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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-01-22
slUE RIDGE RAILROAD.
H. C.. BEAaTE, Receiver.

In Erect june 8, 1902.
ee.veen Anderson a-d Walhalla.
sasTBoCEr -Es1booHh
ARRIVE LEAVE.
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THE FIRE CROWD.
A. Rule 1t Likes Big Blaze eno
Crashing Walls.

"There is one curious thing connect
ed with fires said 4 thoughtful man.
"and that is the fact that while the
fireman is always hero in the public
estimate and while men and women
have all kinds Of admiration for these
brave fellows they yet want to see
them get the worst Of it in the fight
against the flames. 1t is an interesting
fact that the average man and woman
are not at all anxious to see the hremen
get the fire under control. They would
much rather see the flames spread un-
iii the affair developed into an i'm
mense contlagration. Mind you. the
trait is not at all vicious. There is no
malice in it. 1t is simply the love OF
excitement and adventure. things that
are so deep rooted in human nature
that we may not control them at will.
Besides. we want to develop our he
roes to the limit. We want our fire.
men to fight q good fight against long
odds and under grea> difficulties. We
cannot quarrel with this feeling in the
human makeup. After all, 1t is what
one may call the poetry Of human ma
ture, and without it this old system Of
ours would be dull and prosaic indeed.
OF course. you will always find a few
persons around q fire who are directly
concerned in the fight the fremen are
making They want to see the flames
put out. In the case of some Of the
spectators it means bread and meat.
It means the loss Of a position or may
be the loss of home. But was speak
ing of the vast majority Of men and
women who gather to witness fire.
The fire is the thing with them. They
want to see big blaze and hear the
crash of the walls and all that sort Of
thing Did you ever take the trouble
to analyZe a fire crowd? In the first
place an alarm Of fire will draw q
crowd quicker than anything in the
world. Whenever the bells begin to
clang a. d the engines so rushing down
the street you will see men, women and
children rushing this way and that in
order to see as much as may be seen
Of the fire and fire fighters. The hour
of day or night does not make so much
difference. The crowd will get there
in some way and for some reason,
though the great majority Of the per-
sons have no sort Of interest other than
idle curiosity. Once on hand, they
want to see good fire, and that's why
I say they want to see the flames get
the best Of the fremen. They will go
away and talk about what a game fight
the fire laddies made. Human nature
is q curious thing. is it not?'-New Or
! leans TimeS-Democrat.
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The Southern Railway.

Special rates >ia the Southern
Railway to New Orleans, Mobile
and Pensacola, account Of Mardi
G1as Carnivals February 1916.
Account of the above occasions
the Southern will sell tickets at
rate OF one first class fare plus twen-
ty-6ve, cents for the round trip.
Tickets on sale February 9th to
18th, final limit for return February
goth. An extension may be had
until March 5th by depositing ticket
and paying fee of SOC.
For rates and full particulars ap-
ply to,
S. H. Mclean, Agent.
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Mother Goose Revised.

Hey diddle; diddle, the cat and
the fiddle, the COW jumped over
the moon, says the New York
Sun.
1T was the only course open, ~
she explained; with turkey 50
high, I had to do something to
catch up"
Seeing the little dog laugh, she
comforted herself with the thought
that he would soon be sausage.
Little Jack Horner satin a corner,
eating his Christmas pie.
Il inserted my thumb he
lisped, because it isn't polite to
cit pie with a knife
Feeling himself an infant Ches-
terheld, he continued his repast.
The Old Woman Who Lived in a
Shoe was sobbing.
II made a big mistake,' she
cried. Il should have chosen a
Christmas stocking"
Thereupon she wept affesh at the
thought of all the presents she was
missing.
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Tribute Of Respect.

Whereas, God in his inscrutable
wisdom has called to her reward our
highly esteemed sister, Mrs. Mary
Elmore Mayer, who was identified
with the chapter ofthe Eastern Star
since its organization, and was a
faithful officer.
Resolved, !. That Ruth Chapter,
No, 9, of the Order of the Eastern
Star, has sustained great loss in
the death IF our sister, Mrs.
Mary Elmore Mayer.
2. That We tenos' the be-
reaved husband and all the mem-
bers of her family our deepest SYM
pathy.
;. That these resolutions be
spread upon the records of our
chapter, and a copy be sent to
the family of our deceased sister,
also a copy sent to the county
papers for publication.
s1r> o. B. Mayer,
Mrs. Van Smith,
Mrs. Otto klettner.
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TO BE A YEAR OF HORRORS.
Calamities Are Predicted By Paris for the
Year 1904.

A special cable to The Philad-
elphia Press from Paris says: The
papers here are commenting gravely
on the uranimity of the astrologers.
magicians, clairvoyants and trance
mediums in predicting year of
horrors for 1904.
A leading astrologer named Jacob
sizes up the situation as follows, and
the others agree more or less as to
detail: Here is the horoscope for
1904, made at the moment the sun
entered the sign CT Capricorn: 1t
indicates year ofgreat immortality
in London. The viceroy of India
abdicates. The United States has
grave quarrels with Russia and Ger
many. Roosevelt falls sick and a
conspiracy is hatched against him.
Serious financial disasters in Am
erica.
The Emperor of Japan has grave
accident.
An attempt on the life of the En-
peror of China.
Volcanic shocks in Constantine
pie, Chile and the Philippines.
A fear of unhealthy literature and
unlimited materialist.
The French Cabinet falls between
April 7 and 1e.
A panic in a music hall, grave &C
cidents and popular disturbances in
Russia. An attempt to poison the
Car. Serious dissepsions between
Russia and Austria.
England loses prestige. The
campaign in Thibet falls through.
Tremendous failures IN CalCutta
and the Transvaal.
Anarchist troubles in Spain; the
government threatened.
In China women massacred.
Everywhere crimes of passion,
mysterious deaths and strange phe-
nomena..
Nineteen hundred and four is an
anagram of 1909, the date of the
birth of Joan of Arc. This year
wonderful child will be born with a
high destiny, showing its power in
1924, an anagram of 1929, the date
of the apogee of Joan Of Arc.
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On the Island of Trinidad oil!
is found amid huge tropical vese-
tation and S said to be of first class
Illuminating power. A Canadian
company is exploiting the field. 1t
is intended to build a pipeline, by
means of which the oil will be con-
veyed to the harbor of the Port O.:
Spain.
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Lent CoCes Early This Year.

Ash Wednesday this year falls
on February II, Lent coming much
earlier than usual. This will ne
cessitate a short social season and
there will likely be a round Of
entertainments during the next few
weeks
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-01-22

When bilious Try a dose of Chamber
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realize for once how quickly tirst-class
up-to-date medicine will correct the dis
order. For sale by Smith Drug Co.,
Newberry, Prosperity. Drug Co., Pros
perity.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-01-22

. The announcement that Sir
Thomas Lipton is to build another
cup challenger may be taken as
evidence that he is still convinced
that it pays to advertise.
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Booming Hanna for President.

Indianapolis, Jan. -11.-The en-
tire state is being flooded with
literature mailed from Chicago
booming Hanna for the republican
nomination for president.
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All regular trains froi2 Bolton TO "aihal;.,
have precedence over traius OF same class
moving in the opposite direction unless 9th
erwise specified by train order.
Will a!ao stop at the following stations to
take on and let of passengers: Pnlnneys
Jane. and Sandy Springs.
J. K. ANDERSON, supe-tn tendent
St. Tammany farmer., 1904-03-05
The Happie.t Man ON Earth.

The man is to be envied who has a
gooS farm well stocked and paid for.
There is no life as Independent and as
free from care, unless one puts lot of
useless worry in it. The poor farmer
deeply in debt certainly has an uphill
pull, but even SO, he is infinitely better
OF than his brother in the city in similar
circumstances, for with little effort the
soil will give him living, and the poor
man in the city is gambling with fate
to large extent. A well-eQuipped and
well-managed farm which is capable of
turning out every year good crops and
good stock is q, kingdom in itself No
capitalist in the city lives better and
more comfortably nowadays than the
well-to-do farmer who has the telephone
and the daily mail. He generally has
what the city capitalist cannot buy at
any price-peace and contentment.-
Chicago Daily Sun.
St. Tammany farmer., 1904-03-05
TWO KINDS OF LAW.
Ons for Lnw-AbidfnE Cftizena ana
the Other Generous-Spiritel
NeiEhbOrs.

Georgia has law intended to induce stock
owners to keep their animals in their own
fields, says the Atlanta Constitution. When
a farmer finds his neighbor's cattle in his
corn, instead of sending them to the pound
or shooting them, he puts them in his own
corral, and when the owner comes for them,
charges him SO cents a head to pay for the
trespass.
1t happened that when the law was under
discussion two neighbors were very violent,
the one in favor Of it, the other against it:
After the law had been passed the cattle Of
the man who had opposed it got into he 9TH
er mans field and were captured. Their
owner went for them.
.''As | am llaw-abiding citizen. said the
other farmer, "and as there are IA cattle, it
wall cost you seven dollars"
The man whose cattle had been lmpounded
was indignant, but he paid the bill. little
later he captured his neighbor's cattle in
his field. Wallet in pocket, the owner of the
cows rode over to get them,
'.Wen,'' he demanded, "how much do ]
owe you!
not be law-abiding citizen, but I'm neigh
Dor"
St. Tammany farmer., 1904-03-05
IN THE SCHOOL ROOM.

Mrs. George H. Beckwith, Of Denver
has presented the town of Bennettsyllle
s. c., with q handsome public school
building.
The first college for women in Japan
was opened less than two years ago, and
it's students already amount to more
than 800, large number OF whom come
from the most distant parts Of the Jap
anese empire.
Rev. Dr. W. E. Huntington, for ~
years dean of Boston university, has
been elected president of that instltu-
ton, to fill the Office of president, which
had been vacant since the death OF
President William F. Warren, year
ago.
In foreign office report on the trade
of Marking, it is stated that such is the
value placed on literary degrees by the
Chinese that during period when hun
dreds of the inhabitants were dying
daily from cholera no fewer than H.
600 students visited the city to compete
for 200 vacancies.
Prof John M. Tyler, of Amherst col
lege is noted for his pat way OF putting
things. He claims that the education Of
the heart should go on with the educa-
tion of the head and in emphasizing his
theory recently he said: "The need OF
heart education has been recognized
through al, the centuries, and SO we have
Bunyan sending Great Heart and moi
Swell Head to the aid of Christian"
Prof F. L. Smart, principal of the
Dubuque high school, who year age
penalized "spooning" students with
expulsion, has caused another sensation
with a letter over his signature in To-
cal paper in which he warns parents o1
the evils that beset their children
through the absence of restriction or
the social enjoyments of young persons
He alleges that there has been a great
falling off in school work because the
pupils-boys and girls-have been to-
much concerned with balls, parties ant
dress" He adds: "Our boys and girl!
ought to be boys and girls much Longer
than they are. They begin to take OF
the airs of grown people all too soon
But until the parents become a little
more sane in the matter, I suppose W.
teachers shall have to bear the blam'
Of Johnnie's and Jennie's failure to de
good work, when the failure is in trutt
due to too much social dissipation.
do not say this complainingly. but Al
q mere statement Of .act."
St. Tammany farmer., 1904-03-05
HOW TO REPAIR ROADS.
Highway. Must Have Constant Ata
tentfOn III They Are to BE OF
Any Use or Value.

Charles Williams, 4 contractor IN
Connersville, Ind, gives few points
on road repair in paper before farm
ers' institute which will be of Interest:
Now, some points on how to keep
roads in good condition, and how to re-
pair them. A road must have constant
attention, il it is to be Of any use or
value.
Whenever a rut forms, it should be
repaired at once The road should DO
graded in the spring and graveled in the
fall. The road will then be hard and
smooth, and the gravel will be packed
down, but not worn out before bad
weather set in. 1t depends on what
shape the crown of the road is in what
the condition of the road will be for
trays! through the winter; II the crown
is in good shape, it will shed the water
to the side bitches, and if they are in
good shape the road will remain dry and
solid.
Now l will tell few ways to spoil
a good road:
."The surest way is to use the road
grader and pile all the mud, sod ana
weeds from the sides and bitches into
the center of the road. This makes the
road soft and muddy, and it will be I'M
possible for the next coat of gravel to
unite with the old roadbed. The result
is the road will be spongy. The best
plan is to scrape it up into piles and
haul it to some gully, of which all roads
have few, and dump it there.
''The road grader is a good road build
er in the hands of man that knows
how to use it, but otherwise he will do
a great deal of damage.
Another way to spoil a road is to
make the crown SO steep that all the
travel will take the center. The result
is the road is worn out in the center,
and no use has been made of the re-
mainder of the road The center is cut
up by three gulleys. which hold water
and cause the road to be soft and muddy
when it would otherwise be in good
shape"
St. Tammany farmer., 1904-03-05
Best in the World.

Estherville. a., Feb. lst.-Mr. George
j. Barber, Of this place, says,
"Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best
medicine in the world. There is moth.
ing as good. I had been sick for ovel
Is years with Kidney Disease, which
finally turned into Bright's Disease.
was treated by Doctors in Chicago, but
Doctor in Estherville treated me. for five
years with no better success. | heard Of
Dodd's Kidney Pills, and made up my
mind to give them trial.
Il am very thankful to be able to say
that they cured me completely, and
think they are the best medicine in the
world"
experiences Of real living men and
women are the only material used in in
advertising Dodd's Kidney Pills. One
such testimony is worth more than a
thousand unsupported claims: The peo
pie who have used Dodd's. Kidney Pills
are those whose evidence is worth con
sideration, and surely nothing can be
more convincing than a statement like
Mr.. Barber's. There are thousands o1
others lust as strong.
St. Tammany farmer., 1904-03-05
CROPS IN ORCHARDS.
or Until the Trees Begin to
show Thrifty Growth.

There is no particular objection that
/ can see to planting garden crops for
a year or two in q newly-set orchard.
The thorough cultivation which pota-
toes, cabbage, onions radishes, carrots,
beets, turnips, or any other ordinary
garden crop require, and the good feed
ing usually given to them, will also help
the trees. and give them a start and
push which will keep them booming for
years to come. But do not imagine that
you can grow good garden crops and
good trees on the same land at the same
time, without proper feeding-I might
say, without double rations. Potatoes
require much potash; cabbage requires
still good deal more of that element
in fact, I know of no crop which takes
the potash out of the soil as fast as
will cabbage and cauliflOwer. Trees will
not thrive without good lot of potash
in the SOIL Do not expect big crops of
cabbage and big growth of trees when
thus planted together, unless you use
potash, either in ashes or muriate, or
OtASE IoFMS VI poIdsn, Will soAy Ao
erai hand In many cases you might use
500 to 800 pounds of muriate of potash,
or its equivalent, to the acre to good
advantage, and it would be mistake
to use less Strawberries often do
first-rate in a newly planted orchard,
and would not hesitate to plant them
in such position. of course looking after
their proper feeding, which means the
use of plenty of potash, too. Such crop
ping will do for few years, but when
the :rees begin to make thrifty growth,
and to shade the ground to consider
able extent, it is time to give the entire
ground up to their exclusive use.-Farm
and Fireside.
St. Tammany farmer., 1904-03-05
EDUCATING FARM BOYS.
Some Pertinent Reasons why Prnctfs
col Agriculture Should BE Taught
In Rural Schools.

Among those who have given the mat
ter attention, there are many who favor
the Introduction Of agricultural instruc-
ton into the rural school as means of
educating the farm boy to. the farm
rather than sending him directly to the
institutions whose influence is In an
other direction.
In recent address, after commenting
upon the more or less popular idea OF
general education of more or less classic
foundation" Hon. James Wilson, Sec
retary of agriculture, goes on to say, in
regard to the agricultural college and the
farm boy:
"The farmers boy who intends to be a
farmer, and his father, who intends to
have his son succeed him on the farm,
do not care anything about that kind Of
education. My idea of education is that
it should fit a young man for his future
life.
81 would begin by teaching on agri-
cultural lines in the primary grades; 1
would continue this kind of education
through the secondary school; would
prepare the boys for the agricultural coll
lege, and they would 60 there as nat
urally as the boy goes to the pantry to
get some bread and butter, with sugar
on it. But just now our system of edu-
cation draws the young people away
from the agricultural college into some
thing else"
That there is truth in this is evidenced
by the number of boys and young men
coming from the farm, and, after at
tending high schools and other institu-
tions of higher learning, go into other
pursuits than that of agriculture.
1t has been held by those most inter-
ested in keeping the boys upon the
farm that with the introduction Of ag-
riculture into the rural school there will
be a tendency to educate the boy back
to the farm. That a good argument IA
vors this proposition there is no ques-
tion.-Drovers' Journal.
St. Tammany farmer., 1904-03-05
CENTURY OLD CIDER MILL

In which the large wheel with solid
stone center runs. The diameter of
trough is about Is feet. The apples are
put in trough and then a horse is hitched
to pole outside Of wheel and that
crushes the apples. Two little scrapers
follow the wheel and keep the apples in
center of trough. The wheel is about 10
inches wide, feet in diameter and
weighs several hundred pounds.
The presses are made of heavy heWn
oak, some of them being 16 inches
square. The screws were made by hand.
This is probably one of the Oldest cider
mills in the country.-Orange Judd
Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer., 1904-03-05

months .s: Mnleh had annoyed me for
ble s, for ~ think cold was response
.asa.a VIC aor ene whole trouble. It seemed
n:,, ~ see1le IN my kidneys. Doan's Kidney
.:. : LIS 1ooteo 1t out. It is several months
s s,nce used them, and up to date there
AA.o Doen no recurrence of the trouble, n
loans Kidney Pills for sale bv al,
Taa.,,.,! Isa.ers; Price, 50 cents per box.
F,oster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. n
St. Tammany farmer., 1904-03-05

or ten feet from it. Fit brace stick
between them at the top. A four by
four studding would be about the right
size Then with cable of three or
four-strand No. 3 wire, or it's equiva-
lent of other sis&s, fastened to top of
second post and tie around log three
feet long, or large stone buried two
and one-half or three feet deep, five
feet back of corner post. The cable
entering ground by corner post, trench
ing in back to anchor log; fill in and
tamp earth solidly around anchor log,
and you will have post you can tie
to-Lewis S. Alter, in Epitomist.
St. Tammany farmer., 1904-03-05
CATCHING COLD
IL the Beginning Of Most Winter
Ailments-Peru-na Protects
Against and Cures Colds.

There is no fact of medical science
better established than that teaspoon
full of Peruna before each meal during
the winter season will absolutely pro.
tect person from catching cold. Now.
if this is true (and there is no doubt OF
it,, thousands of lives would be saved,
and tens of thousands of cases OF
chronic catarrh prevented, by this
simple precaution within reach OF
every one.
After cold has been contracted 9
teaspoonful of Peruna every hour will
shortly cure it, leaving no trace OF II
behind. After chronic catarrh has be-
come established, or the first stages OF
chronic bronchitis or consumption have
been reached, it will take much longer
to effect cure.
It seems strange that as well known
and we'll established as these facts are
St. Tammany farmer., 1904-03-05
severe Root Pruning Favored.

Although the horticulturist OF the
Georgia experiment station declines to
make any positive statement concern.
ing the advisability of severe root prun-
ing when planting young trees, he says
that he is fairly satisfied that peach trees
from which the roots have been large
" cut of will live and flourish in GeOr-
gia even in stiff clay and under adverse
weather conditions. The same state,
ment may also be made of apple and
cherry trees. In some experiments
made the last two years he found that
the root-pruned trees made fewer, deep
er, larger and more robust roots. These
roots penetrated i7A inches. against
9h inches for the roots Of unprune6
tre0R
St. Tammany farmer., 1904-03-05
Thought 1t was soiled.

They were a party Of people from "up
state" and nothing in the big city inter.
ested them so much as the great ships at
the docks. They had been wandering foy.
fully over the deck of four-master Just
about to clear with coal for an eastern port,
and after awhile one of the women found
IN open hatch.
"Come heren' she called excitedly to her
nearest companion, with the air Of one who
has made discovery. Look! i.ook!
Just think She's holler!'-Youth's Com
panion.
St. Tammany farmer., 1904-03-05
AN OLD CIDER MILL.
Conn.,, and Has Been Pre-
served Intact.

On the old Crowfoot place IL Middle
bury, Conn, the place that Chauncy
Judd figured in revolutionary times, is
an old cider mill which has the date 1901
on one of the posts. probably the date
It was built The stone post, seen at the
edge of the accompanying picture, has
the date 1916.
Il part of the circular trough is shown.
St. Tammany farmer., 1904-03-05
ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR A

She-"And you don't think there is a
chance in the world of our living through
our lives without a quarrel?" He-.'There
is always fighting chance, dear.
c,nnati Commercial Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer., 1904-03-05
STOUT ANCHOR POST.
Those who Have Given This Method
Trial Pronounce 1t the Most
Effective Now in Use.

The following is the simplest, cheap
est and best method of anchoring cor
ner posts ever saw or used. not ex-
cepting any plan given in previous num-
bers Set common heavy posts at cor
ner, and set another similar one eight