The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 28, 1921, Page 2, Image 2
ON TRAIL PERPETUAL MOTION.
4 Only Difficulty He Doesn't Know How
to Stop Machine.
Greenville county hasn't anything
on Richland county when it comes to
producing an inventor of a "perpetual
motion" device, for R. A. Sligh, a
farmer living about three miles out
from Columbia, has been flirting with
perpetual motion for lo. these many
years, has worked perpetual motion
to a fare-you-well, knows perpetual
motion as a mother does her child,
and has refrained from making his
machine simply because he doesn't
know how to get it stopped once it
begins to work, he said.
Mr. Sligh saw the story in the State
about a Mr. Pym, of Greenville, hav
Ing a perpetual motion device. 11
warmed his heart to know that another
man in South Carolina was on a
trail that has led many a scientist into
the darkness of despair, so he came to
Columbia, asked about Mr. Pym and
will confer with him regarding the
machine.
Sure it Will Work.
v "From the short description of Mr.
Pym's machine, I feel sure that his
device and mine work on exactly the
some principle?that of the falling
lever?no doubt of it. I have experimented
with it, have destroyed my
models, but can rebuild them with
little difficulty. I am going to talk
over this perpetual motion affair
with Mr. Pym and see if his device is
like mine, but I am sure that it is.
"Why haven't I had mv idea patented?
Well, the government won't
issue a patent on a perpetual motirn
machine?says there is no such thing.
But I have it, and it will work on any
* plane surface.
"The idea came to me about six
years ago. I have worked on it a*:
intervals and have it now so it will
work?it will pull anything. At firs:
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jerks?like a gasoline engine running
on one cylinder?but tliat can
be corrected now, and the power can
be applied in any number of ways."
Has Many Inventions. 1
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Not only is Mr. Sligh one of the
two men in Soutn Carolina who claim
to have the secret of perpetual motion
in their hands, but he is also an inventor
of a cotton chopper which he
uses on his farm. He has made num- :
erous experiments with wood fibre; 1
|&isays his wood fibre can be used extensively
as partitioffs for interiors 1
of houses, as roofing, as matting for ;
floors and for many other purposes.
"If it comes to a pinch," said Mr. 1
Sligh, "you can treat this wood fibre
of mine in such a way that it will
.serve for clothing; it is soft and pliable,
not easy to tear1 and will keep 1
^ the weather out." 1
Mr. Sligh says he has to wjrk pretty
hard to make ends meet and has 1
o; nevei had a great deal of capital to
finance properly his 1nveuf.:ons. He
,has always had a turn for mechanics,
he says, and hopes to be able to put
his perpetual motion device to some
practical use. His return from Green d
. ville will be awaited with interest by
|his friends in this community.?The
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WOMEN BURN BABIES.
Is Belief of Police Who Find Victims
in Cleveland Home.
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uieveiana, umo, juiy zi.?ceueveu
to have been crazed by their love for
two babies left with them as boarders
and who were about to be taken
from them, police believe two women
destroyed themselves and the children
on a bed which they set afire in their
x home today.
The women were Mrs. Eliza Moselman,
a widow, 70, and her daughter
Tillie, 37. Mrs. Moselman was
wealthy and both were eccentric in
their way of living, police say.
The baby victims were Helen Stankovich,
three years old, and her twoyear-old
brother, Felix.
Felix was burned to death on his
second birthday?today?and Helen
had celebrated her third birthday yesterday.
Clutching the helpless children in
their arms, the two women set the
bed afire, police say the evidence
shows, and when a neighbor managed
to break his way into the bed room,
' through locked doors the four burned
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Doaies were iouna on cue ueu, ^uc
arms of the women encircling the babies.
The room was damaged but
little. The iron bed was red hot and
all the bed clothing had been burned
away.
The children, who were motherless,
had been left temporarily with the
women by their father. John Stankovich,
a former tenant, when he
went to Virginia to work on .iuiy 1.
Today Mrs. Moselman received a
letter from the children's father ashins:
her to give his babies into the
care of their grandmother. Mrs. Theresa
White. It was this letter, police
believe, that prompted the tragedy.
Police say the evidence delibcated
the mother and daughter deliberately
fired the bed mattress and
killed themselves and the babies
rather than give them up.
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SHIPPING TOMATOES.
YVilliston Interested in Packing of
Tomatoes.
Williston, July 19.?A most interesting
and profitable hour can be
spent by anyone watching tomatoes
being packed in Williston. Under the
j direct supervision of -Mike Harley,
large quantities are being packed
i each day. First the tomatoes are
! taken from field crates and emptied
onto grading tables and well graded,
the graded product being wrapped in
tissue paper, each tomato separately,
and packed into small baskets which
are put into an attractive crate very
much like an orange crate.
These crates hold half a bushel of
tomatoes. By the time the tomatoes
reach northern markets they have
ripened. Very flattering reports are
reaching Williston regarding the
splendid pack of our tomatoes. .Today
the first solid car of tomatoes
are being loaded, heretofore they
having been loaded with other vegetables.
Fully 400 of these crates will
move from here today to the northern
markets in one car.
The market continues to advance,
the latest returns being $2 per crate
or $4 per bushel.
One farmer Dicked at one Picking
over 40 crates from one acre of tomatoes.
This industry is only a baby,
but promises to be one of the biggest
crops of this section when the
soil has been properly limed and
spraying equipment acquired by
farmers. The same spraying equipment
can be used for peaches, a coming
crop in this section.
CAROLINA POULTRY AND EGGS
Valued at $20,000,000?Equals Valuation
of All BeCf and Dairy Cattle.
It is almost impossible to arrive at
a correct valuation of the poultry
crop in South Carolina. The census
figures include fowls found on the
farms of the state and do not take
into consideration the thousands of
3ocks in small towns and cities. These
would probably equal, if not exceed,
the poultry production on the farms
for the reason that the back-yard
flock in -the town and city is usually
much better taken care of than the
rural hen and shows a greater production.
Despite this handicap the poultry
crop of South Carolina in 1919 had
a valuation of more than $12,000,000,
according to preliminary figures
recently announced by the department
of commerce. The poultry crop
had a valuation of nearly $2,000,000
mare than the hogs produced in the
state. In spite of all this, the hen is
often looked upon as a small business
unit, \vune iiie uu? is iccnuucu as
one of our greatest crops.
Taking into consideration the small
town flocks and the few hens in the
back-yards of the city family, the
poultry and egg crop of South Carolina
will pass the $20,000,000 mark
annually. Still it is referred to as a
small business. It is small in one
way, yet the total is equal to the combined
valuation of all beef and dairy
cattle in the State.
The production of eggs on the
farms of South Carolina in 1919 was
12,812,143 dozens and had a value of
$5,S93,586. The small town flocks
probably equalled the record. The
census figures show that 9,015,952
chickens were raised on the farms of
the state in 1919 and had a valuation
of $6,311,166. These figures do not
include the exhibition of fancy birds
produced by the poultry fancier, and
which have a per capita market value
far in excess of the fowls found on
the farms by the census enumerators.
The milk and cream industry in
South Carolina has shown a wonderful
development in the past few years
and in some sections is taking the
place of King Cotton to a large extent,
while in others it is the great
supplemental crop and looked upon
as one of the principal year-round
monev producers. The poultry and
egg crop of South Carolina is nearly
three times as large as the combined
milk and cream production of the
state. The farm hen and her products
nearly equal the tobacco crop;
more than twice as large as the sweet
potato crop; equal in value to the
combined production of oats, wheat,
dry peas and all hay and forage, and
nearly twice the value of horses on
the farm.
The hen, is indeed, is a great producer.
Give her a square deal and
she will pay you well.
The Very Thing.
Mr. Headley rubbed his hands gleefully.
"Mr. Heape!" he called.
Mr. Heape. his assistant, came in
from the next room.
"Heape.'' cried Headley, "that fool
of an office boy of ours has fallen in
love with my pretty secretary."
"I'm sorry, sir: what shall I do?
Fire the boy?"
"Fire the boy!" yelled Headley.
"Never! I hope he remains true to
her. For the first time since he's
been here he's always handy when we
want him."
WAR OX AGAINST WEEVILS.
Department of Agriculture Fights
Cotton Pest at Firfax.
Washington, July 20.?The rapid
expansion of weevil poisoning
throughout the southern states has
made necessary the establishment
of a number of new field stations by
ho rlonnrfmprnt nf ngrioiiltiiro tlirrmsli
the wee.vil infested territory. It was
announced today. The stations created
so far are as follows: Fairfax.
S. C.; Waynesboro. Ga.; Americas.'
Ga.; Demopolis, Ala.; Tuscaloosa.
Ala.; Brookhaven, Miss.; Victoria:
Texas; Denton, Texas; Taylor, Texas.
and San Benito, Texas.
Two or more men are located at
each station, the announcement said,
one engaged in research work and
the other surveying weevil and cotton
coditions throughout the "surrounding
districts. A number of men
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' sible to the established stations. The
delta laboratory of the department
at Tallulah, La., is directing the work
of assisting the farmers in the work
of weevil extermination.
Reports from practically all portions
of the cotton belt indicate there
is an unusually severe boll weevil
infestation this year in nearly all portions
of the south, the department announced.
From a series of surveys
made by the department's laboratory
at Tallulah during the last seven
years, it has been determined that
the infestation this year is the heav-.
iest which has been experienced in
any of the seasons except that of
1916.
The surveys made from 1915 to
1921 inclusive, were on 13 plantations
in Madison parish, Louisiana,
the same points being taken each ,
year and something over two hundred
thousand plants examined an
nually, usually during the first week
in June. From these observations' '
the number of plants per weevil was
computed as follows: 1915, 177; .
1916, 100; 1917, 525; 1918, 441; ,
1919, 245; 1920, 221; 1921, 152.
The observations, the department
said, afford a fair degree of comparison
of the infestations developing 4
each season. <
"These comments, of course," said <
the department, "apply only to the <
infestation of hybernated weevils,
and this infestation does not necessarily
determine the degree of dam- 4
age which will be experienced ?
throughout the season, because <
weather conditions may operate to .
offset this heavy initial infestation i
and thus reduce the damage later.
However, it simply means this: If the 4
injury by the weevil is to be no more *
than normal, the weather must be *
abnormally unfavorable to the cot- ,
ton plant. Thus the -chances are
against the farmer at the outset."
The Country.
The following poem was written
by an eight-year-old Blackville bay,
and handed to The Herald for publication:
Give me the country.
Where the pumpkins, corn, and
sugar cane grow,
Where the birds are singing so mer1
rily
And the cool breezes blow.
Give me the country
Where the Beaver Dam ditch flows,
where I love to put whirligigs, and
wade in water.
And where the good old blackberry
grows.
Give me the country,
Where the cool air feels so good,
And where I can ride with "Cato,"
When he is hauling wood.
Give me the country,
Where I find large cherries,
lAnd take my bucket in the woods,
To fill with huckleberries.
Give me the country, v
Where I can graze my little pony,
And wear my overalls, and go barefooted,
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And not try to be "so tony."
Demand for Brushes.
A young Englishman proposed to a
girl, and her father said to -him:
"You need not come back until you
are prepared to settle $10,000 on my
daughter. I am not going to let you
marry without a proper settlement."
The ardent wooer went away in a
despondent frame ofc mind, for
though he had a tair income ne naa
no money to settle on his fiancee.
Xext day he told his story to a
friend in the city, -who said: "Suppose
you try a little speculation. I'll buy a
thousand 'Brushes,' " meaning shares
in the Brush Electric company.
Ten days later the friend handed
$17,000?the profits of the transaction?to
the young man. who went
straight to his future father-in-law
with a check for $10,000.
The latter asked how the money
had been found so quickly.
"Oh. it'? all ric-ht." the lover replied.
"A friend of mine bought me
some brushes on the stock exchange
and they went up in a wonderful way.
I don't know if they were hair brushes
or nail brushes or tooth brushes,
but there was a wonderful demand for
them."
DE. THOMAS BLACK i
DENTAL SURGEON.
Graduate Dental department University
of Maryland. Member S. C. j
State Dental Association.
Office opposite postoffice. Office j
hours. 9:00 a. m. te 5:30 p. m.
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