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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-10-09
EXCURSION RATES VIA SOUTH
ERN RAILWAY.

Account Anderson County Fair the
Southern Railway announces very
low rates. tickets to be sold from Co.
lumbia, Spartanburg and intermed-
late points to Anderson. S. c., and
return at greatly reduced rates.
Tickets will be on sale October 10th
to IA inclusive, limited for return un-
til October 18th, 1903.
For rates and detailed informa-
ton see Southern Railway agents Or
address, J. C.. Lusk,
Division Passenger Agent,
J. L. Meek, Charleston, S. G.
Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt.,
Atlanta, Ga.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-10-09
FACE TO FACE WITH DESTINY.

A study of events in connection
with this great agitation reveals the
fact that in the many and varying
aspects of the fight against the liquor
traffic every note in the gamut of legi-
innate human endeavor for the right
seems to have been touched. We
have had the work for moderation,
total abstinence, local temperance Or
CARNATIONS, fraternal temperance So
cieties, local and State prohibition by
law.
Beyond a doubt we have reached a
crisis in prohibition and in prohlbl-
ton party work unmatched in history.
We have come to time when some
thing is going to happen. Indeed,
something is bound to happen.
We have been the victims Of the
conspiracy Of silence until we have
reached degree Of tension that it is
impossible Tor the old rum-soaKeo po-
litical parties to longer perpetuate, OF
for the prohibition workers Of the
country to longer endure.
What is done in this conflict must
be done quickly.
We must either take the opportun-
itv that now is ours at its flood and
march on to victory, or for another
fiftv years we must be bound in the
shadows and miseries Of liquor dom
ination and the ultimate obliteratior
Of our great Republic.
God help US to acquit ourselves like
men!
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-10-09

tive supervisors. Said bids shall be
sealed and delivered to said supervls-
ors not later than II O'Clock, a. NJ,
10Th Oct., 1908, and said Commission
ers reserve the right to reject any
and all bids. The time in which said
work shall be completed, and the time
of payment, shall be announced Oh
the day Of letting.
J. Monroe Wicker,
Supervisor Saluda County, S. Z.
B. T. Mack,
supervisor Saluda County, S. c.
Attest:
H. G.. Holloway,
Clerk County Board Commissioners,
Newberry County.
B. F. Sample, Sr.,
Clerk County Board Commissioners,
Saluda County.
Sept. 28th, 1908.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-10-09
Advertised Letters.

Letters remaining in the post office
at Newberry, S. c., for week ending
Oct. 3rd, 1908.
Young Bridges, David Bridges:
jamie Brooks. Mr.. J. D. Brown.
Mrs. jamie Chappell. (2), Cannon
Town, Chas. Coleman, H. Gomez:
Mrs. Julia DeeSe.
Miss Bertha Gary, Caroline Gary.
Mr.. ". H. Golden.
Mrs. Della Harris, Mr.. G. c. Heath
Tom Hix.
Mr.. Tonne Jackson, Miss Sallie
johnson, Mrs. Claud Jones, Sarah
Johnson. E. G., Mrs. John Lewis, Mrs
Easter Long, Mr.. J. J. Longshore.
Mr.. Josh Touman.
Miss Flora Mattison.
Cornelia Nance.
Mrs. Laura La Rodys, Br. Baiste
Reagin, Laurie Smith, Mr.. Elliott
Wallace. Mr.. J. I. Vanse.
Mr.. 4. F. Williams.
All persons calling for these let
ters will please say that they were
advertised.
C. J. Purcell, P. N.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-10-09
EXCURSION RATES VIA SOUTH.
ERN RAILWAY.

Account Piedmont Fair the South
ern Railway announces greatly re-
duced rates from Charlotte, N. c..
Chester, S. c., Augusta, Ga, and IN
termediate station to Greenville, s.
c., and return, tickets to be sold
October 10Th to 23rd inclusive, limit
ed for return until October 26th,
1908.
For rates, detailed information, etc,
see Southern Railway agents or ad-
dress, J. G. Lusk,
Division Passenger Agent.
Charleston, S. c.
J. L. Meek,
Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt.,
Atlanta, Ga.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-10-09
THE QUESTION AND THE HOUR

(Bv DR.. J. 3. Cranfill Of the Associat
ed Prohibition PreSs).
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10
REPARTEE OF THE JUVENILES.
Washington Children In Smart Elk.
change Of Compliments.

Evidently there was severance OF
friendly relations between two of a
group of small girls who minute be-
fore had been romping about the
sward in Dupont Circle, for just as
the writer approached the daughter
of southern legislator called out to
her small companion from the west:
THE girl with the red dress on is
cowgirl! The girl with the red
dress or is cowgirl" Again and
again the haunting challenge was
hurled at the red-frocked western
maid, who finally, with one supreme
effort at self-control, retorted: "Oh.
very well, then, the girl who is
a-hollerin' is a sheep! I'd sooner be
a cowgirl than a sheep, cause the
president is fond of cowboys and
cowgirls, but not even secretary
likes a sheep!"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10
Railroads In Spain.

The doors Of the third-class cars are
narrow, writes Thornton Oakley In,
Harper's Weekly. l remember at
one of the mountain towns how
fat man kept the train waiting
with his efforts to get out. He was
huge and round, with a red face full
of wrinkles and shining shaven head.
Maltese cross shone white upon his
brown expanse of cassock. He got
wedged tightly in the door and could
move neither in nor out. His face grew
apoplectic. Precipitation streamed
down his forehead. His hat rolled be-
meath the train. He dropped his bag
upon the platform, and as 1t fell 1t
burst open. Glass crashed; cigars
were scattered all about. AS the bell
sounded he began to shout. The guard
came running. The station oilers
crowded up. They tugged at him, pull.
ing at his hands, his robe, his fat
striped legs. Over his shoulder within
the car, you could see men pushing
rom behind. Suddenly he came
trough with rush. his cassock torn
md flying, his little eyes wide with
right.
l looked back as the train moved
n. He was lying back painting on a
e1ch, his feet spread wide, while a
Il 4nan was pouring something down
Is throat"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10

tuously. What a clever person he Isl"
And how uncleyer | ami" said the
clergyman, laughing Well, at any
rate. l thank you for giving me the
opportunity to present his message"
She smiled. nodded and turned swift
ly toward the school The chaplain
looked after her for a few moments.
then walked soberly away toward the
lake. He was young fellow. clean
shaver and dark, and with pair of
shoulders that gave me twinge of
envy. | could not guess how great
factor that vigorous figure was to be
in my own affairs. AS ! swung down
from the wall and walked toward
Glenarm House. my thoughts were not
with the athletic chaplain, but with
the girl, whose youth was, | reflected,
marked by her short skirt, the uncon-
Germ with which her hands were thrust
into the pockets of her coat, and the
irresponsible tilt of the m-o'-shanter.
There is something jaunty sugges-
ton of spirit and independence, in a
tam-o'shanter, particularly a red one.
If the red tam-o' -shanter expressed, so
to speak. the keynote of st. Agatha's,
the proximity of the school was not so
bad thing after all
In a high good-humor and with a
sharp appetite l went in to luncheon
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10

and. hugsing the wall close, ran
toward the lake. Instantly the pursuer
broke into view. 1t was Bates, evil
IDENTIFY much excited and with an ugly
cut across his forehead. He carried
heavy club, and, after listening for
moment for sounds of the enemy, he
hurried after the caretaker.
1t was not my row, though / must
say 1t wakened my curiosity.
Strengthened myself out, threw my
legs over the school side of the wall
and lighted cigar, feeling Cneered
by the opportunity the stone barricade
offered for observing the world.
AS / looked off toward the little
church 1 found two other actors ap-
pearing on the scene. A girl stood in
a little opening of the wood, talking
to man. Her hands were thrust into
the pockets of her covert coat; she
wore red tam-o'-shanter, that made
bright bit of color in the wood. They
were not more than a dozen yards
away, but wild growth of young
naples lay between us. Their profiles
were toward me, and the tones of the
girls voice reached me clearly as she
addressed her companion. He wore
clergyman's high waistcoat, and l as
sumed that he was the chaplain whom
Bates had mentioned. 1 am not by
nature an eavesdropper. but the girl
was clearly making plea of some
kind, and the chaplain's stafwart fig
ure awake in me an antagonism that
held me to the wall.
IF he comes here I shall go away,
so you may as well understand 1T and
tell him. l shan't see him under any
circumstances, and I'm not going to
Florida or California or anywhere else
on a private car, no matter who chap
erones it."
Certainly not, unless you want to
certainly not, said the chaplain.
You understand that I'm only giving
you his message. He thought it
best"
Not to write to me or to Sister
Theresa" broke in the girl contemp-
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10

take care of the freight business for
the present on the Cazadero division.
Passenger trains and individual cars
will continue on the line equipped with
automotors as heretofore, the locomo-
tives being intended for freight SER
vice entirely, having displaced the
steam engines previously used on the
run.
The new electric locomotives are
of 40 tons weight, and are of the
latest model. These engines are In
use on most of the eastern trolley
lines that have suburban freight ser.
vice and are found to be adapted for
the purpose better than anything yet
nstructed-Portland Oregonian.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10
All Were Prime Ministers.

An eminent surgeon was once sent
for by Cardinal Du Bots, prime minis
ter of France, to perform very seri-
GUS operation upon him. The cardinal
said to him: You must not expect to
treat me in the same rough manner
as you treat your poor miserable
wretches at your Hotel Dieu." my
lord" replied the surgeon, with great
dignity, every one of those miserable
wretches, as your eminence is pleased
to call them, is prime minister in
my eyes."-Success Magazine.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10

very tough, sir. A piece of wood dew
up and struck me-"
TOO bad!" l said with sympathy.
You'd better rest a bit this after
Roon."
Thank you, sir; but it's only d
small matter,-only, you might think
the cut trifie disfiguring."
He struck a match for my cigarette,
and left without looking at him
again. But as crossed the threshold
OF the library formulated this note:
Bates is a liar, for one thing, and a
person with active enemies for an
other; watch him"
All things considered the day was
passing well enough. l picked up a
book. threw myself on a comfortable
divan to smoke and reflect before con
tinuing my explorations. AS I lay
there, Bates brought me a telegram a
reply to my message to Pickering. 1t
read:
Yours announcing arrival received
and fled"
1t was certainly a queer business,
LAy OLLduQ " i lay III
couple of hours dreaming, and counted
the candles in the great crystal chan
delier until my eyes ached. Then
took my cap and was soon tramping
toward the lake.
There were several small boats and
a naphtha launch in the boat-house.
dropped canoe into the water and
padded off toward the summer colony,
whose gables and red roofs were plain
ly visible from the boat-house.
landed and roamed idly over leaf
strewn walks past nearly hundred
cottages, to whose windows and
verandas the winter blinds gave a
dreary and inhospitable air. There
was, at one point, casino, whose
broad veranda hung over the edge of
the lake, while beneath, on the water
side, was boat-house.
l walked back to the wharf, where l
had left my canoe, and was about to
step into it when l saw, rocking at a
similar landing place nearby, another
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10
WHERE CHILDREN ARE TAKEN.
Mrs. Gunbusta Found One of Few
Spots in New York.

Mrs. Cur busta left her pretty cot
tage in Bumhurst and took the earliest
train to the city, says the New York
Press. she was going there to find a
modern fiat for herself, her husband
and their four little children. They
had tired of the suburbs and decided
to move to the city.
Arriving in the metropolis, Mrs.
Gunbusta popped into the first real
estate office that confronted her, and
going up to a ruddy-faced, chubby
man seated at a polished desk, she
gaspea:
Excuse me, sir-I'm Mrs. Gunbusta
of Bumhurst-were tired of the sub
urbs-we want to come to the city
that's why I've called-Pm looking for
a place where they'll take children
do you know of any such placer"
"Oh, yes, there are few places left
in the city where they take children,
replied the man. wheeling about in his
chair; there is a fine place two
blocks down, right on the corner; take
look at it; you can't miss seeing it. "
I'll go TO see 1t Immediately" and
as Mrs. Gunbusta hurried out of the
place and walked in the direction indi-
Gated the ruddy-faced, chubby fellows
eyes twinkled merrily. Walking down
two blocks. what wigs Mrs. Gunbusta's
surprise to see on the corner an i'm.
mense granite building, on the front
'of which was large gilt sign.c read.
ing:
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10
He Knew How.

How" asked the young man who
had just bought the village paper and
desired to win prominence as an edi-
tor, can l get the public to become
interested in my journal? ! know the
principal thing is to make Spod pa
per, but If nobody takes it how will
anyone find out that 1t is good? Some
thing must be done to attract atten-
tion-to cause the people to under
stand that we are on earth "That'n
be easy" said the travelling printer,
who had stopped over to assist In put
ting the patient on its feet. Just print
an item saying that certain preacher
in this town will get into trouble If he
doesn't cease paying attentions to a
certain married member of his flock
and cease quick. I'll bet the paper
containing that item won't be of the
press 40 minutes before there's
copy of it in every house in this
town."-Chicago RecordHerald.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10
Didn't Mind Showing Her Ankle.

. Conductor John Gaudam was very
sensitive about his name, and always
insisted that friends addressing him
hastily should call him john" says
a correspondent. He was one of the
best fellows | ever worked with, but
he was. continually getting into hot
water.
"On one of our trips Gaudam was
passing through coach when he no.
ticed woman asleep in seat. Her
head was on the window-sill, and her
feet extended to the aisle. Her dress
was SO badly disarranged that her
ankle, and a good portion of an ex-
quisitely fashioned calf were plainly
visible, A number of men a few
seats farther down were contemplate
ing the scene with keen enjoyment.
Now Gaudam was always very
strict, and kept things straight on his
train, and he noticed this. He touched
the woman on the shoulder and woke
her up.
Madam he said, politely; excuse
me for disturbing you, but your dress
is SO disarranged that your ankle is
exposed
oh, that makes no difference re.
piled the woman, smiling sweetly It's
nothing but cork
In three seconds Gaudam was in
the baggage ear, where he promptly
lost his religion"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10
Eat Men and Jobs.

Employment agents say it's about as
hard to get work for fat man as for
gray-haired one. According to their
statements, employers of labor hold
that fat man is indolent. They as
sert that the hustler. the fast, nervous,
energetic worker, is sinewy rather
than fat, and does 20 per cent more
work than the sottAf Nv. a
not uncommon form yisss III / rs
plicants to diet" SEE anoyfnent
agent, "and reduce II be6ors
beginning to canvass er OBJ. So
far as recorded, DR.. osier has ex-
pressed no opinion on the expediency
of chloroforming men who are running
to adipose tissue.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10
GETTING A RAILROAD JOB.
Unfortunately, Novice Made Bad Bun
gle of His Application.

His name doesn't matter, but he re.
sides near Forest Park He was 20
when this happened (Which is only a
few short weeks ago), and just out OF
school. He wanted a job-something
good of course, for he had conquered
in his struggle with the class valedic.
tory, and everybody, including his rel
atives, had said that he was destined
to become great man. He thought
he'd like the railroad business, and he
told his desire to a friend.
THE main thing" advised the
friend, lis to convey the impression
that you know something about the
business when you ask for a Job. And
the more they think you know the bet
ter the job you'll get. When you
tackle the big noise who sits at the
mahogany desk try and talk like rail-
road man"
The future great man spent two or
three days practicing what he thought
was railroad lingo" and then went
down to the Office of one of the big
railroads.
Entering the employment depart
ment, he repeated to himself the little
speech he had. prepared, and he
handed his card to the secretary with
the assurance of time-tried business
man. But when he was escorted into
the presence of the superintendent he
lost his nerve and his memory de-
serted him. However, he chung to his
hat brayely, and blurted out: rs there
any danger of getting a job around
here?"
There wasn't.-St. Louis Globe Dem
ocrat.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10
Ennineer,s hernlsn

The locomotive engineer in Arizona
who ran a burning powder train hall
a mile to save town and was blown
to bits in the expected and inevitable
explosion. was hero of the most pro
nounced type. But striking feature
of his heroism was that he did not
think of it in that light, but sacrificed
his life as matter of course and plain
detail of duty, knowing there was no
reward for him this side of the grave.
That is the sort of heroism which tells
In the lettering of the human race
and in the raising of its standards.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10
CHAPTER vi.
The Girl and the Canoe.

Bates did not refer to his encounter
with the caretaker, and l resolved to
keep my knowledge of it to myself. l
always prefer to let rascal hang him
self, and here was a case. l reasoned,
where, If Bates was disloyal to the
duties Pickering had imposed upon
him, the fact of his perfidy was bound
to disclose itself eventually. CHANGING
around at him when he was off guard
| surprised look of utter detection
upon his face as he stood with folded
arms behind my chair.
He flushed and started, then put his
hand to his forehead, where a strip of
plaster covered his wound.
4 met with a slight accident this
morning, Mr.. Glenarm. The hickory's
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10
THE MONTPELl.. LED e.
WORK OF stSPEStiES' s.
DETECTIVES ARE IMPORTANT
PART OF RAILROAD SYSTEM.
Organized for the Protection of Ship
pers and the Travelling Public
Have Put a Stop to Dis
honest Practices.

81 don't know what the railroads
would do without the speshes nova
days." said a railroad official using
that cryptic contraction "speshes" as
if everybody ought to understand what
1t meant
He was referring to the members of
the Association of Railway Special
Agents. Compactly, they're the rail-
road detectives, the railroad secret
police; and railroad special agent"
has been contracted by railroad folk
to "spesh'
There were railroad detectives of
sort; men with no particular train
ing and summoned for special pur-
poses. before we organized, said one
of the speshes. But speaking general
ly, before we got together and began
to branch out in our work the rail
roads, the shippers and the travelling
public were virtually at the mercy of
all sorts of thieves and swindlers
For one thing, the railroads had no
reliable method of discovering and
stopping populations or outright rob-
berries on the part of their own en-
ployes. The tracing system, so-called,
in the course of which the railroads
sent supposedly honest employees on
the trail Of suspected employees, never
worked out in practice. The men
chosen to do the tracing work general
ly showed themselves to be incompe-
tent or they were easily led into be-
lieving anything they were told by
the employees under suspicion, or for
rakeoff of the swag they swung
along with the crooks, so that the rail
roads were all but helpless in running
down plunderers.
But 1t took the railroads, all the
same, good many years to acknowl-
edge their helplessness in this respect.
A group of powerful railroad men
finally came to the front with the sug-
gestion that the railroads would have
to be secret policed The railroad
secret service was regularly organized
not long after that. The fine work ac-
complished by the secret service of the
American Bankers association and
the American jewelers. association
was an argument in favor of the or.
ganization of railroad service.
AT first it was intended that the
work of the railroad corps should be
confined exclusively to the protection
of the railroads from dishonesty on
the part of their own employees and tc
RUNNING down robbers of freight in
transit. Fact is, the service did op
crate exclusively along those lines foI
while, and with whooping success. II
is now pretty generally understood by
railroad employees tempted to engage
in dishonest practices that they have
about the same eventual chance of be-
ing grabbed with the goods as counter
letters have of being corralled with
the merchandise by the United States
secret service, and | needn't enlarge
upon the dimensions of that chance.
Our work for the railroads, in a
way, Is comparable with that OF the
postoffice inspectors. When it is un
derstood how inevitably the postoffice
inspectors get the postoffice employees
who yield to temptation, this compari
son will be the better understood"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10
Mlssouri's First Railroad.

The first railroad in Missouri was
track five miles in length, laid from
Richmond to point on the Missouri
liver opposite Lexington. some time
between 1S49 and 1851. 1t was made
Of timber, the rails being of sawed
oak and the ties of hewed oak. and
was operated by horse power.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10
Exist on Summer EARNINGS.

There is population in the Bow.
cry Of New York city that numbers in
the high hundreds that lives in Bow
cry luxury without work all winter on
the savings of summer earnings as
"barkers" and other attaches of vari-
GUS places of amusement in the popu.
lar resorts.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10

slight craft of the same type as my
own. but painted dark maroon. l was
sure the canoe had not been there
when | landed. Possibly it belonged
to Morgan, the caretaker! l walked
over and examined it. / even lifted it
slightly to test its weight. The pad.
die lay on the dock beside me and it,
too, | weighed critically, deciding that
it was trifie light for my own taste.
"Please-if you don't mind"
ITO BE CONTINUEDl
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10
MANY Bricks In chlmnev.

When the chimney on the old iris
tram Goldthwaite house In Fort Hill,
Me-, was torn down recently 10000
bricks were taken out, or enough to
build four ordinary chimneys. This
one was built 1875 years ago.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-10
Water Streets from Trameata.

In Milan, Italy. they water the
streets from the electric tramcars. On
these watering cars reservoirs have
been adapted to the platforms, and
these reservoirs are emptied as the
car runs by means of perforated tubes
placed fan-shape at the front and back
of the car.