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New-York tribune., 1908-07-12
Good Ships Which Have Left Port and Never Returned
By FREDERICK ORIN BARTLETT

! tdinh Of the 5es- thai
sailed from -ls lovely
GlouCeSte- shore
hni think 0t The feet that
sailed and gaw, back
never more
ir ewes are Wet w--- -sa-S.
and my heart - u-mr
with woe
I seems Is i 7 7ga-. -s-- G--
day and @ r. long
ago
E5ucr Es.. sr-,,.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-12

ct manned by over ten thou
e the ships that sailed from
Cd. 4 bit of wreckage would
disappearances an every day
When the result IS utter ami
calm. the thing IS uncanny:
fishermen catch glimpses OF
movements they know to be
sman. Possibly some OF these
e been cleared up had they
but sailors are superstltlous,
,sSed themselves. content TO
uIk drift from sight.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-12

ASK the brorzri seafar-
n ing man what Il the
good ships LADY Nj
gent the City o- Glasgow.
the City Ct Boston The Burvle
Castle, the Nev-aa.. and he
vii Turn awav his head
Ihese and ma1v others form
New-York tribune., 1908-07-12

- - -4-N-a- nd o
par Of q phanco~ fleet
sald souls The a-e 7,
po- and never r.. med
have made Of these dis
disaster al sea i-- whe
l-au0n. often 81 cal
from tine 10 time hsl
Slrps that from .- I'D.
sal,ng without q -sm.
mysteries might re I
dared venture nearer b-
and 50 they har ross.
watch the ghosrl.-. hulk
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-14

excavated by woodpecker. Almost
invariably the nest is lined with the
cast-off skin of snake. The young
fiycatchers are Matched in the dark.
They probably can't see what 1t Is
which forms their warm bed. They
are led into the light Of day, and
fed for awhile.
Then they are turned loose to shift
for themselves. The next spring
when the yearling fycatchers mate
the first thing they do is to search
the country for snake skin, and
they are mot happy till they get It."
What is it that puts the snake skin
idea into their heads? The search for
the answer is likely to be longer than
the search of the birds for nest lining
in snakeless country.
The catbird is held in contempt by
some of the thoughtless ones. Pos
sibly its name is against the bird. It
Is our garden friend, however a pa
tient and tireless warrior In the army
battling against the insect pests. The
catbird is soberly dressed in the main,
and as if in shame of its one bright
touch of plumage it hides the offend.
ing red feathers beneath its tail.
What a singer is our catbird! His
rolling succession of notes would be
well-nigh matchless did he not mar
the performance with an occasional
querulous catlike tone. In the midst
of its music it sometimes cries
meouw," as a versifier puts it. If our
friend would consent to cut out bar
or two of his music he would be the
rival as solist of his cousin the
hooking bird.
Cultivate the catbird. | know one
man who has eight pairs of the birds
nesting this summer on his few acres
{: ground. He wishes the number we're
trebled. The bird nests usually in the
though it occasionally selects a tree.
The photographer who would get a
satisfactory picture of a catbird's
home must needs employ a flash light
It perhaps goes without saying that
most of the pictures taken lave been
secured after the bushes have been
cut away, an operation to which the
catbird vociferously objects.
We hear much of robin-egg blue.
and art has succeeded in reproducing
the color fairly well, but there is a
fortune for the man who will put a
green upon the market that has tho
true hue of the egg of the catbird. II
is of all the greens of nature a thing
apart. Its beauty is beyond that Of
sea, the grass and the emerald. To
call the egg gemlike is to belittle its
beauty. And how the bird guards its
treasure. Approach it ever so care
fully and the alert father and mother
you and your intentions.
Were it for nothing else than for its
devotion to its home and its young the
catbird should be beloved. | once saw
a mother catbird. whose young were
In a bush, fly against the muzzle of i
pistol held in the hand Of a boy whose
murderous intention | had OWNED
100 late to save the bird that in truth
was faithful unto death.
EDWARD b. CLARK.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-14

1897, and then gave way for the APP
pointment of Attorney General Nc
Kenna. This was Mr.. McKinley's only
selection to fill vacancy in the court,
and it placed a Republican jurist in a
Democratic seat on the bench.
Justice Field was a noted Democrat,
who had several times been spoken of
as possible candidate for the presi-
dency, and the statement that he did
not want a Democratic president to
fill his place by appointment may
seem strange. Nevertheless, Justice
Field just before his retirement, gave
his friends to understand that he did
not purpose to allow President Cleve-
land to have the pleasure of appoint
ing his successor on the bench If he
could help it. Justice Field and his
friends believed that he was badly
treated by President Cleveland when
Chief Justice Waite died. Petitions
came from all parts of the land and
many legal organizations passed reso-
buttons asking that Justice Field be
made Chief Justice Waite's successor.
but President Cleveland passed over
him and chose the present chief JUS
tice. Except for this Justice Field
would undoubtedly have resigned to-
ward the end of Cleveland's second
term, and there would now be four in7
stead of three Democrats on the SUI
preme bench. Justice Strong, who
was appointed by President Grant in
1870, though eligible for retirement in
1883, retained his place on the bench
nine years longer, until his death, in
1892.
The important bearings of this
years presidential election upon the
personnel of the court revives the fact
that there was a somewhat similar
condition during the last national cam
paign. Chief Justice Fuller and JUS
tice Harlan were both eligible for re-
tirement in 1904, and it was then evil
dent that before the end of President
Roosevelt's present term three other
members of the court-Justices Brew
err, Brown and Peckham-wouldl like
wise possess that right. One of these
five eligibles-Justice Brown-did re-
tire, making way for Mr.. Moody's ap-
pointment, but the four others have
remained.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-14
Peculiar Freak of Llohtninn.

Prof A. Herschel, in the Quarterly
Journal of the Royal Meteorological So
ciety for October last. describes the
extraordinary effects produced by
lightning in the midst of an open moor
in Northumberland. A hole four or
five feet in diameter was made in the
fat, peaty ground. and from this half
a dozen burrows extended on all sides.
Pieces of turf were thrown in various
directions. one three feet in diameter
and a foot thick having fallen rs feet
from the hole. Investigation showed
that in addition to the effects visible
on the surface. small holes had been
bored in the earth radiating from the
large excavation.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-14
WANTED TO BE A MASCOT.
Small Boy Sent on Three Weeks
Tramp by Illinois Humorist.

When 11-year-old William Sanders
arrived in st. Louis the other even
ing the soles were worn from his shoes
and his feet were bloody. He had
been on the road three weeks and be
had come all the way from Rockport,
Ill.
Some mendacious person had told
William that the Browns wcSld pay
the right kind of boy $1,000 to be
their mascot, and he came over to
apply for the job. 1t remained for
the man in charge of the house of
detention TO disillusionize him. But
the point is, William got here. In
our opinion, William has enough grit
and pertinacity to get there at any
thing he undertakes.
He has several things to learn, but
one of these days, with little judg-
ment, he will select the road he wants
to travel, and then travel it to the
end. He will make up his mind what
he wants to be, and then be 1t.
The qualities that brought William
all the way to St Louis with his bare
feet on the ground and bloody are
the qualities that carry men furthest
on the road to success a single pur-
pose with everlasting pluck being be-
hind it. These will not, it is true,
carry a man to the pot Of gold at
the end of the rainbow; but only a
very little Judgment is required &c
select one of the many roads to sub
stantial success. The main thing is
to stay with it.-St Louis Post-Dis-
patch
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-14
BIRD SURPRISES ARE NUMEROUS

the name of hair bird There have
come under our own observation scores
OF chipping sparrows' nests. and /
have yet to see one which was not
lined in with the material named, but
if it should be declared that the bird
never varies in its choice of home fin
ishing material some patient observer
would be sure to stumble across an ex-
ception to weaken the rule. Once
upon time there were no horses in
America, and what spizela socialis
used then for its house can only be
matter of conjecture.
The power of heredity is shown
strongly in the selection of building
material by the birds. Possibly the
most remarkable case in point is that
of the great-crested fly-catcher (Myiar-
chus crinitus). This bird is a noisy
summer resident of the northern tier
of states. 1t builds its nest in a
hollow tree, often occupying the lDle
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-14

from his antagonists beak. A broken
wing for a kingflsher means death.
His means of livelihood are gone with
his means of flight.
Stricken as was the kingfisher. his
anger survived the stroke of his ad-
versary. and in a picture taken of him
after the battle he still showed in
raised crest and bristling feathers the
passion in his heart.
II is feared that the royal race OF
kingfshers is doomed TO extinction.
Man in the utter selfishness Of his
nature begrudges the bird the few fish
which it catches for the appeasing OF
it, appetite, and man frequently
shoots il on sight. II the same rule
we're to be applied to every fish-lov-
ing man, woman and child 1t would
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-14
take but a few Fridays to depopulate

take but few Fridays to depopulate
TIE Garth.
The kingfisher adds a charm to
every waters.de in the land. Its rat
Ting cry is one of natures own
sounds. 1t wakes the echoes in the
wilderness and its voice blends with
the noise of the stream tumbling over
its rocky bed. A well known writer
of books on fishing advocated the kill
ing of all the kingfishers because they
catch fish. The writer told of his
paying boy ten cents head for
every kingliGher which he shot. An
estimate was given of the number of
fish which the bird caught in day
a small number at that-and then with
a delightfully."- unconscious inconsist-
ency the writer-sportsman told of
the huge size of the strings of fish
which were the result of his own days
work with rod and reel.
1t may he set down fairly that the
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-14

quaintance. No house-bred canary is
moro fearless of mans presence. The
bird will leave its seed hunting in the
lawn grass and come at your call The
chinpy is a CLEANER of the groulGl,
where its dun-colored coat makes 1t
inccnspicuous. Weed seeds are its
diet. but it loves bread for dessert
There is a charm about the birds
domestic relation. II divides its food
with its mate If it happens to run
across some particularly delectabie
tid-bit which it thinks may not have
come in the way of its seasons
partner.
The chipping sparrow lines fits nest
with horse hair. the hair from tail
or name. This habit gives the spar
row in some sections Of the country
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-14

men most anxious for the death of
the fish-loving birds are the men who
drag seines and dynamite streams
when the fish warden's back is
turned.
There is a little chestnut-crowned
resident of both city and country who
will become just as familiar as his
neighbor. man, will permit. The chip
ping sparrow (Spizella socialis) is a
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-14

doorstep friend, and. if you will but
train a vine over the piazza he will
there take up his home and eat of
the crumbs that fall from your table
Pick up the crumbs and offer them
in your hand and 'chippy," after your
intentions are known to be honorable,
will make a perch of your finger and
eat from your palm.
The chippy is a good summer ac-
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-14

believe tibet in a game Of hearts
a girl should be willin' to let a young
man hold her hand.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-22

Ice Cream Cake.-The whites of
eight eggs, two cups of sugar, two
cups of sifted four, one cup of corn
starch, one cup of butter, one cup of
milk, two teaspoonfuls of baking pow
der; flavor with lemon extract; bake
in layers.
Preparation to put between the
cakes: The whites Of four eggs, four
cups Of sugar. pour half pint of boil
ing water over the sugar, boil until it
will thread from the point of spoon,
pour tie boiling hot sugar over the
eggs, stirring until stiff cream; ha-
vor with vanilla, spread the icing be-
tween and over the cake.
A dainty chocolate walnut cake
may be made by adding to the icing
when it is ready to put on the cake
one cup and half Of black walnut
meats chopped, and chocolate to suit
the taste.-Mrs. John Bars in Home
and Farm.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-22
Letter to 6. n. Ea1d.

Lexington, =. u.
Dear Sir: A few years ago, New
York daily got-up a great agitation
for dollar gas, and got it. The State
passed the law, and the people liked
it, of course, till the bills csme-in.
The bills were bigger, not less; the
law didn't say what the gas should
be.
The price of q gallon of honest
paint is $1.75; but there's "paint"
all the way from IS cents to $1.75. A
popular price is 81 .25; there are scores
of "paints' at that price. Like dol
lar gas. !.
If $1.75 is the price of a gallon of
honest paint, you may be quite sure
there are scores of !tpaints'' at all
prices from that down, with paint
enough in them to pass for paint.
And what are you going to do about
it?
It takes from 81 to 81 a gallon to
pay the painter for doing his work.
Is it worth while. to pay 81 to q a
gallon for brushing on paint half
whitewash?
No; the expense of that extra and
useless labor makes counterfeit paint
cost more than true.
The remedy is Devoe. There are
eight honest paints; Devoe is the
strongest one Of the eight.
Yours truly,
F. w. DEVOE & co.
P.S. The Kaufman Drug Co., sells
Our paint.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-22
COLLEGE PLACE the Most Enchanted
= Situation in olumb Homes

perfect drainage, and sandy soil,
and is far enough removed from the
river to insure perfect health. This
is a most important factor in selecting
a location for home.
Third. 1t being beyond the city
limits, saving of about two per cent.
is made on taxes.
Fourth. The improvements far ex-
eel those in the older portion of the
CITY, and are now soon to be COM
pleted at no additional cost to the lot
owner. These improvements, being
of the most artistic and substantial
character, argue most convinclngly IN
favor of College Place becoming the
select residential suburb of Columbia.
Fifth. The splendid Columbia Col
lege is a permanent and substantial
structure, and destined to exert a
most wonderful influence in drawing
to that locality the best class of pur-
chasers. The culture and refining in
fuence of this institution will count
for very much in the advancement OF
College Place values.
Reasons may be multiplied lndefl-
nitely for locating at College Place,
and it should be noted that it costs
no more to erect a dwelling IN a
choice location than in an inferior
one, and the difference in the out
come is as wide as the poles.
A liberal discount is made to pur-
chasers who will build within one
year from date of purchase, but this
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-22

That languid, lfeless feeling that
comes with spring and early summer. =.
can be quickly changed to feeling OF
buoyancy and energy by the judici-
ous use of DR.. Shoop's Restorative.
The Restorative is a genuine tonic to
tired, rundown nerves, and but a few
doses is needed to satisfy the user that
DR.. Shops Restorative is actually
reaching that tired spot. The indoor
life of winter nearly always leads to
sluggish bowels, and to sluggish circu-
lation in general. The customary lack
Of exercise and outdoor air ties up the
liver, stagnates the kidneys, and oft'
times weakens the Hearts action. Use
DR.. Shoop's Restorative q few weeks
and all viii be changed. A few days
test will tell you are using the right
remedy. You will easily and surely
note the change from day to day. Sold
by Kaufman Drug Go.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-22
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, April 22, 1903.
Shoots Daughter: Kills Self.

Enraged at his 16-year-old daugh-
ter, Nellie, because of a harmless
school girl prank, DR.. D. O. swinnie,
who recently came to Asheville, N.
c., from New York, fired two shots
at her, fatally wounding her and then
turning the revolver on himself, he
placed the muzzle in his mouth and
pulled the trigger, dying almost in
stantly. Badly wounded as she was,
with two bullets embedded in her
skull, Miss Swinney ran from the
room upstairs to the principals room
before she fell.
The tragedy occurred in the recep-
tion room of the Normal and Collegi-
ate Institute, large boarding school
for girls in that city, on Wednesday,
where Miss Swinney had been pupil
for the past session. DR.. Swinney,
who, up to a few years ago, had been
q appointment physician in New York
city, has for some time past been in
poor health, and Of late it is alleged
his mind has been unbalanced.
The young woman's recovery is ex-
tremely doubtful.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-22

opportunity will not remain open in
definitely, it applying only to limit
ed number of buildings.
Contracts are now being let for
several new residences, and without
doubt at least 10 new residences will
be erected this season.
Every reader of The Dispatch knows
that real estate in Columbia and Sec
ton is rapidly enhancing in value,
and that there is no investment TO
secure as well located land in or
near a growing city. If Atlanta
lots six miles from the city are worth
$40 to $50 per foot front, is it not
reasonable to suppose that College
Place lots which are more favorably
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-22

Don't cough your head off when you
can get a guaranteed Remedy in Bees
Laxative Cough Syrup. It is especially
recommended for children as its pleas
ant to take. is gentle laxative thus ex.
pelling the phlegm from the system.
For coughs, colds, Group, whooping.
cough, hoarseness and all Bronchial
trouble. Guaranteed. Sold by Kauf-
mann Drug Co.
Awoman seldom dresses to suit her
husband-unless she pays the bills.
Pain anywhere, can be quickly stop
ped by one of DR.. Shoop's Pink Pain
Tablets. Pain always means conges-
tion-unnatural blood pressure. DR..
Shoop's Pink Pain Tablets simply coax
congested blood away from pain centers.
These Tablets-known by druggists as
DR.. Shoop's Headache Tablets-simply
equalize the blood circulation and then
pain always departs in 20 minutes. 20
Tablets % cents. Write DR.. Shoop,
Racine, Wis, for free package. Sold
by Kaufman Drug Co.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-22
Like Every Other Growing
City COLUMBIA Will Have
One Select Suburb,

And the question naturally arises as
to where it will be located. That
question settled, there will be the
usual rush to secure lots. Atlanta,
Birmingham, Norfolk and other cities
which have but little advantage over
Columbia in point of population, or
prospects of future growth, have al
ready advanced the value of choice
suburban property to prices ranging
from $40 to $125 per foot front, and
the time is not remote when Colum-
bias choice suburb will be held at
correspondingly high values. We
therefore most confidentially expect
College Place lots to appreciate very
rapidly in value, claiming as the fol-
lowing reasons will justify that it is
shortly to become the fashionable su-
burb Of this growing city. Lots now
selling at $3.50 per foot front should
bring $40 next year and 500 per foot
front within five years, and not less
than $50 per foot front within 10
years. These estimates are very con-
servative supported by the following
correct observations.
First. It's location north Of the city
is the direct path of the natural
growth of the city.
Second. It is situated on an eleYa-
ton 55 feet above the city, having
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-22
Nee7o Commits Suicide.

Lumber, April 1S.-An unusual oc-
currence happened here yesterday
evening about O'Clock. L. E. Eller-
bee, 9 respectable and trustworthy
colored man employed as wagon
driver by the Williams & McKeithan
Lumber company here, committed
suicide by cutting a severe cash in his
throat. The cause Of the tragedy is
unknown. Il.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-22
COLUMBIA COLLEGE,, COLLEGE PLACE.

located will within 10 years bring as
much per foot? That will make the
lots selling today on easy terms at
$3.50 to 1915 per lot worth $500 per
lot. The exercise of a little foresight
will place the reader on the highway
to prosperity.
SO lots have been sold and the de-
mand is growing more active as the
public becomes better acquainted
with the property.
The time to act is NOW. Phone
326 or write and make date with the
sales manager to look at the property.
m. w. MASON, Sales Manager,
4o4 Skyseraper Building,
Columbia s. c.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-22
He Got What He Needed.

: "Nine years ago it looked ,as if my
time had come" says Mr.. c.. Farthing,
of Mill Creek, Ind. Ter. 81 was SO run
down that life hung on very slender
thread. It was then my druggists rec
commended Electric Bitters.. I bought
bottle and I got what I needed
strength. had one foot in the grave,
but Electric Bitters put it back on the
turf again, and I've been well ever
SINCE" Sold under guarantee at Kauf-
mann Drug Co. and Derrick's Drug
Store. SOC.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-22
Pastor Commits Suicide.

Woodbury., N. j., April 17.-Rev.
w. Thompson, paster of the Woodbury.
Presbyterian church, q fashionable
congregation, was found dead in his
room at a hotez with bullet wound
in his head.
It is believed he committed suicide.
A week ago Thomson announced
his engagement to wealthy member
of his church.