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Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1903-08-19

was CdSI over t1iS comm unity
by the announcement on the
streets yesterday morning that
Mr. J. M. Heath was dead The
announcement carried sorrow
and sadness to the hearts of
everybody, for Jim Heath was
one Of the most popular men in
Lancaster county. A telegram
from the Polytechnic Hospital in
New York City to Mrs. Heath
brought the sad intelligence
that MIR Heath died at 5 o'clock
He had gone to New York
upon the advice of his family
physician, Dr. J. f. Mackey,
and DR.. S. w. Pryor Of Chester,
to consult experts as to an at
tack of gall stone that struck
him on the night Of the Sth in
stant He left here last Thurs
day afternoon accompanied by
DR.. j. f. Mackey, and reached
New York next day. On his
arrival there he telegraphed
Mrs. Heath that he stood the
trip very we'll and was doing
all right. From day to day
kilograms brought cheering
news and Monday he was well
enough to telegraph his book
keeper, Mr.. Broadus Porter, on
a matter Of business. That
morning a telegram from Mr..
NJ. &. Heath, his brother, who
with Mr.. O. p. Heath, his
uncle, was with him in New
York, stated that he was doing
well and that it had not been
determined whether or not an
operation was necessary. But
all hope was dispelled by the
news of his death. No opera
ton had been performed and a
telegram from his brother and
uncle stated that he had passed
away easy.
Mr.. James Morrow Heath was
the son of Mr.. j. 7. Heath of
Camilla, Ga, where he was
born nearly 80 years ago. He
came to Lancaster and started
in business with Mr.. O Z.
Heath in the early fall of 1882.
In 1885 he went to Camden to
take charge of a new business
he and Mr.. Leroy Springs and
Mr.. 0. P. Heath were opening
in that place. After Mr.. O. p,
Heath retired from the business
in 1889, Mr.. j. M. Heath came
back to Lancaster to assist in
management of his firms extern
sive business here. He retired
from the firm of Heath, Springs
q Co. after they bought out the
Farmers B. & M. Co in the fall
Of 1899, and at once started the
Heath Banking IL Mercantile
Co, with a branch at Kershaw
of which he was made presi
dent and the Lancaster branch
of which he has managed with
signal ability. In 1900 he
bought the bankrupt stock of
the Ganson Dry Goods Co., of
Yorkville, and opened busi.
ness there under the firm name
of J. M, Heath u Co., with Mr..
j Leonard Williams as partner
and business manager. The
Kershaw house has been ably
managed by his brother, Mr.. S.
w. Heath, Kershaw's popular
mayOr.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15
oAsEs oF wAsTED sYMpATHY.

CONSIDERABLE SYMPATHY IS
- often wasted on men who lose
large sums of money in poker
games played on ocean steamers. The
heeced lamb comes home and tells the
police and his friends how he was vic
timized by sharpers and he makes a
loud noise about the injustice Of the
proceeding. A case in point is that Of
q New York man who claims to have
been heeced Of a small fortune on one
Of the recently arriving transatlantic
steamers.
It was the old story. The victim
made the acquaintance Of some very
elegant gentlemen and one or two days
out from Liverpool sat into a game Of
poker with them. He won for a little
while. Then he lost for long while
In the end all Of his money was taken
from him. Yet he is entitled to no
sympathy. The man who plays poker
with people he never met before may
expect to be robbed almost as certainly
as the man who enters a den Of snakes
may expect to be bitten.
We have a lot Of fun with the farmer
who goes to town and falls an easy
victim to the wiies OF the bunco steer
ers; we smile at the innocent who buys
the gold brick that later assays IS per
cent base metal. Why, then, should We
sympathize with the man of affairs,
the keen, shrewd business man, who
plays poker with the sharpers and is
mulcted of his wealth? The poker
game is only another variation Of the
confidence game, except that the poker
victim is much less entitled to sym
pathy than the gold brick or the green
goods vendee.
As a matter of fact, in these days of
wide newspaper circulation, in times
when a trick to steal money is exposed
almost simultaneously with its execu-
ton, very few. people who are victim
lied have any cause for complaint. In
ninety-nine cases out of every hundred
the victim is trying to get something
for nothing. Men don't play poker with
strangers unless they expect to win
money from those strangers; men don't
buy counterfeit money unless they hope
10 victimize somebody with It
The only safe way TO do business
is to steer clear Of all shady transac-
tiOns. The individual who only expects
dollars worth of goods for a dollar
viii never be robbed and the individual
who gives an honest dollars worth for
a dollar will never be accused of IL
legal work
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15
PENNYPAokER READS PAPERS.

= OVERNOR PENNYPACKER Of
" Pennsylvania at least reads a few
OF the newspapers he is so de-
sirous Of muzzling- The other day he
wrote a remarkab bic letter to the editor
of the Philadelphia Ledger in which he
thanked that paper for preventing him
from violating the constitution of the
state in the matter Of some appoint
ments. This is not the first instance
on record, by any means. where a
newspaper has kept a public officer
from making a fool Of himself, but
politicians rarely recognize the obhga-
ton
In his letter the governor says: ''The
appointments to which you refer viii
not be made. and they probably would
have been If my attention had not
been attracted to your editorial" That
seems frank and manly enough, but the
governor could not refrain from spoil
ing it all by the addition Of this: cit is
one Of the few occasions when I have
found a newspaper to be Of real service
in the conduct of public affairs"
That ungracious sentence might just
as well have been left out. 1t puts the
Pennypacl1er letter about on a par with
such an utterance as this from a man
who has Just accepted a donation: 'I
don't like you and I don't like your
money, but I'm going to take it be-
cause il viii keep me from going hun
CRY" StiH, the bare acknowledgment
of the obligation from a man as noto-
riously opposed to a free press as
Pennypaeker means a great deal It is
much more than anyone could have ex-
pected Of him.
And speaking Of Pennypacker re-
minds us that his new libel or press
muzzling law doesn't seem to have
muzzled a little bit. As one bright
paragrapher has put ii. the only effect
of the measure thus far has been TO
show that an illegal cartoon is very
much funnier than a legal one Ever
since the bill became law the more
prominent Pennsylvania newspapers
have been hercely cartooning Penny
packer. Quay. Senator PenrOse and
others every day.
IT is evident that they are trying to
force libel suits with a view to deter
mining the consdtutionality OF the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15
CARTOONS rHAT SUCCEED.

A DISPATCH FROM CHICAGO an
II nounces that John T. McCutcheon,
the cartoonist, who has made himself
famous by his work on the Record-Her-
aid of that city. has been engaged by
the Chicago Tribune on a three years
contract at $50, 600 a year for one car
tOOn a day. Figures of that size are
calculated to make one gasp. but as a
cold business proposition McCutcheon
is worth all of the salary. He has un-
QuesdOnably furnished the most pOpu-
lar feature of the Record-Herald since
his connection with the paper, and
thousands of people know the paper
almost solely because Of his work.
Over $50 daily for a single drawing
seems a big price to pay, but when it
comes to furnishing a frst-class car
toon every day and drawing it success
fully, as McCutcheon does, the price is
not large. one can count on the fin
gers of one hand the great cartoonists
Of the country, and Of these probably
three furnish The ideas on which the
drawings are based.
If the selection went further and in
cluded only those .cartoonists Who have
steadily grown in favor, the choice
would probably narrow down to Opper
and AIcCutcheon. There are other ar
fists who do great work at times, and
there are some who do well in certain
limited lines; but these two men of all
the American cartoonists stand head
and shoulders above the crowd.
Nor is it difficult to understand the
reason for their success. Both are men
of education, informed in history, lit
erature and the manifold subjects Of
current human interest. Both are al
ways good natured. even in their satire:
and therein we believe lies their popu-
larity- Their pictures always bring a
smile even from their victims, and by
that same token they have more infu-
ence than any Of their rivals who con-
fuse wit with brutality and humor
with vulgarity.
Personally, McCutcheon is modest
enough to confirm the impression that
he is really great. For years he has
been a student Of his art, and Of every
thing related to it. His pen and ink
sketches are as fine as etchings because
he believes in doing the thing well al
ways. Every man who knows Clutch
viii be glad he has arrived"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15
EMeLAMD.s COSTLY ECONOMY:

7 T ISN'T OFTEN that an attempt by
L a government to save money brings
ont a storm of honest condemnation,
but England has just furnished such
an example. What is known as the
Blanket scandal has aroused the Eng
lish people to a high pitch OF indigna-
ton, and properly 50. In order to cut
off an expense which, comparatively
speaking, would have been tri1ing,
England has caused a number Of
deaths and placed in Jeopardy many
lives.
Toward the end Of March ten cases
of typhoid fever broke out almost 81
simultaneously on the Cornwall training
ship lying off Purheet. A medical Of
fcer from the port Of London was sent
TO investigate the cause. He carefully
went over the ship but could find moth
ing in the water supply or surroundings
by which the outbreak could be ex-
planned. Finally he began an inspec-
ton Of the stores.
Before II had progressed far he found
that 100 army blankets, secured from a
city merchant, had been furnished to
the boys An inquiry developed the
fact that these blankets had made part
of a lot of 500 shipped from South
Africa to London. TWenty-efgilt of the
100 purchased were used on the ship
twenty-nine given to a shore hospital
and the remainder were in storage.
A careful analysis of the blankets,
according to the British newspapers,
showed "a serious and dangerous state
of infection" in ninety eight of them
Further, "a large number were soiIed
with blood and other matter and on
some Jumps Of dirt were sticking. and
there appeared 10 have been no at
tempt at cleaning or disinfection be-
fore shipping" Word was at once sent
20 South African army headquarters
TO stop shipping the blankets, but the
mischief has been done.
A conservative estimate places the
number of infected blankets shipped to
England from South Africa at 100 coo.
From London these blankets have been
sent in small lots to fifty different
towns in the United Kingdom and no
body knows how many have been sent
to other points. Perhaps the United
States has received some Of them And
an these disease-producing possibilities
have been caused through an effort of
the English war department to save
money. not through the dishonesty of
a quartermaster.
The blankets were sold with the
knowledge Of the war department, al
though the regulations provide that
discarded blankets must be torn into
four pieces so that they cannot be used
for anything except rags. They were
baled without being disinfected, not
withstanding the fact that typhoid and
typhus patients had lain upon them, as
well as patients suffering from other in
fictitious and contagious diseases. The
blankets used on .he training ship were
purchased from a dealer at a greatly
reduced price. Had 1t not been for this
fact she crime of the war department
for it cannot be described in any other
way-might not nave been discovered
for a long time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15
Champion Circulation La.

The champion circulation liar has been
discovered His lair is IL Japan, where
he is acting as editOr-in-chsef of the
laundering Dawn, q Buddhist organ Just
started in Toxic. Here is his greeting
TO the public-f'
starts its circulation with millions and
millions of numbers The rays of the
sun the beams of the stars, the leaves Of
the trees. the blades Of grass. the grains
of sand, the hearts Of tigers, elephants
Hons ants. men and women are its sub
scribers- This journal viii nencefnrth
Tow in the universe as the rivers flow
and the oceans surge
ANY liar who can beat that can get a
small Job with big salary-in New
York.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15
When in doubt attend to business.

A Salt Laker yesterday encountered
on the street young man OF Ephra1m
whom he knew. Hello" said the Salt
Lake man; What are you doing in Salt
L2ke2 Well" replied the Sanpete
youth with a difhdent air, you see I
got married yesterday to Mile Hansen
and we're stopping at the hotel over
here and I got sort Nv lonesome this
morning and I thought I would come
out to see If I could find someone
knew
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

statute. but not one Of the politicians
attacked has dared to so into court.
Perhaps they fear that the cartoon case
against them might be proved to the
satisfaction OF any jury that might be
gotten together in Pennsylvania This
is the only conclusion that can rea-
sonably be drawn from their continued
silence
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

A contemporary suggests that If Ken
lucky would institute a series Of legal
hansings the cOwardly assassins who
skUlk through the eastern counties
might be Representation. That's a good
notion. Now who'll volunteer for the
hangings? Apparently it is impossible
TO catch any assassins so some public
spirited citizens win just have to come
forward and sacrifice themselves.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

A southern orator thinks General
Robert E. Lee is entitled to a niche in
the new Statuary hall in Washington
As a great soldier Lee is certainly en-
titled to the place. The country. should
be big enough and generous enough to
remember to forget that Lee once drew
his sword against it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

The postoffice investigation was dis
eussed Informally at cabinet meeting
the other day. It is being cussed for
mally in more places than one these
aare
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

It is claimed that ]. Pierpont Morgan
achieved his greatest business success
after he was so years old. That's
all right, but we can't help thinking
Mr. Morgan learned to do a few sums
in his earlier days.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

The Breakers, the great hotel at
Palm Beach. Florida, has been burned.
but the state still has plenty of break
ers in the way of Hotels.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

The Richfied Reaper says: 1.-THE pros
poets are fine for a large crop of fruit
at Fruita this season" They natu-
rally would be.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

In holding up the passengers of a
street car in Seattle the other day the
robbers usurped a prerogative usually
exercised by the companies.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

In view of the statement that there
is no gambling in Salt Lake the grand
jury might oblige by ascertaining how
several well-knONn citizens continue to
hold their weight, their diamonds and
their apparel. The disclosures of the
methods would not only be Of general
interest, but might prove valuable in
tea aching others how 10 live well with
out anybody knowing how you do it.
In the good old summer time, the good
old summer time,
Some young men took a fishing trip
adoWn the river Rhine.
They had a key of beer along, and that
was a very good sign
There was mighty little fishing done in
the good old summer time
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

A Tennessee boy stole $26 and con-
ceaIed IT in the roots Of a tree. This
appears to be a new kind of graft.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

The editor of religious paper
discusses at length the question
of how to stop drinking. The problem
is an easy one in Salt Lake of a Sun
day if you don't happen to have the
password.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

The president has just committed the
sentences of seventeen horse thieves in
Indian Territory. There was a time
when a break like this would have cost
Mr.. Roosevelt the support of whatever
friends he may have had in the west.
Still. when you think of it, in those
good old days horse thieves did not get
sentences, so the play could not have
come up at all.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

Mrs. Victor Hug OF Chicago has sue
ceeded in locating in New York her
husband, who left his home with an
other woman and his young son four
months ago. Mrs. Hug does not want
her husband back, but she does want
the boy. How many women would go
to all that trouble for little Hug?
A suitable reward will be given any
one who viii suggest a method of find
ing the average incandescent light in
Salt Lake after dark.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

A sassy young fellow from Cache
On a Hyrum belle made great rnache,
But when he got rache
She hit him a smache.
And 1t certainly settled his hache.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

If the method employed at Sandy
of saving structures threatened by
fire could be applied to all classes of
buildings, a shortage in the water sup
ply would not be so great a menace.
At Sandy they turn the houses over
and roll them to a place of safety, first
carefully removing all inmates.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

Governor Bailey denies that his mar
rage is the result Of a campaign
pledge Matters are surely coming to
a great pass in Kansas when a man
has to give reasons for getting married
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

The people of New York state are
raising money to hire a professional
rainmaker. Why not enforce the Raines
law and keep the money?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

The Mothers congress has effectively
answered carping critics by electing
none but married women as officers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

A grave digger in Holland claims 10
have buried $4,000 people. This almost
ties the record of some of the leading
Pennsylvania coal mines.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15

Prince Peter Karageorgevitch says
in effect that he had his fingers crossed
all the time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-15
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
WHEN NEpH1 CAME TO BAT.

There was tumult in the grand stand
when Whiting got TO first,
There was wild applause when kim came
UP prepared to do his worst
When Whiting made the second bag as
Kimerer went cut
The murly sky above US echoed back the
Salt Lake shout.
Two gone. said Lindsay softly to Henry
Two gone. retorted Henry, -'and We
need one run to tie
Now By me halidom;" said he, nobody
Faint heart. cheer up said Henry,
what batter cOmeth next2"
For in eight bitter innings, so had the
battle sped.
The motley crew from Lobstertown had
forged one run ahead.
We want this rum the people cried, re-
luctant all to yield.
Step forth. step forth. some hitter, and
swat It far afleld!
And Thomas. Nephi Thomas, he of the
winsOme smile,
Came with all the air of one who'd hit
the ball a mile.
NephIs place,
And Nephi had that guileleSS smile still
frozen on his face
Oh, Nephi boy, could you but know the
prayers We prayed for you!
Oh, Nephi boy, could you but feel the
pain that pierced US through,
Oh, could you comprehend the grief that
You'd never let a uniform inciose your
frame againi
For, Nephi boy. we've loved you, yes
Nephi. loved you well
And, Nephi, you betrayed US, lad, YOU
treated US like thunder,
we dared not bet you'd hit it out.
were too wise for that,
And We were all disconsoIate when you
stepped NJ to bat
But still we kept on hoping, we prayed
that some mischance,
Some heretofore unheard of. unlikely cir
cumstance,
Might cause your bat to fall athwart the
balls uneven path,
But, Nephi boy, your batting would pro-
woke an angels wrath.
For three times, Nephi Thomas, you Of
fered at that ball,
And, Nephi Thomas, as you live, you
touched il not at all.
You left poor Whiting. all chagrined,
upon the second base
and ogden two games to the good in this
dizzy pennant race
Twas four times in that fearsome fight
that Nephi came to bat,
And four times Johnny Nash's curves put
Nephi to the mat,
And when, with two men gone to rest, the
chance to win occurred,
Nephi struck out and once again twas
hope long long deferred
Oh, man is born to trouble as the sparks
do upward fly,
And after years OF living we all of US
must die
But if We lived forever we are very GER
tain that
We ne er would suffer as we did when
Nephi came to bat
Prince Peter Karageorgevitch says
in effect that he had his fingers crossed
all the time.
The Mothers congress has effectively
answered carping critics by electing
none but married women as officers.
If the method employed at Sandy
of saving structures threatened by
fire could be applied to all classes Of
buildings, a shortage in the water sup