The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, February 11, 1919, Page THREE, Image 3
J^ORIiilN OF CHRISTMAS CARD
It Is Said to Have Sprung From
"School Pieces" of Middle of
Nineteenth Century.
k The Christmas card is the legitimate
-descendant of the "school pieces" or
"Christmas pieces" which were popuV
lar from the beginning to the middle
Br *i- ii'ui-u
w -vi iue uiueteemu willing. i
w sheets of writing paper, sometimes surT
rounded with those hideous aud elaborate
pen flourishes forming birds,
scrolls, etc., so unnaturally dear to the
hearts of writing masters, and sometimes
beaded with copper plate engravings,
plain or colored. These were
used by schoolboys at the approach of
> the holidays for carefully written letters
exploiting the progress they had
made in composition and chirography.
unanty noys were targe purcnasers ui
^ these pieces, says one writer, and at
\ Christmas time used to take them
around their parish to show and at the
i same time solicit a trifie.
The Christmas card proper had its
tentative origin in 1854. Joseph Cundall,
a London artist, claims to have
issued the first In that year. It was
printed in lithography, colored by hand
/ and was of the usual size of a lady's
card.
Not until 1862, however, did the custom
obtain any foothold. Then experiments
were made with cards of the
size of an ordinary carte de viste, ini
scribed simply "A Merry Christmas"
^ and "A Happy New Year." After that
: came to be added robins and holly
branches, embossed figures and land
sen pes.
NEVER DEIGN TO EXPLAIN
Japanese Have a Peculiar Philosophy
Which Westerners Find It Rather
Hard to Understand.
A Philadelphia lady, now resident in
* Jspaa, has written to a friend in her
Jinmti a lpftpr whif?h thp PllhllP
Ledger reproduces in part, because it
Is "so fine in its reading from within
-of the Japanese nation and uature."
. Mrs. Nitobe says:
J MI am hoping that the light may
soon dawn upon the uninformed mind
of America in reference to the true
thought of Japan.
"It is. part of the Samurai training
not to explain. *If you are wrong,
show that yon acknowledge your error
by changing your conduct. No
amonnt of explanation can set the
wrong right If you are right and your
-accuser is mistaken, time will make
manifest the justice of your cause/
This Is the underlying thought of this
particular teaching. It is, I believe,
t often carried too far?certainly, it may
I prove misleading to an impatient westerner,
and I do not hesitate to say that
I have at times resented the situation
it has created.
**On the other hand, it is impossible
to bare one's soul to the unsympathetIc
or curiously minded.
"Every man or woman of fine feeling
knows that, and the Japanese are
singularly sensitive to a sympathetic
or an unsympathetic, a coarse or an
understanding probing."
'
Rare Book's Price.
Collectors of rare books and manuscripts
were very much interested ini
the announcement that a first edition
of Shakespeare's works, published In
1623. was sold at auction in London a
few weeks ago for 1,150 pounds sterling.
The volume is said to be in excellent
condition, though the binding is
considerably worn.
This costly book has increased in
price by bounds. At the beginning of
the eighteenth century the volume was
bought for five pounds from a book
dealer. In 1800 ii was valued at fifty
pounds, and in the year 1890 240
pounds was paid for it. This was a
record price until 1899, when its value
again increased. The indications are
that with the years the price of 1,150
pounds will again be advanced, as the
value of the volume will be more and
xnore enhanced as time passes.
Good Slogan.
An imposing cemetery was opened
tn a young and thriving town in the
Middle West. The mayor, ha(*
charge of the laying out of the
grounds, was puzzled for an appropriate
inscription to be placed over
the gate. Riding along in his car bne
day he was cogitating over different
holy texts, which were not entirely
satisfactory; so he explained his dif
ficulty to his chauffeur, an intensely
practical man. Without hesitation the
chauffeur suggested:
"We have come to stay."?Harper's
Magazine.
Choice of Voices.
Edith?Mr. Boreleigh? Oh, dear!
'11 XT 5 rtff/v f aII Kim T'tv\ Anf
AM uaic mucnc icu mui x in vui.
Alice?Won't the still, small voice
reproach you?
Edith?Maybe, but Fd much rather
hear .the still, small voice than Mr.
Boreleigh's.?Boston Evening Transcript.
Sad Blow to Pride.
"Mr. and Mrs. Wbiffer put on a great
many air* since they have returned
from Europe.M
"Yes, they do, but while they were
away several people mistook the caretaker
and his wife for Mr. and Mrs.
Whiff er."?Brooklyn Citizen.
Proper Acknowledgment.
"You are what they call a self-made
man."
"No," replied Mr. Dustin Stax; "my
wife and family helped with advjre
and encouragement. I'm not .self-made.
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' TfifcT CAT " EXPEST~ANt?L.Ef;
English Writer Tells of Feline That
Catches Fine Trout Without
i Bait or Line.
Oats have a passion for fish and
will hover about a room plaintively
mewing long after the piscine substance
has gone and only the smell
is left: hut it is not generally known
that they are export anglers, says a
writer in the Family Journal (London).
A Hampshire sportsman whose
garden bordered on a well-stocked
stream staled that his cat takes more
trout out of it than he does. All fish
love to bask in the sun and. taking
advantage of this on tine summer
days. Mr. Tom lies in ambush, con
cealed in the reedv grass bordering
some bright pebbly shallow. lie needs
neither rod nor line; unlimited patience
is his whole stock in trade. Not
a move does he make, his quivering
tail merely rustling the slender bents
as if stirred with the gentlest south
era breeze. Presently there is a
splash and a flounder, and a fine, fat
trout, bursting with condition, comes
flapping up to the shallow for its
morning sun bath. For an instant
only it lies there contentedly gasping
in the soft, warm air, but in that instant
the four-footed angler has
made his spring and fastened his
claws firmly in the fish's shimmering
back.
WHY AVERAGE MAN WORKS
Labor May Be Its Own Reward, but
the Home Is Thing That
Inspires Him.
The 8:10 Sausalito hont was disgorging
its crowd of Marin county commuters
in the morning. Said one
commuter to another, according to the
San Francisco Bulletin: "I've timed
this crowd getting off the boats. It
tabes more than twice as long to get
them off at the ferry, when they\yare
on their way to work, as it doeS to
land them at Sansalito at night, when
then are on their way home."
In spite of sundry wholesome precepts
about labor being its own reward,
the fact is that we do not live
to work, but that we work to live. The
i
little brown house back in the manzanita
trees, with the porch lights
burning, the rush of little feet, the
welcoming arms, the good dinner, the
hnnlr.c and th*? nine?this is life. These
are the things eternal to which tlje
eager shuffling feet are hastening.
They make and motivate the things
temporal toward which move the laggard
footsteps of the morning.
Joy In your work? Of course, hnt
the fact remains that you / wouldn't
build those skyscrapers amj string
those railroads around the world and
send big ships into far seas if it wasn't
for the "wife and kids."
Mark Twain's Toast to "Babies."
pacTvnrwliiKT tn tho fnoct of
at the memorial Chicago banquet in
honor of General Grant in 1870. Mark
Twain concluded with a sentence that
set the gathering in an uproar. In his
inimitable drawling voice he said,:
"In his cradle, somewhere under the
flag, the future illustrious commanderin-chief
of the American armies is so
little burdened with his approaching
' grandeurs and responsibilities as to
be giving his whole strategic mind, at
this moment, to trying to find some
way to get his own big toe into nts
mouth, an achievement which (meaning
no disrespect) the illustrious guest
of this evening also turned his attention
to some fifty-six years ago. And
if the child is but the father of the
man there are mighty few who will
doubt that he succeeded!"
At that conclusion the audience
broke into cheers and roars of laughter
in which even the reserved Grant
joined.
King John's Bath.
As to the washing habits of royalty
in former times, there is one thing, at
, least, to be remembered to Kin?
j John's credit. His accounts show that
j that constantly traveling king nearly
' always had a bath at his resting
places during his journeys.
His "water man" could generally
reckon upon getting the bath fee of
T7* ?
nvepeuc?. r ur tu our ean; Muf;, na
to the modern sojourners in most hotels,
a bath was officially accounted
as an extra, to be paid for as such.
The royal water man obtained his
special fee every time his majesty demanded
a bath?except upon the three
great church festivals. ? London
, Chronicle,
i
When Did Civil War End?
Ask anybody the date of the Civil
j war's end. xne answer win mvariaoiy
be: "April, 1S05." But, in a literal
, sense, that answer is all wrong.
1 The supreme court declared that the
i Civil war came to an end "at the pe1
riod designated in the proclamation ol
the president of the United States."
That proclamation was dated April
2. 1866. Thus the Civil war came to
a formal conclusion on that date, not
in April of 1865.
**Up to and before that date" (April
2, 1866), says Secretary of State Bay,
ard's decision, "the insurrection in
I those (the confederate) states was held
oviat After that date it was held
to be at an end."
I
Some Proposal!
Edith?So Mr. Bronson proposed tc
you. Did you accept him?
Ethel?Mercy, no! He's too awfully
matter of fact. Why, he proposed
1 by asking me if I felt favorably disI
posed toward a unification of inter
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| IN SHEERCRUELTY;
Boches Operated on Prisoners
Without Anesthetics.
I Ample Proof That There Was No
;
! Shortage of Medical Supplies Is
Evidence of Fiendishness
of Hun Surgeons.
I
A British prisoner taken near St.
Quentin in March said that all 21m put a*
lions in Germany were being done I
without anesthetics, owing to alleged
shortages of them. A correspondent
writes:
"On the day that the prince of Wales
entered Denain and attended the service
of thanksgiving in the church there
I lingered behind after all the cere
1 n 1 tlia
monies wore over au? uukcu \>nii
inhabitants. They had been badly
trer.ted. They were tun or tne siones
of their legitimate woes. One old man
said ro me:
" 'M'sieu should see the English doctor.
He kuows!'
MI saw him. He was a major In
charge of a Canadian field ambulance.
1 When I found him, in the huge building
which he had transformed into a
hospital, he was busy superintending
the treatment of women and pitiful little
children who had been gassed by
the Boches in defiance of all the laws
of humanity. There was one little fel'
1 L ^ IJ a A ? /I nnt
IOW nowiJiig wiiii ifiiui. ixc uiu uw
j wish to remain with the military. He
| had only known the German soldier!
i " 'Well, then take him away, poor
j little chap,' said the major. 'Bring him
; back three times a day to be dressed.'
j "Then the major and I talked of the
i successful Canadian attack and of the
I condition of the town when.it had been j
' taken. It was not a pretty story. It
j was. in fact, a terrible indictment
! against the Boche.
" They starved the civilians. The
I only meat .they gave them in three
j years was three dead mules. And all
j the time their own officers were living
! nn flip hpst.'
! "Then there was shortage?'
I 44 'Oh. yes, there was a shortage; but
j the German officers (id not feel it.'
j " 'And their other supplies? Your
j line, for instance?medical supplies?'
"The major laughed.
j " Come with me.' he said, 'and I'll
! show you a field medical cart that we
| captured just as they were driving it .
i off. It is one of the most wonderful
j things I have ever seen.'
"We went into the transport yard
and here we found something like a
Scotch cart with a closed-in top, bear'
ing the Red Cross on its sides. The
major let down the back flap and we
saw a series of drawers, like an enlarged
card-index file cabinet. He
pulled one out.
j " 'Look at that,' he said. There you
{ have most of the drugs we have been
! short of for months?and have them
J in profusion. Morphia, chloroform?
anything you like. It is the most perfect
thin? of its kind I have ever seen.
You could sell that cart's cargo in Engj
land for its weight in gold. It conj
tains some of the most valuable and
rarest synthetic f|rugs in the world. It
i is treasure trove Like a souvenir?
Here, then?here's a case of a
! aozen pnials of morphine?or chloro
; form?or antipyrin.'
j "That was in a field medical cart!
j If such a supply of rare drugs could
! he sent up practically to the front
; line, what must the German have had
in his rear hospitals? What, then, can
be his excuse for amputating the limbs
of oor wounded prisoners without
anesthetics? Can it have been anything
but wanton cruelty?
"That field medical cart is the evirton*v?
t"?Rnstnn Transc'riDt.
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Health and Height Count.
Every flying man in the United
States air service has to undergo a
strict medical test periodically in order
that he may be classified in one of
j four grades. "AA" men are the few
i who can stand air work at altitudes
j above 20.000 feet. "A" men can stand
I the strain between 15,000 and 20,000
, feet, while the "B" class consists of
pilots for duties between 8,000 and
15.000 feet, and the "C" group includes
, all airmen fit only for service between
ground level and 8.000 feet. It has
been found that airmen of most robust
pnysique nmnoi si aim mc outturn .
changes of air pressure entailed by |
diving and rapid climbing for any I
length of time. Hence the frequent
medical examinations, carried out by
experts who have drawn r.p a carefully
calculated standard of efficiency.
I
Sh* Did. f'
She was a four-flusher, particularly o
as to her abilities in various sports.
"Do you golf?" he asked. I
"Oh, I love golf." she answered. "I
play at least 36 holes twice a week." j
, "And how about tennis?"
"I won the woman's championship!
r in our state." b
"And do you swim?"
"The best I ever did was a half j
mile straight away," she replied.
Somewhat fatigued he changed to
literature. "And how do you like Kip- e
ling?*' he asked.
"I kipped an hour only yesterday,"
?1- Tnnrnol nf
was ner unoiusnuig icpi;.?wu.u?. ^
J the American Medical Association. . D
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Large Offer for Map Haig Used. ! j
Offers up to $1,750 have been re- ^
ceived for the map used by Sir Douglas
Haig in the direction of the Brit?
fsh armies on the western front October
8 and three following days, and t
sent to the lord provost of Glasgow's a
secretary for disposal in aid of the
king's fund for disabled officers and i
men. The man eventually will be put
up at auction. 1
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jgMk<S ! 0ne ot the best and most
early cottons; grown ninetj
^ much as three bales per a
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^ 400 I at the Arkansas Experimen
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each j rietiec tried.
month j This cotton also took firs
POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE , at the North Carolina Sta
is for sale by all ncwsocalers ; several years.
Aslc them to show yon a copy or tend 20c for ?
the latest issue, postpaid. Yearly ?nbscriptioa I The advantage Of plan til
82.00 to all parts of the United States, ;
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its possessions, Canada, ana jnexioo. . lliaiUl 1U^ vvvvv?
wel1 understood by all cotfc
Particularly where dange
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per l)usliei.f" ?" ^eorg<
spring planting.
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CITY LICENSE. Georgetown, S. C
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Get your License at once. License I SALE Q- PERS0NAL PF
or 1919 now due and must be paid at :
nee. By order of city council. I pursuant to an Order of 1
J. W. Chapman, o0urt 0f Newberry Coui
Clerk antl rreas. j Carolina, the undersigned 1
' the highest bidders, for c:
REMOVAL NOTICE. | -ate residence of William
Blease & Blease, Atoorneys at Law, j inick, deceased, near the
ave removed their offices to the j prosperity, S. C., on Frida]
[>urth floor of the new Exchange 21st, 1919, beginning at 11
Jank Building?rooms Numbers 403, certain personal prope
04, 405, 406, right in front of the estate of said William Lak<
levator. 12-20 lm deceased, including two n
wagons, DUggy ana na.rue<
XOTICE OF FETAL SETTLEMENT. Implements, etc. Terms of
Notice jfl hereby give that I will Pearl E. Do
aake a final settlement of the person- Admii
.1 estate of Ernest ^fcise, deceased, at February 5, 1919.
0 o'clock a. m., on Friday, the 21st
[ay of February, 1919, at the office of THE WEMlUD ANV N
he Judge of Probate for Newberry YF^R FOR ONLY $1.5$.
bounty, S. C., and will immediately
hereafter, apply for a discharcje a3 SPECIAL ELECTION IN H
" RC.HOOL DISTRICT
idministrator of said ?state.
Henry Wise, STATE OF SOUTH CARO
Administrator of the Estate of County of Newberry.
Ernest Wise, Deceased. Whereas, one-third of t!
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on, Corn I rops
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by I :
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others Co. I
.!FIC COT- electors and a like proportion of the
resident freeholders of the age of
productive j twenty-one years in the Hartford
r days from; School District, No. 11, of the County
roduced as j of Newberry, State of South Caror.re
averae:-1 lina, have filed a petition with the
tests made J County Board of Education of Newt
Station it berry County, South Carolina, peti?
ty-eight va-Stioning and requesting that an elecj
tion be held in said School District on
t premiums J the question of levying an additional
te Fair for special tax of two (2) mills on the
taxable property within the said school
ig an early district.
Simjkins is Now, therefore, we, the undersign- ?'
on growers, ed, composing the County Board of
r of bool Education for Newberry County, South
Carolina, do hereby order the Board
parcel post of Trustees of the Hartford School
;town $2.50 District No. 11 to hold an election on
now for the said question of levying an addiI
tional special tax of two (2) mills to
FARM, ! be collected on the property located .
5. I within the $aid School District, which
- : said election shall be held at the Hart1
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10PERTY. j ioru aciiuui nuuac iu uic ocuu uvuwi
| District No. 11, on Monday, the 24th
the Probate j day of February, 1919, at which said
ity, South i election the polls shall be opened at
will sell, to j 7 a. m. and closed at 4 p. m.
ash, at the The members of the Board of TrusLake
Dom- tees of said School District shall act
Town of as managers of said election. Only
r, February such electors as reside in said School
o'clock a.' District and return real or personal
;rty of the property for taxation, and who ex*
Dominick, hibit their tax receipts and registralules,
two lion certificates as required in gener38,
fanning al elections, shall be allowed to vote,
sale: Cash. Electors favoring the levy of such tax
minick, shall cast a ballot containing the word
listratrix. "Yes" written or printed thereon, and
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each elector opposed 10 suuu ic*/ suou
? cast a ballot containing the word "No"
TiJWS ONE written or printed thereon.
Given under our hands and seals
this, the 3rd day of Febru try, 1919.
A r- *,r nZTT CnV (1. SO
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JO. 11. O. B. CANNON, (L. S.)
LINA, J. M. BEDENBAUGH, (L. S.)
County Board of Education for Nettie
resident J berry County, S. C.
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