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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-01-13
How Groce and Cannon Were Slain

Managua, Dec. 29.-Recent reports
that the Americans, Groce and Can
non, were tortured before being shot,
are untrue. The facts were in the
possession Of the state department at
Washington a month ago, and it was
generally supposed that any details
of the tragedy had been given pub
licity through official channels. AS
it is, advantage has been taken of
the opportunity in some instances to
paint a picture that was more inter-
esting than truthful.
The glory of Capt. Anibal Chaves,
who refused to obey an order to take
command of the firing squad, is dim
med somewhat by the light of known
circumstances. Generals Toledo, Me-
dina and Irias had implored Zelaya
to abandon his purpose of shooting
the Americans.
Zelaya, however, could not be in
fuenced and General Toledo finally
ordered Captain Chaves not to as
sumo command of the squad. Chaves
chose to obey Toledo rather than the
president, and as consequence was
arrested and held in Jail for six weeks.
Upon his release Chayes made the
most of the episode.
1t is also declared untrue that a
meeting of peace commissioners ap-
pointed by Madriz and Estrada has
been arranged for Saturday.
Groce and Cannon were notified of
the death sentence imposed upon
then at 1890 o'clock on the night
of November Is. They were executed
at 10 o'clock the following morning.
AS they were marched out OF the fort
ress drizzle of rain fell. On the
way to the scene Of execution they
passed the open graves that had been
prepared for them. At one time
Groce stepped out of the line OF
march and pleaded with General
Medina.
do not shoot me; I am brother
Mason," he said. Cannon quickly
seized his companion and pulling him
back into line said:
Brace up, old man. We have no
chance under Zelaya's orders"
Standing in the centre OF the
square formed by 100 soldiers, the
two men heard their sentence read
from the four corners together with
the usual warning in such cases.
ANY one displaying evidence of
sympathy will be shot in a similar
fashion"
The hands of the condemned men
were bound and their eyes were
blindfolded. Cannon shook his head,
attempting to prevent the bandage
being placed over his face, but his
protest was unavailing. They. were
seated on a low bench side by side.
The firing squad was made up Of IL
soldiers who advanced in three rows
within six feet Of their victims.
Capt. Constantine Saenz was in COM
mand and introduced two soldiers at
the right to fire upon Grace and two
soldiers upon the left to fire upon
Cannon.
All four bullets were effective.
Groce was shot through the heart and
death was instantaneous. The bull
lets intended for Cannon tore the
breast and abdomen. He survived
his wounds few seconds. When the
body of Groce was buried a blanket
hid the features, but the body Of Can
non was buried without any protect
ing cover.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-09-03
SANDS OF THE SEA USEFUL
OF Great Importance in Giassmaking
and Warfare-Moving Character
Of Qucksands Explained.

The sands of the sea are singularlv
useful. They are of primary impor-
tance in glassmaking. They have an
important place in warfare, as bank
of sand twenty inches thick is proof
against modern rife shots. The cleo
trical properties of sand show that 1t
has positive electricity, although rod
of silica. the chief constituent of sand
is negative.
The singular drying effect which oc-
ours when a stretch of wet sand is
pressed by the foot is due entirely to
an alteration In the piling Of the sand
grains. Normally the grains are close
together. but abnormal piling is
brought about by pressure of the foot
the space between the edges of the
grains being enlarged and the water
drained away. If the pressure of the
foot is continued the sand becomes
wetter than ever. the partial vacuum
quickly bringing wafer from the sur
rounding sand
In quicksands the moving character
Is thought to be due to the imprison-
ment between the grains of gases from
organic matter
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-09-03
ELEVEN TONS OF DIAMONDS
Output Of the Kimberly Mines In
Thlrty-nine Years-Diseovery
Of the Record Gem.

The days work at the mine, was
over and Frederick Wells, the sur.
face manager. was making his usual
rounds. Glancing along one side of
the deep excavation his eye suddenly
caught the CLEAN of brilliant object
far up the bank. He lost no time in
Climbing up to the spot where he had
noted the CLINT of light. He had not
been mistaken; it was brilliant crys-
tai. He tried to pull 1t out with his
fingers and as this proved impossible
he sought to pry it out with the blade
of his penknife. To his surprise the
blade of the knife broke without caus-
ing the stone to yield. Then he knew
1t was large stone. So large and
brilliant was the stone that he feared
he was either dreaming or was In
sane.
Determined to test the stone on the
spot before proceeding further, Wells
rubbed off the dirt from one of its
faces with his fingers and soon con-
vinced himself that it was not lump
of glass. but diamond, apparently of
exceptional whiteness and purity. He
finally succeeded in prying out the
stone and bore it away with him to
the Office of the mine Here 1t was
cleaned and. to the astonishment of
all, was found to have a weight Of
302A carats, more than three times
that of any other diamond that had
been discovered. Before many hours
passed the telegraph carried tidings
to all parts of the world that the great
est diamond of this age or any other
age had been brought to light.
1t was thirty-nine years. July 13.
1871, since the discovery of diamonds
in South Africa Do you know how
these great mines were discovered?
the Christian Herald asks. A trader
stopping over night with Dutch
farmer saw the children playing with
bright marbles. The trader took the
white stones to Capetown and found
they were diamonds of wonderful
beauty and great value In these thir-
ty-nine years about eleven tons of dia-
monds have been taken from the Kim
berly mines. Think of eleven tons of
diamonds. like eleven tons of coal, be-
ing dumped irto your cellar!
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-09-03
English as She Is Warned.

School teachers are wont to com
pare notes from time to time, and in
a friendly way vie with each other in
the production of particularly brilliant
or particularly stupid answers
What is the mcst incorrect SEN
tence any of your children ever got
OFF," askec Glenwood school teacher
recently at the Schoolmen's Club.
"One of mine got this off not long
ago." RESPONDED young man who
teaches at the Robert Morris school:
1T amt his'n like, but yourn.''
my best, said a George II. Mead
school peda gogue, ran something like
this: Rare roast beef is meat what
there amt none whata's any under
dunner'"
The best one OF the afternoon was
furnished by a Germantown teacher
Here is one he said, which has the
old classic, lie seen his duty and done
It noble beaten forty ways: Lew
tenant Grant hearn the enemy in his
bed, but he snuck up on him and
killed him without KNOWN who.
where or what he was '"-Philadel
phia Record.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-09-03
WORLD TAKES CARE OF ITSELF
Real Philosopher Does Not Worry
Much Over the Terrible Plight
of the Future.

One may ardently advocate the con-
servatlon OF natural resources without
losing rest IN worrying about what
we shall 90 Tor crosstics when al
forests are destroyed. or for warmth
when coal Is exhausted. It Is really
unwise to get hysterical over such
troubles, so long as they are under
contract for future delivery. None
of us should be deficient in philoso-
ply. The real philosopher is he who,
having sure tip that things are COM
ing his way, smiles upon adversely
with Indulgence
1t Is just as well to consider that
by the time crosstie material quits
growing all the Pullmans will be in
the air with all the berths upper. and
that a thousand years from now, If
the scarcity of coal runs the price up
to $1,000 a ton, some miserable sin
ners OF the present may have cause
to rejoice in the prospect of lower
temperatures.
The world is going to take care Of
itself and the guess that the little
earth will be rocking along on sched-
ule time hundred thousand years
hence is Just as good as any other.
Why, therefore. worry? Why attempt
to solve the puzzle of navigating the
future OF dreadnoughts too big for the
sea: leave that to future Hobsons.
If the safe and sane people will just
make up their minds to cultivate
philosophy and to practise 1t, many
disturbing factors would be elimi
mated. There is nothing like determ-
lining that it will work out all right;
1t always does.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-09-03

HE August number OF the
Worlds Work contains an
article which is of interest
to all who are concerned In
the vital subject to which
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-09-03
Kotiee of Deferred Annual Stock
holders Meeting.

Notice is hereby given that at Ten
Q0) O'Clock in the forenoon of Mon
day, September 18th, 1910, at the
office of the undersigned Corporation
(the Office of Erwin j.. Regennitterj in
Idaho Springs, Colorado, will be held
deferred annual meeting of the
stockholders of THE METROPOLITAN
MINING, MILLING, TUNNEL AND
TRANSPOR ALTON COMPANY, and
that the object OF sad meeting will
be to elect Board of Directors and
to transact sucn other business as
shall properly come before the meet
ing,
And that at said meeting there will
be Offered {. resolution enbodying a
proposed amendment to the articles
of incorporation to be voted on by
the stockholders at said meeting,
which resolution Will be in words and
figures as follows:
"RESOLVED, that Article Fifth of
the articles OF Incorporation of said
Metropolitan Mining, Milling, Tun-
mel and Transportation Company
be. ..and the same is.hereby Amended
by striking out the word and figure
seven az before the word 'Direc
tors in the second line of said fifth
article on page 3 OF the certificate
OF incorporation and by inserting the
word and figures eleven (lD' in lieu
thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, The
Metropolitan Mining, Milling, Tunnel
and Transportion Company has cause d
these presents to be signed by it's
President and attested by its Secretary
under the seal Of the Company
this Fourth day of August, A. d. 1910.
THE METROPOLITAN MINING,
M LING, TUNNEL AND TRANS
PORTATION COMPANY,
By A. Il. CHRIST,
(Corporate) Its President.
(SeaD A. H. CHRIST,
President of The Metropolitan Mining,
Milling, Tunnel and Transportation
Company.
Attest:
j. FRED'K JENKINSON,
Secretary.
First pub. Aug. q, 1910.
Last pub. Sept. 10, 1910.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-09-03
When o. Henry Lost Prestige.

Once, when exploring a factory dis
trict for story material, O. Henry in-
vited bright little girl to dine with
him. She accepted on condition that
she might bring friend along. Dur
ing dinner the writer sought to make
his guests feel at ease by resting his
English to the extent of using "ain't"
and hadn't oughter" and few other
popular mutilations of the mother
tongue.
He saw the little girl few days
later.
Il was awful mortified that night"
she said. You spoke SO ungrammat-
ical before my lady friend. d.'-Success
Magazine.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-09-03

|. A. Slower, Cashier of the above named
bank. DO soemnly swear that the above sta Is
true the best OF my knowledge and belief.
A. A. STOVER. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this O. Jay Of
Sept. 1910.
Mv commission expires January II, 1872.
Geo. W. button.
Notary pI5,i1.
CoRRECT-Attest:
II. l.. ROBERTS,
w. HtiLLBEKG.
o. W. LOWELL.
Directors
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-09-03

The newest creations in footwear for
the little tots are the Red Top Button
Bootees Sizes to 5 SITS, So to 8
$500. Pleasing both mothers and
baby, Swanson, the shoeman.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-09-03
An EnIightcnlns Diagram.

"How shall l represent this railway
that has become noted for erratic divi-
dends?" asked the map maker
"Put 1t down as a short and crooked
une," replied the chief.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-09-03
No. $3.50
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
nE JuE
Merchants and Miners National Bank

At Idaho Springs, in the State of Colorado. at the
close Of business. Sept. l. 1910.
RESOURCES
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-09-03
A Remedy for Some
Forms of
Selfish Legislation

from ,nsc
Editor
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-04-07
The Lsymen's Movement.

God bless the Christian Endeavor
and Epworth League and Students
Missionary League and the Laymen's
Movement, all intent on "Storming the
world for Jesus" We bear them wit
ness that they have a zeal for God
which we greatly admire .and would
encourage. But their zeal is mot ac-
cording TO knowledge" and is there
fore considerably mlsdlrected. To any
one of logical mind who will reason
from statistics. the thought OF convert
ing the world by singing a few rous-
Ing hymns or holding few enthusi-
astic meetings for the collection OF
money! money!! money.!l would be
childish. We do not desplse childish
ness. We have all had our share. But
we all should say with the Apostle,
when | was child. | spake as a
child and understood as a child; but
when ! became man | put away
childish things" q Corinthians Kill, III.
christian people have been fooling
themselves long enoughp Yes, It is
as absolutely irrational to think OF
converting the world. as II is unscrip-
tural 10 believe that God ever gave us
that impossible commission. The Unit
ed States census reports show that
there are twice as many heather to-
day as there were century ago. The
word heather carries TO many a very
wrong impression. Many noble-heart-
ed Christians have gone as mission
aries to the heather wholly unpre-
pared for what they met-intelligent
reasoning ability. etc. They found that
the heather were full OF questions,
'ogical questions. too, which they as
Christians had never thought OF. and
which they were wholly unprepared TO
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HIGHLA NO.
March %, 1910.

hdlbil -, l'lO'
Robert Judkins, of Cincinnati, was
visiting relatives and friends here over
Sunday.
Charles Conars and family, Of Ken
lucky, are guests of relatives here.
Grace McVey is home from Delaware
for few days.
EJ Fultz and family, of Leesburg,
were guests of friends here Sunday
afternoon.
Joseph Hixson and wife, of Dublin,
Fred Watts and family and Pearl
Davis and wife, Of Leesburg, were
guests of Jane Grice Sunday.
Mrs DR. Orebaugh is visiting rela-
tiyes in Cincinnati this week.
Walter Mcpherson and family and
p + Ladd and wife were guests of Rev
Mcmillan Sunday.
DIR Judkins was called to Cincinnati
Monday owing to the sickness of Mrs
Judkins.
Roy McLaren and Leta Johnson
were married at the Friends parsonage
Sunday night, March 20.
William Ebright and Mrs. Brecker,
of Eckmansyille, Adams county, drove
into Highland Saturday afternoon and
proceeded to the NJ f Parsonage where
they were uuited in marriage by
Brother Washburn.
Pete Adams went TO Cincinnati
Monday on business.
Mrs Mercer, who has been staying
with Mrs Adams for some time, left
for Columbus Monday. 4
The body of the infant child of Jesse
Thornburg and wife, of Leesburg, was
inferred in the cemetery here Monday
afternoon.
Scott Burton and family and Dave
Berry we're guests of Joe Rose and
family Sunday.
Merritt Moore and sister, May, and
Mrs Salina Moore were guests of ]
Woodmansee Sunday.
Last Wednesday, March %, Roy
Wallace went to Centervile after a
load Of produce for w L Hoskins.
While there the team became fright
ened at an auto and became unman.
ageable. Roy in trying to hold the
team was badly hurt and has been con.
fined to his bed ever since. The wagon
and harness were badly demolished,
also several eggs smashed up.
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FO T HILL.
March %, 1910.

March ~, l9lO.
Granville Hickman was calling on
friends i'm Bellhollow Sunday.
Miss Grace Havens spent Saturday
with / w Stults and;wife
Tom Ferguson was at the home of
William Bashore at Rainsboro, Satur-
day and Sunday.
10 Stults and wife spent Thursday
with the form sr's brother, | W Stults.
VIM Shaper, who has been spending
some time at Greenfield, returned
home last week.
George Elliott and family spent
Easter with Dick Stults land wife.
Harry Burton, who spent the winter
at Valley Crossing, is 1.-THE guest of his
father, Carey Burton.
Branson Mccoy and family spent
Saturday and Sunday with the formers
mother at Cynthiana.
Willie AMI FulieThompson, of Sink
ing Spring, spent Wednesday night
with their grandmother, Mrs. Permela
kissing.
Clay White and wife, of Sinking
Spring, spent Easter with the formers
parents, Edward White and wife.
Ray and Ocie Dearborn were guests
of their grandparents, John Caplinger
and wife, near Slate HILL Saturday
and Sunday.
Mrs G. ID Mattisonl and ,'sister, Miss
Bess Butler, were business visitors in
Bainbridge Tuesday.
l. O'Donnell and family removed to
Rolandus Miller's farm near Porter's
Mill last week and Jacob Crum moved
into the house vL;Ltet.bysO' Donnell.
Fred Roads and family spent Easter
with parents, Alvie Roads and wife,
near Sinking Springs.
B w Spargur, Of Carmel. called on
Daniel Butler Friday afternoon.
Mesdames Jennie Miller and Eva
Mace, of Sinking Spring, visited Mrs.
Permelia Kissling Sunday.
Mrs. Burch Wisecup died Wednesday
after short illness with tuberculosis,
at her home in Bellhollow. She leaves
to mourn her loss her husband, two
children and a host of srelatives and
friends. Interment in West Cemetery
Thursday afternoon.
Mrs Mryta Cameron, Of Marshall,
Mrs Dora Butler and son, of Sinking
Spring, and Mrs Charles McCoppin, of
Carmel, were guests of w Stults and
family Monday.
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Enulish "Consols.n

The young woman who has been ex-
planning In The north London police
court that she eXpe, ted Els invested IN
ronsols 10 bring ner in 10 shlllings iu
the pound interest knew about as
much concerning the funs'' as the
elder Mr.. Weller. You recall Sam
Weller's scOrn upon discovering that
his father supposed reduced counsels'
to lie alive. But there Is one single
pU,nt about cOnsols which most peo.
pie, probably including many who pos
sess HOnP, could not answer Offhand-
OF what Aurtly Is the name an abbre
Walton? There is nothing even to re-
mind us OF IL. Even the precise per
sons who would die rather than con,
tract omnibus" telephone" or pho
tograph" never speak of "consolidated
anDultles." London Chronicle.
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Metheulin.


Metheglin and hypucrHs were num-
rred among the many good things be-
Ived Of Pepvs. aud lhe latter drink
iiood him In good stead ut n guildhall
banquet which occurred during one of
his spells of pledged abstinence from
wine. This was on lord mayors day.
lii3. when he diarist notes: I'VE went
into the buttry and there stayed and
talked and hen into the hall again.
aud there wine was offered. aud they
drunk. | only drinking some hypocras.
which do not break my vowe. 1t being,
to the best of my present judgement,
only mixed compound drink and not
any wine. IL am mistaken. God for
give me. But 1 hope and do think
am not" He was. Hypocras was
usually composed of spice. herbs and
sugar STEPPED for many days In Rhen-
ish wine, aud 1t Is not reasonable to
suppose that the lord mayors butler
had forgotten the wine.
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THE RIVER SEINE.
It's Contact With Paris on It's Journey
10 the Sea

10 the Sea.
lur,'iably IN it, passage thrmlgl
ttiri, tir hluc aud silver at the Sriuts
rnn are 8, Irrrd by rouiact with the
,uiuur~ ~ ~inukp Whlrh ur,aSiundhl
hang upon us surface and stained 10y
the lmpurili's which reach II from the
irrrtS. Th,"-h II Iuickiy RECEIVERS its
pristine b!urupss after the fUrtitica-
iiunS have hpru left behind. II is never
again quite the uusUphislicated river
nat 1t was before its Paris experience.
Is waters are less linpld. its course
uure nervous while at its meeting
with the sea at Huntleur its color aud
character have changed completely.
| here the vast stretches of mud over
which II rolls. mud of Paris. mud of
.,Ilpn. give to the waters of the wide
seine estuary reaching from TrOuville
% Le Havrp the half dead moire tones
Il oxidized silver The great Parisian
'ivcr dies mHgniicentiy. and no more
nrgpuus spectacle can be conceived
han when un tine evening the sun
It's upon the Seine at its junction with
he sea. where its ultimate cliffs fade
way behind the summer haze into II
rrwder of gold. and It burns light
'uruuoisp blue. with weird reflections
brazen yellow. old gold and cadav.
'rous green. How different from its
-pntler and simpler aspect as II hud-
Hes round the heart of Paris. warm
'urple aud FURNISHED gold when the
sinking sun strikes It as II softly laps
against the stone embankment OF the
Louvre or sparkling blue. dappled with
milk white. beneath the silvery mists
~ the Paris morning! Ilarper's Week.
lN
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WEST TAYLORSvMLE.
!. quickly e sb:o,bed.
March 28, 1910.

Otis Miller and wife and Henry
Sauner and wife were visiting Harry
Sauner and wife Sunday.
Willie Window and family were the
guests of Amelius Sauner and family
Sunday.
Charles Euverard and wife are sick.
Oscar Dunn and family were visiting
David Dunn and family Sunday. s4Sss,
Ira Shaw and wife were visiting
Cornelius Hicks and wife Sunday.
Mesdames Anna Ruble and Lizzie
Window were visiting Mrs. Lizzie
Laney one day last week.
Elmer Naylor and wife are visiting
o S Underwood and family.
Mrs. Susan Sauner was the recipient
of post card shower, 1t being her
74th birthday. She received 149 cards
of which she is very proud and wishes
to thank her friends for their kind
remembrance.
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The First Firearms.

The early history of firearms in the
sense of tubes from which missiles are
thrown by the action Of n detonating
compound of the nature of gunpowder
Is wrapped in obscurlty. though 1t may
be- inferred from the few early records
that such weapons were first employed
In warfare soon after the beginning OF
the fourteenth century. II not some
time before. The country of their orr
gin remains uncertain. but II was most
probably Italy.
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MOLl CUTPURSE.
Bold Highway Robber and the First
English Woman Smoker.

Gn9IlSn WoWdU OUlONcTs
Mary Firth. better known as Moll
Culpurse. was "A notable figure In old
time London life. She had the repu-
lallon of being the first woman tn
smoke tobacco In England.
The length of her days is a disputed
point. but II seems certain that she at
Gained he age of over thrcescorP years
aud ten. II Is asserted that constant
smoking prolonged her life. A pOr-
raft representing her in the act of
moking forms the frontispiece of Mid
lleton's comedy Of the Roaring Girl"
She also figures IN other plays OF the
lrriud.
Mary was the daughter of a shoe
nnkpr living In the Barbican. and Ma
one gives 1884 as thP date of her
,irth She early took to wicked ways
1ud became n noted "hghwaym
\mong her familiar friends were the
nolorious Captain Hind and Richard
tlnnnHm. She was an expert swords
woman. Single handed she robbed on
lOnnslow heath General Fairfax of
700 gold iacobuses. shooting him
Trough he arm aud killing two of
his horses on which his servants were
riding. For the offense she was com
nirted to Newgate. but on paying the
'nucral f2.OOO she obtained her liberty.
At one time Mary had $1,000 Of her
'wn. bur bv giving money to distress.
ii cavaliers she died comparatively
moor. Her death took place in July.
1850. aud she was laid to rest in ST.
8rdget's. M ilgate Monthly.
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PEOPLES PULPIT.
THE NECESSITY FOR
THE MILLENNIUM.

Times Of leireshing shll come from the
presence Of the Lord; and he shall send
Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto
you; whom the heavens must retain until the
times OF restitution Of all things. which God
hath spoken by the mouth Of all his holy
prophets since the world began. Acts ii.
1921.