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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-02-02

vided by law where the county su-
pervisor OF county superintendent OF
education shall draw check upon
any fund, unless the report Of the
county treasurer shows a balance to
the credit Of that fund: that a wal
rant drawn by the county superln-
tendent of education shall designate
the particular fund and the fiscal
year to which it belongs. This IS
necessary in order to keep the special
fund Of the county and schools sep
arate and distinct.' -
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-02-02

Thomas Edison began life as tele-
graph operator.
Henry H. Rogers was sroeer|s de-
livery boy.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-02-02
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Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
What He Was Not.

Mr.. Charles V. Moran, National
League baseball player, was walking
up F street the other morning, re-
fiecting no doubt upon his batting and
fielding averages, or, perhaps, on the
days when he made home run hits on
the amateur stage. At any rate, it
is to be supposed he was not think
ing of children's toys-much less bal
looms. On the corner of Eighth street
he ran into a balloon vender
LOOK out there:" cried the peddler.
Look out yourself answered Ma
ran.
Pm not a football player retorted
the toy man.
Neither am l." acknowledged the
ball player.
But you act like it." fred back
the dealer. What do you take me
for?"
Moran eyed the man critically.
You're nothing more than a foul tip;
you're over the fence and out; you're
a balk; you're q bum base runner;
you're up in the air; you're a bal
loon
"Whiskers.' said the balloon man.
Il guess what I'm not asn't.-Wash-
ington Post.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
Comprehensive.

Wilton Lackaye, the actor, is the
author of the play based on Hugo's
LES Miserables,' and called by that
title. He wrote it about eight years
ago, was told it was excellent by all
who read it, but was unsuccessful in
getting a manager to place it on the
stage. At length, two years ago, at
dinner of the American Dramatfsts
club, he was asked when the produc-
ton of his play would make him
eligible for membership. He answer
ed savagely:
Just as soon as can find theatre
cal manager able correctly to pro-
nounce the title"
William A. Brady, Lackaye's man
ager and partner, recently made an
nouncement that tthe play would be
put on with Lackaye as Vatican, next
season. A friend, recalling the actor
authors bon mot, asked:
Can you pronounce Les Miser-
ables'?''
81 manage to get along without
even trying" answered Brady. when
| want to talk about it ! just say,
Well, Will. how about that great
play of yours?'"
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
CANAL INVESTIGATION
CHAIRMAN or COMMISSION
DRAWS TWO SALARIES.
CALLED ON FOR STATEMENT.
As President of the Glover Leaf Route
He Receives $4,000 Per Year But
Denies Giving Any of His Time to
the Rozd.

Washington. Jan. %. That he
draws $12 900 annually from the Glow
er Leaf route is an admission made
by Theodore P Shonts. chairman OF
the isthmian canal commission, which
may have an important bearing on
the canal investigation. Mr.. Shonts
was called by the senate interoceanlc
canal committee TO make general
statement of all matters over whlch
he exercises control He was asked
70 state his former employment He
said that he had been president OF the
Clover Leaf route After giving the
mileage of that road and some other
general information it was brought
out that he still receives $4,000
year and continues to hold the Office
Of president He says that he does
not give any time TO the management
of the road, but that reports are sent
to him and frequently officials OF the
road come to Washington to consult
him.
After getting into the record the
fact that Mr.. Shonte receives $4,000
a year from the United States the
chairman of the commission was al
lowed to proceed. 1t was stated by
members of the committee, however,
that when they take up the question
of salaries Mr. Shonts' case will be
met. Mr.. Shonts, in interesting testi-
mony, admitted that the commission
had paid for the importation of wo-
men into the canal zone, the women
being the families of laborers from
Martinique. and that there is no way
for the government to recover this
money. Mr.. Shonts expressed the
opinion that the canal commission
should feed it's laborers, but said sew
eral older men in the isthmian SER
vice believed in the contract system.
Prices for all foodstuffs were high
when the present commission took
hold of affairs on the isthmus, said
Mr.. Shonts, and he then told of open
ing the comfn;ssary department to
the laborers in order to remedy these
conditions.
mo matter how the canal is built
he said, there are two things over
which the United States should al
ways exercise control-the govern
ment of the .Zone and the sanitation.
No trouble was experienced in get
ling plenty of Martinique and Jamai-
can laborers but there Lid been diff
Guilty in getting the best class CT la.
Dor, according to Mr.. ShOntS.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
SATISFIED FRIENDS AND FOES.
Joke on Congressman That Made Him
Many Votes.

Some years ago there came to
Washington a representative in Con
gress who was an ardent champion of
the cause of prohibition.
One day a friend of mire from
home dropped in to see the congress
man. During the course of his stay
he had occasion to use his pocket
knife, which the representative much
admired. This knife had i'll it a
hook, designed" so the friend said,
ito remove stones that might become
fastened in a horses hoof on q rocky
road" Finally, seeing the intense aG-
miration of the congressman for the
knife, the friend gave it to him. When
the statesman had reached home and
had shown the gift to his wife, she
laughed.
john said she, ANY man who has
served three terms in the state sen
ate, been lieutenant governor, and
had two terms in Congress, must be
a pretty good man if he doesn't know
a champagne opener from a hoof
cleaner"
Somehow the story got out and was
copied IN nearly every newspaper III
the congressman's state. One day
the congressman met the newspaper
man whom he understood to be the
author of the first squib in the matter
'You did me great service sInil-
ingly said the representative to the
correspondent 'All the Prohibition
lists are taking my wife's view of my
ioDOraUop and all the saufiS' aro in
sisting that I'm a devil of a good fell
low for imposing so successfully on
my wife. 1t works in my behalf
whichever way you take it."-Satur-
day Evening Post
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
s man8o' Kings Seer1~or
VDOne Ul1il0 SloQpll8

That truth is sometimes stranger
than fiction is illustrated by queer
stories from that mysterious border
land lying between wakefulness and
the complete Inconsistencies of
sleep-the land of dreams.
In the witcheries of the NEGRO
mancer, dreams play their part; but
some Of the strangest manifestations
of them are in the realms of fact.
Murders have been revealed and
:urderers caught through their
agency; searchers have been led to
buried treasure; death has been fore
told and disaster predicted. One man
not long ago brought upon himself
a breach of promise suit because he
proposed 10 woman while dream
ing in her parlor.
A peculiar dream was that Of Mrs.
1. R. Andrews. president of the Oma-
ha Woman's club, who located the
dead body of her husband in the
Platte river, Nebraska
Mr. Andrews. wealthy lawyer of
Omaha, recently went to a gravel pit
which he owned on Cedar creek. 100
miles from that city. to pay of en-
When the telegram telling of his
disappearance reached his ho,Se his
wife had already started for the scene
of the tragedy, having been informed
by a dream of his fate.
When she arrived at the gravel pit
she was told that her husband had
gone down the river the night before.
She insisted that, in her dream, he
had gone up the stream.
Parties were sent out in both di-
rections, and the body was found
up the stream, near where, in her
sleep, she had seen a muffied figure
following her husband.
In two dreams on the two nights
preceding his start for California,
couple of months ago, Clark Emil
Thornland, retired Swedish mer-
chant of New York, foresaw his death
in a railroad wreck
So vivid were these visions that
Thornland wept when he kissed his
daughter and grandchild goodbye
Indeed, it was with difficulty that he
was persuaded to start He said he
did not expect to reach his destina-
ton, and took with him only enough
money to pay expenses, believing that
if he took more he would lose it in
the wreck.
Just as he had foreseen, the train
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
SEEK TO IMPROVE NATURE.
Haunting Plumage of Gaudy Hues
Worn on London Hats

Haunting Plumage of Gaudy Hues
Worn on London Hats.
Haunting plumage of most vivid
colorings deck the winter hats of the
woman of fashion, and curiously
enough, not even the most brilliant
feathers are left as nature colore6
them. They are dyed even more bril-
liantly to suit the millinery freak of
the moment.
Peacock tail plumage is used in it's
metallic blue-green shade, while the
tail feathers of the same bird are
dyed a rich brick red.
A London milIiner lately tempted
her customers with a purple hat of
the gainsborough type, which was one
glorious mass of that magnificent col
or known as eminence. The feathers
on the hat repeated the dye.
A single ostrich feather perched up
right, with the tip dropping over a
diamond diadem, is a form of adorn-
ment that is very extraordinary, but
truly piquant when worn by hand
some woman in her hair as the Golf
fure ornament that accompanies an
empire evening robe. The color must
match the gown.
Brilliant, indeed, are the orange and
amber marabout feathers, which are
as fluffy as a duckling's coat, and
like a rosy cloud is the same plumage
when dyed a bright cerise-London
Mail.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
She Might Have Saved Him.

One of the early settlers of New
Portland, Maine, was an Irishman by
the name of Patrick Kilkenny. One
day he was wandering about in the
attic of his one-story house, carefully
stepping from beam to beam, no floor
having been laid there, when he
broke through and fell into the room
below. striking on chair.
His wife Katie came rushing in,
and. seeing Patrick in a heap on the
floor. said: And are We kilt entoire-
Iy, Pat?"
mo, not entoirely. Katie, but why
the diviI didn't We pull the chair from
onder me when ye saw me comm"
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03

found clinging to the edge of third
story window at his home, and was
rescued from his perilous position with
difficulty
A more tragic result followed the
sleep wanderings of Harry Davis
of Minersville, Pa. Walking in his
dreams, he fell from a third-story
window and crashed to his death
A few weeks ago Mrs. Maggie Nc
Cracker, so years old. of Village
Green, Pa, arose. from her bed after
midnight and started upon somnam-
bulistic tour of the neighborhood. I'm
fortunately she fell into a small stream
near her home and was drowned.
Two cases wherein dreams had to
do with death and disaster also came
from the interior of Pennsylvania. At.
Troy, last summer, Policeman Edward
Fenner was killed during a pistol duel
with robbers.
few hours later Comfort Smith,
a farmer, drove into town and related
a dream of the night before.
4 saw Ed Fenner fighting pistol
duel with three men," he said to the
authorities. "One of the men was
wounded"
Smiths description of one Of the
men was almost identical with that of
a suspect whom the authorities were
already following.
On Oct. 20, at Monongahela, Pa, one
of those disasters that SO frequently
attach themselves to coal mines oc-
Cured. Among those killed was Gen
eral Manager Hornickel. ?
TT Transmitted later that af about fho
hour of the tragedy in the mine-near
midnight-Mrs. Hornickel awoke with
a scream. She said she had witnessed
in her dreams an explosion, and that
her husband was among the victims.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
CID. LADY MlsJuDoED AFFAIR.
Had Impression She Was Witnessing
Animated Filtration.

Had Impression She Was Witnessing
Animated Filtration.
Ex-Gov Nahum J. Batchelder of
East Andover, N. H.. is well known as
a granger Three or four years ago,
while on a journey connected with
the interests of the Patrons Of Hus-
bandry, he was on the train going
from Bangor, Maine, to Old Town. At
Bangor the train was boarded by
some grange delegates from the sur
rounding districts. One of them, g
pretty and vivacious young lady, took
the seat beside Mr.. Bat chelder and
began an animated conversation on
the success of newly organized
grange" in that vicinity.
Mr.. Batchelder, being slightly deaf,
fair companion, while shl, with mods
and gestures, added emphasis to her
enthusiastic remarks.
An old lady few seats back in
the car observed the apparently alb
sorbing devotion of the temporary
travelling companions VITA a d:sap-
proving eye.
Just before reaching OH Town is
the little village of Great Works, and
as the train approached the small
station the conductor came through
the car announcing, Great Works!
Great WorksI"
Yes, piped up the old lady, glad to
have a sympathizer. Il should think
it was great works! And they've had
it agoin' ever since the train left Ban
gori''
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
Or Colonel.

Several months ago a newly mar
ried couple on their wedding trip
made Baltimore their first stopping
place. registering at hotel The
bell-boy in showing them TO the room
assigned them addressed the bride
groom as Judge" much to his pleas
ure.
A few days later at a Washington
hotel he met the same pleasant saiu-
tation. At Richmond the experience
was repeated. Both pleased and curl
Gus, the Benedict inquired OF the por-
ter:
How did you know I was judge?''
"Oh, we call them all Judges down
here" was the reply.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03

When news Of the accident and it's
fatal result to Thornland was tele
graphed his daughter, Mrs. Charles
Thoren, Brooklyn, the family related
the victims prophetic dream.
Strange things are being done con-
stantly by persons while asleep. Some
weeks ago, at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Kate
smith. in her somnambulistic rambles.
climbed to the roof of the house OF
Mrs. Sol Hirsch, in which she lived.
How she got upon the roof is mys-
terry, for she could only have gained it
by climb of which any woman would
seem incapable
A somewhat similar but more dan
gerous experiment was that of George
Tauwait of SOC Plane street, Newark,
n. J.
Early one morning Nj TauvaIt was
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
The Hour of Triumph.

An English housemaid and her
friend, both of whom were very high
church., were Dragging Of the ritual
istic character of the services in their
respective houses of worship. Mary,
the housemaid, thought to silence her
opponent in the controversy by proud
ly announcing:
But we ave mathis at our church, -
That's nothing" repoined the other,
CONTEMPORARY, I'VE ave linoleum all
up the aisle, and they burns insects at
both services!"
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
HAD FINISHED THE cHuRNlNe.
Maine Mans Work Done, But Little
to Show for It.

to Show for 1t.
Albert Bowden, of Orrington.
Maine, runs a small sawmill near his
home, and in it is one of the old-fash-
ioned up-and-down saws. He also
keeps a few COWS, and it has been
customary for his wife to do the
churning while he was engaged at
the mill.
Mrs. Bowden, however, recently
went on strike, and informed her
other half that he must churn that
week. He therefore took the churn
to the mill and attached it to the
gearing of the up-and-down saw. Then
he started the water wheel, and soon
had an up-to-date piece of machinery
in every particular.
Noticing that things were moving
smoothly, he attended to some other
duties, until his attention was called
to the churn by ''chug-chug," and,
looking that way, he saw buttermilk
scattering about and on reaching the
machine was just in time to see the
bottom go out of the churn and his
weeks butter go into the mill pond.
He surveyed tie ruins a moment,
then wen: 20 the door, and, calling to
the house, said: wife, I've churned"
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
Misplaced Confidence.

A little girl came in from school
one day very indignant because she
had been kept in to correct her prob
lens after the others had been dis
missed.
Mamma she said, iii never.
never speak to Edna Bates again as
long as 1 live"
why, dear?" asked her mother.
Because" pouted the little maid,
because l copied all my zamples from
her. and every one of 'em was wrong. .
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
Room for a New Doctor.

The late DR.. P. NJ Chase of Dan
vers. Mass, very soon after he began
practice in that town met one OF
the older physicians, who asked in
rather a sarcastic way:
Doctor, how do you expect to get
a living in this town."
why not?" asked DR.. c.
There are enough of US here al
ready" replied the-old doctor.
sOh, we'll. said Dr. Chase. 4 expect
to have enough patients among those
you have given up"
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
Likes Hioh License.

DIR. Abegg, a German official of the
Department of the Interior, who is in
the United States making study of
American liquor legislation, both for
himself and for the use of the German
Minister of the Interior, states that
the notion of high license is beginning
to take root in German government
circles. 1t present the license runs
only about SIS g year in American
money
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
Present for Mayflower.

Washington, Jan. 26.-Baron Rosen
yesterday gave the United States ship
Mayflower, in behalf of Count White,
himself and the other delegates to the
Portsmouth peace conference, hand
some Russian silver punch bowl in
recognition of hospitality.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
vandiver Dismisse. Case.

Jefferson City. Mo-. Jan. 25.-State
received notice that the federal court
had dismissed the suit filed by the
New York Life Insurance Company
to prevent him from enforcing his
order of custer from the state.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
A.k Recoonition for poctors.

An application has been made by
the japanese government TO the
British General Medical Council ask
ing it to recognize the degrees of
Japanese medical practitioners in
various parts of the British empire
1t is in the Straits Settlement that
the japanese doctors particularly
wish leave to practice at present.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03

A Pittsburg court is going to deter.
mine the money capacity of woman
stocking. That will be of no advan-
tage, however. for the average man
icnt able to reach it.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
Didn't Write Her.

Little Dorothy came hurrying home
from school to tell In glowing terms
about her new teacher.
What's her name?" asked a mem
Der OF the family.
Il don't know: said Dorothy.
why, then, how do you address
herr"
why. answered Dorothy, I'VE
don't write to her."
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03

In the CRATES silhouette when the cur
tainS are down.
Is the minds Wanderland-is Utopian
Town.
In Utopian Town is quaint, country
Winding gently away to where .rivulets
meet.
And tits shady and stin, save for birding
and breeze
That singing of love in the syca-
more trees;
There the butterflies CLINT mOng the old
fashioned flOW'rS;
There at eventide love plights its truth
meath the bow'rs
All! there's peace in the shade of Utopian
Town,
There is comfort and rest meath the
boughs that bend down;
For the gold-serried world is he'd back
by ban
Where rose is rose. and a man is
mani
From, s.Do,
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03

A young man who appeared in
London theater wearing a necktie
made entirely of diamonds was nearly
mobbed by the audience. He was he.
heved to be an American. but ii this
were true, where was his diamond
shirt?
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
Farm vaIses in South.

It is computed that farm properties
in the eleven states that once seeded
from the union have risen in value
more than billion dollars in two
years. The average yield of these
lands since this century began is
5000 O00, 600 year greater than it was
in the preceding six years.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03

Some editors are troubled because
a New York stock exchange seat sold
for $4,000, and only the Portland
Press stops to consider that the buy
er at least got the seat.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03

- The courts have decided that a mar.
ried man has q right TO keep a rat
trap in his pocket to catch wiley
when she goes through his pants as
he sleeps. Spread the good news
brethren
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03

A Philadelphia man is worrying be
cause he received $50 in letter to
which no name was signed. We nom
mate him for first vice president OF
the Amalgamated Association OF
Trouble Borrowers.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03

the food which is eaten by rich people
cause them to become immoral. What
about the farmer. whose apple pie
is mostly nutmeg?
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
FATAL FIRE DAMP.
Explosion Causes Death of IA Men in
u Mine.

Poteau, l. T.. Jan. 90. = Fourteen
lives have been lost in an explosion
in slope No. 4. of the Witteville mine.
The explosion was caused by fire
damp. Three of the IA bodies have
been recovered. but it is impossible
to enter the mine because of the gas
to attempt a recovery of the other
bodies
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03

The fall styles in women's hosiery,
judged by window displays. are rain
bow-hued and boldly designed. Until
a muddy days disclosures. no man
may say whether they are popular
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
ALFARo NAMES CABINET.
New Chief of Ecuador Chooses His
PRINCIPAL Adviser.

eral Alfaro, former president of Ecua-
dor and leader of the recent revolu-
ton which overthrow President Gar
cha, is now supreme chief in the re-
public. The ministry has been ap-
pointed as follows: Minister of the
interior and foreiI1 affairs, Manuel
Montalvo; minister of finance, Camilo
Echanique; minister of public in
truction, Julio Roman; minister of
war and the navy, Hipolito Moncayo.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03

contemporary came mighty near
enunciating an immortal truth when
It remarked that 1.-The trouble with
French statesmen is that they talk
too much" If it had omitted the adj
jective all the ground would have
been covered.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03

q girl is frequently tl:a.. II has been
Eoted that the bic CT a girl often
Erings box of chocolate creams to
an early end.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03

A Chicagoan is under arrest in Var
sas City charged with having one
wife too many" He might have only
one at that.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03
Cot g. 600 in Diamonds.

Chicago. jan 81. = Thieves earl.
this morning threw brick through
a window of the Charles E. Graves
Jewelry Company's store and store
$4,000 worth of diamonds. They es-
canPd
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-03

II every man could use King A..
ionso's system and have the neishbc"s
pick out wife for him the divorce
problem might be simpler than it is.