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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1899-07-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Thunder can be heard nine miles
away.
Pearls are sometimes found In mus
sci shells.
There are Is steamers on the Swiss
lakes. The largest can transport 1900
passengers.
The pima cloth Of the Filipinos Is
made from the fiber Of the pineapple
leaf The cloth is very expensive.
If ali the landed surface Of the earth
were divided up and allotted In equal
shares, each human inha bitant would
get plot Of about 231a acres.
The sword Of naval officer Is one OF
the most peaceful and useful tools on
board Of ship. Orders cannot be CIV
en- with it and it cannot reach the enc
tly that Is being shelled.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1899-07-27
A SHOOTING STAR.
What It Really II and Where i
Comes From.

What 1t Really II and Where II
Comes From.
Sir Robert Ball, who is the worlds
greatest living astronomer, told Lon
don audience recently some interesting
facts about meteorites and shooting
stars. In describing the origin OF meteor
ties he said that millions Of years ago
when the earth was an infant at play
and volcanoes were giants, the meteors
were thrown upward in infant conVul-
sions Some of the earth's discarded
rocks returned at once, but those which
were. flung upward at rate greater
than seven miles a second passed be-
yond the earth's gravitating influence
and sought paths of their own. no one
could tell whittier.
And then. after millions Of years,
they once more came within the reach
of the world, and old Mother Earth re-
sumed her sway, took back the rocks tc
her bosom and the astronomers said
meteo1ite had fallen.
Sir Robert asked his hearers to imag-
inc wrapping Of some hundreds OF
miles of air round the earth's surface.
Now just in the same way that gim-
let, boring its way into wood, becomes
warm, so a bullet going 20 miles a
minute would become extremely warm
in boring its way through 20 miles OF
air
And in the same way that bullet
became warm, so a meteo1ite travelling
| 10. 900 times as fast as bullet. travel
ing at this speed perhaps for hundreds
of years through realms Of space whose
paralyzing cold was indescribable and
finding itself at last plunging through
the warm bath of the air. became hot
ter and hotter and hotter.
It glowed. it became white hot, 1t
melted, it dissolved in burst OF gas
eous splendor, and observers on the
earth cried. "Why. there's shooting
starr'
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1899-07-27
THE GEORGIA LYDCHING,
Vengeance For the Shocking
Crime at SaffOld.
FIVE NEGROES DEAD.
Two More In the Hands Of the Lynchers
Hot Times Through the
Country.

BA1NBRIDGE, GA. July 23.-There
will be double lynching at West
Bainbridge early tomorrow morn
ing unless something unforeseen
occurs. Two more members of the
band of robbers, murderers and
rapists are in the hands Of a de-
termined posse of whites.
One of the captives is Charles
Mack, the companion i'm crime OF
Louis Sammin, who was lynched
yesterday. 1t was Sammin and
Mack who outraged Mrs. Ogletree in
the presence of her husband, at
Satfold, one holding a pistol at the
head of the husband to prevent his
interference.
Mack was captured at Iron City
by a white man named Cardell.
Cardell tried to get his prisoners
to iail, hence secreted him. A mob
of several hundred country people
met Cardell and asked the where
abouts of his prisoner. He declined
to say. A rope was quickly put
about his neck, and he was given ten
minutes in which to give up the
rapists or his life. He then told
where the negro was. In a shor
while the crowd had Mack. While
arrangements for the lynching were
in progress a telegram came from
Iron City that another member of
the gang had been captured.
1t would require several hours to
get the new prisoner to the scene, so
it was determined to postpone the
execution of Mack until tomorrow,
at which time it is proposed to have
double hanging for the purpose OF
impressing other possible members
of the gang who are not yet known.
Before Sammin was lynched he
confessed, and said that he and Mack
had robbed the Ogletrees and that
both had outraged the woman.
While they were committing their
crimes, he said, six others, whose
names he gave, were on watch out
side. Mack is said to have confessed,
corroborating Sammin's testimony.
The men, he said, We're banded to-
gether for murder, robbery and
rape. Five of the negroes named,
including Sammin, are now dead,
and every indication favors the death
of two more tomorrow.
The information is that the prison.
er from Iron City will arrive at about
2.5Oa. m., and the lynching will
probably occur shortly thereafter.
kid" Jim, one Of the Saffold ne
groes, was located this afternoon in
a cabin, near Pinnickard, Ga. He is
guarded by 100 of his race, who say
they will defend him against any
attack. A posse of 100 men have
been armed and have left for Bain-
bridge, and say they will take Kid
Jim, dead or alive, guard or no
guard.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1899-07-27
A EiRhfinx Shark.

At Genoa three fishermen in a small
boat caught sight Of large shark close
to them in the water. One Of the
youths, named Enrico, wishing to Sc
cure the fish, jumped into the sea, and
with incredible strength took 1t IN his
arms and threw it into the boat. For q
moment the shark seemed stunned,
but, rousing itself terrible battle en-
sued in the boat. The shark seized the
arm Of one Of the men and the others
beat it with their oars, trying to free
their companion. Suddenly the shark
let go and bit it's first captor In the
neck and face. Finally the three sue
ceeded in throwing the shark into the
water, and the wounded men went on
shore to have their hurts attended to-
London Letter.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1899-07-27
A $4,000 Bicycle Given Away Daily.

The publishers of THE NEW YORK
STAR, the handsomely illustrated
Sunday newspaper, are giving a
HIGH GRADE BICYCLE each day for
the largest list of words made by US
ing the letters contained in
"T HE NEW YORK STAR"
no more times in any one word than
it is found in The New York Star.
Webster's Dictionary to be consider
ed as authority, Two GOLD WATCH
Es first class time-keepers) will be
given daily for second and third best
lists, and many other valuable re-
wards, including Dinner Sets, Tea
Sets, China, Sterling Silverware,
etc, etc., in order Of merit. This ed
ucational contest is being given to
advertise and introduce this success
full weekly into new homes, and all
prizes will be awarded promptly
without partiality. Twelve 2-cent
stamps must be inclosed for thirteen
weeks trial subscription with full
particulars and list of over 300 valu-
able rewards. Contest opens and
awards commence Monday, June
18th, 1899, and closes Monday, August
2lst, 1899. Your list can reach US
any day between these dates, and
will receive the rewards which it
may be entitled for that day, and
your name will be :printed in the fol-
lowing issue of The New YORK
STAR. Only one list can be entered
by the same person. Prizes are on
exhibition at THE STARS business
offices. Persons securing bicycles
may have choice of Ladies', Gentle
mans Juveniles 1899 model, color or
size desired. Call or address Dept.
e." THE NEW YORK STAR, 236 w.
39th Street, New York City.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1899-07-27
Hot Weather Diet.

ut is q mistake" said a physician
during the recent period Of extreme
heat, Ito eat too little in hot weather,
Just as it is a mistake to eat too much
and the wrong things. Extreme hot
weather is in itself very exhausting,
and plenty Of nourishment is needed to
sustain the system. This nourishment
should be of simple and easily digest
ed kind. For myself 1 find that milk
and vichy taken at regular intervals of
two hours, slipped rather than gulped
down in a single draft, gets me
through best on very hot day, from
breakfast to a 6 o'clock dinner. Then
1 take care to have a fairly hearty
meal."-New York Post.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1899-07-27
Intemperance In Drugs.

There is source of nervous ailments
entirely special to this age and the un-
expected outcome Of our present day
chemistry and advertising. Intemper-
ance in drugs is becoming more COM
mon. and it may possibly outstrip the
abuse of alcohol in its evil results The
manufacture of new chemical products
is supplying the public with endless car
bon derivates of high molecular power
and of imperfectly known physiological
action Some are most dangerous, and
their continued indulgence leads to con-
firmed neurosis or hopeless neurasthe-
mia. and it thus comes to pass that as
the therapeutic activity of the profession
tends to abolish disease that of the pub
lie is manufacturing it.-Medical Jour
mol
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1899-07-27
PERSONALITIES.

Yang Tu, China's delegate to the
peace congress, was educated at Har-
ward
Henry Walters Of Baltimore has Civ
en- to that city S4s,OO0 to build two pub
lie lighthouses.
Don Jaime, only son Of the Spanish
pretender, Don Carlos, has just won
100000 in lottery.
E1.Secretary Whitney's famous sta
bles at Wheatly are 800 feet in length.
The foundation is Of brick and the up
per structure Of pine.
The Marion Qa) Register sums up the
character Of Colonel Henderson with
the statement that he ''is the only man
in the country who can say God bless
you as it should be said"
President Mckinley has agreed to at
tend the laying Of the cornerstone Of
the federal building in Chicago on Oct.
9. He will be accompanied by his wife
and at least four members Of the cab
met.
Joseph Jefferson Is a great tea drink
or and has lately been warned by his
physician to give up the habit lest he
should imperil his health. which, since
his illness Of last winter, continues very
poor.
D. o. Mills, the banker and philan-
thropist, who now has a fortune Of
$25, 600, 900, says that while all his life
has been happy some of his happiest
hours were when he was a small coun-
try merchant.
1t Is not an ordinary knighthood that
has been conferred on Sir Henry Stan
ley. The Grand Cross Of the Bath
goes only to general officers who have
particularly distinguished themselves
and to first class diplomatists.
While Benjamin Ide Wheeler, the
president elect of the University Of
California, was an instructor at Har-
ward, President Eliot said Of him, He
seems to have in him the stuff to make
the best college president I know"
Admiral Dewey says the first bit Of
fiction he ever read was Robinson
Crusoe." Then he and his sister, now
Mrs. Mary Greeley, started an island
in their fathers barn, where George
was Defoe's hero and his sister Man
Friday.
General Wade Hampton and his
daughter, since the destruction by fire
of their handsome house and fortune,
have been living in two small rooms in
Columbia, S. G. In an interview Cen
eral Hampton says, II feel that did
not lose everything in that fire, for l
saved my sword from the flames"
Richard W. Thompson, Uncle Dick
Of Indiana, who recently observed, the
ninetieth anniversary Of his birth,
served in congress with Lincoln, John
Quincy Adams, Calhoun, Clay and
Webster. He was born in the year that
produced Darwin, Longfellow, Glad
stone, Tennyson, Holmes and other
great men who are now all dead.
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To Uncle Paul Kruger.

Keep your powder good and dry. oom Paul;
Never close your weather eye, Dom Paul.
Have your rife clean and bright,
Look to fore and after sight,
They are planning day and night
You will need to watch them all,
Oom Paul, Dom Paul.
Shoot to kin 'em when you shoot. Dom Paul
They are coming for the loot. Dom Paul;
They'll be gathering you IN,
Just as sure as sin Is sin,
For they know you have the "tin"-
You must battle for 1t all,
Dom Paul, Dom Paul.
Then get out your little gun. Com Paul.
For you don't know how to run. Dom Paul;
Don't discuss about the right
When q rattlesnake's in sight,
And his pixen head shows fight
Don't you do q thing at all.
Hot thing to him at all.
Dom Paul, Oom Paul. -hIos.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1899-07-27
- When I am Old.
When I am old

When I am old -... -.
When snowy locks wave DER my
thoughtful dome,
And whiskers white as oceans glis-
tening foam
Sway in the winds that through
them pirouette,
When eyes now bright as those OF
graceful fawn
Are blear and WATERFALL their
beauty gone,
When every time I load my rations
in
Nv nose comes down and hooks
around my chine
When 1 am old and quite played
out,
Ready almost to be laid out,
know Just what I'll do.
When. 1 am old, decrepit, senile
I'll sit before the gas logs cheerful
flame
And tel! the children as they gather
Some tale that to my credit will re-
.dound.
If it be Winter and the north WINDS
blow;
They shall recall how, many years
ago.,
On suest, a night l was obliged to &c
With bag of corn upon my bach
through snow
Fifteen feet deep and have it ground
to make
Nv daily bread, that was just johnny
cake.
Ifft be Summer, and the men afield
I'll toddle out where they their
sickles WELD,
And there relate how, in the days
gone by,
When 1 was young and vigorous
and spry,
With nv keen scythe | could cut all
the grass
Upon one farm ere noon had come
to pass.
And IIl lament that reapers ever
To do.such work, and deprecate the
same. - = y
On rainy days I'll tell of fish I've
caught,
OF monstrous beasts with which
oft have fought;
OF deeds of knightly gallantry,
How maidens sighed and died for
me;
And though sometimes Irouse up ire,
I'll be a garruious old liar.
When / am old.
I'll do the very thing that makes me
mad >...
AS iehu now; I VOW will, by gad.
And I'll expect that those who hear
me then
Will say I'm nothing but an old
s'has been,''
Just as ], say it every day Of those
Who come around and stick their
peaked nose
Into my business every day or so,
And who lament for fear this world
won't go
Its daily rounds when they are laid
away
To wait the coming of the judgment
day .
TIL fret and fume and kick and
scold,
And raise the devil when I'm old.
Minneapolis Journal.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1899-07-27
THE rRorrlNG CIRCUIT.

Willie Martin has resigned from the
Fleischmann stable and will ride for
Pat Dunno.
George II. Mills will do the starting
at the July and September meetings at
Du Bois, Pa.
1t Is said William Deasy's Hard
Times, 2:25A. has worked several miles
way below 2:2O.
1t is said that Matt Byrnes, who once
trained for Prince George" Lorillard,
will train a string for Pierre Lorillard.
Charles Myers has a good mare In his
stable for the fall races in Bonnie
Maid She shows rare speed these
days.
1t was said recently that Marumas,
last years Futurity winner and the
winner Of the Canadian Derby, will be
starter in the Brighton handicap.
Ben Masseth Of Butler, Pa, has a
pair Of good new ones In Florist, 3, bay
gelding, by Dexter Prince, dam by
|
mare by Mckinney, dam by Elmo.
John Madden has bought McMeekin
from c. T. Patterson. Mr.. Madden
thinks the colt has had too much rae
ing and will let him have rest before
attempting to get him into condition.
p. McWilliams. Bridgeport (Pa.)
horseman, has his gray geldlng by Elec-
trotype, a son Of Electioneer, dam by
Amber, in Frank Jacksons stable. He
is a 5-year-old and is stepping miles In
better than 2:3O.
One difference between Arion, 2:O7A,
and his brother Eclectic is that the
first named once changed hands at
s125.OOO, while the brother Of Arion, -
as Eclectic has always been known,
sold for $l25 some days ago.
Drum Major, 5, bay gelding, by
Chimes, dam by Epaulet, being trained
at Norristown by Champ Brown, trot-
ted a quarter last year in 81 seconds
and was second in stake race at Co
shen. y. Y, in 2:22 and 2:23.
The great stallion Advertiser, valued
by the late Senator Leland Stanford
ct over 100000, has arrived safely at
Stony Ford farm, the birthplace Of the
mighty Electioneer. His record Is
2:15A. and he has been a quarter IN
3O1a seconds.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1899-07-27
DeadheadiSm Again.

The deadhead evil is receiving attention
from the newspapers OF Virginia as we'll as
South Carolina The Charlottesville Progress
remarks:
The Progress would be glad to continue to
publish free notices OF all charitable enter
tainments If it:ceuld afford to contribute so
freely to every worthy cause which presents
itself. But it cannot. Its advertising space
is it's stock in trade, upon the sale OF which
it must largely depend for support. In the
future, therefore, it will charge for local
notices of all charitable entertainments the
objects OF which are to raise money. This
rule will be strictly and impartially enforced.
Hereafter our contributions to charity will
be made in direct and more practical man.
ner, and so as not to interfere with the Or
binary rules OF business.
And the Richmond Dispatch, commenting
on the announcement OF its contemporary,
says: ;-... -.
This is a lust and sound business rule, and
ought to be adopted by all newspapers
The demand upon newspapers for charity
work are exhaustless. and no matter. how
cheerfufly they are acceded to 1t is seldom the
benefciaries even so much as think OF re-
turning thanks. They say: "Oh, well. you
you want something to fill up your paper
with anyhow" In their ignorance they do
not know that each Office has always more
matter in type than it can make room for
The Dispatch has often had as much as forty
or fifty columns Of matter in type awaiting
publication day after day. 1t would be
amusing too If it were not so irritating. to
see how various committees, associations.
ETC., congratulate themselves and claim credit
for work alleged to have been done. when
really three-fourths OF the work has been
done by newspapers!
We commend these expressions to the State
Press Association. Decidedly. it is time for
newspaper revolt against the manifold i'm
positions which long custom and persistent
importantly have put upon the press OF the
south And it is in order also to let it be
understood that newspapers are not to be
bullied out of any resolve they may see fit to
make for self-protection. We have in mind
letter from a clerical brother, recently printed
in UNCONVENTIONAL paper, in which great
Indignation was expressed at the remarks
we have already made on the subject of free
advertising for colleges, and a still more
recent letter enclosing 81 for advertising a
leading denominations college to which we
have given hundreds of dollars worth Of
"write-ups." We do not care to advertise
the clerical brother, but we think that the
temper in which he has written emphasizes
the need of q distinct understanding as to
how much of their stock in trade the news
papers will give away. As long as the mat
ter remains undetermined they are liable to
get kicked for not inviting everybody into
the shop to help themselves.-The State.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1899-07-27
Odd. I6u't lt3

II cannot understand" said the
sweet young thing, what Kipling
meant by half devil and half child"
"Nor l." said the savage bachelor,
when both phrases mean essentially
the same thing"
In the meanwhile the small boy
boarder continued to play that the hall
was a railway and that he was a
freight traln.-Indianapolis Journal.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1899-07-27
A BUILDINGS 100000.
The Washington Postoffice Has a Cat
In Its Walls.

In Its " ais.
That the many mishaps which befel
that architectural monstrosity on
PENNSYLVANIA avenue known as the
new city postoffice during the many
years it was in process Of construction
was due to "hoodoo", is freely admit
ted by a large number Of Washington
citizens. who watched the building rise,
with frequent Interruptions. from its
foundations. No other public struc-
ture ever erected In Washington has
caused the government so much trou-
BILE, and even now, although partially
occupied, alterations and changes re-
main to be made.
Columns have been written in the
newspapers by indignant citizens call
ing attention to defects in the big stone
building and condemning the structure
generally. 4 congressional committee
was appointed at the last session to
Investigate the many alleged shortcom-
ings Of the building, and altogether the
new city postotfice has been cause
for complaint ever since it rose above
the first story several years ago.
Believers in such things have all
along asserted with solemn conviction
that the building was ''hoodooed.'
Their position has at last been sus-
.sl hnc
found, and it will remain as long as
the building stands. 1t IS not one Of
those mysterious "hoodoos' invisible
to the human eye, but, on the contrary,
it may be seen at any hour Of the day
or night by any one who cares to walk
to the south end Of the west corridor
on the first floor. There, distinctly out
lined in the marble Of the wall, is the
perfect figure of huge black cat, with
tail curled around its launches, ears
stiff and erect. Faint lines trace the
whiskers from each side Of the jaws.
1t is not necessary to search the sur
face Of the marble for the cat, because
the figure is easily distinguishable sew
eral yards away from the wall. A
painter could scarcely have made 1t
palmer or more lifelike with his
brushes and colOrS.
The figure is due to the peculiar vein
ing in the marble, and is the only one
which has so far been found in the
building. Figures, faces and objects
in marble are not uncommon, and
there are a number Of fine specimens
in the geological section Of the Nation,
al museum. None Of them, however
compares with the slab in the post
Office in realism and close approach to
nature. One Of the postoffice watch
men expressed the opinion the other
day that until the slab containing the
cat is removed the "hoodoo" will con
tinue to hang over the building
Washington Star.
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Plaster of Paris.

The setting of plaster Of paris may
be retarded by the addition of 2 to 4
per cent of powdered althea root. This
addition not only retards the hardening
of the plaster, but also enables it to be
cut, filed, sawed and turned. An addi-
tion of 8 per cent retards the complete
setting Of the plaster for about an hour,
go that the mass may be used for any
purpose where it is to remain plastic
during at least portion Of that time
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1899-07-27
Ha Esssne FROM the Burden.

Once upon tiae, Millionaire con-
ceived the idea that it would be dis
graceful to die rich.
Accordingly he fell IT, giving bis
wealth away. Bat it .oon became ap-
parent that he had more wealth than
he could possibly give away in 400
years, working ten hours day.
What shall l do?" he asked himself
In much alarm.
But he was a resourceful man, and
It was not long till he hit upon the
happy expedient Of revealing all his
belongings to the assessors. That be-
ing done be was speedily reduced to
penury.-Detroit Journal.
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Never ForRetful, Oh, No!

II tell you," Mr.. Billus was saying,
'there is nothing like a bunch Of keys
to develop ones memory. Now have
twenty-seven keys on this ring, and I
add new one every few days, yet I
am never at moments loss to
select the right one when I have oc-
casion to use it."
"What have you got that brass but
ton strung on there for?"
"Um-that was put there by my wife
day or two ago to remind me OF
some trifiing thing I was to get for
her, but I've forgotten what 1t
was" Chicago Tribune.
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Filing a Confession.

'This sonnet you have written to me
is simply delicious, Algernon! Only
the title, To Ny Heart Of Hearts,
Sweet Love- Is a little vague. You
might substitute TO Miss Mary
Sharpe and put the date, please.
You'll find a pen and ink on my escri-
toire over yonderv-Tit-Bits.