The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 07, 1922, Page 7, Image 7
v MINISTER IS INVENTOR.
Rev. Shuford Has Sold Weighing Machine
for $75,001).
Rev. S. W. Shuford, pastor of the
Mountain View Baptist church, one
mile north of Cowpens, S. C., has recently
completed, secured patents,
and sold for seventy-five thousand
dollars cash, an automatic registering
weighing device, which will to a
great extent revolutionize present
weighing methods of railways and
other large corporations. The purpose
of the device is the weighing
while in continuous motion of freight
cars, automobiles, trucks, wagons and
other transportation vehicles while
they are traveling at the rate of thirty
miles an hour, and in addition to
securing the weight it is so designated
as to automatically register the
number of the picture of the car as
it passes the car, the company, and to
secure a scales. Patent number 1,422,141
has been secured from the
United States government and sold to
the Industrial Promotion Exchange,
100 Fifth Avenue, New York, for
cash consideration of $75,000, the
contract already having been closed.
? Rev. Shuford has received .a number
of attractive offers from large concerns
in every part of America and
from numerous foreign countries and
only after a lengthy and mature deliberation
did he finally decide to
close the contract with the New York
concern. Inquiries from Mexico,
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England, Franca, yiiermaiiy, Asia, xcaly,
Russia, Cuba, and other countries,
in regard to the securing of patents,
have been received.
Make Working Model Now.
A working model of the device is
now under construction at the Greenville
Iron Works, where' it will be
placed on exhibition upon completion.
The engineers working on the model
hope to have it completed within six
or eight weeks. The model on exhibition
will contain all the various
features and will give each in minature
detail. It will be an exact reproduction
of the working model.
Rev. Shuford has been four years in
completing his invention. The original
model was a crude affair, being
Toughly constructed of wood, metal
and other material but was improved
upon from time to time until the
present working model was evolved.
Will Be Evangelist.
The inventor is a native of Burnsville,
North Carolina, but has been a
citizen of South Carolina for a number
of years. He is married and has
five children. When asked as to his
. future plans he replied that he intends
to purchase a large tent with a
seating capacity of approximately five
thousand and follow the evangelistic
work. Last summer Rev. Shuford
held a revival meeting at the Mountain
View church which lasted several
weeks and swept this section with
religious fervor and enthusiasm never
felt here before within the recoltion
of the oldest inhabitants, and
which resulted in a great number of
additions to the church.
Them Was the Days.
"Sorry, but I can't insure you?
you're too tall," said the agent to
the man who waanted to take out an
accident policy.
"Too tall? What's the matter
with that?" protested the applicant.
"And, anyway, I'm not as tall as my
father was and he had no trouble
getting insured."
"But your father," the agent explained,
"was insured years ago when
there was no danger of a fellow having
his head knocked off by a skid- |
ding airplane."?The American Le- j
gion Weekly. I
The Under Dog.
As for me, I care not a single fig
If they say I'm wrong or I'm right;.
I shall always go in for the weaker
dog,
The under dog in the fight.
I know that the world?that the great
big world?
Will never a moment stop
To see which dog may be in fault,
But will shout for the dog on top.
But for me?I never shall pause to
ask
Which dog may he in the rignt;
But my heart will beat, while it beats
at all,
For the under dog in the fight.
One Ship Did It.
One of the Judge's prize stories is
as follows: An American doughboy,
vaptive to a boche officer was questioned.
"How many of you American
soldiers are there on this side of
the Atlantic?" queried the German.
"Oh, about 3,000,000 of us."
"It must have taken a lot of ships
we kr.ow nothing about to bring all
of you over, didn't it?"
"Oh, no; only one ship brought us
over."
"Only one! Impossible. And what
one was that?"
"The Lusitania."
AGED PAIR WEDS.
Courtship of Old Couple Began in a
Cemetery.
With two great-great-grandchildren,
twenty-seven great-grandchildren
and fourteen grandchildren
viewing with disfavor an eleventh
hour embarkation upon already well
charted matrimonial seas1, but with
one son to stand by him and a prospective
stepdaughter as maid of honor,
"Grandpa" Robert V. McCauley,
oldest resident of Hampden, Baltimore,
the other night married Mrs.
Nellie Miller.
The ceremony, which was postponed
because of protests made by various
progeny of the couple, took
place at their new home on Baldwin
street. The bridegroom is eighty-four
years of age, but the bride is a
young and frivolous girl of fifty years.
He weighs 125 pounds. She strains
the scales at 220 pounds.
The courtship began in a cemeterry,
where Mrs. Miller went to place
flowers upon the grave of her husband,
who died a year or more ago.
McCauley came to tend the grave of
his wife, who died less than two
years ago. Each had known the other's
former mate.
On Decoration day, when the cemetery
was filled with those who
brought flowers for remembrances,
they met and became engaged.
Why DuPre Was Hanged.
Greenville Pidmont.
Of peculiar interest at this time to
j the men and women, the fathers and
mothers of South Carolina is the
statement issued by Governor Hardwick,
explaining why he refused to
exercise executive clemency in the
DuPre case. He safd: i
"Of course I am not without sym- 1
pathy and respect for the views of
many tender hearted persons?largely
women?who have urged executive
clemency forv the applicant.
I understand and appreciate the
human sympathy and the deep and
true Christian charity which antmates
them in this matter. My own
>ionrt is tnnehed bv their appeal;
but, because of my honest judgment l
and conscience, I cannot yield to
sentiment of this kind, without being
absolutely false to my duty, to
society and to the public. The sympathy
in this case should not be
entirely aroused in behalf of the
youthful bandit who gloated over
his deeds cf theft and murder until
he was actually to face the
penalty, whose repentence came
when he was in the clutches of the
law, and not before he was apprehended.
What of the faithful, lawabiding
man, Mr. Walker, who
sleeps in an untimely grava. sent
there by DuPre's act? Is there no
sympathy for him? What of the little
woman who is widowed by his
act? Is there no sympathy for her?
What of the seven-year-old orphan,
made so by him? Is there no sympathy
for her? Is there no sympathy
for the fatherless girl who has been
deprived of the support and of the
protecting1 care of her father
throughout all her life? if Durre
was motherless he has made this liti
tie child fatherless. If DuPre was
young he was at least a man old
enough to enlist in the army of his
country and to meet all of its mental
and physical tests in doing so,
and is at least considerably older
than the child whom he made fatherless.
"But my action in this case does
not rest on the law of 'an eye for
an eye, a tooth for a tooth.' It rests
on a broader, deeper, truer principle
than that. Unless our boys, who may
even now be embarked on a similar
path to that pursued by this applicant,
who may be filling themselves
with cheap and poisonous liquor, who
may be associating with gamblers
and prostitutes, are checked in their
mad courses of crime, who can tell
how many orphans will be made in
Georgia by their conduct? Who can
tell how many innocent men?even
innocent bystanders?may lose their
precious lives before the time appointed
by Providence? It is to
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protect society, to save mcac
women from being made widows;
these other men from being slain;
these other children from being
made orphans, that it is necessary^
?and absolutely necessary?that
the supreme penalty of the law be
executed upon this applicant. It is
to give to them and all of them in
this state and throughout this country
the most solemn and impressive
warning that can be given in the
name of the law and in the name of
civilized society, and in the name of
organized,government. An appalling
and increasing number of violent
crimes, of every sort, are occurring
in our midst?a crime wave, worldwide
in its sweep, has not spared or
J missed our state. While the situa,-o
T,nt- xrnrsfi in Georgia than in
liUll 10 _
other states, nor in this country than
in other countries, it is appalling,
everywhere, and the sternest measures
are necessary to check it.
''The supreme penalty of the law
| has been passed upon this man by J
SONORA AND THE YAQUIS.
Wonderful State Where Much Wealth
Abounds and Life is Cheap.
"Just the mere headline 'Yaqui
chief may be governor of Sonora'
sounds like a Chestertonian paradox
?but then Sonora is a state of the
sharpest contrasts," says a bulletin
from the Washington, D. C., headquarters
of the National Geographic
Society.
"Imagine western Pennsylvania
with its farms and coal mines}. and
gold and silver mines as well, with
unsubdued tribes of thieves and killers
whom the state police could not
quell, dwelling in its mountains, with
one of these tribesmen running for
governor, and you have only a partial
comprehension of Mexico's second
largest state.
Unique in Mineral Wealth.
"No other place on our continent is
comparable to Sonora in mineral
wealth. Its history discloses incidents
that would have startled Croesus and
Solomon. Indians picking up a 600pound
nugget of pure silver and carrying
it away on a platform slung between
two mules. The owner of the
famous Quinteria mine who lined a
bridal chamber for his daughter with
bars of silver and laid a pavement of
this chaste metal from her home to
the church. The widow who packed
her ingots on forty mules and set out
with the over-laden beasts to Mexico
City where she sought safety for her
wealth by depositing it with the Spanish
viceroy. The lady disappeared in
a manner officially unknown and her
fortune reverted to the state.
"In modern times episodes like
these were transformed by the magic
of scientific mining and,, in the years
3f Mexico's normalcy, Sonora's annual
4-rMi 4- /\ ^ rv> ir\ lr< AVAAA/1 A/1 C A fl AAA _
UU iput U1 ilinici aio CA^CCUCU tpuVjVVV,ooo.
"Kick Your Breakfast Off a Tree."
"And yet in some parts of Sonora
you can 'kick your breakfast off the
trees any morning in the year.' Nnlike
many mining regions Sonora also
comprises areas of marvelous fertility.
Critics who hold that Americans
crossed the border at Nogales only to
take away buried treasure of gold, silver,
copper, iron, coal, and lead,
should visit the man-made Eden in
the Yaqui Valley where an American
company employed the wizardry of
irrigation to make thousands of acres
bear fruit and grain.
"Before the days of Villa another
Yankee corporation had a cattle
ranch in Sonora which was sub-divided
into 200 pasture lands; and
overseers were equipped with automobiles
and maps that showed trails,
fences, roads, and pastures.
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Do You Say?
Let one tonight look back across the
span
''.Twixt dawn and dark, and to my
conscience say
Because of some good act to beast or
man?
The world is bertter that I lived
today."
an impartial jury of twelve honest
men of Fulton county. It has been
upheld by an able, upright and impartial
judge. It has been upheld
by the supreme court of Georgia,
and). lastly, by the unanimous recommendation
of the three able and upright
men who constitute the prison j
cowmission of Georgia, acting on a
board of pardons. To all of these
findings I must give weight. Nothing
has- developed since< the trial
to in any way affect or alter the case.
Guilt is still undisputed, and undenied
and still proven. Under these
circumstances, I feel it to be my
sworn duty, before God and man, to
allow the law to take its course."
These strong, true, righteous
words should sink into the hearts 01
even* propective juror, every father
and mother, every young man, every
voter in South Carolina who reads
them. Let them be especially considered
by those who are disposed
to excuse free and freq,uent exercise
of the pardoning power. So long as
criminals are dealt with tenderly,
just so long fnnocent and unoffending
men and women are going to be
robbed and murdered in South Carolina.
Let the DuPre case come home to
you. Unless "the sternest measures"
are used by the governor of South
Carolina and all others charged with
the administration of the laws your
father, your wife., your husband,
your mother, your child, your son,
your daughter, your brother, your
sister may be slain, while the murderer
coolly pocketing his gun or
wiping the red stream from his knife,
will sneer at the thought of punishment,
because he feels that the chances
favor his acquittal in the courts,
or a new trial, and, that failing., a parole
or pardon from a pardoning governor.
Shall the verdicts of juries and the
sentences of courts be upheld in
South Carolina as in Georgia? Shall
human life be less safe in South Carolina
than in Georgia? Shal the lives
of unoffending men, women and children
be put into jeopardy by the
chief executive of South Carolina?
MOTHER FINDS SONS.
Boys Were Kidnapped From Her 58
Years Ago.
Just when the clouds of adversity
hung heaviest over the pathway of
life of Mrs. Mary Margaret Roper, 80,
a resident at the county poor house,
a ray of sunshine pierced through,
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bays a tvansas -?iu., aispateu.
For the aged woman has just found :
her two sons, who were kidnapped
fifty-eight years ago. Nearly sixty
years she had spent alternately hoping
and despairing of finding her
boys, who were literally snatched
from her arms when they were
scarcely able to toddle. More than <
$10,000?thirty years' back pen- ]
sion?will be her financial compensa- <
tion for the heart-aches experienced ]
in the years which have elapsed since s
baby fingers caressingly toyed with /
locks of a mother's tresses whose marital
craft at that time was sailing
upon a calm sea. n
There is a spring in Mrs. Roper's <
step these days, and she is all smiles, j
Her "Bluebird of Happiness" apparently
has flown into her window. The j
cheap callico dresses which have <
graced the hooks in the little room "j
at the home of the aged, where Mrs. j
Roper has made quilts, for the last i
ten years, have been discarded. In 0
their stead several black silk ones, \
with lace fringes around the collars
have appeared.
This woman, whose three score
years and ten have failed to perceptibly
halt her step or her vision, re- ,
ceived a letter from one of her sons
?Joseph?in which he expressed
himself as overjoyed, she sai<V to
learn that she was alive. He extended
her a cordial invitation to come live
with him and his family. This Mrs.
Roper has planned to do. Her other
son, Charles, is married and has two
children.
A prominent local attorney, who
often visits the poor house and whose
philanthropic actions keep him constantly
in the limelight, received a
cheery greeting from Mrs. Roper
when he visited her. This man had
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been a marketing agent for her
handiwork for some time.
Smiling, she shook hands with
her benefactor: "I won't be making
quilts for you any more," she explained.
"That money I was saving
to bury myself with I've spent in buying
clothes to go to my son. You see,
I have a family now."
She then showed the attorney several
photographs of Charles and Jo
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scyxi wujl'ii were laken wnen ine cnndren
were one and four years old respectively.
Her friends?and they
are legion?wagered that no woman
in Jackson county is any prouder or
happier than she.
Shortly after Lee surrendered to
Grant at Richmond, Mrs. Roper's
husband returned to Springfield,
Ohio, their home, she said. Scarcely
a week elapsed when Roper and
NOTICE OF SALE.
Pursuant to an order of the ProDate
Judge for Bamberg County, the
indersigned, as Administrator of the
estate of B. M. Roberts, deceased,
cvill sell at public auction, to the
lighest bidder, for cash, at the late
residence of B. M. Roberts, deceased.
it Ehrhardt, S. C., on the 22nd day
Df September, 1922, beginning at 10
D'clock, A. M., and continuing until
sold, certain personal property belonging
to said estate, consisting of
two (2) second hand automobiles,
household goods and furniture, etc.,
in inventory of the same being on file
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R. C. ROBERTS,
7ministrator of the estate of B. M.
Roberts.
Bamberg, S. C., September 2, 1922.
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