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WHKX DUST GOGS BANG. Some Domestic Commodities As Explosive as Gunpowder. Many mysterious explosives which at one time baffled tiie ingenuity of our keenest detectives, have been recently explained by the cold, methodical researches of our chemists, who, it will be remembered, also warned the government not to let Germany have cottort to manufacture gun-cotton. The men of science have not been able to wipe out the miseries that have been caused to the thousands of persons who have been convicted or condemned of arson, and other similar crimes, without a cause, but they have certainly succeeded in teaching the police to be very careful before they blame any householder or manufacturer or servant for an explosion and the key to their researches has been always the same?dust. How. many cooks for .example, realize that the ordinary everyday flour they use in their kitchens is one of the most dangerous Of explosives? Recent calculations show that the contents of a 25-pound sack of flour . mixed with 4,000 cubic feet of air, will, if ignited, throw a mass of iron weighing one ton 45 miles through the air. Indeed, many disastrous explosions have occurred in big flour mills from this cause, wrecking huge buildings and causing heavy loss of life. Unhappily flour is not the only domestic commodity that is as dangerous in its destructive effects as gunpowder, and hourly threatens our homes with red ruin. Every now and then a sweet factory gets blown up in spite of the vigilance of the government inspectors, the watchfulness of the insurance companies, and the zeal of its foreman. Such an explosion occurred not long ago in Boston. It Originated in a room where marshw.oHn-n.c. Mm hoin<r mart** These uianu "o " v* v "/viMQ sweets are coated with finely pulverized sugar, and the hot and dry air on a summer's day. laden with sugar dust, with the result that the mix ture ignited, a lot of workers were injured, and many of the buildings were set on fire. It is nothing new to hear also of U explosions of starch in starch mills and of rice in rice mills, and in each instance the blame is to be attributed to the innocent-looking commodities, and not to the malice or carelessness of the employes. Oatmeal, too, has been known to -go off with dire results. and a great breakfast commodity mill not long ago was sent en bloc heavenwards owing to some maize dust mixed with air. Spice dust in spice mills has alsc wrought similar damage, and all linoleum is now manufactured under special precautions against fire beause sad experience has shown how *1? *l\/\ AAmant 1100H easily COrK UUM anu uuc vcuicut uuvu in linoleum manufacture will ignite, or even take fire of their own accord. Soap is another domestic suspect. It has set fire to a ship in the mouth v * of the Thames. Only a few years ago there was a great explosion in a soap factory engaged in the production of finely powdered soap. "Some enemy hath done this thing!" muttered the proprietor, but as a matter of fact he and the detectives who hunted for criminals were for months on the wrong scent. "Soap is fat, and there/ fore combustible." the chemists reminded him. "Your soap powder was dry, and it got freely distributed through the air when it exploded with more violence and greater heat than flour or starch." i v Zinc has been known to cause explosions. The story is often told how a workman once handling a quantity of finely powdered metallic zinc when he got a spell of laziness, and to save further trouble, threw a shovelful in - - a ~ fur-norto Th pro was a tp a uaiuiug, iuiwuvv. ...... _ terrific explosion. The blade of his shovel was driven into the roof oi the building, and he got half-killed. Malt mills are also not imnt'une from perils of explosion. In fact, detectives nowadays, when they are faced with explosions, the origin ol which they cannot fathom, are always instructed by their superiors tc remember human agency may not be the cause, but?dust.?Pearson's Weekly. (lever Alio?. Alice announced to her parents nna mnrnin? that she had accepted VUV A4.V4?0 the hand of Mr. Thornton. "Why," cried the mother, a socia climber, "you are crazy." "But, mother, why?" asked tin girl. "Why, young Thornton will hav< no money for many years." repliec the mother. "It all belongs to hi; grandfather, and after that come! his father, and you will he old be fore you get a chance to handle an: of that money." "But. mother?" "No huts about it." said tlx mother, angrily, "you are making ; miserable match." "But. mother, it is the grand father." said the girl, "that I hav. accepted." Read The Herald, $1.50 year. TILLMAN IN PORTLAND. Says English and Japs Kn?>\v All H AI>out Canal. . j Portland, Ore.. July 17.?Senator | B. R. Tillman, of South Carolina, who h J is on his way to Alaska, reached T ! here today to rest for a few days at n | the house of his daughter, Mrs. Hen- P ! ry \V. Hughes. He said that during his recent trip to the Panama Canal he studied its defences carefully and C found that the principal concern man- b ifested there was to guard against observation by ships. y "All the information has been w guarded very carefully," he said, "but there is no doubt the British w and the Japanese are in possession ci of full information about the canal." G The Resident's Story. h About a month ago President Wil- w son called Edward Bok to the white j house, and a few days afterward the n president came to Philadelphia to de- ? liver his famous convention nan au- tj dress, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Mr. Bok was one of the com, mittee appointed to receive the pres- ^ ident, and, as he greeted the president, the editor said: g "This is very courteous of you, Mr. j. President, to return my call' so 600n." ^ The Wilson smile immediately . came into evidence. 1{ "Well," said the president, "I know you like to have everything quickly done in Philadelphia." "Yes," retorted the editor, "we are so quick in Philadelphia that a ^ , story you told at the white house j this morning has already reached u "So?" said the president. "Which i story?" And Mf. Bok told him. ' ^ "That's right," said the president, "Isn't it a delicious yarn?" This is the story. Secretary Dan- , iels brought it to Philadelphia and told it at dinner: "We were talking about misappre- u , nension, saiu me scticiaij, , the president chuckled and said, 'Yes, that reminds me of the story of the , b man who went to see a famous spec, ialist who demanded that each new ^ patient should come into his private ? room stripped so that he could give , him a thorough examination. When ^ this man's turn came, he protested to' the doctor's assistant, and began, i a 'But I don't want to?' i c ( " 'That's the rule, sir. with new , patients. The doctor insists upon it. , I If you will come in here and un- ^ .1 dress.' ^ ,j "'Oh, very well,' said the man. ,jand, stripped to the skin, he was I shown into the doctor's office. s: " 'Well, sir,' said the doctor, Si 'what is the matter with you?' " 'Nothing,' replied the man. " 'Nothing?' echoed the physician. ^ . 'Then why?'?pointing to his nude body. " 'Well,' said the man, 'your assistant wouldn't let me see you with my clothes on, so I took them off." " 'But,' said the doctor, 'what did 0 Sl , you want to see me about?' , " 'Why,' replied the stranger, |I > called to see if I couldn't get you or . vour wife to subscribe to the Ladies' 0 e , Home Journal." " o Tl?e Ways of Married People. ti More than half the troubles of married people are the result of want of e tact. Sensible matrimonial partners soon learn the ways and whims of c each other, and, by tact, avoid the rocks which for ages have shattered ^ the happiness of married life. For in- b stance, a sensible wife soon discovers that her husband does not like to be e asked 1 is reasons for everything he w does. Nine times out of ten he does n not kuow what they are himself. A prudent wife will not try to ape si her rich neighbors, nor nag her hus- n band for the money he cannot afford tl to give her. She will have the cour- a | age and independence to accept her ? life as :.l.e finds it. and make the w most of it. d No wife ever realizes her most ? brilliant expectations of happiness, t \ She will never be quite so happy as t: she expected to be, out she will not f' ( grieve over that. She will take the v goods the gods provide, and be thank- T ! ful. h The average man expects a good a deal of his wife. He wants her to t stay at home when he is out. He doesn't know why. neither does she: 5 but it is so. He wants her to be s ' there when he comes home. It does li not seem right if she is not. I A tactful woman will not stand on her dignity with her husband, for it ; doesn't pay. The average husband has many and varied peculiarities 0 J which are totally incomprehensive to 1 1 women. Do not try to understand r * them, for you cannot, and that is all v 5 there is about it. "j If you are going to be married.! H make up your mind that you will be | c I patient through the first two or rlireej B j years, while you are getting used to j ' 61 each other. This is the crucial period 2 ai in married life, and if it is passed in ! safety it is generally fairly plain sail- f "i ing afterward. e j ? j Glendale Springs water will keep I you healthy. For sa'e at Hemdon's; l j grocery store.?adv. j \ A THE LINOTYPE. H listory of Machines I'sed to Set Type for The Bamberg He; aid. Sargon. king of Chaldea, had a li-! rary. The books were baked clay, lie imprints on them, beautiful and linute. were made with bronze; unches while the material was soft.] That was 4,000 years ago. King Sargon became forgotten, haldea "became forgotten. Europe ecame great. Columbus was born. It was 3,500 ears after King Sargon. Books still ere being written by hand. Columbus was growing into a lad hen the first effective improvement ame. It was in 1454. Then Johann utenberg made the first book with lovable type. Men had printed for ages. They ad even printed in colors, from ood blocks and with other devices. he greatness of Gutenberg's achievelent was not in printing, but in the uccessful use of separate type. In] lat moment the human spirit found I iean^ of expression: and knowledge I ossessed till then by the few, was iven to all. Columbus found the New World, pain lost it, then France, then Engind. The young republic flung its anners of States across the Appalahians. Printing still was almost as iborious as in Gutenberg's day. The rinting press did not accompany the ioneer. Our civil war came. Its news was et by hand as Gutenberg had set his rst book. The compositor reached lto his case of type for each letter gparately, and separately dropped it ito place to spell each word. To et a page no larger than an ordinary ook the compositor's hand had to iove one-half mile. It was 1886, four hundred and hirty-two years after Gutenberg's rst type was set. before the printer as emancipated from this painful, seless labor. In that year there apeared the first copy of a newspaper hose type had been composed not y hand, but by an instrument. The newspaper was the New York 'ribune. The instrument was the inotype. That was only thirty years ago. oday newspapers composed on the notype greet the sun in its flight round the world. They are in'Afria. north and south. They are in Sieria, India and China. Japan and he Philippines, Hawaii, even the I .adrone islands of the far Pacific I now the linotype. They tell' tht ews in Alaska. They print it in 25 panish and Portuguese under the h now-helmeted Andes, and a thou- I f and miles up the Amazon river. I i It is an achievement of our gener- I 1 ?vr>i/.al nf it Thnmas A I I LIU1I a II u U.? pivoi vr * iv. * .. Idison says it is one of the ten woners of the world. It is not a "type-setting" machine, t has not a piece of type in it. It takes its own type?a new letter very time; and every time it forms! sentence it does twenty-three sepaate and intricate things. To tell how this complex, marvelus instrument was devised, improvd and made perfect is to tell a story f courage rather than mere invenive ingenuity. The original device did not have ven the germ of the linotype in it. t failed again and again. It suceeded in npthing save in impover;hing all who had anything to do ith it. But it planted in their ; rains and spirits a dream. They raised more money. They ngaged Ottmar Mergenthaler, then orking as a mechanic in a Baltilore shop. From that time on the story is the! tory of improvement after improve- [ rents that refused obstinately for an i lieir wonderful ingenuity, to produce successful machine. More than one reat invention or discovery, beset "ith such difficulties, has been abanoned in despair, to lie idle and for-; otten for years or even generations, ill new men found new courage to ake it up again. This invention.; ortunately, had men behind it who rould not give up. They stayed.) 'hey heartened each other, and they eartened the inventor, ever and gain. Ever and again the> refilled lie ever-emptying treasury. Today, perfected to a degree that lergenthaler would not have conidered possible, there are 30.000 inotypes working around the world. ?Exchange. War and Football. "War is one thing, football is another." said Percy Haughton, the fanous roach. "But before the new ules were introduced football and rar were the same thing absolutely." .Mr. Haughton smiled. "They tell s> story of a player un ler The old rules. This player, just ifter a game, was seen hopping about he gridiron on one leg in the frosty lutumn twilight. " 'Limbering up your muscles, lir?" said a field attendant. 'Lim>ering up after the game, sir?' " 'Not at all.' the player answered. I'm looking for my left foot. You :aven't seen it anywhere, have ou?" H H. M. GRAHAM, Pres. N. A. HUNT, 1st Vice Pres. . J. E. NEWSOM, Cashier ROBERT BLACK, 2nd Vice Pres. ENTERPRISE BANK i, Bamberg, S. C. . Dear Sir: The war clouds are thickening and the outlook for the future is not so bright. We have the greatest abundance of eatables, of things to wear and of money to spend. Would it not be wise to open a savings account with us?so i ... j that in case we should have a real panic in the future you would be on the safe side. There is nothing so uncomfortable as to be without money when you need it most. There is nothing so comforting as a bank account when monev is at a premium. ' ' ' i- i. J *? In order to encourage those that would provide for a rainy day we have de- II cided to pay 5 per cent, on all savings accounts left with us for three months or longer. . ^ggB ' mm We are the first in this section to pay 5 per cent, on savings accounts, and if the money at interest in Bamberg county at 4 per cent, was increased to 5 I per cent, and the difference given by the depositors to our several orphanages, 1 * '( there would be many a little soul made happy. Suppose we try it. We prediet if this is done that Bamberg county will be the best advertised -county in ? . .v V South Carolina and such an advertisement as this will be worthv of imitation, and.will be followed by other counties. Let our county lead the other counties in good deeds. ' It is our purpose and desire to have on deposit in our savings department by 1st February, 1916, at least fifty thousand dollars, and we want you as one of * our depositors. It will help you and it will be appreciated by us. If you have an account with us now open one for your good wife or your children. It is r wonderful how an account in the savings depaitment will grow when started, and one dollar will start this account. Yours very truly,1 ENTERPRISE BANK. ; ' SOMETHING NEW!1 M Waterman's Ideal Pocket Self-filling Fountain Pen i H When a Better Pen is Made L. ":^^P ^ E. Waterman Co. will Make It. I They Have Made It! II ?jf And we have just received the 11 biggest assortment shown in 11 Bamberg in many years?all in j I The New, Better Kind J J PRICES FROM $2.50 TO $725 M Everyone carries the famous I ' ; I! Waterman guarantee. Let us ,H: : show you this extraordinary pen MAIL ORDERS FILLED SAME DAY RECEIVED j ?S Herald Book Store' | V / ( \t .-iS v.; ^jgg^EW H . *