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Caruso, As Ca - h aoeskths7eedrw' ofhmefadSaro,o h o ie.CrsK Kse ttob ne isas n thbetsoyeli' - aswel The Aboeskeswed rawnsi ~~ vAnew ! Carusowis es o bnde isas fthe , s"t sr telyr Who we esUsNol.c ("emerao Joungeltf WoRe tundFrmCA goe ithrsi anther raa d Oper Sas.)ly Enrio Girus s kNo toehscin a (fine, Bg Seabroflowkwth) (Mear of ournl Staf, Wboyise, tovabed,ro bubbiagoe With C- gio sisand O e sserad Oera Sar.)n Eico Causos on to sin-ly te fiendisef and fell-ights, is ~ hertno pureeeld.Fraft, boyh mor are somhetimes leveled at his own head. During the past week in Chicago, b and on the Dixie Flyer coming to At 1&nta Monday, he was the soul and life of the entire party. He,. could forget his superb professional dig ity to crack jokes with the Pullman porter, and outside Nashville' almost wrecked the dining car by leaning over Missi Farrar's shoulder while she was looking out of the window and filching half of her strawberries and ice cream, solemnly using his English monocle as a spoon. Caruso is never happier than when recalling reminiscences of his child hood days, spent for the most part in "La 'Bella Napoli," beside the blue Vesuvian bay, and later in Florence as a carousing, care-free student, the despair of his teachers, the joy of his comrades. It was perhaps his gldrious triumph in the student-role of La Boheme at Chicago, Friday night, that put him in a mood to recall these "souvenirs. de jeunesse," and Sunday afternoon, before the party packed off toward Atlanta, he talked of nothing but life in the old sweet days before fame had found him out. ruso Sees Himself r Enrico Caruso en route from Chica naa stak, the famous tenor said it p ;tood that his reputation was made a~ in the we,rld and laughs at his own si of. Boyhood El is Voice Wa :e is That?" tor as Bcy Sang Youthful pranks and escapades, playing truant from school, whip pirgs from the papa and admonition from the mamma, whose memory he reveres with beautiful devotion; all had their sacred plane in the shrine of his recollection, more precio is perhaps than any of hie later triumps. Let him speak. ' - . "My voice has made me famous in these latter days, but it got me into scrapes and difficulties enough when I wpas a 10-year-old ragazzo' at Na ples. All Neapolitans are musical Everybody sings from morning to ight Consequently my parents paid little attention to my childish out bursts, except occasionally when the teble became too- high anid piercing ppa would su4denly jump from bls oliair and beseech me' in the -nome of 5ant January and the Blessed Ms donna to cease and give him a mo ment of tranquil silence. "But about this same time, 'my teachers at the little parish school around thes corner began to realia that my voice was not like that ol the of.her children. Childish and in. j'nocent as I was, they immediatel.3 bgnto exploit and make capital 01 me, unknown to my parents. A fai old priest whose avaricious physiog nomy I shall never forget, used ti take me away from my lessons anm trot me around ,to one after- anothei of the 300 odd churches in Naplei where I obediently sang whatevel tey demanded. Sometimes too, W4 went to concert halls. After each 01 these excursions, the priest. wouli give me candy and apples, promis Iing more sweetmeats the next day ox Icondition that I said nothing aw home. "Months later I learned that this singing for which I thought a hand. ful of sugar plums was splendid pay was netting my teachers considerable 'sums of money, not one soldo o: Iwhich ever found its way into m3 nno1rt and Seabrook. o to Atlanta. As he drew the sketch rtrayed Seabrook getting an Inter-' a singer and not as a carttonist. He1 ories. So do those. who hear them, scapades s~ Discovered"1 "Then, one day, there came to .visit us a friend; perhaps a distant rela tive of a family. -I do not know. Only I remember 'that she had a figure like an omnibus and a face like a grenadier. I didn't love her much. "However, the first evening she ar rived, it seems, I was out in the back yard under an orange tree sing ing to siplit my lungs. .As the first notes flew upward to where she sat with the papa and the mama, she thre.- up her hands in ecstacy and cried: "'Che voce! che bella voce! Eun angelo chi canta!' "'Angel! Bab,' retorted my matter-. of-fact fath~er, 'It Is only that little demon of an Enrico who gives our tortured ears no peace by day or night' "But the woman insisted that she had found a treasure a.nd that my serious. eduication and the cultivation of my voice must be .undertaken at once. My parents agreed .that she might do as she liked, so one fine morning off I marched with my new benefactress. "I still lived at home, but went to her,house eyery day to be given les sons in reading, writing, and, above aJl, in the true Italian language. Up until that time I had been accustom-$ ed to speak the Neapolitan dialect," the patois. I was a strong-headed youngster, and I still spoke it when I chose, whether the old" grenadier like'd it or not. She fussed day after day until she lost patience, and fin ally slapped my face. I ran home crying, and never went to see her again. "So back to the parish school I was -sent. My experfence with the woman hadenade me lazy and averse t to study. It was in the springtime, la bella primavera, so instead of go ing to school I made friends with the urchins of the streets, and played truant, hooky you call it, for one solid month. All this time my par ents thought I was at my books, but one day a gossiping neighbor told them the truth, and next day when I set out as usual, my father was spying, half a block behind, though T I lttle uspneted It "You know that great, wrpught iron grille in front of the central railway station at Naples? Well, the idea struck me that it would be a delightful amusement to climb like a monkey, hand over hand to the top. So u^p I started, agile as an 'ape, happy as the worthless little rascal that I was. But, alas, my fahh er, with a stout riding whip, had fol lowed, and was standing right be low. He said nothing and let me climb on, until I was too high to dare to jump back to earth, and then without the least preliminary warning he gave me the thrashing of' my life. I couldn't get down. I tried in vain to climb up out of reach of' the lash. It was a salutary drubbing, and I think it made me a better boy. At any rate, I followed him meekly homeward, and never played truant again." NOTICE OF ELECTION. Whereas, one-third of the resident electors and a like proportion of the resident freeholders of the age of twenty-one years, of Johnstone School District No. 12, of Newberry county, State of South Carolina, have filed a petition with the County 'Board of 'Education of Newberry county, South Carolina, petitioning and requesting that an election be held in the said School District on the question'of repealing' the special annual tax of three mills hereto fore voted, levied and collected on the property located in the said Sch ol District, Now, therefore, the undersigned, composing the County Board of Education of Newbgrry county, South Carolina, do hereby order the Board of Trustees of the said School 'District No. 12 (Johnstone 'School Disict) to hold an election on the said question of repealing the three mills tak heretofore voted, levied and ,collected on tle property in the said School District, which said election shall be held at Johnstone academy schoolhouse, In the said School District No. 12, on Wednes day, MAy 18th, 1910, at which said election the polls shall be opened at 7 o'clock in the forenoon, and close at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The memb,ers of the Board of Trustees of I said School District - shall act as managers of sai election. Only such electors as reside in said School Dis trict and return real on" personal property for taxation, and who ex hiibit their tax receipts and registra tion certificates1 as required in gen eral elections sahll be 'allowed to vote. Electors favoring a repdal of' the said tax will cast a ballot con taining the word, "Yes," printed or written thereon, and each elector op posed to such repeal shall cast a ballot containing the' word "No," written' or printed thereon.. Given under our hands angl seals on April 28th, 1910. -J. 2. Wheeler, (L. S.) S. J. Derrick,' (L. S.) ' E. 0. Counts, (L. S.) County Board of Education of New berry County, South Carolina. N~OW IS THE TIXE T& SUBSCRIBE: TO THE HERALD AN~D NEWS. The New] At the Close of Condensed F RESOURCES. 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