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The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-11-27
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rubber Ia soft substance found in de.
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The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-11-27
MUST BE BORN A SINGER
Certain Formation of Throat and Nos
trils Imperative. for Utterance
of Sweet Sounds.

According to recent scientific dis
coveries, singing birds, like human
singers, must have a certain type of
throat and noStrils. A full throat, large
thorax, open nOstrils and slightly pro-
truding lips with good length from the
point of the nose to the point of the
chin and full cheeks are. say the scien-
fists, positive signs in d human being
of the power to give forth tone.
If the ears are round and well set to
the head II is a sign not only of the
power TO sing, but to appreciate, and
the combination means the great artist.
With feathered songsters much the
same rules hold good. The round,
somewhat pointed beak of the canary
opens wide and his thorax and throat
are exceedingly big for so tiny a bird,
according to the Philadelphia North
American. He can hear and appreciate
the smallest sound and his trills and
the beauty of his tone are due to his
throat, to the roundness Of his head
and the shape of his bill.
The duck, on the other hand, having
a fiat bill and a small throat can only
quack. Even If he longed to sing he
could not acquire any pleasant notes,
and it is the same way with some peo-
pie. The most careful training cannot
give the sound box which nature pro-
vides for those to whom she gives the
great gift of vocal powers.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-11-27
FORGOT PROMISE TO CLIENT
Eminent Lawyer Talked Altogether
Too Freely over His Whisky and
Soda at the Club.

Sir Thomas Upton spoke in 7. NJ.
@. A. address in New York about
honor among business men.
"Too many business men," he said,
"fall from honor thoughtlessly. They
are like an eminent divorce lawyer
whom l overheard one night prattling
over his whisky and soda at the club.
ayes said the eminent lawyer,
she's very beautiful woman. Nerv-
Gus, of course-of course very nervous
Just now. So / said to her gently,
as soon as I'd sent my secretary out
of the room: "Now, my dear lady, /
know in these cases there are many
little details which a woman Of your
,sposition and refinement Is most reluc-
fapt to divulge. But it is necessary, If
case is to succeed, that / be fully
3 tainted with all you have had to
suffer. OF course you will understand
that what you tell me will never 60
beyond the four walls Of this room.
/ shall regard your confidence as alb
solutely sacred, and you need have no
hesitation in revealing all, for you may
be sure that no other human being will
ever learn from me the details of your
troubles" Well, that gave her more
confidence, Of course, and, gentlemen,
this is what she told me-"
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-11-27
CLAIM DESCENT FROM CELTS
Writer Asserts Scotsmen Are a Unit
in Denying Stories of Their
Saxon Origin.

It was that deadly flower Of Saxon
chivalry, Edward I, who caused the
early records Of Scotland to be de-
stroyed. Fortunately, the Irish Ceiric
annalists' writings remain, and as his
torians none were more competent or
able to form an impartial Judgment OF
Scotlands early history than they were.
Nowhere in their annals do they make
the slightest mention of the silly
theory of the Saxon origin of the peo-
pie of southern or eastern Scotland
and they also know nothing of the
fictitious division of Highlanders and
Lowlanders. Hector Boece is also ST.
lent on the supposed Saxon descent OF
the Lowlander and the expulsion OF
the Celt. Instead he says we who nave
our abode on the confines Of England,
through much commercial intercourse
and wars, have learned the Saxon
speech, and have forsaken our own.
Our place names prove the essential
Celticity of Scotland, as the Celtic
forms outnumber the English by ten to
one, and the latter are mostly modern
or corruptions of the Gaelic. The Eng
lish language pushed out our native
Gaelic, but neither Saxon nor English
displaced the men, and any outsiders
who fifteen hundred years ago were
permitted to survive within onr bor-
ders would soon be fused into the
whole, and today we are nation or
race or breed second to none, and as
Professor Keith, the eminent ethnolo-
gist, says, "the Scot is the fertilizer
of the British empire. e."-Edinburgh
Scotsman.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-11-27
VICTORIAN ERA WORTH WHILE
Deserved Rebuke for Those Who Smile
at Epoch Which Had Many
Good Points.

Why do the heather rage against the
Victorian epoch? Men who lived
, through a great part Of it found it
exciting, interesting, amusing and
sometimes terrible. Talleyrand once
said that nobody could understand the
real delights of society unless he had
lived before the French revolution.
Similarly, what young person, or near
young person, of today can experience
the delights of the time when 1t was
possible to begin at ease the first chap
ter of a volume of Dickens or Thack-
cray, to wait impatiently for George
Eliot's new novel or even to bear the
shock of Robert Buchanan's famous
review of Swinburne? There were, too,
the terrors occasioned by Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe when her fierce Puritan
friendship induced her to print the
condolences of Lady Byron! Our eyes
were turned towards England, II is
true, yet Hawthorne and Emerson were
not only discussed, but read. Among
the lesser lights there were Gail Ham
ilton and James Fields, whose very
satisfying literary essays were great
features Of the Atlantic Monthly.
People really did not spend their time
in singing "Juanita" or in reading
"Ouida" on the sly, nor did all the
women dress in the magentas and SOL
ferinos in which contemporary satirists
clothed the ladies Of the middle periods
Of Victoria and Eugene. The Crimean
and Civil wars, so microscopic to the
careless young, the Franco Prussian
struggle which preluded the chaos of
1914, were events that kept our minds
from stagnating; and there were doers
and thinkers in Europe worth our con-
slant Observation-Disclosures Francis
Egan in Yale Review.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-11-27
Tunnel Through the Pyrenees.

The rigors of mountain weather, op
position from the national ministries
Of war, and difference in gauge have
all united in the past to prevent an
effective joining of French and Span
ish railways, says Popular Mechanics
Magazine. Work on the project has
been carried on since 1914. however
and it is now announced that new
tunnel from AK, in France, to Puig
cerda, on the Spanish side, has been
broken through, and will cement this
desirable union more firmly.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-11-27
The Claim of Runymede.

Every now and again, 1t is given to
some man somewhere to utter a
"heaven-sent phrase" which brings
with it instant and almost startling
Illumination on a question, where long
columns Of explanation and long mo-
ments Of eloquence might utterly fail.
Such a phrase came from Josephus
Daniel the secretary of the United
States navy, the other day, in the
course of one Of his speeches in Eng
land. "No Englishman," declared Mr..
Daniels, "has more claim to Runymede
than I."-Chrlstian Science Monitor.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-11-27
Anatolia.

Anatolia, mentioned in the news
from the peace conference in Paris, IS
the name of one Of the five large prov
lnces or districts into which Turkey
is divided. 1t lies between the Medl-
terranean and Black seas, and the dis
trict Is the home of the greater part
of the Turkish population, numbering
about 100000 people. The other four
great districts of Turkey are Armenia.
Syria, MeSOpotamia aud Kurdistan.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-11-27
Classified,

Jack-Say, Jill, you didn't know that
I was an electrician I missed my
calling. nj.
Jill-How's that?
Jack-Why, last night, over at
James the electric light fuse burned
out. Guess who fixed It? Me-I-my-
self.
Jill-Huh! You're no electrician
you're an idiot !-Pennsylvania Punch
Bowl.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-11-27
Not So Equal.

"Don't you like to get back to ma
ture. where all men are equalT'
eyes, out it doesn't always work out
that way. Summer cortagcrs are H.
clined TO snub the campers"
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-11-27
Habitud Constipation Cured
In IA to u DAYS

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Constipation. 1t relieves promptly but
should be taken regularly for IA to 2, days
to induce regular action. Il Stimulates and
Regulates. Very Pleasant to Take. 60c
per hottie
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
Greatest Convention
in History of Party

Washington, Dec. 17.-The great
est political convention ever held In
this country-that is a fact assured
with respect to the Republican con-
vention at Chicago the Sth of June.
While it has long been plain that
the convention would be one of ex-
ceptional magnitude it has become
more clear than ever that this will
be the case since the national COM
mittee at its recent meeting at wash
ington. where the time and place
We're fixed, discussed in a general
way the plans for it.
With the announcement OF the
time and place, demands for seat
ing have already begun to flow in to
the convention committee, headed
by National Committeeman A. T.
Hert of Kentucky.
Not only is there nationwide in
terest stirred among Republicans but
the fact the women are to have so
prominent n part in the campaign
this year will tend to bring about a
large attendance of women at the
Chicago convention.
National Chairman Hays said
there was no doubt the forthcoming
convention would be the greatest
one ever held in this country.
MT. HerL expressed the same Opln-
ion. Mr.. Hert said that he had
never before in his political life had
such a great early demand for con-
vention tickets.
The convention committee will be
called together soon by Mr.. Hert and
it will begin active planning for the
convention. The standing commit
tee of newspaper correspondents at
the Capitol will have a representa-
tive present to make known the
wants of the press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
Miners May Receive
Twice IA Per Cent. Boost
Owner Warns Senators

Washington. Dec. 17.-The Senate
Coal Investigating Committee, re-
suming it's inquiry into the admin
istration strike settlement agree
ment. was told by Tracy w. Guthrie,
president of the Hillman Coal and
Coke Company. that one clause in
the proposition advanced by Presi-
dent Wilson and accepted by the
miners, would bring about an in
crease in the miners wages at least
doubling the fourteen per cent.
which DIR. Harry A. Garfield, resign
ed Fuel Administrator, thought JUS
titled"
While the Senate committee was
pursuing its inquiry, the Railroad
Administration withdrew the last
semblances of the restrictions on
fuel resulting from the strike and
began delivering coal to original
consignees instead of distributing 1T
to points of greatest need. 1t re-
scinded the embargo on the move
ment of fuel oil out of the west,
and the orders reducing the amount
of coal permitted to go to coke
ovens.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
Radio Dispatches on
Wide Scale Over the
Pacific Being Planned
By Associated Press

Washington, Dec. 17.-EXchange
of press dispatches and commercial
messages by radio between Califor-
MIA and Hawaiian Islands, Guam,
the Philippines and Japan on n
much more extensive scale will be-
come possible when arrangements
recently completed by the Navy De-
partment become effective Decem-
ber 20.
Through the use of modern high
power, high speed operating equip
ment it was estimated to-day that
it would be possible to transmit and
receive more than 100000 words a
day between Hawaii and the Philip
pines, 100000 words day between
San Francisco and San Diego and
Hawaii and Japan. The rate decid-
ed on is six cents a word between
California stations and Manila and
three cents a word to Hawaii.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
WOMAN FINDS
MISSING BABY
AFTER 5 MONTHS
Places 1t at Foot of Christmas
Tree Her Husband Was
Trimming

New York, Dec. IA search of
almost five months for the baby boy
of Mr.. and Mrs. August Wentz, who
was two months old when kidnapped
July 80 from in front of n depart
ment store in this city, ended last
night with his discovery in Belle
vue Hospital, where he had been
taken on December after being
abandoned in the Grand Central
terminal by an unidentified man,
presumably the kidnaper. The man
left note pinned to the baby's
clothing which read: For the\ love
of Mike, somebody take this kid.
He is too much for the family. Can't
afford him on the price of milk they
are charging to-day. There are 9TH
ers 1 am trying to support"
Since the infant disappeared, its
distracted mother has made daily
visits to the city's institutions. in
specting every new founding
brought in, in the hope it might
prove to be her lost baby. Last
night she went to Bellevue and
found him. The overjoyed woman
got to her home as fast as she
could, to give the news to her hus-
band, who was ignorant even of
her daily pilgrimage to the city
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
BIG EXPORTERS
WORK OUT NEW
TRADE TERMS
Hope to Avert Confusion Now
Encountered in Foreign
Business
By Associated Press

New York, Dec. II. - Definitions
of various trade terms and abbrevia-
tions were worked out and adopted
here by representatives of manufac-
turing and commercial organizations
interested in the export trade. A
meeting was held yesterday under
the auspices of the National Foreign
Trade Council.
Differences of opinion between
manufacturers and shippers and
their foreign consumers as to the
significance of such export quota
tions as f. o. b. Gree on board),
+. A. S. Gree along sidc), c. l. E.
(cost. insurance, freight, and C. &
+. (cost and freighO, are source
of misunderstanding, friction and
even legal difficulties in American
foreign trade, it was explained.
The standardized terms will be
recommended to their members by
the organizations represented at the
meeting, which included the Amer
lean Exporters and Importers AS
sociation, Chamber of Commerce of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
Let Me Prove This Free

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ment and permanent relief of piles is
the correct one. Thousands upon
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No matter whether your case is of
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
Country's Loss in the Coal
Strike Placed at $126,000,000

Columbus Ohio Dec lo to the United States account
$12600OOOO
while that to Ohio about $27ooooOo W. Mckinney
could
S
were
in
while
of McKinneys
At beginning strike production 10000
the the could produced
Ohio The
maintaining mine working with
producing COAL including
which
said
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
Mayor of Vienna
Appeals to Boston
Bu Associated Press

Boston, Dec. 17.-Mayor Peters
received q request from Mayor
Jacob Reumann, of Vienna, Aus
tria, for a loan with which to buy
foodstuffs, raw material and coal,
but was forced to decline, as the
city has no power to make a loan of
such a character.
In his appeal for assistance, Mayor
Reumann said:
Vienna, a city of 100000, is on
the eve of starvation and death
from cold. The inland crop is eaten
up. The production of coal scarce
ly covers one-tenth of the require
ments. Hands are idle and factories
are at q standstill. simultaneously.
Austrian money has lost all pur-
chasing power abroad The bread
and flour ration has had to be re-
duced again and the meat ration of
one-fifth of pound per week can
lot be distributed these last months.
NJ milk can be supplied to the
children and the sick.
"All forests in the neighborhood
of Vienna are cut down, but the
wet green wood does not replace
coal. In the hospitals newborn
babies are dying of the cold. Up to
now the people of Vienna have
borne all this misery with wonder
full patience. What threatens them
now is beyond human endurance"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
Wood Has Until Jan. |
to Act on Presidency

Sioux City, S. D., Dec. 17.-Gen-
cral Leonard Wood, who was chosen
as the Republican favorite for Pres
ident of the recent Republican pro-
posal meeting, has until January 1
to file his acceptance and declaration
of his campaign issue, under a rul-
ing of the state attorney general.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17

hospitals. She found the father
busily engaged decorating a Christ
mas tree he had just bought for the
other children, and placed the baby
at the foot of the tree as an added
Christmas gift.
Later in the evening Went2 in
formed the police that he was not
satisfied with the identification of
the child. but that he was willing
TO adopt it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
THOMAS BRADLEY DIES

Philadelphia, Dec. 17.-Word was
received here of the death in Pasa-
dena, Cal, yesterday of Thomas
Bradley, director in Swift and
Company. meat packers, and for
many years president of Dickinson
Seminary, Williamsport. Pa. Mr..
Bradley, who was n years old, was
for many years in the meat busi-
ness in PHILADELPHIA.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17

the United States, American Manu-
facturers' Export Association, the
Chamber of Commerce of New York.
New York Produce Exchange, Mer-
chants Association of New York
and Philadelphia Commercial Mu-
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
LIBRARY BROUGHT $500. 900

London, Dec. 10 The Britwell
Court Library, which was sold at
auction in Southeby's room has real
lied a record of 110,365 pounds. OF
this amount S4,700 pounds was paid
for books going to America, includ-
ing 15.100 pounds for Shakespeare's S
Venus and Adonis" and THE
Passionate Pilgrim
Hebers "Broadsides" brought o.
400 pounds. .
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-06-07

PLAYED Joke ON THE HUNS
Sioux Indians Had Fun for Three Days
Talking Over Tapped
Telephone Wire.

Because of the nature of the coun-
try'ovcr which American troops fought
In the Meuse-ArgonDe offensive. the
Germans found II easy at times to cut
In on our field telephone wires.
The commander of one brigade of
artillery attached TO IN American d.
vision was particularly annoyed by
enemy wire tappers in a heavily wood
ed section of the Argonne. Code mes
snges from artillery observers were
being intercepted by Boche listeners
In, and the commander knew, as all
armies know, that no code Is impreg-
nable when experts get working on II.
The artillery commander took up
with the colonel of one of the line reg
iments the question of the rIuns' wire
tapping activities. And the colonel
hit upon an idea.
Two Indians, both of proud Sioux
lineage, members of one of his COM
panies, were assigned as telephone
operators. One was to go forward
with the artillery observer. the other
TO remain az the brigade receiving end
OF the wire which the artillery COM
mander was certain the Germans had
that day tapped somewhere along the
line.
Now, when two Sioux Indians get
talking together in their own tongue.
what they say sounds very much like
code, bur isn't. Anyway, It raised hob
with the code experts of certain Prus-
sian guard units.
The Sioux stuck on their Jobs for
three days and nights. They and the
artillery commander and their own
colonel enjoyed the situation immense
ly. II the Germans got any fun out Of
II they kept II to themselves-Stars
and Stripes.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-06-07
Captains Of Philadelphia Team.

Fred Luderus, first baseman for the
Phillies, lost his Job as field captain
Of the Phillles this season, but 1t was
not because Manager Jack Coombs
thought any the less Of him. George
Whitfield held out for $500 more than
President Baker Of the Phillies was
willing to pay. Baker adopts sliding
scale of salaries and nothing can move
him from his fixed determination about
the proper wage for every athlete.
Whitted IrreeoneiIabie.
When Whitfield proved to be an ir.
reconcilable Baker compromised with
himself by offering him the Job Of
field captain, which carries standard
$500 bonus. Whitfield accepted. Then
came Luderus. He had been promised
the field captaincy, but Baker had for
gotten the fact. Luderus demanded to
know whether the club president was a
man Of his word. and Baker naturally
asserted that he was. He again COM
promised with himself by rejecting
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-06-07
PETAIN AS A BASEBALL FAN


How Marshal Petain of the French
army ducked the time clock to witness
q ball game is the story brought back
to this country by w. @. Mullen, for
mer manager of the Dubuque team In
the Three-I league, who has returned
after spending six months as X. of
O. secretary with the Thirty-eighth d.
vision overseas.
The game was between company
teams Of the Fifty-sixth engineers at
ste. Nazaire. Marshal Petain was
crossing the lot with fellow officers
He knows the American game, and
stayed to watch 1t for few moments.
The game was exciting. The marshal
remained. His duty was forgotten as
the game went on into extra innings
10000 men vOciferOusly applauding.
The game ended with 6-5 score, and
Marshal Petain, enthusiastic, came to
Mullen, umplring the game, and auto
graphed the ball in play at the finish.
Then the marshal telephoned his Or
derby to punch the headquarters time
clock for him.