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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-06
STRICT, LETTER OF THE LAW
Young Woman Kept Within che Stat,
utes When Her Attention Was
Called to Them.

He was dapper young conductor,
his uniform was newly pressed, his
mustache curled to perfection and he
evidently was impressed with the i'm
portance of the position he held. He
also thought that he knew thing or
two and wished others to be aware of
the fact
From Market street to Girard av-
enue he kept up steady flow Of talk
on one subject or another in a tone
that could be heard almost to the
other end of the car.
AT Girard avenue six young women,
all In the liveliest spirits and out for
an afternoons fun. boarded the car
They We're seated close together and
pay the carfare followed One of the
girls opened her purse and showed 1t
to the other girls with the remark:
Let me pay. l want to get rid OF
some of these pennies"
The purse was full of them and her
companions consented
She counted out thirty Of them and
handed them to the conductor.
That dapper individual drew his
hand back with the words:
Excuse me. madam, don't you
know that by law l am not compelled
to accept more than rs cents in pen
MES In payment of any debt?"
Il beg your pardon" said the girl,
as all the passengers turned to look
At her. and the conductor threw out
his chest. She then counted the pen
MES into lots of Ave. handed each
lot to companion and said. Here,
girls, pay your own fares"
The conductors face turned Grim
son as laugh went round the car
Philadelphia Times.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-06
Gladstone and the heckler.

Mr.. Gladstone was altogether intol.
Grant OF the heckler. During his last
Midlothian campaign he was oues.
toned by Sir, then Mr.. John Usher OF
Norton. who had once been Glad.
stones chairman of committee, on the
subject of the Irish proposals, which
sundered SO many political friend.
ships. To one or two INQUIRIES a curt
reply was given. Am | to under.
stand"-Mr. Usher was beginning
Understand" The old statesman
ieaped to his feet. Il am responsible
for the understanding that the All.
mighty has put In this skull of mine !"
tapping his forehead. Il am not re-
sponsible,' pointing his finger at the
auest,oner' for the understanding
that he has put in that skull of yours"
The effect of this rebuke was over.
whelming Mr.. Usher sank speechless
into his seat.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-06
The Height Of Clouds.
,Ow high are the clouds ?"


Many varying answers have been
returned to this question and in fact
II may be added that there is no fixed
height for any kind Of cloud. Some
remarkably interesting measures Of
the height of clouds were made at
Vienna by an ingenious method. Ad.
vantage was taken of the extremely
brilliant light furnished for the great
illuminated fountain erected not long
ago in that city. BY means Of a pro-
jector 1t was found that a beam of
light could be sent up to the clouds.
producing upon them a luminous spot
capable Of being observed simultan.
eously from points on the earth two
or three miles apart BY such OBJ.
servations the height of certain clouds
Of the cirrus variety was found to be
as much as 1000 meters. or nearly
$4,000 feet.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-06
The Harshness Of Napoleon.

In the service and in the inter.
course with his officers he was cold.
almost repellant. severe and infexibly
just. One day Gen. Guvion Saint.Cyr.
afterwards marshal, appeared at the
emperor's morning audience at the
Tuileries. Napoleon said quietly to
him: You come from Naples, gener.
al?" Yes. sire, relinquished my com.
mand to Marshal Perignon, whom your
majesty sent to relieve me-" And
no doubt you have leave of absence
from the minister Of war;" mo, your
majesty; but had nothing else to do
in Naples" unless you are on your
way to Naples within two hours. YOU
will be shot on the plain of Grenelle
at IL o'clock precisely" said the EN-.
peror. returning his watch to his
pocket.-Kielland. "Napoleon's Men
and Methods"
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-06
Being In Debt.

There is restaurant in New York
where the walters do their level best
to make old customers sign checks
for meals instead of paying cash. The
moment a customer hesitates at sight
of the total. or evinces a tendency to
count the money in his pocket and
sigh, a waiter is sure to shove a pencil
into his hand and actually coax him to
hang up" the check.
why. Of course you ought to sign
checks" IA the way one Of the temp
tiers put it the other day; "nobod,
amounts to anything in New York till
he owes something"
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-06
EAneEM., "
b 1NOjj;:IE::SSS ::

A little moisture is needed to facil.
,itate winter blowing.
The community proposition has
much to commend it.
An inspection of the chimneys and
a little mortar now may save bad
fire.
Keep the paint brush going until
every implement on the place is cov-
cred.
Alfalfa Is not adapted to poor lands
anywhere until they have been en-
1tched.
Fasten down the tops of the hay
stacks-or. better still, cover them.
Il pays big.
II an agent tries to sell you tree
paint chase him OF the place. Trees
do not need paint.
A pound or two Of nails win make
the fences all tight and save loss and
hard feeling between neighbors.
10 the harness tied up with string
anywhere! Take them of and do the
best Job Of repairing you ever did.
Get out some stun for whimstrees.
Keep little on hand all the time. for
you may need them before you know
&.
Have q bottle Of rubber cement on
Hand and some good glue. FIX things.
and do 1t while tie other work IL not
pressing.
II you have no silo, get 4 feed cut
Aer and gasoline engine, It any rate.
They will pay for themselves in 4
single season II you have any animals
TO feed.
Time 10 saved by doing now much
Of the work usually done in the busy
spring, such ~ hauling stones, clear.
ing away trees and brush. fixing the
grape aFbor. etc.
With western corn land selling 1t
$500 and even moro psr aero and corn
1t present prices, It takes q mighty
clever feeder to show q profit at the
end Of tho season.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-06
USEFUL SElF-DUMPI DRAo
Handy for Hauling Stone and oth.,
Heavy Materials and 10 Easiiv
Overturned.

This sled works either side IN .na
form eitner END. 1t Is handy for haul.
lug stones ana other heavy materials,
"Au - can % overturned very easily
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-06

Phoebe-Gladys Is the meanest kind
OF gossip.
Helen-What makes you think so?
Phoebe-Because she never tells
you anything herself, but gets you
to tell her all you know.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-16
SOURCES OF DEGENERACY.
Eighty Per Cent. of Wayward Girls
Said to Have Inherited Vice.

At Philadelphia Miss Whitehead,
of the Girls Home of Refuge, spoke
on heredity and environment as the
Influence that brings about the down.
fall of the youth. Here is one thing
she said:
I'm our institution fully 80 per cent
of the girls come from homes where
their parents have been inebriates,
degenerates, partly imbecile, or very
weak physically. You will find that
few delinquent girls come from the
homes which have not been wrecked
by death, poverty, or divorce"
So the future generation takes up
the character and tendency of the
proceeding generation; and the de-
bauchery and inebriacy of father or
grandfather, and on the female side,
too, descend to the children. It is
this fact that determines much of
the evil of the world, Isn't it time
that men and women were realizing
that the quality of their own lives de-
termines whether it shall be Joy or
sorrow for those who come after
them? Civilization has no surer Sc
curity for it's maladies than a pure
and sober individual life.-Ohio State
Journal.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-16

Chicago, Feb. "a mans body,
hurled through the air when struck
by the Overland limited train, killed
another man last night and seriously
injured third. The man struck by
the locomotive was Edward Donahue,
foreman of a gang of laborers. He
survived the effects until to-day.
The train on it's way to the Pacific
coast had not yet cleared the Chica-
go and Northwestern railroad yards
here when the accident took place.
Donahue and so of his men were
at work cleaning snow from the
track. The foreman apparently saw
the locomotive approaching, but be-
fore he could escape he was struck
and his body shot through the air,
knocking over the two other work.
men who were Is feet distant.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-16
What Drainage Does.

I know that drainage has worked
wonders in sections formerly malari-
Gus. In my own recollection the
eastern shore of Maryland was
plagued with malaria. The people
in Baltimore were afraid to come
over the Bay for fear of chills and
fever. Now, with better drainage
and the use of artesian water,
malaria has disappeared, and in the
upper counties on the Bay shore
every farm house is crowded with
summer boarders from Baltimore,
and one of our leading doctors told
me that chills were the last thing he
is called in for. I have lived on the
shore now for over three years and
have never had to call a doctor to
any member Of my family. Drain
the lowlands and make deep wells of
pipe and get pure water, and you can
laugh at malaria, for it Is not in the
air anywhere.-W. F. Massey, in
Raleigh On. CO. Orc sressive Farmer.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-16
Half Million Dollars Stolen.

Atlanta, Ca, Feb. 1.-Two mail
pouches known to have contained
checks and other valuable bank pa
pers amounting to about 100000,
much of which was negotiable, have
been stolen at Thalman, Ca, near
Brunswick, on the Atlanta, Birming-
ham and Atlantic railroad. The
thefts occurred on the nights of Jan
uary 19 and 21. No clues to the
identity of the thieves have been OBJ
tanned.
The pouches were being sent from
Brunswick and were dropped al
Thalman by the A., B. G. A., to be
picked up there by the Seaboard Air
Line. In the interval between trains
tn sacks disappeared.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-16
OUR QUESTION.

The Walterboro Press and Sand
ard was silent last week in regard to
our question as to taxes being six
times higher in Bamberg than Col
Teton. We would appreciate an
answer to our question.-Bamberg
Herald.
We are sorry not to have seen The
Herald's question, but if Bro. Knight
will PROFOUND it again we shall en-
deavor to answer.-Walterbo Press
and Standard.
Here Is the question, which ap-
peared in our issue of January 10:
"By the way, the editor Of the
Walterboro Press and Standard re-
Gently paid a visit to the auditors
Office in Bamberg for the purpose of
getting information as to taxes for
the purpose of comparison with COL
Teton. Will he say that taxes are
six times as high in Bamberg as COL
Teton? We will appreciate 1t II he
will answer this question in his next
ISSUE"
It really makes no difference now,
as Mr. Brabham has since stated that
he has not paid taxes in Colleton in
several years. We only wanted to
put Brother Smoak on the stand to
convince Mr.. Brabham that he was
mistaken, but since his acknowledge
ment as above, it makes no differ
ence.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-16
Mr.. Brabham on Taxes.

Editor Bamberg Herald: - My
friends all over the county request
me to keep on agitating the unreas-
enable taxes we are paying in Bam-
berg.
When Bamberg seeded from
Barnwell both counties were then
paying 100000 taxes. AS Bamberg
is only one-ffth of Barnwell, and is
paying $4,000 taxes this year, it
clearly proves that we are paying
FIVE times as much as we were paying
when we were part and parcel of
Barnwell. If the taxes are as high
there as here, the mother county is
paying this year s240,0O0.
Colleton county can make eight
counties like Bamberg, and if the
taxes are as high there as here, her
taxes this year would be $448,000.
Putting the cotton crop of Bamberg
last year at two-third crop, it took
one bale out of every sixteen to pay
the taxes. If cotton had sold at
seven cents it would have taken
every eighth bale to pay the taxes.
Bamberg county took $3.50 out of
every family in the county, which
would pay for all the flour bread
consumed in each family. We are
spending $4,000 for county purpo-
ses, and are we getting full value for
that much? If the State were taxed
as high as Bamberg, wealth consid-
cred. the State would gather over
S6,000,000. D."
These are figures linked with
facts, and I want the people to study
them carefully, for the people are the
great arbiters of every question of
import arising in a free government,
and from the welcome am getting,
the people next year are going to
speak in no uncertain way through
the ballot-box.
1 am accused by the advocates of
high taxes of writing these papers
for policy. Let me say here that
patriotism and not policy, or the
hope of patrimony, is prompting
every word say. I have nothing to
ask of the public. My private af-
fairs are lifting me higher than poll
tics could ever lift me, and I shall
pursue the even tenor of my way,
but when I see free people impos-
ed upon my provincial voice shall be
heard in the land, my humble pen
shall be brought into requisition re-
gardless of the contumely and oppro-
brium of the place-holder, the place
hunter, the politician, the dema-
gogue, or the imposter.
A. w. BkABHAM.
Olar, S. c., February 10, 1911.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-16
HAS GOOD CHANCE.
Lever Expects Appalachian Bill to
Pass Senate.

Lever Expects Appalachian Bill to
Pass Senate.
Washington, Feb. 12.-Much inter-
est is manifested in the vote Of the
senate this week on the proposition
to create forest reserves in the South
ern Appalachian and White Mountain
ranges in accordance with the terms
of bill passed in the closing hours
of the last session Of the house. In
terms this bill sets aside $4,000, 1000
to be expended over period cover
ing five years, with which mountain
forests more suitable for forestry
than agriculture at the headwaters of
navigable streams are to be pur-
chased and managed under the di-
rection of the federal government.
Advocated for Years.
This plan has been advocated for
more than a dozen years by the
strongest influences throughout the
country, which have recognized the
serious effect on stream flow through
the process of deforestratioA of large
mountain areas.
A vigorous campaign is being made
by the friends of the proposition to
get favorable action at the hands of
the senate. Representative Lever
was in charge Of the fight on the
floor of the house last session and it
is recognized that he is in close touch
with this legislation. He said to-
day:
81 do not expect the vote in the
senate to be as close as it was in the
house last year, where the fight was
won by narrow margin after hard
fight. I feel safe in predicting that
substantial majority of the senate
will favor the bill as it was sent to
the senate from the house. Support
Of the idea is almost unanimous
among scientific and business men
who have conducted an aggressive
campaign in behalf of the idea. I
feel certain we shall win.''
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-16
Asks Damages of Optician.

A suit in the court of common
pleas for Saluda county has just been
commenced on the part Of Hon. B.
w. Crouch against DR.. B. H. Maynard
for damages in the sum of $1,000.
The main ground for the action
grows out of damages to Mr.. Crouch's
eyes resulting, it is alleged, from
DR.. Maynard having fitted improper
glasses and causing them to be worn
to the injury and damage of plain
'tiff's eyes-Saluda Standard.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-16
THE WAGES OF SIN.
Crook Faces Poorhouse After Years
of Crime.

Broken in health and spirit by con-
finement in the federal prison at Nc
Neil's island, Wash, where he served
four terms, Lawrence Larry Kelly,
declared by customs officers to be the
shrewdest and most daring opium
smuggler they have encountered on
Puget sound during the last three de-
cades, was turned adrift a few days
ago.
He is 73, his strength is wasted,
his nerve is gone and he is without
a dollar. Unless former accomplices
come to his aid with part of the for
tune he made for them at the risk
of his life and freedom, it is likely
the veteran will pass the rest of his
days in a poorhouse.
"Square" with His Backers.
Kelly's smuggling days are over.
He is a broken down sailor. He
is under the surveillance of customs
officials and will be followed by them
to the grave. He never confessed
or implicated others and he had the
reputation of being ''square'' with
those who profited by his traffic
though he had opportunities to fleece
them whenever he brought sloop
load of contraband goods into the
country.
Smuggling always appealed to Kel-
ly as a game of chance, to be indulg-
ed in only for the excitement and the
satisfaction of eluding the officers.
He did not sail under the black flag
for the profit and it is known that he
never fired a shot or harmed any
one.
Kelly was successful in many of
his adventures between the Canadi-
an shores and the mainland in Wash
ington and Oregon, and it is believ-
ed he smuggled several hundreds of
thousands of dollars worth of con-
traband goods, including opium into
the United States during the last Is
years.
He always worked alone, and,
though deserted when arrested the
last time, he would give not the
least inkling as to who financed the
expeditions or who assisted him. He
said little at the trial and was con-
victed following brief hearing, and
sentenced to serve two years.
When opium began pouring into
the country from over the British
Columbia border, for months the
customs inspectors searched the
country in an effort to trace the
smuggler. Finally one overheard a
conversation between two prosperous
business men at Olympia, the capital
of Washington. Kelly was caught
with the goods and arrested.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-16
Oyster Supper.

Kearse, Feb. 13.-Again we invite
your attention to a good cause. In
order to further improve White Point
school house, which serves as a
church in the neighborhood, an oys-
ter supper will be given on next
Friday evening, February 18th, at
the hospitable home of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. B. Kearse. Country delicacies
and substantials will be served as
we'll as oysters fresh and fine, so come
all wise people, and enjoy genuine
feast-funds going for a good pur-
pose.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-16
BE MORE CAREFUL.

MIR. A. W. Brabham should be
more careful in his statements in
regard to taxes. In his letter to the
Walterboro Press and Standard, re-
published in our issue of January
26th, he says: when 1 paid taxes
in Barnwell county, it cost me S4.OO
on 100 acres of land. On the same
land now in Bamberg county l am
paying $4,000, or five times as
much"
We have been to the records and
we find that Mr.. Brabham returns in
this county 1O5 acres of land which
is returned for taxation at S400, a
little less than s4.00 an acre. On
this land are seven buildings valued
at $500. The levy for all purposes
in his township is 16A mills, so he
pays s11.37 taxes on his land which
lis valued at $500. If his taxes
amount to $4,000, no doubt his per-
sonal property and poll tax make up
the difference Mr.. Brabham's state
ments and the records do not agree.
Who is wrong?
Again, in his letter this week he
says eve are spending $4,000 for
county purposes" and he is wrong
again. The total expenses of this
county for all purposes are less than
$4,000. The tax levy for county
purposes the past year will not raise
but s16,500 if every dollar is collect
ed.
Again, he says Colleton can make
eight counties like Bamberg. The
official record of the square miles in
each show that Colleton is only three
times as large as Bamberg. Again,
he should remember that taxes have
nothing to do with the size of coun-
ties. They are levied on taxable
property, and the area has nothing
to do with it.
We are with him as against higher
taxes, but he ought to get his fig
ures correct. We fear his articles
will have little influence unless he
does.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-16

Senator Earle, Of Oconee, has in
troduced a bill in the Senate allow
ing the governor to appoint special
judges instead of having him appoint
those recommended by the State Su-
Dreme Court. The bill is not likely
to pass. The present law was not
adopted to suit a governor and it is
not likely to be repealed because it
does not happen to suit the purposes
of the present incumbent.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-16
ALCOHOL FROM SAW.DUST.
By New Process, Daily Deficit Is
Changed to Profit.

Changing a deficit of $50 per day
to a profit of 500 daily by the utili-
cation Of saw-dust and other waste
at the mills of the Atlantic Coast
Lumber Corporation, of Georgetown,
S. c., has attracted no little atten-
ton among lumber men of the diff
ferent States to the novel process.
The lumber company is one Of the
largest in the South, having a daily
capacity of 100000 feet. From the
saw-dust and waste, alcohol of 1873
per cent. proof is made to-day by the
Wood Waste Company, of George
town.
In view of the general interest in
the subject, A. L. King offers the fol-
lowing information relative to the
success of the Innovation:
"The method by which the juice
from the saw-dust is transformed
into alcohol of high grade is known
to one man only, G. H. Tomlinson, a
Canadian, who discovered the pro-
cess. The plant at Georgetown is
operated by the E. T. Dupont de Ne
mours Powder Company, and Mr..
Tomlinson is the manager. The gov
ernment maintains four employees at
the plant, three store-keepers and
one gauger. The plant covers three
quarters of an acre and is several
stories in height. Through a cover
ed viaduct running from the nearest
lumber mill to the second story Of
the plant the saw-dust is transferred.
''It is put through a process by
which the juice is extracted, then the
Juice with certain other materials,
is discharged into fermenters, of
which there are nine. Each has a
capacity of about 10000 gallons.
This liquid is known as "beer." Af-
ter 70 hours fermentation it is
pumped into the stills and distilled
into ethyl alcohol. When running at
It's full capacity the distillery is ca
pable of turning out 1900 to 1900
gallons per day. There are three re-
ceiving cisterns, each having a ca
pacity of 100 barrels of Spirits
"Up to the present time all ship
ments have been made to one of the
DUPONT Powder Companyis denatur-
ing warehouses in New Jersey, and
after denaturization is transferred to
the powder plant Of that company in
Wilmington, DEL, where it. is used
in the manufacture of smokeless
powder and dynamite. It is drawn
from the Georgetown warehouse
without tax payment to the govern
ment. 1t is said that it is not nee
essary for the saw-dust to be from
pine trees, but that alcohol may be
procured from saw-dust of any kind
found in that section.
''Since the item of loss from waste
is a big one with every manufactu-
rer there is keen interest taken in
this process for turning loss into SUBJ
stantial profit, and it is likely that
the plant at Georgetown will be du-
plicated in many places"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-16

A bill has been passed by the leg
islature limiting exemptions from
Jury duty, and under this act only
Office holders, attorneys and physici-
ans are exempt. This will make
ministers subject to jury duty, which
is well. They are the highest type
of our citizenship, and are the very
kind of men we want to serve on
juries. Bue we bet the lawyers will
always object to them.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-16

The governor is finding that the
general assembly is taking him to
laugh at, and it seems to make him
furious. Never mind, Coley, you'll
find out that you are not near so big
a man as you think you are before
you are in Office very long.