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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-06-05
TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1905.
The DispensaEy.

In mother column IS printed
call to the voters of this county to
assemble in the court house on Sat
urday Of this week to consider the
question OF getting up petitions to
order an election on the question OF
voting the dispensary out OF the
county. The Herald News stated IN
Friday's issue that the meeting would
be held. This call is not signed by
any one, and it is the purpose, as we
understand it, to make it mass meet
ing and allow every one who so de-
sires to be present: That is very good.
The Herald News stated few days
ago that it believed public sentiment
in favor of voting out the dispensary
was stronger in this county today
than it had been. We still hold that
view We also stated that it was our
desire. that if an ELECTION was to be
held that it be held this year when THE
people could vote on the issue with
out the personality OF candidates tor
the various positions to be filled.
That we wanted to see the question
presented fairly and sQuarely to the
people and without passion of
predjudice.
To those who hold that liquor is al,
evil in any and every form it will be
easy to decide. In fact their minds
are already made up. They also be-
lieve that the evils OF intemperance
can also be removed by prohlbltory
laws and that by statute you can
make people temperate and reduce
the consumption OF whlskey In
Temperance is an evil. If You believe
that prohibitory laws will r1lnlmlze
that evil then YOU should be on the
side of prohibition. If you do not
believe so. then the question arises,
what is the best mode Of dealing with
the evil. Would the closing of the
-dispensary reduce the sale and use
OF whiskey to any considerable de-
gree. Would it not be an invitation
to the blind tigers to open business
and would or would we not have as
much whiskey as we now have These
are matters that should be consider
ed. : It.is a fact that the dispensary,
so far as Newberry county is concern
ed, is far better than what we had
before when there were eight bar
rooms. If we are to have whlskey
any way would it not be better TO
have it under control and get the
revenue than to have it with no cor
troll and get no revenue from 1t.
: But some one will say that we do
not want revenue raised that way.
These are questions to think about.
In this county the city Of Newberry
receives as it's share of the dispensary
profits about $1,000 annually. To
cut that out would necessitate the
levving of about a four mill. tax II.
addition for the city. The county --e-
ceives about $1,000 as its share of the
dispensary profits. To cut that out
would necessitate about one and
half mills additional for current eS-
penses of the county. This does not
include Newberry's share Of the
school fnud if the dispensary is voted
out which amounts to a considerable
item. These are things for you to
think about.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-06-05

at close on to wholesale prices
by allowing every purchaser OF
any amount above twenty-five
cents 20 per ct. cash discount
on all their purchases. | hope
in that time to reduce my stock
at least twenty-five hundred
dollars, and save my customers
five hundred dollars.
General Green has been
keeping the farmers so busy
that they have been in town
very little lately, but | hope to
see them often in ny store DUR
ing this sale taking advantage
of the bargains offered. The
people know when advertise
a reduction sale it means that
during that sale | am giving
away the profits in order to re-
duce stock and turn itinto cash.
Come and see me often. Tell
your friends about my store.
Don't forget that everything in
the store is included in this
sale except
Stetson Hats, Manhat-
tan Shirts, ScreVen
Drawers, Earl &Wilson
and Cluett, Peabody q
Co., Collars and Cuffs.
Most OF these are contract
goods, and | have to agree to
sell at a certain price or they
will not let me have them.
Until September Ist my
Store will close at $50
%. M, except on Satur-
days.
4. C. JONES,
NeWberry, s. 4.
June !, 1905.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-07-29
A Giobe-Trotting Teacher.

Miss Nina Boegli, Swiss girl, has
the distinction of having taught school
in nearly every civilized country In
the world, although she is barely 81
years of age. She began teaching
when she was 10, and year later de-
cided to take trip around the world,
making her expenses by teaching in
the lands through which she passed.
With $3.50 and large stock of pluck
and courage as her capital, she
started out, and it has taken her
eight years to accomplish her pur-
pose. During the entire tour of the
world she never met with an accident.
She was treated with courtesy every
where, and had plenty of pupils in
each country where she chose to stop.
She reports that she found Australia
the most liberal in paying teachers for
their services.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-07-29
ENGLISH DOCTORS FEES.
They Arc Regulated by the Royal Col
1ege of Physicians.


The specialists must be divided into
two distinct classes, the surgeon prop
er and the pure physician. The former
unquestionably gets big fees In ratio
to his reputation. The famous sur
geon has only to name his fee to the
millionaire with appendicitis. With
the fear of death before his eyes he
will write his check gladly. When
he has recovered he will often grum-
BILE II he does not boast. A younger
and less known man Will perform the
same operation for a 1.-THE OF the cost,
but the public, with death staring
them In the face, will have the man
with the big name, regardless of ex-
pense.
But the pure physician is an entirely
different matter. His fees are stand
ardized not by act Of Parliament, but
by that autocratic body, the Royal Col
lege of Physicians. His fees for con-
sultation at his own house are fixed
at 2 guineas the first visit and a
guinea for each subsequent one. For
consultations away from home he re-
ceives fee at the calculated rate OF
two thirds Of guinea mile. Elstree.
twelve miles out of town, is ipso facro
guineas, Liverpool col miles, is 134
guineas, and so on pro rata. But u
must be remembered that nowadays
all the big provincial centers have
their own specialists, and the town
man is very seldom sent for unless he
be one OF the very biggest names and
the case desperate and rich.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-07-29
CHAPTER XIV.

The Pamir, or Bam-i-Douniah, is COM
monty called the Roof of the World
From it radiate the mighty chains of the
Than Shan, of the Kuen Lun, of the
Kara Korum of the Himalaya, of the
Hindoo Koosh This geographic Rystem,
four hundred kilometcrs across, which
remained for so many years an inSpassa-
BILE barrier, has been surmounted bg Rus
sian tenacity. The Slav race AID the
yellow race have come into contact
The travellers of the Aryan peopL. have
all attempted to explore the plateau of
the Pamir. Without going back to
Marco Polo in the thirteenth century,
what do we find? The English with For
syth, Douglas, Biddulph, Younghuaband,
and the celebrated Gordon, who died OIL
the Upper Nile; the Russians with Fend-
chenko, Skobeleff, Prjevalsky, Grambt-
chexsky, General Pevitzoff, Prince t5alit.
Yin. the brothers Groun-Grjimailo: the
French with Auvergne, Vonvalot, Capus
Papin, Breteuil de Rims, Joseph Martin
Grenard, Edouard Blanc; the Swede:
with Doctor Sven Hedin.
This roof of the world, one would say
is lifted up in magic hand to let us see it
mysteries. We know now that it con
sists of an inextricable ENHANCEMENT o
valleys, the mean altitude of which ex
ceeds three thousand meters; we know
that it is dominated by the peaks o
Gouroundi and Kaufman, TWENTY-FIVE
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-07-29

If the physician should accept more
he transgresses that professional fe-
itch, medical etiquette" and is brand
ed quack by his less lucky bretb
rem.
Moreover, when he arrives at a suf-
ficient standing in the ranks of his
profession the Royal College Of Ply
sicians will not elect him to their all
important fellowship. the browning
qualification and high water mark of
his calling.-London Mail.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-07-29

as the great steam excavator shown In
the illustration performs In eight
hours. The burning sun or rain in tor
rents has no terrors for this mammoth
earth devouring monster. The scene
Is from a photograph of the construc-
ton work on the irrigation canal In
Colusa County, California. The arti-
fetal river thus created Is six miles
long, 100 feet wide, and 80 feet to the
top of its banks. The Sacramento riv-
n furnishes the water which makes
fertile 10000 acres Of fruit ranches.
The excavator travels on Its own
railway tracks on each side Of the
canal, and as the work proceeds the
track is taken up and relaid ahead
of the machine.
The steel buckets, which have sharp,
cutting edges, move constantly by
means of endless chains, and empty
their load of earth first on one side,
then on the other. Wide endless belts
carried on rollers carry the earth to
the sides of the ditch.
All these movements Of the machine
are controlled by one leverman, who
may be seen in the cut standing on
the platform on the left Of the bucket.
He has control Of five separate levers,
one for raising and lowering the buck
ct chain, one for moving the car to
the right, and another for moving the
car to the left, and another for moving
1t forward on the side track, and the
fifth controls the engine. The rapid
ty and facility with which all these
movements are made is surprising, es
pecially considering the momentum
. and immense weight of the car and
bridge and the excavator's machinery
. which is about 300 tons.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-07-29
Conquest Of N, Great :
American Desert
SS$S$SSSS-S
Pat and to the Point.

Mr.. Paul Thieman,' whoever he may
be, says something in recent issue OF
a Denver paper which is pat and to the
point. We herewith produce the first
few paragraphs of his articles:
When one beholds the complacent
failure to comprehend the nature and
condition of Far Western irrigation, 1t
Is maddening. l have seen one man,
who is thoroughly posted, almost break
into wild tears of rage over the ever
recurring evidences that the people at
large, the people right here, the ma
tional government, the State govern
ments, do not appreciate national irri-
CATION, and that the public informa-
ton and the individual knowledge OF
the subject at this time are strangely
dense. The public is fed constantly
with lovely articles about the grand
national irrigation works under way,
while the fact is that all the great
values mentioned concerning reclama-
ton of the arid region are the result of
private initiative and enterprise and
capital.
Few people understand that the ma
tional irrigation fund Is nothing but
bulk of capital which may be advanced
to build reservoirs and bitches, upon a
guarantee that the owners of the lands
to be irrigated will repay the cost to
the fund. The national fund Is not to
be depleted, but must be replenished
by the payment back Of the cost Of the
work, as assessed by the government
engineers, and If signatures to such
pledges can't be secured, the works
proposed will not be built.
Knowing that all government work
costs vastly more than If done by pri-
vate capital, and the United States
failing to guarantee the limit of the
cost, lots OF landowners won't sign,
and there you are. Meantime the gov
eminent officials knock private enter
prises and warn the people against
them, when, as the situation stands
it is only private enterprise, in pro-
noting irrigation district bonds, In Col
orado, at least, that is really doing any
thing.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-07-29
Shark a Commercial Product

The shark, which is so abundant in
the waters of Central America, is to
be utilized in commercial products. A
company has been formed which con-
verts sharks fms into jelly and timed
soup, makes fine machinery oil from
their nvers, handsome leather, equal
to alligators', from their skins, walk
ing sticks from their backbones, and
numerous articles from their jawbones
and teeth.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-07-29

"One-half the world" remarked the
party with the quotation habit,
doesn't know how the other half
lives"
81 guess that's right" rejoined the
married man, "but the feminine half
works overtime trying to find out"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-07-29
MILK Ri.er Irrigation Project.

The Great Falls (Mont) land office
has received instruction to withdraw
from all forms Of entry 276,4S0 acres
of land, In connection with the Milk
river irrigation project. Part of the
tract withdrawn lies northwest of
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-07-29
BETTER than Antifat.

Woggins-Blowitz, the pugilist, lost
100 pounds of flesh while training for
his last fight.
Snoozem-Get out! What are you
trying to give me, anyway?
Woggins-Straight goods. His wife
eloped with one of his trainers.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-07-29

The worth of a state, in the long
run, is the worth of the individuals
composing it,. S. Mill.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-07-29

Excavator for Irrigation Canals.
A thousand men toiling with shovels
and wheelbarrows from sunrise to sun
set could not accomplish as much work
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-07-29
Discover a Water Supply.

Residents of the Pecos valley In New
Mexico are excited by the discovery
that underlying more than 6O0,ooo
acres of desert land is apparently an
inexhaustible supply of water. The
fame of the region has spread through
out the country, and even to portions
of Europe. The water gushes from
the ground wherever behring's are made
and pours over a thirsty land, trans
forming 1t into a garden Of almost re-
markable fertility.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-07-29

Havre, extending irregularly from the
line of the Great Northern to the inter
national boundary, comprising part OF
the chain of lakes, reservoir sites ana
lands lying along Milk river and Sage
creek.
Another portion of the tract lies west
of the Montana Central, between the
Big Sandy and Box Elder creeks. and
is presumably withdrawn In connec-
ZION with the Marias Diversion canal
portion of the Milk river product
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-07-29
CHAPTER XIII.

Kokhan, two hours to stop. 1t is
night The majority of the travellers
have already takeR up their sleeping
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-09-01
Son Did not Reveal Identity to Father

The talk of Lincoln and vicinity today
is a little incident in real life that reads
like novel, says n despatch to The Bur-
lington News.
Twenty-Five years ago George Cald-
well, then II years old. was driven from
home by his father, James Caldwell who
it is said had grossly maltreated the boy
and been prosecuted for wife beating. A.
c. Merrill. of Lincoln. loaned the lad some
money with which to go. he finally reach
ing California, friendless and poor. but
resolved to be free, Years passed and
little news OF the wandering boy reached
Lincoln, but he was struggling, gradual
ing I'm due time, by his own efforts, in
medicine, and beginning practice in which
he prospered, locating after time in
Poughkeepsie y. Y, where he was
eminently successful. During these years
he had never returned home, its memory
was too unpleasant.
One day recently well-dressed man
and woman, his wife, driving a hand
some automobile were at the Lincoln
house for dinner They did not register
and nobody knew them. though former
schoolmates We're about the place. In the
afternoon the strangers quietly went for
spin to South Lincoln. taking the road
that leads to the farm OF James Caldwell
farm long since lost on mortgage, but
still occupied by the father on the indulg-
Caldwell in the road. the tourists stopped
for distance Inquiries and finally took
aboard the auto as a treat the old man
for a ride to his home.
Arriving at the house the strangers
stopped to look over the property, and
the conversation turning to family af-
fairs, the visitor asked, Have you any
sons living. Mr.. CALDWELL Yes, two
Arthur and George, who are both phy-
sicians. / gave them both a college edu-
cation; in fact, George could talk two
languages when quite young. He left
home some years ago on account of a
love affair, but is well settled and pros
porous"
Here NJ. Caldwell showed the callers
a picture of the beloved" George and
other members OF the family These
sons the children of first wife?" inquir-
ed the stranger. Yes, but she has been
dead some years" mo doubt your mar
ried life has been PLEASANT" Very"
Thus the conversation drifted the
stranger finally bidding Mr.. Caldwell
good-by without disclosing his Identity
Who was the stranger? 1t was Dr.
George Caldwell, of Poughkeepsie, n Y,
who left home an outcast and thus re-
turned to the house of his father in a
$25OO automobile and incidentally learns
as he puts 1t, one thing he never knew
before-that he could speak two lam
guages at the age of II.
The next afternoon Doctor Caldwell
left for Middlebury on his return home
He did not make himself known at all
to his father, but he did tell school
mates.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-09-01

A Striking Personality.

| Joseph Battell Of NIiddlebury is a strik-
ing and interesting personality. He is
probably Vermonfs largest real estate
owner, having title to tract of 4O, 900
to $4,000 acres OF land, located in
Chittenden. Washington, Addison and
| Windsor counties, and covering a distance
of over 30 miles north and south. Mr.
Battell bought this land at a price seldom
over 81 an acre aud frequently less. but
he loves the forests and today he refuses
to sell the magnificent green hills to the
| Iapacious pulp man, who would give S25
an acre or more for much Of the timber
land. Mr.. Battell, who is now 65 years
! old, has provided In his will that one
large section of his holdings shall go to
the state of Vermont and another to
Middlebury college Mr.. Battell was born
I'm Middlebury and was educated in the
schools and the college there His
uncle, who was a member of the
Battel family of Norfolk, Conn.
passed the entrtnce examinations at
Yale at the age If 10. being second in
a class OF 40, but was not admitted on
account Of his agl. He entered Middle
bury from which he received his degree
at II. Mr.. Battelri father graduated from
Middlebury at IS. Mr.. Battells grand
father, Horatio Seymour, "a lawyer In
Middlebury, was United States Senator
from Vermont two terms, and his great
uncle, Horatio Seymour, Of New York,
was Democratic candidate for the presi-
dency against L. S. Grant. Mr.. Battell
is the author OF tn, history OF the Morgan
horse and is following up this work with
the American Stsllion Register, which
will be issued in four volumes of 500
pages each. He is the owner Of the
finest Morgan stabh In the state. in which
are quartered 30 sleek animals The
United States government recently bought
from him three specimens of young Nor
gan stations to be used for breeding pur-
poses in the Philippines Mr.. Battem is
the owner Of the Middebury Register.
and is sponsor To- the American Pub
fishing company, Which is conducted in
connection with the Register. He is the
author of a psychological work entitled
Ellen: or Whspcrings OF an Old Pine"
1t deals with numerous problems OF life
and shows deep research in many direc-
tions. After the completion of a second
installment Of this book, on which he is
now at work he will build a cottage in
Porto Rico which he will occupy during
the winter months. Mr.. Battell is radi-
cally opposed to the general sale of liquor
and in the legislature of 1902 was the
author Of bill providing for state dis
pensary system. He has been member
Of the Vermont legislature IA years, serv-
ing three terms as representative from
Middlebury. three terms from Ripton. and
one term as county senator.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-09-01
Spare the Plants.

May we ask the persons who are inter-
ested in collecting wild plants, either for
gardens or herbariums, to use care that
species may not be exterminated from
our own and neighboring towns? We
ask this in behalf OF lovers of nature as
well as of botansts.
Should a plant be found unknown to
the collector, and not found in abundance,
will he not inform himself somewhat con-
cerning it before disturbing the roots?
A concerted movement for the pro-
lection of wild plants exists now in many
OF our states, and we were trusting that
our own townspeople were awake TO the
importance OF cooperation In the pres
ervation of the many rare plants to be
found in this locality.
The present request is not without
cause. Many years ago a fern, rare to
this latitude end altitude, grew sparingly
about Round Mountain and disappeared
when the forest was cut. This fern, p.
Braunii is reported from the mountains
Of Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hamp-
shire, Maine, and to the far north. A fine
little colony was found some distance
from Round Mountain, and so precious
did we consider 1t for our locality that
we did not disturb a single root. There
1t had safely survived the clearing of the
forest, and protected by a sheltering rock
from accidental destruction its one sure
enemy man, found it. Last week we
thought to spend some hours of closing
day in enjoyment of its exceeding beauty,
and found to our dismay and sorrow that
every root had been removed. Something
has gone from that hillside Of inestimable
value to the true lover Of plant life, and
from the fern fora of our town.
ELIZABETH B. DAVENPORT.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-09-01

The dispensary system, which was ad-
vocated and supported as desirable law
in controlling the liquor traffic when
Vermont changed to local option and
high license, is under fire in South Caro-
lima, where 1t has been in operation sew
eral years. Senator McLaurin is the
leader in the movement which is likely
TO result in the overthrow OF the law in
the coming campaign. Under the sys-
TEN there has been widespread charges
of corruption and graft. 1t has been a
money making scheme for the state but
the office holders are alleged to have also
profited by 1t. The temperance senti-
ment Of the state is arrayed against the
dispensary under the slogan Take South
Carolina out of the liquor business" Ap-
parently the state-store plan of dealing
with the liquor problem is not a complete
success in the only state in the union
which has tried it. 1t may be just as well
in the end that Vermont did go to South
Carolina for her law.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-09-01
WEST 1RATTLEeoRo.

Roscoe Fisher has been repairing the
village reservoirs and has them all in
good condition.
The material which has been blasted
out in widening the road near the water
ing trough has been used to improve the
grade at the end of the Brook road near
the power house.
Harry Miller, who bought the building
lot next to the Baptist parsonage, has
begun relaying the foundation of the
house which formerly stood on the lot,
preparatory to building a two tenement
house.
L. e. Copeland has torn down the old
Goodenough saw MILL which has done
service nearly 100 years, and has built a
new one on the site. 25 by 100 feet. which
is somewhat higher than the old mill.
Mr.. Copeland is well equipped with a
cider mill, planning and shingle mill, and
is doing a good business in getting out
lumber for house finishing. He has made
many important improvements about the
premises.