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Oty? Hamburg iirralli ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891 A. IF. KNIGHT. Editor. Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for ?lx months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion; 50c. for each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, or twelve months. Want Notices one cent a word each insertion. Local Notices 8c. per line first week, 5c. afterwards. Tributes of Respect, etc., must bej>aid for as regular advertising. COMMUNICATIONS?NCW5 ic;icis w objects of general interest will be gladly welcomed. Those of a personal nature will not be published unless paid for. Thursday, July 19,1906 The smallness of the crowd here'last Friday to hear Tillman is significant. It is also significant that people from the country did not attend this meeting any more general than the State campaign meeting. Much of the audience Friday as made up of town people, many of these being ladies. * * * We understand that some of our friends ere very anxious that Senator Tillman should see what we had to say about him last week and that he should "jump on" Tia Whether thev meant it so or not, we have to thank them for a favor. The Senator gave The Herald some good advertising, and publicity always pays. * * * Hon. J. 0. Patterson was well received by the people last Friday. It sterns to be the general sentiment that he deserves a econd term and he will get it by a large majority we believe. In fact the voters In this section would not consider any candidate against him this time, no matter how strong a man he might be. # # * No, gentle reader, The Herald did not pay Senator Tillman for his excellent advertisement of this newspaper last Friday. What he said was entirely gratuitous and arose out of his great admiration for a good county newspaper and for an editor who has convictions and does not hesitate to express them. The Senator despises a straddler, and The Herald does cot straddle. We don't have to. # * * "I take a drink when I feel like it and walk into a bar with as much reverence as a church, with all due respect to the latter."?From Senator Tillman's speech at Elloree, July 14,1906. We heard a man try to defend Tillman for the above remark by saying that the papers were accountable for such re?"VT/nt.. a man TrTf/h r?r?mmnn sense ilUU&O. 11 \J n ok rnuu *v *?m _ _ ? knows such a thing is preposterous?that ft paper could not afford to misrepresent a man to that extent and even if a correspondent misrepresents the statement of any person the columns of the paper are open for such person misrepresented to make corrections. No paper will refuse Ibis to anyone and is only too glad to do this. We hate to see anyone who is so blinded in their opinion of a person that they cannot see any fault in them and worse than all to lower themselves enough to make such flimsy and unfounded excuses for a man when at heart they know the statements they are making are absolutely false. * f * * The editor of The Herald was not at the speaking here last Friday, but our reporter quotes him as complimenting this newspaper as an up-to-date sheet and agreeing with us as to making legislative candidates tell exactly where they stand, iike us the Senator is tired of having candidates announce elastic views which may mean almost anything. What seem* - ?*? J * v.? rroc that this lit 6a 10 guuu iuc ocuawj. iT?? vumv ... tie editor in all sincerity had asked our people to give the speaker a "quiet and respectful hearing." That a little insignificant county editor should ask for a respectful hearing for him, the idol of the "peepul," seemed to gall him. Well we can't help it. We wrote what we did in good faith for the reason that some of our citizens have a habit of rising and 'asking questions during a speech, and some of them are men who will not tamely submit to insulting replies. Therefore we thought it best to suggest that any questions to be asked should be written out and handed up to the chairman before the speeches commenced. We wanted Senator Tillman to speak here without any friction or unpleasant incidents, no matter how much we disagreed with him as to his right to interfere in this dispensary matter and we shall always maintain this position. If it offends Senator Tillman we can't help it, and, t o be entirely candid, we don't care. It will take more than him to turn us aside from what we conceive to be our duty. What's the Difference. Some time ago Fraser Lyon said that he was investigating a report that Tillman was given a piano by a whiskey house. This made Tillman very mad, and he calls Lyon a "blackguard," "liar," "malicious slanderer" and "mean cur dog." Some time previous, Senator Tillman said that it was reported that John Bell Towill had been given a fine horse by a whiskey concern. It turned out that there was as mvc'i truth in the piano story as in the horse story, for both were untrue. What we would like to know is: Why should Tillman be exempt from the epithets which he has applied to Lyon?? Pee Dee Advocate? N. B. Truth, St. Paul, June 31, '08.? I've lived.so long, I remember well when the Mississippi was a brook. My good health and long life came by taking Holiister's Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents. H. F. Hoover. LIVING ON AN ACRE. How It Would Help the Mu of Family and Little Money. A family, with a modest house surrounded by ap acre of good soil, even where the work has to be performed by members of the family who are occupied during the long hours of the day at various occupations, will produce almost everything used in the family. An acre of ground thoroughly well cultivated, with a little chicken yard as an adjunct, will reduce in a very material way the expenses of the family. Of course acre lots are Impossible Inside of the city limits or even very close to the city limits. The person ?>/. Ibma o lnt mnot trr\ tn a DV icu^v U JVir LUIMV QV ?v w considerable distance from the business center, but the extension of electric lines enables even working people to live at a considerable distance from their place of employment A man who earns $2.50 to twice that sum a day and who has a family consisting of a number of children often finds some difficulty in bringing them up properly and giving them the kind of an education he would wish. Such an Investment as this, saving rent of say $20. a month and yielding eggs and. all kinds of vegetables as well as considerable of the fruit that goes to make up the daily ration of each member of the family, will make his struggle In life much lighter. A man who has such a stake in the country will be In every way a better citizen than the one who spends his week's earnings as soon as they come Into his hand, if not a week before they are earned. Varied occupation exceeds all other processes In drawing out whatever of ability a man possesses. Here lies the advantage to the community?one superior to all economic gain?of the suburban acre lot for the home of the city wage earner. The cultivation of that acre in alternation with his other employment will bring him intellectual and spiritual enlargement, while it gives him a healthier body and wholesome surroundings In which to bring up his family.?Maxwell's Talisman. THE GROWTH OF TROUT. A?e, Food and Temperature Seem to Have No Bearing on Sise. xne saiveimus ronunaus, wuicu is currently but Inaccurately called brook trout, was supposed for many years to be a small fish. Agassiz whs largely instrumental in exploding this fallacy. It la not an uncommon thing for an angler with ordinary luck to get a six or seven pound trout of this variety. It Is known that a trout may grow to weigh eleven or twelve pounds. There is, however, great difficulty In accounting for Its variation in size. In northeastern Canada there are large streams and lakes In which only fingeriings have ever been found. In I the immediate vicinity of such waters three and four pound trout are quite common and seven and eight pounders are not phenomenal. In all these waters Crustacea do not abound; there are no small fish of any kind except small trout All the fish are pure fly feeders. At some places, It Is true, frogs abound, but taken as a whole the difference In food supply Is not an adequate explanation for the difference in growth. There is no substantial difference In the waters as to temperature, size, origin and course. Climatic conditions are the same. The small trout taken to virgin lakes in which there are no fish have sometimes grown to a great size, have sometimes remained small and sometimes have not thriven. The anglers who haunt these waters have not yet found a satisfactory explanation of this peculiar condition of things. It is one of the mysteries which lends fascination to the art "You never can tell what is going to happen when you go fishing."?St Paul Dispatch. Long Word* or Sfeartf Which shall we prefer in speech and writing? Almost everybody will vote for the short word, and almost everybody will be voting for the best candidate. The short words are usually the strong words. They make up In muscle and liveliness what they lack in size, says the Manchester Union. And they are readily in the eyes of men who have thoughts that they wish to lodge in other minds. A man who should run out into the street and yell "Conflagration! Conflagration! Conflagration ?* when his house was burning would be thought to be making a Jest of the affair. And so in all matters where ideas are to be handed out quickly and clearly?the short word has first choice. Cockflghtlng Among the Greeks. The sport-of cockfight!ng seems to have originated with Themistocles of Greece. When he was leading an army I against the Persians he noted two - cocks in a desperate battle. To stimulate the courage of his soldiers he pointed out the bravery of birds, and, having won his battle with the Persians, he ordered that an annual cockfight should be held to celebrate his victory. In England the records show that the first cockfight took place In 1191. What Be Meant "Dont forget to visit the mystery show while you are In Europe/' "Let's see, that's in one of the German cities, Isn't it?" "No, It's in Berne, Switzerland. I refer to the international sausage exhibition."?-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Danger In Soap. A Philadelphia boy who was wash ing his face got soap in his eyes, fell off a step and broke his elbow. Small boys can show this to mamma.?Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Ambition is pitiless; every merit that it cannot nse is contemptible in its eyes.?Joubert | Pitting a I f Bouse Boat I By CLAUDE PANARES | ;j: Copyright. I30S, by M. 3L Cunningham ^ E }55555555555555$55$55$5$55555SS55555^ Harold Strong was a New York artist and bad painted the portrait of Ruth Bascomb and fallen in love with her. Whether she returned his love or not was the thing he was worrying over. Harry Stevens was a New York sculptor, and he had desired to bring out a marble bust of Miss Bascomb and also had fallen In love with her. As to whether she would consent to be "sculped" and marry him was a matWt* that gave him headaches. Both the artist and the sculptor had sisters that were friendly with Ruth Bascomb, and this was the general situation for the playwright to build on. The present situation was that Ruth Bascomb's mother, who was a fairly wealthy widow, had become possessed of a house" boat and had determined to float around Princess bay and up the Shrewsbury river for a month or so. Her guests were to be the artist and his sister and the sculptor and his sister and two or three other persons. A day was appointed, a tug engaged to tow the house boat down New York bay and leave her at her first anchorage, and all was going merrily when the villain hidden In the thicket showed his hand. It always has been suspected that he was a villain belonging to the same chib as the artist and sculptor. He became aware of the house boat party, and out of pure deviltry and from no desire to see the sculptor get ahead of the game he worked his little trick. The day before the boat was to sail be fixed up a telegram calling Harold Strong to Philadelphia to see about p?UUUiX? Li-ic: ucuk vi <* The artist's return was Indefinite. He knew that he was leaving a rival behind Mm, and he knew that the Colonial Dame, as the craft was called, would scarcely have come to anchor In the bay and the moon risen above the waters when that cheeky sculptor would be talking soft nonsense to Ruth Bascomb, but the artistic spirit was strong within him. ' He arranged with his sister to Interrupt If the sculptor tried to take advantage of the occasion. Feeling himself as secure as any man ever can feel where a woman Is concerned, he departed on his mission, and the stately Colonial Dame also departed on hers. Sometimes a millionaire can he found sitting an his front steps and smoking a fairly good cigar and waiting to be Interviewed. Again he Is as elusive as the midnight mosquito. The one the artist sought was elusive. It took a whole day to run him down, and when he was finally brought to bay his reply was: "Young man, don't try any, of your confidence games on me If you want to keep out of Jail. I didn't telegraph you. I want no painting of any sort I don't like the look of you. If you are honest then some one has made a fool of you; if you are a confidence man, then try the first corner grocery." Harold Strong had been bunkoed. It was only natural that he should believe the game had been played by his rival. He didn't wait to devour even a sandwich before catching a train for New York. For three hours he sat in a chair car and murdered the sculptor. He. killed him in seven different ways and was planning the eighth when be arrived at a good sized town in Pennsylvania and was asked by the porter if he wished to stop there. He had got Into a car that had been switched off at a junction on to another road while he was doing the murdering act It was noon when the artist reached New York. It was 2 o'clock before be began his hunt for some craft to take him down to Princess bay and lay him alongside the house boat The sculptor had had one moonlight night in which to weave his net of romance around the victim, hut he should not have another. The artist tried to charter all sorts of crafts, from an Albany day boat to a sand barge, but the afternoon wore away and night was coming on before he landed at the foot of Thirty-ninth street, Brooklyn, and interviewed Captain Jinks of the Merry Sal. "Can you charter me to find a house boat in Princess bay tonight?" repeated Captain Jinks as he bent his head to scratch the back of his neck. "Yes, sir, I reckon yon can if you've got a twenty dollar bill about you. You've got a schooner right here which is not much to look at compared with some schooners, but if there is anything on Innri nr Tcrflfpr that fih/> ran't nick UD I'd like to see It That's her great holt young man?picking up things. There's goin' to be a fog tonight as sura's you live, but if I don't hit that house boat plumb center before midnight then I'll never sing gospel hymns off Cape Hatteras ag*ln." Harold Strong closed with the offer. The crew of the Merry Sal consisted of the captain and a lunkhead of a young man and a boy of ten who had run away from home and was trying a life on the billows. The captain looked upon the artist as a husband pursuing an eloping wife; the lunkhead looked upon him as an idiot for giving up $20 when the captain would have taken $10, and the runaway boy figured It out that he was some sort of grafter escaping from the police. The opinion of the crew did not affect ! Mr. Strong, however. He helped to cast < off the schooner and cant her head the ? right way and hoist the mainsail, and j presently she was careering down the bay and avoiding as many statues of 1 Liberty, men-of-war and Staten Island i docks as she conveniently could. What 1 \ \ , ir ' v ; ; "v.- v. she couldn't avoid she crawled over until she struck deep water on the other side. She struck the fog at Fort Hamilton, and then the anxious artist asked: ' "Captain, isnt this going to make it difficult for us to find the house boat?"' "Not at all, my son?not at all," was the confident reply. "I told you we should have a fog, but that it would make no difference. The Merry Sal is a-sailin' of herself. She's a-follerin' of her own nose. I've told her that I want her to hit a bouse boat called the Colony Damned, and she'll do It or never look me in the face again." "The Colonial Dame is the name of the boat," corrected the artist "Well, I got near enough to it for the schooner to understand what is wanted. You Just enjoy yourself and Ain't TPfirrv TYird. hnt T Wish von really knowed what a nose this craft has got for smellin' out other boats and things! One night I was comln' aroxmd Sandy Hook in such darkness that I couldn't see my hand before my face. I didn't know whether the Hook was five rods or five miles off. I left It all to Sal, and what did she do? Why, she smelled her way along and went ashore so high and dry that 1 got off without wettin' my feet. Show me another craft that can do the trick. No, sir, you needn't worry one least bit I'll hit that house boat Inside of another hour If the wind holds." Aboard the Colonial Dame all had gone well. She had been towed down to the bay and anchored. The sculptor felt that the game was In his bands and was determined to win. He counted on a moonlight night rippling waters, wavelets softly tanking against the sides of the boat poetry, sighs and the soft strain of music floating over the waters from some summer resort where sandwiches sold at 15 cents each. The fog came and blotted out the moonlight It was too damp to sit on deck, and the artist's sister accompanied them down In the "cabin, and his suit did not advance. At 10 o'clock the house boat rocked silently on the waters with all on board retired. At about that hour also the captain of me aierry csai waa saying lu nuruiu Strong as they walked the quarterdeck together: "Yes, sir, the Sal has got a nose on her, and there Is really no use for me to carry a compass. I've told her to smell out that ere boat of yours, and she's a-doin' It I'm reckonin' shell hit It within fifteen minita. Why, I could turn In right now and feel that If that boat of yours Is fenywhere on Princess bay the Sal would hit her wlthln" The Sal hit her. Whether she was guided by Providence, the lunkhead of a young man or by her nose may never be known, but as a matter of fact she suddenly crashed Into the Colonial Dame and cut her down to the water's edge. There were shouts and screams and yells of confusion. It seemed for a moment as if all on board the house boat must be drowned, but luck was with them. The tide had gone out and there were only three feet of water under her keel, the crew of the Sal were active on the bows of their craft and the artist went overboard at the first crash and fished around until he found the right party and then saved her In a sopping, but uninjured state. He also magnanimously extended a saving hand to his rival and to his future mother-in-law, and as he piloted them to the sandy Jersey beach and counted i heads to find all present and accounted for he was hailed from the departing schooner with: "Well, good night, young man. I told you the Sal had a nose on her and would hit this 'ere house boat In the darkest night and yon see I am a mariner who speaks the truth. Good night alL Take the Merry Sal when you want a schooner with a smeller on her." The Art of Berglar The bead waiter of a famous New York restaurant said the other day: "A few nights ago, after having charge of a very large dinner, I started for home. My way led me through West Seventy-second street where, late as it was, I saw a little girl only a few years old sitting on the lower . -x 1 step oi a private stoop, cryuig nuu sobbing as If her heart would break. I stopped to ask her what was the matter, and she told me that she had got lost uptown, that she knew where she lived?In Sixteenth street?and that If she only had car fare she could get back there. Being In a hurry, I gave her a quarter and started to pass on. "The moment the kid got the coin = she jumped up and ran away around the corner like lightning. I never before saw any one disappear so quickly. It dawned on me at once that I had been 'dead easy.' Of course she was simply a well trained little actress and had taken the quarter to her father or mother, who was In hiding near by. If s an outrageous shame that a little child should be trained up In that way."?New York Post Some Strange Customs. ' A very Interesting account Is given of the strange customs of the Bedouins of the Sinai peninsula in Lord Cromer's report on Egypt and the Sudan. If a man kills another In time of mnrriorori peace uw iriau?cs ui ***%. man, beginning from the father to the fifth generation, have the right to revenge or pardon against the receipt of "blood money." This latter is fixed at forty-one camels. 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