of the general assembly
II Ulii CL II tTti I U? VVU1II* V.VUICO avivoo I
with a near-champion hard luck
story: After helping to pass thej
J.' new gallon-a-month law at the last,
meeting of the State legislature he j
came home and ordered two barrels I
of stuff that made Milwaukee famous.!
The goods did not arrive until the |
day the new law went into effect and I
the legislature-man was unable to get ]
it. He waited one day too long to i
order it.?Pickens Sentinel.
Glendale Spring Water delivered
at house for 50 cents per five-gallon
bottle by J. A. Murdaugh.?adv.
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SIZE NOT NECESSARY.
Many Men oT Small Statute Who Have 1
Made (i'Hal.
"You can't tell by the look of a
frog how far he can jump." j
That old and crude philosophy is j
as applicable to men as to frogs. I
A story in the Star the other day 2
told of the arrival at the union sta- t
tion of four men. three of them alert. (
well dressed, impressive looking. \
says the Kansas City Star. The i
fourth wore a battered old gaberdine, ?
frayed at the button holes. Ilis man- t
ner was timid and retiring. In size j
he was insignificant. j
He was a little-great man, ur. j
Charles H. Mayo, one of the greatest ]
surgeons the world has ever known.
John B. Gough, the great platform j
orator, used to tell a story about t
himself, how lie arrived late at a hall l
in Glasgow, where he was to speak, c
The place was packed. He could not r
get in. s
To the crowd wedged into the s
front entrance he told that he nntst (
get in. he was Gough, the speaker, t
They looked at him. he was an undersized
man. and laughed. They >
imagined that Gough, the great ora- r
tor, must be a tall man. t
He went to a side window, hoping i
to be able to crowd in there. It was g
already jammed full, and they, too. r
laughed when he told them he was 2
John B. Gough. s
Finally he went to a rear door and j
told the man on guard there that he
was Gough. r
"Yes, five or six other men have
told me that already," the watchman i
said. Gough gave him a shilling to <c
pass him in to the stage and after the ]
ledture the doorkeeper went to him ?
and said: t
"Well, Oough. you're like a singed j
cat: better than you look." t
Many men who do great things are t
small in stature and insignificant (
looking. Nearly all of them would ?
pass unnoticed in a crowd. . j
General Sir John French, field marshal
in command of the British forces f
in France, "the incomparable Ney" t
of the British army, is described by (
Herbert Corey as :"Short and squat x
in stature, a ludicrous figure on j
horseback, and not at all the sort of j
man in appearance one expects a cav- s
airy leader to be." { , f
And he is "quiet and unassuming." t
They all are?all the men who do s
great things. i
Lloyd-George. British chancellor of
the exchequer, one of the great men
of England, is described as follows
in Collier's Weekly: j
"A short, stooky man, about the
size of LaFollette. there was nothing j
distinguished in his appearance." He
is known as "the lJtUe Welsh law- ,
yer."
Lord Roberts, a great general, was
known as "Little Bobs." }
Grant was short and stocky. Lord
Nelson, "the greatest sea fighter the j
world has ever seen," was undersized
and delicate. Napoleon was "the {
Little Giant." Stephen A. Douglas
was "the Little Giant." Harriman
and Jay Gould, wizzards of railway ,
finance, were undersized. So is John
D. Rockefeller. ^
The list might be extended to collumns,
disproving the popular belief
that for a man to be a genius he must ^
be big; but still the world will keep
on believing it.
Too Many Laws. I
That the country as well as the *
various States suffer from a plethora
of laws is fully established by the in- *
vestigation of the Hon. Elihu Root,
who stated that "I have found that
over 62.000 laws have been passed 1
by congress and State legislatures in
this country in the past five years,
and over 65,000 decisions reported 1
by courts of last resort. How can
you possibly know them? How can 1
you conduct your business and keep
out of jail?"
This declaration was made in an '
address before the Merchants' association
of New York. A news item
now being published says, "The six- tv-third
congress considered 30,033
measures, according to the senate 1
secretary's customary post mortem,
issued today, and made laws of 700
of them. Originating in the senate
were 7,751 bills and 245 joint resolutions;
in the house, 2^,616 bills
and 441 joint resolutions. Of the
700 laws. 417 were 'public' and 283
'private.' "
Just how business men are to feel 1!
any sort of security while this legis- 11
lative hysteria is at its height it is
not easy to determine, but it is cer- *
tain that business it at present much
more in need of encouragement than
regulation. The president's assur- 1
ance that congress would not con- s
? .!i * ? i.
vene again unui next wwimier
well calculated to help restore eonfi-j11
deuce, and insure business for a tinie^
at least against demoralizing lei^is- i ^
lation.? Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. is
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".My brother is not so bad off. He In
is interned in one of the enemy's jd
towns. They won't release hint un-j
less he promises not to fight." t
"Well?" ja
"Of course he won't promise."?i
Seattle Post Intelligencer. p
WHAT RKIXG XKRVOl'S IS.
i'ictim Really Suffers Severe Menta
I >istress.
The mental state of a person suffer
ng from "nerves" is very much lik<
hat of a man who is wanted by tin
>olice, says the Metropolitan Maga
:ine, or who has just heard a rumoi
hat the ship on which his wife anc
hildren have sailed has been sunt
n a collision, or who has cried "fire'
n a theatre' and been thrown out
md knows his name has been ob
ained by the reporters. Very oftei
t is a combination of all three, witt
leriiaps tne aaaea sensation 01 a mar
n doubt if he closed the safe befon
eaving the office.
Perhaps some sufferers will dis
igree with this and say it is not lilt?
hat at all, but rather like having fal
en into a dry well, from which yot
an hear the voices of people passing
learbv. but are unable to make your
;elf heard or like having accidentally
.hot your neighbors only child wliih
deaning a revolver. The point i:
hat it is distinctly unpleasant.
Any bad quarter of an hour tha
ou may have experienced of uneasi
less, anxiety, guilt, remorse or mor
ification will give you a very fail
dea of the chronic condition of th<
;o-called neurasthenic. A good night
liare will help. There is not
ibout this in the hooks. There th<
symptoms are described as "loss o
nterest." "inability to concentrate,'
'extreme depression," "feeling o
mmbness in the extremities," etc
In a way this js true; just as i
vould be true of the men referred t<
ibove? The man wanted by the po
ice would take little interest in th<
;hop windows, and the man wh<
hinks the ship has sunk would no
tet very far with a letter arranging
he details of a business reorganiza
ion; and as for the man thrown ou
)f the theatre, lie would probabl?
Ldmit it if brought to it, that he wa:
irofoundly depressed.
None of these individuals 4 woult
eel that the books quite did justic(
o their feelings. And it goes with
>ut saving that none of them woulc
espond with enthusiasm if a brisl
lerson came along and said, "Wha
'Ou need is to get your mind off your
self," or "What you need is plenty o
resh air and exercise." The mair
hiag is that the nervous victim i:
suffering severe mental distress. H<
s not simply "out of sorts."
The Village Autosmitli.
;uuci a iiuiacicss-Liicoiiui ucc
The town garage now stands,
3ill Smith, who runs the business, h(
Hath large and 6inewy bands;
Vnd the muscles of his brawny armi
Are strong enough?my lands.
lis hair is crisp and black and short
His face is caked with oil;
lis brow is wet with grease?and yei
I do not think he'll spoil;
le looks a fellow in the face
And chargeth for his toil.
V coughing automo machine,
It limpeth to the door,
rhere's something wrong about it:
spleen?
Else why that snort and snore.
rhe issueth from in between
Its under wheels or fore?
Jig Bill, the kindly "autosmith,
He takes the thing apart,
tnd tenderly he monkeys with
That automobile's heart
Jntil?O man of skillsome pilth!
He makes its pulses start.
rhe children coming home fron
school
Look in at the open door.
They like to see the autosmith
Recline upon the floor
3eneath the car and grunt, "By gar'
This carburetor's sore."
Thanks, thanks to thee, my worth:
friend.
For the lesson thou hast taught!
s'ext time I drive this old bee-hive
I'll try to not be caught
Ten miles from town with the fire!
' run down
And the axle steel unwrought.
?St. Louis Republic.
Taken From the Rat.
"I am sorry. Mr. Portly," apologiz
d the hostess to her unexpected bui
influential guest at dinner, "but ]
ave no cheese in the house."
"Pray, do not mention it, Mrs
Miipps." smiled the genial old boy
I am sure"?
His little compliment was inter
upted by the appearance of th<
mail son or ins Hostess at nis siae
earing a piece of clieese upon t
date.
"Well. now. that is very' kind ol
ou. little man." he said, as the chile
tood there, delightedly watching
im swallow the tit-hit. "You kne?\
lore than mother that time. Where
id you find the cheese?"
The youngster intently wa tehee
he last morsel disappear before he
nswered.
"1 found it in the rat trap!" he
roudly asserted.?Atlanta Journal.
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