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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-01-29
Cotton Picker A Success.

4 Memphis man. vh.' has f'r
some YEARS been at work "n a pneu
matte cotton picker, has ''vru grant
ed patents op several improvements
on his machine.
The invention of machine tina,
will pick cotton, one that can dc
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-01-29
Adm0niShed.
February Smart Set.

February Smart Set.
Lownscads (despondently) Il
might just as we'll be dead. What
good am l, anyway Why, I be.
1ieve that I've been refused by every
girl in town!
Henpekke (excitedly) - Touch
wood! touch wood, quick, or your
luck will change!
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-01-29
LAND FOR SALE.

TOUR LOTS CONTAINING %
Il acres, and three containing 40
acres, on eastern side Of town just out
side corporate limits. Desirable loca-
tion for building purposes. These lots
may be bought at bargain.
F. W. HIGGINS.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-01-29
ORDERED HIM OUT OF his HOTEL.
s.All Coons Look Alike" to Proprietor S.
F. Wheeler, Of The Columbia Ho el,
In Columbia.
The Columbia State.

The Columbia State.
Proprietor S. F. Wheeler of the
Columbia hotel here is one Southern
hotel man who will not tolerate
even the se1nblance Of color IN his
business, a fact illustrated in his
hotel few days ago when be had
occasion peremptoriiy to order ex-
Congressman Smalls from his lobby.
Smalls, who is collector of the
port of Beaufort and very black,
came into the lobby when Mr..
Wheeler was behind the desk. AS
the negro politician foated in with
his silk hat on Mr.. Wheeler called
out sternly across the register.
"Take that hat off,
"You have yours on replied
Smalls, who generally has shown
sense enough to know and keep his
place in South Carolina.
Get out of here quick" Mr..
Wheeler called out, adding some
stronger language. which Smalls
did not fail promptly to appreciate.
The estimates of time Smalls re-
quired to reach the pavement vary
between three and five seconds. The
clerks estimate is less than FIVE
seconds.
The next day one of the white
republicans who had learned from
~Smalls that he had been excluded
from the hotel called Mr.. Wheeler
aside and apologized for causing him
any Inconvenience. He suggested
that possibly it might be we'll for
him to transfer his patronage.
Nj. Wheeler is not the sort of
man to be stampeded by fear. He
told the white republican that he
was welcome to receive whatever
negroes it gave him pleasure to en-
tertain, but that they must be re-
ceived as other negroes who came
into the hotel, and that if he wished
to transfer his patronage with this
understanding he might do so. He
wished the politician to understand
that he would not be responsible for
promiscuous negroes coming into
the hotel and would not allow any
general conference in his lobbies
between black and tan and lily white
guests; that if a negro caller wished
to see any of his white guests he
would insist upon his being accom-
panied to the room by one of the
hotels representatives.
The lily white has not yet trans
ferred his patronage.
Another lily white, who is quite
a wheel horse with the republicans.
promptly sent for the clerk on hear
ing of Small's exclusion. When the
clerk arrived he demanded an ex-
planation for the treatment of
Smalls.
The clerk told him that Mr..
Wheeler himself had ordered Smalls
from the lobby and that he would
have to see Mr.. Wheeler.
This last lily white has not yet
asked to see Nh. Wheeler.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-01-29
TWO MINE DISASTERS.

Both Are Accompanied With Fearfr
Loss Of Human Life Work
of Rescue.
Pittsburg, Pa. January 25.-Al
explosion in the Harwick mine, o
the Allegheny Coal Company. a
! Cheswick, sixteen miles from Pitts
burg, promises TO add one of the
greatest tragedies of years to the
already long list of mine fatalities
Even the officials of the Allegheny
Coal Company, the owners of the
mine, do nci know at this time
the number of men entombed in the
chambers Of the mine, 22o feet be-
low the surface, but conservative
estimate places the number at 1s4.
General Manager George
Scheetze, of the coal company, who
is in charge of the mine, gives little
hope that many of the men will be
brought to the surface. The first
ray of hope that any of the men had
escaped the tremendous conclusion
of the explosion came at s O'Clock
last night, when Adolph Gorgie was
brought to the surface still living.
The explosion occurred at $40 yes
terday morning. at the bottom OF
one OF the shafts, and was presuma-
bly, caused by fire damp. 1t was 4
O'Clock in the afternoon before it
was possible to make the first at
tempt at rescue. Robert North and
Jack McCann, one of the engineers
employed by the Allegheny Coal
Company, tried to get into the mine
by way of the stairs through the air
shaft. They managed to grope their
way some distance, but were finally
driven back by the foul air.
The main shaft into the mine,
22o feet deep, was made useless by
the explosion, which hurled both
cages, one of which was within
thirty feet of the bottom of the shaft,
through the tipple, thirty feet above
the surface.
WORK OF RESCUE.
Pittsburg, Pa, January 26.-Even
the elements seem conspiring to
prevent the work of rescue at the
Harwick mines. Almost zero wea-
ther and a bitter wind late in the
afternoon, swept down over the lit
tie valley where the mine is located
and nearly added another list of
dead to the long black table already
measured off. Not only was the
work of search for the dead and liv-
ing, ifany are still alive, rudely
interrupted, but cold aud ice and
wind combined nearly cost the lives
of sixteen more good men.
ANOTHER MINE HORROR
Victor, Colo., Jan. 26.-By the
falling of a cage today in the STRAIT
ton independence mine, located near
the centre of this city, IS men are
dead and one other severely injured
In the main shaft IS men were be-
ing hoisted in cage from the sixth,
seventh and eighth levels. When
the cage reached the surface the
engineer, for some unexplained rea
son, was unable to stop the engine
and the cage with its load of human
freight was drawn up into the gal
lows frame where It became lodged
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-01-29
MUST BE
IN EVERY
HOME IN
NEWBERHY

The following druggists requests the
holders of MURNA coupons to bring
them in at once and secure absolute
ly free, the regular size bottle of the
Great Preparation, MURNA WINE
For sale only by Glider & Weeks
Agents.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25
Bankrnnt by Promotion.

The cost of a commissi IL in the Brit
ish Army is we'll illustrated in the case
of Lieutenant and Riding Master EN-
merry, of the Royal Irish Lancers, who
has just gone into bankruptcy, with Ia
bilities amounting to $367O. Twenty
five years ago he enlisted in the regl-
ment as a private. He gained an nom
orary commission in 1894, with an al
lowance of $3.50 to cover his expenses.
He was called to spend for new clothes,
S470; for two horses. $3.50; for transit
of family to India, SIS; for furnishing
quarters. 5000, and for saddlery, SlOO,
a total of S1495, or $745 more than the
Government allowed him. TO heip
out he had to so to money lender FOR
a considerable part of the balance, SO
that he was really insolvent from the
day he got his commission. Not much
encouragement for "rankers" in this.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25
CITY of widows.

Unless things have changed mate
rally since the census year of 1900,
Chicago has q total of 63,396 widows
sod and grass-with a total excess
male population of only 63,246, or just
$50 men short of the possibility of all
turning in and wiping out widowhood
past all attractions of crepe and black
at bargain counters. This excess male
population, however, is of all ages, and
co1jugal and non-conjugal conditions.
There are only 23,097 widowers-grass
and sod-to set against the widows,
says the Chicago Tribune, shortage
of 40,299 men who may or may not
have wept for the dear departed, or
who may or may not have had to go
into their pockets for alimony.
Given G3,396 widows against 23.097
widowers of Chicago, and 454,062 un-
married women against the 517,30S
unmarried men of the city, one may
ask of the matrimonial statistician:
What are the chances of the young
woman against the chances of the
widow?
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25

The daily life of Plus Y. is as busy
and as simple as that of his venerable
predecessor, Leo XIII. He rises at
5, celebrates mass at 6, which is OBJ
served by his private secretary, Mon
signOr BreSsau After hearing another
in thanksgiving he breakfasts, which
consists of simple cup of black cot
fee. Then follows a walk of about an
hour, during which a visit is made to
a little grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes.
erected in the Vatican Gardens. The
rest of the day up to / o'clock is de-
voted to correspondence, interviews
with secretaries and high officials and
public and private audiences. At L
the Pope dimes, and his dinner consists
of q single dish of meat. After a
short siesta he recites his breviary,
and then resumes work until 6, when
he takes walk in the loggias Of the
Vatican. Visitors and pilgrims are
frequently received there. From Z
until 8 Plus Y. is again at work, and
then private devotions engage his at
tention until about 1870, when his
days work comes to an end-Tit-
Bits
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25

fIourished or declined according to
the routes followed by international
trade.
The work on the De Lesseps canal
gave it period of great prosperity,
but 1t has languished in recent years.
1t is no wonder that the people of Pan
anna and Colon were cut to the quick
by the way in which the Colombian
Government has trifed with their in
terests; for they can have enduring
prosperity only by the carrying out Of
the canal enterprise.
Under the old regime of Spain the
only line of communication between
the two oceans was one simple mule
path crossing the Isthmus from Pana-
ma to Porto Bello on the Atlantic side.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25

there that the port was practically
abandoned and Chagres became the
Atlantic terminus of the Isthmi'
route from Panama. But Ch,.ores
soon won fame as a hotbed of marsh
fevers and the population rapidly dis
appeared.
A new port was founded, therefore,
which was called Colon in honor of
Columbus, who discovered the bay
1t became known also as Aspinwall,
from the name of one Of the chief pro-
moters the Isthmian railroad. This
name, late years, has been very lit
tie used.
After Colon was burned in the revo-
tuition of 1885 it was rebuilt on larg-
ur plan and on better drained ground,
but it is still, very unhealthful place.
The late CT s. Morrison. the civil
engineer, i'm 5 address in December
before the American Geographical So
ciety, said that the death rate on the
Isthmus could be greatly diminished.
He attributed the unhealthful climate
to the fact that no systematic sanitary
work has even been undertaken.
There is an abundance of excellent
water in the mountain streams, but no
village or city has a water supply.
There is no sewerage system.
The women wash soiled clothes in
the streams and the people get their
water from the same streams. Nearly
every disease may be found there, and
the filth of centuries is kept under
some of the houses.-New York Sun.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25
Wary Insect is.

One of the efforts now making to
lure and destroy harmful insects is
by the use of trap lanterns. Entomol-
ogists are making experiments in va
r.ous parts of the country, and at one
station, where the trap has been used
every night for five months, it has
been found that the most harmful in
sects avoid the light, as a rule. OF
the buffalo tree hopper, the squash
bug, the chinchbug and the bee moths,
for example, very few specimens were
caught; while, on the other hand, ich-
neumon flies, lacewings, ladybugs and
other insects useful to the farmer were
caught in a great number. Another
singular fact is that of the harmful in
sects lured into the traps a majority
were males, whereas it is the females
that do the most damage.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25
American MRde Dolls.

There is big factory in the United
States now-in New Jersey-Which
makes dolls, very perfect and epdur-
able ones, of sheet steel. They are
fight and strong, so strong they cannot
be broken even if stepped on. Their
smile is the kind that will not come OFF,
for their complexion is of baked enan-
ell, not to be rubbed or scraped away.
They are startlingly lifelike, these ba-
bies from New Jersey, for they have
ball and socket joints, even for their
ankles, and strike all sorts of childish
attitudes. The hands can be fitted
with gloves, and the eyes are remov-
able. to accommodate little girls WHO
have decided preferences as to brown
eyes or blue. The hair can be removed
for shampoo or change of complex
ion. They will talk even, If one cares
to pay for a photograph attachment.
Altogether, this pioneer American doll
is characteristically smart and goou
looking.-Good Housekeeping.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25
The Telephone and the Tramp.

A striking instance of the value or
the rural telephone to the farmer in
adding to the safety of his family dur
ing his absence from home developed
Mt New Castle recently. An unknown
tramp was terrorizing the neighbour
hood near New Lisbon. He called at
farmhouses and demanded food, and
when refused threatened to kill the
family where he called. The women
of the neighborhood became frightened
and telephoned to the Sheriff. Sheriff
Christopher went to the neighborhood
and by aid of the telephone system
through that section traced the tramp
and finally overlook him. The tramp
IL now in jail.-Orleans Qnd) Herald.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25

Henry Mayer, the artist, tells the
story of a visit he made to cO.ored
club on the West Side some TING ago
with the object of securing some local
color for his work. Mr.. Mayer, ac-
companied by a newspaper friend, was
politely received by the President of
the club. He presented letter Of in
PRODUCTION, and the President said: $50
you are a newspaper man and an artist.
Well, | am very much interested in you
gentlemen, particularly because of
your vocation"
"What is your vocation?" asked Mr..
Mayer of the president.
ooh, l am i'll the advertising busl-
ness"
Mr.. Mayer was very much pleased to
see that the negro whom he addressed
had apparently made considerable pro
gress i'll the world. Two or three
weeks after that he recognized the
president of the club on the street. He
was dressed in a red uniform and car
ried large umbrella. On the umbrella
was the advertisement of a dentist.
The colored gentleman was engaged in
distributing a dentists cards. - New
York Times
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25
MAP OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA

cause muddy bars at it's mouth pre-
vent entrance to any but the smallest
vessels; and to take troops down the
Atrato to Panama would involve the
crossing of almost impossible noun
tain ranges.
When the American geologist, Rob
noissance through the Isthmus several
years ago he reported that our knowl-
edge of the higher SUBMITS and the
topography Of the country beyond the
low drainage valleys opening on the
oceans was very deficient. We know,
however, that most of the interior is
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25

reach of the sea or along the line of
the Isthmian railroad, between the cit
les of Panama and Colon, where the
population is most dense.
Panama is supposed to have about
100000 inhabitants; but no census has
ever been taken, and these figures are
based only upon an official estimate
by the Colombian Government. The
difficulties of travel and the ill famed
climate have made the Isthmus so I'M
attractive to residents from foreign
lands that they have added little to
our knowledge of the people and coun-
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25

But while most Of the territory of
Panama is uninhabited, except by
scattered bands of Indians, there are
a few small areas of treeless upland
country, particularly along the Pacific
Coast north of the city of Panama
where considerable number of set
Elements are found and agriculture is
followed The towns and hamlets are
scattered over these upland regions Or
dotted along the coasts, particularly
on the inlets, or planted in the interior
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25
THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER
How 1t Follows the Rural-Bred Man to
His city Home.

How III FOLLOWS the hurAt-bIeu WAN ~
His City Home.
1t is a fashion among certain city
dailies. says the Armenia Times, to rid"
icule the country paper but it is gem
orally the case that there is one even
ing a week that the city man looks
forward to with Zest.
That is the night when he lights his
old pipe puts OH his slippers and lies
back in his rocker for a musIng and
dreaming over his copy of the paper
published in the country town where
he was born and brought up.
He ponders over the memories that
these quaint items Of the local news
call forth, and the weekly perusal of
the events of the burg bring to the
readers mind old familiar scenes and
forms that he is glad to. keep ever
green in his memory.
And if the country paper prints this
news in an attractive manner it mas
performed its mission we'll even if its
field is limited and there are no hair
lifting episodes to write up each week
simply the chit-chat Of everyday life
of those many of us have known all
our lives.
we fail to see why the fact that Bill
Smith has recently shingled his roof
may not be worth printing in the coun-
try paper as well as having the stupen-
Cous fact heralded broadcast in city
paper in a two-column article that
pug dog of a famous actress recently
died on steamer, together with sew
eral illustrations of said pug dog and
its sentimental owner.
The city papers that publish such
stuff then will try to poke fun at its
humble country contemporary because
it has an article upon a big cabbage
somebody has presented to the editor.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25

this map is that adopted by the best
photographers pending the decision Of
the dispute.
Near the boundary on the Caribbean
side is Boca del Toro, the fine inlet
protected by islands.
The eastern boundary is the Gulf of
Darien and the Atrato River which is
navigable almost to its source, in north
western Colombia. The river would
not be prominent in any hostilities
that Colombia might contemplate, be-
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25
Electric Traction In Germany.

The German State railways have
been using electric traction in the sub
urban service around Berlin ever
since July. Power is supplied through
an insulated third rail, and speed is
limited to about thirty-seven miles an
hour The trains consist Of three cars
--one second-class and two third-class.
with motor at each end. Each train
accommodates about 200 passengers.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25

Porto Bello Harbor is commodious and
deep, but the Notifications of the old
seaport are now overgrown with forest
vegetation and the place has become
an obscure hamlet occupied by few
hundred negroes who do little trade
with Colon, Colombia and Jamaica.
The deadly Chagres fever ragged so
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25

try except in the neighborhood of the
railroad.
The city of Panama owes all its
celebrity to its vital position at the
narrowest part Of the Isthmis. 1t has
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25

thickly sprinkled with hills and low
mountains most irregularly distribut-
ed. The courses of the larger rivers
have been traced, and also some OF
the tributaries; and the courses or
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25

some smaller tributaries have been in
ferred from the lay of the land.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25

sIaiGhL line. 1t adjoinS the Republic
of Costa Rica on the west.
Panama and Costa Rica have n long
standing boundary dispute and no one
pretends to know how it will finally
DC decided. The boundary shown on
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25
- NEWEST OF THE REPUBLICS -
PANAMA'S TERRITORY,
PEOPLE AND CLIMATE.

It's Settlements Chierly on the Coast,
Owing to the Dense Jungles in the interior
---MuIe Paths and Abandoned Ports
lsthMus Needs Sanitation Badly. =: =:
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-03-25

HE territory of Panama,
. embracing the larger part
of the Isthmus, extends
east and west about 400
miles measured in a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-12
Where Issues Are Definite.

Finally, we come to certain matters
upon which our opponents do in their
platform of principles definitely take is
sue with us, and where. if they are sim
cere, their triumph would mean disaster
to the country. But exactly as it is i'm
promises and past record of our oppon-
ents without seeming offensive, 50 it is
impossible to compare their platform
with their other and later official utter
ances and not create doubt as to their
sincerity. In their private or unofficial
utterances many of them frankly. adj
the position that as regards the points
on which am about to speak they have
no intention of keeping their promises
or of departing from the policies now
established, and that therefore they can
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-12

the people again entrust the government
Of the nation to our hands. We do nof
stand still. We press steadily forward to'
ward the goal of moral and material wells
fearless dealing toward all other peoples,
In the Interest not merely OF this countrys
but of mankind.
There is not policy, foreign or do
nestle, which we are now carrying out,
which it would not, be disastrous to re-
verse or abandon. If our opponents
should come in and should not reverse
our policies, then they would be branded
with the brand of broken faith, OF
false promise, of insincerity in word and
deed and no man can work to the adj
vantage of the nation, with such a brand
clinging to him. If, on the other hand,
| they should come in and reverse any or
all of our policies, by Just so much
would the nation as whole be dam Z
aged.
| Alike as lawmakers and as admins
traitors of the law. we have endeayored
to do our duty in the interest of tho
people as whole. We make our APP
peal to no class and to no section, but
to all good citizens, in whatever part OF
the land they dwell, and whatever may
be their occupation or worldly condl-
Righteousness and for national great
ness, and we have faith to believe that
our hands will be upheld by all who feel
Hove of country. and trust in the uplift-
ing of mankind. We stand for enforce
ment of the law and for obedience to
i the law; our government is govern
ment of orderly liberty equally alien to
j tyranny and to anarchy, and it's founda-
/ tion stone is the observance of the law,
alike by the people and by the public
servants. We hold ever before us as
j the all-important end of policy and adj
ministration the reign of peace at home
and thruout the world; of peace, which
comes only by doing Justice. Faith.