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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-09-21
Westminster School

Richmond Va.
opens September 26th HOME
SCHOOL for Girls a well-r0uudea
education for you- girls Write for
catalogue MISS CAMPBELL.
Principal
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The Resemblance
Her Judgment.

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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-09-21

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Mr.. Emery had wheels.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-09-21

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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-09-21

This silence may mean only that Roger
sullivan is preparing anopner reply.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-06-15

He put both brain and hand to work
--he taught the youth Of the church
and preached the gospe Of Christ
wherever he went. With his own
hands he baked bread-the STATE Of
life--and sold it to the citizens Of
this town. This man in after years
in replying to a letter from DR.. @.
w. Holland, says concerning the dif-
ficultiss he had to, contend with: 'tIt
was the, tsaddest scene jtHof my life.
How lived and kept my family and
the college is now mystery. Yet
all the time not a hair Of my head
was hurt; nor did I want for any
thing necessary, to life and, comfort.
1 cannot write the sketch myself
you ask for. 1t would taste strongly
of egotism, which I cannot endure
in public print. Hence do not wish
you to publish the bare dates and
events as have written them to you.
The facts and events you may Of
course use, but as not coming from
my pen.' ..#
"This man would not write Of
himself and his work, but thank God
there are those who are left that will
do this for him. ....
"The presidency Of the college of
this man, DR.. j. P. Smeltzer, for it is
him of whom I speak, extended
through the trying years of the war
and the Reconstruction period Of the
South-the most trying time of all
the times that this beautiful South
land of ours was ever called upon to
endure. No wonder that institutions
of learning Jagged and were brought
near to death. Every other good
cause Jagged; the wonder is that any
survived amid such ruins and devas-
tation, want and hunger.
"From 1861 to 1877, a period Of l6
years, DR.. Smeltzer was at the head
of the institution. Think Of those
years. four of which were spent in
bloody strife and 12 Of which were
during the Reconstruction period.
Who could have done any better
than DR.. Smeltzer and his noble lit
tie band of self-denying professors7
Yea, who could or would have
done as well7 Salaries unpaid, build
ing in ruins, property nearly all lost,
the friends of the college stripped
Of their all, the church poor and I'M
able to lift these heavy burdens from
her institution. And many Of the
young men who should have been
students in the army, or hard OF work
to redeem the ruined fortunes of
their fathers.
"In 1860 the treasurer of the col
lege made a report in which he esti-
mated the assets Of the college and
its indebtedness as follows:
Supposed amount of bonds for J.
scholarships. :. .. :. $4,000
Value Of professors house =. 2700
Cash on hand .. =. :. >. E. 1910
Value of college building >. 10000
Amounting to-. =. .. =. ..$75,77O
Supposed indebtness on build
ing. =. :. =. :. .... ..$ 4,5OO
Dues of rsalaries $500
Amounting to :. :. :. :. :. $1,000
Leaving for college. -. ..$6S,770
"In 1868, when the college was
moved to Walhalla, the only proper
ty it possessed was college bell, the
remnant of the library and few
black boards and benches. What a
loss and what a glowing outlook for
college,! But Notwithstanding all
this, during the11 years Of its stay at
Walhalla, seven classes were gradu-
ated with % yong men. We give
names of only few Of these :
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-06-15

Leaving for college,. -. ..$6S,770
"In 1868, when the college was
moved to Walhalla, the only proper
ty it possessed was a college bell, the
remnant of the library and few
black boards and benches. What a
loss and what a glowing outlook for
college,! But Notwithstanding all
this, during thel1 years of its stay at
Walhalla, seven classes were gradu-
ated with % yong men. We give
names of only few Of these ::
Rain, Stoudamire, Efird, Cromer,
the two Vineyards, Hughs Holloway
and others Of prominence. DR..
Cromer, one of the number, in after
years became the president Of his
alma mater and served in that ca
pacity with marked distinction and
great usefulness. During all these
years Of uncertainty and discourage
ment the people Of the town Of eNw-
berry, ever faithful anl loyal, never
lost their first love and at the first
opportunity and rising above the ef-
fects of the war, went to work to
ahev the college returned to them.
This was done in 1877, the year after
Hampton was elected governor Of
the State. New light was beginning
to shine all around, driving away the
clouds that had for som any years
darkened the skies Of the South.
New thought, new inspirations, had
entered the breast of a down-trod-
den, but gallant and brave people.
''Tho result has ben that Newberry
college instead Of having one build
ing and that in ruins, has two large
college buildings, one other not so
large, but handsome and valuable, a
gymnasium, about complete, three
professors houses, q technical de-
partment we'll equipped and manned,
and will have in the very; near future
large and splendid building for
this department. In all, including
the lands and library, property we'll
worth upwards Of 100000. The in
stitution has also a considerable en-,
dowment fund with the hope and al
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-01-31
Government Aid to Public Roads.

Following is resolution introduced
by Maj. w. a. Graham, of North Caro-
lima. and adopted by the Farmers
National Congress, recently in session
at Richmond:
Whereas, the National Government
wisely makes appropriations for the
improvement of our harbors, rivers and
lines of railroad transportation, to pro
mote the commerce of the nation by af-
fording markets for selling the prod
ucts of the people and for purchasing
the needed goods of other nations; the
same wise policy could be promoted
and extended by appropriations to es-
tablish and improve the public roads
in the respective States in order that
the farmer may be enabled at least
cost to place his productions at the
places of distribution. If the domestic
and foreign commerce is advanced by
appropriating to harbors, rivers and
extended or through lines of domestic
transportation, it will be benefited iii
an increased manner by appropriations
to the public roads or highways, so
as to enable the producer to reach the
markets of his section at reasonable
cost. There can be no valid reason
why benefits that are extended to the
buyer and seller should be denied the
farmer; therefore be it
Resolved /. That his Excellency,
the President of the United States, is
most respectfully petitioned to recon-
mend to Congress in his message some
system of appropriations to improve
the public roads in the States.
''2. That Congress is earnestly peti-
toned and urged to enact law, or
laws, making adequate provision for
the betterment of the public roads by
sufficient appropriations to the purpose.
''3. That copy of this paper be sent
by the President of this Congress to
His Excellency, the President of the
United States, and also the presiding
officer of each House of Congress. with
request to present them for considera-
ton to the body over which he pre-
sides"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-01-31
First Typesetting Machine.

In answer to the query, How old are
typesetting machines? the London
Chronicle prints an extract from copy
Of the local Herald, of 1923: "Dr.
Church is now at Birmingham prepar-
ing his new printing machine. The
compositor has only to sit down at the
curious mechanism as he would sit at
a pianofOrte, and as he strikes the
keys the types all fall from the case
into their proper places with a velocity
that keeps pace with the most rapid
speaker. The form having been
worked off, the type moves into the
melting pot, from which it is returned,
recast into its original state, and thence
distributed into the case quite new.
One of these machines placed at the
bar of the House of Commons would
always insure correct report of the
debate. DR.. Church, the inventor, is
a native Of Boston, in New England"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-01-31
HOW BOGUS GEMS ARE MADE
AN INDUSTRY THAT REQUIRES LARGE
CAPITAL.
Skilfu of Turning Out Paste They
ire ut nj Polished c. enting Two Small Stones
Into One ture of m alton Pearls

terial with high degree of hardness.
and the lower portion Of tinted glass,
which seems TO impart its color to the
whole. This fraud may be readily de.
tected by holding the stone to the
light; but as it is usually employed in
making up jewelry with closed settings
the purchaser has no opportunity Of
making this test.
Finally, colored stones are initiated
in a particularly ingenious way by
means of rock crystal ground to resem-
Bile the usual appearance of the partic.
ular stone to be initiated, but with a
hollow cavity inside, which is filed
with colored water. The cavity Is
then closed by means of a plate of
rock crystal skilfully fitted in, and
there appears, perhaps, an exquisite
ruby, sapphire, emerald or AMETHYST
very difficult to distinguish from the
genuine stone.
Every one is familiar with the pretty
strings of imitation pearls which can
now be purchased everywhere. These
are usually made of opaliue glass
treated carefully with hydrofluor;c
acid, and it would not occur to any
one to attempt to pass them off as
anything else. Very good limitations
Of the genuine pearl are made from
mother-of-pearl also. This material is
turned TO the required shape and pol
lshed beautifully, when it has an ap-
pearance very similar to that of the
genuine article, though an expert can
readily distinguish the imitation pearl
from the real one.
Ever since the seventeenth century
beautiful beads closely resembling the
finest Indian pearls have been manu-
factured. Glass beads of the required
pattern are first made. They are then
coated inside with material made
from fish scales and having the lustre
OF the genuine pearl. The beads are
then filed up with wax. These beau
tiful imitation pearls are by no means
cheap, however. This is not surprising.
when we learn that it takes 10000
fishes TO yield one pound of the silvery
white material which is used to pro.
duce the necessary pearl-like lustre.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-01-31
Sautl-Clay Roads.

Almost every community Is favored
with an abundance of stone, gravel,
sand or clay, and by the proper man
agement desirable road can be con-
structed with either one Of these. AS
there is a wide difference in the char
acter of the materials great care should
always be exercised in selecting only
the best-such as contains sufficient
toughness and cementing qualities as
will form surface sufficiently hard
and durable to endure the volume of
traffic, and at the same time make the
road less imperviOus to water, which is
its worst enemy.
In successful road building too much
attention cannot be given to the proper
drainage, surfacing and rolling; and in
doing this work the use of the latest
improved machinery is very necessary
in the construction of any kind of q
road if the best results are TO be OBJ
tained. Anything that is worth doing
is worth doing well, is an adage that
might aptly be applied in connection
with this question. This rule is not al
ways adopted, however, but it is far
better to build permanent highways so
that they will need little or no repairs
for long time to come. In some local
tiles conditions are such that good
stone road may be built ct cost rang
ing from $1,000 to $4,000 per mile, but
in others $4,000 or $4,000 are expend-
ed; while good sand-clay roads can be
built from 5000 TO $500 per mile.
There are many phases of the ques-
ton of road Improvement of whicn
much might be said, but at present
the writer wishes to direct attention
more particularly TO the Improvement
of the common roads by the sandclaw.
method, which is quite inexpensive.
When sand abounds in such quantity as
to render travel on the roads difficult,
an application of clay may be made to
good advantage, and where clay is
equally Objectionable sand may be
similarly applied and with equally as
beneficial ults.-Progressive Farmer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-01-31
The Interview That Failed.

Following the somewhat indistinct
errand boy, we sought out the Great
Mans chambers, and knocked at the
Great Mans door. Receiving no an
swer or assistance from within, we
admitted ourselves, and 'beheld the
Great Man seated at his desk, with his
back towards us. For while we
stood unobserved, till at last. by cough
ing for third time with offensive
noisiness, we attracted his attention.
Without turning around, he ad-
dressed us in the following gracious
and outspoken manner Il
have paid my Income Tax, cannot
give you bread, money or hospital
tickets, nor do stand in need Of any
body's backache pills. You need not,
therefore, stay"
Excuse u.s." we replied, 1--WE are not
tax collectors. beggars or touts."
in any case" he said, you will find
the door behind you"
Encouraged by this genial welcome,
we proceeded to the object of our visit.
and arranging in our minds series of
questions as to the Great Mans past,
present and probable future, his own,
his wife's, his children's, and his ser
wants domestic pets, we opened with
the usual question: You are, we be.
lieve, the renowned Mr.. Ettseterer?"
II am" he replied, mot"
Feeling that further interrogation
was as unnecessary as it would be i'm
polite, we wished our host cordial
Goodnight" and, whistling merrily,
took our leave.-Punch.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-01-31
WARTS
What This Ordinarily Trivial Annoyance
Really Is.

An ordinary wart is a local over
growth or hypertrophy of the papillary
layer of the skin. 1t may be covered
on the top with the epithelial layer.
which gives it smooth surface; or
the epithelium may fall away and
leave the separate strings showing at
the point of the wart, like so many
brown or black seeds-whence the
name of seed wart.
Warts of this kind occur most com.
monty on the hands of children. They
are caused usually by the irritation of
the many sorts Of dirt into which the
youngsters hands are so constantly
plunged. 1t seems probable that warts
are slightly contagious, and that they
may be spread through a schoolful
of children by direct contact.
sometimes warts are quite broad
and fiat, Of smooth surface and vel.
lowish in color. Such occur frequently
about the face and occasionally also
on the hands.
Another form of fat wart may come
on the back in the aged. 1t is broad,
irregular in outline, with uneven
"seedy' surface, and sometimes GOV.
cred with greasy scales.
Warts vary a good deal in color.
Some are indistinguishable in color
from the surrounding skin, while 9th.
ers are pinkish, yellowish, brown, or
even quite black. The dark color may
be due to the deposit of pigment in the
body of the wart: but it is more often,
especially in children, simply dirt
which has been worked down between
the seeds Soaking them in warm
soapsuds and scrubbing with the nail
brush will usually restore the natural
pinkish color. Some warts are, how
ever, deeply pigmented, constituting
true moles. These are more common
on the skin of the chest, abdomen and
back.
A wart is usually a trivial thing,
but its removal is nevertheless advis-
able. Its prominence above tile sur
face exposes it constantly to slight in
juries which may keep it in a painful
condition; it is never an ornament,
and may be most unsightly; and final
ly, in persons getting along in years,
it may take on new growth and develop
into tumor.
In children warts come and go with
out apparent reason, and treatment is
often unnecessary; but if they persist
for long time, or when they come on
the adult skin, it is better to get rid
of them. Sometimes soaking in warm
seawater for ten minutes two or three
times day will cause the warts to
disappear. This can be tried first, and
If it fails and application Of salicylic
acid in cOllodiOn or touching the wart
with a drop of glacial acetic acid on
the end of a match will SUFFICE
Youths Companion.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-01-31
GOOD g
@ RO I'D S.


Charles Sumner once said: "The road
and the schoolmaster are the two most
important agents in advancing civiliza-
ton" Common sense teaches that the
difference between good and bad roads
is equivalent to the difference between
profit and loss. 1t teaches that good
roads have money value to the whole
people as well as a political and social
value, and leaving out convenience,
comfort, social and refined influences
which good roads always enhance, and
looking at them only from the al
mighty dollar" side, they are found
to pay handsome dividends each year.
People generally have come to realize
that road building is public matter;
common sense declares it to be func-
ton of government.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-01-31
SHARK FISHING
4 "Sport" That Ia Both Dangerous and
Exhilarating.

Il
With splash sufficiently vigorous
to scare sleeping whale, over goes
the hook-half hundredweight of
lronware, fastened by steel chain to
a rope cable, capable of standing a
tested strain of five tons. One does
not fish for the tiger Of the seas with
silk lines and drawn-gut casts. The
hook is baited with a fOur-pound lump
of fat, bilious-looking salt pork; or,
better still, with piece of porpoise
tough hide is still attached-a bait
which no shark that ever swan could
resist.
Our quarry is, not unnaturally, some
what frightened by the splash-made
purposely, by the way, with the idea
of attracting his attention-with which
| this delicate lure is thrown to him,
and sheers off doubtfully. His hesi-
tation, however, does not last long.
He remembers the delightful flavor Of
the delicacy he has already had, and
comes up with rush to enjoy the Sec
ond course.
There is slight oily swirl. flash
Of white from his belly as he turns
over, two double rows of sharp, mur-
derous-looking teeth come together
with snap, and bait, hook and foot
or two of the rusty chain are swal-
lowed without gulp. Then, as the
point of the hood bites into the cartil-
aginOus framework Of his head he
becomes alarmed, and tries to break
away. No use; that five-ton cable
will hold him. Hand-over-fist he is
hauled in to the side; running moose
Is dropped down the line and around
his body, and dozen eager anglers
haul him unceremoniously up on deck.
And then the cream of the fun begins.
He looks bigger now than he did
when he was in the water. His lash
ing tail and viciously swapping jaws
are not TO be approached without due
caution. A slip might mean the loss
of an arm, bitten off clean by one of
those convulsive snaps. He squirms
about, mixing up into a general hotch-
potch everything movable which
comes within his reach; and it is not
until his power of attack has been
most strictly limited by the tangle
of ropes of all kinds which have been
jerked and twisted around him by
the more daring of his captors, that
the majority care to come within reach
of his jaws or tail.
A plank is now slipped cautiously
under his TAIL and, with one short,
crisp chop of the cooks big chopper,
it is severed from the rest of him at the
thinnest part, and carried off to be
nailed to the jibboom 'for luck De-
prived of his tail, the shark is consid
cred to be practically harmless; and
now it is that Jack whips out his
sheath-knife, and becomes for the
time cruel, vindictive fiend. Every
sailor considers that he has a grudge
TO pay off against that quivering, de-
fenceless mass of fish, and there and
then he proceeds to pay it, revelling
in the torments he inflicts, and warmly
applauding any device of torture which
strikes him as being peculiarly tiend-
ish.-PearsOn's Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-01-31
Governmental Wisdnm.

New South Wales, the most pro-
gressive State of the Australian Com.
monwealth, has for years been building
up its population and productive capac.
ity by advertising its natural resources,
climatic advantages and commercial
opportunities throughout the world.
One branch of it's publicity campaign
is conducted by salaried press agent,
who supplies thousands of newspapers
in Europe and America with New
South Wales prosperity pabulum. His
Government has learned by experience
the value of newspaper Advertising
Philadelphia Record.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-01-31
Portable Wireless, Telerrapby.

Portable wireless telegraph statlors
are now manufactured in Germany Of
such light weight that carts or wagons
are no longer needed for their trans
portation, the parts being carried by
men. While, with stations moved by
wagons, the air conductors are at
tached 10 balloons or kites, with port
able stations they are attached to steel
masts. These masts, three in number,
can be pushed together like telescope
and are then about twelve and one
half feet long, but can easily be pulled
out to a length of thirty three feet
The electric energy required is fur
nished by so-called tread dynamos,"
mounted upon sort of stationary BIZ
cy q with light seat for the man,
whit eeps the machinery going with
his fee, The electric energy can also
be supphNd with portable storage
battery.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-01-31
Castro Very Short of Money.

I am informed by diplomatists who
keep in touch with Venezuelan affairs
that President Castro is very short of
money. owing to serious dimunition
in the customs, due no doubt, to his
provocative policy abroad. All public
works have been stopped, and Govern
ment contracts are being annulled. AS
for the French Gable Company dis.
pute. President Castro has tried to in.
duce an English firm to provide a tele-
graphic service with the United States
by laying a cable via Trinidad. But
Trinidad refused permission, and the
English firm declined the proposal. In
the meantime the quarrel with France
is as far from settlement as ever, but
there is no truth in the rumors indus
triously invented that the French Gov
ernment is about to use force. learn
unofiicially, but on very good evidence,
that the difficulty is likely TO be settled
in quite another way. If France will
only wait patiently and give President
Castro little more rope, he will hang
himself. There is little doubt that a
revolution is in prospect, which would
probably end his perverse career-Lon-
don Standard.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-01-31
A Rare Bird in England.

The Zoo has just received the first
humming-brd which has reached the
garden, and the second which has ever
arrived in England alive. 1t was
brought from Venezuela by Captain
Pain, and its food is syrup mixed with
extract of beef. The bird is dark
green in color, with blue cheeks
London Chronicle.