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The Washington herald., 1909-07-11

left Washington yesterday for Atlantic
City. for the benefit OF Mrs. Cullom's
health, as she has been quite III for
some weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Strauss and Miss
Edna Strauss left Thursday for Far
Rockaway, L l., for a visit 70 Mrs.
Henry Barnard.
a party OF well-known Washingtonians
sailed yesterday for Europe from Now
York. including DR.. and Mrs. J. C. Boyd.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ellis, and DR.. and
Mrs. Reid Hunt. the latter formerly Miss
Mary Lille Taylor. daughter OF the sor-
mer United States Minister 20 Spain and
Mrs. Hannis TAYLOR. Mrs. Hunt was a
pronounced belle at Capon Springs, where
her parents spend a portion Of each sum-
mer, and where she and her sister, Han
nah Willard Taylor, are leaders in So
cial affairs They win he greatly missed
there this season, as the Taylors have
gone North for the season.
Mrs. Jerome Franc and children. the
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Stern, OF the
Clifbourne. have returned TO their home
in New York.
Mr.. A. D. Prince and Mr.. Julius Lans-
burgh sailed from New York yesterday TO
spend the summer abroad.
Mrs. J. Eakin Gadsby viii leave this
week for a months absence. visiting
York Beach and other summer places on
the Maine coast. She will meet there
some OF the officers OF the Woman's 5
Rivers and Harbors Congress, OF which
she is a vice president Mrs. Gadsby has
been i'll for a week. but is recovering.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Wollberg are
spending the summer at Smalps cottage.
near Forest Glen, Nd.
Mrs. Sidney Reizenstein is visiting her
sister. Mrs Isadore saks. at her cottage
az Deal Beach, n. J.
Mrs. Hagner. Wife OF Pay1naster / T.
Hagner. L. S. n. who was called to Nor
folk by the serious illness OF her hus-
band with typhoid fever. Is the guest OF
Mrs. Biscoe at the navy yard in Norfolk.
Little Miss Caroline Hagner remained IN
Washington with her grandmother. Mrs.
Rae.
Rev. DR.. Stern. Mrs. Stern. and Miss
Irma Stern left Thursday for a visit 70
Braddock Heights. Md.
Col. and Mrs. Randolph Dickins. OF this
city. who are now at the Mare Island
Navy Yard. Cal. where the former is
stationed. entertained at dinner there last
week Among the guests were Paymaster
and Mrs. Edmund ". BonnaffOn and the
latter'S mother. Mrs. William II. Clagett.
OF this city, who IS their guest. Mrs.
Bonnafton was formerly Miss Gertrude
Clagett- Mrs Diciius was formerly Miss
Minnie Stinson. OF this city. Her mar
riage 20 Col Dickins took place in her
mothers home here more than year ago.
and they have been at Mare Island ever
since.
Mrs. H. F. Woodard and Miss Ger
trude Woodard returned Wednesday from
a visit TO Atlantic City.
Gen. and Mrs. J. Franklin Bel, the for
mer the Chief OF STAFF. L. s A. who are
on their way 10 the Pacific Coast, were
al Fort Smelling. MINI. on July T. They
NtNh hTtnhldSt III - ctAA WIN MI q
BeaufOrd, proceeding westward that even
ing.
Judge Adolph G. Wolf. OF Porto Rico.
is spending his annual vacation with his
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Simon Wolf
Capt. and Mrs. Henry Jewett. who have
been visiting Mrs. Jewetts mother. Mrs
Frank Hume. at her country place, War
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Mr.. and Mrs NJ Il. Keys have returned
from their bridal trip. which included New
York. Newport, and Asbury Park. They
VIII be az home at 603 Thirteenth street
Mrs Keys was formerly Miss Martha l.
Scheualt
The Washington herald., 1909-06-27

~Yessum, thank YOU" John Edward was recov-
ering little. There aint anything else you'd
like to change about me, is there?"
There Is probably lot that ought TO be
changed but I'm not running kindergarten, and
you'd better be running along, little man, or
Jonesy there will be bawling you out good
and plenty" And she relapsed into an arctic at
tention TO business.
For two weeks John Edward watched in vain
for sign from the little cashiers desk. but, ap-
parently, far she concerned, Billy nee
John Edward, had fallen into the waste basket
of her memory, and he grew sulky. The more ne
sulked. the harder he worked and when he worked
he couldn't observe the satisfaction with which
the little cashier watched things from her cage
two counters away.
He smoking at the side entrance one drizzly
evening after hours when she bustling out
and stopped TO fuss with her umbrella. John Ed
ward took It from her, raised 1t and handed IT
back.
gathered up her skirts, IF some nice girl only
had the time. she could make right nice fellow
out of YOU"
'YOu wouldn't want the job, would you?" John
Edward jeered after her. She stopped TO take
him i'm with one business-like nventorying glance.
around the corner.
In the days that followed. John Edward found
himself rehearsing the little scene over and over
again during slack times behind the counter. He
even went far to imagine her in the various
phases of matrimony ne had observed them
and he was surprised to find how we'll she fitted
into each of them. At first the idea amused him,
then It interested him and he formed habit OF
smoking and waiting around the side entrance
after the gong had sounded at night
In the meantime he had been making good.
The neat, orderly habits of the service began to
tell in his favor. The loorman got into the habit
of stopping to chat with him occasionally when
times were duh on the floor Sometimes he found
The Washington herald., 1909-06-27

small addition in his envelope Saturday
nights, both OF which signs may be regarded as
akin to getting something to wear on the sleeve.
But he was not content He wanted something
and 1t made him uneasy when he realized that
the something he wanted was cooly counting out
change and totting up balances in her little cage
with every indication of perfect content AS
safety valve. he pitched in and worked until he
came TO be regarded sort of human won
der who worked whether the boss was looking or
not
Six months later it happened. John Edward
found himself with foot on the ladder and his
first move was to go around and talk earnestly
with the little cashier This time she was neither
frgid nor Indifferent She merely handed In her
resignation and went with John Edward to lit
tie place around the corner after which they
went together to a little fouT-room fiat uptown.
Success went TO John Edwards head. After a
The Washington herald., 1909-06-27

the envy of all Viennese women who desired
extreme sepderness. One night before her mar
rage to rich patron of the cafe this young
woman to win bet TO prove her tenuty removed
her collar, measuring trine 1914 inches
around casped il about her waist and then tied
her neck ribbon around it to the astonishment OF
the assembled company.
Tight acing has not recently been very much
the vogue but periodically it is the height of fash
ion to have wasp waist. Most of the possessors
Of extremely small waists began lacing when they
were extremely young-lterally stunting them
selves as far waist dimensions were concerned.
The vogue of tight lacing is always brief. and at
considerable intervals of time because of the gem
eral crusade against it and because too, women
suffer altogether too much inconvenience and dis
comfort in attaining small waists in a hurry.
While 1t would seem to the uninitated that
tight lacers physically unwel tight lacers de-
fend themselves and declare that they are not
anaemic and suffering The medical profession Is
positive, however. that tight lacing is a curse to
womanhood and most OF the world accepts this
position as reasonable.
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~ ECENTLY a prominent
H illustrated Lond on
n ~ newspaper made a


claim for young English woman that no one in
the United States has yet arisen to dispute-name-
ly the worlds champion small waist
II is almost beyond belief that any woman OF
mature years could live and have her being with
a waist measuring only twelve inches in circum'
ference, yet bit of tape a brief twelve inches In
length is ample to go around the wasp waist OF
the English put forward as the woman
with the smallest waist in the world. This woman
is tall and of Junoesque proportions but she wears
an unstretchable metal waist belt just an even
twelve inches in circumference. Incidentally, the
pride of her husband in her slenderness is reflect
ed in the fact that he exercised his ingenuity In
the invention of unstretchable metal belt for
his wifes
other slender women produced by this
London newspaper, originally to combat the claim
of a Partisan woman to the smallest waist in the
world One of them wear 13-inch corsets, still
another 3%inch corsets. The former is young
woman who ordinarily 15-inch corsets and
shoes with 4H-inch heels and says she is none
the worse for it. The latter is married woman
who has been tight lacer from girlhood.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-06-17

How long, oh, how long, will our
farmers burn up every spring the
little fertility that Mother Nature
has laboriously spent the previous
twelve months trying to develop?
Turn out an old field, sick, famish-
ing, naked, and Mother Nature
clothes it with a coat of grass to
heal its scars, to stop the wounding
of it with gullies, and to feed it
rotting vegetable matter (humus) as
the only way on earth to bring ii
back to life and strength. And yei
nine farmers out of ten will 60 ahead
and in, we-fourhours' time burr
off all the potential humus that Ma
ture has spent year growing fo'
the salvation of the land.
"For the lands sake" indeed W.
must stop burning off our old fields
1t NAV make the grass seem greenel
this season, but in the end it mean
that the land will become too bar
rem to grow any grass at all
Progressive Farmer.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-06-17
Remarkable Bat Cave.

In mountain near Montalban,
Luzon, there is a large cavern, with
many branching chambers and a
central dome,200 feet in height, per-
forating the mountain top, from
which, in December, 1907, Hugh NJ
Smith saw issue solid column of
bats, which flew rapidly in straight
line for fifteen minutes, disappearing
over mountain range in the direc-
ton of Manila without single bat
having left the column. American
engineers stationed there told Mr.
Smith that the flight of bats had
occurred at practically the same time
each day during two years. From
other sources it was learned that the
phenomenon had been.nbserved for at
least 80 years.-YOa -'unnniOn.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-06-17
20 W
WithHeart1nouble

CDR. Miles Heart Remedy has
cured me of heart disease Of
over 20 years standing. | was
so bad that I could not do my
work, and could scarcely draw
a full breath without fainting or
smothering. The doctor told me
he could do no more for me;
then I commenced taking the
Heart Remedy. shall never
forget that night. I slept better
than had before in months. l
kept right on getting better, ur,-
til was perfectly WE'LL
MRS. LAURA RUSSELL,
Logan, Iowa.
When the heart action is
weak, it fails to pump the blood
through the lungs with sufficient
rapidity. Then the lungs do not
absorb the proper amount OF
oxygen, although they may be
taking in a normal amount OF
air. The result is shortness OF
breath, smothering spells, diff
cult breathing, oppressed feeling
in chest. DR.. Miles Heart Rem
edy strengthens the heart nerves
and muscles, and in this way.
increases the circulation.
Get a bottle from your drug
cist. Take it according to direc-
tons, and if it does not benefit
he will return your money.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-06-17
the meantime he proposes to force a ]
thirty thousand dollar bond indebt-

the meantime he proposes to force q
thirty thousand dollar bond indebt-
edness upon the county, by the vote
of st Matthews. He had better act
upon the suggestion of Judge Watts
Slough up the twenty thousand
in CASH lest when he. like Reho.
boam of old, sends out this tax gath
ering scheme three or four years
hence, the people stone it with their
ballots till it die, and j Skottowe
Wannamaker, Board of Commission
ers," like Rehoboam of old, be com.
PEELED to "get him up to his chariot
or automobile, and flee to st Mat
tbews, where he may close his last
years in peace-a sadder but wiser
man for having learned the lesson
that the people, and not 81 Skot-
towe Wannamaker," are in the sad.
die in Calhoun county.
l mistake the spirit of our rural
voters if they quietly cit and accept
the dictum of of a banker, while
writing from his comfortable and
elaborately furnished Office, coolly
advising them to vote a thirty thou
sand dollar bonded indebtedness,and
all this while the average voter is
pulling the bell cord over a mule,
with the thermometer ranging in the
nineties, and worrying his sun baked
brain as to how he will meet his ma
turing bank notes in the fall and his
ever increasing taxes N December.
AK SMoAK.
June {, 1909.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-06-17
A Curious Tomb.

One of the most curious tombs in
the United Kingdom is in County
Wexford. In it is laid the body of
one of that curious body-the Res
urrectionists. One portion of the
tomb is a furnished chamber, with a
table and few chairs. On the table
will be found at any time dainty
meal of considerable dimensions,
with a fowl, a ham, leg of mutton
and the necessary drinkables. The
departed Resurrectionist provides by
his will that this meal shall be laid
each fortnight, and "if the meal is
untouched in the meantime, it shall
be given to the poor and fresh meal
lald.' So far the meal has been un-
touched, though eerie rumors spread
round the district from time to time
that in spirit form the go2
has appeared and has e!
meal. Curious stores are toIu
people so whom the ham ,
of mutton has been gi
awakened in the night }
rappings on their doors an
and even by demands ins
for a portion of the food whit
been distributed. As consequent
and probably for another sad reasc
it has come 10 be the practice toe
sumo the food immediately it 10
brought home. 1t is the only way to
counteract the envy of the spirit,
with whom apparently hunger IS
constantly preseut.-Dundee Aaeer-
tiser.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-06-17
Trouble Makers

When a sufferer from stomach
ttouble takes DR. Kings New Life
Pills he's mighty glad to see his
Dyspepsia and Indigestion fly, but
more-he's tickled over his ew, fine
appetite, atrong nerves. healthy yig-
or, all because stomach, liver and
kidneys now work right. 25c at D G
SCOTS.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-06-17

Many of our citizens are drifting
towards Bright's disease by neglect
ing symptoms of kidney and bladder
trouble which Foley's Kidney Rem.
edy will quickly cure. D G Scott.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-06-17
The Tired Feeling

is cured by Lipp mans Great Rene.
dy. 1t also cures Neuralgia and w.
lent Headache. 1t feeds the nerves,
makes the blood rich and the patient
strong. If you would be we'll and
happy use P. P. P, Lippman's
Great Remedy,
Sold by W L Wallace.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-06-17
THE ROW GOES ON
IN CALHOUN COUNTY
over PUBLIC BUILDINGS THAT ARE NOT
CHARGES OF BAD FAITH TOWARD
COUNTRY PEOPLE.

The following extract from one
side of a hot newspaper contro-
versy now going on in Calhoun
county through the local newspa.
per, the Calhoun Advance, is q
good lesson to our people not to
put too much faith in ante-election
promises as to the people of the
proposed county seat putting up
the public buildings "without its
costing the country people a cent. "
Talk is cheap, but it doesn t
build court houses and jails.
While We lack space to reproduce
the entire article from the Ad-
vance, there is enough in the fol-
lowing to put people to thinking
very seriously. Remember, it was
represented to the people of CAL
houu before election that the mon.
ey was pledged and available to
erect the public buildings and
that no one outside Of the town
would be asked to contribute a
q cent. Now they claim that
some of the notes are worth
less and the county must be
bonded to supplement the towns
$4,000.
Editor Calhoun Advance
The people Of Calhoun county
were given the most solemn pledges
that the town would furnish $780,
900, which amount they were told
would be amply sufficient to erect
= suitable, well-equipped and up.to,
date court house and Jail in every
particular, and that all they would
be called upon to contribute was to
vote for the county and enjoy its
blessings. They were Furthermore
told that Orangeburg was pressing a
project to build al expensive court
house and that If We did aot get out
with 3 rusn, the burden of taxation
as a result would be un5earable to
our taxpayers. The people, believing
they we're receiving the truth, voted
for and wen the county, aud now
thev lcok with amazement or Nj
WaursmaSec's spectacular advocacy
of their v0ting for q cool $50, 900
additional mortgage upon themselves
and upon their childyen-more than
the amount that this section would
probably have been called upon to
contribute to 8 new court house IL
Old Orangebutg, had We remained il
that county. The sooner the people
are told tie worst ant allowed to
realize it, the tetter for all concern
ed. In 19O7,in lieu ofgiylng certified
checks for the $4,000 to build the
court house aud jail, the following
note form WIS arranged:
$4,000
On demand, | promise tc
pay to I A Amaker, Treasurer Cal
houn Count Organization, One Hun
dred - Dollars, value receiv
ed, payable at St Matthews, S c, fol
the purpose of building court
house and all fo- the county Of Cal
houu, provided the town Of St Mat
thews fails to build Il court house
and jail Should the town Of s
Matthews build court house auG
Jail, this obligation Is to become nul
and void.
(Signed)--
From most available information
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From most available information l
learn that about two thousand dol
lars IN these notes are worthless, and
about three thousand more were not
signed by supposed giVers, but en-
dorsed BY other reliable parties, and
the remaining $4,000 is only vslu-
able to tLv extent of moral obliga-
tior, and I have been informed by
good lawyers that legally not dol
lar coult be collected. The moral
responsibility involved in this amount
is at present good, but Mr. Wanna
maker says it will be three or four
years before anything can be done.
Human affairs, particularly the t.
nancial. are so changeable that it is
probable that 3 number of men now
able, if not exactly willing, to pay
these notes could not do so at the ex-
piratiou of four years. This must be
apparent to all, and Judge Watts,
while not interfering in local issues,
is right in Observing that the best
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-01-27
TELLS OF CORPUS CHRISTI
Des Moines Register & Leader Writer Gives
Fine Description Of South Texas in
Sunday Issue.

Corpus Christi is one of the old
towns of Texas. 1t was a town be-
fore the Mexican war and stands on
the disputed ground. The boundary
line that led to the war with Mexico
lies between the Nueces river and the
Rio Grande. Mexico insisted. after
Texas became independent under the
leadership of Sam Houston and Davy
Crockett, that the Nueces should be
the boundary and the United States
insisted on the Rio Grande. A mis-
understanding like that is apt to make
trouble. and it did in this case.
Gen. Zachary Taylor was in command
of United States troops and was
ordered to Brownsville, where Gener-
al Wool had some trouble. to take
charge. General Taylor was lying
near Corpus Christi. He marched to
Brownsville, and the old road is still
visible across a portion of the Dris-
coll ranch.
But the plainest relics of the
occupancy by General Taylor's troops
is the old line of earth works near
Corpus Christi bay. They are series
of ridges or parapets about four
feet high. consisting of perhaps a
dozen lines. The purpose was that
they might retreat back to the main
body of his troops if the Mexicans
drove them in. That is the presump-
tion. at least. because for no other
purpose could they have wanted SO
many lines of defense. And these
marks of the fight with Mexico will
no doubt be here while the world
stands. unless somebody buys up the
ground and makes a garden out of it..
1t lies near what is now an Epworth
assembly ground. No battle was
fought here. but tradition says there
was a small nava! engagement in
Corpus Christi bay during the war of
the states at place called "Flower
HILL" or. rather. near there. l
cannot cite any history for it, but
there were a great many minor
engagements that never got into the
books at all.
Corpus Christi claims the same
rainfall AS Sioux City. Iowa, which
means that as fast as the ranches
surrounding the city are divided,
r,o,Jox,;,c. md fr,,t uroxp;prr will he
developed. Everybody points out to
the visitor the King residence, one
of the finest in the town. 1t is q
very fine home and is occupied by the
widow of j. M. King. long noted as
the cattle king of that section.
The town is 70 years old and looks
it, although recently northern enter
prise has begun to show. Even some
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-01-27

lately begun, went solidly for its
namesake. Taft.
Corpus Christi will be a COM
mercial center for all this section
before long, as tne government is do
ing big work there that will make it
a noted harbor for ocean going vessels.
Corpus Christi bay is an arm of the
Gulf of Mexico, but TO get to the
gulf boats have to pass through water
so shallow that for miles it is not over
five feet deep. and the screw propel-
lor stirs up the muddy bottom so
that it shows a streak of mud in
the wake of the boat. In a good
many places markers are set in the
water to guide the pilot so that he
may avoid shoals, ana not get stuck.
1t is "a miles to the high sea. bnt in
a straight line it is only ahn,l, ! 5
miles. The government is az WORK
deepening the channel and dredging
a channel on line that will shorten
the distance. At the entrance to the
bay from the gulf jetty has to be
built and it may be of interest to
know how this is done. OF course
the water is quite shallow here, or it
would need no work at all. So a
railroad is built ON piling out. maybe
mile or two. Trainload after
trainload of rock are hauled and
dumped on each side of these elevated
tracks. This is kept up till the top
of the piles of rock appear above the
level of the water. This forms an
eddy between the two rows of stone
work, and the swish of the water be-
gins to wash it deeper and deeper. and
with the dredging it is made navig-
able for big boats. When the chan
mel is deep enough the piling compos-
ing the elevated railroad is removed
and the job is done. except that the
channel always has to be kept in
order.