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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-01-15

he may designate, the Chief Justice
OF the Supreme Court, or such
member of the judicial department
as he may designate, three Senators,
to be appointed by the President of
the Senate and four of the House of
Representatives, and that the SER
geant- alarms Of the houses be in.
structed to carry out the provisions
of this resolution.
The resolution was sent to the
house and was concurred in bv that
body.
The large portrait of General
Gordon in the senate chamber had
already been draped in Grape by the
sergeant alarms, at the suggestion
OF Senator Sheppard.
THE FIRST DAY IN THE HOUSE.
The proceedings of the house
were opened with prayer. Speaker
M. L. Smith was very eloquent in
his opening address, saying the
members ofthe house had assembled
to look after the welfare of their
people. That was the highest law
and he would caution them that il
was more important to find what
was necessary than to apply the
remedy.
The special message of governor
Hayward and the concurrent resolu-
ton Of the senate relative to the
death of General Gordon were re.
celVed, and speaker Smith appointed
the following committee to attend
the funeral, saying that he thought
those who had fought with Gordon
were the proper ones to represent
the State at his funeral: Messrs
1rlDle; James, Brooks, Jeremiah
Smith and King.
W. 'ic0''i introduced Dill OF
lo~''i 'ia'"ie' "hlch the house re-
'''~' ~ .e'ei % sPeelai commit
-. 'oi"'s''hS OF the Greenwood
>'0' s'.ion
"A. w. j. Johhsoh' OF Falrheld,
introduced bill proposing fran
q NF
cent. upon the capital OF every
corporation iii the State. exCen,
cotton mills, doing business for
profit under n State charter and
requiring that the CORPORATIONS
make reports to the secretary of
State.
SECOND DAWN THE s,.v,rr
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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-01-15
TWICE a WEEK, 81 so A YEAR

We would be pleased to have
this information at the earliest
practicable moment as we under
stand that it is desired that we sub
init it to an adjourned meeting Of
the citizens on Wednesday next.
Very truly yours,
George Johnstone, Chm
w. Il. Pelham,
Fred. II. Dominick,
B. F. Griffin,
II. G. Pool,
l.. c. Jones,
0. B. Mayor,
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-01-15

A number Of new measures were
introduced, among them Il bill to
increase the appropriation for erect
ing monument to Hampton to
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-01-15

~ What are the revenues of the town
and from what sources are they derived,
and what amount is derived from each
source?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27
American ORANGES.

The returns from our orange crop
are coming in. The California crop is
put at 100000 boxes, and this is but
the sixteenth crop grown in that Pa
cific state. The first two trees in Cali
fornia bore oranges in 1879. They
were brought from Bahia, Brazil, and
they bore seedless oranges. The crop
of that year consisted of sixteen
oranges, and now the annual crop is
estimated at IL 100000 boxes. This is
progressing some.
Before the great freeze of February,
1895, the Florida crop had risen to
100000 boxes, but in the year follow
ing the freeze the Florida crop was but
1880 boxes. 1t was an appalling dis
aster, but Florida went at it to plant
new groves in the frostless end of the
peninsula, and it has already passed
the million mark, and is striving to
grow 100000 boxes a year.
Even with these great productions
the United States still imports about
million boxes year. About half
of the imported boxes come from the
British West Indies, and the other half
from Italy and Mexico. We export to
Canada about 500 600 boxes year. so
that we do not grow our own oranges
~ about 100000 boxes. On account
of the growth of the population full
million Of boxes more of homegrown
oranges are needed before we can sup
ply our own wants.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27
Importance of Ihihei

Thibet adjoins India on the north,
and lies on high attitudes, and is cold
and inhospitable. Its importance is
due to the fact that at Lhassa lives the
pope of the Buddhist world, to all
Buddhists an incarnation of God Him
self. When it is remembered that a
majority of the vast population of india
are Buddhists, and that tens of millions
of the Chinese are Buddhists, it will be
seen at once why England does not
propose to let Russian intrigue gain
the upper hand at Lhassa. The Grand
Lama is the key to the situation, alike
in China and India.
England is sending a military force
under Colonel Younghus band and Col
onel Macdonald to the sacred city to
Offset Russian intrigues, but thus far
the English expedition has not accom-
plished its objects. 1t has not reached
the sacred city, and called down Dalai
Lama.
England does not desire to annex
Thibet, but it proposes to see that it
remains buffe- state, a neutral zone
that neither Russia nor England con-
trolls. The Trans-Caucasus railroad
has been pushed to eastern Turkestan,
not far from the Thibetan border, and
it is this more than anything else that
led up to the English expedition. II
the Grand Lama calls on Russia for
help, there may be something doing
in Thibet, and at any rate the close.
shut theocratic state will become well
known to the world. Russia has her
hands full out Korea way, and England
is improving the opportunity to I'M
deceive the Grand Lama. Lord Curzon
is about to leave India, and he is doubt
less endeavoring to render the opening
of Thibet his most conspicuous
achievement. He hopes no doubt to
make treaty with Dalai-Lama. Thus
far, however, his military agents have
not reached the city of the golden
domes on the foothills of the Hima
layas.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27

her genera, policy as to elections, or
else she has got to elect congressman
for four years, and the Legislature, now
in session, seems inclined to adopt
four-year terms. Who shall say her,
Nay? No one can except the house
of representatives itse'f, and the
chances are that the house will not go
behind the returns for the purpoee of
depriying a sovereign state of repre-
sentation. 1t is doubtless a question
to be settled by Mississippi, and what
ever she decides to 90 will be accepted
The tendency is towards longer
terms, and four years is short enough
in congressional service. 1t takes that
long to learn how to transact to the
best possible advantage public bust
ness, and when member has one four
year term to learn his work in and
several more to do that work in, he
becomes efficient. Mississippi at any
rate seems to be on the right line, and
she need not trouble herself over the
letter of the constitution so long as
she keeps within the spirit of it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27
Railroad Advertisements.

The railroads are issuing some very
handsome advertising pamphlets just
now said a passenger agent Large
sums of money are expended for this pur-
pose every year and frequently some very
artistic as well as costly books are got
ten out. l notice that the Frisco has Just
issued striking pamphlet well illustrated
with views along the road especially that
part of the line west of Memphis How
ever, 1t is hard to praise one without say
Ing something nice about the others. All
the roads get out attractive advertising
literature and one or two lines are for
tunate in having at the heads of their
advertising departments men of marked
originality and brains.
THE New York Central has issued some
of the handsomest folders ever gotten out
The Santa Fe is also we'll known for its
artistic pamphlets and the Southern Pa
cific spends lots of money in this way.
As said before, all are attractive. How
ever, the lump sum paid out every year
to printers and photographers by railroads
is high up in the millions.
yet there is no doubt that extensive adj
vertising always pays. There are now 50
many railroads that competition Is sharp
and advertisements are very effective in
impressing the public with the merits of
a particular route"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27
REMARKABLE FEASTING.

When a dinner was recently given in
Singapore in honor of the retiring gov
ernor, Sir Frank Swettenham. snipe were
ION the BILL TO provide them, says an
exchange, the hotel man sent out forty
native hunters to range the province be-
fore the dinner. Simply to go to the mar
ket, as the New York restauranteur does,
Is easier.
The plate used at the Mansion House
dinners of the lord mayor of London
weighs nearly 1900 pounds, and the lowest
estimate of it's value is $250.O0O Much of
It is gilt, and some of the modern plate
is fashioned by remeltng from old arti-
cles made from silver mined in England
400 years ago.
NJ. Goebel. an antiquary of Brussels.
once gave dinner remarkable for it's
ripe state of preservation. 1t comprised
apples 1900 years old from an earthen jar
taken from the Pompeii ruins; bread
made of wheat thousands of years old,
taken from the Egyptian pyramids; butter
taken from well in Scotland where it
had lain 400 years in cold storage. and
wine recovered from a vault in Corinth.
There was plenty of the butter, but the
other provender was divided by the spoon
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27
Openino the Warrior.

Captain Craighills report on the inn
ovement of the Warrior in the last
cal year shows that 1907 ,6SS was
pended in that year, and that $4,000
IN be profitably expended in the year
1ding June 30, 1905. When the lock
I'D dam at McGrew's shoals in the
ombigbee river is completed, and the
clSs and dams now in course of con-
ruction In the Warrior are put in
Sc, there will be continuous six-foot
ackwater navigation to point thir-
zen miles above Tuscaloosa. What is
eeded in money for the construction of
wo more locks and dams above Tus-
aloosa, which would extend navigation
twenty-five miles into the coal fields.
through Mr., Underwcod's insistence
nd foresight the surveys for these two
additional locks and dams have been
made, and there need be no delay on
hat score.
But the republican party and the
administration have decided as a piece
II politics that there shall be this year
neither a public buildings bill nor a
liver and harbors bill. Mr.. Burton can
not prevent this piece of demagogry.
he is a friend of the Warrior. but he
cannot help the Warrior this year. The
Warrior is, however, under the con-
tinuing contract system, and Messrs.
and Taylor are both men,
bers of the appropriations committee,
and they may be able to put an appro-
priation for the Warrior in the sundry
civil appropriation bill. This is our
only chance this year, and 1t is for
tunate this district is represented by
an old member who knows what to do
and how to get 1t. Mr.. Underwood
should be kept in congress until the
Warrior is opened to Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27
Mississippi,s New Proposition.

Mississippi holds elections but once
in every four years, and 1t proposes
to make the election of congressman
conform to its general plan. 1t pro-
poses to elect congressman to serve
four years instead of two years, al
though the federal constitution pro-
vides that the house of representatives
ssshall be composed of members chosen
every second year by the people of the
seceral states" The Mississippi plan
would be an innovation upon the fed
eral constitution, but it would be a
weak innovation alongside some that
the republican party and its supreme
court have made since the war, notably
that one which gave us colonial sys-
tenn. What the supreme court does by
majority of one Mississippi proposes
to do unanimously.
Either Mississippi has got to change
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
The First National.

The removal of the First National bank
from its old quarters on First avenue to
the ten story First National Bank build
Ing. marks an era in the progress Of Biz
mingham. Few banks in the United
States have such magnificent surround
ings as the First National and outward
appearances are now in keeping with the
solidity of the institution.
The new quarters of the First National
bank serve at once every requirement of
comfort and convenience and every de-
mand Of the artistic instinct The bank
has indeed a model home in which solid
fty blends with the beautiful. Il is a high
credit to Birmingham and no intelligent
man or woman will fail to appreciate its
meaning
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27

'Have you noticed that the curtain is
being dropped for an intermisson during
minstrel shows these days?" asked man
who takes pleasure in burnt cork per-
formances. Eight or ten years ago the
curtain was never dropper at minstrel
until the performance was concluded. The
object was to keep the fun going with
out interruption and after the first part
was finished a street scene was usually
dropped and the monologuist or other per-
former whose turn demanded little space.
came out and kept the audience amused
until a change of scene could be made.
1t was deemed bad policy to keep an
audience waiting and peanut eaters up in
the loft were sure to raise howl,
Nowadays things are different. Min
strel men have risen to the dignity of
two acts'-the first part and the olio, and
the curtain is usually dropped after the
end men exhaust their supply of jokes.
There is really no necessity for an inter-
mission and l can't say that 1t Is an i'm
provement. In the first play a street
drop or wood drop serves the pur-
pose just as we'll as the curtain and the
performance is not interrupted. At best
mstrels shows are loosely strung to-
gether and an intermission, however
brief. is not desired by the average audi
ence."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27
HOW THE INDIANS MAKE
THEIR HOUSES OF SKINS
F. c..

, can move their flaps about and keep out
the wind.
Beside a stream or close to lake the
Indian always builds his home. He wants
water near by for his family and far his
ponies. Then, where the Indians live the
waters abound with fish, of which the red
man is very fond. So 1t chances to be the
luck of the Indian small boy to grow up
close to where he can cast his hook for
the minnow or throw stones at the birds.
In shape the tepee looks like Ounce
cap. 1t can be put up or taken down
quickly. Indians, always on the lookout
| for war, are ever ready to move. In just
few minutes two squaws can strip off
the tepee cover. 1t takes no time to tear
down the poles and hitch pony to them.
Then. loading the few things they have
onto pack ponies, the family is ready to
go. They can get their wigwams up and
down with almost the ease that a snail
goes into and comes out of its she'll
And you would wonder at the comfort
of tepee. In the summer time the COW
ering can be rolled up at the bottom so as
not to check breeze. When 1t rains, the
skin or mating tepee sheds water like a
ducks back. Even the canvas cover leaks
but little when heavy showers fall upon
it. And how warm, even in midwinter,
just little fire will keep the wigwam
Within the sheltering folds of the teoee
lives the Indian family. In the morning
the squaws. awakened by the lark's song,
take the steel and flint and start the fire.
over it they hang the pot and by its s. de
they place the bake pan. the Indians hav-
ing taken on these convenienccs of civil
ization. A young girl goes to the river
near by and brings back water. From a
tepee pole the Indian mother takes down
hunk of venison and puts it in the vessel
to boil. The oldest daughter finds flour in
a grass sack near the door and kneads the
dough A bag of roots is brought forth.
The father rolls cigarette and, lighting
1t. adds to the smoke of the fire. Around
the skin of a buffalo, perhaps, all gather
to partake of the morning meal
The wigwam serves then as kitchen,
pantry, smokehouse, dining room. 1t Is
also the wardrobe and bureau: for within
it the brave stores his war bonnet, and
the squaw keeps her party dress OF buck
skin. 1t is nursery, too; no room is set
apart for the papoose and its maid The
ponies Craze on the meadows without. but
inside his tepee the Indian casts his bride.
and saddle.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27
Bad Manners at Theatres.

Il was considerably annoyed at one
of the theatres a night or two ago by
large number of people rising from
their seats and piling out when they saw
the last act drawing to a close" said a
gentleman who sees many plays. 1T was
fully five minutes before the curtain fell
when l was surprised to see the audience
rise almost in a body and make for the
entrance. 1t was impossible, to hear what
the people on the stage were saying and
seeing them was out of the question. The
result was much noise and confusion
which effectually drowned the voices Of
the actors and made the finale of the
play fall fiat
Perhaps one reason of the stampede
was the fact that someone opened the
doors at the rear Immediately a cold
blast rushed in and smote the backs Of
those occupying rear seats very uncom-
fortably. These got up to get out of reach
of the air currents and everybody else
followed suit Such conduct during the
action of powerful play not only an
noy many in the audience who would
like to see the climax, but is an insult
to the actors. All the force Is knocked
out of good play when people rush
FOR the entrance before the curtain falls,
but fortunately the play I was witnessing
was not seriously marred by the STAN
pedc.
There should be some way to keep ev-
erybody seated until the curtain falls. and
l think 1t would be an excellent regula-
ton to keep men from trooping out be-
tween every act. They not only create a
disturbance, but make life miserable for
the people who have to make room for
them to pass out"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27
From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
@HE tepee or wigwam is the home
(O of the Indian.

From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
@HE tepee or wigwam is the home
wv of the Indian.
Pronounce 1t tea-pea; take two
portions of tea and one of pea and you
have it about right.
America the Indian chopped down his
tepee poles with a stone ak; with a stone-
pointed arrow he killed the animals from
which he took the lides to cast over the
poles: and he sewed the skins together
with needles made of bone Nowadays he
cuts the poles with steel ak; amin ais be-
ing scarce, he makes his covers with cot
ton cloth And there is another way the
Indian makes the covering of his wig
wam-an old way. too it is. He weaves
thick mating of grass and laps this
around the poles.
Here I've been saying he all the time.
It's not he at all VINO does the work; 1t is
She The Indian women the squaws.
build the homes.
How do they begin? The poles cut they
take four of them, lay them on the
ground and three or four feet from the
small ends tie them together. The poles
are about twenty-four feet long. These
they stand up and spread out so that
they will not fall over Then into the
VS. at the top they lay eleven more
poles. Over these they place the skins,
canvas or mats. Before they tighten the
cover by spreading the poles further
apart the squaws take little sticks and
button 1t together. Along one side of
the cover are holes; on the other are tied
small cords in a loop The loops are put
through the holes; the sticks through the
loops. and there you are.
Two things are yet lacking-the door
and the chimney. But these are simple
things to make. The door is just piece
of cloth which fits over hole left in the
cover-a hole so low that one has to
stoop when he goes into the tepee. The
chimney Is just two flaps at the top OF the
cover. why these flaps? they serve to
make draught; for If the wind were al
leyed to blow down into the tepee it
would keep the Indian house full Of
smoke. The squaws fasten two more
poles-outside of the cover-to these flaps.
one pole to each; SO when it blows they
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27
REFLECTIONS OF a, BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
A woman is never very old when she will
admit 1t.
One and one make one at the marriage
altar. and one from one makes two in the
divorce court.
There is nothing a woman won't do for
a man who has told her friends that she
looks distinguished.
woman who thinks she has eyes like
stars always believes she would be in
great danger from men If she wern't so
good.
when he can't go to Sunday school she
ought TO know enough to keep the pam
try where she stores the preserves lock-
ed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27
about Persons.

w. H. Weller of Admission Is at the WILL
man.
A. Steiner of Greenvile is registered at
the Metropolitan.
John NJ sully of Admission is at the
Morris
w. p Barrett of St. Louis is stopping at
the st. Nicholas.
]. H. Stevens of Montgomery is at the
Florence.
John Cattle of Gadsden is stopping Mt
the Morris.
A ]. Grant of Carbon Hill is at the
Metropolitan.
W. A. Owman of Russellville is stopping
at the st. Nicholas
A. R. Noble of Admission is at the Hill
man.
H, r. Walden of Cordele Ca, is at the
Morris.
DIR. A. r. Johnson of Meridian, Miss,
has been called to the bedside of his sis
ter Mrs A. d. Brown, who is i'll with
pneumonia at her residence, 171s North
Twenty-first street.
John S. knight, prominent lawyer of
Birmingham, and Miss Emma Babb of
Dallas. G., were quietly married last
night at the residence of Charles M. Pat
ton, corner of Twenty-third street and
Twenty-first avenue, north. The .cere-
mony was performed by the Rev. f. M
Woods, pastor of the North Birmingham
Baptist church. Miss Babb was visiting
relatives in this city and the wedding last
night was surprise to Mr. and Mrs.
Knights most intimate friends.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT


Gilda Parolin. favorite niece of Pope
Plus X, is soon to be married to a
wealthy landed proprietor of northern
Italy.
Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tamma-
ny, has fed from New York into the
west to escape the prosecutions of office
seekers.
At the recent convention of the Zeta
Psi fraternity in Minneapolis, Charles H.
Darling, assistant secretary of the navy,
was elected president of the organiza-
ton.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, Repre-
sentative Henry S. Boutelle, and Robert
G. Cousins of Iowa, will be speakers at
the Lincoln birthday banquet in Chicago
February II. at the Auditorium hotel
Adolph Lewisohn of New York has Civ
en- the EMANUEL society money to es-
tablish schools for the instruction of I'M
skilled people in certain kinds of light
work with which they can earn a live
lihood
Miss Elizabeth Roberts of Concord has
sailed for Greece and Egypt, where she
will make sketches for pictures to be
developed by her on her return. Concord
studies made by Miss Roberts are now
being engraved for Hamilton Wright Ma
bie's new book, Background of Ltera-
ture."
Richard Mansfield will probably come
south this year in "old Heidelburg," but
he will come rather late in the season.
Mr.. Mansfield is now playing week en-
gagements In the large cities and Is at
present in Washington. He has been very
successful with his new play. and has
been well received this year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27

1t is predicted that there will be no
more guessing on the weather, and
this startling news comes from Lon
don, where the art of telling when it
is going to rain will soon be placed
on q scientific basis.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27

Thieves are preparing to wage vigor-
Gus war on automobiles next summer,
an undertaking in which they should
have the hearty support of the coun-
try constabulary.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27

In Severance, Kansas, an ordinance
authorizes the girls to pop the ques-
ton, and requires the men to accept
the propositions without a murmur.
The world do move in Kansas. That
ordinance is needed down this way