The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 22, 1915, Page 2, Image 2
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
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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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
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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.
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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?'
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( " '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." "
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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 \
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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