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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-03-01
PLACES TO AVOID.
Here are Few Regions in Which
Life is not a Joy.

AS places of residence. neither the
Bahrien Islands. in the Persian Gull.
nor the city OF Iakutsk, Siberia, have
much to offer in the way OF climate.
says the Washington Post.
In Bahrien you cook and in va
kutSk you freeze. Bahrien is said to
be the hottest place i'll the world.
The thermometer often registers be-
tween ITO and 12o degrees, night or
day. for months at time. This rath-
er beats Fort Yuma. Ariz. which is
considered the hottest place in the
United States.
Yakutsk is called the coolest city in
the world Th thermometer frequent
ly registers 73 degrees below zero.
Though Yakutsk is the coldest city
in the world. Verhoyansk. in north
eastern Siberia, claims to be the cold
est inhabited place on the globe. the
thermometer registering 90 degrees
below zero in January.
1t also claims TO be the place pos
sessing the most variable climate. for
while it is 90 degrees below in Janu-
ary. it is Sc above in the shade in ALL
gust during the day. with drop down
70 freezing every midsummer night.
The wettest place in the world is
Greytown. Nicaragua. where the an
nual rainfall is eos inches.
The driest place in the world is
probobly the rainless coast OF North
ern Chilli They have a shower there
about once in every ten years. Moth
ing grows on this deSolate strip Of
barren coast. and the dreary towns
from which the nitrates and the min
erals mined in that region are shipped
BY those who depend for their subsis-
tence upon food brought to them in
ships from the fertile strips to the
north or south OF the desert.
Northern Russia and the shores OF
the French Congo are said to be the
cloudiest pla, es in the world. and Ior
Jog there is ..o region like the Grand
Banks, the southern coast OF New
foundland, and the waters OF Nova
Scotia.
This region is one OF fog for largs
part OF the year, and the very home OF
the Jog is the Island OF Grand Manan,
at the entrance OF the Bay Of Fundy,
where. the sailors declare. the ma
tives manufacture Jog. When bank
OF specially thick fog is seen ap-
preaching over the waters, the mari
ners turn to each other and say: The
Grand Mananers are at work"
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-03-01


The Virginia house Of delegates
has adopted resolution directing the
State auditor to furnish the legislature
with statement OF funds embezzled
by Joseph H. Sheppard, late clerk in
the auditors Office, and who was con-
v;cted in 1901 and sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary. At the
time OF deialcation tic law did not re-
Qyiire clerks 10 execute bonds. but the
house OF delegates held that it had a
right TO know how much was misap-
propr;atcd by the clerk. The action
created sensation in that It is
thought il had something behind it.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-03-01
TWO RELIGIOUS FANATICS.
They Build an "Ark" and Set Out to
Sea, but Fortunately Run
Aground.

Mr.. and Mrs. Alphonse Ford were
in Edenton, n. c., some time last
week. ostensibly engaged in mission
ary work. They announced their in
tention OF building an ark. and with
sundry wheelbarrow loads OF timber
OF various kinds they finally succeed
ed in constructing a strange looking
craft. 1o feet long by 3 1-2 feet wide.
1t was straight on the sides and with
no timbers.
With a few provisions the couple
had gathered together they set out
to sea Thursday afternoon about 5
o'clock in a strong east wind, and
when last seen they were making
Johns Island. where it is supposed
they camped for the night.
4 telegram from Edenton late to-
night states that Major J. c. Bond,
fearing something would happen to
Mr.. and Mrs. Ford, sent boat out
after them. They were found aground
about 212 miles from Edenton, and
had abandoned their boat and. gone
up into the marsh. An oil stove and
a sheet supplied their external COM
forts. The couple had barely enough
food for another meal. and if they had
not been found as soon as they were
they probably would have been dead
by morning. as they were suffering
terribly from the cold.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-03-01
PASTOR INSTALLED.
Sermon to Pastor by Rev. Mr.. Be-
denbaugh, To People by Rev.
Mr.. Ballentine.

On Sunday night the pastor, the
Rev. w. L. Seabrook, who took
charge of the congregation in Janu-
ary, 1908, was installed by the Rev. I.
w. Bedenbaugh, president of the
South Carolina Synod. assisted by the
Rev. S. c. Ballentine, secretary Of the
Synod. The charge to the pastor was
! delivered by the Rev. Mr.. Bedenbaugh
and the sermon to the congregation
by the Rev. Mr. Ballentine.
The evening lesson was read by DR..
N. G. G. Scherer. The congregation
was one OF the largest during the
whole OF the series OF services, and
the musical program was especially
good, including violin solo by Miss
Carrie Pool, accompanied on the pipe
organ BY Miss Susie Summer.
Rev. Mr.. Bedenbaugh took as a
text ior his charge to the pastor, TO
obe,. is better than sacrifices" He
clearly explained the church eccles-
iassical system, which he thought the
best adapted OF all church systems for
church work. But this system could
only be efficient il properly carried
out. He explained the duties OF the
pastor and all the church officers TO
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-03-01
A Favorite Remedy for Babies.

Is pleasant taste and prompt cures
have made Chamberlain;s Cough
Remedy iavorite with the mothers
OF small children 1t quickly cures
their coughs and colds and prevents
any danger OF pneumonia or other
serious consequences. Ii not only
cures Group. bit when given as soon
as the croupy coieh appears will pre-
vent the attack. For sale by Smith
Drag Co.. Ncwbcrry. 5. G., and Pros
pvr;ty Drug Co.. Prosperity. S. c.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-03-01
REV. w. L. SEABROOK.
He Has Been in Newberry Two Years
And is Universally Liked and
Esteemed.

The present pastor OF the Lutheran
Church OF the Redeemer is the Rev.
W. L. Seabrook, who took charge OF
the congregation in January, 1902.
Rev. Mr.. Seabrook. during the two
years he has been in Newberry, has
deserved and has gained not only the
love and esteem of every member of
his own cong gregation, but is univer-
sally liked and respected by the peo-
pie of the city. He. is an eloquent
speaker and a sympathetic pastor.
During his work here the church
has grown steadily and this growth
continues at the present time. Within
the past two months handsome par
Sonage has been completed and is now
used by the pastor and his family,
and in fact by the whole congregation.
Rev. Mr. Seabrook is native Of
Maryland and descendant of
staunch Lutheran stock on the side
of both parents. He was born in
Frederick City, and though leading
lawyer in Baltimore for several years,
he is still young man. He is grad
uate of Pennsylvania college, Gettys-
burg. with the degree of bachelor OF
arts, and later received the degree OF
masterof arts from the same institu-
ton.
Alter graduation, he decided upon
law as his profession, and graduated
from the Maryland university with
the degree of bashelor OF law, and al
terwards was admitted to practice in
the courts of Baltimore. He practiced
his profession successfully for eight
years. four Of which he served as
deputy attorney general of the State.
He then decided to preach the gos-
pei, and entered the Theological Sem
mary at Gettysburg, where he COM
pleted the prescribed course in theo-
logy. He served pastorates success
fully in Wichita and Abilene, Kansas,
and four years before being called to
Newberry he was called to the pastor
ate of Grace Lutheran church, in Win
chester Va, which he was serving at
the time he was called here. He was
elected president of the Virginia Syn
cd. which position he resigned to en-
ter the South Carolina Synod.
Rev. Mr.. Seabrook is now men,
Der of the Lutheran Publication Board
OF the United Synod South and ad-
visory member from South Carolina
of the Mission Board of the United
Synod Since his entry to the min
iStry he has rapidly risen to promi-
nence as one OF the foremost men in
the Southern Lutheran Church.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-03-01

\ company has been formed TO es-
tablish a new weekly newspaper at
Walierboro. Publication will be COM
menccd early this month. The paper
will be called The Progress"
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-03-01
Four Mules For Sale

r HAVE FOUR MULES FOR SALE.
i Can be seen at the county home.
II not sold by salosday in March will be
disposed Of at public sale.
Jno. NJ. Schumpert.
County Supervisor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23


Topeka-Kansas City line of the Union
Pacific, together with the work of
strengthening the curves in that line
and the building of the link between
Topeka and Marysville. together with
the Improvement called for in this
city will call for the expenditure OF
nearly four millions of dollars.
For many years the Kansas division
of the Union Pacific railroad has been
regarded as a small factor in the sys-
tenn by the big officials of the road.
But year after year the Kansas divi-
sion has been piling up profits upon
profits, and making the best showing
of any single division in the system, so
that its importance has at last been
finally forced upon the officials of the
system with the effect that a great
deal more attention is to be paid to
the development of the Kansas lines
of the road
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23
MIR. JOHN BURROUGHS PROTEST.

Mr.. John Burroughs has a prejudice
in favor of nature as he is, says the
New York Sun. He is content in all
humility to study animals, from men
down to molluscs. as they are. Like
most scientific persons, he is not SEN
timentalist, though at times he is cap
able of being moved by a fine piece of
scenery up the Hudson or in the Cats
kills, just as John Tyndall was capable
of getting excited over his beloved Alps.
But for sentiment as applied to the
lower animals Mr.. Burroughs has no
use. He has lifted up his voice in gro
test against the taking that has gone
on in certain directions in the case OF
certain pseudo animal experts, who
have succeeded in confusing the mind
of the public in general, and the young
in particular, as to what bears and
deer and dogs actually know, as to how
they live and what intellectual process
SEES they are capable of.
1t is to be feared that even men of
genius like NJ. Maeterlinck and Mr..
Kipling, have something to answer for.
The Belgian in his Life of the Bee"
did to a certain extent allow his imagi-
nation free play in his effort to prove
that the community in the hive had
really higher form of civilization than
that of man in society. In the same
way the Anglo-Indian in his Jungle
Books" made US familiar with animals
the craft and knowledge of which in
cases transcribed that of the human
beings who served simply as foils to
them. But it must be remembered that
these two writer's used the lower ami
NAL world for a distinct literary pur-
pose. Reality was subordinated to 9TH
err uses, as in the case of the fables of
Aesop or La Fontaine.
Mr.. Burroughs has been discussing
in the Century the wild animals have
known school of fiction. With regard
to the beasts of the field themselves,
he has come to the conclusion that they
unite such ignorance with such appar-
ent knowledge. such stupidity with
such cleverness, that in our estimate of
them we are apt to rate their wit either
too high or too low. What shall be said
Of the wit of those who have turned
natural history upside down to make
an honest penny?
What is overlooked by those who at
tribute human or semi-human qualities
to the wild animals is this, that in so |
1oing they are helping along a return
to the ignorant imaginings of time
when nature was largely sealed book.
There is plenty of romance in science.
But it is to be found in the work of
the real scientists, and not in that of
he pseudo scientists. Darwin could |
make even worms interesting. But the |
pseudo lovers of nature find it neces-
;ary to conceal their ignorance of fact
BY inventing things that are contrary |
% fact. 1t is one of the most melan-
holy phases of the recent much talked
If movement in the direction of get
ing back to nature"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

rFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
A woman's complexion is not al
ways complex.
If you would be popular, don't tell
your troubles.
1t is possible to move in political
circles and still be square.
The fellow who boasts that he can
hatter women is really fiattering him
self.
The Thermometer seems imbued with
tho idea that there is plenty of room
at the top.
There is generally an opening in the
hospital for the young man who has
appendicitis.
When business and pleasure are
combined, business generally gets the
worst end of the deal.
The suburbanite may be a dead shot
with a pistol, but he has been known
to miss a train.
The girl who sits in a fellows lap
before they are married, is apt to sit
all over him afterward.
Even the fellow who goes into
scheme on the ground floor should
make sure of the fire escape.
Platonic love when once begun,
Has oft bomb exploded,
In which tits very like the gun
We didn't know was loaded
BIobs-'when Bjones plays poker
he's a hot-headed chap" Slobs-''Yes,
but I've also known him to get cold
feet"
81 think I'd like to be a Clock
Said dirty Dicky Dace.
81 never knew a clock that had
To wash its hands and face"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23
MEANS MUCH TO TOPEKA.

The announcement made this week
that improvements amounting to per-
haps more than half a million dollars
were to be begun in Topeka soon by
the Union Pacific Railway company,
is something that should not be un-
dervalued, or dismissed with a passing
word
This announcement coming as it
does upon the heels of the realization
that the Topeka & Northwestern rail-
way, Union Pacific branch to Marys-
willie, is to be under construction with
in thirty or sixty days, is an indication
that North Topeka is to be something
more than a whistling station on the
Union Pacific system.
A great many stories are in circula-
ton in regard to the Union Pacific
Railroad companys plans. Authentic
Information, however. points to the
fact that the construction of the link
between Topeka and Marysville, Kan,
is the beginning of a through passen-
ger and freight service from the Mis-
souri, and Mississippi rivers. via To-
peka, Marysville. Grand Island, Neb..
and Cheyenne, Wyo.. to the Northwest
territory and the Pacific coast.
1t means that the opening of this
line will some day result in the MAX
ing of trunk line to the Northwest
by way of Topeka.
No better proof of the coming i'm
portance of Topeka as one of the fac
tors in the Hartman plan is needed
than the acquisition of a large amount
of land outside the city limits of
North Topeka on the west, on which
IT is announced will be built the big
storage yards and the yards i'll which
the through trains are TO be made up.
The Improvements which the Union
Pacific viii soon begin in North To-
peka, the erection of new freight
and passenger depots. a new hotel,
round house. coal chutes and other
buildings and tracks and yards, should
restore confidence in the future well
fare and growth of the suburb on the
north side of the Kaw.
The work of double tracking the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

BOOK WITHOUT A WOMAN.
That Is One Distinction Enjoyed by
'.The Promoters,

That Is One Distinction Enjoyed by
1.-The Promoters"
THE Promoters by William Hawley
smith, is the latest work from the press
of Rand McNally & Co., of Chicago.
The keeneSt of satire, a close study
of human nature in many varied phases.
knack of describing men in such a
way as to bring them wildly before
the mental eye, and a plot so unique
as to hold the readers attention with
answering interest-these are some of
the potent elements that combine to
make The Promoters" by William
Hawley Smith, one of the most enjoy
able books recently published.
As the title indicates, the story deals
with that peculiar class of men who
devote their time and brains to secur-
ing money with which to promote, or
place upon the market, some enterprise
more or less gigantic (and sometimes
questionable in it's character), either
for themselves or in the interest of
some one else. The promoter usually
sees to it that his services are well
paid for, besides receiving stock in the
enterprise he is engineering. With this
idea for his plot Mr.. Smith has pro-
duced a story that will interest every
man, or woman either, who reads ii.
even though their acquaintance with
promoters is extremely limited. In de-
veloping his most original plot the
author demonstrates the fact that he
possesses a vivid and we'll trained inn
agination. His treatment of the stu
pendous scheme which he credits to
his principal promoter is worthy of
some of the highest flights of fancy
INDUCED in by Jules Verne. He also
shows that he understands men and
has an appreciation of their foibles,
which he treats in a manner that is
highly enjoyable.
''The Promoters is unique in many
ways. There is no woman in it, nor
even the suggestion of romance. But,
far from this being a drawback, once
the reader gets into the story the fact
is not even noticed. There are only
five characters, but their actions are of
such concentrated interest that one
forgets the limited sphere in which
they move and becomes as much wrap
ped up in their plans as they them
selves.
Starlight, the chief promoter, is a
man OF wonderful imagination, a
schemer. and the originator of a num-
Der of big things" His latest idea is
nothing more nor less than to change
the location of the earth. for private
gain, it is needless to say.
Mr.. Smiths hunor is delicate, his sa-
tire is pointed, and he handles his char
acters with the ability of a master The
words and actions of his people are
forcefully portrayed in perfectly nat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23
==e-@==
THE ERAGNY PRESS.
Something About the Work of the
Modern BOokmaI1erS.

The latest publication of the Eragny
Press is Millions "Areopagitica." This
| is from the new type designed espe-
cially for the press by M Lucien Pts
sarro. It is a plea letter, and very
symmetrical in form. The volume
itself, measuring ten by eight inches,
is printed in double columns with an
initial on the first page, and woodcut
portrait.
This publication calls to mind the
fact that the Eragny Press and the
Vale Press are often confused. AS
matter of fact the Eragny Press is
Sarro and M. Lucien Pissarro. The
books are issued at Epping, Bedford
Park, and the Brook Chiswick. They
are usually limited to two hundred
Arnold unbleached handmade paper.
while the binding is generally eX-
quisitely designed paper boards.
The recent collapse of the specula-
tive element in the Kelmscott Press
has called especial attention to the
present well as the future of the
other private presses M. Pissarro is
the son of an artist who early devel-
appearance being in the Revue Illus
tree" This was in 1886. 1t is said
that he was an ardent admirer of
Charles Keene, and followed his de-
signs closely.
He soon gave his attention to wood
engravings in color, and finding a
scanty support in Paris, he shook off
the French dust from his feet, and
went to England, where he became a
friend of the little group who started
the Dial
The first book from the Eragny
Press was entitled 1.-The Queen of the
Fishes" This contains sixteen wood
cuts, of which one was in five colors,
and four in four colors. while the text
was a reproduction of NJ. Pissarro's
own manuscript.
Tn 1895 Mr. Ricketts of the Vale
Press allowed him to use the new
font of type he had just designed
and this, coupled with his own wood
engraving, made an interesting and
unique combination.
Associated with him in all his work
was his devoted wife, and it is said
that every part of the work, from the
design to the finished book was the
name of the press is taken from a
little Norman village, where Lucien
Pissarro's father, Camille, lived and
worked SO long.
a list of the books so far issued by thi@
press:
THE Queen of the Fishes 1894
1.-THE Book of Ruth and the Book
of Esther" 1896. N
Laforgue's "Mora1ites Legendaires,
2 vols, 1897-'9S.
Perrault's "Deux Contes de Ma
Mere fOye," 1899.
Flaubert's La Legende de Saint
1900.
Les BalIades de Malstre Francois
Villon," 1900.
F'laubert's "Au Occur Simple" 1901 |
Flaubert's "Herodfas," 1901.
''AutreS Poesies de NJ. Francois Viii
lon." 1901.
Verhaeren's LES Petits Vieux,"
1901.
Bacon's "Of Gardens" 1902.
Ronsard's "Choix de Sonnets." 1902. !
Perrault's Historic de Peau dane" |
1902.
Ronsard's "Abrege de Fart Poet
ique." 1903.
'C'est d'Aucassin ct de Nicolete,"
Moore's brief Account of the
Origin of the Eragny Press" 1903
Whites 1.-The Descent of Ishtar."
1903.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23


and butter, no one need starve, and
all the medical authorities agree that
such diet would be for the benefit
of the general health especially dur
ing the warm weather. You may
think as you please about the prac-
tice, the vegetarians have all the
best of the argument when it comes
to theory. If it is a sickening thing
to think of the Igorrotes eating dog.
why isn't it just as bad to eat cat
tie, hogs, chickens, sheep? If it is a
question of cruelty, a dying dog
doesn't howl any louder or suffer any
more than a stuck pig. If it is a
question of cleanliness, a dog is as
clean as pig or a steer or a chicken.
And if it is a question of palatable-
ness. we would eat dog, no doubt, If
we didn't know what it was and pro-
nounce it luscious. During the siege
of Paris we have always heard the
people ate horse flesh and thought it
good. These customs of eating GER
tain flesh and barring others are
purely racial and no one people have
any advantage over another from
either an ethical or physiological
standpoint. So if you are eating dead
hog, dead steer, dead poultry, or dead
sheep every day, don't scream with
horror at the Igorrote. He is no
worse than you are. from the stand
point of diet. and he has all the best
of you in the matter of dress at this
season
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

ed a first edition of half a million
copies for some latter-day Dickens or
Thackeray? That prophecy still holds
good, but only because the new master
has not yet arrived. The facts, however,
are against the deduction. Then there
were those who reasoned that a wild
scramble for all kinds of fiction would
result in a thirst for solid reading
whence the innumerable series of use
full books, popuIarizations of about ev-
erything new and old under the sun,
from microscopy to astronomy.
well, so far as the bookseller is con-
cerned, the old conditions have return
ed, and I, for one, am glad of it. am
glad because prefer to sell books that
are books. But you may be sure of it
that we shall have another 'deluge'
sooner or later. Come to see me again
when it is upon us; we will talk it
over