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6-9, 1916.
The Southern Railway will
tickets to Columbia, S. C., acc
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turning Feb. 12th. The folloi
oints na med:
Newberry $1.55
Greenwood 2.70 i
A UVnattiIIA 90 I
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Anderson 3.90 i
Greenville 3.60 .
Spartanburg 3.05
Union 2 25
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tailed information and schedu
communicate with
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Columbic
Feb. 9.
The Southern Railway annc
trip fares authorized for the I
bia, S. C., February 6-9, will
and visitors to the above nan
fares will applj from principa
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Newberry ...$i.oo
Greenwood 2.70 1
Abbeville 3.20 1
Anderson 3.90 i
Greenville 3.60
Spartanburg __ 3.05
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detailed information apply to
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Malaria or Cfiiils & Fever
Prescription No. 665 is prepared especially '
ioi MALARIA or CHJLLS & FEVER. j
rive or six doses will break any case, and :
it tixen tuen as s ionic mc rcvw w***
return. It acts on the liver better tii&n
Kiaicmei r*cd does nci gripe or sicken. 25 c
I No. Six-Sixty-Six I
This is a prescription -prepared especially !
for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. !
rFive or six doses will break any case, and j
" taken then as a tonic the Fever will not ;
return. It acts on the liver better than J
^^^^^alonsel and does not gripe or 6ickea. 25c j
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Again"
A Soliloquy in
Two Paragraphs
this morning. I can't wait
llow. Let me see?what is
e sufficient telephone fac3ion
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COMPANY ML)
OJMBIA. S. C.
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Railway
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lary Convention, February I
sell very low round trip fare
ount of the above occasion,
to 9th, with final limit .reiving
fares will apply from
Rock Hill $2.75
rv, ftpfov 9 1 .S I
WI1COOCJ. ,
Orangeburg 1.75
Charleston 4.10
Aiken 2.45
Winnsboro 2.40
York 3.00
om other points. For delies
apply to local agents or
N, Dist. Pass. Agent,
Columbia, S. C.
CONFERENCE
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1916.
I
lunces that the low round
daymen's Conference, Colambe
applicable to delegates
led meeting. The following;
tl points:
Rock Hill.. $2.75
Chester 2.15
Orangeburg 1.75
Charleston. 4.10
Aiken 2.45 j
Winnsboro 1.40 j
York 3.00;
res from other points. Fori
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AN, Dist. Pass. Agent, i
Columbia, S. C. i
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Who can all eense of other's ill es- '
crpe, is but a brute, at best, in human
shape.?Juvenal.
-
ho that hateth his brotlior is in
.k'lesG. and knoweth not whither he,
goeth, because that darkness hath
blinded his eyes.?John.
ngga
Be always displeased at 'what thou i
?irt. if f.hnii to attain to what,
thou art not; for where thou hast plac-j
ed thyself, there thou bidest.?Quarlesj
SatxscsibG to The Herald and News, i
RED TAPEIN JAPAN
They Have as Fine a Brand There
as We Have Ourselves.
BUT IT IS NOT VERY COSTLY, j
An Experience With the Circumlocution
Office That Wouid Have Been
Amusing to the Innocent Victim but j
For the Dread of the Expense.
There are many curious customs in j
Japan, and many things are done in
that interesting empire according to
methods that would be called topsyturvy
when judged by the standards:
of civilization in western lands. But
in one respect the Japanese are fully
abreast of any of the occidental coun
tries, ana mat is 111 tueir a unity to ina i
liipulate official red tape. The follow j
ing incident, recounted by a corre j
spondent of the Youth's Companion, j
admirably illustrates the point, tie
writes:
' Although I have lived long hi .Japan.
I have tried to keep pace with j
western ideas. A corner in my com-;
pound bears witness to the fact that 1 !
once tried 10 make practical applica-!
tion of the modern maxim 'Help the 1
poor to help themselves.' It worked
out in a rather surprising way. A beg J
gar asked me for money one morning.!
and I saw a way to help him without, j
*>s the expression goes, 'pauperizing' j
nim
...
"ru^re wns a Daci piace just insiue.
the compound gate that needed to be
tilled in with stones, of which there
were plenty ou the seashore near by
Here was a man who could transfer
the stones to the compound for the
30 sen fir. cenis> that he b;id asked of
me. The man fell in with the plan
cheerfully and set to work.
"The job was about completed to his
satisfaction and mine when a policeman,
who appeared on the scene, ask-!
ed my man if he had received permission
to remove the stones. The work-;
man referred the officer to me. and Ij
bad to confess'that I had net thought
it necessary. Evidently the officer
thought otherwise, for I was politely
but firmly told that I mignt secure a
permit by applying at the city hall.
"To the city hall I went, knowing
that it is not wise to trifle with the
regulations of the police department..
From there I was referred to the provincial
building. As I was personally
known to the governor of the province,
I sent my card into him, only to learn
that he was absent. The lieutenant
governor, however, said he would be
glad to receive me. That courteous
gentleman was going to pass the whole
thing by, but thought it well first to
speak of it to the department of public
works. ]
"Now, the department of public |
wofIig had an efficient head, who be- j
lieved In letting nothing go at loose;
ends. He announced that I must fill in
a certain form in duplicate, making
formal application for the stones. Then
two maps would have to be drawn.;
showing where the stones had been
found and the place to which 1 wished
to remove them.
"The board of public works stood
ready to make the maps?at my ex
^ 4-/-\ AT. ;
pense. mere was uuiuuig iw u<j
cept to agree to this arrangement since
I had already had the stones moved. I
thanked the lieutenant governor for his
assistance and withdrew.
"In a day or two a messenger came
with the maps and forms requiring my4
signature. After that they were sent,
to the city hall. Then another mes- j
senger took them to the governor for
his signature. One set was filed at!
the city hall and the other at the office;
of the executive.
"In due time notification came by.
special messenger that I was permitted
to remove the stones?which every one;
knew I had done a week before. All j
that prevented me from thoroughly en- j
joying the whole affair was the thought
of the bill that i should receive from j
the department of public works.
"After several weeks of suspense 1!
was notified to appear before the treas*!
urer. at city hall, to pay my indebtedness
to the municipality. Armed witb j
my bank book. 1 appeared at city ball. I
What was my surprise and relief to1
find that the bill for all this red tape j
and infinite trouble amounted to 11,
sen, equal to about oVL? cents in good !
American money."
Valu? of an fnch of Rain.
Every inch of rainfall above four
Inches in the Dakotas, California,
Washington. Kansas and Nebraska in
May and June means an increase of j
$15,000,000 in the wheat crop. Every j
inch of rainfall above three inches in
July in Indiana, Illinois. Kansas, Iowa,
Ohio and Nebraska increases the value
of the corn crop by $160,000,000. These
figures are compiled by E. J. Cragoe
for the Journal of Geography.
Hollow Shafts.
By careful experiments it has been
proved that a solid column subject to
bending strains is no stronger than a
hollow one. Consequently all iron j
shafts are made hollow, and the steel J
shafts which drive the screws of steam- j
ships have a hole bored down the cen-'
ter so that the welgiit may be reaucea.
Penny Weddings.
Until 1045 marriage feasts, known as
"penny weddings," were held in Soot- !
land. Each guest paid a penny or a i
small sum of money to defray the ex- j
penves of the feast If any money was j
IaO hvai> it Trnnf tATv.irrl thp fnrnishincr i
of the new home.?Exchange.
Idleness "wastes a fortune in half the
time thnt industry makes It-?Samuel
Smiles.
t
ART IN BOOKBiNDifiG.
i
!
How Miss Lahey Won Mercier, the
Master, For Her Tutor.
A woman who spent ten years and ,
rM the money she had in the world to 1
become a skilled bookbinder is Mar i
guerite Duprez Lahey. After studying j
with the most skilled tooler in Paris.!
says the American Magazine. Miss La- 1
hey went to the world's greatest crafts j
man, M. Mercier.
M. Mercier was a man of large \
"1- 1 I?1 L7,. ...vlrt.i !
weumi uiiu uiuau iiiiiuie. ue iwum i
for the love of it in his beautiful Paris j
home. His only pupil was his only son. I
No one in the Latin quarter had dared j
to penetrate M. Mercier's atelier Un- !
daunted, this American girl, armed j
with the "Life of Fragonard, by Pierre j
do Nolac," the toil of years and which j
had earned M. Domont's praise, went j
to M. Mercier's borne.
The master was at his country seat i
"Is this your work?" cried his son. |
when Miss Lahey had disclosed the:
volume. "Leave it wun me. i wm
show it to father. It will please him to j
see such strong work."
"And now what do you want of me?" !
asked the master, when tremulously
she called later for the book and Mercier
had sent his praise.
"To work with you."
"Good! I take you!"
Three times a week for two sum- ;
mers she worked under Mereier's su- i
pervision. the master tactfully refus-j
iii? the pupil's proffered 1 *k.!oy
"Perfect!" he said, when she hr.d fin- j
ished Prosper Merimee's "Chronicle of :
Charles IX."
Before this triumph her gold tooling j
on a vqlume of Frederic* Masson's
"Napoleon and Women" procured for j
her the work of the late J. P. Morgan's !
library. This was in 1908?the turning
point of her unique career. Flers is the
distinction of having designed, tooled
and bound the cover of Mr. Morgan's
personal copy of the catalogue of his
world famous Chinese porcelain collection.
BREAK YOUR MATCH IN TWO.
A Suggestion That Became a Rule In
Forest Fire Prevention.
One day late in June a man In a
room on the seventh floor of an old
fashioned brick building in Washington.
holding a sheaf of telegrams in his
left hand, was busy with his right tak-}
ing red headed pins out of his mouth
and sticking them into little irregular
blocks of green ink scattered over a
large white wall map of the United
States.
"The big problem," he said, taking a
fresh pin out of his mouth and turning
sidewise to bis assistant, ,4is to get at)
the fellow who knows what conservation
is but forgets to apply it when he
light!* up a cigar in the woods."
Mt of o f\ nt tnnnATf Afll?
A L1C HOOlOiaxit oui ui u iiuv ivjypvv*
desk in the middle of the room, straggling
through a mass of reports from
field men in the endeavor to find suggestions
for a set of fire prevention I
"rules."
"Well, what do yon think of this?"
he said, holding up a report from the
Pacific northwest: " 'Break your match
in two before you throw it away.' "
The other man stuck the last red pin
Into the map, reached for his pipe and
lighted It
"Let's see," he said. He snapped the
burning match in his-fingers. As the J
pieces dropped to tne noor ne uuereu u
sharp exclamation and tenderly licked
the index finger of his left hand.
The assistant laughed. "That's the
idea!" he said.. "You've got to blow It
out before you break it or get burned."
So this suggestion became No. 1 of a
ser or icn r;uts ? unu wc ivicoi, ov??
Ice sent to 6.000 newspapers at the beginning
of the summer's fire season In
the national forests.?Outlook.
Sandwich's Wonderful Drum.
The eccentric Lord Sandwich had, according
to his biographer, a strange
passion for the thunder of big drums,
for the gratification of which passion he
had caused the entire side of one large
music room in his mansion at Hinchin1
with nflrfhmpnt.
UiUUtk IU uc V,u<citu r
so that when it was struck with a
massive stick it gave out a roar sufficient
to terrorize any sensitive soul.
Many who heard this drum once struck
positively declined ever to enter the
apartment again lest they should be
given a second performance.?St Louis
Republic.
Our Biggest Industry.
Measured bv the number of persons
employed, what is the country's biggest
manufacturing industry? Lumbering,
with its 48.000 sawmills, its $1,000,000,000
investment in these plants
and its employment of 605,000 men to
operate them. This does not include,
says the Nation's Business, the standing
timber, which brings up the total
Investment to $2,500,000,000.?Wall
Street Journal.
Good Start.
I'm going to start a comedy company
on the road In a couple of
wcc!:s," said the theatrical manager.
"What nlnv?" risked the critic.
"Oh, I haven't that written yet, but
I heard a frood joke today that we can
use in it"?Exchange.
Beat Him.
"My ancestors c.-tine over in the Mayflower,"
announc. d the man who prides
himself on his blue Mood.
"Huh!" snorted the man of red corpuscles.
"Mine sailed in the ark!"?
Dallas News
Not Acquired.
N. Read?How you stutter! Did you
ever go to a stammering school? J.
Terry?N-n-no, sir. I d-d-do this n-naturally.?Brooklyn
Ufa
To ease another's heartache is to
forget one s own.?Auraiisin lwucujll
LITERARY HYPOCRITES, '
Here's a Writer Who Frankly Admit!
He's One of the Cian.
How many of us if we were really 1
honest couid make a list of great books
that we have tried to enjoy and
couldn't rise to?
We have for our own part a greater j
sin tnan mm on onr conscience, mere
are a iiuiiilier of hooks that we habitually
pretend we have read which we
have never read at all. They are {Treat
books, we suppose. At least we've
heard a lot about them and read a lot
about them, and people who assume to
know say they are great books. Some
of them we have tried to read and
couldn't read, but we have pretende;!
at one time or another to have read all
of them. Mere is our list of shame:
"Tom Jones." We have tried to read
it four times and could never get five
i
pages into it.
"The Vicar of Wakefield." We have
attempted it at least six times and
taken the count in the first round
every time.
"Dante's Divine Comedy." We have
been going against the Cary transla
tion. which we hear is a good one. at
least once a year for twenty years, and
we can't jret interested in it. Yet up
to the present moment we have always"*
pretended that we had read all of it
and liked it.
"Don Quixote." We have read a little
of it. and we know all the usual
things that are said about it, and we
even wrote some stuff about it one
time, saying all the things that are
usually said about it, for which we got
$25, but we dou't really like it It puts
us to sleep; it seems long drawn out
and clumsy to us.
"Boswell's Life of Johnson." We
never read any of it. But we have pretended
to and have pretended at times
to quote incidents from it and have got
away with the incidents.
Wo hnvo nlwora nrpfonrlorl thflt wp
were familiar with Walt Whitman's
poetry,, but as a matter of fact we
never read anything through, excepting
"When Lilacs Last In the Dooryard
Bloomed."?Don Marquis in New
York Sun.
THE TREE ON THE ROOF.
An Old Building Custom to Propitiate
tne Kagan <joas.
Did you ever stop to think why a bit
of ornament in the form of conventionalized
fruit grain or flowers is almost
invariably added to the gable of
a Gothic building and very frequently
to the gable of any other type of building?
Do you know why the lightning
rods of our grandfathers were branch
e(l at the ends like little trees and why
the old fashioned Scandinavian. Danish
and German contractors contrive
to fasten a branch of a tree or an ear
of corn to the topmost peak of a house
that has progressed so far in the course
of construction that the rafters are in
place? Usually the contractor laughs
sheepishly when He is asked about the
matter, giving no other reason than
that his father always provided the
| birds with some grain or offered them
I a green branch to rest in.
, The fact is that the birds have noth
ing whatever to do with the custom
' it is purely religious in its significance
| and entirely pagan. It had its begin
ning before Christianity was "inflicted
on the barbarians of the north.'' The
gable of a building was exposed to
both wind and lightning, so the gods
mnct ha nrnnlHfltpd. For Wotan there
was a small evergreen tree and for
Thor there was a bunch of flowers. If
the favor of the god had been invoked
while the house was still Incomplete,
the ceremony must be finished the day
[ the house was done by the burning of
I the little tree or the withered flowers.
Then a bunch of gram was tied to tne
gable to feed the white horse of the
death god. so that he would hasten on
his journey without stopping at that
particular house.?St. Louis Globe-Dem
ocrat
Homemade Gas.
Spanish peasants living in the cork
I 1- iwvnfnn iic-n hnmOTnO^O CtH Q nVltfllrXVl
I Ufltt IC^iUli UOt UVUiV.U<UV4V ,
j from cork refuse. As described by one
j authority, the process consists in fill!
ing several large teakettles with the
I waste bark and placing each in turn
I over the fire during the evening, burn
I ing the volatile gas as it escapes from
! the spouts. The carbonized residue
! forms the fine black-brown pigment
' known to commerce as "Spanish
1 brown."
His Golf Prize.
When the Duke of York was living in
Edinburgh in 1681 he was told that a
certain shoemaker namwd Patersone
j was the best golf player in Scotland,
j and him. the duke, later James II,
I chose as partner in a foursome, win!
ning a huge stake. He promptly turned
over the money to Patersone, who
forthwith built a house in which the
duke placed a stone with a Patersone
crest bearing the motto, "Far and
Sure."
Always Wrong.
Manager?I'm disgusted with the
mistakes that new man makes! He
j gets everything balled up. Assistant
Manager?Oh. well, some of the best
ones are that way at the beginning.
Re may bring home the bacon yet
Manager?He won't unless we send
him for ham.?Judge.
!
His Motive.
! Judge?Why did you commit a sec:
ond theft after you had just been ac|
quitted of the first one? Prisoner?I
had to pay my lawyer, your honor.?
Boston Transcript
Their Work.
"What a noisy clatter children do
j keep up at the table!"
; "Tbey certainly do put the din In
*' ?? " BniHwATO ifnovlrmn
HUEUiClt JL>a<UAUVkV AAUVA'VMM*
BULBS IN A BOWL.
An Easy Way to Cultivate Miniature
Floating Gardens.
A novel way <>f growing bull>s. such
as crocuses, has been tried with good
success. After securing the bulbs the
next thing is to get one or two rather
large corks. Through these holes are
bored and the bulbs fitted into the
openings in such a way that the under
t*r\/\tc9 c-nrJnrr i a
S1UC, JLl l'Ui >t Li 1V. LI IUC luvia cj/1 MF
near the lower part of tlie cork.
Now obtain a large shallow bowl and
fill this with pure water. Float the
corks, with the bulbs in place, on the
surface and set the whole thing aside
in a rather shady position for'two or
three weeks. At the end of this time
it will be notice^ that the roots are
growing down into the water; thenceforward
a place in a sunny window . *
should be selected. i
The upper shoots of the bulbs will
start to grow rapidly, and at this time
it Is a good plan to arrange a little
moss to hide the upper surface of the
corks, or, if preferred. Dowever. grass
or some other seed, such as cress, may
be sown to provide a green covering.
There is nothing to do but to keep
the bow] well supplied with water and
change this now and again. Finally
the flowers emerge, and then the effect
is extremely pretty. The bulbs may be
planted in this way any time up to
early January, though naturally the
sooner they are started the earlier they
will bloom.?S. Leonard Bastin in St.
Nicholas.
ninrnniuft i rTTPno
ViUIUttlHO LCI lend.
Royal Secrets That Are Stored Away
In Buckingham Palace.
"We may wonder If the world will
ever be allowed to see the private correspondence
amassed by the late Queen
Victoria," says a writer. It is stored
away in a strong room built into the
walls of .Buckingham palace, and the
queen shared her conlidence with no
one.
So long as she was physically able to
do so she opened and closed the safe
herself and arranged its contents.
When she was too feeble to do this she
employed an old and trusted secretary,
but even he had to work under the
royal eye. He was never anowea to
keep the keys nor to read the letters,
that he handledQueen
Victoria was always a voluminous
letter writer, and she was in constant
communication with most of the
royalties in Europe. Every domestic
secret and privacy of royalty during
half a century is said to be represented
by tne contents or tuis wonuenui suit;,#
and it is easy to believe that the modern
historian would find his hands full
j if he were permitted to browse among
these letters.
But probably he will have to wait a
, few hundred years, and then his popular
audience will be a languid one. It
is one of the ironies of life that we can. 1
never have a thing when we want it?
Pittsburgh Press. % ]
A D.imI Cn^l/A Cl9linht?r#r
n nu/ai wnaixv
The "secretary bird" Is one of the
most precious birds In South Africa.
It Is royal game, and* any person destroying
one is liable to a fine of ?50.
Majestic looking birds, they stand
about three feet high and generally go
' in pairs. They are of drab color, with
black, feathery legs, and are valued for
their propensity for killing snakes.
Where the secretary bird is seen there
are sure to be many reptiles about ;
The bird beats down its adversary
nrlth nno winff and then with the
other, at the same time trampling on
it with its feet until the snake is sufficiently
stunned to catch it by the head
with its claws. Then the bird rises far
up in the air and drops its victim to
the ground to be killed. By this means
thousands of venomous reptiles are destroyed.?London
Scraps.
Silver Sword of Hawaii.
One of the most curious plants In
! -n-orfr? ?nH nno r>f thp fTTPflin
terest to all botanists is the silver
sword. This exceedingly rare plant
with its magnificent silver spines and
handsome crest, may still be found in
profusion in the upper part of Kaupo
gap, the southern outlet of the vast
extinct crater of Haleakala, on the
island of Maui. It flowers from July
! to October and occurs hardly any|
where else in tbe world. Even stranger
I is the variety .known as the green
? ?? i? rr.i.^i..i.
i sworci, wmcn occurs oniy m ninta&aui
! crater and is unknown to exist elsej
where.?Honolulu Star Bulletin.
Prince Henry th* Navigator.
! Tlie kingdom of Portugal counted in
j its royal house one of the men who
j hold first rank in Scientific attainment
j and practical application. He was the v
i son of John L of Portugal and Queen
I Philippa, who was an English princess.
He spent his life In sending out ships
I on voyages of discovery, and it was
through this Prince Henry, called "the
i Navigator," that Columbus got his idea
of seeking for a new lac? across the
! sea.
Carrots. ^ .
Carrots were first introduced tnto
England by Flemish gardeners in the
time of Elizabeth, and in the reign of
James I. they were still so uncommon
that ladies wore bunches of them on
their hats and on their sleeves Instead
of feathers.
Much Entertained. '
Said Cholly?I have just been looking
over a volume of revised statutes.
! Quoth Algy?Well?
Cholly?I had no idea there were so
j many interesting ways or oreaKing i-ue
i law.?LGuisville Courier-Journal.
I The lessons of life are lost if they do
not impress us with the necessity of
: making ample allowances for the imI
mature c<. -3< 'usions of others.

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