The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 17, 1916, Page 6, Image 6
HOOK S FAMOUS HOAX.
Humorist's Joke Blocked Traffic in
London Street.
The amusing hoax of Abergavenny
reminds a correspondent of one or
two historic leg-pullings in the same
line. One was the great Berners
street hoax, engineered by Theodore
Hook, and which was so successful
that its originator had to clear out
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He sent out from a certain address
thousands of orders, invitations,
etc., all to eventuate at the
same place and hour. The result
was that at the time in question the
street and the thoroughfares leading
to it were choked with traffic, there
was a species of riots, and after the
"fun" had cleared away the debris
made the place look like a battlefield.
An earlier hoax was also perpetrated
in London, viz., that on a certain
night at a house entertainment
ail Italian conjur or, Signor Capitello
Jumpedo, would perform certain
miraculous feats, winding up by
v \ climbing into a quart bottle. A huge
crowd assembled, and when they
found they had been "had" they set
to work and wrecked the place.?
Cardiff Western Mail.
Clean Hands.
'
fe-v Disease
germs lead a hand to
mouth existence. If the human race
't
would learn to keep the unwashed
hand away from the mouth many
human . diseases would be greatly
diminished. We handle infectious
i?; . matter more or less constantly and
we continually carry the hands to
the mouth. If the hand has recently
V V V been in contact with infectious mat?ter
the germs of disease may in this
way be introduced into the body.
BMany persons wet their fingers with
Baliva before counting money, turn*
ing the pages of a book, or performing
similar acts. In this case the
KB*
process is reversed, the infection bem
ing carried to the object handled,
there to await carriage to the mouth
of some other careless person. In
view of these facts the United States
public health service has formulated
the following simple rules of personal
hygiene and recommends their
adoption by every person in the United
States:
' Wash the hands immediately
Before eating,
Before handling, preparing or serv
ing food,
After using the toilet,
After attending the sick, and
After handling anything dirty.
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Buy at Home.
Sixty-five million dollars represented
the sales during the first half
of this year by the mail order house
of Sears, Roebuck & Co., of Chicago.
Which is another way of saying that
- local merchants throughout the country
have been deprived of just $65,000,000
which they ought to have
M? had.
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The mail order houses may sell
some things for a little less, but we
most seriously doubt that the buyer
v'
. really saves anything by patronizing
these foreign industries. In a major*
ity of instances, the buyer can get
what he wants at home for the same
vif 74 price.
Outside of the question of good
buying is the consideration that we
0 ought to spend our money at home
because the money which we spend
here will, in turn, be largely spent
y, here. Sears, Roebuck & Co., spend
* no mdney here. They buy nothing
from our farmers; they pay no taxes
Sjv f
to help us with our burdens; they
don't put a penny back into local
circulation. On the other hand, when
you buy from a local merchant, you
do not need to be told that most of
the money he gets from you will be
put back into local circulation.
Buy at home and build up your
community. If the community is upbuilded
you are directly benefited.
Our advice to people who get mail
orijler catalogues is to give them to
the good wife for the stove.
Help yourself by helping the home
merchant. You can establish a personal
relationship with him that will
be advantageous to you when you
need help, but the mail order people
don't know you from Adam's house
cat and care nothing about you.
X. You
get more for your money when
you patronize the local merchant.?
Batesburg (S. C.) Herald.
New Sound Reflector.
The sound reflector installed by
the bureau of lighthouses at the Buffalo
light station to lessen the dis
tracting noise spreading from the
fog siren back over the city is a
saucer-shaped plate of steel, 14 feet
in diameter. This shield is given a
vibration reducing lining of asbestos
board on the face toward the lake.
A space of four inches is filled with
mineral wool, corrosion of the steel
by the sulphur impurity of the wool
having been guarded against by suitable
treatment. This silencing device
has cut off much of the undesired
sound.
PERILS OF RACING AUTOS.
Alongside of Railways as Told by
Locomotive Engineer.
'Not long ago, while riding on the
train with an engineer who pulls the
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ger trains in Georgia, he told me the
following story:
"The work of the engineer is not
what it used to be. In addition to
watching the track ahead, and feel- I
ing the responsibility of the passen-]
gers, of the women and children
asleep in the coaches far behind, j
there now has come the new danger
which more than taxes every faculty.
"Not long ago I left a certain large
city, sitting in the cab of a Mogul engine.
I had a run of 175 miles. We
pulled out of the station on time. Behind
me were two day coaches, four
Pullman cars and the usual baggage
and express cars. Altogether I suppose
there were 125 souls under my
direct care. I eased the throttle open
and we pulled out across the Sabyrinth
of tracks and woods until we
got into the open country. It was a
moonless night and yet there seemed
to be a fair amount of light. I opened
her up because my schedule called
for about 60 miles an hour. I felt
the tremor of the giant power beneath
my hand as we spun through
the lights and shadows, over crossings
and through small villages.
"It was not long before I was conscious
of a bright light occasionally
in the highway road which ran parallel
with the railroad tracks. I took
a hasty glance to the right from my
cab window and saw four men in an
automobile racing wTith my train?
racing with death?racing for nothing?racing
for mangled bodies possibly.
The driver of the automobile
I could see was determined to reach
if possible a small town at the same
time I did, or ahead of me. In the
centre of this town there was a railroad
crossing in which the country
road crossed tho railroad tracks.
Having these passengers behind me,
some asleep, some awake* mothers
with babies, men of business with important
engagements to keep, all of
this flashed through my mind, and
I wondered where my duty lay, to
halt and hesitate with this train because
some idle, reckless men sought
death in front of my engine, or to go
on and keep to my schedule. I decided
on the latter, and did my duty.
"There is nothing more horrifying,
there is nothing that strains the
nerves of a human being, there is
nothing that makes the heart stand
still quicker, there is nothing more
sorrowful, more pitiful or more agonizing
than to realize that you have
unintentionally mangled a human being,
snuffed out a life. Life to me
is serious. With tons of steel quivering
beneath me, going at rapid
sDeod. a Door, frail human bodv
stands little chance. I kept to my
schedule. I approached this town.
I saw the car racing on the road. I
could not think that any man would
be so foolhardy as to attempt to cross
in front of a fast passenger train
when he knew, could see and hear
and feel the train beside him, and
yet, just as my train came in sight
of the crossing, came closer to it, in
a moment there was a flash, and my
headlight showed the fenders of this,
automobile were caught, that human
bodies flew into the air. I had my
hand on the air throttle ready to jam
the brakes to the utmost. I did this,
but it was too late. One of the men
was instantly killed. The others
were mangled, some fatally, some
less seriously. The automobile was
a wreck and I was almost a wreck,
and vet I had to go on."
This is the story of the locomotive
engineer.
Before he left he said: "I will
tell you one thing more. Each day
that I take out my train foolhardy
men and sometimes women race with
my train. They cross in front of it,
making narrow escapes. Often I see
in these cars women and children,,
and I want to tell you* right now if
ever my engine runs into a car
where there is a baby and after stopping
my engine, find that a heirless
soul has been carried to the Gre^it
Beyond right then is the last time I
ever will pull a throttle of a locomotive.
Right then I am done."
The object of this story is to call
to the.attention of the Georgia legislature
the fact that they could by legal
enactment do away with railroad
gradings all over Georgia. Each year
the toll of human life grows larger
and larger. A few years ago when
the senate was in session a message
was flashed to the president of the
senate that one most dear to him had
gone. Her car in crossing a railroad
track was struck by a train.
The writer some years ago outlined
a plan that would be fair both
to the railroads and the counties
through which they pass, in looking
to the elimiation of railroad grade
crossings, that is, for underpass or
overhead bridges, the railroads to
furnish the material of construction
and the counties with their convicts
to do the work. This seems equitable
and fair to both parties. The
State let this condition remain when
BAMBERG IS HEALTHY.
Only Seven Counties in State With
Lower Death Rate.
A popular idea in some parts of
the State that Bamberg and other
lower South Carolina counties are
unhealthy has been exploded by the
report of the State bureau of vital
statistics for the first six months of
1916. The death rate in Bamberg
county for the six months ending
June 30th, 1916, was 11.1, the average
rate in the entire State being
13.5. Only seven counties in the
State show a lower death rate than
Bamberg, as follows:
Aiken, 10.8; Barnwell, 7.7; Cherokee,
10.9; Colleton, 9.6; Edgefield,
8.7; Fairfield, 9.6; Saluda, 8.9,
Laurens county, with a rate of 11.1,
is the same as Bamberg.
The number of deaths in the county
for the period named was 107;
the number of births 269, the birth
rate being among the highest, 27.8.
Sixteen counties show a higher birth
rate than Bamberg, 27 counties showing
a lower rate.
The following table shows the
number of deaths in each county ir
the State from January 1 to July 1
1916, and the death rate in each
county:
Counties. Deaths. Rate
Abbeville 211 ll.S
Aiken 236 10. ?
Anderson 437 11.2
Bamberg 107 11.1
Barnwell . "....132 7.1
Beaufort 24S 15.2
Berkeley 162 13.
Calhoun . 123 12.1
Charleston 1,010 22.1
Cherokee 159 10. ?
Chester 226 15.1
Chesterfield 186 12.1
Clarendon 258 14.?
Colleton 176 9.f
Darlington .... 271 14.1
Dillon 130 11.?
Dorchester 106 11.2
Edgefield \ 131 8.1
Fairfield 142 . 9.(
Florence 347 17.c
Georgetown 187 16.$
Greenville 507 13.(
Greenwood 249 13.1
Hampton 123 15.2
Horry : 178 12.1
Jasper 57 15.2
Kershaw 150 14.1
Lancaster 227 16.1
Laurens 247 11.1
Lee 200 14.1
Lexington 155 12.1
Marion ' .... 156 11.J
Marlboro 255 15.2
Newberry 211 ..11.5
Oconee 177 11.?
Orangeburg ^ 419 12.1
Pickens 175 11.?
Richland 696 22.$
Saluda 99 8.?
Spartanburg 563 ll.?
Sumter 58 14.1
Union .... 212 13.C
Williamsburg 234 11.2
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X U1 n. 01U X O.i
Total 10,973 13.?
Love of Ease. .
What is there about "love of ease'
that makes the strenuous one sc
wroth? Love of ease is a universal
human trait, and has been so from
the beginning of time. It is the incentive
even of war. Barbarian
tribes and nations fight for slaves
and even the civilized city-States oi
ancient Greece made war in order tc
reduce their captive enemies to bondage
and compel them to work, so thai
the conquerors might enjoy lives ol
leisure. Love of ease is the mainspring
of nearly all human activities.
Men labor to obtain comforts and
luxuries. If the hope of enjoying the
fruits of one's work were gone nc
man would labor except under comDulsion
of law of necessitv. Hp whc
vociferates against love of ease assails
all mankind, including himself.?Philadelphia
Record.
A Test of Treasure.
"Young man," said the fond fath*
er, "in giving you my daughter 1
have entrusted you with the dearest
treasure of my life."
The young man was duly impressed,
and made no endeavor to conceal
his emotion and his gratitude. Then,
during the few moments of impressive
silence that followed, he heard
the patter, patter of the rain against
the window.
"Goodness me," he exclaimed, "it's
raining, and I haven't my umbrella!
May I borrow yours, sir, to keep me
dry while I run to the station?"
"Young man," said the fond parent,
"I would'not trust anyone with
my umbrella."
it could be remedied in short order
and all grade crossings gradually
done away with.
To the men and women who drive
j automobiles this appeal also is made,
| If not for your own sake, for God'e
sake think of the locomotive engineer
and the lives under him, and when
you feel tempted to race with a train,
and make a crossing ahead of it, I repeat,
for God's sake don't do it.?N.
K. Smith, in Atlanta Journal.
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All Trains Run Daily.
berg From No. Leave Bamberg For
itermedi- 24 Branchville, Charleston
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tions 5:05 a.m.
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