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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-08-07
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

You never lift up life without be
ing yourself lifted up.-Emerson.
To ease another's heartache IS tt
forget ones own.-Abraham Lincoln
'Tis far better to love and be poor
than be rich with an empty heart
Lewis Morris.
1t is ever true that he who does
nothing for others does nothing fol-
himself-Goethe.
God doesn't care for what is on the
outside; he cares for what IS inside
Rev. NJ. Babcock.
Fruitless is sorrow for having done
= amiss, if it issue not in a resolution
to do so no more:-Bishop Horne.
The next time you are discouraged
just try encouraging some one else
and see if it will not cheer you'll. R
Miller.
Sin is never at stay; II we do moi
retreat from it, we shall advance in
it, and the farther on We go the more
we have to come back.-BarroW.
Kind looks, kind words, kind acts and
warm hand shakes-these are second
ary means of grace when men are IN
trouble, and are fighting their unseer
battles.-Dr. John Hall.
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I.ie ehtning.

No doubt because of the grandeur of
the thunderstorm, the brilliant flashes
of the lightning and the loud noise of
the thunder, the large majority of the
human race is timid and nervous and
stands in fear of lightning. Notwith-
standing the common belief that light
ming is very dangerous, the total num-
Der of persons killed in : given sum-
mer in this country is extremely small
in. comparison with the population.
The number also varies largely from
year to year, the last year having
witnessed an unusual aumber of
deaths from this cause. The general
average seems to be about one death
to 100000 of the population each sum-
mer from lightning. Thousands Of
people struck by lightning have been
allowed to die for lack of attention.
The rule is that artificial respiration
should be brought about at once. The
clothes should be loosened. and the
well-known movements of the arms
and chest made to bring about natural
breathing.-Electrical Review.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-08-07
A New Question Game.

CAPTAINS are chosen, and they in
turn choose sides, as in an old fash
ioned spelling match. A timekeeper
is also chosen, one has watch with
a secular second hand. The two sides
sit opposite each other in two long
rows. The timekeeper sits between
the two rows, at the end decided upon
as the head, and he holds his watch
open before him. The captain sits at
the head of his row and asks the first
question. Any one on the other side
may answer the question, but 1t must
be answered inside of minute. If no
one answers before the minute Is up
the timekeeper calls "Time!" and the
captain who asked the question calls
any one from the other side to his
side. If, on the other hand, the other
side answer before the minute is up,
they call one from the captain who
asked tue question. Any one may be
chosen from either side except the
captain. Then the captain on the 9TH
er side asks a question, and the same
rule is followed, then the one next to
the captain who first asked ques-
ton asks a question, his opposite fol-
lows with a question, and so on until
every one on both sides has asked a
question. Then the side that has the
most on it is victorious.
No one must ask question he or
she cannot answer. And if the other
side fail to answer a question the one
that asked it must give the correct
answer. The questions must be
such as "Who was the seventh
president of the United States?" or
"How many legs has house ly?' or
who was the author of Snow
bound'?" or What president owned
a home called Monticello?" or How
much is eight times nineteen?" Any
boy who asks a question which he
cannot answer himself, or who asks
a question which has more than one
answer, must go himself to the oppo-
site side. The ones that are called
over 60 to the foot of the class.-New
York Tribune.
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calIino Out Membera

"A rather curious change has taken
place in the way we call out aum-
bers," said the man who was OF, the
lookout for the more novel things OF
life, "and it has completely revolu-
tionize the old way of calling out num-
bers. Take the number 1876, as an
example: Time was when no man
would think Of saying anything but
one thousand five hundred and forty
six. He would use seven distinct
words in calling out the number. This
rule is still observed IN the schools,
but outside the schoolroom one rarely
hears it called out after the old
fashion. If it is a street number, a
telephone number or any other par
ticular place or thing designated by
number we will simply call it fifteen
forty-six.' Do you notice the economy
in words? Here we use only three
words, instead of seven, as of old. 1t
saves breath and saves time, and any
thing that saves time is the proper
caper these days. Time Is the great
element now. If the number should
happen to be 1000, instead Of using
four words in saying one thousand
and ninety, we dismiss the number
with two words by simply saying ten
ninety In the case Of teleDhnna
numbers in the larger cities where the
duplication of numbers has been re.
sorted to, with a final figure indicat.
ing the serial number. as, for In.
stance, 1546-23, instead Of saying one
thousand five hundred and forty-six-
twenty-three, we will simply cali out
to the exchange fifteen forty-six-
twenty-thrce.' Here We find the same
time-saving principle. Yet if we had
called numbers after this fashion just
a few years back we would not have
been understood at all. II you call
figures in the old way now you are put
down as worse than backWoodsman
You are simply jay, that's all. We
do these things because we live In
hurrying age. We. want to get
through quickly and pass to the next
post."-New Orleans Times-Democrat
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Cat on tho Payroll.

Ten dollars 'for 1ood for the post
office cat" is. perhaps, the most curl
Gus allowance made by former Post
master General Smith. In the post
Office in st. Paul, Minn., is a cat that
has endeared itself to the employees,
not alone by its gentle ways, but by
it's ability to catch the rodents which
infest the place. The postoffice in st.
Paul Is an old affair, and great caution
has to be taken with the mails to pre-
vent their being nibbled by the rats
and mice.
Many efforts have been made to
get a cat that would appreciate it's
official position and work in the inter
ests of the government, but all failed
until finally cat came that evidently
meant business. She was, however,
enticed to a neighboring building,
where though the atmosphere was
less aristocratic, the fare was better.
Numerous other specimens of the
feline race came, tried the position OF
government rat killer and left, appar'
emily dissatisfied with the existing
pay roll.
The mails did not contain eatables,
and a strict diet of rodents was not to
their taste. Any self-respecting cat
demanded an appetizer in the shape
Of milk or cream.
Finally, the present incumbent ap-
rea1ec and has given such general
sa- staction that the government has
mace e. special requisition in its favor,
and it will be supplied with all the del
ic;.ries of the season. This Is one of
TIE few instances where a cat has
been placed on the payroll of Uncle
Sam.
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and so managed to scramble at last

and so managed to scramble at last
upon the large branches. Here they
sat. swinging their feet and singing
for several happy minutes. But above
them, high in the tree, the cherries
looked red, much reddcr than they
looked from the ground.
Il tell you what" said Beatrice, "let's
climb up to that bough yonder and we
can reach up and eat cherries like
robbins no. Then Grandpa will never
know. | think Grandpa is selfish
Jessie looked first at Beatrice and
then at the cherries. He is selfish,
she said, and the two girls climbed
higher and soon were pulling down
the twigs with their shining fruit.
1t was slow work for the eager little
mouths to eat the pulp and leave the
pits and stems on the twigs, but they
ate a great many cherries. The breeze
blew the branch out of their reach
and stretching up to catch it one girl
lost her footing and fell against the
other. The slender branch snapped
and down through the boughs they
crashed to the ground.
"Oh, oh, OH" they screamed. I'm
most killed." walled Beatrice.
my foot is all broke to pieces!"
cried Jessie. They could not rise for
pain.
Grandpa ran to them. "Oho, see,"
said he. sternly, but after helping Be-
atrice to the house he carried Jessie
to her home Each had a sprained
ankle, khich kept them indoors for
more than a week.
When Jessie came to see Beatrice
for the first time after the accident
the two little girls sat soberly on the
porch. They looked at the beautiful
cherry tree with its broken limb.
II don't want to play robbin, do
your? asked Jessie.
"No," said Beatrice, "and l don't
want cherries when Grandpa says
rot They were not ripe"
NO." said Jessie, Il was awful sick
of EN-"
81 was, too," chimed in Beatrice, i
b'lieve I most died."
"Your grandpa wasn't selfish" said
Jessie.
"No, indeed" assented Beatrice.
They looked at the tree and gave
great sigh.
WELL" said Jessie, cheerfully, lets
go to re barn and play we are hens!"
and away they ran.-Brooklyn Eagle
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Playing Robin.

Grandpa saw the two little girls
walking toward the cherry tree.
Don't pick my cherries" said he,
sharply, as he hurried into the house.
The little girls looked soberly at
each other, then at the beautiful cher
ry tree.
Lets 20 to the barn. said Jessie.
Lets play ~ der tie cherry tree
said Leatrice, 1--WE needn't pick his
old cherries"
The grass was thick and green un-
der the tree. They sat upon 1t, lean
ing against the trunk. Birds flew in
and out of the great tree, unafraid of
the girls and the children envied the
birds.
81 can climb this tree,' cried Jessie.
$50 can l." said Beatrice, lust as
easy; let us do it and play we are rob-
bins"
They fetched long fence board
Ind placed enc cad against tho srss
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MlSS flnI1N1A UNNAMED
President of Nurses Association, ,Watertown, ,Ne1.
most distressing cases of Inflammation
and liberation OF the ovaries and womb.
/ have known that doctors used Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Corn.
pound when everything else failed
with their patients. have advised my
patients and friends to use it and have
vet to hear of it's first failure to cure.
-Four years ago I had falling OF the
womb from straining in lifting heavy
patient, and knowing of the value OF
your Compound began to use it at
once, and in six weeks was well once
more, and have had no trouble since.
l am most pleased to have had an oppor..
tunity to say few words in praise OF
your Vegetable Compound, and shall
take every occasion to recommend 1t. -
MISS VIRGINIA GRANEs.-36ooot forfeit II
above testimonial Is not genuine
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has stood the test OF
time, and has cured thousands.
Mrs. PinksiaEn advises sick Wo-
men free. Address, Lynn, Mass
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A FINANCIAL COUP.

"I wonder why the King Of Spain de-
sires to introduce horse racing as
national amusement"
Possibly" said the man who
doesn't appreciate money till it's gone,
"he wants to help the treasury out by
putting the cabinet into the ring as
s."-Washington Star.
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Puggles.

Puggles' home is in Italy, in a
clergyman's family, and he is the very
prettiest pug" that ever was.
He always went in to dinner with
the family, and after the plates were
removed from the last course and cof-
fee was served, he would mount the
table from his usual cozy place in the
lap Of his mistress's pape, and grave
ly seating himself, would eat bit of
sugar and lap some coffee.
One Gay, while party of ladies and
gentlemen were taking their coffee,
Puggles' mistress took a piece of cake
of which he is very fond, and laid a
morsel before him, saying, Stolen"
Puggles' nose was instantly elevat-
ed in the air, and he sat like statue
until she said, Paid for" when he at
once snapped it UP.
Then she laid a bit down, saying,
Monday we eat" Ife ate. She put
another crurnb before him, saying,
tuesday we eat" and he licked it
up. "wednesday We shake hands" )"
He shook hands and ate Wednesdays
piece. Thursday we eat" He ate.
Friday is a solmen fast" Up went
Puggles' nose, and be became still as
a stone until his mistress said, Sat
urday we eat," when he at once ate
up Fridays portion.
Sunday we eat DOUBLE laying
down two bits, and he ate them,
amidst the noisy approval of all, while
Puggles sat quite unconcerned.
The performance was repeated, but
as the young lady said, TUESDAY we
eat," and Puggles' head was going
down to the coveted piece of cake, a
gentleman said, "Stolen!" Puggles's
head went up, so he said, paid for"
and Puggles took his honestly OBJ
tanned sweets.-Youth's Companion.
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Profitable Literary Speculation.

Prices paid in the book auction
rooms OF New York and London throw
strange light on the vagaries of col
lectors. A fine calf bound set of the
old classics is knocked down for few
cents a volume. while the first edition
fends boost bids into the hundreds of
dollars on a tiny pamphlet Of Kip
1ins's schoolboy verses. The man who
can guess the popular taste of ten
wears hence has chance TO realize
thousands on a present investment of
a couple of dollars. He has only to
pick out the fedgeling poet OF today
who will be in the first rank In 1912
and lay in a couple of copies of each
of his works, not ignoring even the
tiniest of pamphlets. His reward will
be almost as certain as that of the
real estate sharp who bought farm
lands on upper Broadway in 1885,
New York Press.
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"a .A@
lcHILDRENS COLUMN
N1E~

The Work-bnx People.
ave 60 through all our work"
The needles proudly cry:
"But not until you re pushed"
Is the thimble's apt reply.
"Ours is strong attachment"
Whisper hook and eye together;
'Iet you need ns 10 secure you"
Hum the threads, like windy Weatf or.
They all reproached tho scissors,
But the scissors didn't care:
Twas his trade 10 cut acquaintance,
And he did 1t with an air
Gayly jestng thus, and boasting,
Work-box people NIL at play!
Silence, all! it Is the mistress
Coming from across the way.
Christian Register.
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COULDN'T MISS IT.

Miss Hoyle-Yes, he kissed me when
we went through that dark tunnel i
don't see how he managed to find my
mouth.
Miss Doyle-That was probably tho
first thing he struck.-New York
Press.
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THE BEST OF LIFE.

III the birth Of love all life seems good,
Iavhap vou will sleep less sound and long,
Yet the day IS filed with the lit Of Il song,
nd you walk with worldwide brother
hood.
Winning love? Still better life
The pulse beats faster with hops and fears,
And the heart looks on 70 the happy wears
When she shall at last be won-and Wife
But keeping love! ALL that is best.
The doubling. wondering hope Is past.
Deep trust and truth have brought at last
The perfect life Of love and rest.
-Langdon Ballinger, in Good Housekeep-
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Ono of Our Pet Phrases.

"Did any of the Inhabitants escape
with his life?' inquired the man who
wants narrowing details.
81 didn't stop to ascertain" an
swered the man who is harrowingly
exact. 1T struck me that if anybody
escaped with his life there WASH.
much use In his escaping. snsho%sl
WasAlrHsen Etas; .
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Summer Tours BY Land and sea-E1-
m ,1xaks Nrnrv T.Nyx, II AfNR

Central Of Georgia Hallway and connec-
ti>ns are now So ling Summer Tourist
Tickets from all coupon stations to New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore
via Savannah and steamship lines. Tickets
include meals and stateroom berth aboard
ship: much less than all rail. For full par
ticulars, berth reservations, ETC., apply to
your nearest railroad agent. F. Robinson,
Asst. Gen'I. Pass. Agent, Savannah, Ga: J.
c. Halle, Genl. Pass. Agent, Savannah, Ga.
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MISS VIRGINIA CRANES
Tells How Hospital Physicians
Use and Rely upon Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Com
Mound.

"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM: - Twelve
wears continuous service at the sick
bed in some of our prominent hospi-
tails, as well as at private homes, has
given me varied experiences with tho
diseases of women. have nursed some
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NO LION TO HER.

Mrs. Muggins-That woman's hus'
band is quite literary lion.
Mrs. Muggins-Why. she told me ne
was a perfect bear.-Philadelphia Rec
ord.
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FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous.
ness after first davis use OF DR.. Kline's Great
NeryeRestorer. S2trial bottle and treatisefree
DR. RH. KLINE. Ltd, 931 Arch st., Phila., Pa.
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Ask Your Dealer For Aliens foot-Ease,
A powder. 1t rests the feet. Cures Corns.
Bunicns, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching,
Sweating Feet and 1ngrowing Nails. Allen S
Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. AT
all D ruggists and Shoe stores, rs cents: Ac-
cept no substitute Sample mailed FREE.
Address Allen s. Olmsted, Leroy, n. Y.
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Mrs. .Winslows Sc othing Syrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces lnnamma-
tion ,allays pain, cures wind colo. 25c. aoottie
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-08-07

The revelations of the spectroscope,
which is capable of showing the dis
placement of stars toward or from the
earth, make the starry heavens, to the
atronomer's eye, appear almost as full
of may motions as is cloud of gnats
dancing in the sunbeams. Every in
crease In the power of observing ap-
paratus brings to notice new spectre
scopic binaries," which are simply
double stars that cannot be separately
seen, either because Of their extreme
closeness or because only one of them
is a shining body. t is the erratic mo-
tions Of these wonderful stars that re-
veal their true character. One of the
latest to be discovered is Eta Orionis
which hangs just below the belt of
Orion. Sometimes this start is speed
miles a second, and few nights later
ing toward the earth more t5an 40
is hurrying away with a similar We
locity.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-08-07

The woman who marries for spite dis
covers that revenge is not always sweet.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-08-07
The COMING Man.

Professor Brunor makes a startling
prediction as to human development.
He sees IN the future man being in
whom strange transformations shall
have taken place; being in whom
brain is master, ruling a body much
body which has lost its floating ribs,
its vermiGoam appendix and its little
toes, and in which many other chang
es have taken place. He believes the
chest and upper and lower limbs will
be larger and that the future man will
be much taller than his prototype of
today.-London Globe.
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Conductor E. D. Loomis, Detro t, MI n.
saws: "The efYe t OF Halls Ca arrh Cure IS
wouderful." Write him about 1t. SO b
Dr,ppIsts TIC
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Some men never break themselves OF bad
habits until they find themselves broke.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-08-07

The largest coral reef in the world is
the Australian Barrier reef, which Is llo0
miles in length
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-08-07

lam sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved
Bins. Maple ST., Norwich, N. Y, Feb. II, 1900.
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Three-fourths of the people Of Cuba de-
pend for livelihood upon the sugar crop.
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OVER-SUSPICIOUS.

Hewitt-Gruet hasn't any confidence
in anybody.
Jewett-No, I don't believe he'd cash
his own check-New York Times.
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Some men only put on their best man
ners when they dress to 60 out.
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

In time past 8 lake existed in Swift
zerland near the Marsby valley, A,lt
either died up or disappeared through
drainage or analogous causes. Now
several cantons have combined, and
will fill the ancient lakesite by water
from mountain torrents now going to
waste near by. The head thus OBJ
tanned will amount to 600 feet, and Will
afford $4,000 horse power. The work
will take three years to execute, and Is
expected to cost about eight million
dollars.
In a recent communication TO the
British Institution of Electrical En-
ginee:s, Mr.. Leonard Joseph reported
the following unusual occurrence:
During a thunder storm a wild goose
was seen to fall to the ground, ap-
parently directly out OF the storm
clods. After the storm was over an
examination revealed the body of an
other goose at some distance from the
first. The only wounds found upon
the birds were narrow cut on the
back of the neck of one and a small
puncture at the point where the neck
Joins the body on the other. At these
points the feathers were slightly
singed. Both birds proved perfectly
fit for the table.
The Smithsonian Institution is go
Ing to try to trace the migratory
movements Of American birds by
novel method. About million small
aluminium tags are being made, and
thes are to be sent to correspondents
all over the country with the request
that they fasten the tags round the
legs Of young wild birds before they
are able to fly. The tags are to De
marked and dated SO that when the
birds are subsequently captured or
killed it can be seen how far they
have ranged from their birthplace.
Hunters and others will be asked 10
forward to Washington the TAGS fran
any birds so taken. Such e thorough
plan mas never been tried before.
The fact that the sun when poised
on the horizon sometimes appears
greatly distorted, or drawn out into
the form of an oval, is we'll known,
and the explanation is very simple,
namely, the rapid change iL the re-
fractive index of the air near the horl-
on, in consequence of which the low
er edge of the sun apepars to be lifted
with reference to the upper edge, and
go the disk looks as if squeezed be-
tween top and bottom. Recently Pro-
fessor Prinz of the Brussels observa-
tory has obtained several large scale
photographs of the setting sun which
distinctly show the reformation of the
disk, and render its measurement very
easy. In one case the vertical diane
ter is to the horizontal in the ration of
Is to "a. Sometimes the distortion is
greater than that.
The revelations of the spectroscope,
which is capable of showing the dis
placement of stars toward or from the
earth, make the starry heavens, to the
atronomer's eye, appear almost as full
of mazy motions aS is . sloud Of cnatS
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In 1900 the output Of coal throughout
the wer!d was ateut 7s7,eno.eee sess
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Some people waste lot CT time
preparing to meet an emergency. aid
then don't recognize IL wh.n il
esmes,