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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-07-15
ORGAN REtEE Al.
Lutheran Church OF Redeemer To.
night Under Direction Of Mr..
Frank L. Eyer.

AS previously announced there will
be an organ recital at the Lutheran
Church Of the ReGeemer this (Friday)
evening at $50 o'clock, given by Mr..
Frank L. Eyer, director of music in
Limestone college. Mr.. Eyer is a
graduate of Leipsic Conservatory, and
has studied under several musicians
of great renown. He was for some
time on the editorial staff of the Etude,
a we'll known musical journal, and
has since taught in prominent con-
servatories. Mrs. R. z. Thomas will
render a beautiful solo. The follow
ing is the program:
March from Aida-Verdf
Cantabile-Loret.
Pilgrims Chorus (Tonnhauser)-
Wagner.
Indian Summer Sketch CA Dream)
Brewer.
Ioccata-Dubois.
Grass and Roses-I. G. Bartlett.
Mrs. R. z. Thomas.
Saadi- -Muslih-ud-din Saadi Of Sher-
az, was a Persian poet of the 18th
century. His "Gulistan" or Rose
Garden is a collection of moral stories
in prose and verse, translated into
English in Calcutta in 1906.
Funeral March-Chopin.
The Village Harvest Home-Spin-
ner.
Intermezzo-Dunham.
Berceuse-Gonnod
Grande Offertoire (St. Cecilia, No.
2)-Batiste.
There will be no admission charged.
but a collection will be taken up.
The ladies in charge Of the organ
recital received telegram yesterday
afternoon that Mr.. Eyer was take5
i'll and could not come and, therefore,
the recital is Indefinitely postponed.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-07-15

laughted at by a. collector when a
trader in antiques asked him the pal
try sum Of yen for it.
fortunately, the tide of reaction
soon set in with an awakened and re-
newed interest, and swords, together
with their belongings, more than re-
deemed the credit and high esteem
which they had once enjoyed as OBJ
jects of war and veneration. Inter-
est in feudal arms and armor has
steadily increased, so that today it is
difficult, almost impossible, to obtain
possession of the best specimens.
''The glorious victory gained over
the Northern Colossus (Russia)
brought Satsuma more markedly than
ever into prominence for many of the
greatest heroes who won immortal
fame during the tremendous struggle
hailed from Satsuma; namely, Ad-
micals Togo and Kamimuras Marshal
Oyama and Gems. Nodzu, Kuroki, Nishi
and Kawamura, along with host Of
stars of lesser brilliancy. There arose
a new interest in Satsuma. Connois-
seurs of tsuba argued that in this land
of heroes and of Bushido there must
surely have been great swordsmiths
and tsuba craftsmen; especially as the
province had long been noted for its,
beautiful faience.
"The first to introduce the guards
of his native province to artists was
Mr.. Fukushima, a celebrated collec-
tor of swords as well as their adjuncts
and since that time the Satsuma
guards have been searched for and
brought from the most remote and OBJ
scure corners Of the southwestern part
of Japan and have obtained their due
share of appreciation which was so
long denied them ::
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-07-15
The Horses Prayer.

Pathetic and ironical as it may
seem, the horse looks up to man
as his god. In the Swedish they have
Prayer of the Horse" addressed to-
his human lord and master which, in
substance, is as follows:
20 lord, my master, I thank and
adore you for the kind word you
spoke to me long ago, and strive
in the hope that you will pet me
once in while. If I can not under
stand what you wish me to do, please
be patient and show me. Don't beat
me or jerk on the reins, but look and
see if something isn't wrong with the
harness.
81 beg of you not to whip me 90
ing up hill, nor give me loads heavier
than I can pull. Keep me shod so
that I can get a eoothold, and dent
let the farrier cripple my feet l. I
am sick or have an liberated tooth,
go easy with me for a day, as I am
beside myself with pain.
"Oh, grant me cool, clean water in
the hot weather, and let me not eat
my fodder dry.
"Finally, when my strength Is
gone, and I can not do any more
work for you, enough to be worth my
keep, I beseech Of you, don't Jet me
be sold to draw vender's cart, but
take my life in the quickest and cas-
lest way, and God will reward you in
this life and in heaven. Amen. -
New York Evening World.
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God Save the Flag.

Washed in the blood of the brave
and the blooming,
.Snatched from the altars of inso-
.... lent foes,
Burning with star-ires but never con-
suming,
FLASH its broad ribbons Of lily ind
rose.
,Vainly the prophets of Baal will relld
Vainly his worshippers pray for its
fall,
Thousands have died for it; millions
defend it; 8
Emblem of justice and mercy to all.
Justice that, reddens the skies with
her terrors,
Mercy that comes with her white
handed train;
Soothing all passions, redeeming all
sorrows,
Sheathing the sabre and breaking
the chain.
Borne on the deluge of old usurpa-
tons,
Drafted our ark o'er the desolate
seas,
Bearing me rainbow of hope to the
nations,
Torn from the storm-cloud and
flung to the breeze.
God bless the flag and its loyal de-
tenders,
:; While it's broad folds DER the bat
tie field wave,
Till the dim star-wreath re-kindle its
spiendors,
Washed from it's stains in the blood
of the brave!
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-07-15
SATSUMA SWORD GUARDS.
Gems of Workmanship Which a Few
Years Ago Sold for Song.

EVEN until comparatively recent
times" says the Japan Magazine,
"Satsuma sword guards were refer
red to in a manner which likened them
to a lump of rusted iron, massive and
heavy, with oblong form, devoid OF
artistic design or ornamentation.
"This misconception can be traced
to the isolation policy SO long IN
force in Satsuma, which prevented
travellers from securing free or easy
access to the interior of the Han, and
also to the restrictions in force pro-
hibiting the expectation of things Sat-
suma' to any place outside of it's own
provincial limits. In consequence OF
this state of affairs the productions OF
Satsuma artists we're almost un-
known in other parts of the empire.
with the abolition of the teudal
system the Satsunla clansmen were
imbued with different views and the
semi-independent power of its proVln-
cial lord became a thing of the past.
simultaneously an imperial edict was
promulgated forbidding the wearing OF
swords on pain of confscation, and the
public no longer priced in the same
sense the weapon that they had for
merly been accustomed to hold rev.
erently above their heads with uplltt-
ei hands and much less did they 1ully
appreciate the value of the various
adornments of the sword.
I'm the meantime articles OF for
eign make began to pour into the
country and a mania for everything
Occidental seized the minds OF the
Jaranese people. AS result rare OLD
suits of armor, spears, sword guards,
etc., suddenly found their way into the
hands of curio dealers orr to black
smith shops, where these time-nonor-
ed treasures were transformed TOR the
sake of their metal into articles OF
common and practical use, such as tea
boilers, sickles, fire tongs and nails.
"The craze for things foreign was
so great that it was not uncommon
for p merchant to exchange antique
lacouered boxes for modern glass pots
that could be easily bought today Tor
a few sen. Some of these true object
dart were mercilessly subjected to
chemical analysis for the purpose OF
extracting the gold they contained.
"Tsuba. which are today eagerly
sought after, met with the same fate
as the ordinary one. Even a tsuba
by Kaneiye the Great, the inconlpara-
BILE specialist, whose productions at
the present command any price, was
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-07-15
TOLD ON AN OCEAN LINER.
Yarns Charles Battell LOomis Heard
at Sea.

A sea voyage generally yields fruit
in the way of anecdotes and Stories
writes Chas. Battall Loomis to the
New York Sun, but if your memory
is treacherous what are you to DO?
I always envy the people who once
they have heard a story have it on
tap in perpetuity. For me can gen.
orally remember only the point,
while the leading up to it goes by
the board.
Here is a story told me by an Irish
lady returning home after lecture
tour in America and it is 700 years
old. It is so simple that think I
have retained it's essence.
There were once three monks who
decided that ''the world was too much
with them," and in order to find true
solitude they all went to live in "a
little island off the west coast of Ire
land. The island was beautiful, the
solitude peaceful and they dwelt to-
gether in silence and amity.
At the end of the first year one OF
the monks, unable to restrain his
tongue. said: "Is not this the true
life?"
Another happy year went by and
then the second monk replied: 'It is
indeed the true life
After another quiet year the third
monk turned away from his brothers
and said: ''Unless you two cease
chattering will go back to the main
land"
The lady who told me this as we
sat gazing at the waves vouched for
it's having been in manuscript form
for at least 700 years.
How many times it has been twist
ed and changed since then! I have
heard it told not of spiritual monks
but of beer drinking Germans, but
there the actiln was almost too brisk,
for only an hour elapsed between the
remarks.
The same Irish lady told me a
true anecdote about that witty Eng
lishman Bishop Wilberforce, who
was said to be all things to all men
and who was called "Soapy Sam" by
those who were not friendly to him.
One day at dinner his niece said to
him, "Uncle, why is it that you are
called 'Soapy Sam?"
He arched his eyebrows and re-
piled, 'I did not know I was called
that. I suppose it is because I get
into hot water so often but always
come out with clean hands"
But there was one yarn spinner on
shipboard that I to my sorrow did
not appreciate at his true worth un-
til the last Gay of ne trip
He was short and stout with a
somewhat Bryanesque cast of fea-
lures and flow Of language that his
constant malapropisms did not check.
When a word came to his lips he let
it out with great good nature, regard
less of its pronunciation or its form.
He was absolutely without guile
and the story he told those in the
smoking room he told in good faith.
I should like to meet the joker who
told it to hom; and I wish I had
met my friend sooner. am sure that
there we're more tales than the one
in that round head.
The yarn he told through the
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-07-15
Southern in>ta;s Block System.

S&utnctn lnStaiS Hl0ch ~ lSttNt.
Atlanta, Ga, June 3V-The bulle-
tin just issued by the interstate COM
merce commission, giving the mile
age of railways in the United States
operated by the block system on
January l, 1910, shows that 2,O8O.l
miles of track on the Southern rail-
way. constituting 80 per cent. of the
entire mileage of the system, is now
equipped with this safety appliance
Included in this are the entire main
line from Washington to Atlanta ana
on to Birmingham, the line from
Bristol to Chattanooga, that from
Chattanooga to Atlanta and Macon,
and other important sections. In the
entire United States there are only
seven railway system with a great
er mileage So operated than has the
Southern. Ne other railway in the
South operates anything like so large
a mileage with the block system.
The system in use on the Southern
railway is what is known as the
telegraph block" Suitable sema-
phore signals are erected at inter
walls of about five miles along the
road to guide the engineman in the
control of his train. The space be-
tween these signals is called block
and two passenger trains are unde:
no circumstances permitted in
single block at the same time.
The working of this system may
be best explained by taking block
stations, Gainesville, Ga, and Oak
wood, Ga, for example. A train ap-
proaches Gainesville bound for At
lanta. The operator at Gainesville
asks the operator at Oakwood If he
can have the block for the approach
ing train.
# there are no trains between
Gainesville and Oakwood the opera
tor gives the required permission ano
both operators make record OF the
time, train number, etc. The opera
tor at Gainesville then clear the sig
nal by pulling it down to an angle
of about so degrees below horizontal
after the train comes in sight. That
is called "clearing" the signal, and
is done after the train comes into
sight to assure the engineer that the
signal is cleared for him and he will
not proceed into the block unless he
sees it 20 E'clear.' This assures him
that he is not taking signal given
q preceding train. AS soon as the
train passes the signal the operator
returns the signal to horizontal
position, this indicates danger, stop,
and it remains in this position as
long as the train is in the block. 1t
will be noted that two men, one at
each end of the block, must cooper
ate to allow a train to enter, this pro-
yides a check which effectually pre-
vents mistakes, it being unlikely that
two men would make. the same mis-
take at the same time.
To install this system has neces-
STATED the employment of large
number of additional telegraph oper7
ators and the expenditure of large
amount of money for line wire, sig
nails, etc., but the officials of the
Southern railway believe that the ex-
penditure is wayranted because of
the safety it affords their patrons
from accidents due to collisions.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-07-15

smoke concerned that musical soul
Mavor schmit3 of San, Francisco ano
his very dear friend Abraham Rue1'
thu man with the anything but rue
full disposition. We had been talking
about the ships run and from that
to this story teller needs no steps.
"I heard" said he, squaring MS
shoulders and sitting back, "a good
sone on Mayor schmitz and Abe Rue1
of San Francisco. I come from Port
land myself One day the pair de-
cided to go on a pleasure trip, hunt
ing and fishing. A friend I met on
the cars coming from Chicago to Ne"
York told me this.
$50 they started out with all the
proper saturnalia. They were going
for big game, little game, any KIND
of game and they didn't care whether
the law was on or off. The same
way with fishing. They had all the
proper equipages and they were go
ing to get fish, whether it was June
or December or any month at all.
well, one Of the game wardans
got wind OF it and he didn't do
thing at all Oh, no!
What did he do but put on a dis
guise, and then he sits down and
with all due informality he invites
Messrs. Schmitz and Ruef to be his
guests while in the Little Big Horn
reservation.
well; they were delighted. They
thought he was one of those English
younger sons with more money than
brains that have large estates in
California, I'm told, and they accept
ed the ubiquity you bet.
"Well, of course, that's just what
the game warden wants. He knows
where the big game and the littls
game and any kind of game is and
where the fish bite best and he went
into his hunting lodge where be
could laugh by himself at the fun he
was going to have; for. it was illegal
to shoot anything but rabbits and
prairie dogs in that particular month
and he thought of the elegant fines
those malefactors would have to pay
"He met them with a trap, my
friend said (wicked friend), and they
we're delighted with him from the
drop Of the hat. He had a fine red
British beard and bushy red wig
and his face was naturally red and
he told them some lies about being
an expatriate Englishman who hao
been cut off from his Inheritance as
a younger son, but had struck 1t r1cn
in Nevada and had bought this big
estate.
"They never tumbled to its being
a national park, my friend said, on
account of their being city men on
their first hunt.
mayor Schmitz had his fiddle
along and when night came and the
moon rose they sat out under the
alameda trees and he played the
tears out of Ruef's eyes, my friend
said.
"Next morning bright and early
they went out after moose. The game
warden he knew where there was q
bully moose and he led them on and
gave Ruef first crack at him, and
by bit Of bull luck Ruef hit the
moose the first shot and down she
fell as dead as a hammock.
"Well, that was nuts for the war
den. for the fine on mooses was S25
half to 60 to the warden.
"Next Schmitz brought down one
of these mountain lions, a female
and that was SIS, for my friend says
mountain lions get scarcer every
time one is shot.
$50 it went all day long, the war
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den on the sly fired in the air 80
as not to break the law, and Schmitz
and Ruef had beginners luck and
broke the law to the tune of $3.50.
"It was the same when it came to
fishing. The warden rugged up fly
for each of them and supplied them
with hooks-he wouldn't hear OF their
using the fancy flies they'd brought
and then they went to a mountain
brook and began to cast for the big
fish my friend says they call the
muskorange, not at all plentiful and
protected by most vigorous laws.
"It was not long before Ruef felt
his pole bending and he began to pull
in hand over hand, but the musk
orange is a game fish and he was
soon up to his waist in the water and
called Schmitz to bring his rife and
be sure the fish didn't get away.
"Schmitz was Johnny-onthe-spot,
all right, and with plenty of embon-
point, as the French say, ne takes
careful aim and fired just as the
muskorange was on the point OF
breaking the fishing cord. Then he
got his landing net and they got the
big fellow to shore"
"How much did it weigh?" asked
one of the smokers.
81 don't know" said the narrator,
thus proving beyond doubt III any
had existed) that he was no fisher
man.
"'Fifty dollars!' laughs the warden
+ into his big false beard. Then ne
rushes down the bank and congratu-
lates Ruef on his luck and tells him
it's the first fish catch of the season.
which was true, because the law
would be on couple Of months yet.
*Ruef thinks has it and struts
around considerable, till Schmltz
asks him what's the matter with the
way the rife did the business of put
ting a quietus on the fish, and that
shut up Ruef.
Then that afternoon they went af-
tor iackrabhits. nv friend said, and
they bagged ten apiece, and not car
ing to eat them cut off their fetlocks
for the bounty.
"Well, so it went for days. They
shared priairie dogs and wild par
tridges till you couldn't rest and left
them lying where they were shot.
Not sports at all, to my way of think
ing, but butchers.
"Of course the wild partridges
wasn't so expensive. Only a matter
of a dollar apiece fine for them, but
as they shot them with perfect i'm
punity it was over $1OO before they
got through, my friend said.
AT last Schmitz said he was sorry,
but San Francisco had to be govern
ed a little more and he must be back
at his desk, and Ruef had things 70
do on his job, so they told the war
den what a fine time they had had
and he leads them down the trail to
the station, telling them he wishes
he was in good favor with the clio
folks In England, because he'd like 70
invite them to the grouse shooting
there in July. They both said they
had had the time Of their lives.
"Then he gives them shaking up
that reminded them of April, 1906,
for he snatches off his beard and his
wig and there is a smooth faced,
keen eyed warden who takes note
book out Of his pocket and says:
Gentlemen, this little amDuscade OF
yours will cost you S34O apiece. l
am John Huntington, the senior war
den!"
"Well sir, my friend said you could
have heard big tree drop, it was
that still.
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Like a Woman.

Edith told Clara, under promise,
of absolute secrecy, of our engage
ment.
Fred-And she has spoken of it
everywhere?
Edith-No; the spiteful thing never
mentioned it-Illustrated Bits.
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Common Ancestors Not Wanted.

Post-I discovered today that
Parker and I have a common ances-
tor.
Mrs. Post Ga Colonial dame)-For
goodness sake, don't tell any one
Brooklyn Life.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-08-18
SEWERS.

Mrs. Joe Laws is visiting in Flagler
for few days.
P. Popvisch left last Saturday for
Seattle, Washington.
Mrs. Jonas Mabie is going back to
Pennsylvania for Her health. vi"
2: Mrs. e. Davis, Dc Des Moimes, Wis.
tied at the parental home of Mr.. and
Mrs. r. Davis 1ast2week. "~
/ have kept a close watch expect
ing the Herald reporters picnic to
be held in the near future.
Miss Pearl Evans, of Chicago, is a
guest at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hugh A. Gum for "a few weeks.
John Gibbin conducted the services
at the M. E. churchilast Sunday night,
in the absence of Rev. G. w. Harding.
Rev. q. w. Harding was called to
Nebraska last week on account of the
death of an intimate friend. He
expects to be home Friday, the 18th.
Aug. 16. 5 r. w.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-08-18
WHITE OAK

Va
Olson & IgnelI hauled oats to Rose
Hill Saturday.
Charles Peterson was an oskaloosa
caller Saturday.
Henry Currier,is doing some mason,
ry work for Mrs. John Hawkins. T.
G. l.. Swanson sold hogs to Tom
Beatty, of Rose Hill, Saturday. y
Chas. Brostrom spent Saturday and
Sunday in Oskaloosa attending chau-
tauaqua.
Mr.. and Mrs" Chas. Larson, of
Spring Creek, were Sunday visitors at
J. P. Larson's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hawkinson
spent Sunday at the parental John
Swanson home.
An ice cream social will be held Sat
urday night, Aug. 30, at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.. Swanson.
Robert Fallberg, Of Chicago, and SIS
ter, Miss Esther, of Oskaloosa, are
visiting at the Chas. Brostrom home.
Nv. AUTUMN CHILD.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-08-18

Mr.. and Mrs. John Arnold ant
daughter Dorothy left Tuesday morn
ling for visit with relatives at Truro
iIowa. They will visit the State Fair
before returning home.
1 The funeral of Elmer Steele was
held at. Fairyiew church Sunday morn
ing and interment made at Eddyville
Highland cemetery The family have
the sympathy of the entire commun,
Its,
The dwelling house of Chas. McBur-
Iney burned about two O'clock Tuesday
mcrEing. Only part of the con-
tents were saved. Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Burney were in Oskaloosa at the
time, having his eye treated, there be.
ing no one at home except George
Allison who is working there. The
fire had quite a start when he was
awakened by the flames breaking in
to his room.
One of the saddest accidents that
has ever occurred in this community
happened last Wednesday evening,
when Paul Pendarvis, only son OF
Della Pendarvis, was seriously hurt
while riding his pony, as has been ex-
planned in a previous issue of this pa
per, dying a few hours later. He
leaves two sisters, besides his mother.
The bereayed ones have the deepest
sympathy of the friends and neigh
bors. 81 81, .@'
Aug. IL. t@ D.. Nedra.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-08-18
WHITE OAK.

Mrs. A. B. Francis is able to be up
and around again.
Pastures are getting short. Some
are feeding hay.
Old Skunk river is lower than ii
has been for several years,
Quite, a few from our neighborhood
will attend the State Fair this year.
Mrs. I. A. Belford Is able to be up
and around sgain but is not able to
work any yet.
Threshing is almost over in our
neighborhood Grain OF al. kind
turned out well.
News gathering has been uphill
work for the correspondents living in
the rural districts.
Edgar and Ernest Olson and Hcrn
Larson were transacting business in
oskaloosa Monday.
Alexander and Alfred Taylor thresh.
ed wheat they raised on the Taylor
farm at Tioga Monday.
We have the best promise for corn
|on the river bottom this year that
we have had in several years.
John Woods Is building an addition
to his home. Harry and Claud AL
good are doing the carpenter work,
Mrs. Martha Stanley and children
from 0skalOosa, spent several day.