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The Washington herald., 1907-12-11
The Proper Fee.

What do I get for this stunt?" asked
the vain, but eXecrable. amateur.
If 1 wore a police magistrate" an
swered the manager, you would get
thirty days; but, as I am not. you'll
simply get out
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11
In Washington.

Il made glaring error to-day" sigh
ed the cabinet lady.
"How's that?" inquired the depart
mental lady.
Il glared AT woman whom | should
have ignored completely"
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

From the New YORK Herald
Gov. Hughes. it seems, has no spokes-
man. Perhaps he believes. as the oid
saying has il. that actions speak louder
than words"
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

From the Clicaso Journal
England recently shipped 1.S27 cases Of
eggs 10 this country. Probably came over
in the hatchway. What2
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11
He Could.

And you say the law can't touch me?"
The law can't but that doesn't apply
TO Us lawyers Five thousand as a re-
tainer. please"
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11
Not Coming HIS Wav

Nike-They say the new goold pieces
the business men don't loike bekase they
come in IN sich relief
Pat-Don't We behave II. me boy. Sure
they amt a-comin' to my relief
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

The admirals may not be expert enough
horsemen TO hold their commissions
but, doubtless. it would be hard to
find Rough Rider unable 10 Iasso "a
government job and cinch It,
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11
Snunded seasonnbIe.

Poe was writing his Descent into the
Malestorm.
"A good timely title" quoth he ''Peo-
pie will think It's story about Christ
mas shopping
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

From The Pnnadelph Public Ledger
There is muc- difficulty in Inducing the
Brownsville jrcident to demean itself as
one officially closed.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

The next Presidential bear hunt is
scheduled 20 take place in Texas. whore
We understand. the bears are twenty
times as fat and sixteen times as ferocious
as bears elsewhere. and possessed of
more statesmanlike qualities than all the
Wall street bears in Marvellous Manhat-
tan.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11
Not Qnifc Plain.

Il don't like Jigsby He is always
running people down"
Gossip or motOrist?''
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

Congress doesn't understand the hnan-
cial question" says Senator Bailey
Well it seemed 60 understand that phase
of it relating to raising its own salary.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

A Tennessee paper declares it approves
the Bradley verdict. but doesn't know
why" we suppose. being d more or less
unimportant thing.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

Another one Of Jefferson Davis capters
has just passed away i'm Minnesota. II
is quite evident that practically the en-
tire Union army was in at Mr. Davis
rOund-up.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

''The King is the best shot I'm England. 9"
says The Throne. Nevertheless. he viii
indulge in the moIlycoddlish game Of
croquet.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

The President handles his message like
an experienced newspaper man." says an
admirer. on the quiet, however, we
shudder 10 think what heartless manag-
ing editor would do 10 that kind OF an
article handed in by a member Of the
staff
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11
AImoat Human.

Money talks.
Seldom balks:
Airs its views and simpers.
Now and then
Just like men
u gets scared and whimpers.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

Two hundred London BARRIERS are to en-
gage in shaving contest. The victor. OF
course, can hardly expect to win by
more than neck.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

People who spent last Sunday in
Gotham agree that it looked the part of
Marvellous Manhattan. all right. all right.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11
The Modern PoIonius.

MY boy, never ask for credit"
MOP"
NO; put up a pouter-pigeon front, and
let 'em force il on you"
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

Notwithstanding the increased cost OF
white paper, the price Of the Congress
siOnal Record remains the same. and
the quality and quantity OF its reading
matter is in no wise curtaled-even the
applause" and. great laughter being
as generously scattered through IL as
ever.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

The "reformers' certainly have us in
their grip and propose to squeeze tight.
The city council of Jacksonvillc, Fla. has
just fixed a license tax of 50 upon all
newspaper correspondents. Perhaps
however, the honorable body entertains
a foolish notion that a newspaper CORE
Spondent is, at least. half as prosperous
as he appears.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

The awarding of a Nobel literary prize
TO Rudyard Kipling is apt we fear. great
~ to encourage the bad poetry cutput-
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

One Of the fairly safe things TO do in
this country nowadays appears to be 10
kill somebody.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

Mr.. Tom Johnson viii call az the White
House shortly just 10 pass the time o.
day" and show there are no hard feel
ings. probably.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

The Jacksonville Times-Un.on talks
mighty glibly about "rinS-t tailed pos
sums.'' That is nature taking very close
TO home
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

AS no one has thought TO call Sailor
Hobsons attention 70 prospective squalls,
now that a son and heir resides in his
home. we viii do it. even If we get fired
from the Richmond Times Dispatch s
paragraphers union because of il.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

What the newspaper men mean by urg-
ing the Christmas shoppers 10 get busy
early is that they ought TO get out of the
way so the newspaper men may have
elbow room at the last minute
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

The King Of Abyssinia offers his title
for sale for $4,000, but no takers are
in sight He might start the bargain
brigade. however by marking il down 70
Slgg. 500
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

There are forty moving picture theaters
in Milan This city doubtless is the most
desirable place 20 live in in the world
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

II the weather man has any more freak
ideas in his head concerning December
weather. let him go on now and get them
out while we are used to IT,
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

The Washington Herald is delivered bg
carrier la the District Of Columbia and at
AIerdndrid, Va, q. s. cents per month,
ddiiy and sunday, or at = cents per
.. 1nth lethoat The SnndGv issue.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

The people of Arizona want Statehood.
and they want IL very badly" said D. IL
Armstrong, "a mining operator. Of Tucson.
at the New willard last night --The peo-
PIE % Arizona feel that they must get
Statehood soon. and they also are OF
the opinion that they are entitled % IL.
They think that since Oklahoma and
the Indian Territory were allowed 20
come into the Union. they have The same
right.
Although most Ar;zonians would pre-
Ger that taeir State como into the Union
alone, II the only way En- which ft can bs
admitted Is by the making OF one state
~ both New Mexico and ArlzGla. they
viii stand for that Arizona. you know.
is much larger than most Eastern 1eo-
nle understand IL 20 Dee. There are more
people there too. than IS understood In
ibis part of the country There are sew
earl large towns in the Territory which
aye growing rapidly and which are pros
porous.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

Senator Tom Platt has introduced ma
ticlal corporations bilI-but is as mum
as ever about the Presidents suggested
parcels pest
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11
AT THE HOTELS.

r. II. stevens. Of Spokane, one Of the
best-known attorneys IN Eastern Wash
i1gton, arrived ii the New willard last
night Nfr. Stevens is interested as at
to-ney in tine hearing Of the case of the
lumhermen Of the Northwest against the
railroads. The ease viii come up for a
hearing this morning before the Inter-
state Commerce Commission.
Il am representing the lumbermeu of
Eastern Washington. Northeastern Ore
gon, and Northern Idaho" said Mr.
stevens. I'VE have already made "A COM
plaint 10 the comm ission about the new
freight rate. but we do nor know just
what VIII be done until the result Of the
hearing granted the Coast lumber men
can be known.
AIR Stevens was attorney FOR the city
OF Spokane and the chamber OF COM
merce OF that city in one Of the first
cases fled wiki the commission after the
passage % the Hepburn bill That case
created great deal of interest an over
the country ~ the time Of the first hear
ing Lst January. Spe7kins of this case.
Bar. Stevens said that "a decision is ex-
pecteG in few weeks II IS eagerly
awaited In all the interior cities o. tie
Northwest.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-11

Senator Guggenheim. Of Colorado. IS an
interested spectator Of all that goes on
in the Senate. In his seat promptly at
L O'Clock. he remains through the entire
session, only directing his attention 20
chat with some Senator who is passing
] think it is the greatest body of men
IN the world, said the Senator. and
though I am new at the business, thel
more see. the more I become interested
in my surrouudinCs'
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-05-30
JOHN Il. IEGNaIAN INDICTED.
Insurance Magnate Held For Forgery
in Third Degree and For Perjury.

New York City.-Ten indictments
were filed by the special May Grand
Jury against John p. Hegeman, pres
ident Of the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance Company-three charging per-
jury and eve forgery in the third
degree.
Hegeman will be represented by
De Lancey Nicoll and John G. Mil
burn. The People will be represented
by District Attorney Jerome or by
Assistant District Attorney Smyth.
Pne most important point brought
to light before the Armstrong Insur-
ance Investigating Committee, and
which formed the principal basis for
the Investigation by the Grand Jury,
was that for many years Hegeman
had made it q practice to sell all the
loans made to individuals on Decem-
Der 81 Of each year, and to buy them
back en- January = of the e year
following. This made it possible for
the company to make no mention CT
these assets in its annual reports to
the Insurance Department. .
The borrowers, whower concealed
by this method, included President
Hegeman himself, John A. Mccall,
president of the New York Life, and
Silas B. butcher, OF the Hamilton
Trust Company.
The indictments for forgery are
based on the alleged '~'doctoring" Of
the books Of the company and the in
dictments for perjury on the alleged
false statements to the4nsurance De-
partmsnt regarding loans.
With the Metropolitan investiga-
ton out of the way the District At
torney's Office will go in earnest into
the affairs of the Equitable Life AS
surance Company.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-05-30
QUE ADOPTED ISLANDS.

General Carlos Roloff, Treasurer OF
Cuba, died at Guanabacoa, Cuba.
Business at Santiago de Cuba is
paralyzed owing to a general strike
of workmen in support Of the long
shoremen's demand for an eight-hour
day.
The sfsal industry Is becoming an
important ene, about 1909 acres hav-
ing already been planted in Hawaii.
A jury in the Federal Court at San
:JuGn, P. R., rendered o verdict of
$4,000 against II. w: Dooley for. SLAM
dering c. F. Stokes, a surgeon in the
United States Navy.
Brig.-Gen. H. T. Allen, organizer
and until recently chief of the Phil
ippine Constabulary, arrived in San
Francisco from Manila on the army
transport Thomas. ~
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-05-30
FIVE LIVES LOST
IN BURNING SHIP
A Passenger ann Four Coal Pass
eTS Perish on the Naomi.
DIE TRYING TO REACH DECK
Flames Iig:.t Up Dari1encd Sky rs
Steamer Burns Down to Waters
Edge IN the Middle of Lake
Michigan, Of Grand Haven.

Grand Haven, l-.ch.-FiTe lives
we're lost and seventy-fve men and
had narrow escapes fror.
ieath when the steamer Naomi, OF
the Crosby Transportation Company,
burned in the middle of Lake Mich
igan. J.=H. Rhodes, a passenger, Of
Detroit, was one of the victims; the
others were coal passers.
The steamer left this city late at
night for Milwaukee with a -uil list
of passengers and the hold filed with
merchandise. Among the passengers
were Joseph Heine, CT No. II East
12Sth street, and Samuel Waterman,
of No. 90 Water street, New York.
The fire started at $50 a. NJ, when
the passengers were asleep.
The captain of the steamer Kansas,
which was proceeding to Grand
Haven, in the opposite direction, saw
flames leapIng from the Naomi's port
holes. Hebblew a signal Of alarm
and Captains Trail, of the Naomi,
sent a lookout to investigate. He
found the hold rapidly burning.
The crew awakened the passen-
gers Of the burning steamer and they
huddled upon the upper deck, a
frightened, screaming throng.
Captain Trail lei up signals for
help, and in q few minutes three
steamers, whose lights could be seen
a short distance away, came to the
rescue. Several of the life RATS and
boats on the Naomi were destroyed
before the crew could get them low
cred. By the time the three steamers
had reached the Tcene the Naomi's
boats were in the water filed with
people, and several passengers were
still huddled on The stern Of the burn
ing ship. The captain Of the steamer
Kerr, of the rescuing fleet, drew his
big steel ship up under the Naomi's
stern SO close that the imDcrilled
people leaped to her deck.
Rhodes lost nis life because he al
unable to reach the upper deck.
Stumbling rs he ran, his night clothes
caught fire and he was so badly
burned that he died while being hur-
ried on another steamer toward this
port. The four coal .pa5sers were
caught in the forward end of the
steamer, and as the flames drew
nearer thrust their heads cut of the
portfolios and begged to be saved.
1t was impossible to reach them
through the wall CT flames and they
were burned to death.
The passengers who were rescued
escaped with only their night clothes.
Some Of them were slightly burned.
The crew of the Naomi did valiant
work restraining panic-stricken wom-
en- from leaping Into the water.
The hulk of the Naomi burned for
three hours. The reflection of the
flames could be seen on the lake for
miles away.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-05-30
BITS o. Ne WIS
WASHINGTON

Maurice Francis Egan is to be min
lister to Denmark.
Justice Day, of the Supreme Court,
has been appointed arbitrator in con-
troversy over mahogany concessions
in Nicaragua.
President Roosevelt plans to make
a trio down the Mississippi River next
fall in order to study the work Of the
Inland Waterways Commission.
Navy Department was informed of
the death at Santiago of Ensign Bris-
bin, who shot himself.
Rear Admiral Willard III. Brown
son became chief of the Bureau Of
Navigation in the Navy DEPARTMENT,
succeeding Rear Admiral George A.
Converse. T..
Oscar Hammerstein signed a con-
tract to build a house and establish
grand opera in Washington.
Surgeon General Rixey is prepar-
ing to appeal to Congress for better
ment Of the medical branch OF the
Navy.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-05-30
Original Acreage Maintained by Tie.
planting Damaged Wheat, Etc.

New York City. = Dispatches to
"Du1's Review" from branch offices.
OF f. G. Dun & Co. located in the
leading agricultural districts indicate
that to principal crops a-c several
weeks !ato in Nany States because o.
the backward season, but much OF
the lost ground may be regained
should the next few weeks provide
favorable conditions as to tempera-
ture and sunshine. At some points
there is not expected more than sew
enty-fEe per cent. of last years win
ter wheat crop, although the original
acreage was exceptionally large, but
much has been plowed up and planted
i'll corn and oats. The weather is i'm
proving, and some States have only
suffered u loss equivalent TO the in
reGse acreage, so that conditions
are often found to be about normal,
except that the crop is late. Cold
weather has retarded work at the
Northwest, and the sprinS wheat crop
is decidedly backward, although
there is nc certainty OF extensive loss
rs vet. The corn crop seems to be
about average, slow progress in some
States being n~eutralizAd by favorable
conditions elsewhere, and it is prob
able that the acreage will be unusu-
ally heavy because of the corn that
has been substituted for other crops
abandoned. Oats have rotted on
some low lands because of heavy
rains, but on high ground the crop
looks we'll, and most reports are fav-
orable. Heavy rains in many South
eTn States and hailstorms in Texas
have ruined much of the early planted
cotton, but this is beinS replarted.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-05-30
FOREIEN.

Samuel Lord Morrison, the engi-
neer, of New York, died in London.
Herr Dernberg was appointed head
Of Germany's new Ministry for the
Colonies.
-Four CT the men who tried to kill
President Cebrera of Guatemala,
killed themselves when surrounded
by soldiers.
Codbre, at the entrance of the Ga
rome, France, was undermined by
the sea.
Lieutenant General Zacharias,
vice-president of the International
Permanent Geodetic Commission,
died at Copenhagen.
Six Japanese girls nailed in pine
boxes were discovered On the steam
ship Oanfa at Victoria, B. G.
Two thousand Polish Lancers of
the Guard have been ordered from
Warsaw to Tsarskoe-Selo, Russia.
j. H. Fist, a resident of Portland,
Ore, died at Naples, Italy, from a
tu1nor Of the stomach.
Canada declines to grant remailing
privilege on second-class mail.
The captain and crew of the
schooner Everett Webster, abandoned
at sea, arrived from France. They
were seven days without food, dashed
to the wreck.
The nationalist convention in Dub
lin repudiated the plan for a limited
Irish Council, offered by the liberal
government.
Serious race riots are reported
from Delhi, India, and the agitation
is said to be spreading in Madras
province.
Frank A. Perret. Professor Mat
teucci's assistant, after visiting Aetna
and StromEoli, said he believed
stronger eruptions were imminent.
Mexico is transferring a whole
tribe of Indians from Central Mexico
to Yucatan to relieve the scarcity of
labor there.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-05-30
Tar Heel Breyities,

It is learned that while Fled Wood
ard, of Wilson, has not personally II
nounced his candidacy for nomina-
ton for Governor, this announcement
will be made in a day or two by his
friend, Ex-Governor Aycock.
The State Superintendent Of Pub
lie Instruction is notified by the SUI
perintendent of Sampson county that
thee school districts there have voted
for a special tax.
The Supreme Court decides that ex-
press companies are liable for delay
in making deliveries within a reason
able time. The Southern Express
Company contested this case on the
ground that it was only n Of several
common carriers. In other words was
involved with the railways in hand
ling freight.
The installation of the agricultur-
al exhibits from North Carolina at the
Jamestown Exposition has begun.
William II. Robbins of Raleigh, will
assist in the work. Much of the col
lection was made by him least year
at the State fair and was shown at the
Boston fair and then preserved for
display at the jamestown Exposition.
The exhibit was one of the finest ever
made In a county.
It is now understood that the name
of the new life insurance company
with headquarters at Raleigh will be
the Jefferson Standard. The charter
is now being drafted, a meeting being
held early next week by the stock
holders, when there will be an organ
ization and temporary directors, 10
retire as soon as their successors are
| elected by a general meeting of the
stockholders which will then be called
The Bankers Convention was in ses-
sion at Winston last week. i
Sanford suffered heavy losses from,
fire On Thursday.
A special from Spencer says: A
report became current or the streets
here to the effect that Harry Shelton
a well--known young brakeman on the
Southern Railway between Spencer
and Monroe, Va, was instantly killed
near Greensboro by falling between
two cars belonging to a train on which
he was working. All efforts to ascer
tain facts in the matter proved futile
The Charlotte assay Office is now
handling from $4,000 to $4,000 ii
gold bullion every month.
A charter is granted the Kent COT
fey Manufacturing Company, Of LIE
noir, to make furniture and wood no
veIties, capital stock $4,000, F. Fl
Cofey and A. A. Kent being the prin
cipal stockholders.
The 29th annual meeting of tn,
American Library Association wa.
held last week in Asheville.
Commissioner of Agriculture Pat
terson says there is a fair croy of ap
pies in his section at the foothills .
the Blue Eitge, but there is no othe
fruit.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-05-30
DOMESTIC.

Ex-senator McLaurin. Of South
Carolina, discussing Theodore Prices
sIit against the Cotton Exchange,
said the July delivery OF spinnable
cotton has been oYersold.
State inspectors accused the infirIn-
airy directors Of Butler County, Ohio,
Of the misuse of 100000.
Mayor Busse, of Chicago, removed
eight members of the school board
who refused to resign. .-.
The submarine boats Octopus and
Lake ended a successful twenty-four
hour submergence test at Newport,
r. L.
With his clothes on fire. John Ma
loney, a motorman on a Chicago ele-
waited train. remained in mis- box I'M
til he brought his train, crowded with
passengers, to a station and averted
a panic.
Edward Manning, an aged restau-
rant proprietor at Portland, Mich,
was murdered and robbed while on
his way home.
Irving Talley, a negro, was SEN
fenced at Atlanta, Ga, to twenty
years in prison and to pay :. fine of
$4,000 for raising a two dollar bill to
see.
Fire which has ragged in the
Union Pacific Coal Company's mines
at Cumberland, Wyo., for six months
has been extinguished.
G.. G. Richardson, a plantation
overseer, and a negro named Lewis
were shot and killed during a row at
a baseball game IN Jefferson Parish,
La.
E. H. Conger, Minister to China
during the Boxer troubles, and later
Ambassador to- Mexico, died t Pasa-
dena, Cal.
Mayor Busse, in an attempt to
"~renovate" the Chicago Tenderloin,
transferred the entire police force OF
that district, including the captain
and $40 men.
Harlow n. H%iginbottom, Of Chi
cago, resigned as trustee of the Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company as
protest, he says, against present in
su-snce conditions.
An attack on Z. H. Hartman, in
connection with his manipulation OF
the finances of the Chicago and AL
ton Railroad, was a feature of the
address delivered by Charles A
Prouty, Interstate Commerce Com,
missioner, before the National Asso
citation of Manufacturers in NeT
York City.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-05-30
Meets Death Suddenly.

Greensboro, Special.-H. Turner
Wright, a miller, who has a mill in
southeastern Guilford, was suddenly
killed early Friday morning while. en-
deavoring to start water wheel at
the mill. His body vas horribly
mangled. Details Of the accident
were not available, butt it seems that
he must have been carried over by
his clothing having caught in the
wheel. He is survived by a wife aud
three children. s
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-05-30
The Georgia Peach Cron.

Georgia growers are busy trying
to size up the remains of the peach
crop left after the recent freezes. Es-
Inmates vary greatly, and it appears
that the damage was also of decided
ly varied extent. A few orchards To-
Gated on high land seem to have es-
capped with moderate injury, some
having as high a. fifty per cent. of a
crop, while in less favorable localities
not over twenty per cent. of a crop is
reported left. 1t looks, however, as
though there would be a good many
Georgia peaches sent North this year.