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tie lerfllD anD 1? xr4< U3Q} ^Jitered at the Postoffice- >r NT^w nerry, S. C., as 2?xi class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, February 6, 1914. The general assemly lias acceptei an invitation' to visit Charleston to inspect the State Medical College the Citadel, and to be the guests o the city. Charleston knows how t< take care of visitors, and the genera assembly will have an enjoyable day and we hope it will be profitable a: well. Governor Blease dec-lined to appear before the asylum investigating committee until Senator Tillman comes before the committee and makes specific his charges. Tue governoi says that in his practice at the bar it has always been customary for those making charges to offer proof and then for those accused to be givei; the opportunity of a reply. Tha* lias always been our understanding. The senate committee 011 education has reported unfavorably the Fortnei bill to prohibit white persons fron: teaching in negro schools. Some startl< ing facts have been brought out in the discussion of this 'measure, and the best thing the senate can do is to pass it. As we have pointed out such a law ought not to be necessary in South Carolina, and we regret that it is, but since it seems to be neces eary, we favor it heartily. If, as all physicians say, vaccination is a preventive of small pox, the question naturally arises why does not the board of health enforce compulsory vaccination. There are a number of cases in the town of Newberry and in No. 9 township only in the last issue of the paper an election "vvas called off on account of the prevalence of small pox. What are boards of (health for any way? "Why not enforce vaccinatiorf instead of saying tc % the people that they may be vaccinated and thus prevent small pox but if they do not the responsibility rests with them. One of these day we are going tc , v have a road between Newberry and Columbia that can be used in any ^inc! of weather by any kind of vehiclebuggy, wagon or automobile?anc suai a road is going to work to tin advantage of the capital city and of all the communities through whioh it passes. The supervisor of Richland, it is reported, is putting his part of the roaC in good shape. There ought to be a road from Columbia through Xewberrj on to Laurens, and thence on b) Greenville one .way and Spartanburg another, which would be a real road and it is bound to come. The sooner, however, tflie better. t We have already'had some splendic weather for road dragging and will have more before the winter is over, Wherever the roads have been dragged they are to be found in excellenl condition. But thre is much more work yet to be done.?Lancastei News. The same thing is true in everj county where there are roads. The road drag is a very simple device ant if used properly will insure gcoc roads. If the people who are interested will not use it the blame rests entirely with them and they have only themselves to biam? . ise tnc split log drag and liave good roads Refuse to use it and have the bac roads we have been having. There ar< the two horns of the dilemma, tak< your choice. > THE PBIMART. The following is from the News an< Courier of Wednesday morning. "The announcement from Washing ton in the dispatches printed yester day teat President Wilson is oppose* \ vto the proposal to exclude from thi country ail aliens who can not reai and write is encouraging to all thos who have given this question thought " ful and disinterested study. Th [president, it is stated, does not h | lieve that the ability to read and write | is a fair test of character. It is hard - : to see how any ordinarily sensible ! man can do so. _ | 'The insistence of Southern con; gressmen especially upon the inelu1 sion of the literacy test in the Burnet; j biil is one of those curious phenom1 j quo which require a searching analysis J . ; to :ii i* >*?tand. We know that in this State, wherr ballot reform is the bigt ' ; cost an.i :::ost important of all our 3 i ^ | political problems at the present time, i it would be impossible- to muster a 9 j corporal's guard in support of a measure which undertook to exclude any white man from voting in a primary . election because he was unable to read . ; and write. Yet when the immigration . j bill was before congress during the . i Tafr ,'Hirrinistration it received the i Islipptrt f>f many representatives from . ! Southern State, literacy test and all."' I ' I Yet the Xew's and Courier and other . {newspapers are advocating all kind of : ! restrictions in a white man's primary. i > | The Herald and News believes in j honesty in elections, as in all things i else?an honest ballot and a fair count ij?but it believes in securing an hon J est expression of the entire white i j electorate. The primary should be safeguarded in the interest of tlie i preservation of the primary system, 1 but there are now stringent laws on i the statute books for safeguarding , the primary. Tuese laws should be ' enforced, and strictly enforced. : Bribery and corruption and 'intimidation, if. there be any, should be stamped out. But all the white men oi South Carolina, who are not dispualified uyder the rules of the party, ! should be allowed to express their wil] ; j in the government under which they I live. i SPRING AND THE SPLIT-LOG DRAG i l The split-log drag is coming into i . its own. Listen to some sentences i from a Washington dispatch to tne . Columbia State, inspired by road exi perts cf the United States department . of argriculture: "Repairs to roads should be made when needed and not once a year after crops are laid by. Because of its simplicity, efficiency .and cheapness, > the split-log drag or other similar deI vice is destined to come into more and 1 more general use. With the drag properly built aijd its use well underI stood, the maintenance cf earth and J gravel roads becomes a simple and in1 expensive matter." The same article says that "it is a i , i I ! great mistake to put off working roads II until August or September, according 1 to road experts of the United States department of agriculture. The roads should be worked when the soil is 5 damp so as to make the soil bake ' when it dries out." ' ! Describing the split-log drag best calculated for use, the article continues: ' "Care should be taken to make the 1 log should be from seven to 10 feet with ease, as a" light drag can be drawn by two medium sized horses and responds more readily to various methods of hitching and the shifting position of the operator than a heavi j er one. The best material for the drag i is a drv cedar log. though elm, walnut, : i ! box elder or soft maple are excellent. ! Oak, hickory or ash are too heavy. The rlog should be from seven to 0 feet ' long, and from eight to 10 inches in ; | diameter. It should be split carefully > ! | as near t:1? centre as possible, and the > | heaviest and best slab chosen for the I front. When the soil is moist, but not i sticky, the drag does the best work. i I ; As the soil in the field will bake if plowed wet, so the road will bake if ! the drag is used on it when it is wet, ! If the roadway is full of holes or badi ]y rutted the drag should be used once 1 : i when the road is soft and slushy." Tbe Herald and News has so long . and so consistently urged the use oi rj the split-log drag that it is extreme1} s gratified to reproduce this endorsemenl A from the United States government ol e this simple device for the improve_ ment of the roads. e And now is tbe time. T ASYM'SF IXVKSTHJATORS / , | TO WAIT FOR TILL HAN i I. (COXTIXI'ED FROM PAGE 1.) : who are making the accusations are j heard. When the writer of the muelily i marked "Personal" letter shall have i | appeared before you and made specir . ! he liis charges, if there be any against , j me in my individual capacity or as ! governor cf South Carolina. I shall be \'Oi-r miir.1-1 1^1?> > tn lilnpp ' within the jurisdiction of your ccmmiti top and give you all the information | I have, freely and with pleasure, but I do not propose to be led about by the nose or be made by my political enemies 011 any committee a mere con| venience to allow them or tuose who i are controlling them to manufacture "T i political capital for the coming camJ paign. Therefore, I will not appear before i your committee at the time that you | request, and neither will my private I secretary, nor will any papers in the j governor s office be presented to you ! at that time. However, later, if you ; desire us to appear, we will then niafte such further decision in the matter as i i we may see fit. I am glad to see, however?and I | wish to congratulate you ufion this? I that you are having your committee meetings wittoin the State of South Carolina, and not in Charlotte, X. C., | or Augusta, Ga. Very respectfully, ! iSionpd) Cole. L. Blense. I v Governor. j Secretary Wyche. after the executive I session of the committee, addressed J the following letter to Senator Till!man. in Washington: Letter to Senator Tillman, i "I have your letter of January 31, in which you state that on account of j illness it is impossible for you to ap| pear before rhe joint committee to inj vestigate the Slffte Hospital for the ! Insane on February 3, and that if the" | committee is in session on Saturday, , jf eDruarv t, you win try 10 appear j then. I am instructed by the commitj tee to inform you that for tnis reason j it has taken a recess until 10 o'clock ' on Saturday, February 7, at which i time it expects you to be present. The j committee desires to hear your testii mony at such a time as your health | will permit. "The committee feels that your pres: ence is very necessary and esential to ! this investigation, and hopes that your ! health will permit you to be present j on the day appointed." ! x MM f <e><t><8><8><s><$><?<8><8>$><e><e><s><s><8><8><$> & J. D. SMITH LIVINGSTON. <?> <$> <S> James DaDiel Smith Livingston, the son of Daniel Livingston and Kerenhappuck Livingston, his wife, was j born on the 12th day of March, 1827, ! and departed this life on the 1st day of February, 1914. Mr. Livingston was born in that part of Edgefield county now embraced in Saluda county. He was married on the 2nd day of December, 1852, to IMary P. Vaughn. Mrs. Livingston survives her. husband ? J -t? _ x.7? rOi.1. ?^c i. ana sue is now 111 uue toui jtrar ui uei "age. James Daniel Smith Livingston was a gallant Confederate soldier. He was sergeant and later color sergeant of his company. He was in company D of the 19th regiment. He served durI ing the four years of the war and was wounded in the thigh in the battle of Chicamauga. After the surrender, Mr. Livingston never took part in the reunions, not because he did not dearly love his comrades in battle and those who fought for tlaat which was right but he took the position that the war had ended and it was best for the ] peace and welfare of the country that j the agitation should cease and that ! so far as possible the happenings of i ihat four years of blood shed and ! wastes of lives and properties should i be entirely fcr gotton Mr. Livingston was a farmer. He i owned valuable farming lands and was i a prosperous and progressive farmer. ! In the later years of Dis life, Mr. Livingston resided in the city of Newberry where he owned valuable property interests. Mr. Livingston was a man who took . an active interest in all political questions of the day. He always exercised his right of citizenship, he believing that it was t&e duty of every man to vote and thereby aid as he i thought in the best interest of his (State and Nation. iMr. Livingston was f I ' in tine highest sense of the word a patriot. While he thus took an active ' interest in matters of State, yet he was ? never a candidate for office, perfer^ ring to exercise his rights and duties as a good citizen in a quiet way. Mr. Livingston was a member of Central Methodist Church. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal f 'Church. Soinh. noarlv all Ills life, hav' : ing united with this Kuirch prior to 1 ilie year is."2. i Ho had a large family connection, yet he is the last of his family. Six of his m phews. namely. Harry i H. Blease, Coleman Livingston Blease, ; Preston S. Livingston, Daniel G. Livingston. Philip Trotter and I). J. : Trctter. and two grand-nephews, j namely J. Oliver Havird and Daniel ; Lee Fellers, acted as his pall beari ers. It is rathei* an unusual incident i where a man's nephews and grandI nephews act as his pall bearers. Surely our community is better for his having lived, and we are better men and women for having known him. "His life was gentle, and the elements i so mixed in him that, 1 i Nature might stand up and say to al1 the world This was a man!" ? News From P?ohman Chapel, I | Special to The Herald and News. I Bachman CV.apel, Feb. ">.?Our pas- $ ! tor, the Rev. Y. von A .Riser, preach- } ed one of his most eloquent sermons i i as lie generally does at his last regit- j j lar service day at cur church. I J 1 think I can trutlifullv sav oar little I church is doing a good woik with pasi tor and people working together hand | in hand. A portion of our members. | along with our pastor, met a few days j j ago at the churca to beautify the ! grounds in the way of trimming up ! trees and thinning trees cut where ; they were so thick which does add i : very much to the looks of the grounds ! for we have a beautiful site for a | church. And we should properly care ! for it as best we can. The members of Bach man Chapel j Grave Yard association are perparing ! to erect a nice new wire fencing around | ti"ie beautiful cemetery. The wire has i been purchased and hus been deliverI ed on the ground which will make a durable fencing. '?he association will have a short meeting just after kservice next Sabbath morning aijd hope all those interested will be I present so the work can be pushed to ; completion. I ! We have a lot of sore arms down j ! this way and a few cases of small pox ! though we are driving them out by j vaccination* Let every one be vaccinated so we can stamp the disease ou.t Member. j Jp 1 tsSp $8B i abBIm ?PF ill m ?iaR m ? Our thi now here, you want, fi One ext U H UilC ddUUi^ XJ j We rais stables and c We wij mules bougl: * i I" Pr ( / 1 No Sub IFJETURN to t! mL stitutes sent 3 ing Powder, stitute for ROYAL. cream of tartar Lai healthful. Powders stitutes are itiade f t '^aaBBHBggBa??M?bhmi Fro vocation. Fudge. i Boarder (nonchalantly)?I'll take ;ome boiled eggs this morning, Mrs. Blank. . \ Landlady (fiercely?Eggs! Did you c ;ay eggs-s-s, Mr. Hoguc? Just A /\*Tr< nin nr mi IAK Ul Cash or i' Purcell X I -r"' JB m 1 / rd car of Tennessei t We have any kin rom 900 to 1,300 pc :ra nice Tennessee t orse, one combinati :p nnt* mm and. Jo our own work. 11 save you $25.00 j it from us this wee # J. WJ osperity, S. < i. iMi.nl ? I II I IIM?Ml stitutes I ie grocer all sub- I ' r-k l r* l fou tor Koyal bak- | gj i here is no subRoyal is a pure, I \ j 3 offered as subrorn alum. jl "Well, Milly seems to be up against fl Jl "How so?"' | "She dislikes her husband, but isr't . landsome enougjj to appear in a div)rce court.' fudge. \ j rrived I UAH XffTTT FO J luii muixd a BB Credit ' 1 f S & Scott i fl * Ira mSBi ' i % 4 e mules are d of mules >unds. wood mare, on horse. g y, own the ^ jer head on SE J c. m