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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-03-05
.'ToM THUMB" DEAD.
Created o Sensation in Londor
81. Years Ago. "a

London, Feb. 2s.--Richard ca
sey, known as ''Field Marshal
Thumb, -. and who created gFs
sensation at the Egyptian Hall, TO
don, fifty years ago, by his diminutD
stature, is dead, at his home in Sob
ert, at the age Of seventy-four year
When he appeared in London hal
a century ago lie followed close 8
the much doomed appearance Of til
American Tom Thumb, causing 3
even greater sensation than that ND
get had caused. Afterwards Carns
travelled all over Europe, his ii
fectly formed figure being exams
by doctors everywhere. After gil
up exhibiting himself in publidE
commenced farming, and enidS
splendid health until short time r
fore his death. Ho was just thrS
feet in height. f1
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-03-05
WHEN VIOLETSBLOOMED BLUER
AND POPPIES GREW REDDER!
When White People Did Not Open
Their Own Eyes, and When the
Naked Pickaninny Ate his
Watermelon Without
a Spoon.

James i. Bacon in Sunday News.
In 1880 South Carolina had filed
up her years with honor. with power,
with prestige. with pleasure. 1t was
high noon with South Carolina then,
a golden high noon Of dominion, chiv-
airy. wealth and luxury. In those
days South Carolina reared temples.
churches, palaces. forms most pleas
ing to the eye and mind. Then was
her age of minds Titanic in the fields
Of legal lore. Then were her orators
there have been none such since
gods whom listening crowds, nav, lis
tcning worlds. adored. Then blossom
ed broadcst her broad, then expanded
whitcSt her white fields. Then far
DER furthcrtst seas her lordly cotton
and rice planters filled the marts of
busy trade, clothing millions upon
millions with her white zephyrs ting
ed with gold. In those days the splen-
did panorama Of the sunset skies
was more splendid than now. The
violets bloomcd blucr beneath the
brown and russcts Of the towering
forest; the poppics grew rcdder in
the yellow wheat fields; and the pick
aninny, wearing single garment,
and eating his watermelon without a
spoon, was blacker and greasicr and
dirtier and happier in the cabin.
In those halcyon days in the South
all white people who did not own
slaves and who did their own work
were called "poor buckra." They
were actually distinctive race--thin,
yellow, cadaverous, lazy, illiterate
and wrctched. However, there were
possibilities in them, for we know
many high and rich people nowadays
who are descended directly from the
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-03-05
Pointed Paragraphs.

Better a good enemy than q bad
friend.
Uneasy is the tooth that wears a
misfit crown. ":1
When courtship ends in matrimony
mans trouble begins. .es
Words seldom fail a woman--unless
she is at her own funeral.
Some men marry widows so they
won't have to buy new furniture.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-03-05
SKETCH OF PROF. WEST.
Dispensary Auditor Appointed is
Held in High Regard by the
People of Gaffffney.
News and Courier.

News ana Courier.
Gaffnffcy, February 2S.-Prof. w
B. West, superintendent of the grad
ed shcools of Gaffffney, who was TO-
day appointed auditor for the dispen
sary, was born in Greenvillc county
South Carolina, July 10, 1870, ant
is the son Of the late DR.. B. p. West
and was educated in the country
schools around his fathers home, the
lIonea Path High School and Fur
man University. He has been engag-
ed in teaching most of the time since
lie finished school. lie was principal
of the Belton High School for five
years. AT the close of his work at
l}clton he was engaged in mercantile
business and was Il cotton buyer for
four years. when he returned to the
work of teaching.
His first work after re-entcring the
teachers profession was as superin-
tendent of the public schools at
Blackville, S. c., from which place
he went to New Decatur, Ala, as ST.
pcrintcndcnt of very large and
llourishing system of schools. This
position was resigned to accept the
position which he now holds as su-
perintendent of the city schools of
Gaffncy.
lie is a member Of the Baptist
church and has been active in the
work of the church for many years.
In Alabama he did considerable work
in connection with the y. M. G.. A.,
of which he is very fond. As a school
man he has been success. He has
always. without single exception,
been unanimously reelected to the
positions which he has held.
The appointment came as sur
prise, for Mr.. West is anything else
but Il politician in the usually accept
cd meaning Of that term.
If Governor AnAsel continues to
make such appointments as he made
in selecting the commission to wind up
'" affairs of the dispcnSary and in
the appointment of the dispensary
'NIit"r. he will put himself so far
above his critics that they will change
their criticisms into praise. Cover
'fv AnScl could not have made a bet
80" selection if he had tried
Mr., West took charge of this school
'a>t fall and since then has shown
remarkable ability as an organizer.
lie is a worker and understands get
ting others to work. If he should
accept this position. it will mean
that the school room will lose one of
the ahlcSt teachers and disciplinar-
ianS in the state.
1t is Not known whether Mr.. West
will accept the position or not. nor
what effect it will have on our
schools. The board will be tempted
not to let him off
Mr. West has been Il lifelong pro-
hihitioniSt. both as to theory and
practice. He is not only opposed to
the sale Of whiSkcv. but is known as
Il tcelotalcr. Should he take the po-
Sltion it will be purely from motives
of patriotism.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-03-05
Pointed Paragraphs.

Many n man sows wild oats at
leisure that his children must reap
haste.-Chicago News. -
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-03-05
DIsPENsARY AUDITOR CHOSEN
Prof. West, Of Gaffney, Appointed
to the Position by the Cover
nor.
News and Courier.

Columbia, Feb. 2S.-Thc mucl
sought position of dispensary audito
falls to Prof. w. b. West, superinten
dent of the Gaffney graded schools.
There have been large number 0
applications for this position filc'
with Governor Anscl, and numerou
recommendation have accompanies
the applications, and the govcrno
thinks that Of this large number 1t
has secured man who. is in ever,
way competent and worthy. The po
sition is not given to any politician
or to anyone who has had any rOnncc,
tion with politics or the dispcnSary
although there were more than one OF
this sort who applied. Mr.. West has
the very highest recommendation and
is personally known to the governor.
He is native of Princeton, near the
Grecnvillc and Laurens line, and en-
tered Furman University in the fall
Of 1890 lie took good stand at
college and was highly thought of by
his fellow students and professors.
He left college before graduation and
went into the school room. For sew
cral years he taught at Belton, where
he did excellent work, and built up n
fine system of schools. He spent sew
eral years in the cotton mill business
with his fathcr-in-law, Mr.. Z. IT. Me-
Kinney, one Of the best cotton mill
men in the South, and this gave him
a practical business training, which
will come in well in his present new
work. Ile was afterwards princi pal
of the graded school at Blackvillc,
and then at Decatur, Alabama, and
has for the last few years been super
intendent of the schools at Gaffncy.
Mr.. West is a young man, full Of
energy and Of fine character. The
position to which he has been ap-
pointed is one of the most delicate
and responsible in the state. and is
highly important to the success of
the new plan of handling whiskey.
IT is also the most desirable position
under the new law. paying $4,000 per
year and expenses. and the term be-
:r% tour years.
The Duties nf thc nosition. rs do
fined hy ihc rarcy-C Cothran act. are
as follows:
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,'NN "'Ht"'''"': '.'''''' |" "l'Ne
books n,n,r. and ofr,;r. of ,l,o .,;1
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inc establishments. ,,l ~ m,l.;n,,
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sunmnr ,rJ n,,r,;,n IN ,>o.,', o.,
ncc,cd with the said ,]isnrns,r;cs and
liquor manufacturing establishments,
He shall make a full and detailed rr-
port of his findings and file the same
with the state treasurer. and with tho
treasurer Of the county in which the
diSpr,>arv or liuunr establishment
NAV be located. Said examination
and report Of each di>rcn>arv and cs-
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-03-05

Any man can stand abuse if it
because he is rich.
Evening star., 1907-08-20

and the Stars and Stripes are good enough
for u.s."
After all. they declared there is more
beauty in a stern-wheeler going UP the
Ohio river morS freedom to the square
inch in the Buckeye state, and more no
bleness in American men than can he found
Miss Alice MulliSan said:
II think that Switzerland was the finest
country we visited There the scenery Is
beautiful and the people so polite. Paris
is good place to live ina few days.
The men in the French city are popin-
jays and French politeness must have been
the result of some ones imagination. You
are jostled in the buses and then ogled."
How Is the Englishman?'
lie is just great. Isn't he, girls?' A
chorus in the affirmative went up, and
Miss Mulligan continued: I'VE had good
time in London. The men are considera te
and courteous. AS to English women they
rather dowdy. 1t is not that their
clothes are not good cut and the latest
style, but they do not seem to know how 10
wear them. 1t is in Paris where one sees
the well-dressed woman"
Miss Margaret Maddy voiced the senti-
ment of all when she said in reply To O
question: I'VE have seen many things. bnt
after all America and dear old Ohio for me-
We are far ahead of all other countries"
Miss Ida March said: 1T was delight
full trip, but for us good old America and
the American men. We want no titles"
The party sailed Eom here I'm June and
has visited Ireland. England. Belgium.
Scotland Holland. Germany and Switzer-
land. Last night they left for Niagara
Falls.
Evening star., 1907-08-20

awful tribunal for trans forming herself
into a dog. an eagle and cat at different
times. After hearing all the testimony the
following decision was rendered.
In ye case o. Une Cole now prisoner att
We Bar not Legally guilty According to In
ditement butt just ground of vehement sus-
prisyon of her havering had famillyarryty
with the DEVIL JONAS CLARKE
''in the name of the rest"
She spent the remainder of her days on
the beach at Hampton, and her last evil act
was to cause tle disaster which Whittier
has described in his poem The Wreck of
Rivermouth":
"Goody Cole looked out from her door;
The Isles of Shoals were drowned and gone.
Scarcely she the Head Of the Boar
Toss the foam from his tusks of stone.
She clasped her hands with grip Of pain,
The drop her cheek was not OF rain;
They re host she muttere'i. boat and crew;
Lord forgive me! My words are true"
She died shortly after. When she was
buried her coffin was fastened into the
earth with stakes made in the shape of a
cross and heavy rocks were heaped upon 1t
that she might not escape from her last
prison.
Evening star., 1907-08-20
EMPTY SKIFF IN BAY.
Clothes and Tackle in It and a Theory
of Two Drowned

NEW YORK, August 20.-Lieut. Francis
Kelley Of the old harbor police found a
skiT anchored about half a mile of the foot
of Bay 10th street last evening. In the bot
tom of the boat were two suits of mems
clothes and some fishing tackle. From let
ters in the pockets Of the clothing the lieu
tenant learned that 1t belonged to Rayden
H. Kelsey OF 1923 S3d street, Bath Beach,
and Joseph C. Strassman of 1922 list street,
Bath Beach.
Upon inquiry at these addresses it was
found that the young men had left home
early yesterday morning wearing bathing
suits under their street clothing. They said
they were going fishing. The skiff Lieut..
Kelley found was one that they had rented
from William Moore whose boathouse is at
the foot of Bay 10Th street.
Acting on the assumption that the young
men were drowned, orders were given the
Bath Beach police TO watch the beach for
their bodies.
Evening star., 1907-08-20

distinguished persons. The Latin dictionary
used by Whittier when he was a student
at the Hayerhill Academy is also preserved.
There is an ancient looking glass which
was broken by stroke Of lightning, which
Frustrated and stunned the poet during a
terrible electric storm in 1872. Whittier was
standing in a doorway watching the shower
when the stroke fell.
In 1861 and 1865 Mr.. WAittier was presi-
dental elector on the republican ticket, and
he used to boast that he had voted for hn--
coin more times than any other man in the
country. twice at the polls at Amesbury
and twice with the electors at the State
House at Boston.
Local Topics Treated.
With the exception of his political poems
and those suggested by relics sent him by
friends in different parts of the world, all
of Mr.. Whittier's verses relate to local top
ics-historical incidents in the Merrimack
valley, tragedies that had occurred in the
neighborhood. old wives tales and folk lore
that he learned as a child. and stories Of
the sea whose surf can almost be heard at
Amesbury.
In several of his poems Goody Cole ap-
pears-an old woman who used to live alone
in hut in a marsh by the seashore, and
was supposed to be in league with the devil
1t was believed by many people that she
was witch. and on several occasions she
bewitching children, poisoning cattle, caus-
ing epidemicS and even being responsible
for disasters at sea. She was sentenced at
one time to be whipped. and at another time
to be imprisoned for life. but her case hav-
ing been appealed. she was released and
the town were ordered to support her and
the selectmen provided her with food and
fuel. But she would not behave herself.
and In 167l was again arraigned before an
Evening star., 1907-08-20

,nnear IN his published volumes with the
era n-book is his mothers Bible. The page
Containing the twenty-ffth psalm Is prlckeu
with a needle so that she could distinguish
If after she became blind In the last months
~ her life. She could repeat 1t from mem
CIV and nsed to trace the lines with her I'm
gers as she did so. Here also Is the ac-
count book kept by Whittlers grahdlather
and father Of the receipts and expenditures
IN the farm. 1t contains lists OF their pur-
chases of household goods and supplies, and
sales of hay and potatoes, turnlps, WOOD
and other products of the farm for many
years The spinning wheel used by MT
tiers mother, and with which she mace the
clothing that he wore when boy, Is pre-
served in the parlor beside a curious relic
one of the limbs of an old elm from Boston
Common-which was sent to w hitter by the
mayor of that city when the tree fell from
hung on that limb" Beside it Is group
Of Rogers statuary, which was sold in large
numbers during the civil war and was pre-
sented to, Mr.. Whittier by the artist 1t
represents William Lloyd Garrison. Henry
Ward Beecher and Mr.. Whittier listening
to the story of fugitive lave girk
hIr Pickard showed me the first rough
draft Of the last poem Whittier wrote. 1t
contains several lines not found in the
scribed to Greenleaf Whittier Pickard.
grandnephew Of the poet when he was
three years old. Mr.. Pickard has two COM
positions written by the poet, when he was
a schoolboy. They are euloges Of La
fayette and Alexander the Great. An album
presented to Mr.. Whittier by the Essex
Club of Boston at the suggestion of Sena-
tor Hoar contains the autographs of Presi-
dent Hayes and his cabinet, members of the
United States Supreme Court and the SEN
ate and House of Representatives, the gov
ernor and members of the Massachusetts
great and general court, and many other
Evening star., 1907-08-20
REFORM Is DEMANDED
SENATOR PLATT ACCUSED BY
U. S. EXPRESS HOLDERS.

NEW YORK, August 2O-It developed
yesterday that the shareholders committee
of the United States Express Company, as
a result of their Investigations, practically
charge Senator Platt. his sons and their
associates in the direction of thescompany'
affairs with maladmInistration.
The United States Express Company IS
the only one of the large express companies
which has not increased It's disbursements
10 shareholders In recent years AS one
after another of its rivals announced in
creased dividend payments result of
mounting profits the United States Ex-
press shareholders got together few
months ago under the leadership of A. L.
Banister and Samuel S. HIATT and made
request for more liberal disbursements.
The companys officers pleaded poverty,
and the committee began to search for the
acts which have since the hunt has pro-
gressed changed them from suppliants into
accusers. Formal demands have already
been made upon Senator P1att and the
other officers of the company that they i'm
mediately begin suit against themselves
and the Adams and American Express.
companies TO recover moneys which the
committee alleges have been lost through
The neglect on the part of the senator to
properly safeguard the company's interests
and the fact that the presidents of its two
Rivals In the Directorate.
James c. Fargo. president of the Ameri-
can Express Company, and Levi C. Weir,
president of the American Express Com
pany. both occupy positions In the board of
the United States company by virtue of
ownership of a considerable number of
shares, which, 1t is charged, were allowed
20 get into their possession through the
sonnivance of Senator Platt. These hold
ings of the company's two rivals amount
20 about 10000 shares, while the shares
owned by Senator Platt and his two sons
are only 800.
The United States Express Company has
only recently sold out its offices along the
line of the Lake Shore and the Lake Erie
and Western railroads 10 the American
Express Company and has withdrawn
from competition in that territory on the
ground that there was no profit in It,"
mittee thinks might bear further investiga-
ton.
Although the formal demands of the
shareholders committee were made on
August j., the charges which they embody
only became public yesterday.
The shareholders committee has hitherto
refused to discuss its affairs. but when the
news ticker brought an account from Bos-
ton yesterday of a reply from Senator
Platt, without specifying the charges en-
bou.ed in the demands made upon him.
James Leslie 'Pinks of counsel for the COM
Iittee said that as the Platt circular was
calculated TO deceive the shareholders who
had not been informed of the nature of the
demands made upon President Platt he
would disregard the rule.
Evening star., 1907-08-20
7o-YEAR SENTENCE COMMITTED.
Hughes Orders Release Of Prisoner
Who Served Twenty-Seven Years.

ALBANY, August 2O-Gov. Hughes has
commuted the sentence Of Benjamin Hahn
of Syracuse, who was convicted In Onon-
daga county in November, 1880, for burg
larry and assault, and sentenced to i'm
prisonment for seventy years. He has now
served nearly twenty-seven years actual
time, which is the legal equivalent Of
about forty-five years, during the whole
of which his conduct has been good. He is
now fifty-five years old. If released now
he may be able to earn his living.
In the governors opinion he has fully
paid the penalty for his crimes and it
would seem unjust to detan him longer
The judge who sentenced him and the dis
trict attorney who prosecuted him are no
longer living. Hahn win be released today.
Evening star., 1907-08-20
LOOK OUT FOR THE ENGINE
WHEN THE BELL RINGS

cent of the crop and worse in the Blue
fields and Rama districts.
The Rama river has swollen to many
times it's normal size. In the town of
Rama the water rose to the second stories
of the houses, the residents being forced
to seek refuge there. Many persons were
rescued from the flood through the upper
windows from the roofs.
A number Of shacks were demolished
and several of the smaller settlements
were completely destroyed, and 1t is feared
that there has been some loss of life. Along
the river and it's tributaries the water
washed the soil away from the banana
plants, while the tornado blew down the
trees with their growing fruit. The loss
at and around Bluefields and Rama is es-
timated at more than 100000.
Evening star., 1907-08-20
Somnambulist Badly Hurt.

HARRISBURG, August 20. Suffering
from sonlnambulism. Frank Coleman walked
out of a window at his Marysville home
yesterday morning and may die from a
fractured skull. Coleman was found almost
dead on the pavement iE front of his house,
having fallen fifteen feet, striking a porch
in his descent.
He Is a Pennsylvania railroad conductor,
and has been afflicted with sleep-walking
for years, having had several narrow
escapes. He is forty-five years old, and has
a wife and two children. He Is known all
along the line of the Pennsylvania railroad.
Evening star., 1907-08-20
GIRL GLOBE TRoTTER HERE.
Europe Grand, But America Beats It
She Saws

NEW YORK, August 2o.-The twenty
one young women from Ohio who were
sent abroad as the result Of a popularity
contest conducted by a Columbus news
paper returned yesterday on the Holland
American line steamship Noordam. They
were all full of the wonders they have
seen on the other side of the Atlantic but
through 1t all ran the ssatment, America
Evening star., 1907-08-20
FLOODS AT BLUEFIELDS.
Panama Crop Half Ruined-Towns
Badly Damaged-Fatalities Feared.

NEW ORLEANS, August 2o.-Passen-
gers arrived from Nicaragua report great
injury 10 the banana crop from severe
floods, the loss being in excess of so per
Evening star., 1907-08-20

Ben Edwards eighteen years old was
struck by Norfolk and Western freight
train near Martinsville, Va, Monday while
riding on a handcar and fatally injured.
Evening star., 1907-08-20
IL Dangerous g ( Crossing II s.,

Many newspapers copy matter from Everybody 5
Magazine and give credit. This is as it should be
and we like it.
Many more copy our special articles, which we have
spent good time and money to obtain and modesty
credit them to "a certain magazine s they use
our brains as filler for their columns at no cost to
themselves, and when it comes to mentioning where
they got it, they suddenly become shy
This gives US a sharp pain
To L,ese one-sided admirers we wish to say that "a
certain important article in the September Number,
by "a certain important parsonage has been pro-
tected by every means known to U.s. Those whose
custom it is to give credit are invited to he p them
selves, the others are anxiously warned to-
Evening star., 1907-08-20
Whittier's Unpublished Poems.

Mr.. Pickard showed me a scrap book be-
gan by Mr.. Whlttier's sister more than
seventy!fve years ago, in which she pasted
clippings containing his first published
verses and personal references to him that
she found In the newspapers from that date
up to the time of her death. In that scrap
book are probably fifty poems that do not
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1907-09-12
VIRGINIA NEWS

Thomas Howell. aged IL. merriam,
aud postmaster at kremlin, Ne-tmnr.
hand county. died Tuesday % typhoid
fever. lie l. survived 10y his vile and
fvo children. His two Children are IL
wish the same disease.
The election expense Of Judge Barham
az Newport News. the first and only ia
diciai primary held amounted To $95 :
Politicians and others are discussing
the probability OF Former Governor
Montague entering the campaign against
Congressman Lamb for the nomination
from the Richmond district When ~
porter asked Mr. Montague about il n.
said he had been out Of the city for thrs.
weeks aud that he was not In close touch
with politics. He would not deny that
he was 10 be a candidate. and he did not
say tha; be- would be. but the belief j.
that be- VIII enter the contest.
Richmoud Republicans in mass-rncet-
ing Monday night nominated l. H. Drew
FOR Hou-e ~ Delegates The city com.
uittee Endorsed the action of the mass.
ul .ri0g