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The Washington herald., 1913-11-16

and hard work had been my lot so far.
And now even the coal mines Were closed
against me. There Is no bitterness. how
ever. in my heart Life has turned out
much better than ever planned.
''Old John Stuart Mil was right when
he said that the men who deserve the
largest pay because they do the hardest
and most necessary work get the small
est wages doled out by society ] would
rather serve In Congress and be paid a
coal miners wages, than dig coal for
1850 a year, which is the salary given
to a Congressman.
A Great Day for David ,. Lewis.
We'll the young friend whom I men,
toned spoke of me to Benjamin A. Rich
mond. then a lawyer at Cumberland and
now the general attorney for the Western
Maryland Railroad. Mr.. Richmond in
vited me TO can at his oiflce.
DO you know any Latin?' he asked.
as I stood hat in hand. and much abashed
at the side Of his desk.
e No. 1 reluctantly answered. looking
down at the clay on my shoes.
Amy French?'
No. sorrowfully repeated. And then
a happy. though. laughable. inspiration
came into my head. But / said. hurry
ing to my own rescue with hope and con-
fidence, I know little Welsh
Mr.. Richmond did . not laugh. He
Quizzed me further and then put Kent's
Commentaries on American Law into nay
eager hands. I was the happiest little
Welsh-American In the United States
Moses, when he received the tables OF
stone, could not have been more i'm
pressed I walked back to the clay mines
on air.
during the daytime and studied law at
night. Whenever finished a book
would go to Cumberland, be examined
by Mr.. Richmond, and get another book
In the meantime took lessons In Latin
from Rev. John W. Mott. These were
golden days for David John Lewis 1
was admitted 10 the bar at the age of
The Washington herald., 1913-11-16
Futurist SchooII,"y.
m the Ncr YORK World.

From the NeS York World.
An eight-year-old schoolboy at Hunt
ington, w. Va. has become puzzle
to the teachers and to specialists in
chiIdren's diseases because he does every
thing the wrong way. He makes all his
letters and figures upside down. writes
from right to left. sings his low notes
high and his high ones low, and gen
orally reverses the normal process A
great future ought to be in store for
a boy who begins life with these excep-
tionaI advantages The whole present
tendency Of social and intellectual prog
ress is to turn things upside down.
and here is a lad who can do the
trick automatically and not as the re-
suit of arduous practice. What q cubist
he will make i'm he devotes himself to
art, What a Bernard Shaw or Gilbert
X. Chesterton In literature. In music ne
NAV out-S.rauss Richard q that name.
and in politics he may even measure
IN TO the standards OF a California Pro-
gressiye II he takes up flying he can
start where Pegoud leaves on. The
world is all before this gifted child TO
do with as he lIkes-it Is his oyster to
open with sword or pen or whatever inn
plement he elects. In other times he
would have been an object of awe and
mystery as the marvellous boy who was
TO set things right. Even now it.may
be thought he Is the child that Is 10
though to that supposition there is the
objection that he is not a eugenics child
bet the offspring Of ordinary p&rs1k
The Washington herald., 1913-11-16

twenty three. and Immediately opened an
ofice Of my own. NY cash capital
amounted to SIS 4 had earned II and
saved 1t while mining, clay
"My practice paid me more the nrst
year j was at the bar than could have
earned at digging coal or clay. had
no cases that fuzily' had TO be settled
in> the United States supreme Court.
which was fortunate for smyselt@a @and my
clients. but / was bdsy and very happy,
and the following year was married 8
..The coal operators who banished me
from the trade OF my fathers did me a
great though unintentional, favor. !
bear them no malice
Copyright. ISIS. by James B. Mor-Owo
The Washington herald., 1913-11-16
SENATE CLOTURE
AGAIN DISCUSSED
Latitude Of Debate Soon May
Be Considered by
Members.
POWER TO HOLD FLOOR
Present Rule Declared to Make Ply
sicL Strength the Test Of Ability
to Prevent Legislation.

Can no circumstance except physical
exhaustion compel Senator to cease
speaking when he wishes for any pur-
pose to hold the floor OF the Senate?
This question. and others connected there
with will engage the attention of that
august body during the next regular ses-
sion OF Congress in what promises to be a
vigorous fight on the present rules OF
the Senate.
Senator Owen. some months ago. pre-
scented. "cloture rule" which would per-
init the Senate to limit debate. The
House now limits debates under present
rules. thereby saving time, but also
arousing the minority TO repeated charges
of gag-rule. czarism. and all the favorite
epithets bred by a hundred years of
partisan contention in Congress.
In 1sIs. the charge OF irrelevance was
made frequently during Senatorial de-
bates. The Senators were much in ear
nest and put their opinions to the test
Of vote. In two cases It was decided
that the Senators were not speaking ir-
relevantly and in a third case, when SEN
ator ,Foote had discussed at length and
with many ramihcations of phrase. the
Oregon territory bill, the Senate decided
that the orator was proceeding along ir-
relevant lines. and by tie vote refused
to sustain him in his demand that he be
permitted to Keep. the moor.
Freedom of Debate.
In 1872, the question again reached a
vote; II was then decided that a Senator
Is entitled TO some freedom Of remarks
in the course of speech, and ever since
for forty-one years-the rule against
tedious, irrelevant and superfiuous speech
has been dead letter.
Unlimited debate in the Senate has led
to some Of its most dramatic moments
A few Senators talked to death the So
called force bill; Senator Carter killed q
rivers and harbors bill; Senators La Fol-
lotte, Clarke OF Arkansas, and Gore came
near talking to death the Aldrich-Vree-
land emergency currency bill. and failed
only because Senator Gore, who is blind,
failed to be Informed when he gave up
the floor that Senator Clarke was not in
the chamber, ready to proceed with the
filibuster.
Senator Fall OF New Mexico only last
session talked the Indian appropriation
bill to death at the close Of the session,
being aroused by the proposal to remove
a number of Apache Indian war prisoners
from Fort Sill. Okla, to New Mexico.
Unless unexpected harmony Is exhibited
during debate Of the banking and cur
rency bill, proposed by the present ad-
ministration, It's leaders will probably
have occasion to wish many times that
a cloture rule were a part OF the laws
of the Senate.
The Washington herald., 1913-11-16
D~eorusion of Altar.

Next morning the altar is set up
cleared circle Of earth. with a buffalo
skull In the center, and sometimes
sand painting sands OF different
colors. suitably arranged. taking the
place of pigments I'm this curious form
of aboriginal art. Green bushes and
young trees are sometimes planted
about the altar.
The priests then decorate the bodies
(naked. except for loineloth) Of the
dancers who are 10 take part the de-
signs employed being symbols OF the
sun. the moon. the morning star sc.
In addition. the dancers are adorned
with green willow wreaths. which en-
circle their heads. their waists, their
wrists. and their ankles These
wreaths are emblems OF the sun. Four
, old men who lake part in the perform
ance are supposed to represent the four
quarters Of the earth.
During the progress OF the dancing
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Of SIovenlv Ennlish.

The New York School board. in an eff
fort TO correct careless speech, has is
sued a pamphlet calling attention to the
more common errors of pronunciation
among the pupils. Some of these errors,
such as are largely confined to New Eng
land, but most of them are equally com
mon here. For example, there is togo
for third, "goil for girl, "wite" for
white, whisper for whisper, ''azid" for
acid, throw" for throw, finger for
finger, ''wass' for was, "w'ere for where
etc The teachers We're urged to pay es-
nunciation with a view to correcting
gross blunders. Illiteracy alone is by
no means the sole agency that tends to
corrupt the tongue There are those who
sin boldly and wifully against the light
and who do it with a kind of bravado
Just why it is that "A crisp, clean enun-
citation should be regarded by many So
called educated persons as mark OF
effeminacy is a mystery hard to solve
yet no one can deny such is the fact. The
late Kyle Bellew, who trained so many
actors to speak English with pure ac-
cent, once told of a promising young ac-
tor in his support who, when remon-
strated with for his slovenly enunciation
frankly admitted that he feared people
would think him effeminate If he gave his
vowels and consonants their just due
Chicago Record Herald.
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Sulphur Showers.

Many persons are aware that in spring
and especially in early spring, it happens
that after a shower the edge of every
pool of water in the streets and along the
sidewalks will he bordered by a rim OF
pale yellow color. AS the water evap-
CRATES this ring remains as a fine pow
derry mass, so much resembling sulphur
as to have given rise to the name sui
phur showers" This so called sulphur is,
of course, not sulphur at all. When ex-
amined under the microscope it is found
TO be made up of a mass of the yellowish
pollen grains of pine trees.
Instead of consisting of single cell, as
dc most pollen grains, that of the pine
consists Of three cells, the two larger end
ones being filed with air and the other
containing the ordinary fertilizing prin-
eiple. The two air-containing cells are
larger than the other, and act as balloons
to buoy it up in the air.
In pines and allied trees fertilization
OF the cones. by which they are enabled
10 set and develop Seeds is accomplished
by the wind-that is, the pollen is pro-
daeed in immense quantities and is trans
ported through the air to the cones,
which are often on separte, widely dis
tant trees. Thus it often happens that
the pollen gets up in the higher currents
OF the air, is carried for long distances,
and is only brought down to the earth
by the rain. producing the so-called
shower of sulphur.-Harper's Weekly.
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Good Old American Names.

IN tn na{Vs OF one day in New Yori;
We End that a man BY the name of Isl
dofe steinberg pleaded guilty TO biz
'mE IN TIC Court Of a Judge nam
Resalsky; Thar youth named T1np
oshefsRy was drowned; a man name
Blau was eonvict, d Of keeping disora
eriy resort; girl named Anna Gloon
#as principal witness in q nard
ease; a Madame lie Compte figured ia
domestic sensation; a certain Miss
.telia brought a breach of promise case.
9 Governor named Sulzer sent mes.
sage 70 the Legislature; Hannes Koleli-
mainen was the star of foot-race
another runner named Abel Kiyia;
made a fast trial spin: and a Mr.. Ma
Hochstim figured in a hotel scandal
me names of Klnoz, REMIT. Rrasi
cav, Levi, Harberg, Cola, ScbenlxeI
stoVeii, Meniak, DalIdorf, Jensen Yo.
homan Strappers. Lococq. Hplsa
Maeir1ch, Wirsing. Wexler szabo
tleteihaum, Trifari, Carnap. Loew
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MADISON.

The annual town meeting WAS called
to order in Union hall, at 10 a. NJ,
Monday. by Town Clerk S. E. Remick,
and G. o. Small was elected moderator.
Following the adoption of the report
Of the officers, Mr.. Remick was elected
clerk for another year. Other officers
elected We're: Selectmen, oVerseers of
poor and assessors. y. l.. Perkins, w
r. Clough, D. b. Hobart; treasurer, X
c Gray; member of school committee
for three years, Stanley Reiner; audi
tor and tax collector ]. T. Withee;
road commissioner. b. F. Burnes.
Notices have been sent out for tho
annual meeting of the Maine STATE
Breeders Association, which is 70 Do
held i'm Grange hall in Madison, hiareh
7. Al this time VIII come the annual
election of officers and plans will be
made for the work Of the ASSOCIATION
for the coming year.
". Z. Haskell of Union was Tn
guest Saturday and Sunday, Of MI
end Mrs. Amasa Gregory at their hom'
on Main street.
A party of 30 women gave Mrs j. A
Fletcher a call at the Methodist parson
age EdNOfaay dttSiAtpDtAf 80
being the anniversary of her birth. IN
party met at the residence of Mrs =
T. Haywood on Madison street ant
went 10 the parsonage in o body, "a 4
Ing Mrs. Betcher completely by sur
prise. The afternoon was Passed IN
jolly and informal social manner an
refreshments were served. Mrs. Betch-
or was the recipient of several tokens
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Hotel Butter and Coffee.

The bltler served il hotels costs more
per guest than the coffee. This is an
easily proved statement, for with but
ter costing 80 cents or more n pound
and with p pats to the pound each pat
l Il cents.
Coffee generally averages 60 cups to
the pound. and few hotels are paying
today, with coffee at its highest prlce
in 30 years more than 50 cents, and
most of them not over u or Is GEMS Il
pound. while some restaurants are
serving coffee at a still lower figure.
With the good profit there is in coffee,
surely no restaurant be it a hotel or
not. should be content To serve an in
ferior grade to its guests The Stew
ard.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-04

Scientists, making use of the centigrade
scale, now place the absolute zero OF
space at 273 degrees below zero, while
they estimate the heat of the suns sur
face as standing at 5000 degrees. All
kinds of life found on this globe are held
within the very narrow limits of 40 be-
low and 100 above zero. The temperature
limits of human life are of course very
much narrower many orders of plants
and animals thriving in degrees of cold
and heat that would quickly destroy man
without protective means, like clothing
and refrigeration. 1t is believed that life
has existed on the earth for some millions
of years and that, during that time, the
surface temperature of the globe has not
changed more than 2 per cent. from the
temperature of the surface of the sun.
Northrup, however, affirms that If a
stray star, colIided with the sun, or even
a good-sized meteorite, the earth's tenn
perature would easily be raised go degrees
centigrade-enough to destroy all forms
of life.--Homietic Review.
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CRAY FADED HAIR, OR Be- UTIFUL,
D RK,AT R CT|vt---C CHOOSE, MADAM!

brush with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
end draw it through your hair, taking
one small strand at 4 time. Those
whose hair is turning gray. becoming
faded, dry, scraggly and thin have l
surprise awaiting them, because after
just one application the gray hair van
ishes and your locks become luxuriant-
ly dark and beautiful-all dandruf
goes. scalp itching and falling hair
stops.
This is the age of youth, gray-haired.
Unattrac tive folks aren't wanted
around, so get busy with the Sage and
Sulphur tonight and you'll be, amazed
At your youthful appearance and the
real beauty and healthy condition of
your hair within few days. Inquiry
at drug stores here shows that they ali
sell lots of "Wyeths Sage and sulphur
and the folks using it are enthusiastic.
Special agents, Bowditch, Webster d
Co
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y 3E ~
Everyone who IS Interested IN the I'd
ing of the new telephone we y 'fsaS led
to be present at NIie uicetins tqz ~ field
Thursday sFanirfs at Grange haIl
Mr.. and Mrs. Is. d Tucker Mr% and
Mrs. H. a. Fuller and Tdaus1lfe1 Mrs.
Harry May. of Asbury Pack. Ns .JsFEere
calling on friends on the Hallowetlz 1Pad,
Sunday.
Mrs. Harry May and two childrcn Ber-
nice and Horace, who have beep ytsltzAg
Mrs. Mays parents. Mr.. and Mrs y. IN.
Fuller. will leave. Thursday, for theb
home in Asbury Park, n. J. s~ssssuexek
Frank Towld and Harry, ~
in Augusta, Saturday.
Ray De Fratus and MISC
diner passed Sunday at AZ Ws ~
Mr. and Mrs. Alters Wake14IN
tanned number of frisnds ~
day party at their home oftthe Haa
road Saturday evening. Gaines aud
sic were the order of the evepini3 e
cream. cake and confectionerwS WeTe
served and all present passed a very en-
joyable evening. ~
Mr.. and Mrs Eugene Wakefield were
Sunday callers on the Hallowell road.
Mrs. Basil Gordon and daughter poro-
thy, passed sunday with Mrs. Gordons
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. s Small.
Mrs Ethel Wessman and daughter
Phyllis, have returned home from asvisit
to Clarence Getchelfs on the Neck road
Mr.. and Mrs. VIII Rice visited friends in
East Winthrop last week
Mr. and Mrs. w. T. Fuller passed sun
day at the home of a. w. Fuller.
Mrs. Nelson Lunden of Easton is pass
ing few days with Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson
Dodge.
Mrs. Hannah Campbell is very i'll at the
home of Nelson Dodge.
Harley Dodge passed Sunday with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs Nelson Dodge
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AS to Perfection in Puns.

RecTudescence is noted of the old query,
as TO the most perfect pun i'm existence.
In London. at this time, Sir Charles Ma
pier. who undertook the conquest OF
Sind in 1872, which he completed by the
victory of Hyderahad in 1913. is credited
with notifying the home office of his tri-
umph in brief announcement beginning,
''Peccavi-L have Sind" a capital play
ON the province he had conquered. but,
of course. hardly likely to have been in
corporated in his military dispatches to
the home government. We still hold that
that other Englishman who was stirring
London with his Song of the Shirt" and
the Bridge of Signs about the time Ma
pier was laying siege to Hyderabad in
his comic ANIMALS gave birth to tie best
puns ever perpetuated. His most success
full use of this form of wit was when he
applied it in the humorous ballad telling
of the passing away of the Faithless
Sally Browns lover
His death. which happened in his berth
Al forty-odd befell:
So they went and told the sexton
And the sexton tolled the bell,
And that other delicious turn
Ben Battle was soldier bold
And USED to wars alarms
But cannon ball took off his legs,
so he laid down his arms
Even in the Song of the Shirt, which
arouses ones deepest sympathies, he
makes the poor needlewoman exclaim:-
While underneath the caves
Inc brood1nS swallows cling,
As If to show their sunny backs
And twit me with the spring!
Praed whose mingling of wit humor
and pathos is remindful of Hood, WED
with Loeker-Sampson and Calverley in
his brilliant bursts of humor where the
pun was delicately and subtly convened
sydney Smith was the prince of English
wits and in his essay on wit and HUI
nor, he wrote that punning is the wit
of words Said he: 'Puns are exactly
the same to words that wit is to ideas
and consist i'll the sudden discovery of re-
iations in language. \ pun, to be perfec,
in its kind. should contain two distinct
meanings: the one common and OBVIOUS,
the other more remote; ana in the notice
which the mind takes of the relation he
tween these two sets OF words, and in the
surprise which that relation excites, the
pleasure of a pun consists"
However. Sydney Smith was not given
to punning almself; in fact he deplored
the habit, decalring that while occasion
ally pun makes its appearance (which
seems, for moment. to redeem the spe-
cies, we must not be deceived by them
it is a radically bad race to wit. If sgd
ney Smith had only known our own Bob
Burdette! Who can forget his chef
d'oeuvre in running. Asked whether he
woul have another section of hot mince
pie, he sighed and mournfully replied.
Alas, no, for | would not digest yet
From the Pasadena News
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Says cage Tea Mixed With
Sulphur Restores Natural
Color and Lusire

Gray, faded hair turned beautifully
dark and lustrous almost over night, is
a reality, # youll take the trouble to
mix sage tea and sulphur but what's
the use, you get large bottle of the
ready-to-use tonic, called "Wyeth' s
Sage ana Sulphur Hair Remedy" at
drug stores here for about 30 cents.
Millions OF bottles of "Wyeth's" are
sold annually. says a we'll known drug
Sist, because it darkens the hair so
naturally and evenly that no one can
tell it has been applied.
You just dampen a sponge or soft
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Brandus. Mahoney Braun, Kimmel-
man. Ubert, Sarln, Trosky, Mullan and
Beubel are the first 10 assail the eye
on turning to a page OF advertisements.
In another. generation or two these
VIII be good old American names.
Meanwhile New York viii continue to
be our foremost EUROPEAN Capital.
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of the love end esteem of the company.
Miss Violet Mcfarland, MISS Eva
Adams and Mrs. {. d, Eames Went,
MONDAY to Boston. Mrs. Games ana
Miss Adams win take in the spring
millinery openings, and Miss McFar-
land will remain for several weeks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-04

Prof. f. G.. Wadsworth. superintend-
ent of schools, returned, Saturday eve
ming, from Philadelphia, Pa, where he
had been attending the department of
education of the National Superin-
tendents Association.
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Granite Lodge, X. of F., at the regular
meeting, Tuesday evening, March 4, will
install officers Deputy WEIGH will be in
stalling officer. A supper in the banquet
hall will follow the ceremony. ;All h. of
p. are earnestly requested to be present.
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Retired Georgia Planters
Advice to Kidney Sufferers

Regarding the wonderful curative
merits of your Swamp Root, | cannot
say 100 much. After suffering severely
ioi ihree years or more With severe
pains caused by weak kidneys, | was
nhaiiy induced to try Swamp-Roo,
through a testimonial | read i'm one of
.ie newspapers. / was in such a con-
o1tlon that | was obliged to arise from
my oed SIX or eight times every night
purchased fifty-cent bottle and be-
lore 1t was used 1 felt so much RELIEF
that 1 purchased a one-dollar bott1.
ana by the time this was taken the ola
pains had left my back and ] eould
sleep the whole night through. / am
retired planter, 10 years of age, and
owing to DR.. kilmers Swamp-Root. I
am N the best of health and feel like,
boy | am always glad to recon-
mend swamp Root to those who are in
need of it.
Sincerely YOURS,
c. L. USSERY,
Bowersvi!le, Ga.
personally appeared before me, this
Sth of September, 1909, C. E. Ussery.
who subscribed the above statement
ana made. oath that the same is true
IN substance and in fact
7. Il. NcLane,
Notary Public.
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The advance sale at Neris Store
shows that Hallowell will be largely
represented in the audience at City
hall. Augusta, this evening. 1t is
seldom that one has an opportunity of
hearing lecturer of Gov Hochs cal