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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-18
AN IMPOSSIBLE BARBER.
The Men Who Shaved Eighteen Men in
Eight Minutes and Seven Seconds.

The conductors, engineers, fremen
and hsgmen Of the Southern rail.
way are all much exercised over the
recent order requiring them to have
watches that measure up to certain
requirements, which ls the out
growth of the time convention of the
railroad people held some time
since.
The following is copy Of the Cir.
cular issued by the Southern rail
way in regard to timepleces:
"This company will inaugnrate a
system of clock and watch inspec-
tion and employees designated below
are required on and after the above
date to submit their watches for
quarterly. examination between the
1st and 18th days of each Novem-
ber, February, May and August, and
weekly comparison with standard
time, to the various local inspectors
who have been appointed for this
purpose, and who will be under the
general supervision of J. W. For
singer, Chicago, who has been ap-
pointed general inspector.
"Names and location of local in
spectors and location of standard
clocks on the respective divisions
will be shown in the current time
tables as issued.
"Train masters, train dispatchers,
yard masters, assistant yard mas
ters, switchmen, station masters, en-
gineers, foremen of engines, iremen,
conductors, baggagemen, fagmen,
foremen, brakemen and switch ten
ders must submit their watches for
quarterly examination and weekly
comparison as required by the rules,
and telegraph operators, station
agents, section foremen, bridge fore
men and towermen must submit their
watches for quarterly examination.
"The minimum standard of excel
lence adopted ty this company for
watches is grade equal to what is
known among American movements
as nickel 17-jewel, patent regulator,
adjusted to heat and cold, and three
POSITIONS the variation of which
must not exceed thirty seconds per
week; no key winder will be accepted.
"The grade name and numbers
are herein plainly specified; no mod
iications will be permitted.
"All new watches in service must
be lever set.
mo watch specially made and
named by or for any jeweler will be
accepted on this company's lines.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-18
PRESS ROOM AT WHITE HOUSE.
President Sees to it that Newspaper Men
are Not Ignored.

Washington, November 17.-For
the first time in history the President
of the United States has set apart q
room adjoining his own Offices for
the exclusive use of the press. In
the new Office building, west of the
White House, The correspondents
have separate room, provided with
huge oak table, chairs and three
telephones for their convenience.
The room adjoins the big central
waiting room, where all callers gath
or before they are admitted to the
Office of the President or Secretary
Cortelyou.
The door ofthe press room stands
open, and the man of consequence in
politics, business or rank who escapes
without being interviewed is fleet of
foot indeed. In the White House,
before it underwent it's remodelling
process, when the President and his
clerical force were all quartered on
the second floor, the newspaper men
whose duty took them there had to
content themselves with a table
placed at the eastern end of the gen
eral waiting room. They had no
telephones at their disposal, and
when they wished to call up their
respective Offices were obliged to 60
into the "war room" and ask Col.
Montgomery's permission to use the
wire. Col. Montgomery's telephone
was often busy at the very time the
newspaper men wished to use it.
Now, with the three telephones at
hand, Col. Montgomery's dignity will
no be so FREQUENTLY disturbed and
the business of sending important
''ltems'' to the uttermost ends of the
earth Will be greatly facilitated.
President Roosevelt holds, perhaps,
more than any Of his predecessors,
a warm place in his heart for the
newspaper fraternity, He has ap
pointed several of his newspaper
friends to good positions in the pub
lie service. He is exceedingly ap
proachable AID often favors the cor
respondents with his political conf
dences. When the new Office bulld-
ing was planned it was quite natu-
raj, therefore, that the President
should order "press room" in the
most convenient location and of the
most commodions arrangement posi-
BILE with the appropriation at hand.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-18
Pointed Paragraphs.
1Chicago Daily News.


An early crop-the small boys
first hair cut.
With some 5 cent cigars you get
at least six scents.
The eight day clock is hard
worker and chronic striker
Sometimes it is his lie-abilltles
that increase a mans assets.
Much of the charity that begins at
home is too feeble to get next door
The skin deep beauty Of the rhi-
noceross isn't calculated to make him
vain.
When it comes to question of
staying qualities the undertaken can
lay the pugilist out.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-18
10 TABULATE q.
THE RETURNS.

MEETING OF THE STATE BOARD OF
CANYASSERS.
The Members o. thd Board, Treasurer Jen-
nfngs Expected, had Failed to Come
the Day Before Because Each one
Thought he Would not
Missed--Two Young
Ladies to Tabu-
late the Re-
turns.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-18

In hard fought game of football
played in Greenville on Friday Fur
man defeated Carolina and won the
championship of the State. The
score was 10 too.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-18
ANYTHING ANYWHERE.
Brief Paragraphs Giving Some of the
Happenings Of the World Of Men.

General Molineaux spent just
100000 or a third of his fortune in
the defense of his son in the famous
Molineaux case just concluded.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-18

A Kansas man boasts of running
the only strictly third-class hotel in
the country. 1t is up to some
Chicago landlords Indignantly to
deny this assertion.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-18

The finishing last week of the jstty
work in Georgetown, a piece of work
which has been going on for several
years, and which has involved over q
million dollars, was made the occs.
sion of regular Fourth of July
day celebration.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-18

It sometimes hspens that a man
puts both money and confidence in a
bank-and later draws out his con-
fdence.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-18

If it is true that the good die
young, it is up to the Oldest inhabi-
tant to offer an explanation.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-18

A cynic is man whose dissppoint-
ment is due to the fact that the
world was made without his advice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-12

These excerpts show General Miles
style as an author, for he has written
several books and many articles for the
magazines and newspapers. He has
probably been more frequently inter-
viewed than any other military man Of
high rank in the United States, his atti-
tude toward reporters and the press
being always cordial. In personal ap-
pearance General Miles is the ideal sol-
der, being erect and broad chested,
deep lunged and well proportional, at
tracing attention wherever he appears.
He carries his threescore years and two
with the jauntiness of youth. is keen of
perception absolutely self poised and
has very good opinion of the lieuten-
ant general commanding the army
Since the Indians were beaten there
have been few occasions for General
Miles to shine as commander in chief in
active warfare. the opportunity in
Cuba during the Spanish-American war
having escaped him. But he engineered
the brief campaign in Porto Rico, where
he won an almost bloodless victory.
That was less than four years ago, and
the events in which he has shared since
then are SO fresh in the public mind as
scarcely to demand mention. With his
headquarters at the national capital
since he attained to the highest mill
tary command, General Miles has be-
come a conspicuous figure in Washing
ton society. and his hospitable home.
presided over by Mrs. Miles, Q niece of
the late Senator Sherman, is a center of
attraction. Aside from the many hon.
ors garnered on the field. General Miles
has been the recipient OF others, having
been sent to observe the Turko-Grecian
war and to represent the United States
at the late Queen Victoria's jubilee.
ROGER p. BARNUM.
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TEFLYING AS CONTRADICTORY TO AERIAL NAVIGATION

vestigating at great heights, but five or
six, and sometimes a dozen, have been
attached to the same line. BY using
tandems to equalize the strain, height
of more than three miles has been at
tanned, and in fact, there seems to be
no reasonab BILE limit to the possible alti-
tudes.
The strain or pull upon the fine
steel piano wire which is used as a
string to the kites is tremendous, in the
larger kites being nearly or quite 100
pounds, and as a consequence a special
1y invented mechanism is employed for
letting out and Keeling up the wire.
This device is modification of the ma
chine used for deep sea soundings. The
greatest weight SO far raised by a kite
to a considerable distance above the
earth is about 200 pounds, and this feat
was accomplished at the Blue Hill sta
ton.
Whether or not the kite will ever be
utilized extensively in transporting man
from place to place in midair. there is
no doubt as to its usefulness to the SCI
ence of meteorology, as a medium for
panoramic photography from above the
earth, as an apparatus for signaling,
as a package and letter carrier and as q
spanner of gorges or CULTS in bridge
building, as at Niagara. While it's linn
ftations are more restricted than those
of the balloon and airship proper, the
kite as latterly developed has it's al
lurements and opens vista through
which some profess to be able to discern
an ultimate gain to science.
; EDWARD K. TURBIT.
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Christian, at least nominally, Abyssinia
dating it's conversion to the Christian
faith from the fourth century and trad1-
tons carrying back the Semitic connec-
lions to the time of the ancient prophets.
There have been three rulers of Abys-
sinia within the past fifty years-Theo-
dore, crowned king of Ethiopia in 1855,
who incurred the enmity of the British
and suffered an invasion of his territory
by Lord Napier in 1858, when he was
defeated and committed suicide; King
John, or Johannes, crowned in 1872,
who was one of the most brutal mon
archs that ever sat on throne. and
his successor, Menelek, Or Menelik, who
took the throne and held it by force of
arms. At the time of King Johns
death Menelek was king of Shoa,
country beyond Magdala on the ex-
IRENE south of Abyssinia proper, and
his fierce soldiers We're largely instru-
mental in achieving the astounding VIC
tories over the Italians.
It was claimed that King Menelek
was in the pay of the Italian govern
ment when he reigned over his little
monarchy and. in fact, won his present
empire by means of rifles and ammuni-
ton supplied by the foreign power The
Italians paid fearful price for the al
lance, however, for after a few years.
becoming tired of their exactions and
being particularly incensed- at their
claim to protectorate over Abyssinia.
Menelek cast off the chains that bound.
him and, like the lion that he claimed
to be, sprang upon the invaders and
shook the very life out of them. Italy
has never been herself since the terrible
battle of Adowa, March /, 1896, when
she lost 10000 of her soldiery, and later
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-12
TO LIEUTENANT c

General Sheridan set Miles upon the
Apache trail. which he took and follow
ed SO persistently that at last the red
skins were tired out and surrendered.
General Miles did not make the mis-
take of his predecessor, Crook, and
treat with leniency the murderous hos
tiles who had been responsible for so
many cruel massacres Instead he sent
them OF to prison. For his brilliant
achievements in this campaign General
Miles received the thanks of the legis-
latures of Kansas, Montana, New Mex
leo and Arizona, and the citizens of
Arizona presented him with a magnifi-
cent sword.
What our soldiers accomplished in
five years of Indian campaigning is
summarized in his Personal RecoIlec-
tions." where he says: Between the
years 1874 and 1880 belt of country ex-
tending from the Rio Grande or the
Mexican boundary on the south to the
Canadian boundary on the north and
averaging some four hundred miles in
width from east to west was redeemed
from q wild state and its control by
savage tribes and given to civilization.
This vast country, over which in
1874 roamed powerful bands of Indian
warriors and countless numbers of wild
game, was in six years by the opera
lions of the United States army freed
for ali time from the desolating inffu-
ence of the savage and made habitable
for civilized man. And these results
are due to the heroic services, the SPLEEN
did fortitude and courage of hundreds
of our officers and soldiers who placed
themselves between war and peace, be-
tween danger and security, guarding
the newly constructed railways and
protecting the towns as they arose on
the plains. They freely offered their
lives and actually cleared this vast re-
gion during this brief time, giving it to
civilization forever. The smoke of the
Indian villages has been replaced by
| the foundries and furnace fires of civ
ilization- The signal lights no longer
| flash from the hills. but in their places
the headlight of the locomotive and the
electric light dispel the shadows and il
lumine the pathway Of progress and
civilization"
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THE eELcIANs, QUEEN.

queen of the Belgians- Her life has
been so sad q one that she lives very
much in retirement. The tragedy of
her sister-in-law. the empress Of Mex
leo, driven mad by the fate of her hug
band, the death of her only son, the
death of her nephew; and the early
widowhood of her daughter, Stephanie.
by the suicide of her husband, have
combined to make Queen Maria a re-
cluse. Still every now and then a story
is heard which shows this gentle lady
in her true light
Here is pretty anecdote which was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-12

recent things in quick firing cannon as
a present experienced the surprise OF
his life when he arrived at court. The
gun had preceded him packed in Sec
tions in cases, but when he arrived he
found it all put together and set up
ready for use, every detail of the work
having been done by the king, though
he had never before seen a weapon of
that kind.
It is to be hoped that the Empress
Taoti will adhere to her present deter
mination and insist upon accompany
ing the emperor to this country, for she
is a most extraordinary woman and,
like her consort, claims descent from
the queen of Sheba and King Solomon,
being Menelek's first cousin. Many
years ago, in their early prime, these
two were engaged to be married, but
King Theodore objected, compelled
Menelek to espouse his daughter and
took Taoti to himself. After Theodore
died Taoti married a general, whom she
divorced. She then married the gov
ernor of a province, who was executed
by King John. She had several other
marital experiences before finally con-
summating in 1856 a union with Meme
lex, then king of Shoa. She is now aged
and ugly, and the king has other and
younger wives fairer to look upon, but
he remembers what the ''sun and light
of Ethiopia" has been to him in the
past, the wise counsel she has given
him, the intrigues she has shaped for
him and, above all, the aid she afforded
in the final strategy that carried the
despised Italians down and out; so he
still clings to the first love of his youth
and the clever consort of his later
years. JAMES L. CHARTRAN.
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general and in 1865 a major general of
volunteers.
He entered the regular service in
July. 1866. as a colonel of infantry, in
1880 was brigadier general, in 1890 q
major general and in 1895 succeeded
General Schofield as general command
ing the United States army. His pres
ent position he holds in accordance with
an act OF congress, June 6. 1900, provid-
ing that the senior major general of
the line commanding the army shall
have the rank, pay and allowances of
a lieutenant general"
General Miles has been three times
wounded in battle, at Fredericksburg,
at Fair Oaks and at Charlottesville.
the last wound proving nearly fatal and
incapacitating him so that he missed
the battle of Gettysburg, which. by the
way, was the only important one fought
by the army of the Potomac at which
he was not present. After the close OF
the war he received the brevet of brig
adler general in the regular army ''for
gallant and meritorious services at the
battle of Charlottesville.
After the civil war General Miles was
actively employed against the hostile
Indians, and in that service won such
laurels as will keep his memory green
for many years to come, not only
among the white people whom he saved
from slaughter, but among the red men
themselves. The latter regard Miles as
their great white friend,' notwith-
standing he has always fought them ''tc
a standstill'' and was their most invet-
crate foe. They say che has not the
crooked tongue and what he says may
be relied upon At all events he pur-
sued the hostiles with such vfgor as tc
relieve our frontiers of a dreaded foe
o.4eating the Cheyennes, the Co.
manches and the Sioux. driving The
boastful Sitting Bull and his band ovel
the Canadian frontier and completely
clearing the hostile territory. He Their
acquired the reputation of great In
dian fighter, which has chung to hin
ever since; but his greatest feat was
the capture in 1886 Of the Apache &c.
ronimo and his band of fiends. Genera
Crook had tried to corral them, but ha6
failed. and as he asked to be relieved
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1t was at Blue Hill, for instance, that
telephoning by means of kite borne
wires was carried on; that elaborate
experiments in aerial photography and
SUCH noteworthy meteorological inveS-
legations were made that the United
States weather bureau was induced four
years ago to establish on the system
followed at Blue Hill series of kite
flying stations along our coast and at
interior points. With a self registering
instrument called the meteorograph,
which Is barometer, thermometer and
hygrometer combined, recording it's
readings" on a cylinder turned by
clockwork, valuable data have been OBJ
tanned as to the conditions prevailing in
the upper atmosphere. Thus was in
vaded a domain of nature which had
been until that time unknown to man.
Experimentation of late years has
been conducted with a view to Develop
ing the latent possibilities of the kite
as an adjunct to the dirigible airship as
well as an Independent factor for the
solution of the aerial navigation prob
lem.
A great advance was made in 1892
when Lawrence Hargrave of Australia
invented his box or cellular kite, since
greatly improved, notably by C. H.
Lawson of Portland, Me-, who as kite
designer is SAID TO De dHequdieQ Law
son has constructed a kite of the Har-
grave type having 900 square feet Of
surface exposed to the wind. 1t lifted
a dummy man weighing $50 pounds sew
eraI hundred feet into the air. This
cellular kite was a favorite and came
the nearest to perfection in the recent
kite congress at Paris, where every ac-
cessory to aerial navigation was tested
with the object of rendering the navi-
gable balloon or modern airship safer
and more manageable. This type doubt
less will be that of the future, at least
until some better shall have been
evolved, and experimentation will be
conducted along lines already laid
down. Those who have seen the Law
son kite sailing through the air like a
beautiful yacht over the sea describe
the spectacle as one of the most mag
nificent they ever witnessed and are en-
thusiastic as to its possibilities
One of the most practical uses to
which kitefying can be put is its util-
ization in signaling. photographing.
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lie eye, but for years previously ne at
tracted a great deal of attention. owing
not only to his eminence In command
and to his deeds of bravery in the past,
but to the fact that, unlike many OF the
great generals who took part in the
civil war, he was not graduate OF
West Point He won his high position
by grit and determination, and perhaps
there is no career that better exempli-
fies than his the opportunities awaiting
the poor boy in this country If he but
shape his ambition early in life and
hold fast to his ideals.
He was born in the little mountain
village of Winchester, Mass, Aug. 8,
1889. the son of a poor farmer descended
from long line of sturdy New England
ancestry. The first of his name in
America (who then wrote it "Myles'o
was a Welshman who came over in 1852
and settled at Swansea. Mass. He was
a Baptist preacher. but as the settlers
were at that time rather prejudiced
against men of his persuasion he be-
came a man of war and went out
against the Indians He won such re-
nown in the King Philip war as to be
known as the lighting parson." and
his prestige was such that for several
generations after him the Miles family
was not considered complete without a
SOlQ1er IN IL. Nelson A. miles, great
grandfather and two of the latter's sons
fought their way through the Revolu-
tionary war from Concord and Licking
ton to Corvallis surrender at York
town, but after the war was over they
went back to their homes and led the
quiet lives of Yankee farmers. There
were several scholars in the family also,
Harvard graduates who became noted
at the bar and in the pulpit. All were
Baptists, and it is recorded that young
Nelson A. Miles was baptized into the
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GALL WHITE AND GREEN.

s'It is all white and green" Such was
the description of Java by recent viz
itor to the Dutch East Indies.
He continued:
Everything in the way of a building,
from mansion to q gatepost is white
washed once or twice a year.
Looking oversthe landscape one sees
dazzling white factories, white cottages
and huts. white fences and bridges that
look like Parian marble
Many of the buildings indeed are
whitewashed both inside and out. The
white even extends to the clothing Of
the colonists. who wear white duck
suits. white helmets and white shoes.
THE effect Of all these white objects
against the vivid and intense green of
the trees and plantations Is very strik-
ing, and doubt whether anything like
1t is to be seen elsewhere in the world
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THREE POPULAR AERop1ANE TYPES

fact an English paper stated that he
made an ascent in kite - and the
Industrious Franklin was immortalized."
Well. he was immortalized by his
great discovery, but not just in the way
described.
Although men were experimenting
more than hundred years ago, it was
a woman who made the first authentic
ascent supported entirely by a kite.
This was in 11z4. but it was claimed
that heavy loads had been drawn by
kites a. early - ls27. Nearly fifty
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was driving in her pony chaise near Spa
when she met ragpicker's cart drawn
by a dog, which two men were beating
cruelty. The queen Immediately pulled
her trap across the road and requested
the brutes to cease i'll treating the un-
lucky animal. Instead of obeying her
they began using most insulting Ian
guage and then thrashed the wretched
dog worse than before. Queen Maria
said no more, but turned her carriage
and followed them all the way to the
next village. Theux. There she found a
policeman and had the ragpickers ar
rested. The authorities wished to add
to the charge one Of insulting the
queen, but her majesty would have
none Of it. ut was not as a queen did
what have DONE" she said, but mere
1y as a woman"