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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-09-30
Somewhat Damp,

Mrs. Highstrung has gone to her
room to have good cry"
"What is the occasion?"
"Just for exercise, l guess"
"She is the weepiest woman I ever
saw"
"She certainly does believe in every
woman being her own rainy season."
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-09-30
The Barber In India.

The barber is very important per-
son in India, where every man is oblig-
ed to shave and forbidden by his re-
ligion to do the work himself. The
barber has an official appointment in
ment of land to support its dignity and
vested right to the shaving of it's in
habitapts, which can be prohibited by
legal injunction in case of infringe
ment.-Iimes Of India.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-09-30
Touch Crowd.

A cub reporter was recently detailed
by his office to "cover" an assignment
where he was thrown in contact with
a number of police reporters. He re-
turned to the Office and was solicitous-
ly asked by his associates how he liked
the work. "Oh, very nicely" remarked
the young man, but those reporters
are the toughest literary gentlemen
ever met"--BostOn Herald
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-13

the faithful presidency of Gen. Gusts
Lee. What far-reacbing power In Ameri-
ca has It been possible for this one man
10 employ. and how modestly. sincerely
judiciously has he exercised It!
When more than thirty years after
the war Gen. Custis Lee received the
money appropriated by Congress as a
for the seizure of Arlington,
his first act was 20 endow chair Of mod
ern languages in Washington and Lee
The collection Of oil portraits Of the
Washington. Parke. Gusts. and. Lee
families, which formerly hung at Airing
ton. Gen. Lee has loaned to the art gal
lery OF that university. He is still presi-
dent emeritus Of the institution, having
retired from the active presidency by
reason Of his health.
Has Never Married.
Gen. Gusts Lee has never married. de-
voting mis- life on the domestic side to MS
sisters. He has recently lost his brother,
Cen ". H. F. Lee. and youngest sister,
Miss Mildred Lee.
But three of Gen. r. z. Lees children
are living at present writing. Gen. Gusts.
Miss Mary. and Capt. Robert Z. Lee.
None of his daughters ever married. and
he has but four grandchildren living. r.
p Lee, jr, and George 2. Lee, sons OF
". H. F, Lee; Anne Carter and Mary
Gusts. daughters Of, Capt Robert Z.
Lee.
Gen. Gusts Lee is at present residing
at RavenswOrth, Fairfax County, Va. (P
O. Burke. the country home Of his late
brother, W II. +. Lee. with his two
nephews and their widowed mother. One
Of these, r. E. Lee. jr., is a member Of
the Virginia legislature.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-13
CONSCIENCE A RESTRAINT.
Dir. Bryan Emphasizes Importance
of Moral Considerations.

OF Moral Considerations.
W J. Bryan in Saturday Esening Post
While legislation should as far as pos.
sible. protect each citizen from injustice
at the hands Of every other citizen. there
is a wide zone between the duties which
the law can enforce and the wrongs
which the law can prevent-a zone IN
which conscience. and conscience only.
controls. IL is IN this zone that the larger
part Of lie is spent and the larger part
of lies work Is done. For every. person
who Is honest because of the law = hun
drcd are honest because OF conscience;
fOr every person kept in the path Of recti-
tude by fear OF the peniteltiaTy many
hundreds are made righteous by The
promptngs Of the conscience.
The e. hlcal awakening upon which our
nation Is entering viii not expend its
whole force in turning individuals away
from practices offensive 10 the conscience
The government is one OF the instru-
mcnts with which the people work. and
tn its activities IL IS sure to reflect a dom
inant public sentiment. IS in the corpora
ton the st0ckholder is often willing 70
profit by the wrong act OF the director.
even when ne would shrink from doing
the wrong act himself 50 the citizen will
sometimes support his party IN doing
that which he would hesitate 10 do as an
individual. But this Is less likely 70 hap
pen when he begins to emphasize moral
considerations When one begins 10 an
alyze legislation and the administration Of
the laws he Is likely to be amazed At the
magnitude Of the injustice done by this in-
tangible thing which we call government.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-13
ANNALS OF THE POOR.
Only One in Thousand of Our Pop
ulatiOn Living In AImshOuses.


ulatiOn Living In AImshouses.
Prom the St, Louis Republic
In the dismal statistics of almshouse
pauperism in the United States which are
contained in a recent census bulletin are
two exhibits that brighten the dark pic
tuTe OF life among the helpless poor.
One Is that Americans do not willingly
let their needy and decrepit women go to
the poorhouse OF the 81, 75T almshouse
paupers enumerated on December 81. 1903
only n little moro than one-third were
women, the respective numbers being
g, IA men and % go women. Though it
might be supposed that the weaker sex
would more numereusly seek the shelter
of these institutions, the fact is that while
the almshouse population Of the country
Increased by 6.719 from 1890 to 1903 the
number of women decreased by ISIS
Broader and more active charity takes
care Of the helpless women in other ways.
Though the poor we have always with
Us, there are out OF the 100000 inhabit-
ants Of the United States only 160. 600 poor
enough TO seek lOdgment during any one
year IN the 2,47G almshOuses found by the
census takers, and only about half Of that
number are found in them at any one
time.
These do not include all the paupers, for
a good many others, not included IN this
report, are provided for by outdoor relief.
but 1t is fact TO be thankful for that
only about one IN a thousand of the per-
sons in the United States is living in a
poorhouse.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-13
AMERICAN.GROWN TEA.
First Commercial Crop Gathered
from a south Carolina Farm.
From The Charleston Pos.

LArlA Lie ALAE-esfln EDe1.
Shipment Of the first crop Of tea ever
produced in the United States by COM
mercial organization was from Tea.
S. c., near Rantowles. Seeds for the
tea plants, which have been successfully
planted by the American Tea Growing
Company, were secured from DR.. G. q.
Shepard, Of Summervlle. who has been
tie pioneer OF practical tea growing IN the
United States. TWO years were required
10 grow the seedlings in the tea farm
nurseries. Two years more were needed
for the tea plants. transpianted 10 attain
a size and strength which would make
them tea bearing. Ii was last April hat
the first picking started. This harvesting
OF the tea leIvCs ceased about the first
Of October. At present the company has
10 acres Of tea under cultivation. OF this
number sixty acres are planted with tea
bearing plants. Fully 90 pounds 10 the
acre are produced. u is tho plan 70 in
crease the acreage under cultivation by
bout thirty acres year until there are
go acres of tea growing which viii mean
that between 10000 and 2o0.00 pounds Of
tea VIII be produced IN South Carolina
each year by 1919.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-13
college Girls Good Excuses.

From the Boston Herald.
These are the days when the aver
age college girl finds It hard task TO
Keep constantly at her books" says one
OF the large staff Of women at WelIes-
ley. and she draws the long bow now
and then when she wishes to get a few
hours or a day of liberty for ride.
drive, a football game. an attraction in
the theaters, or for any of a thousand
and one side issues. we had a girl
here once who asked permission to go
carriage riding one afternoon with
young man who was visiting in town.
Are you engaged TO him. we asked
her In q severe tone
why, no, she replied very thought
fully, as If struck for the first time by
that aspect of the question. Then she
frightened up wonderfully and added:
But maybe if You viii allow me to 90
riding | shall be when 1 return.
There was another girl who re-
quested leave TO go riding with her
brother, and the woman of whom she
asked permission queried, looking at
her with an eye loaded with no
twinkle: And is your brother any
relative Of yOursg"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-13
FINDS new RULE OF THREE
Investigator Discovers That Disas-
tiers Are Often Triple.
Striking Cases of Death and Accident
illustrating AdaEe That Misfor-
tunes Never Come SinSIy.

Frcn Answers.
aIisfortunes. they say. never come sin
sly. and certainly there is more than a
germ of truth in this old saying. over
and over again II has been noticed that
when one great disaster occurs it Is
quickly followed by a second and then a
third Of similar description
Twice in the present year we have seen
this occur First. Vesuvius erupted and
destroyed many villages and hundreds
Of lives; then. later in the same month.
san Francisco was wrecked by earth
quake and fire; thirdly. Valparaiso was
almost wiped out by a series OF earth
qUivers.
In the matter OF railway accidents there
had been few Of any Importance for a
year previous TO the disaster at Sails
bury, but that was followed in rapid
succession by the shocking accident TO
the Scotch express and by the bridge dis
aster in Oklahoma.
When great man dies his death Is
often followed by those of two others
in high positions. There was a striking
instance Of this six years ago. In July.
1900 King Humbert OF italy fell by the
bullet OF an assassin. On the 2a.-
the same month the
burg died
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-13
A TOUCH or NATURE.

The Katamaran" IS an elegant fat
With VCstibulc Onyx and gold,
And usual IN palace Ike that
Relations distant and cold;
But to-day there's a smile On the foImalest face,
And even the lanit0r grins,
For people sre saying al over the place:
The janitUTs wife has twins
Oh he that hath f-owned on the babe at tis breas
And bd Il beg5ne frcm The door;
Oh. he that considered toddlsr a pest
And scowled at an angel Of four;
Oh. he that hath hated the juvenile brood
As If they were devils or Dtinns,
Must alter MS manner and soften his mood
The janitor's wife las twins
Now Mamie, perhaps, may return from her aunt's
And We neecnt keep Johnny at school,
And The house, now grim Presbyterian manse
VIII shake of king Herod hard nile
We feel that to-day in The Eatamaran"
An era Of kindness begins:
No iorgcr are little ones under ban
The ianitcTs wife has twins!
The bohemian.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-13

From the Springfield Republican.
a clergyman. recently returned from
the West, brought this story:
He was the guest of one OF the pillars
OF the church in a rural community.
Beefsteak was the piece de resistance.
and the guest sawed at it with such
energy that its tougnness was perfectly
obvious.
Finally the host thought It necessary to
DO something to save his reputation for
hospitality.
It's fine meat" he remarked; mice and
tender, but. you see. we have TO keep the
knives very dull on account OF the chill
drefl 4"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-13
Ladylike Geometry.

From the Chicago Record Herald
/. \ straight line is the shortest dis
lance between two millinery openings.
Il. A straight line determined by two
bargain tables is considered as prolonged
both ways until the store closes.
III a broken line is a series of sue
ccssive straight lines described by a
woman anghting from street ear.
II. y mixed line is a line composing
the reception committee OF clubs presi-
Dental candidate.
V. \ plain figure is one all points of
which have been neglected by tie dress
maker.
VI. Figures OF the same shape don't
always have the same style.
VII Figures Of the same size never
consider themselves equivalent.
VIII Women equal TO the same thing
are not always equal to each other.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-13
a DREAM or FLIGHT.

Soon shall the frequent bicycles
And roaring motor car
BE quite as rare as icicles
In summer solstice are.
Yes. TheyH be dead as Pharcah-plaIn
u seems 10 me indcd-
When all prefer the asroplsne
FUf comfort. rest. and speed.
let nervous folk viii, caYiiing
II this mode, hnd iull socn
Tie safes. way Of travelling
liy stegTable balloon.
For ecstasy then singing out
To learn at last she can.
WI Mary Jane go Wirging out
With her discreet young msn.
Then quite iEtcnt On gaining It.
And one N heart and mind,
When We 90 a6ronl2niag it.
II Heaven, my own, vel find.
While wen agreed between Us Is
This plan we cherish still
Wen honeymoon where Venus is
~ Jupiter. We VII
London Chy0niel,
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-13

From the Boston heldl4
There is nothing like being stylish. even
at funerals. An example of this comes
from the Back Bay. where investigation
of the reported death of a millionaire's
wife. known TO be very i'll, was found
TO have arisen through her husbands
having ordered mourning livery for his
butler, coachman, and foOtman.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-13

-,1y,
--..enIy. Three days
--mmings. a New York Repre-
sentative. expired. and on the fourth day
Jhe Ife of Air. Salmon, Congressman from
New Jersey, came % a sudden end. The
coincidence goes further Mr.. Salmon had
been designated 20 attend the funeral
Of Mr. Cummings and Mr. Cummings 10
attend that Of Mr.. Otey. Never before in
the history of the American House of
Representatives had three desks been
draped in mourning at one and the same
time.
About the same date London was
startled by three tragedies in one day
and. more curious still, all on the North
London Railway. There was q child muir
dered IN waiting room AT Daiston June
ton, stock broker was run over by
train at Mildmay Park station, while
young billiard marker attempted 10 COM
nit suicide by exploding a canister Of
guupowder in q first-class carriage near
Hishbury station. To add to the peculiar
ity Of these triple tragedies the day upon
which they all occurred was Friday.
Italians are prOverbially superstitious.
No wonder. then. that almost every paper
in that country commented upon the fol-
lowing strange triple coincidence. Signor
Giolltti, who is popularity credited in his
own country with possessing the evil
eye" first became premier in 1882 No
fewer than six OF his colleagues in the
cabinet died during lis administration.
three in one session and three in the next
Later Signor Gi0ilttl gave up the
premiership and entered the home Office.
Almost at once his predecessor. .Signor
NicOtera, was taken I'll and died In
1893 Slgnor Giolitu again took up the
reins of government. He formed his cab
met on November ,, the date known III
Italy as the Day Of the Dead. A few days
later his minister Of finance, Slgn0r Ro-
sano, committed suicide
one more case which is peculiar enough
to be recorded. In October, 1892. the
Vienna Jockey Club held its annual meet
Ing on its race course. During the previ-
Gus meeting, which was the first held
upon the coursei no fewer than FIVE
jockeys had been killed and the super
stitious wondered what would happen
next. They had not long to wait On the
third day Of the meeting three riders, all
gentlemen jockeys, were killed In three
successive races.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-13

From the New York Press
Naybor-I saw your wife leaving home
in something Of hurry this morning.
Marryat-Tes. she's going into the shop
ping district 10 contract about SO worth
of debts
Naybor-Myl Did she tell you that?
Marryat-No, but I foolishly told her
last night that l had that much left in
bank.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-13
PENNSY'S new HEAD
WhOle-Souled Jim" McCrea
Hasn't al Enemy.
GOLF HIS FAVORITE SPORT
Devoted TO His Home, Though Hold
ing 1IemberShip in Many Clubs-A
Good ChuFehman and Interested in
Chiidren-A University Graduate,
He Knows RaiIroadIng Thoroughly.

Everybody In the railroad world in
Pittsburg is talking about Jim McCrea,
the newly elected president Of the Penn
sylvania Railroad. and yet no more diff
cult task ever was undertaken than &c
try 10 really ind out something about the
big grum, whoIe-souled fellow who is
now the head Of the greatest railroad sys-
ten in the country, says the New York
World.
In the twenty years Mr.. McCrea has
been resident of Pittsburg he has
been SO busy that he hasn't had time to
DO anything else than work for the Penn
sylvania Railroad. When his days work
was completed he went home. and, Ike
the good man that he is. usually remained
there. Not that he is a recluse by any
means. he likes to meet his fellow-man,
but he always complains that he hasn't
the time
Mr.. McCrea belongs to clubs, the same
as other men. and spends considerable
time in them. At home in PittSburg the
DuQuesne Club is his headquarters when
he is down town, and he is also a member
Of the Pittsburg Club the Country Club,
and the Pittsburg Golf Club. In New
York he is a member Of the Union League
Club; in Philadelphia, OF the Philadelphia
CluD, and in Chicago Of the Chicago Club.
His one hobby-if he has a hobby-is golf
He is passioaately fond of the game, and
spends many hours Of his leisure time on
the links Of The Pittsburg Golf Club,
most Of the time in company with his
only daughter Miss Ada AIcCrea, a beau
tiful young woman Of twenty-five, and a
graduate Of an Eastern college.
Quite a Club Man.
If he is not On the golf links in his
leisure time he can be found on the
boulevard behind one Of the seven horses
ne keeps NcCrea's horses are all thor
0ughbreds, OF which ne thinks the world,
and which he treats with the same kind
ness as he does everything else about
him He would no more think Of bob
bling" d horses tail than he would think
Of cutting off his right hand.
Every Sunday morning when he IS in
Pittsburg Mr.. McCrea can be found in
his pew at the Church Of the Ascension,
the high Episcopal church OF PitJsburg.
About him are many men famous in
financial and railroad circles in Pitts
burg-H. c. Prick, William McConway,
Col. J. n. Schoonmaker. and others, all
members Of the church. Mr.. McCrea is
a warden. and some years ago when the
congregation decided that they should
have a new place of worship Dir. McCrea
was made chairman Of the building COM
nittee- He 5uilt the church the same as
he built a railroad. and to-day 80
of the finest edi1Ces ~
almost c''-
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-13
Work After the War.

heFk AfieF tEe war
Quietly the Lees took up the work that
came nearest to their hand. They might
have made fortunes out OF their fame.
foreign and domestic positions OF great
profit were offered father and two sons.
but as quietly refused.
From out the abyss into which the
South was plunged arose quietly Fitzhugh
Lee, the miller; young Robert E. Lee, the
farmer Gusts Lee. the teacher. No Lee
juggled his fame in the money marts of
the land no Lee bartered his name FOR
gold
When Gen R. E. Lee accepted, in Sep
tember 1865. the presidency Of Washing
ton College in Lexington, Va, Gen Gusts
Lee accepted a chair in the Virginia Mill
tary Institute, in the same town, in the
Valley Of the Shenandoah. war-swept by
Sheridan's troopers.
When Robert 2. Lee closed his eyes in
October, 1870, Gusts Lee took up the
task that had dropped from his great
sires hand.
He was elected president Of the col
lege. the name Of which was changed
by the trustees to Washington and Lee
University. lie took upon himself the
live her beloved husband. He became the
support and comforter OF his three sis
ters, Mary, Agnes. and Mildred; the ad-
wiser Of his younger brothers, Henry Fitz-
hugh and Robert Z. Lee, jr. For TWEEN
ty-seven years he was the faithful pres
ident Of Washington and Lee. a college
founded by Washington himself. v0icing
the gospel Of effort the doctrine of en-
deavOr, using The influence Of his splendid
name for the rebuilding and upbuilding
of his institute. his State. and the South.
which has lavished on the house of Lee
her loyalty. has given to Robert Z. Lee
and his such love as has been bestowed
on few men in this generation.
Influence of n University.
Graduates have gone out from Wash
ington and Lee not only ali over the
South. but throughout the West. Her
influence and training are felt in isles Of
the shutdown Sea" Thomas Nelson
Page IS an aIumnus, the governor of Ore
gon another Ex-Gov. Stephens. of South
Cardinal the supreme justice of South
Dakota, the attorney general of Ohio, the
chief justice Of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania, the delegate in Congress
from New Mexico. the supreme justice
Of Georgia, one Of the judges Of the SUI
preme Court OF Porto Rico-these are a
few Of the alumni Of Washington and
Lee. Professors, planters, capitalists.
clergymen, physicians. lawyers, men of
influence and prominence, are among the
400 graduates of Washington and Lee
who have passed rom its doors during
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-11-19
A PATCH OF BEANS
EQUAL TO A MINE

At his home on Jackson street City
Clerk T. N. Hawkes. has a small
garden which included a bean patch"
about the size of an ordinary parlor
or bedroom but which, like Jack S
famous "beanstalk' yielded prodigi-
ously. By actual measurement the
bean patch" was 10 feet by 26 feet
or 1-121 part of an acre. From
this little plat Mrs. Hawkes. sold
$12 of snap beans, besides what was
needed for her own table and many
quarts given to neighbors. This is
actual results from little patch
and evidences the possibilities of
Sumter county soil But for the
frost, which killed the vines three
days ago, the bean patch would still
be yielding rich results.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-11-19
COM. HUDSON TO ATTEND
MEETING IN COLUMBIA
Left Americas for Carolina
Capital.

Hon. T. G.. Hudson, state commits
sioner of agriculture and who has
been spending two days at his home
in Americas, left yesterday for Col
umbia, S. c., to attend the annual
meeting Of the southern states com
missioners of agriculture, which will
be in session in that city Nov. 19
to q inclusive.
President Watson, Commissioner OF
Agriculture of South Carolina, has
prepared an instructive program for
this meeting, the Georgia representa-
tives being accorded special places
of honor on this program
In speaking of the matter yester-
day, Commissioner Hudson said:
Among the most pertinent topics
to be discussed at this meeting will
be the uniform pure food law
throughout the south, and to awaken
a quicker interest in cattle raising
DR.. McCandless, the father of the
pure food law in Georgia, will ad-
dress the convention on the subject
of the pure food law and it's opera
ton in Georgia. The question OF
cattle raising and cattle feeding will
come up for general discussion"