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The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-21
A VERY OLD DOLL.

Do you know that over two hun
dred years ago big ship went out
to AmSca with passenger on board
whose acquaintance you could still
make II you were in that country?
And what do you think that passen-
ger was? A doll.
The ship on which 1t sailed was one
In which an Englishman, William
Penn, went to America. He had been
there before, and while he was back
at home he told his little girl that the
children in the country he had been
visiting had no toys at all.
She was so very sorry for them
that she asked her father to take at
least one doll out and give it to some
little girl there, says Home Chat.
1t was a very grand doll, with a
dress Of velvet and brocade; and after
all this time it is still kept carefully,
to be shown now and then to Amer
lean children.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-21
FOOLISH TEDDY.

J am going to tell you about our
little fox terrier. He was black and
white and was not a year old. At
one time all the dogs had to wear
muzzles, SO we had one made for
him. He seemed very much ashamed
Of it, and IL any one came in the
room when he had it on he would
hide his nose.
He also had many cute tricks. He
could beg, shake hands and play
dead dog" When it was time for us
to come home, Teddy would get up
in the window and watch for us.
Teddy was very fond of chasing
motorcycles. One day he ran after
q motorcycle, and trolley car came
along and killed him. We were very
sorry and missed him very much
Ruth Tray, in the New York Tribune.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-21
Wisconsin Mans Odd VIII.

One of the shortest wills ever writ
ten was drawn by the late Joseph
Hess. OF Beloit, and reads as follows:
Il am in my right mind. will my
right to Annie Hess, my wife. I give
everything in her hands, fifty acres
Of land, two horses. two COWS. She
has the right to sell If she wants to.
She can give the children a dollar IL
she wants to-"
The will was signed by Hess and
two witnesses. 1t was lying around
the house for nearly two years before
Mrs. Hess realized it had any value.
-Beloit correspondence Milwaukee
Wisconsin.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-21
Biggest Man I'm Parliament.

The tallest member of the new Par
Lament will probably be found to be
Douglas e. Hall, the Unionist repre-.
sentative for the Isle of Wight, who
is no less than Six feet five inches in
height. He Is run very close, how
ever, by Sir Randolf Baker, the new
Unionist for North Dorset. who is
one-half inch shorter. Sir owen
Phillips. the Liberal member for Penn
broke. Is one of three brothers-Lord
st. Davids Is among the number
whose average height Is six feet four
and three-quarter inches.--Baily's
Magazine.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-21

AS the Glidden tour this year will
pass through territory where the tele- I
phone and telegraph service~is very
poor, il has been decided to equip the
cars with wireless telegraph apparatus.
This will make it possible to keep in
close touch with the contestants, and
the latter will be able to report acci-
dents and call for help when neces-
sary.-Scientific American.
The International Meteorological
Committee, which assemblies trien-
nially, will hold it's next sessions in
Berlin during the last week Of Sep
tember, 1910. DR.. w. N. Shaw, d.
rector of the EBitish Meteorological
Office, is pESssiden,o of the committee,
and 4rccsfessor DR.. G. Hellmann, direc-
tor of the Royal Prussn Me.eoroios-
ical Institute, secretay y'-ocien'ino
: American.
| A convenient method oftetermin-
t ing variations in the candle pger OF
: lamp was described in q rteh1
/ number of Elektrotechnische Ze-
schrift. A selenium cell is employed
, which Is exposed to the lamp under
[ test and is placed in series with a
) recording milliammeter. The curve
/ recorded by the milliammeter, which
Is due to the variable resistances or
> the selenium cell, indicates the yaria-
, tion OF the candle power OF the lamp.
! To be sure. this does not give an ac-
/ curate photometric measurement
l Scientific American.
? Chicago is trying new car de-
, signed to remove city garbage over
Z the street railways at night. The car
: Is OF steel construction, thirty-four
4 feet long, divided into three sections
which are so shaped that they can
= be dumped with a pole by single
vi man, thus doing away with the neces-
sity OF using air cylinders or other
!, mechanical dumping apparatus. The
{ Eections are made watcrtight, so that
: there will be no leakage of wet gar
Q bage. The car Is not provided with
& motors. It is intended to use the car
Z In the daytime for hauling concrete
: and construction materials. = ssIcn-
q tlHc American
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-21
A LONG.FELT WANT.

A LONG-FELT WANT.
One day wee Willie and his dog
Sprawled on the nursery floor;
He had a florists catalogue
And turned the pages Ger.
Till all at once he gave a spring.
"Hurrah!" he cried with joy:
mamma. here's just the very thing
To give your little boy!
fFor, when we fellows 20 to school,
We lose our things, Won know;
And in that little vestibule
They do get mixed up SO.
"And as you often say you can't
Take care of 'em for me,
Whr don't you buy a rubber plant
And an umbrella tree?"
st. Nicholas.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-21
CHILDREN's GAMES UNALTERED


Youngsters grow up, develop and
alter. but their games, the frivolities
| OF school yards. street corners and
vacant lots, are Interchangeable.
man who knows kids has inves-
tigated. He romped with half dozen
little bundles of huskiness in his
neighborhood yesterday, parrying
| both shocks to dignity and loss of
breath. He vouches for the state
ment that the little folks games
| never change. Further he reports as
| follows:
The games are precisely the same
as wbsn..I was small aud robust, only
maybe litttere"lfGisffer littteere lfisfe roIh and tum..s.
BILE. 'Technicalities' haven't changes
J a bit.
Hide and go seek'-why, I un
derstand they played 1t years ant
years ago in England just as I played
1T and the way the children play 1
now. Some one is 1T and everybod,
else scrambles away to hide, and the1
after it has counted fifty or. sixty O
a hundred everybody is anxious I,
touch It's base before it does. o
course you remember that whoever 4
caught first has to be it the mex
time.
And Pussy Wants a Corner,
where pussy or it again tries to Sill
into a corner while one boy or cir
is changing places with another. No
. a fractional change can be found 1,
1t. And London Bridge is Fallin,
Down. where some one is caught b,
the brldgeholders and has to pay
penalty or choose to support one O
the halves OF the bridge in the tu
OF war that fically results. Can yoI
find any alteration?
And all of the varieties OF tag
wood, iron, grass or paper 'tag'-ho,
could It be supplemented to make 4
). any more enjoyable? And Run
? Sheep, Run'-you remember II. O
: course, don't you? Aud Cheese nm
|, other sort of 'I-idc and Seek wher
you can run only while 1T Is countIp
). ten and holding It's eyes shut. An
!. King. King Calico another abridg.
ment OF tag in which the little folk
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-21
OUR PET CAT, TRICKS.

want to tell you true story
about our pet cat, Tricks. We got
him when he was tiny kitten. His
mother was killed by a dog. He is
now eleven years old and is SO kind
and gentle with sister and me. We
used to live in the country, and when
we moved to the city we gave Tricks
to neighbor But he was naughty
and caught the baby chickens, so
they sent him back to us by express.
He arrived just at dinner time in a
baked bean box which had printed
upon it, "a Dainty Morsel for Din
ner." Needless to say we did not eat
Tricks for dinner, but took him back
to our home and hearts instead. He
is very fond Of liver and will eat
hardly anything else. He will stand
up and beg for it and will NEW every
letter when we tell him to spell it.
He is a fine hunter and still catches
large rats. When we lived in the
country he caught several large
snakes.-Robert Walwortn, in the
New York Tribune.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-21

, himself by bending and twisting till
he was sure beyond all question that
1t was safe. Then he fastened his
glass eyes into the head Of the min
now, and with careful painting his
bait was complete.
| The season was now growing late.
College was to begin September %.
On Tuesday. September 9, Carl and
Lee set out at daybreak on their
quest. They f1shed long and carefully
but got no strike. They left the cove
for half an hour, then tried again.
This time the great fish struck, but
was not hooked. Soon Forest Lodge
was astir, and fishing for Old Muskie
ended for that day.
Then came the last day. Carl was
to leave for college the following
Monday. 1--WE just must get him
this morning." he said. as they
pushed out from the landing with
the first glow of daylight. They
knew little later in the day would
be better, but they felt that they
must lose no time.
|
shore, the little craft slipping through
the water as quietly as a floating
swan. Lee outdid himself in length
of cast, for he did not wish Old Mus.
kie to take fright because they were
too near.
At the fifth cast the big fish hit the
bait. He rushed savagely at it, ant
closed his jaws down squarely upor
it. Lee struck as If for his life, ant
drove the hooks deep into the fish,
jaw, and with click and drag both OF
the reel and his thumb adding to tn,
pressure, he pulled all he thought hi
tackle would bear-pulled straigh
back toward the treetops, which h
was most anxious to avoid. -. 80
Stubbornly the big fish pulled II
the opposite direction, and with /:
rush started across the cove. So fas
did the line run out that Lees thuml
was almost blistered, but he held 4
hard against the spinning reel, ant
the fish rushed on across the cove.
Straight through the forest o
, rushes he dashed. and Lee and Car
held their breath, as the line Gu
through the water. Lee held the rot
; high, Carl sent the canoe along tn,
track taken by the fish; and in a few
dizzy seconds Old Muskte was through
the rushes and out into the open lake
And now Lee made no effort to checl
> him, but let him run as. far as DOS
sible from the shore, although h.
continued his mad rush till less tha,
thirty feet of line remained on hi
> reel.
: Forest Lodge was quickly awak
and astir. Mr.. Gardner was Just a
; the landing for trip across the lake
when out in front of him came tn
canoe as II being towed by the grea
! fish. which leaped high into the air.
He rushed into Forest Lodge an
reused Mr.. Cameron and all the res
by beating upon his door and crying
Get up! Get up! Your fifty-popn
: maskinonge Is hooked, and by a boy!
No further call was needed. and tn
E beach was soon lined with a seo-
3 of fishermen and their wives, hastil
and some of\ them grotssquei
{ dressed. !.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-21

| indicated that he was surslhg back
| and forth among the trsctops, but
soon the dead pull shoyed that the
| old warrior was no longer making a
fight.
Rowing in, the boys found the
casting-bait fast on one of the limbs.
When they got it loose and pulled it
IN, they found that one of the treble
hooks was gone. Old Muskie in his
rush had caught one of the hooks
upon a branch and it had held, while
The one that was in his mouth had
pulled from the minnow, and the big
savage of the lake was again at lib
erty.
Lee made change in his minnow
before the next Tuesday morning.
Instead of using the treble hooks
that were fastened with screws into
the sides of the minnow, he bored a
hole in the body of the wooden bait,
and using again the copper wire,
passed it back and forth through the
body of the minnow and through the
eye of the treble hook on each side.
He knew that no fish would break all
these strands of copper wire, al
though he felt that Old Muskie might
break the hooks.
The next Tuesday morning Lee
| again hooked Old Muskie. Again
the big fish got to the treetops, and
again Lee felt the dead pull that
meant that he had no longer a fight
ing fish to deal with. Keeling up as
Carl padded the boat toward shore
Lee found that Old Muskie had en-
tangled the line among the branches
and getting a chance to use his great
strength, had broken the heavy sill
line. Lee was delighted to see tha
it had been broken above the poin
where he had spliced 1t to the copper
leader.
What can you do about that?'
asked Carl.
I'm not sure" said Lee, "bu
every time thus far the old fellow
has run straight away from the direc
tion in which I was reeling my min
now. / believe that IL we come a
him from near the shore he will tax,
a run toward the open lake, and wei
have chance at him"
During the week that followed
Lee again spliced copper leader t,
his line. Again he made over"
big casting-minnow, and when Tues
day morning brought its opportunit.
Carl put the canoe along the shore
but as far out as the end of the sub
merged treetops. Three casts wer
made, each farther and farther for
ward, without results. The fourth
however, a perfect cast Of over on
hundred feet, which fell just beyon,
the farthest treetop, was rewarded
the water broke In great eddy n
Old Muskie took the bait. Lee strucl
with all his might, and pulled witt
. all the force he dared to use, although
he was pulling almost straight bacl
toward the tTeetops.
AS he had hoped, Old Muski
pulled the other way, and with a tire
mendous rush. left the treetops, an,
started toward the channel into tn
oren lake. Hallway across he CAV
} IN astonishing leap into the air, show
ins the boys for the FIRST time Jus
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-21

awful sense of the personal loss OF a't
loved one?" You are mistaken. Jesus v
had no such sense of personal loss !,
for He knew that ir a moment moree
Lazarus would stand among them \
alive and well. And IL you think
mere sympathy insufficient, 1t is bei
|cause you have become dulled, as
Jesus is not, to the awfulness Oily
|earth's trials. Perhaps we all have TO
[some extent-with the exception off
Edeath. We have never gotten used Z
to death. God has planted deep In
bur hearts a hatred of death as the
unnatural thing, the unnecessary
khing, the thing that ought not to-
be! 1t is His promise and prophecy
that 1t shall not always be. But we
have grown measurably caltous to
1lhe ordinary trials of life. But
heaven has not! Earth's sorrows are
Worse in heavens view than in our
-ywn. Do not think that Jesus mini
!, hizes them, when even the angel.
when speaking of His suffering ones
I 10 John, said, These are they thasl
have come out of great tribulation.
8. The third instance is His agony
edh the Garden. And this, too, is SYM
bathy. Not now for the Jewish peo-'
bic. nor for the world at large in life's
tiouuiSS, DuS ava @tfS
disciples, whose awful grief and dis
appointment He foresees. Il
81 i, know that some think that His
tagony in the Garden was due TO His
14dread Of physical suffering. But ]
do not believe 1t. That would con-
,{tradict all have said about the Man.
Aiest of Men. have a nobler concep-
ttion Of Jesus. Other men havo faced
ntdeath in the most excruciating forms
}without a murmur. His followers
1 ltwithout number have died for Hin
;itrejoicing. They have been beheaded
yIcrucified head downward, burned a
, &hands in the fire and sung praises u
EGod while breath lasted. Jesus wa
mo coward. And the disciple Is no
Egreater than His Lord
H But Others think that we must adj
,x}to this the "loss of the consciou
Fellowship of the Father, which wa
hell for Jesus" But He evidentl
Ibid not anticipate this. That IL CT
slof surprise He utters on the eros
nd when He says, MY God! My God
q why hast Thou forsaken Me?" Ba
, enough for His disciples to forsas
ytl Him, and reason enough for 1t, p'
,el Thou? why hast Thou forsake
t;l Me-"
o1 And there are still others who s.
1t was the horror of being made g
ID offering for SIM" But He knew tn
er all along. lie faced this from Il
beginning of His ministry. And t
yd said once that He was 'straitcncd u
2 til it be accom- plished.
I'll l see in Christ's agony in the Ga
,,t Al demand it is beautiful as reVel
ton of His character-His sympat
'SS for His disciples in the awful ago
lS' His death was to occasion them. Yo
n too, may see it, if you will read attic
til lively the story in Johns Gospel
4, ginning with the thirteenth chapt
Note how He labors to make th'
.JU comprehend what must hanrln t
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-21

Ss SUI ABOUT FOr{
they hastened to another pl
lake, and left "Old MuskfeI
had already named the big
| When the next Tuesday,
came, again they were out.
was Kept as great a dista
shore as Lee could cover
longest casts, and Just as tn
minnow fell straight out i
middle treetop, there was
swirl in the water. Lee st1
the reel began to sing as t
fish started a tremendous !
in an instant the line car
slack. The saber-like teeth
maskinonge had cut it of
knife.
And what can we do abo,
said Carl, as Lee sadly reele
useless line.
Il don't know yet, but I
idea," said Lee.
The next Tuesday morning
not ready to try for the big fis
although it was almost to,
stay away from the old treeto
promised to be ready the ne:
and he was. What he had d
surprised his mother, who kr
he had been saving every cen
hope OF going to college.
sent away to a fishing-tackl
for their largest first-class s
and received one hundred ,
line that was tested to fifty
He had sent to an electrical
house for their smallest u
copper Wire, and had received
OF 1t, almost hairlike in its
Both purchases had been e,
for him.
From "Old Injun Jake" J
learned the are of doing fine
and of braiding many stran
unbraided the silk line for a
cradle length, and weaving
by one the copper wire leng
he had cut from the spool, b
the wire to the silk with a j,
would readily pass through
guide, and continued to brai
had a six-foot, flexible coppe
that would sustain his own
united to his one hundred
line with a joint as strong
line itself. Thus did he
against the teeth of Old Mus
Tuesday morning the bo
again fishing in Forest Lod
at daybreak. Again Old
struck. and unable to cut I
rushed into the interlacinS
of the submergeYtreetops.
For a whjia fHa cfroin ~
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-21

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The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-21
"Old Muskie' the Rogue

BY LEVI T. PENN1NGroN
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-23

19o Y the elaborate plan of the State geologist for a twentyone
I'D mile waterway between the Shrewsbury and Bay Head
the cost would reach the figure of two million dollars. But
evidently the State geologist has taken the longest and most ex
pensive route and failed to utilize the beds of the natural streams
that exist. There is no doubt, also, that most of the land for the
purpose would be donated, as the waterway would largely in
crease the value of the adjoining land. The Waterways Associa
ton can at it's own expense employ engineers to go over the route
and make plans and estimates. The State biologists plan of a two
milliondonar canal should be discredited as soon as possible. 1t
is preposterous. Monmouth County communities that will be bene
flied by a waterway, and commercial interests that will find
it's use a valuable and economic factor, have every reason to join
hands with the Waterways Association to promote the project
which should also receive the support of all the interests that are
represented in the South Jersey waterway. An outlet On New York
Bay for that waterway would add immensely to its value. Railroad
opposition to a waterway the whole length of the State, tapping
New York Bay, was to be expected. Between Cape May and Bay
Head a waterway would take little or no freight from the railroads.
Between New York Bay and points in New Jersey as far south as
Cape May a waterway might prove to be a serious proposition in
the way of diverting freight traffic from the railroads. The Water
ways Association and allied interests must be prepared to fight the
railroads.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-23
THE DAYS BEST STORIES

- ENAToR CURTIS, Of Kansas, tells the following story about a young
IA h sometimes drank more whiskey than was god for him:
~ He had bee making a night of It, but had foraken his com
.panions. H vas acquainted with a n undertaken named George got
the crazy notion a 8 o'clock In the m orning that he u see this paricu-
lar mar Accordingly, he found Georges undertaking establishment wei
which George had his sleeping apart ments
The intoxicated young ma rang and rang Georges BELL and at last
awoke him. The undertaken put his head out of the third story window,
expecting to find that his funeral e rvtces were required Immediately In
stead, lie recognized his friend Frank
well, Frank" he exclaimed GROSSLY, what do yu want?"
81 just wan tell you, George" said, Frank, that you're the ash man
in n world 1 wan to do business with"-Popular Magazine.
n n r. PENN-They say h streets in Boston are nightfuny crooked?
tNI Mr. rubb-They are Why. do you know. when l first ven there
' could hardly find my way around
THAT must be embarrassing"
TT is The hrst week / was there l wanted to get rid of an old at W e
had, and my wife got m 70 % take it o the river a mile away"
And on lost the "a all rightT'
Lost nothing! 1 never would have found my way home If 1 hadn't fol-
lowed thu cat!-Everybodys.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-23
THE OPPOSITION TO MINARD.

e1aHE Republican County Committee demands a Dill OF parucu-
lars in regard to the objections hled oy d Eas ofans
members of the committee to the denomination OF Assembly
man Minard. The resolutions adopted by the East orange coM-
mitteemen are not specific. If the county committee is o condemn
and execute Minard it must be upon positive charges oackeo oy ~
donce of course. the committee itself has no knowledge o any
facts of a character to warrant the charge that Mlnard was % Ill
that he should have been at the legislative session. Minafds pr1n-
cipal defense is that he always voted with the majority IN
plea seems good to a party committee, but if it has happened that
the majority has committed ofenses against public sentiment II
doesn't appeal so favorably to the voter. The general complaint Is
that the legislative majority last winter did commit oHenses' II
puzzle in the East Orange opposition to Minard is that he alone
should be made a target for attack. He was only one Il q majority,
and only one of eleven Essex Assemblymen who voted with the
majority" 1t is true, Minard lives in East Orange, but there r no
assembly districts and the whole batch of the Essex Assemblymen
ae equally responsible to the East Orange voter as we'll as TO the
voter in every other municipality in the county.