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!> a BIFF! AND STRIKE IS OVER. p/ Boy Leader Quits When Father Publicly Spanks Him. I While his employer, Capt. Dennis * Boran, commander of the machine gun section of the 5th New Jersey, was at Sea Girt yesterday Robert "Beansie" Farrell, leader of the messenger "boys of the Patterson (N. J.) office of the Western Union Telegraph company, called a strike among the messenger force. Farrell succeeded in getting half - TT:. ?rk_ of the boys to striKe. ms iamci peared in City Hall square shortly afterward, and enacted the role of a stikebreaker by publicly taking the youthful striker over his knees. The boys demanded a ten-hour day, Capt. Doran, returning from the mobilization camp,, discharged two of them.?Paterson (N. J.) dispatch to Philadelphia Record. Cost of Living in White House. L'* \ Woodrow Wilson is the second president to receive a salary of $75,000 a year. His expenses have been less than those of Mr. Taft, the first to profit by the increase from $50,000. i p->:. Although Mr. Wilson has been forced to deal with many more vital domestic and international problems than any other president in recent years, he finds time to look after his personal business affairs. He receives each month a United States treasury warrant for $6,250 and makes frequent visits, almost always afoot, to a bank a few blocks from fthe white house. In the early days of the United States the presidency was no place ' -* i~<lAr?or>Hont for a man wunoui mucpouuv^, means. The office cost the occupant more than he got out of it, and at least one president, Andrew Jackson, after spending $10,000 of his owe money, ended his term without having enough to pay his traveling expenses back home. At first the salary was $25,000 a year, regarded then as very liberal. But as the country grew in territory and importance the expenses of the president increased; distinguished visitors from foreign nations had tc be entertained, receptions and State dinners became frequent and other expenses developed. The time came when a president had to pay out " more money than he received. Congress, in 1873, after a long, bitter fight, increased the salary tc $50,000. Soon afterward congress passed a bill reducing the pay tc fe: $25,000 again, but President Grant ? vetoed the measure. In those days congress provided K no assistance in the payment of white house bills. But there came & gradual awakening to the financial burdens of the presidency, and appropriations came little by little, until now approximately $60,000 is allowed to defray certain expenditures r In addition to $25,000 a year for f? traveling expenses. Even with this help a president cannot escape paying about $50,000 - ?ofliarv for nrovisions V JCOI X* \jl?X <i *for the white house tables, entertaining, clothing, and contributions to charitable and other organizations. This leaves him $25,000 a year, wjiich h? may possibly set aside for future needs. f This is not exorbitant; for most men who are of president calibre? and many who are not?accumulate much more than $100,000 in four years. According to the federal income tax returns for 1915 there are in the United States at least 3,849 persons receiving $75,000 or more annually. There are 3,660 more who 'get between $50;000 and $75,000. Pew of these should find it difficult to set aside $25,000 a year. The biggest item a president must meet from his own pocket is the cost of provisions for the white house tables. There rarely are fewer than thirty persons at every meal, including the president and his family, guests, and a staff of servants averaging from twenty to twenty-two. Bills for groceries, meat, milk and other provisions, ordered by the housekeeper, under the general supervision of the mistress of the white house, fluctuate considerably. In summer, during the brief time the president and his family are at the seashore or in the mountains, these hills at the white house can be kept down to about $1,000 a month, 01 even less. But when the president is in Washington and during the winter social season they run from two +n frinr Hmoc amnnnf v ^ 1.VUA UlliVUUV. This increase in winter is due to the extensive entertaining expected -of the president and his wife. State receptions and dinners, of which there are always eight or nine in a season, cost upwards of $1,000 each. The president and Mrs. Wilson this year included in their social programme four large receptions and five State dinners. In addition there were many smaller, less formal affairs. At the receptions the number of guests invariably ranges from twenty-five hundred to thirty-five hun* % i A QUESTIONABLE REMEDY. Scotch Patient Improved, But Thirty 3 Others Had Relapse. The wounded highlander seemed to make no headway toward recov- j ery. He was forever talking about ^ his "bonnie Scotland," and the idea j occurred to the doctor that a Scotch jpiper might rouse his spirits. Ac- c cordingly, he found a piper, and arranged that he should pour forth all T the gems of Scottish music the pipes ? were capable of interpreting. When ^ the doctor called the next morning t he eagerly asked the matron: ( "Did the piper turn up?" "He did," replied the matron. t "And how's our Scotch patient?" i "Oh, he's fine; I never saw such a ( i change," said the matron. 1 "That's grand. That was a fine j i idea of mine," said the delighted doc- j tor. ( "Yes," replied the matron sadly, j "but the other thirty patients have all had serious relapses."?Youth's \ Companion. i Seventy per cent, of the 400 ' brightest stars are redder than a nor- * . mal star and 85 per cent, of the 400 1 faintest are more blue than normal. To safeguard painters' health a ^ British commission has recommend; ed a law prohibiting the importation, ^ ; sale or use of any paint material con; taining more than 5 per cent, of its ] . dry weight of a soluble lead com- ' i pound. 1 dred, all of whom are served with a ' salads, cakes, coffee, punch and sim- ( ilar refreshments in the State dining room. These buffet suppers are pre' pared in the white house kitchens, ! with the assistance of extra servants, 1 ' and the number of turkeys and chick' ens and the amount of other ex' pensive provisions consumed is ] astounding. i L The State dinners, given for the '< diplomatists of all the foreign couu< 1 tries and the leading American of- 1 ficials and jurists, usually are attend- 1 L ed by from fifty to ninety guests, who s ' sit at a table set in the shape of a \ horseshoe. There are nine or ten ) ! courses, the cost of a dinner com- , paring favorably with that of a re- i ' /?antirtn J ] wy VAVUt In addition to this a president's 1 personal expenses are very heavy. * ' Half a dozen suits of clothes a year < ' and the other furnishings needed bv < a man are quite sufficient for a presi- < ' dent, but the gowns for the "First j ' Lady of the Land" and the white s 5 house daughters are no mere inci- ] ' dent. These ladies are called upon 1 ; to attend four or five functions every < week during the season in Washing- i ton, and they must have ready no ( s ? less than a score of becoming even- i 1 ing gowns as well as an extensive i stock for afternoon wear. 1 . Contributions to charity range t from inexpensive handkerchiefs and i autographed pictures of the white i house, for sale at bazaars, to sub- ^ stantial checks. i As the government provides no re- i fuge from the hot weather of Wash- ( ington, a president must furnish him1 self and his family with a summer residence, the rent to come from his own pocket. And then there is the cost of keeping up two establishments. Because a president is so busy with affairs of State, the work of looking after bills generally is left to some other member of the household, his wife, a daughter, or his stenographer.. The president, then, merely signs the checks, prepared for him with the bills attached. Of course the president has absolute supervision over the money appropriated by congress to meet certain white house bills. The sundry civil act for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1916, provided $35,000 "for ordinary care, repair and refurnishing of the executive mansion, and for the purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles fr\f nrdinorr niimnsos tn ha ovnpr* 1VI l/i U1UUA ; vv MV L ed by contract or otherwise." This \ covers the wages of the servants, s which range from $40 to $75 a c month, the pay of the chauffeurs and t the upkeep of five white house auto- g mobiles. s In the same act there is provided i $9,000 for the care and maintenance g > of the white house greenhouses, $6,- ] 000 for fuel for the white house and ( ? the greenhouses, and a sum not to j exceed $8,600 for lighting the white g house, the surrounding grounds and ? greenhouses. An extra item of $3,- ? 000 also is carried for repairs to the 1 greenhouses. Another appropriation is $25,000 > for the traveling expenses of the 1 president, to be "expended in his dis* cretion and accounted for on his cer- * tificate solely." What remains at . the end of the year of this fund, as well as of the other appropriations, I stays in the treasury. . i When tho nrociHorit travpl<3 in- 1 ? ? AAVJUL liiV Jb7* V* W I ** ^ " .. variably occupies a private car, usual> ly attached to a regular train and requiring the payment of twenty-five I full fares. The government owns no ' private car for the president?one is *] rented by the day.?American Magazine. RABBIT PROVES A KICKER. lonkey Finds This Out After Exhausting Bunny's Patience. There is a monkey in the Central 3ark zoo which cannot be convinced here is any luck in a rabbit's foot, ie is sure, though, that said rab)it's foot has a kick like a string of :ocktails on an empty stomach. From Bill Snyder's hospital last light, where the monkey is recuperLting from monkeying with a big vhite rabbit, the word went out that he patient was as well as could be jxpected. The monkey is the smaller of two hat were so spindling they couldn't lold their own in the big monkey lage, and were sent to make up a lappy family in a cage with twenty abbits and guinea pigs. In these )acifist surroundings he felt his >ats?or peanuts?and started to )ick on the big white rabbit. The latter, being an American rab)it, stood a lot of picking, ear tweakng, fur pulling and other indignities. Yesterday, however, the monkey ;ried to steal from under the rabbit's viggling nose a particularly dainty oit of lettuce. The rabbit's pink jyes went red. "Oh, my fur and vhiskers!" he exploded, like Alice's *abbit. and out went the deadly rab Dit's foot. There was a thud as it struck the simian jaw, squeak of pain md one of triumph, and then all that 'emained of this monkey tale was a nuch subdued monkey and an othervise happy, happy family in the little ;age.?New York World. OLD-TIME DARKEY DEAD. Hardy Montgomery Boasted That He Had Lived 105 Years. The announcement that Hardy Montgomery was dead will bring sorrow all over the county to both white md black for "Uncle Hardy," as he svas called by everyone, has been a familiar figure on our streets for a long number of years. When on the streets there was always a group iround him, interested listeners to him as he would relate how "Rufe Jones done me out'en my trick," his marvelous possum hunts, particularly the one when, "Jerry, my best dog, treed the ghost," and the particulars is to "Marse Robert's drowning in le Catawba river?long time 'fore ie war." He had lived for a number Df years in town in a one-room cabin ill alone. He had not been seen since Wednesday and some colored people went to his house yesterday to see if he was sick and found him lead in bed. He was formerly a slave and belonged to the late Robert Montgomery, of the Liberty Hill Af fl-iio r?nn n f v "His AfTP is U1 tuiu WUHWJ mcertain but he must have been at east 105. This was a serious mat;er with him. He wTould be easily iled if it was suggested that he night be younger than he claimed. iVith great indignation he would lsually close the argument by sayng, "I nose what I'm talking about, if ye don't believe me, go down to :he Summerville graveyard and look >n young Marse Robert's tombstone tnd see what it says. Me and him vas one day's chillun," and then he vould proceed to tell all about the ragic death of his young master by irowning. He claimed to be 116 rears old. Another matter of great mportance with him was as to where he Yankees crossed the Catawba iver in February, 1865. When any>ne would suggest Pea's Ferry he vould exclaim indignantly "now jess isten to dat?'cause it was 'Rocky dount' Ferry for I seed 'em wid my >wn eyes. It took 'em two days to :ross on one of the curiouses bridges ever seed, what dey put up demlelves and dey made a blue streak icross the ribber when dey( wuz Tossing." His fondness for waternelons was a standing joke and it vas a familiar sight on the streets luring melon season to see him siting on the curbstone with his face juried in the half of one. He once laid in speaking of flowers-, "I don't :are for 'em to be bringing flowers o my grave but after it's filled up md dey pat the dirt all round, instead of putting flowers on top, jes et 'em bring one of these big rattlemake watermelons and sqush it and et the juice trickle down fru de ilods." Yes, the old man will be nissed. He was perhaps the last survivor in the county of the typical mte-bellum negro. Peace to his ishes.?Lancaster News. Cherry Pie. ! sing of cherry pie, The queen of things to eat; rhou apple of my eye, Come hither now, my sweet! n dreams I've wooed thee oft, In sleep I've sought for thee; ro kiss thy crust so soft Were Heaven indeed for me. 3e round or oval then, Or deep or shallow lie rhou comforter of men, My dearest cherry pie! ?H. D. H., in Exchange. the national ji XrOU'LL find a JL matter how mu # - ? neck of the woe in goodness and /. ^ *-> ^gU pass that : bagseL in pipe sauaiauuuii Unt0 is all we or its enthusiastic friends ever claimed ^ for it! It answers every smoke desire y< or any other man ever had! It cool and fragrant and appealin smokeappetite that you will get c it in a mighty short time! Will you invest 5c or 10c to prove so on the national joy smoke? R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO., Wind *595\ J F.O.B. DETROIT Remember these impc . they are not to be found 01 j | Maxwell cars have 3 in. til generous size. The tires are c longer and make riding easier. Tires of one size mean that one size casing and one size 1 Demountable rims, of course best They are on all good ca without demountable rims. 1 These two features?along v and up-to-date equipment; tt endurance of the Maxwell, m; mobile value in the world tc 5-pasaenger Touring Car, $595 2-passt 2-paaaenger Roadster 580 6-paase 5-passenger Sedan, $i Bamberg Auto ( Whenever You Need a General Tonic | SEASHORE ROUND Take Grove's I From Elirh, The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless j chill Tonic is equally valuable as a WEEK-END EXCUR General Tonic because it contains the j 10 * _ well known tonic properties of QUININE I ?2 to qnlfvar and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives ?lr * ? t0 buUivar out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and 2 01j e Pr Builds up the Whole System. 50 certs, f. Saturday and r J ; trains on each Sundaj i to Septemberl, inclus: 1 ?^?? ; turning to reach orii AD ITTCDV ' P?^nt Prior to midnig K |J I^KY next following date of * # j SUMMER EXCURS T $4.15 to Isle ol LIFE INSURANCE $4 15 to gulliva! $11.70 to Myrtl Bamberg, South Carolina $20.75 to No ???^??_ i Tickets on sale frc ' An+AKnn 1 " AIHOIVD ^^>?aa I UtlUUCl ! '7, lliVlUQl I V) J. A. Klein Mrs. J. A. Klein j ing until October 31. I over privileges. Teachers of Piano and Organ schedules and furti ? cheerfully furnished Studio Over Herndon's Store j tjon t0 ^ jqh Duos and Quartets for Two Pianos Agent, Bamberg, S. C. and the- Proper Training of ATLANTIC COA Beginners a Specialty The Standard Railroac I 9mm??mmm Fountain Pens at Herald Book Store, j Read The Herald, 3 } . _________ a Prince Albert gives smokers such delight, because ? its flavor is so different and so delightfully good; l ?it can't bite your tongue; } ?it can't parch your throat; | ?you can smoke it as long and > as hard as you like without any comeback but real tobacco happiness! On the reverse side of every Prince ) Albert package you will read: PROCESS PATENTED J JULY 30th, 1907" That means to you a lot of tobacco en- j joyment. Prince Albert has always been ^ sold without coupons or premiums. We prefer to give quality! Albert ly smoke (jHfjfjjy '' cheery howdy-do on tap no m |ZI ' kftjliliijM 1 ch of a stranger you are in the 8 ! |fvt^TrT^^Tr*li A WimTRTrTV'W >da you drop into. For, Prince | j; R/1UJ liU Li Wj| A\ iJUJjjj, Unj : t there ? at the first place you Hi :! fijlftulltylyJi > 1 sells tobacco ! 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