The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-02-18
SKULL MYSTERY SOLVED.
Gruesome Find in Ancient Mansion
Correctly Classified.


walls of the old Laurens mansion
that is being rapidly razed to the
ground at the corner of Laurens anc
Bay streets. has been exploded.
Hundreds of people have stood be-
fore the King street store wlndo"
in which the petrified head from the
old Charleston residence has been
exhibited since its discovery. Inc
Savants and the highbrows OF the
community have swapped glib sur
mises across the unresponsive dome
that was acclaimed cranium.
Just what the suspicious looking
boulder with two holes where a hu'
mans eyes are supposed to happen
and a pitiful wrinkle about its wide
open mouth, chanced to be in this life
has been a matter of ardent conJee'
ture during the past several days.
That Fracture.
At first he was an Indian, who
came to his end by some foul means
and was bricked in a-la-Black-Cat-or'
Cask-of-Amontillad An irregular
wound had evidently been suffered by
the unfortunate stone-head. Some
miserable sneak thief had probably
entered his wigwam at dead of night
and attempting to extract a few pal
try strings of negotiable wampum
aroused squaw, whose shrek
awaked her lord in time for that
worthy to receive his deathblow.
Some onlookers differed as to the
location of the deathwound. A deep
cut, that had undoubtedly been
stitched while fresh with cat gut and
a fishbone needle appeared directly
above the left eyebrow or at least the
Mace where the eyebrow used to be.
The ossifed Indian theory was
abandoned when it became known
that petrifcation in this neck OF the
woods means limestone and not flint.
Those High Cheek Bones.
The object of public curiosity and
some solicitude for himself and his
family bore criticism with extreme
Ifortitude and good will. 1t was even
mentioned in his presence that he
had high cheek bones, and again that
he had come over in ballast in the
hold of tramp steamer with bunch
of other cobble stones that took
their origin from clay less fine. All
of this the hungry skull, with the
open mouth received without COM
ment.
81 will donate it to the Charleston
museum" said the holder of the an
cient relic. latter the populace have
gazed their fill"
To doubters the ever present
group of excited scientists have
merely extended the unfortunate hu-
mans gums. Feel here was the
sesame which, opened the door OF
perception for the less imaginative
of its beholders, clearly he (the
status of Neanderthal suffrage ap-
pears to have left no doubt as to the
sex of the deadhead). possessed a
splendid set of molars.'
That Observation-Disclosures expert
ment proved a clincher. The neo-
pbvtes have been succumbing TO IL
ever since the outraged cobble-stone
became the centre of label that en-
dowed with former human attributes
and petrified it subsequently.
What 1t Really Is.
cobble-stone-for such It has
been pronounced by a government
expert. one of the nations aolest
men in such lines Of research VINO
is in Charleston today.
The expert. reading of this w.
600 year old Indian skull, PAID a
visit to it's depository, expecting TO
add to his store of anthropological
information. But he had no sooner
taken one look at it, than ne thre"
nm his hands, to exclaim that it was
merely a cobble-stone OF irregular
shape, explaining that the two holes
resembling eye sockets. and other
coincidental indentations had misled
the finders of the rock. 1t resem-
bled a human head in a vague way
only.
Au Revoir.
ANYHOW. the so-called Indian skull!
even if it is nothing but cobble-stone
has served TO interest the puoilc nc
little, and should be exhibited per
manentlv as an ex-Indian eX-petrlhed
ex-skull.-Charlest Post.
The Limit of Legal Tender.
The largest amsant that person
making payment may offer in silver
or copper coins, with the certainty
that the other party to the transac'
tion cannot refuse, is common!