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ttfy? lamberg ijwalb J Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1907 One Dollar a Yearjjl| IN IDE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. -v, ?:? State News Boiled Down For Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. There was a $50,000 fire in Greenville last Thursday night. A buildrncr Imnwn as the Convers building, occupied as stores and offices, was burned. ;.<V, Suit has been instituted in Spartanburg against the Southern for killing Miss Delinda Hand, a school teacher, at Duncans about three months ago. The damages are fixed at $50,000. Governor Ansel has appointed Mr. B. F. Arthur, of Union, on the commission to wind up the affairs of the State dispensary, to fill the place of W. W. Simpson, of Woodruff, who could not serve. Governor Ansel has appointed Avery Patton, of Greenville, on the dispensary commission, to take the place of N. C. Poe, who declined to serve. The commission held a meeting in Columbia yesterday. Last Thursday the State Supreme Court rendered a decision sustaining the lower court in the case of Geo. Hasty, of Gaffney, who killed two theatrical men in that city a couple of years ago. This means that Hasty will have to serve his sentence of life imprisonment. "Bud" Mauldin, a cotton mill operative of Clinton, was struck by a train on the Columbia, Newbeny T ' & Laurens Railroad near the city J Emits of Laurens last Saturday and killed. The man was sitting on the end of a cross tie apparently asleep, ||. and he was hit before the train could ^ be stopped. g Under the act providing for a r commission of five men to wind up the affairs of the State dispensary, Governor Ansel last Monday appoint-' ed the following: W. J. Murray, \ v Columbia; C. K. Henderson, Aiken; W. Wells Simpson, Woodruff; Nelson C. Poe, Greenville; John McM Sween, Timmonsville. All these are successful business men of high ip'! character. Messrs. Poe and Simpson have declined to serve. L.asx weeK vjovernor ausci, uh recommendation of the board of par? dons, commuted to life imprison*v--' ,v ment R. A. Adams, the Colleton murderer, who has three times been under sentence of death. Adams killed Henry Jaques, a neighbor, in v 1903. He was tried, convicted of murder, and sentenced to death. \ Whale awaiting execution he escaped i" > from jail. After several. months he was recaptured, and his case was then appealed to the Supreme Court, vr who decided against him. Governor Heyward respited him a few days ';? before he went out of Office, and t' now his sentence has been commuted to' life imprisonment by Governor ^ Ansel. The judge and solicitor dell ciined to recommend the pardon. Fate of the Poor Dog. Champ Clark relates the experience of a western politician who was HI making a house canvass some years ago. py - This politician had come to a proses, v' perous looking farmhouse at a crossroad when he observed a comely ^ j young woman standing at the gate. V Pulling up his horse, the candidate / for the people's favor gracefully lifted his hat in salute to the young p woman and politely asked: "No doubt, madam, your estimable husband is at home?" "Yes," responded the woman. "Might I have the pleasure of seeV ing him?'' suavely inquired the politi; cian. v "He's down in the pasture a-buryin' the dog," came from the individual at the gate. "I am very sorry indeed to learn of the death of your dog," came in sympathizing tones from the candi"What killed him?" "He wore hisself out a-barkin' at candidates," said the woman.?Rochester Herald. ? ? The Abuse of Hedicine in the Nursery. The only medicine that a mother should give on her own responsibility is castor oil, says Emelyn L. Coolidge. M. D. If mothers and even many physicians would learn that the little ailments of babies and young children may be successfully treated by proper changes in the food and a few external applications, the mortality among infants would be greatly reduced. The digestive organs of young children are very delicate and when once upset by medicine it is difficult to set them right again. All sick babies must of course have the benefit of a reliable physican's advice, and the sooner one is called the better?but there are now, and probably always will be, many mothers so situated that they cannot secure a good doctor for little nursery ailments, and when such is the case I am sure they will not regret trying the methods advised above in place of relying upon their own limited experience, of dosing with remedies suggested by well-meaning but misguided friends.-The Delineator! for March. i r ' i . . MA J. JOHN BLACK EXCITED. Pulled His Pistol -on Man by Whom His Reputation Had Been Assailed. In its Columbia correspondence the Augusta Chronicle yesterday published the following article: "State Dispensary Director Black made an attempt this afternoon to shoot the blender, William P. Norfolk, who came here recently from Richmond, Va., while the latter was standing in the board room. "It seems that Mr. Black entered the room and found Mr. Norfolk there, whereupon the director asked the blender what he was doing in the board room, and told him in rather a rough manner that he had no business there, and ordered him out. Mr. Norfolk replied that he had come in to get his pay check, whereupon Mr. Black ordered him to leave immediately. Norfolk hesitated, whereupon Black drew a revolver from his pocket, and, it is said, made toward Norfolk, ordering him again to cet out of the room. "Employes of the State dispensary who were in the room, or within hearing distance, interfered and prevented further difficulty. Norfolk finally consented to leave the room. "It is stated that animosity exists between the two men because of the fact that Blender Norfolk gave evidence before the special investigatingcommittee a short time ago, in which he said the whiskey brought in Peoria by Mr. Black was not worth more than one half or twothirds what was paid for it. He also answered some direct questions as to rebates, and stated that he would be glad to accept an equal division between the worth of that lot of whiskey and its price as a rebate. "The affair tonight seems to be closed, no arrests having been made, nor any legal steps taken, so far as can be learned." Mr. Norfolk yesterday admitted the correctness of this article. He is a stranger in Columbia, and says 4-U?4- +V, a4- *o?i<nn ^artl/M>oo fVto foH Ulclli IUI uiai> lauuuuvyiuiw uiw auw< that the matter had been given publicity. He was unarmed. Maj. Black, who is a man of vers quick temper, was probably irritated by the presence in the board room oi the. blender. It will be recalled thai he did this same thing last May, when he stopped Hon.. J. Frasei Lyon on the street in front of the Columbia hotel. Mr. Lyon was unarmed at the time, as he does no1 carry a pistol. Since that time Maj. Black has been under peace bond of $1,00( given to Magistrate Robert Moorman. Mr. Moorman since that time has gone out of office, but declares that the bond has never been cancelled. It appears that the terms oi the bond have been abrogated. It is stated on good authority thai a similar difficulty occurred a fev days ago between Maj. Black anc Mr. J. D. Davenport, president of 2 bank at Newberry. This affair oc curred on a train. The matter was brought to the at tention of Attorney General Lyor yesterday, and some action may be taken in the matter, as under a peace bond a person is not allowed to gc armed or to make any breach of the peace.?Columbia State.' , Ta Ciia Votvcnanpr IV uuv * Col. R. W. Simpson, of Pendleton, president of the board of trustees oi Clemson college, says he is going to consult with attorneys with a viev of bringing a suit against The Farir and Factory, a newspaper published at Seneca, because of an article which appeared in that paper recent ly criticising the management of the college and some members of the board of trustees personally. Col. Simpson says the article con tained some statements that were absolutely untrue. Col. Simpson says he does no object to legitimate criticism of the college or its management, but he said he was getting tired of so man? unjust and false statements beinf published in the newspapers and he was going to get the advice of attor neysTo find out if he had any redresi in the courts. Two Children Drink Poison. Anderson, Feb. 15.?Two child ren, two and four years old respec tively, of Mr. Albert Gaines, whe lives near Anderson, innocently dranl some arsenic yesterday morning. / doctor was quickly summoned wh< left here in an automobile and arriv ed at Mr. Gaines' residence in II minutes. The younger child was in a dyinj condition when she was given ai antidote. The other child was in j critical condition and after the doc tor administered antidotes an im provement was noted at once. Hat the doctor arrived an hour later, i is probable that the life of the smalle: child would have been lost. Mr. Gaines was in the city a fev days ago and secured a vial contain ing a solution of arsenic for a skii eruption. When he got home h< placed the vial on a shelf. The four year-old child got in a chair ant reached the bottle and divided th< contents with her two-year-old sis ter. The grateful mr.n is a happy man . ' , _.vV ' L t- .1 - . I r COUNTiY NEWS LETTERS I . SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, February 18.?Last week was an exceptionally quiet week with us. One or two runaways by some horses frightened by the trains was about all the excitement we had. Mrs. Jacob Ehrhardt, Mrs. Frank H. Copeland, Miss Florrie Hiers, and Mr. Frank Hiers went to Savannah last week, where they spent two days visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Kinard, and Mr. , and Mrs. J. A. Chassereau returned last week from their trip to Florida. They all say South Carolina is good , enough for them. | Mr. David Dannelly came home Sunday from Florida where he had - been on business. L Mr. Wm. Mitchum went on a busi. ness trip to Charleston last week. Miss Effie Jones, of the McLaurin section, is spending some time with . Mrs. Bertha Jones, k Idle gossip is plentiful around town. Seems as if there is a growing . fad for such now. Idle hands is a i great factor in such. Plenty work ; stops all such stuff. Jee. Efarhardt News. . Ehrhardt, February 18.?Mr. and j Mrs. J. F. Loadholdt, of Jennys, i spent last Sunday at the home of Mr. [ J. F. Copeland. ; Messrs. Jesse and Clark Jones were . in town last Tuesday. Mrs. Jacob Ehrhardt and daughter, i Mrs. F. H. Copeland, spent last week in Savannah. | Mrs. H. C. Kirkland, of Olar, spent last Tuesday with her mother, Mrs. [ W. E. Sease. . There was a quilting party at Mr. I G. B. Clayton's last Tuesday. ; Mr. J. M. BShop was in town last . week, working for Mr. Henry Planer. Mr. A. W. Kinard is doing some r brick work for Mr. B. B. Bishop. [ Mr. David Dannelly spent last week in Florida, looking after his saw mill interests there. Mr. J. F. Kinard and Miss Lucia Hiers were married last Sunday by ? Mr. G. B. Kinard. ! Mr. Monnie Bishop went to Bamt berg last Tuesday. Mr. Ransom Barnes and Miss j Carrydell Hiers were married last ) Thursday. A firm in Charleston has bought ? the bankrupt stock of Mr. R. Miller, 5 and the goods were shipped last week. Mrs. W. S. Clayton, of Wilmington, N. C., is spending time at the t home of Mr. C. R. Clayton, r Mrs. G. L. Kinard and Miss Effie I Jones left Monday for Atlanta to i buy millinery goods. They will be . gone about two weeks. Mr. Frank Sease, of Ashton, spent . last Sunday at Mr. G. L. Kinani's. i Mrs. J. M. Dannelly has been sick for the past week. Lionel Clayton. Rhrhardt Graded School. Fitting School Notes. Last week the boys held a meeting for the purpose of taking some definite steps along the baseball line. As a result of this meeting an athletic Lr association was formed to be known \ as the Carlisle Fitting School Athletic l Association. The objects of the as[ sociation are numerous: to increase > the athletic spirit among the stu[ dents; to have a general oversight of j matters of the athletic nature; to ^ have someone who will be responsible " for all property of the Association, etc. It seems that heretofore there a has been no one to take care of those things which are bought and placed t for the use of the players, and consea quently every year everything would I have to be purchased new. Now the officers wi" be personally responsible r for everything; everything can be i taken care of, accounted for and ~m nothing lost. ~ The officers of the association are: R. H. Ott, president; Ernest Hiers, vice-president, Richard Addison, secretary; J. C. Guilds, manager of the baseball team and treasurer of - the association; John Huffman, cap tain of baseball team. > The grounds are being wprked on, < the boys are showing much interest, k i i x x ?x _ ?_ J i;xxi? * | ana we nope to get out t* gwu utuc > I team this year. Prof. Hogan was visited by Mr. B. 3 J. Wells, of Laurens, last week. Mr. Wells spoke to the students after I chapel exercises Friday morning, i We all enjoyed his talk, i Many of the students are attend ing the revival services at the Metho dist church. 1 ? t "Good gracious!" exclaimed the r visitor: "hear those boys fighting and yelling out there. Regular f little hoodlums, aj-en't they?". "I can't say," replied Mrs. Fam1 ley. "I'm rather nearsighted, yoi 2 know." "But surely you can hear them.'1 1 "Oh, yes; but I can't tell whether 3 they're my children or the neigh bors."?Philadelphia Press. The door of hope has no lock, bolts . i or bar'*. " ' ' . ' V : COUNTY AFFAIRS. Appropriations Made tar Bamberg County for This Year. Below will be found so much of the legislative suppy bill as applies to Bamberg county, and it will be seen from this that our legislative delegation let the appropriations stand about as usual, few if any changes being made in salaries of county officers: For the county of Bamberg, for ordinary purposes, three mills; for Auditor, $267.00; for Treasurer, $267.00; for Sheriff, $800.00, in lieu of all costs and fees in criminal cases frw nr/M?lr ^nna frvr Rum VlPfC CU1U XVI VT V1IV UVA1X/ 4.VA. county within the county: provided, that the said Sheriff shall receive actual expenses and the sum of two dollars per day for all work in criminal cases and work for the county, without the said county, and as jailor, $150.00, the said sum to be in lieu of all fees for keeping prisoners in jail and attendance thereon. The said Sheriff to receive actual cost for the feeding and maintenance of the prisoners in jail; for Coroner $100.00; for Supervisor, $800.00? for County Commissioners, $105.00 each, payable monthly; for county physician, $175.00, and he shall :be, and hereby is, required to examine, with some other physician, all parties claimed to be lunatics, to conduct all post mortem examinations and attend on sick convicts and prisoners of said county without extra compensation therefor; $50.00 for county attorney for legal advice and $100.00 for litigation, if so much be necessary; for clerk of county board $300.00; to the magistrate at Bamberg, $275.00; at Denmark, $300.00; at Olar, $125.00; at Ehrhardt, $110.00; at Fishpond, $100.00; provided, that the salaries of magistrates shall be payable monthly, and that they shall, before receiving payment of any part of the said salary o?i/1ka?/1o? fn fV>o nlnrlr r\f I Ulie, lllBftC <UIU 1C11UC1 IV uiv VIVA? V* the court a roster and report of all criminal cases in which warrants have been sworn out, the disposition of the same, also showing the amount of fines and costs collected therein, and he shall further submit to the Supervisor a receipt from the Treasurer for all moneys as shown by the said roster and report; and the constables appointed by the said magistrates shall receive as compensation the following: The constable at Bamberg, $225.00; for the constable at Denmark, $200.00; at Olar, $110.00; for constable at Ehrhardt, $100.00; and the constable at Fishpond, $100.00; payable monthly. That the profits from the dispensary accruing to the county shall go into the general funds of the county to be used for general., county purposes. , x Honor Roll Denmark School. First grade?Weters Califf, Leon Roton, David Sojourner, Joseph So journer. x Second grade?Philip Cox, Ghristabel Mayfield, Virginia Hutto, Pauline Ray, Aiinie Lee Tant, Kistur Warren. Third grade?William Hallman, Jesse Folk, Abram Hallman, Walker Hartzog, Fitz Hugh Cox, Elizabeth Brux, Earl Cain, Wolsey Kearse, Marshall Gillam. Fourth grade?Josephine Faust, Virginia Faust, Shular Owens, Reynold Wiggins, Lillie Hallman, Laurie Gillam. ! 1 Fifth grade?Stanwix Mayfield, George Hallman, Tindal Califf, Wildon Cain, David Folk. Sixth grade?Roy Tyler, Lois Ray, Jennie Hallman. Seventh grade?Olive Pearson, Boyce Steadman, Ruth Seymour. Eighth grade?Sadelle Guess, Azile Nix, Ruby Guess, Marion Riley, i Ninth grade?Alma Folk, Pansy Smoak, Ruth Ray. Tenth grade?Lottie Kearse, Elbert Steadman, Donald Boozer. Strange Story of a Dream. A correspondent sends the London Daily Mail the following anecdote, 1 ? " II -J -t.T "L A. or, as ne cadis it, case 01 tuuugm transference," which was told him by an eminent engineer, whose name we withhold: This well known engineer had been \ to Bulawayo on the occasion of the ! opening of the railway to that place. A friend who accompanied him on the occasion contracted enteric fever and died on the homeward voyage. Half an hour before he died his hair turned perfectly white. On arriving in England the engineer went to break the news to tine young man's sister. He found that not only did the lady know of the death of her brother but she knew . the time and the circumstances of ' * ^an. . me nair turning wiulc. mc engineer was requested to break the news to the father and mother as ; gently as possible, but to say nothf ing of the hair turning white. After a journey of 100 miles he found that both father and mother, - whom he saw separately, not only i knew of the death of their son but knew of his hair turning white at the ' time of his death. Each had had a dream, a vivid . dream, at the moment of the death taking place, and each had kept his and her own counsel qnd they had ; i not spoken to each other of the dream. THE DISTRICT IKEETIN6. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS WILL MEET HERE NEXT TUESDAY. Interesting Program Arranged?About Fifty Delegates Will be in Attendance. The district meeting Knights of Pythians will meet here next Tuesday. The session will be called to order in the opera house at 11:30 a. m., at which time a public meeting will be held, to which all are cordially invited, especially the ladies. The! meeting will be presided over by J. E. Warnock, of Allendale, who is district deputy grand chancellor. The district comprises the lodges at Bamberg, Denmark, Barnwell, Blackville, Aiken, Williston, Spring field, Graniteville, Allendale,- ana other towns, and delegates from all of these lodges will be present. These delegates will be entertained in the homes of Bamberg's people. The program for the gathering will be about as follows: Public meeting in the opera house Tuesday morning at 11:30. Welcome addresses by Mayor G. Moye Dickinson and Chancellor Commander J. F. Carter, with responses by District Deputy Warnock and possibly others. The secret meeting of the order will be held that afternoon at 3:30 p. m. in the lodge room of Bamberg lodge. In the opera house at 8:30 p. m. there will be a public address by Dr. J. H. Thornwell, grand keeper of records and seal. There will also likely be short addresses by other grand officers. It is hoped to have Grand Chancellor M. Rutledge Rivers, of Charleston, present if possible. After these addresses a banquet will be served the visiting brethren at Johnson's Hotel. The Grienauer Recital. i -j i tt i rne recitai given vy i^ui vjx ienauer and his wife at the opera I house in this city last Thursday evening was fairly well attended. This was the second visit of the famous 'cello player to, Bamberg, and his music was throughly enjoyed. However, Mrs. Grienauer, who was advertised as a vocalist from the royal conservatory at Berlin, made a complete failure, and the audience made considerable sport at her expense. The lady can't sing a little bit, she has no voice, and it is hige time her manager should take her off the stage. No blame can attach to the local committee who had the entertainment in charge, for she came highly recommended and her husband is unquestionably an artist and had delighted his audience on the occasion of his former visit. Governor Ansel's Staff. Columbia, Feb. 15.?Governor Ansel today announced the appointments to his personal staff, as follows: Quartermaster general, Col. W. F. Stevenson, of Cheraw; judge advocate general, Col. B. A. Morgan, of Greenville; commissary general, Col. R. P. Hamer, Jr., of Hamers; chief of ordnance, Col. D. W. Danid, of Clemson College; aides de camp, with rank of colonel, W. W. Moore, of Barnwell, Joseph G. Wardlaw, of Yorkville, and D. 0. Herbert, of Orangeburg; aides de camp with rank of lieutenant colonel, D. A. ? * - i * ti' n ti _ ? Geer, ot tseiton; * r . a. j^vans, ox Greenwood; Alvin Etheridge of Saluda; W. W. Ball, of Charleston; William Banks, of Columbia; Thomas B. Butler, of Gaffney, and Sam T. McCravey, of Spartanburg. The number is in addition, of course, to General J. C. Boyd, adjutant and inspector general, and Col. W. T. Brock, assistant adjutant and inspector general. Under the Dick law the new colonels and lieutenant colonels have to be appointed on the staff of a Governor as prescribed for and for that reason the staff of Governor Ansel is not as numerous as the staffs of the former governors, but what is lacking in numbers is made up in quality and soldierly fitness. The gentlemen honored by his excellency are among the most substantial citizens of the State. Negro Arrested. A few days ago Ed. Robinson, a negro, was arrested near here bj Mr. A. Fischer, of Orangeburg, an official of the United States government, charged with robbing the post office at Jamison some time ago. Only a few weeks ago Robinson wa* arrested on the charge of complicity in the robbing of a store in Branchville and he was bound over to court on this charge. He was out on bond 1 ?1 ^ *aK. wnen arresteu xur uic pvacwmvc iwr bery. He was carried to Orangeburg and placed in jail. What the evidence against Robinson is we do not know, but we fee' sure he is not guilty of either charge, for he has notheen away from home, His father lives on Mr. N. Z. Felder's place just out of town, and Robinsor has been at home all winter. It is really astonishing what flimsy evidence negroes are arrested on onlj too often. Men who fear death are those wh< I are always looking backwards. CHILD BURNED TO DEATH. ^||H Foul Play Suspected as to the of a White Infant at Union. ?<,. :J Union, February 18.?An eight ;; If months' old white baby was burned y :ffl to death in the Union (Cotton Mill * |j village, this city, early yesterday ^ ^ and an inqtiest was held on the same, ;:aj| the result being that the coroner's jury failed to agree and the matter .'^|SH is again being investigated before thej|g S coroner this afternoon. ;||j Some suspicion of foul play is tertained. The child's mother, sister and young brother were the only tfgm ones about the premises at the nf thA nrvnirrenoe. The family namie3?$3waa is Shuler and they have only been in this community a few months. It reported that the child's mother;^pa offered a bribe to a woman lhring close by her not to tell what * ;J|i she knew of the circumstances, "vA*f3 This is apparently the ground upqti^ whichjjhe suspicion of foul play Had a Long Root. vjfftffB An Irishman, with one jaw very ;||3M much swollen from a tooth that wished to have pulled, entered office of a Washington dentist, says , When the suffering Celt was put?! into the chair and saw the gleamugM*%B forceps approaching his face, positively refused to open his mouthi.^; Being a man of resource, the dentfefeyjjH quietly instructed his assistant to.'|^H push a pin into the patient's legt sd^j ^M that when the Irishman opened, hiagl '^g| mouth to yell the dentist could getv'MgH at the refractory molar. "Wn When all was over, the dehtisb^^raS "ltdidn't l^urt as mucfc as youex-^^g "Well, no," reluctantly admittddM^H the patient. "But," he added, asheS-jlM ran his hand over the place which the assistant had inserted thg^wfaB pin, "little did I think them ,iotSmiSKl wint that far down!" '|:M Walking along a road in the remb?{||9 west of Ireland, two tourists wereSaB passing one of the cottages, or, I they are better known in the cotth^W-IgH try, cabins, of the peasantry. particular cabin was even a in0f^^9| thah usually dilapidated specimen of its class, and the chimney, comfe^njl^^W mainly of the remains of an old '$mK||9| hat, presented a comical, if not^|^H pathetic, appearance. . Tipping his friend a wink, one otffigaH the tourists accosted a youth whf-^^^9 was sitting contentedly on a fence/J: -^Bj "I say, my boy," he said, "dcfe^^M thatchimneydraw well?" "Snure, thin, it does," was them^H prompt reply. 4 4It draws the natio^^lls o' iveiyfocdthat passes by?"? Chrtv.Plve Thnuund Dollars for ^ Hours of Pleasure. "-^jM "Mrs. Vanderbilt engaged 'Hie I Wild Rose' company, playing at the ;jf Knickerbocker Theater, in New York, to give a single performance^ -Ja on her lawn on an August night. For this single item of the entertain^ :>3|1 ment she gave the management check for seventeen hundred dol- ,^r$B lars," writes Anna Steese Richard-^ son in Woman's Home fompanion for March. "For the production she f^Jl had erected a temporary which gave employment to a* small army of carpenters for a full week^|S|j8 and enough electricians to wire a/?SH small Western city. The rough board walls were hidden by vrafew'-ig and gold bunting, draped with gSt?|||jP wicker baskets filled with re$l rose$J| m and the florist's bill alone was said to -^ be eight thousand dollars, and the .4-3 caterer's bill even more. The drive-rffjj|BI way leading to the house from the ... street was converted into a ICdway^B m conducted without charge to gnegh?p by fakirs from Coney Island. "The first guests arrived shortly- ':M \ before eleven o'clock; the stage jw??gag|jj formance began at miamgnt; ! cotillion followed on the heels of S ; light opera, and just as the first cool M white streak of dawn crept over the m ocean, the guests and the player^Ji y folks rose from their supper tables. -/M During the interval forty-five thou- / *? sand dollars had been expended in m entertaining a hundred guests QikM'.j more, and one thousand artisans and 'ifftv; i players had been given employment r Forty-five thousand dollars for five i hours of pleasure?and Newport did >|S not think it so remarkable, either." \M "About the only men who learn & > trade any more," says a Kansas r paper, "are those who are sent to the penitentiary. The country i* M : being imposed upon more every year 3 I by men who have not mastered the trade which they claim to under; stand. As soon as a young man can 0 distinguish the difference between a 0fB hand-saw and a jackplane he is a I carpenter. If he can tell mortar 0 , from pancake batter he is a plaster- --aa . er. If he can Dick a paint brush out J of a pile where half of the bunch are >' %gS| i. whisk brooms he hangs out his sign ^9 J as painter. If he can screw the fid ' Jig - on a fruit jar so it won't leak he is a The quicker you lift a fallen ) brother the less danger there is that ;>j| he will drag you down to his level.