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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-04-20
News From Excelsior.

Excelsior, April l9.-Sehool closed
Friday. The pupils all enjoyed an
Easter egg hunt on the school grounds
in the afternoon which was much ell
joyed.
Master Magnus Kibler spent Eas-
ter with relatives in Newberry.
Our farmers are very nearly all
planting cotton this week.
Mrs. Crumpton is visiting her son,
Mr.. Rufus Crumpton here this week.
Our early gardeners have beans up
and looking nicely.
Mr.. P. S. Cook and little daughter,
Bertha, of Columbia, came up and
spent Sunday with his mothers fam
lily.
Mr.. Aumerle Singley, Of Newberry
college, spent Easter at home.
Mrs. J. D. Lorick and Mrs. ). +.
Wheeler gave number Of the little
folks an Easter egg hunt on Saturday
afternoon, which was much enjoyed.
Miss Lucy Wheeler, OF klnards,
accompanied by Miss Maude Miller,
have been visiting her fathers family.
There will be communion services at
Baehman Chapel church next Sunday
morning with preparatory service on
Saturday afternoon previous.
Last Sunday was lovely day and
your correspondent attended the Eas-
ter communion at Mt. Pilgrim church.
The pastor, Rev. S. P. Koon, preached
an able sermon appropriate to the
Easter occasion. The ladies Of the
congregation had the church beautl-
fully decorated for the occasion.
There will be preaching at Mt. Pill
grim church on the fifth Sunday morn
NO at II o'clock at which time the
Sunday school will be reorganZed.
Sigma.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-04-20
North Georgia Bible Conference

GAINESVILLE, Ca, April l9th.-The
annual conference of the North Geor-
gia Bible Conference, which has been
session here comes to close this af-
ternoon. It has been the most sue
cessful conference Of the NJ. f..
church in this district and the pro-
ceeding were unusually interesting.
The closing day programme IS pa:tic-
ularly interesting and includes ad-
dresses by the Rev. DR.. Waller Lewis,
of Atlanta; the Rev. Joel T. Dawes,
Of Mllledgeville; the Rev. J. E. Eng
land, Of Jonesboro and others.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-04-20

lost many buildings and from Is to
20 persons were killed. The annex
Of the Vendome hotel collapsed and
fires broke out. Stamford university
and Pala Alto suffered greatly. At
Stamford many handsome buildings
were demolished and two persons were
killed. One Of them was Julius Rob-
ert Hanna Of Bradford, Pa, and the
other was Otto Curtis, a fireman.
Six other students are lying in the
Pala Alto hospital with bruises, cuts
and internal injuries, all California
students.
The court house at Redwood City
and other buildings collapsed. Men,
ton Park, Burlingame and other fash
ionable places suffered greatly.
The greatest destruction occurred in
that part Of the city which was re-
claimed from San Francisco bay.
Much Of the devastated district was at
one time low, marshy ground covered
by water at high tide. AS the city
grew it became necessary to fill in
many acres Of this low ground in Or
der to reach deep water. The Mer-
chants Exchange building, History
steel structure, was situated on the
edge Of this reclaimed ground. +
had just been completed and the ex-
ecutive Offices Of the Southern Pacific
company occupied the greater part of
the building.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-04-20
Excursion To Columbia.

The Kinards, Reederville and Bush
River Sunday schools will run an ex-
cursion Saturday, tomorrow, over the
C. N. & L. using the regular morn
inc train down and the regular after
noon back with plenty of extra coach
es. The fare for the children for the
round trip will be fifty cents. 1t will
be pleasant outing and give the
children and the older people as we'll
an opportunity to see Columbia at its
best.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-04-20
SHOCKS IN CHARLESTON.
Two Shocks Said to Have Been Re-
Gently Felt in Charleston.
The State.

The State.
Charleston, April 1S.-It was stated
today that there were two distinct
shocks Of earthquake felt here yester-
day afternoon and the presumption
is that it was the same seismic dis
turbance wave which came closer to
the surface on the Pacific coast and
did the terrible damage.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-04-20
Picnic Excursion.

Kinards to Columbia. Train passing
Newberry S:35, a. M, returning leave
Gervais street, Columbia. $50 p. m.
Fare round trip. adults $l.0O, chill
dren under II years, so cents.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-04-20

Following the first shock there was
another within five minutes, but not
nearly so severe. Three hours later
there was another slight quake.
Reports from districts outside OF
San Francisco indicate widespread
damage. San Jose, so miles south,
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-04-20
The Horror Increases
In San Francisco.

April 10Th, D. mn. The associated press is out With
Bulletin announcing that San Francisco is practically
wiped from the face of the eart 1t is said that the
fire is still raging:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-31
Politics in Tennessee.

A straight primary was held in Ten
nessee for the purpose of selecting
United States Senator, and a result
was easily and definitely reached. The
settlement is conclusive, and the sub
ject has dropped out of the public
mind, and ex-Goy. Bob Taylor will be
duly elected next winter.
But the machine politicians would
not permit a>straight primary for gov
ernol and other officers. They de-
manded a convention and got 1t, sim
ply because they constituted the state
executive committee Many of the
counties did select delegates to the
convention in primary, but the evil
consists in the holding of conven-
ton, for a convention is in its last
analysis but a conflict all along the
line between contending and extremely
selfish, not to say corrupt, politicians,
in which the interests of the people
are lost sight of.
The Tennessee convention is dis
grace to Tennessee-at least its first
days proceedings were, and it is to be
hoped the people of Tennessee will
have sense enough and courage enough
to put down its politicians hereafter
until they secure straight primaries in
Inc selection of all officials from con-
stable to governor. Give the politicians
nothing to handle at the polls, for they
stand discredited.
1t will be fortunate indeed if the
democrats of Tennessee escape defeat
at the polls after holding a turbulent
convention. Fights on the floor were
oommon-fights, that is to say with
fists, and pandemonium reigned. Splits
may be avoided, but at this writing 1t
looks as If the democrats of Tennes-
see had invited defeat by letting the
politicians call a conventional thing
long since repudiated as rotten in all
the states that border on Tennessee.
The state of Old Hickory and James
X. Polk and Andrew Johnson should
fall in line.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-31
Railway EXPANSION.

II believe that within five years from
the present time practically every part
of Jefferson county will be connected by
electric railway lines said a travelling
man at the Birmingham hotel last night.
II know of no city in the south that
has such capacity for expansion in this
way. The real Birmingham is not con-
fined within narrow bounds like most
cities, but its mighty arms are reaching
out among the hills in most surprising
directions. Populous and growing COM
munities dot the county In every direc-
ton and new developments give birth to
new towns that spring up almost like
magic
ITO accommodate the people in these
rev sections some means of transporta-
ton must be provided The most feasible
solution is the electric railway.
Il am told that the Birmingham Rail
way. Light and Power company is extend
ing its present system almost in every di-
rection and is constantly looking out for
new territory, and is making plans to
build new lines as fast as they can get
to them.
1.-THE enterprise shown by the company
In keeping pace with the marvellous
growth of this district is commendable.
The service maintained is above the ay-
erage, and I think the officials deserve
much credit for the manner in which
they handle the enormous travel of the.
district under the many difficulties ex-
perienced from the peculiar conditions ex-
listing here.
within few years ! expect to see the
lines of the electric railway reaching out
much farther than at present and forming
a network to almost every point of con-
sequence In the county"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-31
Mr.. Cassatt and Mr.. Baer.

President Cassatt Is coming home to
face a popular storm of the first mag.
nitude. He cannot hope to weather
that storm unless he shows that the
grafters who filled their pockets with
gift stock did so without his knowledge
and without injury to the stockholders
he represents. Even then those stock
holders may say 1t was his business 10
know what was going on in the bust
ness he was set to supervise and con
duct.
a He can not say that the gifts of coal
stocks to his subordinates were mere
Christmas or friendship matters.
Stocks are not given away on that
basis. They are usually given away to
secure by lie underground route posi-
tive benefits and advantages-prefer'
entails, to use a railroad word. He
oan not easily explain away the fact
that donors of coal stocks got plenty
- oars aud other ADVANTAGES. while
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-31
ScandaIous DELAYS.

Albert T. Patrick, lawyer, killed the
aged millionaire, William M. Rice, al
most in the last century. The linger-
ing death of the victim occurred in
1900. and in 1902 Patrick was found
guilty and sentenced to DEATH He has
ever since lived in the death house at
Sing Sing prison. He can not get out
of the death house, and the law will
not take him out of it, simply because
he has money and friends, and is him
self a lawyer of skill and acumen. He
claims now that the congestion of the
lungs disclosed by the autopsy was
caused by the embalming process. He
asks therefore for new trial ON the
ground of newly Undiscovered evidence,
and he has been granted by Governor
Higgins a reprieve for that purpose
until June IS.
He even had the audacity to put
through the New York legislature two
bills that would have enabled him to
make the motion for new trial on the
account of newly discovered evidence
before a Judge Of his own selection
instead of the judge who last tried him.
but Governor Higgins has vetoed the
two bills.
In doing so the governor of New
York pronounces the laws delays as
little less than scandalous,' and he
SAYS he will not do anything that tends
to defer indefinitely the termination Of
a capital case Governor Higgins is
wholly right in his determination.
The laws delays is the excuse of all
lvnchers. 1t promotes lynching, and
it fills this country with crime. The
maximum of crime is here, and the
minimum in England. Why? In Eng
land no appeal from a jury is permit
ted in criminal cases. The decision is
final and everybody knows it. No IN
nocent persons are hung in England,
and thare Is a minimum of crime in its
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-31
Mas Greatest Actor.

'I have seen all the great actors from
Edwin Forrest down to those of recent
times, and no one will take issue with me
when | say that the late Edwin Booth
easily outranlked them ALL" said an old
citizen I'm 1875 1t was my privilege to
meet Booth socially. on several occa-
slons, in company with one Of his closest
friends The actor was always serious
and always gentle. His manner was en-
gaging in a quiet way, and l was greatly
impressed with his unfelgned goodness.
Remembering him, as 1 did, was glad to
find this description by Willie Winter in
Munsey 's-not overdrawn in any particu-
lar
lin point of physical advantages for
the statge, Edwin Booth exceIled all his
contemporaries. His head was noble; his
person was symmetrical; his presence
was distinguished. In repose he was In
carnate dignity. In action he had the We
sonorous, thrilling, sympathetic. and at
times inexpressively sweet. His eyes
were large, dark lustrous, magnificent,
the lashes and brows being thick and
greatly contributive to expression. His
style had been modelled on that of his
father, but, as he matured, 1t underwent
radical change, REFRESHING the elemnts
of tumult and frenzy and exalting those of
intellect, poetry, spirituality, solemn beau
ty and tender grace. His elocution was
at all times delicious--a luxury to hear !"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-31
Great Prosperity.

British Commercial Agent Bell, in re-
viewing American business in 1906, says:
There are no signs at present of this
great activity decreasing. On the con-
trary, there is every Indication that the
present year will be quite as prosperous
as the past or more so.
1.-The country was never more prosper
Gus than at present. Industrial opera
tions are carried on upon a larger scale
than ever Since 1875 the export of manu-
features has increased to an enormous
extent, namely, from $4,000 900 to SILL
100000 an increase of $47s, 100000, while
total domestic exports have risen from
s5l3 900 TO s1599. 100000 an increase of
81 Os6, 100000 During the past five years
the value of the real estate of medium
farms has increased 1875 per cent. At
the end of the year the stock of gold in
the federal treasury amounted to over
s7e5,OOO 600 The wealth production on
farms last year was s6.415o0O,oo0. Exports
to Cuba, s45, 100000 in 1906, against $4,000. 900
in 1908, gain of s2f.oOo.ooOO in only two
years
While these figures are not new to
Americans, it is we'll to have this unquali-
fed endorsement of our great success
from foreign and competing source. =
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-31
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Watching Construction.

Il have been very much interested in
watching the methods being used in pre-
pairing to erect the new building of the
Bell Telephone company on Second ave-
nue. said man whose office is near the
site of the telephone building.
THE contractor has a hard proposition
to work out. He must tear down the old
building and erect a new one in its place
without disturbing the swtchboards on
the second floor, where operators are at
work day and night. 1t Is no easy propo-
sitlon, and as the work progresses ii
seems to me to get harder and harder. In
addition to the other troubles the con-
tractor has to raise the second floor about
twelve inches.
Il see that they are working on it all
the time. men being at work by electric
lights at night tearing away the walls of
the old building. Day after day the propo-
sition presents something new and inter
estlng to me. and I am constantly learn
ing something from watching it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-31
Towards Commencement.

The dedication of Library hall at the
commencement exercises of the pres
ent week at Howard college shows
what the aspiration of that institution
and the spirit Of President Montague
stand for. They are determined not
only to provide for all needful equip
ment, but also to secure an ample en-
dowment fund.
Howard college stood still a long
time waiting for such advantages to be
handed to 1t by the great church 1t rep
resents, but when the Baptists of Ala
bama neglected to hand over the funds
President Montague simply said he
would go out among those self-same
Baptists and others and get what the
college needs and what the church
stood ready to give when the situation
was brought plainly before it.
The results are before us. An en-
dowment fund of 100000 all told has
been secured, and the Library hall and
the Renfroe dormitory show what can
be accomplished when there is man
to lead the way. What has been ac-
complished is, however, but begin
ming. The Baptists are becoming proud
OF Howard college. and they have con-
fidence In President Montague, and
there is in the air a feeling that How
ard college will speedily be expanded
into a noble university. The Baptists
for Alabama need a strong educational
institution, and in order to get one
they have but to put few more fine
buildings on the campus and to add a
few more round sums to the endow-
ment fund. They will do It,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-31

their competitors who handed over no
free stock suffered correspondence
and in some cases we're frozen out.
The Pennsylvania, like the Standard
Oil, was engaged in crushing competi-
ton, employing, however, greater but
equally efficient means to that end.
But perhaps Mr.. Cassatt did not
know what was going on in the Offices
below his own. Perhaps, too, other
railroads were doing likewise. The
other railroads have not yet been in.
Yestigated by the interstate commerce
commission, which is said to have a
great deal of evidence up its sleeve.
Let us at any rate await Mr.. Cassatts
statement before condemning him out
right and beyond recall Give him at
least a hearing.
AS for the esteemed Mr.. Baer, who
is said TO be slated to succeed Mr.
Cassatt. He is perhaps the most unpop-
ular railroad manager in the country
He once took the position that he had
been placed in charge of a coal-carry-
ing railroad by Providence, and it was
the duty of his miners therefore to
OBEY him. His orders should be to
them a call of Providence. There is
little room for hopeful and helpful
action in man of that sort. Give Mr..
Cassatt chance to present his side
of the case If for no other reason than
in the hope that the country will not
have to accept in his stead the man who
says he is in this world strictly and
wholly Providential, no matter what
the next man may be. He is different,
in other words. He stands apart from
all the rest. He is George f. Baer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-31
GUILTY IN ENGLAND.
American Convicted of Fraudulent
Promotion of Mines.

London, May 90.-At the old Bailey to-
day Harry Samuel Simmons and Frank
lin Evarhart, Americans, charged with
conspiring to obtain large sums Of money
by fraud. were found guilty. Simmons
was sentenced to two years imprison-
ment at hard labor and Evarhart to
eighton months hard labor.
Simmons and Evarhart were charged
with forging shares and certificates in
connection with Alaskan, Oklahoma, Grip
pie Creek and Manila Mining companies.
Evarhart In London according to the
police. was vice president of the Mining
Securities and Investment Corporation,
said to be registered at Oklahoma City,
and Simmons was a director of the same
corporation with head offices said to be
in New York
Simmons said he was from Illinois and
Evarhart from Pennsylvania.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-31
Openinu the Warrior.

Congress does not propose to pass
rivers and harbors bill, but the open
ing of the Warrior is to be progressed
steadily nevertheless. Our river and
hope for cheap transportation to the
sea is under the continuing contract
system, and contracts for its dams and
locks are let to be paid for annually.
The money to be expended on the
improvement of the Warrior in the
coming fiscal year is put at at S543,-
466, and that sum is an item in the
sundry civil appropriation bill. That
bill will be considered in the House
this week, and it will soon become a
law. The item in question will not
carry slackwater navigation to the
forks of the river. but it will carry it
to a point that will enable a single
generous appropriation in rivers and
harbors to overcome Squaw shoals, and
open the river to the forks, which may
be said to be the focal central point
of this mineral district. The Locust
and Mulberry forks come together at
the very heart of our coal deposits at
a point about twenty miles from Bir-
niingham with two railroad bridges in
plain sight For all practical purposes
is from the forks of the Warrior six
feet of slackwater navigation the year
round to the sea. This longwished-for
consummation should be reached not
later than the year 1909.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-31
HOW WE LEARN.

BY Horatius Bonar.
Great truths are dearly bought The
common truth,
Such as men give and take from day
to day,
Comes in the common walk of easy life,
Blown by the careless wind across our
way.
Bought in the market at the current
price,
Bred of the SMILE the jest, perchance
the bowl;
1t tells no tales of daring or of worth,
Nor pierces even the surface Of a soul.
Great truths are greatly won. Not found
by chance.
Nor waited on the breath of summer
dream:
But grasped in the great struggle OF the
soul, :
Hard-bufetlng with adverse wind and
stream. a..1
Not in the general mart. mid corn and
Not In the merchandise of gold and
gems.
Not in the worlds gay hall of midnight
mirth;
Not mid the blaze of regal diadems.
But in the day of conflict. fear and grief,
When the strong hand of God, put forth
in might.
Plows up the subsoil of the stagnant
heart
And brings the imprisoned truth-seed
to the light.
wrung from the troubled spirit, in hard
hours
OF weakness. solitude. perchance OF
pain.
Truth sprngs like harvest from the
well-plowed field,
And the soul feels It has not wept IN
vain
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-31
sHoNrs SPEAKS IN ATLANTA.
Comes Out Strongly In Advocacy of q
Lock Canal.

Atlanta, May 9O.--Theodore P. Shonts,
chairman of the Panama canal commits
sion, was the guest today of Atlanta
friends, and his presence in Atlanta was
made the occasion for several entertain
ments and public functions. at which he
met large number of business and pro-
fessional men, and delivered two adj
dresses. The first was at the dedication
of new building at Agnes Scott insti-
tute, a college for women in Decatur, a
suburb of Atlanta. The second was de-
livered this evening before the Chamber
of Commerce, in which he spoke of the
relations of the south to the Panama
canal. He took strong grounds in advo-
cacy of the lock canal system Later in
the evening Mr.. Shonts was entertained at
banquet rendered by fifty citizens and
attended by Governor Terrell and many
others of prominence, politically and
financially
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-31
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Some boys that go to college can't even
learn to play golf.
When the cook has a good temper it's
sign she can't cook.
There's n certain kind of fellow that is
proud to be run over by millionaire's
automobile.
woman has such natural faith she
can believe thing she wants to, though
she doesn't
There is hardly anything as uncom-
Portable as to meet a summer girl you
were engaged to and not be able to re-
.~~.s-AAr hAr mama
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-31
Louisiana to Buy Silver Service.

New Orleans. May 30.-Plans are I'M
der way for raising a fund of $4,000 for
silver service for the battleship Louis
lana. New Orleans is to furnish the
punch bowl. and each of the
other fifty-eight parishes will furnish
one piece for the set. An effort will be
made to have every ship named for a
state in the Mississippi valley ordered
here at the time of the presentation and
make the event a notable one
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-31
FLOODS IN OREGON.
Railroads Are Tied Up BY the Heavy
OoWnpour.

Pendleton, Ore. May S0.-One-third of
the people of Pendleton are either tenn
porariy homeless or have been driven to
the upper floors of their residences by
the rising waters of the Umatlla river.
A big wagon bridge a mile above PEN
dleton has been washed out and the
wrecked span has piled against the Ore
gon Railroad and Navigation eompanys
bridge, threatening to either overthrow
1t or cut through the levee and flood
the town.
All roads are tied up, and will be for
some time. The railroad bridges above
and below Fendleton are out. The flood
is sweeping through lower Main and Court
streets, and all the business houses there
are flooded. Rain is falling steadily,
and many families have moved to the
hills