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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-20
BOATS BUILT ON MOUNTAIN.
Switzerland Works Must Send Craft
Down in Sections.

Boat building on mountain top
sounds peculiar, to say the least, but
such is being done in Switzerland,
says The American Machinist. Sulzer
Brothers have under construction at
Winterthur 200-foot passenger boat
for Lake Geneva. 1t will be fitted
with Diesel engines of 1,400 horse
power. Echer, Wyss & Co., at Zurich,
are building a 200-foot tugboat for
the Rive Rhone, in Southern France.
In both cases the vessels after erec-
ton at the works must be dlssem-
bled and shipped in knock-doWn
condition to the place of launching
there to be reassembled.
The turbine-building firm Of Escher
Wyss & Co., Zurich, Switzerland, has
under way the largest Pelton water
wheel ever built. 1t is for Rio de ia
neiro, in Brazil, and will develop TO-
900 horsepower The head is 2sO m
(92O feet) and the speed 375 revolu-
tions per minute. This firm has in
stalled Pelton wheels in Italy to op-
crate under a head of 1000 m. Co.
$50 feet.)
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-20
BIG SUM OF MONEY IS MISSING.
Man Claiming to be So. Express Au-
ditor Wanted in Tampa.

Tampa, Fla, Nov. 16.-Eleven
thousand dollars in money orders
and travellers checks are said to
have been stolen from the Southern
Express Company's Office in ST.
Petersburg, Fla, Saturday by a man
who presented himself to be Mr.. c.
J. Simpson, of the auditors office in
Chattanooga, Tenn. The man is re-
ported to have said that he had come
to check up the local office and asked
for the money order stubs. After he
had departed the orders were missed
by the local agent, who Immediately
notified the police. He has not been
located as yet and kilograms from
headquarters state that no one was
sent here from there to check the
office.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-20
More Deaths From Pellagra.

Spartanburg, Nov. 14.-Vital sta
tistics for the year, published to-day
by the board of health, show that
pellagra now causes more deaths in
Spartanburg than any other disease
Pellagra has been second only to tu-
berculosis for the last three years,
but this year outstripped the. white
plague" and passed into first place.
The report shows that of $40 deaths
in Spartanburg during the fiscal year
ending October 20, 81 were caused by
pellagra. tuberculosis was second
with 29 deaths laid at its door.
Most of the deaths from pellagra
occurred during the summer, the
mortality being especially heavy in
August. With the arrival of cold
weather the virulence of the disease
has subsided and the corps of physi-
clans from the New York Postgradu-
ate Hospital, the public health SER
vice and the medical departments of
the United States army and navy,
who have been here for months,
fighting the disease, are preparing to
leave. They expect to return next
year.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-20
WANTED A LITTLE EXCITEMENT.
Young Woman Binds Herself and
Lights Her Funeral Pyre."

Chicago, New. 7.-Gertrude Han
son, sixteen years old, who to-day
was found bound and gagged in the
cellar of the home of O. V. Jahns,
with a pile of rubbish burning near
her, confessed to the police that she
had set fire to the rubbish and bound
and gagged herself. She said her OBJ
ject was to cause a little excitement.
The girl was unlnjured by the blaze,
although nearly unconscious from
smoke.
The police were called by Mrs.
Jahns, who smelled the smoke and
discovered the girl. After she had
been released Miss Hanson told the
police she had been attacked by a
pyronraniac, whom she had discover
ed firing the house. To prevent an
outcry the man had bound her and
left her near the fire she said.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-20
Deeply Interested.

The marriage of Miss Inez Mil
holland reminded a Philadelphia suf-
fragist of an anecdote about the
fair young propagandist.
Miss Milholland was speaking,
she said, Ito the women of the East
Side. She spoke on female suffrage,
and she looked, as usual, very
charming in one of those loose and
careless, yet eiinging cling
ing-gowns Of the new fashion.
AT the end she said:
"'And now, are there any ques-
tions? Anyone who has any ques-
tions to ask I shall be very much
pleased to answer any question to
the best of my ability
"a woman rose in the back of the
hall.
"'Well?' smiled Miss Milholland.
Would you please tell me. miss.
said the woman eagerly, where you
get your corsets?' Pittsburgh
Chronicle Telegraph.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-20
SMALL FINE; SERIOUS CHARGE.
Girl Pleads Emotional Insanity and
Unwritten Law.

Huntington, w. Va, Nov. lie
tha Perdue, aged 10, convicted last
Saturday of involuntary manslaugh-
ter for having shot and killed James
Kendrick, her brother-in-law, paid a
fine to-day of SIS and Court costs, a
total of ST., and was released. Miss
Perdue's defence was emotional in
sanity and the unwritten law.
Miss Perdue killed Kendrick sever
al months ago. She claimed that after
the death of her sister, Kendrick' 9
first wife, he had paid attentions to
her. Kendrick was taken to hospit-
al stricken with fever He later
eloped with a nurse and it was in
the presence of the second bride that
Miss Perdue killed Kendrick.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-20
The War Tax.

Germany is collecting S200,000,-
900 extra war taxes. France is to
collect 20O,O00,0O0. Italy is still
scratching to pay the cost of the war
with Turkey over Tripoli. Bulgaria,
Servia, Greece, Montenegro have bills
of many millions to settle for their
war with Turkey, and poor Turkey
is about to bankrupt, with half its
territory gone, wondering where the
money is coming from. England,
money is coming from. England,
tired of spending so much on dread
roughts, calls for a halt. Japan
struggles on under the burden of the
Russian war debt. The high cost of
war in men and money is the heavi-
est and perhaps the most needless
tax humanity pays.-Balumore Sun.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-20
Lashes Again Given Negroes.

Wilmington, Del. Nov. 15.-Wll-
liam Reason and James Byard, two
young negroes who were convicted OF
breaking and entering two houses
with the intent to commit larceny,
we're whipped with twenty lashes
each at the whipping post of the New
Castle county workhouse Saturday.
They had been sentenced to forty
lashes and received 20 last Satur-
day.
The agitation in congress oyer the
cases of these two men attracted at
tention to today's whipping and at
tendance of spectators was unusually
large. Reason was led out and the
20 lashes applied to his back by War
den Crawford, after which Byard
received his second installment. The
two men scarcely flinched as the
"cat" was applied to their backs.
Warden Crawford told inQuirers he
had never seen blood drawn since
the whipping post had been estab-
lished at the workhouse. Several OF
the witnesses said they approved of
a whipping such as they had just
seen, as it inflicted no physical in
jury and mental reminder of pun
ishment might prove more effective
to some criminals than imprison-
ment.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-20
GO TO THE RESCUE
Don't Wait Till It's Too late-Fol
low the Example Of Bamberg
Citizen

Citizen.
Rescue the aching back.
If it keeps on aching, trouble may
come.
Often it indicates kidney weakness.
If you neglect the kidneys warning,
Look out for urinary disorders.
This Bamberg citizen will show you
how to go to the rescue.
Mrs. w. P. Herndon, Newbridge St.,
Bamberg, 8. c., says: when I was
suffering from backache and other dis
tressing symptoms of kidney com
plant 1 used a box of Doan's Kidney
pills which I procured at the Peoples
Drug Co. They gave me relief IN q
short time and I have since enjoyed
much better health. do not hesitate
one minute to recommend Doan's Kid
ley Pills and advise their use in
cases of kidney trouble"
For sale by all dealers. Price SO
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the nsme-Doan's-and
take no other.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-20
A SOCIAL WAR" ON AT CAPITAL.
Wives of Members of Congress VS.
Wives of Cabinet Members.

Washington. Nov. 16.-Feeling be-
tween the wives of the members OF
the House Of Representatives and
the wives of the Cabinet members
has become so bitter that serious
situation eXists-so serious, in fact,
that it has aroused the anxiety of the
Administration leaders, including
President Wilson himself.
The trouble has been brewing ever
since the wives of the members of
Mr.. Wilson's Cabinet announced last
Nav that on account of the great
number of members of the House
thew had decided not to call on the
wives of the Representatives. Sena-
tors wives were not included in this
ban" That made it worse; and so
did the refusal of Mrs. Marshall, wife
of the Vice President, to omit the
Congressional calls. Mrs. Marshall
called on every Congressional Mrs.
before her husband had been much
more than six months in office,
Indignation in the Texas deIega-
ton in the House became acute re-
Gently, when the wife of Representa-
tive Slayden learned, by a direct
question and answer, that Mrs. David
r. Houston, wife of the Secretary Of
Agriculture, who had been her friend
for years, considered herself bound
by the May agreement not to visit
Mrs. Slayden. The ladies OF the
Texas delegation have met and de-
cided not to call on the Cabinet Ia
dies, and it is reported that the Con-
gressional Club. composed OF the
wives of both Representatives and
Senator'S, will not give the usual re-
eeption in honor of the Cabinet mem
bers' wives and daughters.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-20
BARBER GONE; RAZORS TOO.
ChesterfieId's Sad Experience with
White TonSorial Artist.

Chesterfield, Nov. 16.-Several
months ago there arrived in Chester
field pleasant hammered gentleman
by the name of J. R. King, who, it
was said, hailed from Georgia. Learn
ing of the local demand for white
barber, he opened shop in the Cato
Hotel building, and from the first
did a rushing business. Finding that
his business required larger build
ing he persuaded several of the busl-
ness men here to put him up a neat
two-story brick building, right next
to the Chesterfield Mercantile Com
pany, and in his new quarters he was
assisted by his wife, and both were
much liked by their patrons. Imagine
every ones surprise Monday morn
ing to find that the town had lost its
BARRIERS, and also some of the patrons
were shy some razors, etc. In ad-
dition to this the rent on the nice new
building was unpaid for the month
of October.
The ticket agent of the railroad
was consulted and it was found that
two tickets had been purchased to
Coburn. Va. A deputy was immedi-
ately sent to bring Mr.. King back to
his former scene of activities. When
the deputy arrived at Coburn, King
was just ready to board the same
train for some other point Upon the
arrest the people of the Virginia vii
lage, which is Kings native town,
all crowded around and told the dep
uty that he could not take King back
with him. After much arguing the
deputy accepted cash bond of 500
and returned without his man. The
local citizens are now all having to
dig out their safeties or patronlze
the old reliable colored BARRIERS.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-20
Confessed to Murder of His Wife.
Last Saturdays Columbia Record

Last Saturdays Columbia Record
says:
How the lack of provisions in the
family larder caused hot words to
be passed, which finally resulted in
one of the most brutal murders ever
committed in Richland county, was
told in all it's narrowing details this
morning to Sheriff John C. Mccain,
by Sam Flowers, alleged slayer OF his
wife. Hanna Flowers. Flowers, ne
gro, was brought to jail this morning
from near Kingville, where Friday he
surrendered to Rural Policeman j..
D. Dunnaway.
The body of Hanna Flowers, with
her head terribly slashed and mutt
lated. was found locked in house in
Logan's alley Wednesday end at cor
oner's inquest Thursday the jury de-
eided that she came to her death by
the hand of Sam Flowers. Flowers
had disappeared and until Friday
nothing was known as to his where
abouts. Coroner Scott received a tip
that he had been seen to leave the
train at Kingville and notified Police
man Dunnaway. Mr.. Dunnaway found
Paul Pringle, an uncle of Flowers,
and induced him to get Flowers to
come from his hiding in the swamp.
Flowers surrendered himself and told
Mr.. Dunnaway all the details OF the
crime, and repeated them to the sher-
fH and coroner this morning, accord
ing to- the officers.
The killing was committed Mon
day night, according to Flowers con-
fession, and was the result of scrap
IN regard to supper Flowers claims
he had some hard words with his
wife when she picked up an axe he
hpd brought in the house and tried
to cut him with it. According to his
story, he seized the axe and his wife
jumped in the bed and covered her
self up. Flowers declared Hanna
pointed a pistol at him and snapped
it twice, when he was forced to de-
fend himself, and thereupon hit her
two times in the face with the sharp
side of the axe, slashing her to such
an extent that Identification was we'll
nigh impossible. He then locked the
house and fed.
He was found between Kingville
and Wateree Friday and was lodged
In the Richland county jail Saturday
morning to await trial at general ses-
sions court.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-20
SPARTAN COMMITS SUICIDE.
w. NJ. Mears, Suffering from Pella'
gra. Takes His Life.

Spartanburg, Nov. 14.-W. NJ.
Mears. 50 years old, carpenter, COM
mitted suicide at his daughters res
idence here to-day by taking poi
son. MIR. Mears had been in poor
health and unable to work for more
than a year. He pulled himself to-
gether this morning, went to his old
place of employment and tried to re-
sumo his former occupation. The
task was too much for his strength
and in dispair he returned home and
ended his life. Mears had pellagra.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-20
Gets Money but No Apology.

Lexington. Nov. PA verdict for
5000 was returned by Lexington
county jury in common pleas court
today in the case of Walter ]. Nc
Cartha against the Southern Railway
company. This was one of the most
unusual cases ever tried in the courts
of this State, according to attorneys
interested in the case. The plaintln
alleged that he was insulted by the
ticket collector, when he asked to
purchase a paper, taking the ticket
collector for the news butch by
mistake. He said that the collector
cursed him and otherwise Inundated
him in the presence of both white and
negro passengers. Mr.. McCartha said
that after he had been insulted and
when the collector approached him
for his mileage he stated to the train
man that he was honestly mistaken;
that he thought that he was the
news BUTCH" and that he thought
that he, the plaintiff, was due an
apology from the collector, whereup-
on the collector again abused the
plaintiff and refused to make the
apology. The plaintiff testified that
he then refused to allow the collec-
tor to pull" his mileage and later
gave it to the conductor. The ticket
collector denied that he had inten-
tionally or otherwise insulted the
plaintiff; that the plaintiff did ask to
purchase a paper and that he told
him he was not the news butch y
but that the news butch would be
around shortly. George B. Cromer of
counsel for the railroad gave notice
of new trial, which will be argued
later. The plaintiff asked for ST.
500.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-20

All persons between the ages OF
twenty-one and sixty years Of age,
except Confederate soldiers and SAIL
ors,. who are exempt at SO years of
age, are liable to poll tax of one
dollar.
Capitation dog tax so cents.
All persons who were 81 years Of
age on or before the 1st day of jan
uary, 1913 are liable to poll tax
of one dollar, and all who have not
made returns to the Auditor, are re-
quested to do so on or before the
1st of January, 1914.
will receive the commutation
road tax of two (s2.00) dollars from
the 18th day of October, 1913, until
the 1st day of March, 1914.
G.. A. JENNINGS,
Treasurer Bamberg County.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-20
TAX NOTICE.

The treasurer's Office will be open
for the collection of State, county,
school and all other taxes from the
18th day of October, 1913 until the
18th. day of March, 1914, inclusive.
From the first day of January,
1914 until the 31st day of January,
1914, penalty of one per cent. will
be added to all unpaid taxes. From
the 1st day of February, 1914, until
the 2Sth day of February, 1914, a
penalty of 2 per cent. will be added
to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st
day of March, 1914, until the 18th
day of March, 1914, penalty of Z
per cent. will be addeo to all unpaid
taxes.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-20
HORNETS SPIKED A GUN.
Mosby Failed to Capture a Supply
Train Because of the Little Insects.

Colonel John S. Mosby, commander
of the Partisan Rangers, who gave
such daring service in the Southern
cause fifty years ago, is living now in
the city of Washington. One of the
really amusing incidents that passed
under his notice during the war he
told not long ago.
In the summer of 1864, when Cen
eral Phil Sheridan was in the valley
of the Shenandoah, he found himself
much harassed by Mosby, who was
continually cutting off his supply
trains. An army cannot fight on an
empty stomach, and Mosby knew it.
He also knew how, with his small
force, to neutralize the strength of
an army more than five time his
number, for by rushing from point to
point and making sudden attacks
miles apart, he kept large proper
ton of the Union troops in constant
chase of him.
One bright morning Mosby heard
that a long supply train was wind
ing it's way down the valley. By noon
the Rangers, in their gray uniforms,
were gathered at the forks of the
valley pike, watching for the head
of the wagon train to appear.
Presently cloud Of dust was seen
rising far up the road, and, as the
wind blew it aside, the Confederates
caught sight of a line of men in blue
escorting a caravan of numbering
wagons drawn by mules. Instantly
Mosby gave the order to run a little
howitzer up on the side of hill and
unlimber it. AS soon as the gun had
opened fire the rest Of the men were
to make calvary charge and throw
the train into confusion.
The Rangers jerked the gun into
position and began to swab it out.
Suddenly the man with the swab gave
shrill yell, seized the seat of his
pantaloons, and fled down the hill
and out into the road. Almost at the
same moment the other man at the
gun abandoned it. He seemed to be
fighting at the air as he disappeared
over a stone wall.
The suffers wagons were creeping
nearer and Mosby did not know what
to think of such extraordinary con-
duct. He ordered four more men to
the gun, but hardly had they reached
it when they, too, yelled, began to
beat the air madly with their hats,
and took to flight.
Squirting his horse over the stone
wall, Mosby rode toward the gun but
his stay was short. The howitzer
stood just over a hornets nest, and
those busy insects were resenting
the intrusion, They had repelled the
invaders on foot, and now they
swarmed on Mosby's horse till the
maddened animal tore off down the
pike on a run. Then they turned
their attention to the rest of the
troop.
Their attack was so vicious that
the Rangers gave up any idea of
standing by the gun. They scattered
far and wide. and it was an hour be-
fore they returned. When they did,
the wagon train had safely vanished
in the distance. So the hornets saved
the day for Sheridan-Youth's Com
panion.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-20

The State Baptist Convention. will
meet in Bennettsville this year, the
dates being December 9th, 10th, and
18th. The Methodist conference met
in that town last year.
Read The Herald, $3.50 year.
New-York tribune., 1913-07-20

opposite shafts, another elevator silently and
voice came
"Don't move! Don't move, you, the engineer says!'
Are they coming?'
"Ycs, ycs-right away-only don't move"
AshurSt looking straight into the brown eyes, and
as they responded to the message flashed from beneath
his set brows he thought the girl swaycd toward him,
and haze, as 1t were her vision mOmcnta-
ry it was So she rallied instantly and stood bracing
herself holding OF the little girls close her pro-
tcctngy They telling each other everything that
there was in their hearts these two pairs Of eyes and
he read what hers had TO AShurst almost forgot the
moments peril; in fact the entire situation He knew
that she loved him. that she sorry that things
had come about they had Perhaps he had not done
it as man should, had not used the right words had
not shown her the depths OF his love convincingy
enough,-hc was awkward in those matters,-but now
she knew, and she was sending him her If they
were going to die it would be as man and wife Just
as much as though there had been a ceremony The
peril of death had welded them, the shadow Of the
grave had sealed the union.
New-York tribune., 1913-07-20

Ashurst had read all her part Of the confession in he,
eyes Just as the lights went out There 81" another
those sharp little snaps overhead, and ,e ,ar was IN
darkness He did not need 10 be told that The STRAIN
on the cable had parted the wires feeding he electric
bulb in the top Of the and he undcr,ooa more iron
the occurrence.
Thev must be settling The strain On The cable was
telling Each broken strand had let them down little
fartherit would not be long until the oyere1e strands
remaining would let 90 all al once. When hat hap
pcned there would be a sudden swift drop, .mpanel
with one horrid scream. and then
But before that could occur he would
q +. 'Tle-a
New-York tribune., 1913-07-20

FOR the space of a breath nothing happened. nose
who had been praying aloud whispered their en-
treaties though they feared that such WORDS =
those could not be used with safety now There was
swelling, ii seemed, of the compact OF life IN the
hanging prison, their lungs took in Their dtepes
breath then stiffness in which hearts could be near"
10 beat.
Something moved-the car moved 1t was only
hairs breadth, and slight tremor that II was hau
to say it was up or down. Then the movement ""s
repeated, something snapped. AShurS arm Wa
about Kate Whitmans waist, and il pressed ht'e
more closely at the dread sound The cable was let'ns
go its grip upon their ves-another Of its weak hngGs
had snapped Yet still the car rose In the gllnmei 'e
pattern of the grill against the walls of the SHAFT W."
moving. AShurst picked out the point OF diatohl'
shaped interstice-t reached the bottom OF one oHoG'
then halfway, then the top-and passed the second,
They were going up-all was well so far. II the caUo
would hold only little longer, just little longer -
all these liveSl
He wanted to turn round, TO watch when the 'oP ~ ~
the door should reach the floor SILL but ne o0uI
not He knew though, that other eyes were lXeu III
that spot, and suddenly he shvered with ingh""'
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