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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-05
Candidates for Congress.

The Grccnvillc News Of Tuesday
says that Mr.. Wyatt Aiken, of Able
vile, will he candidate for Congress
from our district, and adds:
When Mr.. Aiken was here at the
July term OF court many of his friends
here, who wanted to see a good man
win, urged him to become Il candidate
for congressional honors in his dis
trict.
In u letter to friend Mr.. Aiken
says:
"Sincc returning home and consult
ing with my friends, among them sew
cral prominent Rcfurmers, | have con-
cludcd to run for Congress next wear
and will win ID. V.
~ will get good vote in Greon-
wood, Abbcvillc, Oconee and Pickens,
and | hope to do we'll in Anderson
and guess | will get my share in New
berry.
81 intend to go into every township
In tho district and don't intend to have
any slack campaign as far rs l am con-
ccrncd.
"Whcn this matter was first lnen-
toned | treated it rs joke, but now
am in dead earnest and propose to
mako winning race"
Though tho election is many months
of yct, tho contest is already growing
warm. Bosilcs Mcssrs. Aiken and
Latimer, George Johnstone, OF New
berry, and d. X. Norris, of Anderson,
are spoken of here as having positively
determined to make the race.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-05
Executors Sale Of Land

Will SELL. AT NEWBERkH
"A ). c., on the First Monday in No.
vemhcr, the first day, 1897, all Of TINT
tract Of land belonging to the lis, 'tc of
Wm. Scott, deceased. containing Two
Hundrcd (@nl Acres, moro or less,
bounded by lands of Jno. w. Scott,
j. N. Martn, Mrs. Susan Eddy and
others.
TERMS or SALE: Onr-half cash, the
balance to he paid in one year from day
or sale, with lawful interest, the credit
portion to- he secured by mortgagc Of
the promises.
JNO. w. SCOTT,
ENccutor of the Estate Of VIM. Scott.
NCCrnSrl
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GEN. GRANTS TOMB.
TYKo, Japan.

Riverside Park, the last resting place
of Gen. Grant, is rich in historic recol-
lections, and it possesses many charms
that attract the eye. 1t may be said that
the view up and down the Hudson from
this point is a most beautiful. pictures
que and comprehensive panorama of
American landscape, presenting sue
cession of gems in natural scenery and
striking monuments to commercial ac-
tivity. The course of the river can be
followed fully twenty miles, from the
point where it widens in graceful curve
just beyond the Knoll. until it's waters
have rolled past Yonkers.
Ali who have visited Riverside have
been impressed by the grandeur of the
scene. At the point where East 122d
street ends in the park is lofty oak.
crowned height overlooking the Hudson.
1t is the most elevated ground between
the Battery and Fort Washington, but
as the ascent is gradual, it is not particu-
larly difficult of access. Through the
branches or the oaks and the elms
sparkle the waters of the Hudson. Across
the river rise the wooded heights of New
Jersey, with houses and villas peeping
here and there from out the foliage. A
little farther north. and on the opposite
shore, is Fort Lee, with its big white
buildings standing out in bold relief
against the green behind them. while
the gray Palisades project beside the
fort like sentinels guarding the river.
The grounds and buildings of ex Mayor
Tiernan, near the bluff, can be seen, and
the cross that crowns old Manhattan
College glistens few yards to the north.
west. while still farther up the height and
behind the college can be seen the colored
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Cbe 'Wl'iversalfst
lAlVERSAusT PUBLISHING House,
RE- eous AND FAMILY WEEKLY
PUBLISHERS.

st. F. ENDICOTT. General Agent
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THE WORKING-GIRLS' CLUBS.

These clubs succeed for the same rea-
sons that other successful clubs succeed
because membership in them is found
to be remunerative because their mem
bers have gumption enough to manage
them. and because they mind their own
business and stick to the purposes for
which they are organized. Working
girls abound in solidarity. They like to
get together and talk, and they do not
at all object to having competent wom-
en-, who know things that are worth
hearing. talk with them and steer their
discussions into edifying channels. Ev-
cry working-girl knows something of
life. especially of its practical conditions. 8.
She has her point of view and the opin-
ions her experiences has developed. An
educated woman, whose original intelli-
gence has been developed on different
lines and under different conditions,
knows whole lot of things as to which
the working-girl's notions are very
vague. She has, too. different point Of
view, ands usually different opinions.
So when working-girls and educated
women from a different sphere of life
get together and converse. great deal
of information and many valuable ideas
change heads to the mutual advantage
Of the parties concerned.
1t is disadvantage to any one to be
restricted to one variety of acquaintances
or to the society of persons in a single
condition of life. People ought to be
mixed up far more than they are. II
people who are rich associate only with
rich people, their affluence-in that re
suit Of it's a great detriment to
them. just as the poverty of the poor
is detriment when it restricts them
to the society Of the very poor. The
tendency to classification on a finan
cial basis is very strong, but the tie Of
human kinship ought to be strong
enough to restrain it. These working
girls clubs bring people together who
ought to eet.-Harper's Weekly.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-08
A Journey in Japan.
BY REV. EDGAR LEAvITT.

HAVING learned SO much of the
japanese language that l am not in
danger of getting lost, or of dying OF
hunger or thirst, through entire ina
bility to make my wants known, il
has been considered safe to allow me
to wander beyond the foreign settle
ments of Tokyo and Yokohama; and
as have lately been visiting some OF
our outposts, l thought narrative
of some things seen and felt might
be of some interest to our friends in
America.
If you will take map of Japan,
and, starting from Tokyo, follow
down the bay eighteen miles, you
come to Yokohama; then follow the
coast southerly, skirting the base OF
Mt. Fuji, and, about one hundred
and twenty miles from Tokyo, you
reach the city of Sbizuoka.
We arrived at the Shimbashi sta
tion (or, rather, suteishon, or stem
shon, as it is called by the Japanese
who have adopted this word, as well
as many others, from the all-conquer-
English tongue,) about seven O'Clock,
where met my Japanese friend and
helper, who was to accompany me-
Mr.. Kusunoki (Which, being trans
lated, is Camphor-tree). He was
dressed in the style of japanese
gentleman of the present day, who
has not discarded his native habit
for the Unlocking foreign dress, es.
pecially Unlocking when seen on a
Japanese. Most of the people around
us were in Japanese costume, some in
foreign,-about one in twenty, per
haps,-but many more in mixture
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the other end of the beam or removes
his weight. Along the Japanese
city-streets one may see sheds where
from one to five or six men all the
day long are stepping out and off of
these pestle- beams hulling out rice.
AS the pestle oescends in the center
the grain rises around the sides
of the mortar, and as it is with
drawn, it falls toward the center, so
all the grain in turn comes under the
pestle and is worked over and over
till it is all hulled. Then it is poured
into inclined sieves which separate
out the whole and the broken grain,
the chaff, and the rice -four, from each
other, each by itself. The -four looks
like dark wheat -four, and coming
from the outside of the grain next to
the hull, it is as distinctively sweet
as if considerable quantity of sugar
were mixed with it. Although most
of the rice seems to be hulled by man
power, at Shizuoka l saw hulling-
mill of thirty-six stamps whose pes
ties were raised and let fall by a
little engine of Japanese make. This
was distinctly modern improvement.
Most of the processes of industry
here, while often quite ingenious, seem
extravagantly wasteful of labor and
time.
TYKo, Japan.
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EDITORIAL BRIEFS.
BY PRESIDENT L. Nj. ATWOOD. D. d.


ARRANGEMENTS are making for re-
union of classes and students at St.
Lawrence in June. Canton is in the ex-
act geographical center of North Amer
lea, equidistant from all the celestial
spheres. 1t is an easy place to reach If
we start from the right point. But
some towns, as New York, Boston and
Chicago, are off the main line and out
of the channel. By suitable and timely
effort, however, those whose misfortune
il is to live in these and other outlying
places, may get into the procession and
be carried by centrifugal attraction to
the desired spot. The Theological
School will be at home to it's friends.
The remarks made by ex President
Cleveland at the Reform Club banquet
in New York, show that his vertebral
column is unimpaired. He stands up
to his old principles with his toes little
over the line. The ex x-President's per-
pendicularity is praiseworthy; but there
ia lust a shade too deep in his gloom.
The country is not going headlong to
destruction. There are not only con-
seryative and preservative forces, but
restorative also. A cheerier note from
Mr.. Cleveland would have been well
come. His stiff and ponderous indict.
ment ia true in the letter. but not
wholly true in spirit. Some qualifica-
tions, some allowances. some amiability
toward the adversary. is what the read
er misses. 1t was needed word OF
warning; it should have been relieved
by some touches OF human nature and
some rays of hope.
The legislature of New York, which
adjourned last week. filed up the meas-
ure of it's capacity for mischief by pass
ing and leaving in the hands Of Governor
Black, bill to make the reform Of the
civil service a burlesque. The spinal
column of the measure is clause enact
ing that the examinations shall be or
dered and controlled by the head OF the
department that makes the appoint
ments. 1t is a measure to defeat the
end aimed at by the reform Of the civil
service, which is to secure competent
service irrespective Of politics. This
bill is designed and intended to revert
to the spoils system. II is piece of
astonishing impudence and astonishing
folly. Whether it becomes law or not
it will be political suicide for the party
and the men who devised so reaction
ary and brazen a scheme to nullify the
constitution and cheat the people.
One of the philanthropies OF these
latter days is "The Church Kidney
Cure Co." 1t is not that the church is
jaundiced but that certain beautifully
benevolent people would relieve the
sufferings, actual and possible, of clergy
men and other pious people. Eat com.
paratively trihing COST Who says that
this is mercenary age? The Church
Insurance Association undertakes to
safeguard our meeting. houses at a rate
not much in excess of that charged by
the regular companies, with the prom.
ise to return any moneys not used up by
losses; and now the minister and his
family and his deacons and other good
people, who are sounder in their theology
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tie and glossy. Chewed it gives but
little suggestion of the tea-favor,
which is developed, after drying, by
the sweating and the firing in copper
pans, which is done in great buildings
at Yokohama, after which it is packed
in lined boxes for shipment. The
Japanese are great tea drinkers and
we easily fall into the habit, though
it is said that those who see the pro-
cess of firing are apt to lose their rel
ish for it. Tea-drinking does not
seem to produce the ill-effects here
which one might suppose, perhaps
from the manner of taking it. Tea is
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never stepped. A quantity is put in
to dainty proclaim dobin or teapot,
boiling water is poured upon it from
the tetswbin, or tiny iron teakettle,
which always stands on the charcoal
fire, and shortly it is poured into tiny
teacups holding three or four dessert
spoonfuls and swallowed at once, hot
and clear, without mixture of sugar or
milk, which would seem to them very
strange. 1t is wonderful how much
they drink. 1t is offered every caller,
and he must drink or seem odd. 1t
is always ready in the poorest as we'll
as in the wealthiest homes.
They have also another beverage
which perhaps some of our American
friends would like to try. Take
cherry blossoms when in full bloom.
They have variety here as large
and double as small rose. Put
layer of them into jar, then layer
of salt, then of blossoms, then of salt,
etc., until full. Apply pressure and
keep them a few months. Then put
some of them into porcelain tea pot.
pour hot water upon them and drink
it as tea. Those who think it is very
good, like it; but others find it
combination of salt and bitterness
which they have not learned to ap-
preciate.
The tea plantations are not alone
upon the lowlands where they grow
tallest, but creep up the terraced
mountain sides. sometimes to the very
tops, where the bushes are short.
The Orange Orchards.
About Shizuoka are also orange
orchards, and here this fruit comes to
a high state of perfection, as frosts
and SHOWS are but seldom seen. The
orange grown here is principally the
mikan, or sweet orange, small, fiat
tish fruit whose skin peals off as
easily as loose kid glove; the best
ones are seedless and the sections
come apart very easily, being but
loosely attached.
Then there is a smaller one called
kinkau, or golden orange, in size and
shape much like the drop plum to-
mato that used to be grown in our
gardens. There is still another
about the size of small marble.
A larger round orange resembling
the American orange and called doi-
dai (di di), is also grown, but is sour
and bitter and is used only for or
nament, for vinegar and for preserves
The round sweet orange of Europe
and America is not seen in Japan.
There is sometimes seen a fruit of
the orange family the sections of
which grow separately in a curious
fashion, often resembling a human
hand. We read in an American pa
per strange yarn that these oranges
actually grow finger nails Lemons
are also grown, though some are i'm
ported from California, but the best
from France. Apples are grown in
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-08

REPRESENTATIVES Of leading railroads
of the South met in Washington, ID. c..
and concluded the formation of new
passenger traffic association, to be known
as the Southeastern Passenger Associa-
tion, and elected officers. 1t is said that
the new agreement is designed to come
fully within the requirements of the re-
cent decision of the United States SUI
preme Court in the Trans Missouri case.
1t is said to be mainly in the nature of q
club arrangement "for the exchange Of
information of mutual benefit"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-08
CONTENTS.
CHICAGO. SATURDAY. MAY 8. 1897

cHIcAaO. SATURDAY. MAY 8. 1897.
Page One.
Editorial Briefs.
A Journey in Japan.
Gen. Grants Tomb.
Page Two.
Sermon-Greece and Turkey.
Immortality: Before and After the Ad-
vent of Jesus.
Fallacies Concerning Prayer.
The Cedars Of Lebanon.
Magazine Notes.
Page Tnroe.
The Sunday School Lesson.
Page Four.
Editorial:
Spring is Here!
A Chance to Learn a Trade.
Death Of Archibald Smith. Of Glasgow.
Lombard University.
WC.A.
Universalist Personal.
Exchange Notes.
Page Five.
Church News and Correspondence.
Page Six.
The Family Page. Farm. Garden and Dairy.
Page Seven.
Our Boys and Girls.
Page Eight.
Church Notices and In Memoriam.
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orphan asylum. Farther away. across
! the lowlaDds bordering the Harlem
river. the waters Of the sound CLEAN q
silvery tn read. and over to the south
rise the spires of churches and the tops
Of gigan tic buildings.
Twenty miles of water, twenty miles
Of high lands, villages. towns and cities.
showing spires and curling smoke from
chimney-to the waters of Long Island
sound. white sails twinklipg in the far
off blue; ships, steamboats,, countless
sailboats fiittirg to and fro. trains Of
cars ru shing along. and, on every side.
the churches Of New York. Jersey City,
Harlem. Hoboken and Yonkers pointing
their spires toward heaven-this is the
picture that has delighted the visitors to
Riverside since the remains Of the great
captain we're laid to rest there twelve
years ago.
Memories Of the early days and the
time OF trial and hardship for the revo-
lutionary soldiers are revived by visit
to Riverside. When the site for Grants
tomb was selected it was noticed by visi-
tors to the park that block of marble,
yellow with age. marked the spot where
an other person had been laid to rest q
century ago. 1t was not the grave of
a celebrated man, but, according to the
inscription, the stone was "erected to the
M emory Of an amiable child, st. Claire
Pollock. Died 18th July, 1897, in the
5th year Of his age" On the opposite
side OF the slab was the quotation, be-
ginning: Man that was born Of woman
is of few days."
Those who are familiar with the his
tory Of Riverside Park will recall the
st. Claire family. whose old homestead
10 arked the Knoll. at the end OF Man
haitian street. This structure was re-
built and modernized, becoming the
Claremount house. At the beginning
OF the century the place was known az
Claremount hill. Among those whose
ames are identified with this mapeion
were Joseph Bonaparte. brother of Ma
poleon l., and the Earl of Devon, who
was Viscount Courtenay at the time of
his residence at Claremount.
Near the spot where Grant is buried
W as fought the battle of Harlem Heights
in 1776. which was a victory of no small
Importance for the American cause. in
the estimation of Gen. Washington,
What was known in revolutionary times
as Harlem Heights is that section which
rises prominently from the plain north
OF l25th street and west of 8th avenue.
extending northwesterly from Point of
Rocks" an abrupt point at 127th street.
east OF 8th avenue, to the Hudson. About
quarter of mile away another line of
bluffs and slopes rises parallel to the
Heights. tits there that Grant is buried,
and on the ground above his grave was
fought the battle of Harlem Heights.
Thus after the expiration of century
the ashes Of the great captain who
fought to save the republic will be
mingled with the dust soaked with the
blood of the heroic men who fought to
create it.
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the northern part of the Empire,
though not equal to ours, as also
pomegranates, strawberries, grapes,
and some other small fruits, but these
are more expensive than the native
fruits.
Hu1ling the Rice.
At Shizuoka | saw the process of
hulling rice. Large stone mortars
holding a bushel and half or two
bushels are fixed in the ground and
large stone pestle attached to the
end of long lever-beam rises and
falls in the center thereof, as a man
stands with his whole weight upon
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-08
Tea Plantations.

AS we round the base of Fuji small
plantations of tea appear. The tea
plant is really dwarf species of the
camellia, having the same leaves and
blossom white with yellow centers)
only on a smaller scale. 1t is grown
in rows 2 to 4 feet apart and varies
from six inches to 81 feet high, and
at distance looks like a plantation
of huckleberrY or currant bushes
The leaves are about the size of a
medium rose-leaf and are thick, brit
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out and start down the coast. To-
dav chances, for a Wonder, to be a
fine day, and California herself is
not 80 very far ahead as to this
beautiful sky, this rich verdure, this
amethystine sea, rolling in upon the
beach in soft, low swells, as we may
imagine it did in Tennyson's "Land
whsre it is always afternoon"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-31
Too Much Married.

Saturdays Pittsburg papers tell of the
arrest of Mrs. Ella Weber, of Beltzhoov-
er, on charge of passing counterfeit
money. The government officials are
anxious to get some clue that Will impli-
cate the woman's husband. The Times
says "he has been watched very closely
since his wife's arrest, and, while moth
ing connecting him with frauds upon the
United States government has been
found, the officers think they have sufli-
cient proof to convict him of bigany.
While tracing him during the past few
days the officers followed him to Rock :
wood. Somerset county, where it was
found he had another wife and seven
children"
Word comes from lockwood that there
is no family by the name of Weber living
there, but a former resident Of that
place who deserted his wife ard fam
lily, is suspected.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-31
Report of the Mutual Life for 1895.

The continuous, magnificent growth of
The Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York has for many decades been a
source of pride to its army of policy
holders and of wonder to those interested
in social economics throughout the civil
lied world. In many respects The Nut
ual Life stands alone as To its position.
There is nothing like it. Its Annual Re-
port of business for the year ending De-
cember 81, 1886, the full details of which
are now in the hands OF the New York
State Insurance Department shows that
the Company possesses net assets aggre-
eating Sl3i, ,7H, li5 Il. The books of the
Company indicate, according to its own
standard of policy valuation, a much
larger sum than that, but this year the
report is made in conformity with the re-
quirements of the State Department,
which excludes assets that are not real
ized upon, but which are proper ID re-
gard as ultimately good and available.
The liabilities on the risks in force
amount to s1050l0.6}373, leaving a sur
plus fund of s2a,733,5l4.70. This shows
an increase in admitted assets during
ls9d, according to the New York State
standard, of sl5, ,Oi0 O05.22, and an increase
In surplus of 8, s53. 1906
The total income of the Company for
the year was 9,7a2, ,69j.27. The amount
paid to policy holders aggregated 80. 49,
5695O. Since the date of its organization,
in 1913, The Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany has paid to living members S25S,
959, 45l.53, and to the benefciaries of de-
ceased members sl7s.Oi5. 1876, making a
total of si37 ,Oo5, I9j %. The Company has
insurance in force amounting to over
$3.50 200.
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ALL COME
Fine Dental Work,

DIR. p. p. Ritter, of Meyersdale, Pa
having taken a special course in advanc-
ed dentistry, has opened laboratory in
connection with his Office in Meyersdale,
where he is prepared to do the latest and
most improved crown and bridge work,
i. e. teeth without plates, making spec
ialty of the Richmond crown, which Is
the most artistic crown known to the
profession.
Ny bridge work is the finest and looks
and feels like the natural teeth and are
nearer to nature than any artificial dent
ure.
Twill guarantee my bridge work, as
there is no danger of the porcelain face
breaking away from the bridge, which
happens So frequently with ordinary
work.
lam also prepared to do any kind OF
plate work, especially gold plates, anoth-
er line of the finest dentistry.
Ny Office will be open every day in the
year, and all work shall be done at rea-
sonable prices and within the reach OF
any who may wish the best dentistry.
Call or address,
DIR. u. p. RITTER,
Meyorsddle, Pa.