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VOLUME LVI., NUMBER 11. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1920. TWICE A WEEK, $2.00 A Y2AA
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kfc THE BOARD OF HEALTH
W PUTS ON THE QUARANTINE
[ About Seventy-Five Cases of InfluL
enza Reported on Thursday Morns'
ing?No Very Serious Cases.
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The board of health at a meeting
on .Wednesday afternoon decided to
put on a quarantine in the city owing
to the influenza situation. There is
no need for unnecessary alarm. The
thing for every one to ao is 10 cooperate
with every one else and observe
the ordinary rules of carefulIness
and not take any unnecessary
risks by exposing yourself or by congregating
in crowds. The only thing
that we see is that the board of health
should have taken this action at least
a week or more sooner when the
j: onnoarpH in Newberry,
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instead of pursuing the course of
watching and waiting to see how far
the disease was going to spread and
then when it becomes very extensive
try to stop it. It is like a rising
stream the further it goes the more
momentum it gets and the harder it
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is to dam up or stop. However yvu
^ can not run the mill with the water
that has passed and the thing to do
jiow is to cooperate with the officials
and follow the regulations strictly.
There is no use of regulations and
; no good in them unless they are observed
and followed. We understand
that Mayor Blease has instructed the
home any
poijcc iu ai ivob ?> ?
children found on the streets, and
that is well, because there is little
need to close the schools if the children
are permitted to run over the
streets at random. And the same is
true of the other regulations.
This is. a time when it seems to us
that it would be better to open the
churches wide rather than close them,
because the tendency of this age is
too much toward forgetting that there
- is an overuling providence and we do
not often enough seek his guidance
and protection, depending too much
upon our own strength.
Fortunately so far very few of the
cases have developed pneumonia and
they have not been severe. The
health officer on Thursday reported
75 cases in Newberry up to that time.
I That we suppose includes those who
have recovered and are able to be
out. There were more cases developed
on Wednesday than any one
day since the disease appeared in
Newberry. Among the number reported
is Mr. M. L. Spearman cashier
of the Exchange bank and Mr. E. M.
Evans, Jr., bookkeeper of the bank.
The schools and the picture shows
and the pool rooms and the churches
and the drinking fountains have been
closed. These are considered non
essentials, but in a time like this the
question of essentials should not be
considered, and if there is danger in
congregating every place where that
is the requirement should have been
closed, even the cotton mills, because
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xne maKing 01 it ni/iic iuvu\.^ ~ -~-?insignificant
thin? compared with the
health and life of the people. But the
mills are kept running and the people
who work there are closed in large
t number in one room all the day long.
We understand that the state board
advised against quarantine unless it
was made a real quarantine and
eyerything closed down, and the people
kept at home except in cases of
real emergency where their services
u-ovo an+nnlk? needed for the help
they might render and in securing the
food necessary to live, but the state
board will cooperate with the local
board in any action taken.
The banks and the stores on
occasions are about as crowded and
stuffy as some other places that have
been ordered closed and with poor
ventilation and it would be well to
make some arrangement by which the
people may be kept from congregating
and crowding in these places as
well as at the union station and the
picture shows. If we are going to
quarantine it should be done in a way
that woijld be effective. Take the
bank lobbies on Saturday especially
and at times the crowd is so heavy
that you can scarcely press your way
in and the same is true at some of the
T'V. ^ Wonlrl? QTlfl CfftTPS
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not going to offend the people by
driving them out and the only way
we see is to make some regulation
whihe can be enforced to keep the
crowds out. Maybe now the people
will be careful of their own good
and keep out of the crowd.
We understand that there are two
cases at the college on the campus
and the regulations do not prevent
students boarding: in town from going
co the college and back to their homes
but prevents them going to college if
there should be any case in the home
in which they are boarding. After
all the value of the regulations will
depend very largely upon the people
themselves as to how careful they are
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on tneir own account anu m uunoiueration
of others.
The following is a copy of the
minutes of the local board of the
meeting held on Wednesday afternoon
as furnished by the secretary:
Action Board of Health.
Newberry, S. C., Feb. 4, 1920.
The board of health of Newberry
i at a meeting this afternoon ordered
. the following places closed until further
notice on account of the influenza
situation: All schools, churches,
picture shows, pool room and au
places of amusement. All drinking
fountains will not be allowed to sell
drinks unless they use sanitary
drinking: cups.
The college students living on the
campus will not be allowed on the
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streets and tnose uvuig m
homes will not be allowed to attend
college if there is a case of influenza
in the home.
I The citizens are requested not to
congregate on the streets or in public
places not to visit nor allow their
children on the streets.
R. L. Mayes, M. D.,
; Chairman Pro Tern.
S. S. Cunningham,
; Secretary.
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! Major Blease Urges Cooperation.
To the People of Newberry:
j The Board of Health has established
certain quarantine measures on
account of the influenza epidemic
now prevailing in our city. The
quarantine rules are for the protection
of all the people. Those who
violate the quarantine endanger their
own health and lives as well as the
health and lives of others. The
t regulations made by the Board of
Health, published in this issue of this
newspaper, are laws of the city of
Newberry, and persons who violate
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these regulations are sudjcci to nut*
j and imprisonment.
j I have instructed the police officers
to enforce strictly the quaran;
tine measures. But the policemen
j can not be everywhere and see every
violation of the laws. It is up to the
people who believe in the enforce|
ment of law, and who wish to do
, their part in staying the scourge in
; our midst, to assist the officers of
i i??r. ov?/^ t r?n them to reDort
' LUC law j anvi a vma* 4
; any violations of the health regula|
tions to the chief of police. Just
telephone him to No 26. I especial|
lv urge the physicians to comply with
the rules as to reporting forthwith
for quarantine all persons ill with
influenza or pneumonia.
The parents are earnestly requested
to keep their children off the
streets. The quarantine of the
schools will be useless if the school
children are permitted to run here
' and there. Parents must not get offended
if the policemen send or bring
, their children home.
j One place especially to be avoided
is the union station. Please do
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not go there unless your business is
most urgent.
| If the people will cooperate with
! the physicians and health authorities
1 ^ Mz-itir / snsino' ?n much
lilt; Ul5c<;avt iiun ?
; suffering and sorrow, will soon be
stamped out. We ask aud urge that
; cooperation.
Respectfully,
Eugene S. Blease,
Mayor.
February 5, 1920.
LYCEUM AT SILVERSTREET
SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
The last attraction in the lyceum
course at the Silverstreet school will
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be held at the school auditorium on
Tuesday night, February 10.
The Thomas-Sheppard Concert
party will hold the boards and it is
a very attractive quartet of four
young ladies who will furnish some
fine entertainment in the way. of
music.
This course should have the hearty
cooperation of all the people and it
will be helpful for them to meet together
and enjoy this last number on
the program. All the schools that
have suitable auditoriums should have
these lyceums because they are an
important part of the education not
j only of the children but of the older
people of the community as well.
Robert McCaughrin Holmes. e
'What I do thou knowest not now, ii
but thou shalt know hereafter."
Only a few short days ago Bob e
Holmes walked in and out amongst 1<
us, strong and vigorous, apparently s
.he picture of health, with the pros- S
r?f manv Wflrs hpfort? him. To- C
day he sleeps in Rosemont with his v
forbears and his friends and com- b
panions and loved ones i4with lashes S
wet" wonder and fail to understand f
the mysterious workings of a divine \
providence. But, J
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"Sometime, when all life's lessons n
have been learned, ri
And sun and stars forevermore I
have set.
The things which our weak judg
ment nere nave spumcu,
The things o'er which we grieved o
with lashes wet, o
Will flash before us, out of life's dark ?
night, o
As stars shine more in deeper tints h
of blue, o
And we shall see how all God's plans b
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were risrnt, v
And how what seemed reproof was 1;
love most true." d
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Death is at all times sad, but some- T
how to us it always carries a peculiar J
and indefinable sadness, when the d
young: and strong and the useful are a
^.aken from the home and from loved t
ones and from the community and t
from the field of usefulness and ser- t
vice. And when the young mother is b
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taKen irom rne mue uu? wiiu aiv cw i v
trustful and who can not understand f
and appreciate it all. But somewhere e
there is morninp and the darkness c
will be broken and we will under- r
v
stand it ail. *
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"And you shv&H? shortly know that f
lengthened breath
Is not the sweetest gift God sends t
His friend, >
And that sometime the sable pall ef e
death n
Conceals the fairest bloom his love
can send.
If we could push ajar the gates ot nie
And stand within and all God's i
workings see, c
We could interpret all this doubt and v
I strife, I >
And for each mystery would find r
a kev.'' S
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Robert Holmes was one of those s
quiet and srentle spirits who went 3
about his own business, and was will- f
ing to lend a helping: hand to any
srood cause without any fuss about
it, and he was a useful citizen to any
"Ammnnih- Wp was in thi' prime of 2
LVlilliiUxiivj
young: manhood and it seemed that I r
life held much for him in the future, t
but sometimes "lengthened breath is s
not the sweetest crift God sends His j f
friend," and we must bow in humble j t
submission to His will.
The Herald and News extends its j
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sympathy to the wne ana uie ;
brothers and the other loved ones s
who mourn his sudden taking off, and r
we wish to have the permission to ^
say to the loved ones who now stand
in the shadow of the darkness which
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S6G1T1S to overwnemi uicni uiat .
time it will be morning and it will be j
God's morning and the sun will j
shine and you will be able to under- J
stand, and remember that,
"... ever near us, though unseen.
The dear immortal spirits tread;
For all the boundless universe
Is life?there are no dead."
Robert McCaughrin Holmes died at j
his home in the city on Wednesday j
afternoon at 3:15 o'clock of pneu-!
monia following an attack of influ-1
eu7.ii.
He was born in November, 1888, j
and was therefore 32 years of age.
He was the eldest son of Mr. Owen
McR. Holmes and his wife Mamie a
McCaughrin, and the grandson of the L
late Robert L. McCaughrin. His ^
mother died in his infancy and his ^
father several vears ago.
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He is survived by h:s wife who bes
fore her marriage was Miss Mary
Butler Fant and bv two half brothers, ?
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Owen and Nicholas Holmes and two j,
uncles, Silas J. McCaughrin of Bir- .
mingham and James N. McCaughrin
of Newberry and three aunts, Misses ^
Lucy and Fannie McCaughrin of
Newberry and Mrs. J. C. Harper of ^
Greenwood. And his stepmother,
Mrs. Owen McR. Holmes of New- ^
berry. f
Robert Holmes was successful in s
business succeeding his father as cot- J f
ton broker and had many friends in j
the town and county and will be miss- J
d not only in the family circle but \1
i the business community.
The burial will be in Rosemont
emeterv Friday afternoon, cortege
saving the residence at 3:30 o'clock,
ervice at the grave by the Rev. W.
I. Holmes of St. Luke's Episcopal ;
hurch, of which church the deceased
/as a member. The following pallearers
have been selected: Active? !
liins G. Brown, J. D. Wheeler, L. W.
'loyd, P. E. Scott, C. P. Weeks, John j
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ohnstone, Paul E. Anderson, F. R.,
lunter. Honorary?M. L. Spear- j
nan, H. L. Parr, Nat Gist, C. E. Sum-;
uer. I. H. Hunt, E. M. Evans, Dr. R. !
Mayes, Dr. F. D. Mower.
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Death ot a Little uiri. I
Ollie, 13 years old, the daughter i
>f Mr. and Mrs. W. Berley Cromer, j
f 1128 Summer street, died of con-!
;estion on Monday evening at 7 .
'clock after a very brief illness, :
laving been taken suddenly very ill |
nly the afternoon before. She had i
?een to churhc and Sunday school, ;
Central Methodist, and was apparently
in her usual good health until after !
inner, which she took with a little ;
riend at the home of Mr. and Mrs. j
>. A. Livingston, near neighbors, j
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L UU Ut clll nuui aiiu v ...
inner, at about 2 :o0 o'clock she had
congestive chill, and although all j
hat skilled physicians and loving at- j
ention could do was done she died in
he evening of the next day. The
urial is held over awaiting the arri-!
al of her brother, Mr. Neely Cromer, J
rom Texas, where he serves the gov- {
rnment as civil engineer. The entire J
ommunity sympathizes with the be- j
eaved parents and other relatives in
he jleath of the sweet little girlr
rhose taking away leaves a great
eeling of loneliness in the home. j
Since the bove was written it is'
hought the absent brother will reach
dewberry tonight, Thursday, in which
vent the bufial will be held Friday
lorning, from the house at 11 o'clock.
j
Death of Mrs. I-orce.
Mrs. Lena Force died at her home
n the Coleman section of Saluda
ounty on Tuesday morning, after an
Ilness of influenza-pneumonia and
vas buried at Bethany church Wedtesday,
service by Rev. A. H. Rest.
Ihe was about 88 years old and lcuvas
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i ilusDtini! iinu viiiiu. 'w.., ?
ick with influenza, sonic seriously.;
Irs. Force has relatives, the Wood
amily. in Newberry.
Dor.th of Another Young Lady.
Miss Alma Geneva Capps died on j
Monday evening of congestive pneunonia
and her body was shipped on !
he 12:30 train Tuesday for Hender-,
onville. She was living with her
ather and the family in a tent near
he Mollohon mill.
Prices in 1894 and 1920.
The following partial inventory of
tock taken by a merchant on Feb- <
uarv 23, 1S94. will show a big dif-'
erence in prices: j
100 bushels corn, $00.00. j
34 barrels flour, ?119.00. t
125 gallons molasses, $40.00.
100 pounds lard, $10.00.
300 pounds grist, $5.00.
200 pounds rice, $12.00.
3G0 pounds coffee, $75.00.
1 oq* sncar. S66.00.
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100 pounds cheese, $11.00 j
G boxes soap, $22.00
300 pounds candy, $18.00.
4 ooxes candles, $7.00.
4 boxes starch, S3.00.
3 boxes soda, $10.00 t
46 bushels meal, $27.00.
5 dozen boxes lye, $4.00.
15 pounds tea, $9.00.
9 dozen matches, $9.00.
The habit of over-eating, at first
. pleasant one, once formed, grows
tntil, like all habits, it is difficult to
>reak. A word to the wise is enough.
Vhen you are building or repairing
house you do not pile up material,
uch as bricks, mortar, timber and (
i *. *? VmJl/l fVtom in ,
iates, ana tu uuuu mv... ....
vhere they are not wanted. The re- j
ult would be chaos. That is what
lappens when body-building material
3 crowded unthinkingly into your '
'tenement of clay." To begin with
abitual over-eating, instead of giving
trength, lowers vitality by damping
lown the flame of life, as a small fire
n a .grate is smothered by putting on
m excess of fuel. It wears out the
iigeslive system, producing dyspepia
and all its manifold train of painul
and debilitating symptoms.
Subscribe to The Herald and Nev.s, j
COTTON GINNED PRIOR ft
TO JANUARY 16. p
Washington, Feb. 5.?Director
Sam L. Rogers, of the bureau of g
the census, department of commerce, a
announces the preliminary report on d
cotton ginned by counties, in South
Carolina, for the crops of 1919 and g
1918. The report was made public p
for the State at 10 a. m., Friday, a
January 25, 1920. r
(Quantities are in runnine bales.
counting round as half bales. Lin- h
ters are not included.) n
County 1919 1918 s
The State 1,419,834 1,440,956 e
Abbeville 26,705 21,75C
Aiken 40,186 50,043 a
Allendale 19,601 I
Anderson 80,605 58,905
Bamberg 24,455 33,600 s
Barnwell 30,218 . 65,375
Beaufort 2,293 8,770 I
Berkeley 10,770 15,021 a
Calhoun 33,212 38,8321
Charleston 8,515 14,379 jn
Cherokee 16,419 14,040 ji;
Chester 30,898 28,688 ! a
Chesterfield 34,940 30,852 p
Clarendon 38,944 39,080 a
Colleton 12,512 22,561 i<
Darlington 41,613 40,019
Dillon 41,491 34,926 p
Dorchester 15,170 19,689 1;
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Edgefield 23,boy zo,uzjl a
Fairfield 21,935 24,059 o
Florence 41,928 37,299 t
Georgetown .... 4,577 5,358 J
Greenville 51,411 38,479 n
Greenwood 33,857 34,975
Hampton 10,672 24,151 I
Horry 9,217 8,874
Jasper 2,021 6,958
K$(shaw 29,668 29,787
Laflbasfer 22,263 22?23 r
Laurens 48,470 37;817; c
Lee 43,184 41,022 1
Lexington 28,638 34,663 j
McCormick 16,827 15,946
Marion 18,849 18,018 J
Marlboro 74,291 63,972 J
Newberry 33,309.. 35,420 j
Oconee 23,610 22, <95 t
Orangeburg .... 86,000 102,398 j
Pickens 24.404 19,418 }
Richland 26,265 25,463 j
Saluda 24,352 25,983 ]
Snnrtanhurc .... 76,772 63,033 j ]
Sumter 45,863 51,513
Union 18,717 18,401
Williamsburg ... 26,509 31,226 \ j
York 44,111 36,552 j v
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LETTER FROM NEWBERRIAN ji
FROM OVER IN CANADA j
c
Sault St. Marie, Ont. Canada, Jan. 25t c
1920. t
Just a few lines about the country j
and people up here as I thought you j j
might be interested in knowing about j 2
both. t
Although this place is only just ?
across the line from the U. S., it is c
easy to see the damper that the Eng- e
lish put on activity of ail sorts, iou v
know that in England no industry ci
hustles all the time like in the U. S. !h
It is very noticeable in the way this t
steel plant here is operated. No hustle r
and bustle like in the plants in the
U. S. Same thing in street car ser- g
vice and post office. Lots of other
things too.
Lots of French people (I mean v
people of French descent) around c
here. French-Canadians, they are 3
called, and they have very dark skin d
J r.ofV?/iy. looking. All I c
aim iuu lavuv^i wvmamw c?.
notices in railroad stations and in v
trains are printed in English and c
French, so you can see that there d
must be quite a lot of them. c
Parts of Canada are almost entire- s
ly inhabited by Fi*ench people, notice- v
ably Quebec. They are stubborn, 1?'
suspicious, secretive, close, tight class v
of people, I am told, and do not mix v
very much with any others. c
Parts of Canada are dry and lots of T
liquor traffic (illegal) between the s
drv provinces and the wet. r
Total population of Canada is about 1t
8,000,000, so you see it is very thinly s
populated. Most of the population t
is in a few large cities, Montreal,
Quebec, Toronto, Ottawa, Sudbury,
etc.
No'Pullman company here. All fc
sleepers are owned and operated by s
th? railroad company, diners too. v
Travel for a round trip here is same a
*8 it used to be in the United States, 11
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one fare plus about three-touring 01 c
one fare. Negro porters same as we r
have, and very much more polite con- t
ductors. I came over here from t
Toronto on the Canadian Pacific o
Railroad company, which also oper- ii
ates a telegraph company all over J
Canada and a steamship company on [ n
i
he Great Lakes (both freight and
assenger.)
A Real Cold Place.
When I landed here it was 22 deTees
below zero and it has only been
bove zero only once and then to 6
legrees and for about a half a day.
This morning it was minus 25 deTees
when I went out to the steel
ilant. But I have become somewhat
ccustomed to the cold more and do
lot s-uffer as much as i did at nrst.
Quite a bit of mining done around
tere. I will go to a copper and nickel
nine, when I leave here, to make
ome investigations on s/ me electrical
quipment.
Furs are very plentiful rmd cheap
iround here, much cheaper 1han in
'ittsburgh.
Lots of trappers around here, fur
tores here too.
Snow now is about three feet deep.
>acked hard as clay on the sidewalks
,nd in the streets.
The street company keeps a large
'?- -^ nil fUo f
umuer ui men uusj an vmiv
ng the ice and snow from the tracks
nd walks, so do the street car comiany
and the city. It must be a mess
.round here when all this snow and
ce melts.
I intended to get some kodak
ictures, but got hit in the right eye
ast week with a small piece of sleet,
,nd the doctor told me to stay in out
f the cold and glare. Soq*y about
he pictures as I really wanted them,
ly eye is about 0. K. now, not permanently
injured at all.
IED CROSS COOPERATING
IN INFLUENZA SITUATION
At a meeting of the executive committee
x>t -the 'Newberry ^Red Cfoss
hapter <m ^MOtt^ay?%ternoon the folowing
committee was appointed on.
>ublic health nursing activities:
Mrs. Frank R. Hunter, chairman;
ilrs. H. H. Wright, co-chairman;
Urs. R. McC. Holmes, secretary;
H> ACievo Hfornr
'JL12S5 JJCOO UUI IUU, IUIOO *TXC?XJ wui'
on, Miss Estelle Bowers, Miss Fanlie
McCaughrin, Miss Julia Kibler,
Hiss Willie Mae Wise, Mrs. F. D.
Hower, Mrs. J. M. Workman, Mrs.
tfary P. Fant, Z. F. Wright, S. J.
Derrick, E. S. Blease, Dr. T. H. Pope.
Volunteers for nursing will please
end their names to the chairman,
Hrs. F. R. Hunter. These names
vill be placed on a waiting list and
vill be called upon to aid in nursing
f needed.
The sum of $100 was placed at the
iisposal of the influenza epidemic
ommittee, J. A. Burton, chairman,
n ho ikspH whprp most needed.
The chapter expected to put on a
)ublic health nurse February 1, all
irrangrements having been perfected
o bejrin work at that time, but the
kate supervising nurse has not seured
a suitable person. She, howiver,
promises the chapter a nurse
vill be sent at the earliest possible
late. In the meantime application
tas been made for a temporary nurse
o fill the place until a trained comii'im'tv
nnrco pan h#* Rimnlied.
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Scotland Caves Which Were Used As
Houses.
Several large caves in Scotland,
vhich were used as houses a couple
f years ago, have been discovered,
rlany relics have been left in these
Iwellings. There are weaving
ombs, whirls and spindles used by
romen. enameled brooches, pins and
olored glass armlets with which they
[ecked themselves, women's and
hildren's shoes were also found. Bei<les
thc?e are household utensils,
rooden dishes and spoons, stone
amps and platters and pottery of
arious kinds. The men left tools and
weapons, plows, picks and rakes made
?f deer antlers, wheels of carts, harless
mountings and large decorated
words. Prof. James Carle, who,
nade the discoveries declares that
he Romans who were once in possesion
of the country taught the people
o make all these things.
Origin of Loving Cup Not Clear.
TVip oricin of the loving cup if
lazy. Some investigators have aserted
that its beginning was the
rassail bowl, belonging to festivities
ntedating the Christian Era, and
hat on the advent of Christianity the
ustom of wassailing assumed a
eligious aspect. The monks called
he wassail bowl the "pocalum cariatis"
loving cop.) The ceremony
f drinking from one cop and passng
it around was observed at theewish
pascal supper, and on other
.otable occasions.
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