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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-04-29

Foley's Honey and Tar contains no
opiatts and will not constipate like
nearly all other cough medicines Re-
fuse substitutes. Sold by Glider &
Weeks.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-04-29

After the deficiency fund is distri-
buted the remaining dispensary fund
received during the present year will
be divided pro rata, based upon the
number of children enrolled in the
schools Of the various counties.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-04-29
The Ewort-Pifer Go,
The Question OF Dress is Paramount

of thought the
Oar k the ne" spring nercns9
discriminating people, we
store
merely disposition Of VIZ" Us
merit Through every portion OF 'hls pnc
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appreciably by so slight a weight. and
yet the demonstration OF this fact was
even more charitable. Adjusting the mi
crometer to register an upward bending OF
the plate the instructor put his hand be-
meath it and pressed upward with one fin
ger. The bell connected with the micro
meter Immediately stopping ringing. which
showed that although the plate had been
raised ever so slightly. the detection had
been sufficient to make the electric circuit
and the sensitive apparatus had recorded
the fact.
The micrometer with electric contact will
indeed detect a variation of 100. 0oOth Of an
inch and respond to the additional weight
of a mans hand upon a wooden beam six
by eight inches I'm size already loaded with
$500 pounds. By means Of such appliances.
in tests made upon fulI-sized material, the
constructing engineer has, during the last
few years. been supplied with exact data
for his calculations. whether he is building
a mill or a ship, an engine or an elevator.
II studying the use of cement for build
ing purposes, the European, especially the
German laboratories, are, so far. well ahead
of similar American institutions. This is
known to be largely due TO the fact that
American builders have hitherto found
close at hand an abundant supply Of wood,
stone and brick. while in France and Ger
many these materials are not so available
and the use of cement construction is al
most universal; not only for walls and
floors of buildings. but for monuments and
many sorts of permanent structures. Every
technical school in Germany is studying
and testing cement construction. The
United States government has already be-
gun Investigations to ascertain the effect
of heat and cold upon this material. and
it is probable that the important technical
schools on this side of the water will soon
turn their attention also to the research
work necessary to place it in the hands of
American builders.
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In THE HOME OF lola.
How the Personality of the Author Is
Shown i'm It's Furnishings.
London Truth.

London Truth.
1 have been taken through Zola's town
house. He seems to have had a PRESENT.
ment that he would be killed in his bed at
night. To secure himself against murder
Gus burglars he had a forged iron grating of
room a 1eah i'm order IeS te isolate 9saeef the sI part in ~ which
he slept from the rest of the apartment.
The structure of the bed rendered IL inn
possible for any one to hide under II. lola
himself kept the key of the wicket in. the
grating, he fearing that IL he left 1t about
a duplicate might be made. The bed Is
ponderous, g%randiose and wholly out OF
proportion and harmony with the some
what meagre architecture of the house
1t must have been made long ago for some
Italian magnifco's palace, and is misplaced
in a building constructed by a stingy
But lola had no sense of harmony and
proportion. He felt what was handsome
in isolated objects and reveled in their
beauty. The fireplace which sent out his
stealthy murderer is low-very low-and
narrow, but surmounted by a mantel OF
the richest carved marble. One sees in IT
the work of the facile Italian chisel that
plays with technical difficulties. The col
umns supporting it had beer tall, but lola
caused them to be shortened to ft his ugly
little fireplace. Imagine a giant with his
neither limbs cut off a little above the
knee, and your fancy will present you a
point of comparison with this once superb
mantelpiece. An Italian holy-water font
and a Madonna and child are among the
bric-a-brac of this museum bedroom. which
is one to brighten sleep away. But, though
extremely superstitious in an Italian way,
lola had no Catholic feeling. and felt no
veneration for the numerous virgins In
marble, faience, wood or in pictures that
adorned his house. He possessed one
attributed TO Botticelli. The whole collec-
ton was Italian.
AS to his superstitions. he feared the
curses or i'll will of other human beings,
and shivered when he thought of their
possible occult effects. He dreaded the evil
eye, and stood in awe of gypsies, with
whom he had in some way connected him
self in his evil days. He took care not
to terminate or begin a work on FRIDAY.
lola, nevertheless, should be regarded as
a free-thinker, so far as hypersensitiveness
to impressions admitted OF freedom OF
thought. With his extreme nervousness,
he had a singularly thick skin. This came.
perhaps, from his great Independence Of
sociability and from his finding when alone
plenty of company in the creations of his
brain. L do not think him a great artist,
or a great philosopher, but a great prose
lyrist and a prodigious creator Of human
types. All his creations sDrang out of
his early Impressions. In his early life he
used 10 help his mother when pushed by
want of money. She took the family linen
to a lavoir to wash II. lola went there
with IL, and carried away a store of i'm
pressions that form the most telling chap
tiers of "~L'Assommoir," and in that way
laid the foundation of his fortune.
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THE COMING L~EVIATHANS.
Marine Achievements That Promise
others Still More Wonderful.
American ~Shipbuilder.

I'LL ~
The forthcoming German stamer Kaiser
Wilhelm II, the English steamer Cedrlc
and the two American steamers building at
New London, Conn, are marine acnleVe,
ments of more than individual or nautical
victories. They are triumphs of inventive
skill in which all the world can rejoice. 1t
is difficult to forecast the limits that may
be reached in size and speed OF ships, but
measured by past developments ana by
analogous performances ashore 1t Is not
unreasonable to expect within a decade
that even less than five days may be
achieved by ships constructed for record
breaking. The undertaking is, however,
a gigantic assailing of mechanical difficult
ties. for il must be that the
power required increases in the ratio OF the
cube of the speed. or. more plainly, TO
double the speed demands eight times the
original power. But power means weight of
machinery and of fuel, and, as these affect
displacements, which in turn affect speed.
some idea ma be gained OF the formidable
proportions assumed by every attempt to
increase speed and overcome resistance.
Still, the remarkable results achieved by
the association of lightness, strength and
power in the propelling apparatus of small
er craft furnish data which are beginning
to influence all marine engineering. Saw
ings in weight. the sacrifice of strength by
the use of superior materials, careful treat
ment of details and avoidance of forms
which are heavier but not stronger, will
assist in the solution of the problem. Here
in lies one Of the keys to the mystery, and
here must be sought the perfection which
increases the work done and reduces the
almost prohibitive cost Of running express
steamers.
Modern designers are, however. deft
workers of spells-magicians almost in their
achievements. Then too, the past lends en-
enlargement. for the level attained has
been through gradual progress, not by
leaps and bounds. Slow and tentative pro-
cesses, allied with patient trial, have gone
land in hand, and the co%ntributive result
argues q hopeful outcome.
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DIFFERENTIATED AT SEVENTY.
IN Time Cannot BE Fixed by a Hard
and Fast Line. "
New York Commercial.

New York Commercial.
BY a vote of the trustees of Cornell Uni
versity all professors in that institution
seventy years. BY retiring" is meant,
exactly, that they will be relieved OF their
regular active work and responsibilities,
but for one year thereafter they will be
designated as special lecturers in their re-
spective departments and receive their full
salaries; during the succeeding four years
they VIII receive salaries OF only $500
within the discretion of the president; nc
provision whatever is made for them at
the age of s~venty-ive, but President
Schurman has announced that mo profess
scr who has served Cornell faithfully will
be permitted to live in want in his old
age"
To most outside laymen this plan will not
appeal with much favor We fear; and IL Is
difficult to see how the most closely inter-
ested insiders can regard IL as possessing
either wisdom or practicability. Ii Is not
conceivable that all the professors at Cor
nell are to become UNFIT for regular duty
at exactly seventy years of age. There is
in men everywhere and In all occupations
a wide variation in this matter Of incipient
inefficiency. PHYSICAL, as well as mental,
conditions are factors in determining its
approach. Some men reach the zenith OF
their capabilities at fifty, others at sixty.
and others still higher up In the age scale
professional life must be well above sixty.
II study, experience and a keeping well up
with the times count Tor anything the av-
erage college professor at sixty-hve must
be a vastly better instructor, other things
being equal, than the average. one at thir-
ty-fve or fo-ty-iye; and IL Is not reason
able to suppose that in the succeeding five
years the deterioration In his powers and
capabilities will have been so rapid as TO
make his retention in active work wholly
impracticable.
And there are instances in plenty where
the character of professional work never
ceases to improve. but grows constantly
better and more effective until waning
physical powers cut IL on. We have In
mind men engaged in college instruction
at ages above seventy whose places could
not easily be hlled-in some instances. not
at all.
But at Ithaca. II appears. a sort OF dead
line Is to be drawn at the SEVENTEEN birth
day. More's the pity!
A more rational plan would be for the
Cornell trustees to decide. in the case Of
each Individual professor, the time when
his retirement becomes practicable. And
what of the trustees themselves? Is any
dead-line OF age TO cut them OF from serv-
ing the institution? Is the ripeness Of
their Judgment in the business and educa-
tional affairs of the institution to become
valueiess when they bave passed the fatal
three-scorc-and-ten Milestone? Does not
the gulf stream of their youth now into
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King Edward Deceived Her.
IN. A. p"

VI. "A.
Not so very long ago. when the King was
Prince of Wales and he was better able
than nowadays to crafty his tastes for the
methods of 1.-The good l-Raschid,"
he was taking a walk alone in st. James's
Park before breakfast. He found himself
followed by a well-dressed but crazy-look-
ing old woman. He had seen and suffered
from her before, so he ignored her sedu-
lousy and severely, and continued his stroll
until he was obliged to turn homeward.
Then the woman stood right before him
and courtsied. The prince raised his hat
and tried to pass on. But In vain. II have
a grievance, your royal Highness." began
the stranger. drawing from her handbag
a big. closely written parchment roll. ZACH,
madam, thees ees not re first time l have
been taken for re Pr-rrince Of Wales was
the reply, in a gruff voice and with a fine
cultural German accent. The old lady
flashed a look of deepest scorn upon the
Teutonic double" of the King that was
TO be. Then she put away her precious
documents and said, 'oftily, with the rather
pitiful vanity of her class-the Miss Elites
of real life: II have the honor to know
personally all the members OF the royal
family, and If my eyesight were not be-
coming so bad nowadays L would never
have made such an astonishing error as to
have taken you for the Prince of Wales"
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Chicago Tribune.

chicago tribune.
BeFnice Bardine. a Texas girl. who is yet
under twenty years of age. has displayed
better judgment and business acumen OF
a higher order than a score OF male COM
petitors who are engaged in the same bust
ness that couples her attention at the
present time. Feeling confident that pecans
would a good price. she quietly
leased every pecan grove and forest Of any
value In the Colorado valley. When buy
ers appeared i'm the country, startling the
ranchers by offering to engage pecans at
III cents a pound, those who make a busi-
ness of gathering the nuts were a~stounded
10 discover that a young girl had entered
the held and cornered the crop. so Tar as
this particular region is concerned. This
energetic young woman is in a fair way 10
make a fortune in a few months.
The largest and best pecans grow upon
the topmost bows OF the tallest trees.
often 80 feet from the ground. A daring
athletic climber Of light weight gets a few
bushels of these ~"topgallants," as they are
to shake their fists at them and walk
away: They often leave from 81 10 ~
worth OF pecans In the tops OF these tall
trees. Few boys can be found who dare 10
ascend TO such dizzy heights. Miss Bar
dine determined TO harvest the crop clean.
II will have those big pecans in the tops
OF the trees IL 1 have TO go after them in
a balloon" she said
she studied aerostatics and EMPLOYED a
competent mechanic TO make an airship in
accordance with a design that she had
drawn, NOT many days passed before the
balloon was ready for the venture. The
experiment was made at the Granite shoals.
on the Colorado river. where there is a
large forest of the tallest pecan trees in
Texas. Miss Bardine's people had already
gathered the nuts from the branches q
the giant trees as far up as the thTashers
dared TO venture. They that
there were at least five hundred bushels
OF pecsns yet remaining beyond their reach.
The fearless girl. armed with a long
thrashing pole, stepped into the basket
and when her assistants. who were hold
ing the ancnor rope. announced that they
were ready the signal was given and the
airship rose. swaying and jerking. 20 the
tops OF the trees The men who held the
anchor rope had taken a half hitch around
a small oak. and they found that they
could easily control the ascent OF the bal
loon, but taey were convinced Of the fact
from the way IL jerked. that IL it got loose
IL would shoot toward the skies like an
arrow.
Pleased with the success Of the venture.
the smiling a~eronaut shouted. as she thrust
her thrasher among the heavily hoeh
branches OF a tall tree: -.
Now I will send you a shower OF gold
The big pecans fairly rained upon me
grass below. In the course OF. few nin-
utes the ground was covered with peeans
ttat were worth from 8 10 10 cents q Doon1-
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OF heaven or hell I have no power to sing;
/ cannot ease the burden Of your fears.
Or make quick-coming death a little thing.
Or bring again the pleasure or past years.
Nor for my words shall yet forget your tears.
Or hope again for aught that l can say
The idle singer Of an empty day.
But rather. when. a-weary of your mirth,
From full hearts still unsatisied We sigh,
And feeling kindly unto all the earth.
Grudge every moment as IL passes by.
Made the more mindful that the sweet days die
Remember me a little then. l pray.
The idle singer OF an empty day.
The heavy trouble. the bewildering care.
That weighs us down who live ana earn our
bread.
These idle verses have no power to bear
So let me sing OF names remembered
Because they. living not. can ne'er be dead.
OR long time take their memory quite away
From US poor singers Of an empty day.
Dreamer OF dreams. born out OF my due time.
Why should 1 strive to set the crooked
straight?
Let II suffice me that my murmuring rhyme
Beats with light wing against the ivory gate,
Telling a tale not too .mportunate
To those who in that sleepy region stay,
Lulled by the singer OF an empty day.
William Morris.
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be folly" He needed money for the war,
but the purchase price he considered of lit
tie Importance. 1t must not be less than
$40. 100000. he said. Where he expected the
affair to be most profitable. financially, was
in the saving it would effect. If he should
keep Louisiana he would be forced 10 spend
money on it which he needed for the Euro
pean wars.
The negotiations were carried TO success
because Madison and Livingston rose to
the occasion, disregarded their Instructions
and were backed up magni1cently by JEFF
ferson. But to the English war upon Ma
poleon is due the fact that the vast terri
tory Of Louisiana was acquired in 1893.
Theirs was In a degree justified in boast
ing that the United States are indebted
for their birth and for their greatness to
the long struggle between France and Eng
land." e
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degree. The ant kept on. and finally
secured the cake. but on its return 1t
must nave told itself that il had had a
hours later the student brought it out
again, another morsel of cake betting set
at the end of the roadway. The ant
thought a moment, and then started for
the cake over the blue path. 1t remem-
bered III the red one had been hot. To
prove sui more conclusively that 1t re-
membered, the student next blocked up the
blue path, whereupon the ant did without
the cake rather than venture after 1t by
the red one.
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Philadelphia Record.

An interesting demonstration Of the in
telligence of the ant was made by a
student in the biological department of
the University of Pennsylvania last
week. The young man constructed a
roadway. two feet i'm length, of metal,
and wide this into two parallel paths.
separated by a shigh partition. One of
the paths De painted red and the other
blue. and at their end. in plain view. he
put a morsel of rich cake. Then he set
an ant at the beginning of the roadway.
The ant at once made for the cake over
the red path, w~hereupon the student
turned on a lamp under his mechanism
and heated the path to an uncOmfortable
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the Arctic regions OF their lives lust a
little bit? 1t is sincerely TO be hoped that
they
Are not quite
Cut OF from labor by the fading light"
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-03-08

~ tailor made to the 6uffiest kind ofeffects.
Above all, square shoulders must be promi
nent feature Of the newest cuts. and this IS
obtained by the use of shallow yoke.
stretching over the top of the sleeves to
produce caps. or by having the blouse laid In
graduating paits, which extend over the
shoulder, and narrow toward the waist.
Hand embroidery seems to take first place
among the trimmings approved by fashion.
though we might truthfully give lace the
first place. II is, indeed something of a
problem to decide Just which one deserves
to be classed as the most fashionable. and we
may as well compromise by awarding each
the palm. As often as not the two varieties
are used in combination, and some wonder
fully beautiful effects are secured in this
way.
A blouse of pale blue molre, to be worn
with skirt to match, had its front and
back laid in utward-turning pleats, stitched
fiat and ornamented between with the dain-
test embroidery pattern done in pale blue
silk. The embroidered bands extended al
most TO the waist, where they ended in long
points.
Another one after the same style utilized
lace In narrow insertion In the spaces be-
tween the pleats. aud to further enhance the
dainty effect there was a liberal sprinkling
OF silver paillcttes. This makes rather an
elaborate blouse, and embroidery substituted
for the glittering spangles reduces the waist
to a less elegant affair.
Black and white Is still good combina-
tion and nowhere is 1t more effective than
In the newest blouscs of crepe de chine,
crepe meteore and taffeta. Not too much
black is applied il the trimming happens to
be embroidery. and a delicate pattern Of
face furnishes wonderful opportunities for
arriving at novel and pretty effects.
White Lace Applied.
A fine white lace applied to blouse of
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-03-08

white crepe is delicately picked out with
hne black embroidery silk.
Dots-those French knot affairs-seem to
be on the wane, and instead we see some ex-
quisite needlework in satin and the ordi.
nary outline stitches. Woolen gowns are
ornamentcd with simple and elaborate pat
terms III heavy embroidery silk. Batistes,
mohairs and canvas cloths are effectively
treated with applications of lace bands, re-
lieved with embroidered patterns here and
there, and linen gowns permit of any and all
of these styles of trimming.
Linen gowns by the way, are to form a
particularly modish part of the fashionable
woman's wardrobe, and, like all the newest
tub gowns they are so deliberately trimmed
with hand embroidery that one might almost
as well invest In a handsome crepe or silk,
at least so far as the price is concerned.
quite the most important question in re-
gard to these popular and smart gowns OF
heavy linen is the one of how to cut the
skirt so that it will stand Tubing without
being reduced to Il shapless mass.
The problem is one that has caused taiors
an unusual amount of worry and after labor
ing all during the quiet season they think
they have at last solved the riddle. This is
the way they secure the flare In vogue and
which Is the cause of all their troubles, for
no laundress in the world could manage a
circular founce so that 1t would look like
ANYTHING after 1t had gone through the usual
process of cleansing.
The skirts are made of several cores cut
on the straight, and then the whole skirt is
laid in plaits running up and down and fas-
tened about to the knees, so that the de-
sired flare is acquired, and yet there are no
folds and seams on the cross to sag and pull.
Nearly all the linen and canvas skirts may
he made after this fashion, for 1t has been
found to he thoroughly satisfactory.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-03-08
STRAW coLoREp SATIN AND S

Very soon the fashionable woman will
have little use for velvet and fur.trimmed
evening wraps, yet an evening coat doesn't
seem quite the thing unless there is at least
suggestion OF this invaluable trimming
somewhere about the garment.
Taffetas and molres will probably take the
place OF warmer looking velyets and cloths,
but 1t will be some time yet before my lady
need shed her wntry looking aud decidedly
comfortable coat.
Panne velvet however, Is not really heavy,
and then lace may always be substituted
for bands and trimmings of fur In the
RaudnItz model for an evening coat we
have the combination OF panne, fur and en-
broidered applications on mousselIne,
The effect OF the wrap Is empire, one that
Is eminently satisfactory and becoming, and
particularly adapted to the use OF beautiful
panne. The coat, OF course, falls gracefully
from the usual yoke, which is incrusted with
embroidered mousseline in a large rose pat
tern, IN front the yoke IL cut In two seal
lops, aud these are edged with a narrow
trimming OF fur, which continues on down
each side Of the front quite to the bottom.
There are caps of the applique covering the
upper part of the sleeve, which are OF II
style neither loose nor tight, yet are con
hned under u very deep cuf, on which the
| same trimming Is Introduced. Bands OF the
fur finish the wrists, and there are very
wide apels suggestive OF the Directoire
| period. These, as well as the rolling collar,
| nre Of sable.
sable Trimmings.
! After all, there is nothing quite so fashion.
able In the way of fur trimmings as bands OF