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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-11-23
A Proclamation
----- ----BY--- ------,.
CLAUS.

Being anxious to distribute my Christmas gifts to all the
good people of this town and county in the most effective
and satisfactory way have appointed Anderson 1Oc Co.
my agents for the Holiday Season of 1909 and heartily
command ever man. woman and child to go to their store
where one and all will find those presents, which they
most DESIRE There you will find my choicest Books, my
pretest dolls my dantiest Chna and all the Toys that
all the boys and girls are looking for, direct from my
Factory in Toyland.
have instructed Messrs. Anderson 10c Co. that their
prices for these beautiful gifts shall be reasonabe that
there must be presents to suit the taste and purse of ALL
and they have promised me it shall be So ....@
Nv gifts will be on display every day from now until
Christmas Eve. :..<. 4
Don't forget the place Anderson 10c Co.
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}Newberry, S. c., Oct. 3Oth' 1909.
Mrs. Parti cular Hous elk eeper.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09
a list DECISION.

An important and an eminent1y Just
decision is that of the Kansas supreme
court to the effect that the state can col
lect for their care from the estates of
persons of unsound mind or any other
disability which has placed them in a
state charitable institution. This is
nothing but exact justice to the tax
payers of the state.
The care of mentally irresponsible
persons, who are without financial
means of any kind and whose families
are little better off in this regard. is a
sufficient burden for the taxpayers of
the state to bear. and it is no small
one either. They should not be COM
PEELED to pay for the care and keep
of persons so afflicted who have plenty
of money to pay for such attention.
| As a matter of fact, the unfortunate
persons who must needs be confined
lin institutions either because they are
Insane or suffering from some other
aff1iction which requires their segrega-
ton and who have funds at their dis
/ posal or whose immediate relatives are
iprosperous financially, should really be
glad to meet the expenses of their care
and keep. It cheaper for them thar
would be the case If they were taker
to private institutions and the care
Ithey receive is better in every partic-
lular.
| And there is no doubt that in this
regard the state has been imposed upoI
louite extensively. 1t is probably thu
exact truth to state the eleemosynar.
u and charitable institutions conducted
,Iby the state have many inmates VIII
have estates or relatives that are vel
, liable to pay the expenses of their con
I lfinement and treatment But like al
together too many people, they appar
,tently look upon state funds as rightfu
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09
AYHNWKER JOTy

SOMEBODY poisoned Emery Fosters
dog. The dog was no account Accord
ing 10 the way most folks figure but
emery insists and we doubt not that
ne was good dog anyway. The dog
had some qualities that read well in
an obituary notice, which can be writ
ten without lying. He was never
drunk in his life. and never chewed
nor smoked in the presence of ladies.
He recognized that other dogs had a.
right to live, no matter what their
color or religious creed, and he didn't
snarl and grow1 and bite at every other
dog on the towpsite that was engage
ed in the same line of business that
ne was. He was a friendly dog, and
liked to have folks around: and when
once he admitted you to his circle of
friends, his disposition never changed.
He was your friend tomorrow as sure
as that he became such today or
yesterday or last year. He appreciat-
ed friendly turn, accepted it as such
and was grateful, not receiving it as
simply his due. but holding it pre-
ciouS enough that when your turn
came to need a friend, he was Johnny
on the spot to help you. Still, he was
just a common dOg-and it is accord
to poison dog like that.-Norton
Telegram.
Says the Sparks correspondent OF
| the Troy Chief of a picnic that is in
prospect ana over which there is evil
IDENTIFY some trouble:
"One or two moderated cynics tried
to get hold of the grounds to try and
prevent the picnic, and get even with
the community where they were born
| and raised. but never spoke a good
word for anyone here in all their
lives. Say, now honestly, you fellows
| should be ashamed of yourselves we
are going to have better picnic than
ever, in spite of anything you may dc
| or say. Say, now listeni All the trou-
| Bile lies in your fertile Imagination Nc
| one here has ever done you any harm
| or give you any cause to act in thi:
| way. This is one of the best com
munities in all this broad domain we
| all love so well. This. our home
| yours and mine, when the sun shine!
| brighter and the birds sing sweeter
| the grass is greener, the clover bios
| SONS more abundant. the wild flower.
| brighter and prettiest. The water!
| that flow down the streams whisper
a song of love as they wind their wa1
beneath the shadows of the wooded
valleys where soft breezes whisper t.
| the heart, and say all is love. Yes
| this is the dearest spot on earth, YOU
| home and mine, where the soil is rich
| er and the harvest more abundant
| where the richest blessings of Coo
are showered upon US on every hand
| Then for heavens sake let us all b.
| good friends and have a picnic tina
| will be remembered and talked abou
| as long as this generation lives"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09
THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY.

That the advance of the automobile
industry in this country in the last de-
cade has never been equalled by any
other industry during a similar period
Of time is made apparent by a state
ment published recently by the general
manager of the American Motor Car
Manufacturers association. He selects
1898 a starting point for the reason
that, while cars were built many years
previous, all the improvements in this
great industry are the result of the last
eleven years work, the modern type Of
machine being hardly in evidence until
1898
In that year there were % concerns
making cars in the United States. Now
there are 253 concerns, 100 of which
turn out cars that are we'll known and
are factors in the market. The capital
invested in the industry in 1898 was not
more than 100000 while now, with
kindred trades, salesrooms, garages,
etc, the capital invested is close to
$500, ZOO, 600 Eleven years ago there
were not more than 1000 cars in the
country, while now the figures indicate
that there are about 10000 automobiles
in the United States, or twice the num-
per In use IN all EUROPE. AS an eX-
ample there are $4,000 automobiles reg
istered in New York state alone.
Eleven years ago the production of
| the factories could not be figured at
more than 100000, while the output
| of automobiles alone this year will be
not less than s1So.OOO,ooO in value, while
| the value of accessories and parts will
run into many millions more. Eleven
years ago there were less than 200
| agents of motor cars; now there are
$500 agents. to say nothing of the hun
dreds of subagents, all maintaining
sa1esrooms and garages. and employing
| help numbering many thousands.
So necessary mas the automobile be-
come in the United States that there
was little or no falling off in the trade
| during the recent depression, which
| was general throughout the CONNER
| cial world, while the business this year
| Is better than 1t has ever been, despite
| the fact that all other Industries are
| doing a considerably smaller trade
than at any time during the past six
| wears
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09
ADJUSTMENTS.


he looked around.
Would surprise-a glad one,
hurt MIN - she asked TREMENDOUSLY.
Inc wondering doctor shook his
mead IN the negative and waited for
ner to go on. Leaning forward a
tribe, she whispered something in his
ear.
With misty gladness shining in his
eyes, DR.. Horton grasped the situation
as best ne could and asked, you don't
expect to meet your wife on this train.
do you, Jack
"Oh. no, she is safe at home" was
the quick reply.
But suppose now" continued the
doctor, that she is here somewhere,
would you know her, old fellow. ii
you saw her in this carr"
Horton. what makes you talk that
way?" queried the other, sitting erect
and growing curious.
A movement behind them drew
Jacks attention and his question was
answered; so DIR. Horton simply
changed places with the owner of the
blue and white gown, leaving his
friend to solve the problem of Mrs.
Engle's presence at his own sweet
will.
When Aunt Nyl1irk opened the door
at midnight for her niece she grum-
bled in sleepy disgust. But little Mrs.
Engle threw her arms around her
neck.
''Hush!" she whispered. Imperative
ly, here comes Jack!''-(Copyrigh
1909 by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09
QUAKER MEDITATToNs.

[From the Philadelphia RecordJ
The world is full of sunshine,
whereat the awning manufacturer re-
joices.
The greatest tattle-tale in the
world is a woman's age when it be-
gins to tell on her.
1t is better to know what you
ought to forget than to forget what
you ought to know.
It isn't so much what a man does
as what he doesn't do that brings
him happiness.
The fellow who gives himself away
can't expect the world to value him
very highly.
"The good die young" quoted the
Wise Guy. eyes; especially the good
resolutions snickered the Simple
Mug.
HE makes a hit with me- re-
marked the bat, as the champion
slugger of the team faced the oppos-
ing pitcher.
The man who sympathizes with the
under dog doesn't always stop to con-
slider that the under dog may have
begun the fight.
Wigg-"He has job as the india
rubber man in dime museum"
Wagg-"I thought he walked with
an elastic tread"
The man who closes his eyes to
his own faults is like the ostrich that
buries its head in the sand and
imagines no one can see it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09

prey and they use any and all means
to mulct the state in this manner.
Until the state institutions We're
placed under the direction of the board
OF control no attempt was ever made
on the part OF the state to collect for
the care of patients. This board in
augurated new policy in this respect.
1t held that where patients or their
relatives were able the state should
receive money for the actual cost of the
services rendered. Under this ruling
considerable money that was rightfully
due the state has been collected, and
under the stimulus of the decision of
the supreme court in cases that were
contested, it is reasonable to suppose
that the state now gets the major por-
ton of the money that Is due it in this
particular.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09
FAME is FTiEET4NG.

An disqualification OF the fact that
when a man retires from the &C
tivfties of life he is almost certain to
be more or less forgotten, generally, is
found in the recent death of
Father" Baker. Here was a man,
who for many, many years. was one
of the most prominent newspaper
editors in Kansas as well as in this
section of the country He was a
mighty power in the politics of his
day. although he was never a can
didate for an elective office. But he
made and unmade men of prom
inence in the political arena. and was
always an important factor in all of
the political and public struggles of
his period.
And yet. when his death occurred
the other day it was scarcely noticed
to any extent except in the news
papers of the immediate locality
where he made his home. A glance
through the many newspapers pub
lished In Kansas during the past
week or ten days will substantiate
this statement. In most of them, es-
pecially the weekly papers of the
state, there was not even a line tell
announce the death. the matter was
treated as most casual news item,
without a line of comment or ex-
PLANTATION to tell who Father Baker
was or what was his life's work
This may strike some persons as
being a trifie unusual. But 1t is not.
Many man and woman too, who has
played a prominent role in the times
gone by, pass on to their rewards
| with only an incidental mention being
made of their deaths in the news
papers. This is almost an everyday
occurrence. OF course. 1t is ex-
plainable in a way by the fact that
| the newspaper men of today are not
| familiar with all of the prominent
| personages of yesterday, but never
| theless 1t all goes to show that fame
| is a fleeting thing at best, and that
those who are entitled to the most OF
it are more than likely to get the
l 1aa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
The trouble with nicknames is that
they don't always fit. An Atchison
girl was called Goldie because of her
golden hair, but since then she has
changed it. The hair, we mean.
When little brothers quarrel, it is
over one getting the larger share of
quarrel, find out which one borrowed
something from the other to wear,
without asking for it.
az often laugh at myself, and be-
lieve it does me good. Several years
ago, Victor Herbert appeared in Atch-
ison, as director of Gilmores band. 1
remember saying, with owlish wis
dom, that Mr.. Herbert would never
become q composer. The band played
an Easter hymn composed by Mr..
Herbert, and I said it was amateurish,
and that the mistake of all band lead
ers was that they played too many of
their own compositions, etc.
Well, Mr.. Herbert has since become
the most popular composer of music
| in America" Drake watson.
Occasionally you hear a man be-
wailing his fate because he must work
| for a living. Humanity is given to
mistakes but it makes few that
are greater or more blindly made
than this. Look about you at those
who do not work, either for living
| or the joy of work. There comes
within your vision most of the unhap-
piness of life. The pampered boy
| who is trained to idleness and luxury
| dies young, or grows old before his
time. 1t is one of Iifes paradoxes
| that the surest way to fail to find
pleasure is to pursue it. You are
| having more fun working for a living
| than fell to the lot of Harry Thaw
who went crazy about good time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09
Diamonds i'm Arkansas.

How the diamond fever has seized
the residents of Pike county and adj
joining regions in southwest Arkan-
sas was told by Prof. w. E. McCourt,
of Washington university, in his lee
ture at the Academy of Science on
Arkansas Diamonds
''Since the discoveries there said
Prof. McCourt, the people have gone
diamond mad. Every man who picks
up a pebble in the road wants to have
it examined, to see whether it may
not be a precious gem. There has
been a rush of people to the fields,
and the population of Murfreesboro
has doubled within a year.
People outside of Arkansas are
prone not to take that state very Sc
does not seem to add to the public
willingness to believe in the diamond
deposits.
But biologists are we'll aware of
the mineral richness and geological
variety of Arkansas, and they are
aware also that the soil of Pike coun-
ty contains blue clay like that of the
De Beers diamond field in South Afri-
ca"
Prof. McCourt described his recent
visit to the field, which, he said, had
thus far been worked only in a crude
way. The deepest shaft which has
been sunk is 80 feet deep. There is
reason, Prof. McCourt said, to be-
lieve that diamonds will be found at a
much greater depth
He said 500 diamonds had thus far
been found in Pike county, the larg-
est 61s carats, and the average size
half a carat.-St. Louis dispatch to
New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

from the Chicago News.]
Femals bandits ought to be able to
hold up trains.
The owner of an illicit still is
anxious to keep 1T quiet.
Dying is the only satisfactory thing
some people ever do.
The hair bleacher is glad to take
silver in exchange for gold.
An actress likes to think she Is the
darling of the gallery gods.
1t sometimes happens that bald
headed actor has a good part.
When the wife's away the badly
trained husband will play-f he can
And a few congenial spirits willing to
take a hand
Prosperity has ruined more men
+ban adyersity. yet there probably
isn't a man on earth who wouldn't be
willing to chance 1T.
The best season of the year for a
girl to marry is in the fall It's an
ea.sy matter to teach a man to build
fires when the honeymoon is On
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
to any address at the rate OF ten
cents a week or thirty cents month
Thy mail only.) Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the State journal Will be to You like
q daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
Bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09
A JAw-BREakING DIsCoURsE

o list, ,loquacious ladies', list
The tale of a revivalist.
AT Barnstaple last week she went
To hear missioner intent.
Too dry, perhaps, his sermon shaped;
At any rate, the lady gaped,
And CAPPED SO wide, the papers state,
her lower jaw was dislocate.
They say (but true it may not be;
Such fibs in print you often see)
That with the married men down west
This missioner's in great request;
so much so, that they'd give their lives
To get him to revive their wives.
Truth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
TFrom the New york Press.I

from the New York Press.1
The more a widow knows, the more
she is willing to have man teach it
to her.
When a woman doesn't object to a
pipe in the house it's a sign it's Wis.,
itor, not her husband.
The thing a man admires about his
wife's swell curtains is when they are
packed away for the summer.
Once in while man is SO honest
he really practices it in spite of ev-
erybody thinking what fool he is
for doing it.
The reason a woman wants to mar
nv her daughter of to a man, is Sc
she can prove to her afterward he
isn't good enough for her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09
KANSAS COMNENT

- TAX MER'S COMMERCIAL CLUB.
Wnlle the people in the East are
stliI talking of the recent panic and
preolctlng that good times will re-
turn When the tariff bill has been
passeo; the- people of Kansas have
pee1 ivlng IN peace and plenty. The
naro tunes in the East do not affect
hansans any more than would a rev.
olutIon IN Borneo. To show that this
IS true the little town of Turon in
Reno county is held up as an example
Oh kansas prosperity
IuIon does not claim to be the me-
lropohs or anything. It is simply a
GOOD town in a good agricultural
country. But 1t is a. prosperous town,
Is "ldeaWake and has organized a
commercial club with a membership
OF seventy-five, and of this member
snip th1rty-f1ve are farmers. The club
is not one of the sleepy sort that
meets and passes resolutions in some
uinSy nail once a. month. The club
rooms are modern and the furniture
daily.
A few years ago when the farmer
came to town behind a team that
might be worth $50 and was prob
aply worth less, he hitched the horses
10 an awning post and did his loafing
IN the grocery store. Now he comes
to town in his automobile and does
his loafing, if he has time to do any,
In a big cushioned chair in the rooms
of the Commercial club He talks
about the town and the county, and
with other auto owners discusses ways
and means for The betterment in ev-
cry way of the community in which
he lives. He has made money and he
knows how to handle it. He is figur-
ing on getting the good things out
of life and bringing the advantages
of the city to the country town.
SUCH institutions as the Turon Com
mercial club not only show prosper
ity. but they show a desire on the
part OF the people to enjoy it and to
increase it by concerted action
Wichita Eagl,.
SWAT THE THISTLE.
The law makes it mandatory upon
county commissioners to get rid OF
Russian thistles in the territory with
in their jurisdiction, and some of the
farmers around Garden City are in
dignant over it, claiming that the
thistles are good cattle feed. and are
priced on that account. One farm
err writes that his cows will leave any
other kind of feed for the Russian
thist1es. The people who try to gov
ern us wisely and we'll are always ur
against some sort of a battling prob
lem.
But there is now enlisted in thi:
movement number of papers in thi:
part of the state. and the number
will include several and ultimately all
| in every county, with the purpose o
| seeing the board of county commits
| sioners makes the order and tn,
county attorney enforces the law II
each county. Because a man or
| community or county doesn't wisl
| to abide by a law doesn't make an.
difference-if the officers will enforc
! that law.
| The Russian thistle is a pest ans
should be olished.-Emporia Ga
zette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

To have is not always to hold for
long.
Visitors soon out-stay their well
come.
Now that some real hot weather
has arrived everybody will become
more peevish.
4 q
memory is such a tickle thing that
it is not we'll to depend on It too ex-
tensively.
y ~
Maybe the summer season is So
popular as a love-making time be-
cause no holidays happen during it
when young man might be expected
to make presents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09

AS vehicle of political education
the "reformers' in New York city pro-
pose to put on q theatrical production
which will present a play exposing the
political rottenness of the administra-
ton OF the affairs of the metropolis
Tammany Is to be depicted as the viii
lain in the piece. And If the play
wrights are successful in drawing q
picture of Tammany which is true to
life, the stage will be provided with a
villain. the like of which has never been
seen before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09

That is certainly delicate way the
Chinese throne has of Kidding the
country OF such Cinnamon as it may
deem to be undesirable. A beautiful
cord OF yellow silk is conveyed to them
with much ceremony and the recipient
of it knows it to be a token that he
must take his own life. Assuredly are
the Chinese an ingenious people
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-09

Mr.. Bowers, the solicitor general of
the United States. has delivered a legal
opinion to President Taft that whisky
is whisky and can not be manufactured
by simply coloring and fiavoring alco-
hol. But then the day has passed
when matters of this kind might be
Interesting in Kansas.