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A SHERLOCK HOLMES TASK. -. How a Railroad Company Traces Runaway Freight Cars. At times when the scarcity of freight cars causes the railroads to place an embargo upon certain classof goods, the problem of keeping track of its cars to see that they do not run away and become wanderers *pon the face of the earth is a stupendous one for each company. When a freight car is built, it is given a number before it leaves the r.r * shop, and thereafter it is aiways i known by that number until it is worn out and scrapped. When a new car receives its number, and starts cut upon its business career, it is entered in the record book, and a careful account of its wanderings -and earning power are kept there. "This record book is a history of the car, and by consulting it, one can learn how many trips it has made, what cities it has visited, how many times it has been to the repair shop, and also where it is supposed to be at any given time. But in spite of all this care in keeping a record of each car now and then for some unexplained reason, Hisannears from sight?literally U"~rr running away. Some of the big com-1 panies employ car tracers, but as al rule a printed tracer is first sent after the car to bring it back home. This printed tracer, in a blue en-1 "velope, is sent to the person in whose jurisdiction the car was last supposed to be, and if it had passed out of his district the tracer is sent on to the next one to whom the' car was consigned. This little printed tracer tailing to bring the car home in a | reasonable length of time, a man I known as a tracer is sent after it. A tracer is really a railroad car detective. And sometimes it is more difficult -to trace a runaway freight car than a criminal. There are tens of thousands of miles of railways, and hun-| tlreds of thousands of freight cars, and to find the one carrying a certain number is often like hunting for a 'Vv needle in a haystack. The tracer may > arrive in a city, where the runaway Is supposed to be, at the very moment when the car is leaving it in the opposite direction. It may Cross his track on a parallel line, or dodge around him on a short line. It may be headed north, or rolling merrily toward the pacific while he is going \\ toward the Atlantic. 1 A runaway ear apparently is as depraved as any criminal. It hides on a lonely siding, or gets lost in a short swamp line. One such runaway rested nearly a year on a siding in Southern Texas simply because it got lost, ;r and no one seemed to know just what to do with it. The nearest freight agent had no record of It, and no tracer had requested * its return. Going on the principle that . what is "everybody's business is nobody's business," this local agent made no effort to hunt up the owners. If the order had been received by him to return it, he would have obeyed, but lacking such orders he left it on the siding. In the course of time, it was occupied by a family of squatters, who lived quite comfortably in it for six months, and were routed out only when quite by accident, the car tracer discovered it.?Popular Mechanics. Votnrol Oiiriftcifiv Joe had been working in Baltimore. On the day before Christmas he received his pay and planned to go home to Washington, but first he started out to buy presents for all his family." He did this with more genf, >' erosity than foresight, and when evening came he found himself at the railroad station loaded with bundles, but with no money for his fare to |||:- Washington. Somehow he got through the gate and approached the conductor. He laid the case before him, and ended - with a plea that he might ride to Washington on the platform of the baggage car. The conductor, his heart warmed by the spirit of the , season, said, "All right, go ahead!" So Joe climbed on the platform of the car next to the engine. It was a cold night, and it was on a road where the engine takes up water from a track reservoir as it goes along. When the train reached Washington the conductor saw Joe approach ' . v ing, covered with ice from head to Igsfo: vJ* . foot, bundles and all. He came up to the conductor and said, "I sure does thank you, boss, for muh ride. You's ?"3 very kind to allow muh to ride up with you; but there's jus' one question I wants to ax. Kin yuh tell me the name ob that rivuh we run through back there?"?Youth's Companion. ? Controlled from the driver's seat, the reflector in a new type of automobile headlight can be arranged to -.throw a narrow, powerful beam of light directly ahead or to diffuse the light across a road. We annually raise half a jbillion chickens. BITTEN BY MAD CAT. Man, Child, Dog and Goat are the Vic- F tims. Cheraw, Oct. 5.?A strange cat, probably maddened with hunger, en- ^ tered the home or Mr. J. A. Rain- r< water, living a few miles out from u Cheraw on the Rockingham high-; h way, the other day and attacked a j Q two-year-old child, biting its cheek | a. and scratching its face. The cat al- ] A so bit a dog and a goat, the latter i r< going mad. The next day the cat H ' 1- J Vi*. TnVin Trnnhlo. tC berg county?they spend their money ^ with you. ca He is the chap who pays taxes to \ j help support the town, build Yoads,; ^ etc. . j m He is the chap who helps support j -n the churches and charitable organi-!OT j X zations of Bamberg. j ^ He is the chap who talks and pe boosts for Bamberg every day in the year. ?. He is the chap who visits you when rii you are sick, sends flowers to your of family when you die, and follows your body out among the trees and fr tombs, as far as human feet may sa travel with the dead. h( He is your home merchant?your ca neighbor?your friend?your helper he in time of need. w Don't you think you ought to trade to with him, and be his friend and help- ge er in the time of need? Don't you know that every dollar gi ir/Mi ocunri owov trnoc tn stmne'PrR and ar J UU OV/UU W " wj WW?? o-- ? is gone forever?to men who would u] not trust you for a box of matches or h< a skipper from a cheese?to men who lo would turn you over to the police if m you should enter their offices? oi You don't save much, frequently nothing, when you send your money m out of Bamberg, and you take all the y< Southern PREMIER CARRIER PASSENGER TRAI EFFECEIVE SEP All Trains Ri No. Arrive Bambere From - N 24 Augusta and intermedi- 2 ate stations 5:05 a. m. 25 Charleston, Branchville and intermediate sta- 2! tions 6:25 a. m. 18 Augusta and intermedi- 1< ate stations 8:43 a. m. 35 Charleston and inter- r mediate stations ....10:57a.m. 6' 22 Augusta and intermedi- 2 'ate stations 6:37 p. m. 7 Charleston, Branchville, and intermediate sta- 1' tions 8:17 p. m. Trains Nos. 17 and 24?Through sle< and Atlanta. N. B.?Schedules published as inforn For information, ticl S. C. HOLLIFI THE SOUTHERN SER innHnBMmi wmug jj^ FULL STOCK O: J . B . BR Telephone No. 45-J came duck <tuu un i>n> uunu i vu?<v field. The cat was killed and its head sent to Raleigh for examina- b: ! tion, where the cat was pronounced i ti mad. Both the child and Mr. Trou-j st blefield are now taking the Pasteur j bi treatment in Cheraw. j es \iy The Home Merchant?Who Is He? fc Thn home merchant! Who is he? He is the chap who gives you! g'< credit when you are financially broke, ai and carries your account until you cc are able to pay. ai He is the chap who gives you back b< your money or makes exchanges qi when you are not satisfied with what you have bought. la He is the chap who stands behind h< his guaranty, and makes restoration hi of all losses that you may sustain on the goods you buy. ta He is the chap who meets you at h( the door with a hand-shake, and lets Ai you out with a message to the "kids," p* and a real come-again good-bye. Fi He is the chap who meets and su greets you on the street every day in the year, and takes neighborly interest in your family and your affairs. , He is the chap whose family and I 0 i employes live in Bamberg and Bam-; H LEFT $10,000 BY FRIEND. 'rank M. Unger, Anderson Tailor, Remembered in Will of Broker. Anderson, Oct. 5.?For kindnesses tiown and services rendered him in amoving his baggage containing valable papers from Hotel Pleasanton i San Francisco during the earthuake, and subsequent fire ten years go, Frank M. Unger, a tailor, of nderson, aged 31 years, has been smembered in the will of the late ^iram Douglass, of San Francisco, ) the extent of $10,000. Mr. Douglass was a real estate roker and had apartments in the hoil in which Unger was employed as ;eward. Mr. Douglass died Septem3r 2nd, and the administrator of his state was able to find Mr. Unger onr today, after searching the nation >r him. Lived in Sneet Tent. Unger carried Mr. Douglass's bagige on his shoulder one mile away id buried it. The baggage was revered after the fire and Douglass id Unger lived in a tent made of id sheets for six weeks until better larters could be secured. The administrator says Mr. Dougss's last words were wishing that 3 could see Unger to again thank m for his services and kindnesses. Mr. Unger is employed in a local iloring establishment. He located ire five years ago and married an nderson girl. He has forwarded pairs of power of attorney to a San rancisco friend to represent him as Lggested by the administrator. Ford For Wilson. Here is the closing paragraph of lengthy statement given out by enry Ford: "Urn a Republican, it I'm for Wilson. I'm a Republi n f Vi cotorooonn T liuvo pare 11 IV/1 1>11U QUAll^/ 1 VUUVU A A (A T v VM>? M was born that way. But I'm for ilson because I believe he can do ore to enhance the prosperity and sure the peace of this nation than ly other candidate. Anyone who >es not want to gamble with prosjrity, should vote against him."? ristol Herald-Courier. sk of short weight or measure and ' getting damaged or inferior goods. And don't you knovr if you buy om your home merchant along the tme lines as you do the mail order >use?in bulk or crates?paying ish, there are many merchants right jre who would be ready to figure ith you?and they are right here i take the risk if it is found tne >ods are not as represented. And don't you know that the *owth and prosperity of Bamberg id Bamberg county depends largely pon the success and prosperity of its ime people? We cannot succeed so ng as money made here goes to the lail order house where we lose sight : it forever. Do you get it? Put it in your lemory?take the straight road to Dur home town. Railway OF THE SOUTH, NS SCHEDULES *T. 17, 1916. an Dailv. o. Leave Bamberg For 4 Branchville, Charleston and intermediate stations * 5:05 a. m. 5 Augusta and intermediate stations 6:25 a. m. 8 Branchville, Charleston and intermediate sta tions 8:43 a. m. 5 Augusta an? intermediate stations 10:57 a. m. 2 Branchville, Charleston and intermediate stations 6:37 p. m. 7 Augusta and intermediate stations 8:17 p. m. epmg car service Detween jtsamDerg lation only. Not guaranteed. ' cets, etc., call on ELD, Agent, VES THE SOUTH. mm A FLAT TIRE is repaired by us in a few moments. Just run your wheel into our shop and we'll start on it at once. If you are in a great hurry wait for it. We make a specialty of quick repairing and never disappoint you?it is ready when we say it will be. When you learn how 1r*nT niir nrioae arc vrm will hp A \y *? UUX V J V w " Ail W v M| a steady customer. I P FORD PARTS I !ICKLE I Bamberg, S. C. B In nl" D AnAllTAll JUM IVCtClVCU 1 have on hand a lot of the r: j. u r inesi nurses l IK* 1 and iviuies / that has been shipped here in a number of years, and the PRICE IS RIGHT / SEE ME BEFORE MAKING YOUR NEXT PURCHASE ; G. FRANK BAMBERG BAMBERG, S. C. j i; .1 I %e Standard of Wue and QuaJitf|| m ' m 9 " V ' W JK0' ^ . ^K jBr i // lk ^Bft^RV >f yi Pride of Ownership 1 Wherever you may find them, Paige owners are 9 always enthusiastic?always contented?always S| completely satisfied. a For these people, the automobile problem has - 9 II been permanently solved. They regard their ! car with a warm affection which is not usually accorded to things outside the human family. Because the Paige is worthy of trust and respect, it is trusted and respected in every section of the nation?North, South, East and West. j " * jjjg And, please remember, it is just this great mass j of public opinion?this ever increasing owner I -*-1 ? ? ? ? ? d J ..111 Ki 1-ilf Otl \ J Iemnusiasm anu guuu win?mai nao wwuw un _ impregnable bulwark of Reputation and Pres- 9 tige around the name Paige. 9 FAIRFIELD "SIX-46" SEVEN-PASSENGER $1375 F. O. B. DETROIT 9 FLEETWOOD "SIX-38" FIVE-PASSENGER $1090 F. O. B. DETROIT 9 PAIGE-DETROIT MOTOR CAR CO., DETROIT, MICH. 9 BLACK & BLACK I Bamberg, S. C. 9 /$