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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1911-05-03
Family Made Desperately iii from
Eating Fish.

Mrs. r. B. Allison and three
little sons were taken suddenly
aid violently ill Sunday after
noon and were in a serious con-
dition for a number of hours.
DIR. Strait was sent for and did
everything possible for. the re-
lief of the sufferers. BY Monday
morning they were better and
out of danger. The trouble was
diagnosed as ptomaine poisoning.
caused from eating fish. A
small colored girl. servant on the
premises. was similarly affected.
she having also eaten some of
the fish.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1911-05-03
Delegates
To the Kings Daughters Conven-
ton, Take Notice.

You are invited to use my desk
to write your friends while in
Lancaster. Post Cards, views of
the city and stationery will be
furnished gratis. l hope that
every delegate will feel perfectly
free to avail themselves of this
offer. B. C.. HOUGH,
Jeweler and Optician.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1911-05-03
Business Notices

EGGS, EGGS-I5 for sI.25 from the
following varieties: White Indian
Games. Notified Anconas, White Ply
mouth Rocks and Black Langshans.
Get busy and buy the best from l.. l..
Blackmon, Lancaster, S. G. 6O-6l.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1911-05-03
Local Dots

Cotton on this market yester-
day, Is cents.
Col. Leroy Springs is having a
brick garage built on his lot
south of his residence.
The contract for Rock Hills
new depot has been let to ]. c..
Dickson & Co., of Durham, N.
C.
A daughter was born to Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest Hinson, of this
place, Sunday, April 30.
Twins, a boy and a girl, were
born to Mr.. and Mrs. James
Threat, of the mill village, one
day last week.
Miss Monte Hathcock has &C.
cepted the position of steno-
grapher in the office of the Lam
caster 4 Chester railway here.
Mr.. L. R. Roberts, one of the
successful farmers of the Creek
section, had a valuable mule to
die q few days ago.
A fine boy, weighing IL Ia
pounds, was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. John F. plackmon, of the
Douglas section, Monday, May l.
Messrs. Lewis Dabney and
Henry Culp, who live on Arch
street, have recently had their
residences painted, Contractor
Horton doing the work.
Mr.. Allen Adams and family,
who have been living on Meet
ing street, have moved into the
dwelling on Barr street lately
vacated by Mr.. R. E. A. Huey.
The contract for Rock Hills
sewerage system was on Monday
let to Sullivan, Long & Hagerty
of Bessemer, Ala, the amount
of the bid being $52,675.1O.
Miss Alice Mitchell, who has
been teaching at Tradesville,
Lancaster county. has closed
her school and returned to her
home in this city. Rock Hill
Record.
Miss Florence Thomasson, sis
ter of Mr.. j. T. Thomasson of
Lancaster, and Miss Emma Lee
Nisbet of Van Wyck have been
reelected teachers in the Rock
Hill graded school.
A son was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. /. H. Hollis of Columbia on
last Thursday, April II. making
the Goth grandson of Confeder-
ate Veteran John H. Caskey of
Lancaster.
Willie T. johnson, son of w.
D. johnson, of the Aragon mills,
Rock Hill, died April %, of pneu-
monia. He was 18 years, 6
months and 27 days old and had
been an invalid all his life.
The young people had a highly
enjoyable dance at the opera
house Monday night, given by
the Lancaster German Club.
Music was furnished by the La
ney band.
Bart Mcmillan, we'll known
cClored farmer of this vicinity,
on Mr.. R. E. Wylie's plantation,
was taken over to Rock Hill
Monday evening to be operated
on for appendicitis by DR.. Fen
nell.
Miss Holmes and Mrs. Mitchell,
of Mt. Pleasant, delegates to the
State Convention of the Kings
Daughters, will be the guests of
Mrs. Walter Stevens during their
visit to Lancaster. These names
were not on the list of delegates
published in Saturdays issue of
The News.
There will be an entertainment
by the school children at the
Jones Cross Roads school house
Friday night. May 5th. The pro-
gram will consist of dialogues,
recitations, songs, etc. Public
cordially invited.
The sale of the valuable Halle
Gold Mining property which was
advertised by the receivers to be
held here last Monday was post
poned until the first Monday in
June. The postponement was
owing to a misunderstanding on
tho narf of Gonna of tho nartias
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1911-05-03

LOST-Between town and Gregory
Stogner farm, suit case. Return Il
News Office or Nisbet & Wilson, Ian
caster. $3.50
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1911-05-03

GO TO Bennett-Ferguson Co.'S for the
best Paints, Varnishes, etc., and the
lowest prices. 6O-6l
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1911-05-03

LEARN AUTOMOBILE BUSINESS
Take thirty days Practical course in
our we'll equipped Machine Shops. ard
learn the Automobile business and ac-
cept good positions. Charlotte Auto
School, Charlotte, n. c. 39tf
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1911-05-03

WE SELL Brick and Shingles, Ceiling
and Flooring at bargain prices. Ian
caster Ice and Coal Co S7-tf
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1911-05-03

REMEMBER that the King Restaurant
is the place for your hot lunches and
good meals. We also pay the highest
price for your eggs. butter and chick
ems. Neat and quick service. G.. H.
King, Proprietor. $500
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1911-05-03

FOR SALE.-LonR staple cotton seed.
Good middlinR grown from this vari.
ETY. brought 2lc Feb. Is, 1911. Price
$50 Pc. hn. Apply TO =. J. McIl-.in,
Lancaster, S. G.. 1880
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30
SPEEDING THE MAIL
Automatic Mail Clerks in Use in
New York.
eIrst Plant for Handling Mail by Ma
chinery Now in Operation in Penn.
sylvania TerminaIs-Saving
of Seconds Valuable.

New York.-The first complete me.
chanlcai system for loading mail mat
ter into cars, providing for its hand
ling entirely by automatic appliances
from mail wagons to train, has just
been installed in this city.
The apparatus is part Of the equip
ment of the new Pennsylvania termi-
nal, through which passes 40 per cent.
of the mail matter leaving New York.
The saving even of seconds is valu-
able, and from the time when the
wagons from the post office deliver
the pouches at the street level until
they enter the mail cars waiting on
the level of the tunnel, 70 feet lower
down, human labor is supplanted by
nine rapid mechanical devices.
There are three stages in the pro-
cess of getting the sacks of mail from
the street to the mail cars. Some time
before the fast mail train to western
points, consisting of perhaps half a
dozen cars, is scheduled to leave the
station, it is shunted to the mail
track. Into these cars there shortly
begin to drop automatically delivered
pouches coming from some unseen
source. AS the moment of departure
approaches the pouches come in more
rapid succession, until they are shoot
ing into the cars in constant
stream.
Rising slightly above the floor Of
the station at the point where the
mail wagons make their deliveries are
number of huge hollow sheet-iron
cylinders. Into these the pouches are
dumped and slip down to a point Just
above the roofs of the waiting cars.
The pouches do not fall in a direct
line, since this might injure their con-
tents. but they go down on spiral
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30

lily has been prominent in Chicago for
so years, returned from a 2,0OO-mile
tour, during which he sang his way
through IA states.
Mr.. Best, who is now nearly thirty
years of age, is the son of Henry Best,
for eight years clerk Of the circuit
court in Chicago and later for two
terms South Town assessor. He was
educated at st. Johns Military school,
Delfield, Wis, and at the Princeton
and Yale preparatory school in Chi
cago.
In the height Of his success as a
musician his fiancee, Miss Eleanor Da-
Wis of San Francisco, also a composer
of music, who had been one Of his pu-
pills, died suddenly and he was plunged
in grief.
In the melancholy mood which fol-
lowed this loss" he said, 81 made a
VOW to myself that l would give up
my career in the musical world and
go out into the world as a troubadour.
singing the songs Of great composers
10 the masses of the people, conceal
Ing my name, wearing rough clothing,
without reputation or any of the ad-
vantages Of friends and acquired posi-
ton, to see if the people would not ap-
preciate good music.
During my tour of 1000 miles, in
which sang in IA states, wore the
dress you see me in now, khaki trous-
ers, rough corduroy coat, black flannel
shirt, soft felt hat, no collar. carried
no more baggage than was contained
IN small oilcloth case. l never told
my name or my family connections
and never spoke of my former achieve
ments in the musical world. Wherever
appeared was only known as The
Wanderer.'
found everywhere that the best
music is appreciated even by the
poorer classes"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30
LEARNING AMONG THE SCOTS
Many a Man Who Never Had Any
Schooling" Gets Surprisingly
Good Education.

Many a man who never had any
schooling" gets an education. and
often surprisingly good one.
A traveller in Scotland once met a
farmer whose ground rent was about
500 year and who wrote poetry in
Gaelic that was Of high order
This same traveller met youth in
Scotland who rode from home on
horseback to the seaport and then
across Scotland to Aberdeen, where
he sold his horse to enter the univer
sity.
1t is related OF another Scotchman
that he was overheard repeating line
of Tennyson. whereupon some one
asked him what poet he liked best
Homer" he replied.
Whose translation do you read?"
Il rarely read translation" he
said, wiping the fish scales from his
apron. 81 like best to rd rHomsr in
the original Greek"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30

with sets of three or four eggs, prob
ably do not on the average rear more
than two young for each breeding pair.
1t is not surprising, therefore, that
birds of this family, with their limited
powers Of reproduction, melt away
under the relentless warfare waged
upon them. Until recent years shore
Thus, the species most In need of
stringent protection have really had
the least. No useful birds which lay
only three or four eggs should be re-
tanned on the list of game birds. The
shorebirds should be relieved from
from determination majority of the
species, action must be prompt.
The protection of shorebirds need
not be based solely on esthetic or SEN
timental grounds, for few groups of
birds more thoroughly deserve protec-
ton from an economic standpoint.
Shorebirds perform an important serv-
ice by their inroads upon mosquitoes,
some of which play so conspicuous a
part in the dissemination OF disease.
Thus, nine species are known to feed
upon mosquitoes, and hundreds of the
larvae or "wigglers" were found in
several stomachs. F1fty-three per
cent. of the food of 2S northern phala-
ropes from one locality consisted of
MOSQUITO larvae. The insects eaten
include the salt-marsh mosquito, for
the suppression Of which the state OF
New Jersey has gone to great expense.
The nine species of shorebirds known
to eat mosquitoes are: Northern phal-
arope. Wilson phalarope, Silt sand
piper, Pectoral sandpiper, Baird sand
piper Least sandpiper, Semipalmated
sandpiper, Kildeer and SemipalInated
plover.
Cattle and other live stock also are
seriously molested by mosquitoes as
we'll as by another set of pests. the
horse flies. Adults and larvae OF
these flies have been found in the
stomachs Of the dowitcher, the pee.
toral sandpiper, the hudsonian godwit
and the killdeer. Two species Of
shorebirds, the killdeer and upland
plover, still further befriend cattle by
devouring the North American fever
tick. Among other fly larvae con-
sumed are those of the crane flies
rjackets).
Another group of insects Of which
the shorebirds are very fond is grass
hoppers. Severe local infestations OF
grasshoppers, frequently involving the
destruction of many acres of corn, cot.
ton and other crops, are by no means
exceptional. Aughey found 23 species
of shorebirds feeding on Rocky Noun.
tain locusts in Nebraska, some OF
them consuming large numbers. Even
under ordinary conditions grasshop-
pers are staple food Of many mem.
bers Of the shorebird family.
Shorebirds are fond Of other insect
pests of forage and grain crops, In
cluding the army worm. which is
known to be eaten by the killdeer and
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30
COSTLY HATS THROWN AWAY
Garbage Collector of Seattle, WASH.
Dumps Valuable Headeear Into
City Refuse Dump.

Seattle, Wash.-No Senegambian
satrap will stalk the jungles of the
Dark Continent with prouder grace
than will mark the carriage of several
dozen sons of Italy, engaged in the
honorable and sanitary occupation Of
transporting Seattle's garbage to the
dump-that is, If the police depart.
ment fails in efforts to recover 5000
worth of Panama hats that Singerman
e. Sons, at Second avenue and Seneca
street, had planned to sell this sprins
Because box that he found in the
rear of the Singerman store was light
scavenger jumped to the conclusion
that it contained only excelsior. He
carted 1t away and cast it off at the
city dump I the foot of Mercer
street. on Lake Union. Zip! Upon
the odorous heap of refuse bounced
the box full of expensive Panamas
The hats remained undisturbed for
several days. Then a garbage man
with q well-developed bump of curios
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30

slides like great screws which the
iron cylinders inclose
When the bags reach the bottom of
the cylinder the first stage of their
handling is ended. From that point
they drop on to one of a number of
continually moving endless belt con-
veyors, which travel just above the
roofs of the cars of the waiting train
Each cylinder leads to a certain belt
and each belt serves the trains set
on a certain track. But as all the
mail is not carried in one car, a third
operation is necessary. Standing on
the platform beside the train are a
number of movable curved chutes just
long enough to reach from the con-
veyor belts to the door of the mail
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30
Flower Keeps Its Freshness.

A common South African flower
possesses the valuable property OF
keeping fresh for two months or more
after cutting. 1t is white star of
Bethlehem. producing compact
spike of flowers on a stiff. erect stalk
lS inches or two feet long. The flow.
ers are of a thin and papery tissue. all
white except the yellow anthers. 1t
can be sent over as a cut flower from
South Africa to England. and then
lasts for weeks In water.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30
SINGER KEEPS QUEER VOW
Sings as "Tramp" In Fourteen States,
Wandering Incognito Over
1000 Miles.

Chicago.-After fulfilling vow
which he made eight months ago that
he would conceal his name, travel in
disguise, make no appeal to friends,
but would support himself by singing
classical and grand opera music with
out the advantage Of an established
reputation and conventional dress,
Henry Martin Best, composer, mu-
sician and singer, whose home is at
4402 Michigan avenue and whose fam
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30
EV HE term shorebird is applied to
n a group of long-legged, slender
5 billed, and usually plainly col
IA prpd birds halon pinp tp tho pr-


der Limicolae, writes w. l.. Nc
Atee in bulletin issued by the bureau
of biological survey, United States de
partment of agriculture. More than
sixty species Of them occur in North
America. True to their name they
frequent the shores of all bodies OF
water, large and small, but many OF
them are equally at home on plains
and prairies.
throughout the eastern United
States shorebirds are fast vanishing
While formerly numerous species
swarmed along the Atlantic coast and
In the prairie regions, many of them
have been so reduced that eXtermina-
ton seems imminent. The black-bel-
lied plover or beetlehead which oc.
Cured along the Atlantic seaboard in
great numbers years ago, is now seen
only as a straggler. The golden plover,
once exceedingly abundant east Of the
great plains, is now rare Vast hordes
of long-billed dowitchers formerly win
tered In Louisiana; now they occur
only In infrequent flocks of half
dozen or less. The Eskimo curlew
within the last decade has probably
been exterminated and the other cur
Jews greatly reduced In fact, all the
larger species of shorebirds have suf-
fered severely.
So adverse to shorebirds are present
conditions that the wonder Is that any
escape. In both fall and spring they
are shot along the whole route of their
migration, north and south. Their
habit Of decoying readily and per-
sistently. coming back in focks to the
decoys again and again. in spite of
murderous volleys, greatly lessons
their chances of escape
The breeding grounds OF some of
the species In the United States and
Canada have become greatly restrict
ed by the extension of agriculture, and
their winter ranges In South America
have probably been restricted In the
same way.
Unfortunately, shorebirds lay fewer
eggs than any of the other species
generally termed game birds. They
deposit only three or four eggs, and
hatch only one brood yearly. Nor are
they in any wise immune from the
great mortality known to prevail
among the smaller birds. Their eggs
and young are constantly preyed upon
during the breeding season by crows,
gulls and jaegers, and the far north
ern country to which so MANY Of them
resort to nest is subject to sudden cold
storms, which kill many of the young.
In the more temperate climate of the
United States small birds, in general.
do not bring UP more than one young
bird for every two eggs laid. Some
times the proportion of loss Is much
greater, actual count revealing a de-
struction OF seventy to eighty per
cent. Of nests and eggs. Shorebirds,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30
Rats Nest Yields $3.50.

Trenton, N. J.-patrolman Patrick
k1rwick has received word from the
treasury department at Washington
that the basket of torn money which
he found under the floor of his home
would only net $3.50. kirwick fully
expected that there would be several
thousand dollars in the scraps. How.
ever, he says it is almost enough to
clear the little mortgage on his home.
so he Is thankful.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30

ity directed his No. 9s against a side
OF the box, crashing 1t in and dis.
closing the headgear to view. I'm
mediately a riot ensued and the
garbage men bore down upon that
box. Within less than a minute every
hat had been appropriated, even those
that were torn in the scramble.
Not until every scavenger in DOS
session of a Panama is behind the
bars, say the detectives, will they rest.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30
Why Australia Has ThrIved.

We believe 1t to be the case that
the conditions Of Australia. where re-
ward is more proportionate to ability
and effort and less dependent than in
an old country upon birth and favor.
lead to the development among ma
tives Of the commonwealth, on the
average, of greater activity Of mind
and body than is found among the ma
tives of the United Kingdom.-British
Australasian.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30
SkillfuI Work.

An expert workman In one of the
great needle factories, in IA test OF
skill. performed one of the most deli
cate feats imaginable. He took
common sewing needle of medium
size, an inch and f1ve-eighths in length,
and drilled a hole through its entire
length from eye to point.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30
His Allment.

whats the matter with your
nephew that's sick over at Skeedee?"
"Oh. he prescribed for himself out
of a doctor book" replied the Old
Codger. "and nearly killed himself
with a misprint."
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30
Woman's Influence,

For a woman to be wise and at the
same time womanly is to WELD ire
mendous influence which may be felt
tor good in the lives Of generations to
come.-Dayid Starr Jordan
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30

car, and by means of an ingenious
automatic tripping arrangement each
pouch, as it reaches the point above
the car for which it is destined, falls
from the belt into the curved chute
and lands on the floor of the car.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30
Worth hcedjno.

When blows of affection or bereave.
ment fall, the best advice for our
needs is that scrap of street wisdom
that fioated to my ears: Keep quiet
and 60 on" "-Exchange.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30
EnllQhtened.

THE restaurant we went to has
such a handsome pet cat"
Nov | know what 1t means!"
what what means?"
II heard 'em talking there about
puss cafe"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30
Up to the Bachelors,

If every bachelor would contribute
$50 to a common fund there would be
no dependent children.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30

Keep physically active. The inert
girl who hates to move is usually the
greatest grumbler about her health.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30
As to Honesty.

The man who would not trust an,
body else gives himself a poor recon-.
mendatiop.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-06-30

To find solidity of a sphere null
tiply cube of diameter by 1926.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-15

The movement Tor cooperation be
tween the principal educational insti-
buttons o. Michigan. including the uni
Versity, college OF mines and agricul-
ural college, 10 do away with waste
and duplication in courses OF study.
started AT a meeting OF the college
presidents at Detroit this week, is the
idea OF Governor Osborn. who FIRST
presented II in his initial message 10
the legislature. IL is a step in the
right direction. inasmuCh as it will in
crease the efficiency OF the institutions
and lead 10 effective cooperation.
Much competition exists between the
schools and instead OF drawing closer
together for the good OF the state they
have been getting farther and farther
apart Eventually. too. the movement
will result ia a considerable saving 20
the state.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-15
"THls DATE IN HISTORY"

1495-Catherine of Arragon, first
wife of Henry VIII of England, born
Died 1886.
17S9-The first circulating library
was established In Salem, Mass.
i796-Gen. Anthony Wayne died In
Pressure Icle, Pa. Born i'm Easttown
Pa. Jan. 1. 1745.
IS09-Divorce of the Emperor Napo-
leon and the Empress Josephine.
Is4O-Remains of Napoleon Napoleon
/. conveyed from Cherbourg to Paris
and laid i'm the tomb of the lnvalides.
1S6l-Gen. Thomas attacked Gen
Hoods army near Nashville.
IS9S-Calvin c. Brice, American flnan-
cier. died. Born Sept. Z. lSi5.
1S99-British under Gen. Butler de-
feated by the Beers at Colenso.
19O6-The new law separating church
and state went into force in France.