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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-04-03
Both Very Slow.

The steamer was moving very
slowly up the broad, swift river.
Several miles ahead, where there was
bend, sharp point of land pro-
iected considerable distance into
the stream. On the upper deck sat a
young couple, engaged in earnest con-
yarsation. Lucinda" he was say
ing, we've known each long time,
haven't we?'' YES" she answered.
"'Five or six years at least, isn't it?'
Il believe So" Don't you think
girl ought to know a fellow pretty
we'll by that time?' "Why, yes, of
course" you've never heard any
thing bad about me, have you?'
NO" And in five or six years a
young man ought to know a girl
pretty we'll, oughtn't hep Il suppose
So" We've been together good
deal, Lucinda" Then there was a
long pause. And of course you must
have suspected" Another protract-
ed silence. ANYBODY would natur-
ally suspect-though I've never been
in position until lately-and yet my
mind has been made up all the time
and 1 can't tell you how much ~
Then Lucinda spoke. Henry she
said, do you know you remind me
of this steamboat? 'Er-hoW? 1T
takes you such long time to reach
the point. "-Presbyterian Witness.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-04-03
Mangled Under Ice Car.

St. Petersburg Fla March IT.
w. H. Flagg, a prominent tourist
from Battle Creek, Mich, was in
stantly killed here this afternoon
and several others were forced to
lump overheard. when an ice car
operated under sail on the railroad
wharf, got away from the negro Ia
borers and bore down on them. All
escaped but Mr.. Flagg, who was hor-
robly mangled under the wheels.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-04-03
The Cautious Scot.

A scotchman went to a solicitor,
laid before him a question, and asked
him if he could undertake the case,
reports the Birmingham Weekly Post
"Certainly," replied the solicitor
Il will readily undertake the case,
We're sure to win
so ye really think it's a good
case?"
Most decidedly, my dear sir.
am prepared to- guarantee that you
will receive a favorable verdict"
''Ah, weel. I'm much obliged tae
We, but / danna think I'll go tae law
this time, for you see, the case I've
laid before ye is my opponents.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-04-03
TEETH TEN FEET LONG.
Difficult to Bring Down Elephants
With Great TuSkS.

1t is the ambition of most big game
hunters to bag a good ''tusker'-an
elephant with exceptionally big
teeth" to use the sporting term
but that ambition is seldom realized
nowadays, for elephants, particularly
those of record age and size, are be-
coming more rare every day, says
London Tit-Bits. Indeed, it is stated
that the African elephant, from whom
the finest ivory is obtained, is DOOM
ed. 1t has practically vanished from
South Africa, and is being slowly eX-
terminated in other parts of the
country. This determination has been
brought about by the great demand
for ivory nowadays.
Only a few years since single
large firm of billiard-table makers
used in a month as many as 50 pairs
of tusks. Thus to supply this single
firm no fewer than LAO elephants
suffered death annually. And the
demand for tusks may be gathered
from the fact that about 800 tons are
sold in London alone during the
year.
The consequence is that the chance
of big game hunter coming across
such an elephant as that shot by Ma
ior Powell-Cotton in the Congo State
eight years ago, whose tusks weighed
372 pounds. is very remote. These
were the finest pair of elephants
teeth ever secured by a white sports
man, although they are not the heav-
lest on record The heaviest pair Of
tusks ever secured are to be seen in
a museum in the United States. One
of the tusks measures 10 feet inches
along the outer curve and scales 235
pounds, and the other, which is an
inch or two less, weighs 225 pounds,
giving a total of 460 pounds.
The second of these tusks is eclips-
ed by one to be seen in the British
Museum collection. 1t measures 10
feet, 2 1-2 inches in circumference,
and weighs 226 pounds. One of the
longest tusks on record, was that in
the possession of the late Mr.. Row.
land Ward at one time. 1t measured
II feet 5, 1-2 inches over the curve
and scaled $50 pounds. Its fellow
measured l feet in length andweigh-
ed 143 pounds. The pair now enrich
the American National Collection.
Sir Edmund Loder is the possessor
of a very fine single tusk, which
measures 9 feet, 5 inches, and weighs
1874 pounds. In 1911 Mr.. w. W..
Greener, the Haymarket gunner, had
in his window wonderfully even
pair of teeth, which scaled just over
1S4 pounds apiece, and a widest cir
cumference of 25 inches and in ex-
treme length of feet. They made
a very fine second to Major Powell
Cotton's splendid pair.
A remarkable tusk in the possess
ion of Mr.. Graham Pownal, which
came from Uganda, measures feet,
5 inches, has circumference of %
inches and scales 175 pounds. These
instances will give some idea of the
magnificent ivory produced by the
elephant in Equatorial Africa. 1t
might be mentioned that the average
weight of elephant tusks is about so
pounds apiece.
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interests, and he had observed on
his cylinder tiny white speck by
which he could identify it among
many others apparently alike. Each
morning, On arriving at the table ne
glanced at the wheel and made sure
of the white speck before beginning
work" and on the day after the
secret exchange lowering inspectors
saw the terrible Jaggers reducing his
great stakes to a few paltry five.
franc pieces. Presently he rose to
try the same small game at another
table and so on until his eyes lighted
upon the blessed speck. Then he and
his staff of clerks began to. plunge
again.
The system" began to seem super
natural, and in a few months Jag
gers had taken from the Casino the
unprecedented sum of 100000. The
authorities began to suspect that all
the cyl1nQerS were lHpelieeI. IL"
maker was sent for and each wheel
was subjected to rigid scrutiny.
The faulty one was discovered and
taken away and next morning Jag
gers tide of fortune turned. For
few days he went on playing and lost
back to the Casino some S200,000
Iof his enormous winnings. Then he
was wise enough to see that he was
beaten. He discharged his stan,
ceased play and retired with the COM
Portable sum of 100000 intact.
Never did he appear again at Monte
Carlo, but his memory has lived
there since as classic one.-Mc-
Cl, ASzine.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-04-03
RICHES FROM BIAS WHEEL.
How the Famous Jaggers Won $780,.
600 at Monte Carlo.

In the history of Monte Carlo, Jag
gers has become almost legendary.
He was an Englishman, whose pho
tograph is a cherished possession in
the hands of the one person now left
at Monte Carlo who seems to have
known him. He was an intelligent
mechanic or engineer from the north
of England. He was not a gambler,
but he had heard of Monte Carlo, and
of the wonderful roulette wheels so
ingeniously made that no one could
beat them. Curiosity took him there
when he had put together a little
money and earned holiday. He
did not intend to play. 1t was the
wheels themselves that he wished to
see.
When he found that he was not
supposed to keep. a seat at the table
and watch the game for any
length of time without playing,
in order to study it in peace and
in his scientific way he began to ven
ture a few five-franc pieces. He had
favorite table where. he happened
to feel more at home than any other;
and while laboriously taking down
numbers in order to make a record,
he hit upon an astonishing discovery.
Some of the numbers appeared more
often in a days play of about 500
coups than they had right to do
mathematically, according to the
laws of chance. Jaggers continued
mis- tests for several days, until he
was satisfied that the particular rou-
lette wheel under observation had
some mechanical defect-that it was
not truly balanced, but had bias
in one direction which caused the
ball to fall more often in one quar-
ter of the cylinder than in others.
Not a word had the silent man of
the north spoken to any one OF his
first suspicious or final discovery.
On the fault, not of roulette in gen
eral as a game, but of this roulette
wheel in particular, did Jaggers then
and there find his unscientific but
amazingly successful system" He
decided to risk in the venture all the
money he had, knowing that, though
he must fail occasionally, he ought
to win far oftener than he lost.
At first he played quietly, with
small stakes. Then he increased
them until soon he was playing with
maximums on the wheels favorite
numbers and winning immense sums
of money. Feeling sure of his ground,
Jaggers now engaged a staff of men
to play for him, king their turns
at the table as the croupiers do, and
his wins continued until the Casino
authorities became seriously alarmed.
Never had the Casino, in the whole
history of gambling at Monte Carlo
(then comparatively short) suffered
so severely in it's hitherto impreg-
nable pockets. Seeing that Jaggers
always played at the same table, the
management removed the cylinder
from that table at night and trans
ferred it to another.
Jaggers, however, was not hard
headed Yorkshirenan for nothing.
He had expected every morning to
find that luck had suddenly deserted
him because his wheel of fortune was
lost to him forever among a wilder
ness of other wheels useless for his
"system.'' His eyes we're sharpened
by the knowledge that a pins point
of difference was life or death to his
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-04-03
He Was Born That Way.

Charles S. Whitman, the district
attorney, presented to the grand
jury investigating the police graft in
New York . few days ago f1ashlly
dressed negro, said to be the keeper
OF a gambling house in Harlem,
from whom he hoped-in vain, as it
afterward developed-to obtain evl-
dence of police blackmail, says The
Saturday Evening Post.
DO you know how to shoot
craps?" asked a grand juryman af-
ter the negro had denied being a
gambler, denied any connection with
the police, and in fact all knowledge
o. official crookedness.
'Oh, vas sub, kin shoot craps V
said the witness.
"Where' did you learn-in Balti-
more?" The negro had given Balti-
more as his home before he came to
New York.
NO, sun, I didn't learn in Balti-
mo-"
In New York;"
NO, sub, not in New York"
We'll, where did you learn?"
Il didn' learn nowhar-hit jes'
come nach'ul to me, suh.''
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An asbestos lined vest pocket in
which lighted cigar can be carried
safely has been invented by Phila-
delphia tailor.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-04-03

See those wire wall baskets at The
Herald Book Store.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-04-03

Nice line of sample box papers at
Herald Book Store.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-04-03

A Rhode Island woman has been
sentenced to Jail for three months for
killing her husband Reno's popula-
ton may now begin falling off.
Evening star., 1913-03-02
Morton-Sn1ith.

The marriage of Miss Esther Todd
Smith, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Thom-
as Wilson Smith. and Lieut.. De Forest
Willard Morton, Sth Cavalry. l. 5. A.
took place yesterday afternoon, at
o clock. at the home of the brides par
ents. 1867 Columbia road.
The ceremony was performed in the
flower decked drawing room by the Rev.
Herbert Scott Smith. rector of St Mar
garet's Church, in the presence of a COM
pany limited to the relatives and per
sonaI friends of the young couple.
The lovely young bride. who was given
away by her father. wore a peautlIul
gown OF white charmeuse embroidered in
pearls with an exquisite scarf of car
rickmacross lace drapinS the bodice and
extending down on the skirt
Her tulle veil was arranged under
wreath of orange blossoms and she car
ried a bouquet of gardenias and lines
of the valley.
Mrs. Charles r. Sanderson. wife of
Capt. Sanderson, L. $. NJ. c.. sister of the
bride was the matron OF honor. ana
wore pale blue charmeuSe. She carried
bouquet of Killarney roses.
Mr. Robert Clay of Philadelphia was
the best man.
An informal reception to the guests
present at the ceremony followed. Lieut..
and Mrs. Morton left IN the early even
ing for their honeymoon launt, and on
the 18th of this month VIII sail Tor
the Philippines.
DIR. and Mrs Samuel Morton of Pniia-
delphia parents of the bridegroom. and
Mr. and Mrs Lindley Garrison Of Jersey
City, his brother-in-law and sister, were
here for the wedding.
Evening star., 1913-03-02

useless to prophesy any great change III
what Washington's four hundred VIII be
asked to participate in the latter part OF
this year When the strangeness has
worn off and the newcomers begin TO feel
at home among us. the chances are that
except in remote cases. things Will go
on about as usual Extremes will not be
apparent, and economy in the matter or
entertainment or dress. which now ap-
pears TO be the general outlook for most
of those who are discussing the incoming
administration, Will not be discernible
at all.
In all the cabinet states so far mention
ed no names appeared synonymous with
extravaganza of living, although probably
all are men to whom the salary OF the po-
sition need not necessarily appeal as some
thing to De considered as well as the hon
or involved. The statement attributed to
the next mistress of the White House and
to- the wife of the Vice President as to
expenditures i'll ways of living need not
be taken too literally, time works
wonders in softening very stern couvic-
tions in these personal matters. The
fact that there Will be three young women
residing in the White House Tuesday
night. each of them with good healthy
enjoyment of life with plenty of indus
try and enthusiasm also to devote to So
cial reforms to individual music or art
study, is a phase of the family life of the
next administration that promises To be a
most interesting one.
.rhe whirl of hospitality in which the
Presiden, and Mrs. Tar; have found
themselves for the past month. since
they have had opportunities to accept
these courteSieS. eliminated last week
when they had hardly an hour without
social engagement. Dinners and
luncheonS at private and official homes,
both for themselves and Miss Taft. have
been of daily occurrence. and afternoon
occa sions for Mrs. Taft and her daugh-
ter and niece have filled in any leisure
they could command Miss Taft has
besides made round of farewell calls
in many directions, while the President
gave any idle hour the afternoons pre-
sented to the Chevy Chase golf links
The dinners and luncheons Will go right
on till the last evening of their resi-
dence at the White House, which was
Evening star., 1913-03-02

OCIAL calendars for the first part
of this month are largely bare,
but the unexpected in every shape
~ and form is pretty sure TO MI
them though what has gone be-
fore gives no line on what is coming. 1T
is generally SO at the outset of a new
administration. but especially true now
in the frankness of view disclosed by re-
cent expressions of the next head of the
nation. The precedent bugbear which
has upset SO many otherwise placldly
constituted dispositions Will have no
chance to continue it's troublesome eX-
istence 1t looks as if the customs of the
future would date from 1913. so far as the
official and social relations of our next
grandees are concerned. And why not!
1t took somebody with settled convictions
fifty wears ago to establish the forms that
have since been followed. Perhaps a par
ticular custom dates back but half that
time or only eight years ago, but those
who accepted it thought it easier than
making Il new one.
All social conditions have changed so
materially that of necessity those who
come to the front in modern public life
will bring the ideas with them and which
they find pleases best their temperaments
and tastes as we'll their needs. At this
stage, however, it is not only unwise but
Evening star., 1913-03-02
Funss Finally Reduced.
Pleasing Events.

The British ambassador entertained a
company of gentlemen at luncheon yes
terday to meet Capt. Rostron.
Miss Marjorie Aleshire entertained at
luncheon yesterday in compliment to Miss
Helen Taft.
Rear Admiral Brownson entertained at
luncheon of twenty two covers yestef-
day in honor of the Secretary OF the
Navy
Mrs. Robert Shaw Oliver also enter
tanned at luncheon yesterday.
Representative Henry u. Clayton OF
Alabama, chairman of the judiciary COM
mittee, will entertain the members OF
that committee at buffet luncheon TO-
Miss Hanna Taylor entertained at 4
bridge party of FIVE tables yesterday III
honor of Miss Emily Bland of Louis
vile, Ky, who is the guest OF Miss Nc
Chord
Mrs Reid Hunt and Miss Elena Cal
deron presided at the tea table later in
the afternoon.
Mrs. Gordon Crawford was among the
tea hostesses OF yesterday, as was also
Mrs William Ramsay and Miss Lena
Ramsay, who entertained in compliment
to their guest, Miss Winnifred Barnes.
The Cuban minister entertained ar
luncheon Yesterday in honor of the Secre-
tary of State, Mr.. Knox. and his guests
included the chiefs of the divisions OF
the State Department and the members
of the Cuban commission here for the
inauguration.
Mrs Ollie James entertained AT a box
party last week in honor of her house
guests Misses Ruby and Elizabeth
James. the sisters of Representative
James, who have come from their home
in Marion. KY, for a stay OF several
weeks in WASHINGTON.
Miss Temple entertained at tea al the
Willard last week.
Mrs. James Pryor Tarvin was the host
ess at a tea last week in compliment to
visiting friends from Kentucky
Evening star., 1913-03-02
Dinners.

The German ambassador and Countess
con Bernstorff entertained at dinner last
night in compliment to the Secretary of
the Navy and Mrs. Meyer To meet them
there We're present the assistant secretary
of state and Mrs Chandler Hale.
Mr. and Mrs George W. Vanderbilt. the
second secretary of the French embassy
and Nine l.. de I4aboulaye. Mrs. Richard
Townsend. Mrs. Lee Thomas of New
York. Countess Geziki, the Portuguese
minister, the solicitor general. Mr.. Bullitt;
Mr. A. Kerr Clark Kerr of the British
embassy and Mr.. and Nine. Haniel Won
HaimhauSen.
The French ambassador and Nine.
Jusserand entertained a few friends in
formally at dinner last night.
Col and Mrs. John r. Williams enter
tanned at dinner last night In honor of
Miss Alys Meyer and her fiance, Lieut..
Raymond Rodgers, L. S. n.
Their guests included Miss Helen Taft.
Miss Julia Meyer. Miss Gladys ingalls,,
Mr. and Mrs Walter Brooks, Miss Doro-
thy Williams. Mr.. and Mrs. James +. Cur
It's Mr. H. de Bach of the Russian en-
bassy. Mr. Won Bulow of the German en-
bassy and Mr.. Henry du Pont.
Rear Admiral W. W. Kimball, L. S. n,
and Mrs kimball entertained at dinner
last night in honor of the Swiss minister
and Nine Ritter when the other guests
were Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Perkins.
MI and Mrs. Frederick Atherton, Mr..
and Mrs. Geyer OF Chicago, Mrs. Henry
Dimock and Mr.. Catalini, counselor of
the Italian embassy. Mr.. and Mrs Geyer
are the guests of Rear Admiral and Mrs.
Kimball over the Inauguration.
Mr. and Mrs. Edison Bradley gave "a
small dinner party last night, when Lieut..
and Mrs Bulmer and Mrs. Herbert Ship
man Of New York, daughter of the host
and hostess, were among those present.
Evening star., 1913-03-02

The British ambassador entertained a
company of gentlemen at luncheon yes
terday to meet Capt. Rostron.
Evening star., 1913-03-02
Engagements.

Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Flickinger now in
Los Angeles, Cal, have announced the
engagement Of their daughter. Wilmina
Virginia, and Mr.. Willard Baxter Foil
mer of Chevy Chase, d. G. The we'd
ding to take place March II in the
Luther Memorial Church on Thomas
Circle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philander p Claxton
announce the engagement and ap-
preaching marriage of their daughter
Claire. and Mr. Dale Redmond Mayo, jr,
of Knoxville Tenn. The date of the
wedding has been set for the early part
of April.
Mrs. Herbert Claiborne Wilkins an
nounces the engagement Of her daugh-
ter, Miss Annie Lind wilkins. and Mr..
John II. Mears of New York. The mar
riage, which will be very quiet. will
take place early in April at her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. s. O'Neale announce
the engagement of their daughter
Sue Wharton to Mr.. John A. Maxwell
of South Carolina. The wedding Will
take place in April.
Evening star., 1913-03-02
A Five O'Clock Tea.

Mrs. Robert NJ. Larner entertained at a
5 o'clock tea yesterday for her sister.
Mrs Emerson Palmer of Brooklyn. n. Y,
who arrived earlier in the day with Mr..
Palmer to spend this week with her The
occasion brought together a charming
company Mrs. Larner and her two hand
some boys were assisted by Miss Carrie
Larner, Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. George
White Mrs John Joy Edison and others.
The two last presided in the dining room.
The house was profusely decorated with
sweet peas and other spring flowers and
the occasion was an exceedingly pleasant
one.
Evening star., 1913-03-02
ADouble Wedding.

Relatives of the two brides are making
their plans to leave Portland, Ore, early
this month for Honolulu. to attend the
wedding of Miss Josephine. Smith and
Lieut. Andrews, United States Army. and
Miss Isabelle McGunnegle and Lieut..
Phil Sheridan, which will take place
April 20 Miss Frances Wilson of Port
land will be bridesmaid for Miss Smith.
who it will be recalled went to the
Hawaiian islands last year with Col and
Mrs. McGunnegle and Miss McGunnegle
and is still their guest there.
Evening star., 1913-03-02
Day at Home.

Mrs. Thomas A. Marshall, 1896 Bit
more street, will be at home informal
ly Saturday. March 8. and viii have
with her Mrs. Martin Marshall and Mrs.
Charles r. Fishburn Of Roanoke, Va,
and Miss Tyler of Baltimore. who are
now her guests
Evening star., 1913-03-02
A Farewell Party.

Mrs Leonard Wood gave a farewell
luncheon yesterday for Mrs. StimDon. wife
of the Secretary of War.
Evening star., 1913-03-02

home. and. it is said. will close with a
large dinner party there tomorrow
night.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-27
PLATEAUbR|DGES
READY To USE
Two New Steel Structures Com
pleted in Canon; Will Be
Accepted Next Week.

The two new steel bridges in Pla-
teau canon across Plateau creek have
been completed by ]. j. Lumsden,
who had the contract and will prob
ably be accepted by the county com
missioners and opened to traffic
next week.
The two structures cost about $780,
600 and are expected to put an end to
the annual trouble from floods,
which in past years has cut the Pla-
teau country off from connections
with Grand Junction. One of the
bridges is located Just beyond the
mouth OF the creek and the other is
near the Atwell crossing. When op-
ened to travel the new road on the
north side of the canon can be used
for practically the entire distance.
County Engineer Fisk has approx
ed both bridges and payment will be
made at the next meeting OF the
county board.
The daily sentinel., 1913-08-27
PLAN TO COLON|zE
REDLANDS PROJECT
Dohertys 10 Employ immigration
Commissioner TO Bring
Settlers to Valley.

The Doherty interests which re-
Gently took over the Redlands pro-
ject near Grand Junction do not in
tend that the land shall lay idle. 1t
will be colonized as soon as plans
can be completed for that undertake
ing.
C. b. Schmidt. for many years i'm
migration commissioner of the Rock
island railroad, has been engaged by
the Doherty company to take over
the matter OF colonizing lands under
the irrigation projects which they
control in Colorado. Mr.. Schmidt
has an enviable record, and has man
aged to bring thousands of people to
Colorado, generally from across the
Atlantic, The same plan will prob
ably be followed in getting thrifty
band of farmers to work the rich
lands of the Redlands.
F. l.. Lucas of the Doherty inter
ests arrived here yesterday and is
laying the foundation for the extern
sive colonization plans proposed by
his company.