The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 16, 1916, Page 2, Image 2
MET WITH UNEXPECTED END.
All Nine Lives of Feline Snuffed Out
at Once.
Thomas K. Cat, household pet
emeritus of a family in one o, the
better residential districts, is no
more. The nine lives of Mr. Cat departed
from his earthly clay at 10:3S
o'clock Friday morning, death being
due to an overdose of chloroform administered
with malice aforethought.
Thomas K. Car was a bachelor, of
1 ? 2?- J V>Aonf,r ho VL'QC a fa V
great Sl?e clliu ucauij, nc ?
orite among the members of the opposite
sex and spent many a pleasant
hour courting various fair felines on
the back fences of the neighborhood.
With no one to whom he must answer,
Mr. Cat stayed out as late as
his fancy directed, some nights not
even putting in an appearance at the
house where he was chief pet.
One night about two weeks ago,
while calling on a lady friend, Mr.
Cat was surprised by another gay
Lothario of the cat tribe, whose fancy
perchance, had rested on the same
feline divinity to whom Mr. Cat was
paying homage. In such a case,
among felines of the male persuasion,
there is only one thing to do.
Mr. Cat did. So did the other gay
Lothario. Tn the combat which ensued,
unmarked by blare of bugle 61
rattling of drum history does not
record what happened to Lothario
Mr. Cat, however, came home, sans
one eye, and suffering from an ap
parently severe physical breakdown,
superintended by the claws and
teeth of his redoubtable adversary.
Warm food and kind treatment aided
greatly la restoring his physical
prowess. But the eye that had guided
him through many a dark alley
?5. was darkened forever.
Notwithstanding his afflictions and
weakened physical condition Mr. Cat
continued his pursuit of the fair fel
^ ines of the neighborhood, until the
fortunes of war left him looking like
Pthe German Uhlans who stormed the
forts at Liege. He was a wreck, and
his nine candles of life were flickering
low\
A family council was finally called,
\ Mr. Cat's fate was put to the test
and the verdict was "thumbs down."
# Various methods of execution were
(Jiscussed, among them an axe and a
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gun, but chloroform finally secured
a majority of the vote present, and
it was decreed that Mr. Cat should
perish in this manner.
A bottle of chloroform, a tin bucket,
and an older brother formed a
combination against which even nine
lives could not prevail.. Th6 chloro-i
form was placed on some absorbent
cotton, the cotton placed beneath
the bucket, and Mr. Cat was started
on his last long journey, also be
neath the bucket. A few minutes
sufficed and at 10:38., eight minutes
after he had been placed beneath the
"bucket Thomas K. Cat was officially
adjudged to have kicked the bucket
and his nine cat souls had wended
their weary way to the cat's happy
hunting grounds. Interment was
private.?Greenville Piedmont.
1 Alcohol and . Pneumonia.
The United' States public., health
service brands strong drink as the
. most efficient ally of pneumonia. It
; *! declares that alcohol is the hand|
< maiden of the disease which produces
ten per cent, of the deaths in the
United States. This is no exaggerafiE
tion. We have known for a long
time that indulgence in alcoholic lij
: quors lowers the individual vitality,
and that tbfe man who drinks is peculiarly
susceptible to pneumonia.
The United States public health service
is a conservative body. It does
not engage in alarmist propaganda.
v In following out the line of its official
duties it has brought forcefully
to the general public a fact which
will bear endless repetition. The
c?r.
^ liberal and continuous user of alcoholic
drinks will do well to heed this
warning, particularly at this season
of the year when the gruesome death
toll from pneumonia is being doubled.
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The Final Advantage.
Mayor Thompson, of Chicago, was
talking at a dinner about the monstrous
parades for and against Sunday
closing that have been thrilling
the Windy City, relates the Phila
delphia Record.
"The.Sunday closing law is now
being enforced by us," he said. "But
can we keep it up? We have the ad(
vantage but to make our advantage
permanent we must work very hard.
Otherwise our opponents will be in
the position of the bachelor at the
Christmas ball?down and out at
first, but victorious in the long run.
"This bachelor, tall and lean and
distinguished-looking, approached a
fat man and held out his hand.
" 'Hello, Smith!' he said cordially.
' 'How glad I am to see you. It's
seventeen years since?'
"But Smith frowned and said in a
worried, cold voice:
'' 'Paor norHnii Vnn have tho ad
f Ml UV11* X VU **M. ? V/ V*A V/
vantage of me.'
"VYes, I know I have,' said the
strahger. 'That's why I'm so pleased.
"We were rivals for Minnie Madden's
hand?don't you remember??and
she rejected me and married you.' "
BONES OF WAR VICTIM.
I'enarth Relic of Sherman's Visit at
University of South Carolina.
Wednesday as workmen were excavating
in the northeastern corner of
the campus of the University of
South Carolina, just inside the wall,
they came upon a skeleton far advanced
in decomposition. Prof. E.
L. Green, of the University faculty,
who is an authority on the history of
the university, says that there is no
doubt that the bones belong to one
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Ot 1116 corpses uuneu 111 imo
of the campus just after the burning
of Columbia by Gen. Sherman.
A little pamphlet published in Columbia
in 1895 by William A. Nicholson,
of Union, gives a graphic account
of the burial of Confederate
wounded who had died at the hospital
which the college buildings then
formed. He says:
"The duty devolved upon me to
make preparation for the burial of
the dead that had been accumulating
since the occupation of the city on
the 17th. I found, on examination,
17 corpses. It was impossible to procure
planks to make coffins, and it
was with the greatest difficulty I was
able to get a trench dug to bury them
in. There was no white help I could
call upon, and the negroes were defiant
and insolent and refused to aid
in digging the graves. I was, under
the circumstances, compelled to use
arbitrary measures. I selected a few
of the hospital attendants, armed
them with muskets and went into
the city and impressed such able
bodied help as we met and marched
them to the field in the rear of the
president's house in the university
campus and had a trench dug
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17 men. As I stated, I was unable
to procure planks or nails; all I was
able to do for them was to wrap their
precious forms up in a sheet, and
wherever it was possible for me to
learn their names, I would mark the
grave, or rather the position they occupied
in the trench, with such material
as I could get, in order that
their friends might remove them, ii
they desired.
"The day following I was compelled
to go through a like experience
and tfury 11 more. It was while engaged
in this duty that an unpleasant
incident occurred. One of the
negroes employed in .digging the
trench took a pistol from his pocket
and commenced firing and using very
strong and defiant language. .1 asked
him to desist, as the occasion was
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too solemn a one to be engaging in
such boisterous conduct, even if he
meant no harm. I asked him to give
me his pistol. This he refused to do,
I was equally determined that he had
to show more respect to the dead
then lying in their shrouds. I called
on one of the guards to take the pis
tol from him, but when he saw the
guard reach for his gun he ran like a
horse through a gateway in the rear
of the president's house and down
the middle of the campus and the
guard after him. He refused to halt,
and was likely to get the better of
the race. The guard, equally determined
to teach him a lesson, took
aim, fired and brought him down. I
hurried to the spot and found he was
wounded in the arm. He was removed
to a building in the rear of
Prof. Reynolds' house in the campus.
I informed Dr. Thomson of the
occurrence, who went at once to see
him and gave his wound prompt and
careful treatment. While we deeply
regretted tne wounding 01 uie man,
the incident had a very salutary effect.
"On the day following we buried
seven. One of this number was a
most worthy female attendant, a
widow, leaving two helpless children.
I had in a manner become accustomed
to sad sights, but when I realized
that it wrould be my painful duty to
consign her uncoffined to the grave,
I felt then the terrible horrors of
war. We laid her away in a grave by
herself. If ever genuine tears of sorrow
w^ere shed it was over the grave
of this poor woman. Her children
were not present and I have no
ground for thinking that they ever
knew where their mother was buried.
As matters began to settle down,
those that died later on were decently
interred. Tt was my melancholy
1 duty from the time the city was destroyed
up to the time of my leaving
for home, in June, to bury no less
than 75 persons. I doubt if there
is one person in Columbia today who
knows that such a number of Confederate
dead lie at the place described.
But a few months ago I
visited the place in company with Dr.
Woodrow, pointing out the place.
"I learn with much pleasure, since
writing the foregoing, that the dead
buried at the back of the college
building have been removed and interred
in the Elmwood cemetery."
The buildings of the South Caro1
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federate government June 25, 1862,
and used by them a-s a hospital until
the close of the war. Dr. LaBorde,
chairman of the faculty, reported at
the close c^ 1862 that already more
than 2,000 wounded Confederates
had been treated. The present gym
HUMOR IX ADS. Jjj
Unconscious "Bulls" Made by Advertisers
in Knglisli Papers.
The following examples of more or
less authentic classified advertisements,
says Printer's Ink, are taken e.
from the Christmas number of the La
Advertisers' Weekly (London): be<
The late Hugh Stowel Brown, of J1?1
Liverpool, a man of extraordinary
girth and appetite, tells us in his do
autobiography that going to Wigan cei
A f
to preach he found the following ^
mural advertisement, due to the
lrftAnnopf f inlrin cr rivalrv lor
1 Brown, who died last summer 011 a
1 new and improved plan." I
Postmaster at Allendale.
, Washington, March 2.?J. E. Sear- B
j son was today recommended by Representative
Byrnes as postmaster at
Allendale, to succeed his father, who g
died recently. j.
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Read The Herald, $1.50 per year. ^
' nasium contained 300 beds. When
! Sherman entered Columbia the yel-j
low hospital flag flying over the col-1 F<
lege buildings saved them; they als
so held federal wounded.
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Eldred, Pa.
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Is 2r,th day of May, 1912.
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owners of property.
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