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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-01-12

just this side the Cimmaron Crossing
out on the Santa Fee trail"
But do you know it was General
Waite" the mans insistent tone full
of doubt.
Il have no question about it," re-
turned Keith, conclusively. The man
was Waite's size and general appear
ance, with gray beard, similar to the
one | remember he wore during the
war He had been scalped, and his
face beaten beyond recognition, but
papers in his pockets were sufiici
to prove his identity. Besides, he and
his companion-a young fellow named
Sibley-were known to have pulled out
two days before from Carson City"
when was this?"
Ten days ago"
Fairbanks lips smiled, the rudy
coloring sweeping back into his
cheeks.
Damn me. Keith, you came near
giving me a shock" he said, jerkily'
shouldn't be so careless-not sure
my hearts just right-tendency to
apoplexy. too-got to be guarded
against. Now, let me tell you some
thing-maybe you buried some poor
devil out at Cimmaron Crossing-bu
It wasn't Willis Waite How do
know? Because saw him, and talked
with him yesterday-damn me, ii !
didn't, right here in this town"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-01-12
Classified Mail.

Good morning." the young woman
said as she stepped to the window at
the post office rs there a letter for
me today?'
I'll look" the clerk answered.
The young woman blushed a little.
and she added. TITS business letter"
The man inside the window took up
a handful OF letters and looked them
over hastily. Then he informed the
customer that there was nothing for
her; and with great disappointment
depicted on her lovely features. she
went away. In FIVE minutes she was
back again-this time blushing more
furiously than before.
IL deceived you" she stammered.
TIT wasn't a business letter | was
expecting. Will you please see II
there lie something for me among the
love lsttsrsf-
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-01-12
A saoksIidino Santa claus.

Mrs. Peavish says that before they
were married Mr.. Peavish used to say
that if she would let him be her Santa
Claus he would devote his life to slid
ing up and down the chimney for
her. And now 1t makes him mad to
have to take up ashes from the CRATE
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-01-12
RATES HIGH ENOUGH
SECOND-CLASS INCREASE PLAN
sTlRS PUBLISHERS.
Efficiency Of Htchcock's Management
of the Post Office Department
Attacked by the A.. N. p. A.

Washington.-The A. N. P. A..
through it's postal committee of which
Don. C. Seitz of New York is chair
man. has Joined in the fight against
the proposed increase in second-class
rates and in its last bulletin the COM
mittee attacks the management of the
post office department. The bulletin
is as follows
The extent to which the post
office department does not carry Sec
ond-class matter is well revealed In
the following abstract of inquiry OF
publishers conducted by house com
mittee on expenditures in the post
office department civilian A. Ash
brook, chairman concerning the vol
ume, weight and handling of the out
put of publications entered as mall
matter of the second-class for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1911:
Inquiry was made of all publish
ers, approximating thirty thousand. of
which nearly seventeen thousand are
weekly publications.
"'More than ten thousand returns
were received, embracing sixty-six
plus per cent of all tonnage of pub
locations
1.-The publications reporting repre-
sent an annual output of more than
six and one-half billion copies, the
weight of which was one and three
quarter billion pounds.
"'These publications delivered oy'
mail in such period weighed 633,012,-
902 pounds.
"'They delivered by their own car
riers, newsboys, and news companies
40,466,574 pounds, of which an unas-
certained percentage was carried to
destination by express and other rail
shipments outside the mail. They de-
livered by express, 02,729,510 pounds.
and by other rail shipments 121, 491,-
74S pounds. The rate by express and
rail varies from a to 1 cent per
pound, but the bulk of these ship
ments went at rate Of Il to " cent
per pound.
"'The post office for the year end
ing June 80, 1911, handled 1,001.-
500, and excluding one-half million
pounds free In county matter, 1t re-
ceived one cent per pound
"All this goes to add to the abb
surdity of TIE proposed Hitchcock leg
i3lation doubling the second-class rate
from one to two cents per pound, and
limiting the privilege to publications
that carry as much reading matter as
they do advertising
THE proposition was stupid enough
when the postal deficit reached ST..
100000 two years ago. 1t becomes
preposterous in face of surplus.
what business has a transporta-
ton corporation, which is all the post
office u.s. to prescribe how a business
shall be conducted?
Newspapers cannot afford to ex-
pand their columns beyond the call
of the days news nor can they be
expected to control the requirements
Of their advertisers who have right
to reach the public as copiously as
they care to.
1T cannot be assumed that such
legislation will ever get by congress.
But publishers are requested to fight
the theory that the right to send their
output by mail is a privilege" The
figures show it is not.
The post office is a badly man
aged business. That is all We
should fight its dictation, its censor
ship and its inefficiency."
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-01-12
AGAINST His PRINCIPLES.

The poor, starving goat spied pa
per in the alley. Thinking it would
stay the pangs of hunger, he ran to-
ward it. But when he saw it, he
sadly shook his head and murmured;
NO, cannot eat it. l am no can
nibal."
For it was an old copy of the Rams
Horn.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-01-12
Keith Elbowed His Way Through Heterogeneous Crowd

on the Arkansas" he explained brief
ly. Ibid you know General Waite
was dead?"
The Doctors rudy face whitened.
"Dead?-Willis Waite dead?" he re-
peated What do you mean. sir? Are
you sure? When%
Il ought to be sure; l buried him
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-01-12
Went Deep for Foundation.

In excavating the foundation Of New
York's municipal building new
record has been made for depth. At
the southern end of the STRUCTURE,
which will house between 5000 and
5000 city employees when finished, the
"sandbags" went down 1S9 feet below
the curbline. or 1O7 feet below sea
level.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-01-12
Consistency.

Il suppose you always say exactly
what you Think" 81 try to-" replied
Senator Sorghum; but also try ia
avoid thinking anything It would MOI
be expedient for ne 10 say"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-01-12
Love at First slqht.

"And did you ever love any girl be
fore you were introduced to me
Charlie?" said the bride Of a fey
months.
"Oh, yes" was the mans reply.
you did?"
"Surel When l first saw you."
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-01-12
Caricatures on the Stage

a gentleman nor an American It ia
true he no longer calculates by
goshi" or Il calculate" but he con-
tinues to be a caricature. and a bad
caricature at that.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-01-12

Madge-I refused Jack eight times
before finally saying yes"
Ethel-Why did you change your
mind?
Madge-I didn't. | was merely Sec
ing If he would change his.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-01-12
The Worst.

He-I shouldn't marry unless the
woman was my exact opposite.
She-Youll never find so perfect Q
being as that!
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-01-12
What He Wanted.

Weary Willie-Dese horseless keT-
ridges is great, isn't dey?
Anxious Arthur-Yep; but what dey
orter invent is a biteless dorg.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02
Making it Worth While.

A neighborhood bully had run over
a smaller boy so often that the father
of the latter was impal]ed to say to
him:
Sonny, when I was youngster my
father licked me every time any boy
did. I am not going to do that with
Won. Instead, I'm going to give you
81 every time you polish off that
Jones boy
For several days the youngster
showed up slightly mussed, but silent.
At the end of the second week he put
in a bill for SO. 1t was itemized and
circumstantial and backed by a couple
of vouchers in the way Of teeth.-Ch1-
cago Post.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02
Pointed Paragraphs.

1t takes a shrewd man to get rich
in spite of his wife.
Silence is golden when it is pur-
chased with hush money.
There's many slip 'twixt the
solitaire and the marriage altar.
Anything you set for nothing is
usually worth a little less.
It's easy for a man to be patient
with a stupid woman if she is pretty
The only time bore is not bore
is when he talks to us about our
selves
One seldom hears a married man
boast that he never made "a mistake
in his life.
A woman never overlooks an op-
portunity to put it all over her neigh
bors in some way.
Give some men rope enough in the
guise of campaign cigars and they'll
vote the other ticket.
Nearly every day we read of some
poor man who unexpectely inherit
ed large fortune, but we never met
any of them.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02
Dramatic Snap.
Lippincott'S.

lLippincotts.
A number of players and playwrights
at the Lambs Club were discussing
the question of what constitutes the
SNAP" so persistently demanded OF
the dramatist by the manager of to-
day.
"I have talked to so many managers
on this subject" said one writer, "but
none has been able to give me any
very definite notion as to just what
snap is"
ET can help you out" SAID Eugene
Walter. "I have an idea for one-act
play that just bursts with snap. III
give it to you Here it is:
"Play opens with man and woman
in drawing-room, seated side by side
on sofa and embracing each other
passionately.
Enter to them man with a suit
case and an umbrella. He is, of course,
to all intents, husband Unexpectedly
returned.
Husband no sooner takes in the Sit
uation than he yanks out revolver
and shoots both man and woman.
"Then he takes out his glasses, puts
them on, looks about him, and sudden
ly gives a start.
"Mercifui heavens!' he exclaims.
I'm on the wrong floor!"
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02

The Spartanburg Journal says that
cit has been argued to Mayor Grace
that if he attempts to speak in Spar
tanburg he will be howled down; he
will not be accorded a hearing and
there may be trouble" The Spartan
burg Journal then goes on to say: do
we live in an age of barbarism, when
the mayor of the largest city in the
State will not be accorded a courteous
hearing before an audience composed
of the citizens of Spartanburg? Have
we been driven so insane over State
politics that reason, politeness, cour-
tesy, have left us?'
We beg to suggest to the Journal
that possibly the people of Spartan
burg have regard for decency, and do
not care to be addressed by man
who has descended to the vile depths
to which Grace has descended.
The Spartanburg Journal in the
same issue says that to "preservei
common decency" it could not print
certain vulgar stuff-evidently refer
ing to the foul words which came
from the mouth of Grace. And yet it
thinks that reason, politeness, cour-
tesy" would demand for Grace re-
spectful hearing before Spartanburg
audience.
The Journals politics seems to have
made it somewhat inconsistent.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02
GRACE AND THE PRESS.

A portion of the statement of Jno.
P. Grace, mayor of Charleston, which
was carried by the Columbia State and
the News and Courier, is too vile for
publication in the columns Of The
Herald and News. How the Columbia
State and the News and Courier man
aged to get through the mails, in the
face of the inhibition against obscene
matter, we do not understand.
The remainder of Grace's card is
published in The Herald and News
today. By his own words Grace has
branded himself as man who wal
lows in the mire of filthy thoughts and
filthy words. That the people OF
South Carolina will believe the state
ments of such man is asking too
much.
It is a sad day for South Carolina
when her two leading dailies, in their
mad efforts to defeat Governor Blease,
lend their columns to matter unfit to
20 into the homes of the people of
South Carolina. Grace has proven
himself too contemplate even for
pity, and is unworthy of notice.
Writhing in the agony of malice and
of spite, he has put himself beyond
the pale of common decency. That a
human being should descend so low
is sad, it is true, and re regret that
he is a South Carolinian.
But, without the aid of newspapers
who are fighting Governor Blease,
Grace was. powerless to have his filth
carried into the homes of the people
of the State. That is the sad part of
the spectacle-that Grace's foul words
and lewd vaporings should be seized
upon and presented as dainty morsels
by a press which, in it's desperation,
has shown by this act to what lengths
it will go to try to stem the tide that
is bearing Governor Blease to victory.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02
DR.. w. C. Houseal, Of Newberry

DR.. w. G. Houseal, of New5erry,
than whom there is no more upright
man and physician in South Caro-
lima, knows something of the COVER
nor's condition the night preceding
the Inauguration, having taken the
governor from Newberry to Colum-
bia, leaving Newberry on the South
ern train at 9.05 p. m, Governor
Blease being at that time very sick
man and in DR.. Houseal's charge.
Grace says "about the nastiest recol-
lection" of his life was a "scene at
Wright's hotel the night before bis
(Blease's) Inauguration. 1t was the
first real insight I had ever had into
Blease and the atmosphere in which
he moved" says Grace.
So much for Mayor Grace's verac-
ity.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02
Some Poetry in Reply.

Editor The Herald and News: In re-
ply to a few lines appearing in the
Sunday issue of the Columbia State,
I would be glad if you will print the
following:
In answer to the poet of Norway,
I've only this to say:
Just ask the people of Horray,
What two more years of Blease will
pay.
Even Reed and his detectives,
Tom Fielder and his tribe,
Failed to get the evidence,
Or the dictagraph to brlbe
Yes, where was South Carolina,
Just two years ago;
And where will the Norway poet be,
! Whenl Blease is elected two years
more.
They say, robbers, thieves and out
laws,
In him a friend doth find;
But where'll the good aristocrats be,
When their pardons Blease declines.
Ask Mister Tom Watson,
Who lives in another State,
What the Augusta meeting did,
For Ira B. Jones fate.
They say the Blease men are thi
scrapings,
The scrapings they may be;
But they are going to scrape the coun-
try,
Fore Cole L. Blease, you'll see.
We are all for higher morals
But where do these things be?
Is it in the makeup Cole,
Or that of Ira "B"?
This is for you to decide but the
writer prefers Mr.. Blease.
Respectfully
Citizen.
Little Mountain, July 80.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02
Reflections of a Bachelor.

New York Press.
Every man in parade acts as if
it's all for him.
A man can worry heap more over
his badness than his debts.
A price tag gets pinned to about
everything, including mercy.
A successful man can be lot
prouder of his children than they OF
him.
A man needs money to get married,
and then he needs more of it forever
after.
Snobbish people go on hunt for an
ancestor and buy him in an old pic
ture shop.
Being smart aleck can get a person
into more trouble than being Ounce.
The reason the whole family spoils
the baby is because each one thinks
nobody else ought to do it.
Tie way woman keeps free from
sea-sickness is to stay in her cabin
a,7 tida it from others.
If YOU live in a rented furnished
room. select hall clock, price $175,
for your wife.
Everybody gets a. rest some time
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02
Purely Ornamental.

A small applicant for assistance
was being interviewed by the charity
worker
what is your father?'' asked the
latter.
"Es me father
"Yes, but what is hep
ooh, e's me stepfather."
Eyes, yes, but what does he do?
Does he sweep chimneys or drive bus
ses or what?'
"O-o-w," exclaimed the small appli-
cant with dawning light Of comprehen-
sion. No, e. amt done nothin' since
we've 'ad 'im."-London Tit-Bits.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02
DIR. Harms Lectured.

The Normal had been invited by the
trustees to have at least one lecture
at Summerland, the location for the
new Lutheran college for women. The
invitation was accepted for Wednes-
dav night and DR.. J. H. Harms, pres
ident of Newberry college was the lee
turer. This lecture was a rare treat
to al who heard it.-LeXington Route
2 cor. Leesville News Advocate, 1st,
from Sunday school normal.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02
WHAT WAS THEIR OBJECT?

King and Watson claimed to have
gone to the governors mansion to Sc
cure respite for negro under death
sentence. 1t now develops, according
to the Yorkville Enquirer, that there
was no need of respite to delay the
execution, as the notice of appeal
served as a stay of execution. 1t seems
that two men who were going from
Greenville to Columbia in connection
with a case of this kind must have
known the facts in the case. The ques-
ton then arises, What were King and
Watson at the mansion for-what was
their object there?
The following is from the Yorkville
Enquirer
There has been another develop
ment in connection with that Stake
Morris case, out of which there grew
such a sensational scandal because of
the governors alleged discourteous
and rough treatment of King and
Watson, two Greenville men who went
to the governors mansion two Sun
days ago to get, so they claimed, a
reprieve for the condemned negro. 1t
will be remembered that Watson and
King went into the newspapers with
a story that they had been elected from
the governors mansion, without
cause. The governor On being forced
to explain the situation for political
reasons, said that the men who ac-
cording to his assertion were drunk,
had acted so badly that he had to
make them get away. There has been
a lot in the papers about the whole
ugly affair, and partizans have been
believing whichever side of the story
that seemed in most harmony with
their political sentiments. 1t turns
out that Stake Morris was not hanged
last Friday, the day ON which he was
sentenced to be hanged, and there was
no reprieve either. AS matter of
fact, according to the Greenville News,
the negro was not to have been hang
ed on the day he was sentenced to be
hanged. Immediately after the con-
viction of the negro, his lawyers gave
notice of motion for a new trial, and
after sentence was pronounced they
served notice of appeal. The notice of
appeal servd as a stoy of execution and
there was no need whatever for the
reprieve that Watson and King claim
ed to have gone to the executive man.
sion for The negro cannot be electro
cuted until after he shall have been rs
sentenced at the next term of the
Greenville general sessions in Sep
tember.''
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02

"It is amusing" says the Manning
Times, ''to witness the antics of those
newspapers which few months ago
were denouncing John P Grace as if
he were pickpocket. They predict
ed all kinds of shame upon Charles
ton did he become its chief executive,
but now they are falling upon his
neck with Joy every time ne comes out
in the newspapers and denounces
Gov. Blease."
1t would be amusing, had it not
passed the stage of amusement and
gone into the realm of the vile and
filthy.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02

Crops are promising this years
throughout Newberry county. There
was rain on Wednesday night and
Thursday morning in sections which
had. been suffering for rain, and the
outlook was very much improved. The
Crops are promising this year
crops this year bid fair to come up to
the average of a good many years
past.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02
HumOr of the Day.

Prudent Mother-Now, my dear
don't let any man come too near you
when courting.
Discreet daughter-No, mother;
when Charles is here, we always have
one chair between, US!
And the mother does not yet know
what her daughter intended to convey
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02

Rural school education and road i'm
provement are two questions which
are engaging the attention of county
candidates throughout the State.
These are the questions of most vital
Importance in South Carolina at this
time
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02
STATE CAMPAIGN DATES.
One Week OFF.


One Week OFF.
Camden, Monday, August 5.
Lancaster, Tuesday, August 6.
Yorkville, Wednesday, August Z.
Gaffney, Thursday, August 8.
Spartanburg, Friday, August 9.
Union, Saturday, August 10.
Newbery, Tuesday, August 13.
Laurens, Wednesday, August IA.
Greenwood, Thursday, August Is.
Abbeville, Friday, August 16.
Anderson, Saturday, August II.
Walhalla, Tuesday, August 20.
Pickens, Wednesday, August 81.
Greenville, Thursday, August %.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02

81 hear that DR.. Smith is treating
you," said his friend.
eyes," answered Dobson.
What is he doing for you?"
"Well," said Dobson, 1--WE chat to-
gether; he writes prescriptions and l
tear them up, and then I feel better" "
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02

1t is a high solemn, awful thought,
for every individual man that his
earthly influence, which has had a
commencement, will never through all
ages. were he the very meanest OF
us, have an end.-Thomas Carlyle.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02

The publication of this Grace filth
strongly reminds us of that "buzzard
cartoon" which appeared in the Co.
lumbia State just prior to the primary
election two years ago.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02

Jno. P. Grace says he thinks some
of his editorials written in the cam
paign of two years ago were repub-
lished in The Herald and News. We
do not recall that this is fact, but
if it is, we desire to apologize to our
readers.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02

Absentminded husband Tin Paris)
My wife asked me to get her some
Eau-de-Cologne while l was here;
now. what the deuce is eau-de-cologne
in French?
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02
The Love That Dyes.

She-would you love me better,
dearest, if my hair were a different
color?
He-Well, I don't know, darling.
What other colors have you?-Sketch.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02

What a young man earns in the
day time goes into his pocket, but
what he spends in the evening goes
into his characterize. Cuyler.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02

Let's not forget the split-log drag
and the wonders it will do for the
roads if given a chance.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02
but mother.

but mother.
What makes a woman look so cool
on a hot day is she doesn't feel So
Being able to stay out of debt is
commonplace, being able to stay in
is artistic.
A girl acts about an engagement
in the family the way volunteer fire
department does over village burning
up.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02

1t will be relief when the cam
paign is over.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02
Cotton Weigher at Pomaria.

M. O. Livingston was on Thursday
elected cotton weigher at Pomaria.
There were several in the race.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02

Now is the time 10 subscribe to The
Herald and News, one year S1.50, six
months 75c., four months SOC.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-02

Editor The Herald and News: In re-
ply to a few lines appearing in the
Sunday issue of the Columbia State,
I would be glad if you will print the
following: