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. H. AULL.J, EDITOR. GOOD CITIZENSH!?. Cleveland spoke in Chicago last night on the topic of 'Good Citi zenship." It was a vivid and char acteristic setting forth of the truth that it is not c ily the privilege, but the duty of each citizen to be come a politician. He said: "It is time that there should be an end of self-satisfied gratification, or pretense of virtue, in the phrase, 'I am not a politician,' and it is time to forbid the prostitution of the .word to a sinister use. Every, citizen should be p-litioian enough to bring himself within the true meaning of the term, as one who concerns himself with 'the regula tion or government of a nation or state for the preservation of its safety, peace and prosperity.' This is politics in its 1. 2st sense, and this is good citizenship." There is nothing new in the thought. But it is one which can not be too often enunciated. The above is from an editorial comment on Mr. Cleveland's speech by the Atlanta Journal. All Ameri cau citizens are or should be politi cians in the true and highest and better meaning of the term. In our government every citizen Aiould be interested in securing the best pos sible public service, and every one has a voice in the selection of those who are to conduct the affairs of State. The term politician should not be construed as it often is as a term of derision. Only by every citizen who enjoys the privilege of an elector exercising that privilege for the highest and best interests of the commonwealth can the best form of government be secured. The trouble is that too many hold the franchise too lightly and do not realize the importance of the right which they enjoy. In our form of government the government itself cannot rise above the estimate placed upon it by the average of the citizens who exercise the right of suffrage. It is a serious matter to cast a ballot. And yet how few are they who so consider it. Mrs. Susan P. Lee's "New School History of the United States," ac cording to the Macon Telegraph, " is a creditable and honest effort of a good and intelligent Southern woman to tell the truth as she sees it, and t0 bring before Southern youths important facts which would otherwise escape their attention." As a matter of fact, is Mrs. Lee a native of the South, or is it so taken for granted because her husband was namedl I ee? IHer blunders and omissions in recording historial faicts (d0 not warrant the supplosition that she is a Southern woman, or that she is really intelligent - Greenville Mountaineer. Thlis is the book that Col. J. J. D)argan attacks in his lectures on S. C. H1istory and we would be glad to have Col. D argan answer the above paragraph. -D arlington Co. Mes senger. And yet this is thle boo0k put upon the children in the publhc schools n hen we had a better book wvhich it rep)laced. Chambers' U. S. Hius tory is a very attractive book and accurate in statement and fair and impartial to all sections of the country. \We acknowledge receipt of the thirteenth annual edition of the book of "'Cotton Movement and Fluctuations"' issued by Lathan, Alexander & Co., of New York. It is a very valuable wvork and is now become a standard wvork on the cotton movement aud as~ a book ol reference. Mr. George D). Tilhmnan had many friends in Newberry, as else where throughout the State, wvho were pained to learn of his (deathl. lie was the second son of the late Congressman George D). Tillman, and a young man whose sterling qulihties and genial nature had made him friends wherever he was The Herald and News regrets th-tt the people of Newberry coun ty did not take a sufficient interest in the good roads matter to attend ti'e meeting on Wednesday to con sider the plan prepared by the special committee appointed for that purpose. The roads at present, owing to the beautiful weather we have had, are in very good con dition. When the real winter weather comes and the roads cut up then the people will begin to kick about bad roads. The time to do something is before they get bad._ Gf souse the mass meeting will not 'work roads 6ut there must be something wrong with our sys tem, or if there is not then we need to devise a new plan. That was the purpose for which the meeting was called. To talk over the va rious plans suggested and to see if out of a multitude of counsel some thing practical could be evolved. The fact that the supervisor has made eight miles of good perma nent road at a cost of $3.50 is suf ficient argument that with a little money and good management we can get good roads at a very small outlay. The committee, or those mem bers of it present, decided to call another meeting for saleday in November at the court house at ix o'clock. We hope every township will be represented and the people w ill endorse some plan so that so:nething may be done. The Herald and News wants one hundred and fifty more subscribers by the first of January. We will then have reached the two thous and mark. Some are coming in every week but the average is not quite sufficient, and if our friends would speak a word to their neigh bors who are not taking any coun ty paper we could easily secure the requisite number. Every family in the county should have a county paper. And yet there are a few households in this county where no newspaper goes. It is true they are few but we want to see the time when there will be none. NOMINATION OF TOWN OFFICERS. Meeting of Citizens Called for the Pur pose of Providing for Said Nomination. A meeting of the citizens of New berry has been called, to be hold in the opera house on Tuesday, the 3d1 of November, at 7.30 o'clock p. mn., for the purpose of providing for the nomination of munmcipal offieers and for .,uch other business as may p)roperly be brought beforc The meeting wvill be held al night in order to give the businesi men a better opportunity to attend, IThe attendance at these me etings for the p)ast several years has beer very snmall. It is hoped that at the coming iheeting there will be a full attendance of citizens. SHOULD~ STUD~Y ANCIENT HIISTORY. Thec Railroad Comission, The Negr( Preacher and the State Newspaper. The following is from the Stati oi yesterdiay : A colored preachei of Florence has written the railroad commission stating that prover ac. commnodations are niot afforded col. oredl persons on the line of the Columbia, Newberry and Lauremi railwvay between Greenville anc Columbia. The commission corr. municatedl with President \V. G. Childs of the Columbia, Newberr3 andI Laurens ordlering him to in vestigate the circumstances and di recting that if the complaint b well based he shall in future com p)ly with the law as to eqlual ac comnmodations for the two races.' President Chiilds has had tw<c coaches, one for whites, and onc( for colored people, on the train re ferred to for sonme time. WORK OF MISSIONS IN FAR-OFF JAPAN DR. PEERY'S SCHOLARLY ADDRESS ON WFDNESDAY EVENING. The Open Door In Japan and the Things That Militate Against the Progress of the Work. Dr. R. B. Peory, Lutheran mis sionary to Japan, delivered a schol arly address in the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer Wednesday night on the work in Japan Mr. Peery, who is one of the ablest men in the Southern Lutheran Church,' went to labor in the missionary fields in Japan about ten years ago. He was placed in Saga. During the time that he has labored there, as was fittingly said by the Rev. Mr. Seabrook on Wednesday night, his name has become known, not only in the Southern Church, but throughout the entire country, both on account of the great work which he has done there, and on account of his writings, which have linked Japan close to the western world. Dr. Peery is at present in the United States on a vacation and at the request of the Lutheran Synod of the South is touring the South ern churches, telling of the work in Japan, the great opportunities there and the pressing needs. A large audience greeted Dr. Peery in the Lutheran church on Wednesday night. Those present were well repaid for their attend. ance. The address was scholarly, clear-cut and forceful. Dr. Peery is very fiuent is his use of the En glish language and his diction is beautiful. His voice scarce rose above the conversational tone, but he was eloquent, and the truth borne on his words went straight to the hearts of his hearers. The exercises were opened with a solo beautifully rendered by Miss Susie Summer. Prayer was offered by the Rev. J. J. Long, and scripture was read by the pastor, the Rev. W. L. Seabrook. The old familiar hymn, "Fr .n Green land's Icy Mountains" was ren dered by a select choir. Dr Peery was introduced by Rev. Mr. Seabrook, who spoke of the close relations which had ex isted between him and Dr. Peery for the past eight or ten years, and the great pleasure that he felt in introducing him on this occasion. D)r. Peery began by saying that eleven years ago he had been per mittedl to stand in this church and talk about the work which he con templated doing In Japan. After these years of practical experience in that wvork he was able to come back here and tell of what had been accomp)lishedl and what was yet to be accomplished. Dr. Peery dlividedI his address into two parts; the open dloor in Japan, the great opp)ortulnities there for carrying on the work; and, secondly, the adversaries of the work, the things that militate against it there. The Lutheran mission, he said, was located on - the most southern of the large group of islands, Kuyschu, an island not as large as South Carolina, but which has a p)opulationl of 7,ooo,ooo. He dle scribed the topography of the country, its climate and its pro ducts. He said it was very fertile, supporting its seven millions of souls with only half the land in cultivation. The climate had a debilitating effect on account of lack of electricity and ozone in the atmosphere, but it was not unpleas ant to live therg. The people, he said, had adopted a great many of the customs of Westerni civilization. They hadl organized society, local government, large and well. eqiuipped army and navy, schools, colleges, and telephn one adt ele graph systems. And yet in spite of this progress in external things the great majority of the people were ignorant, superstitious, and ut terly immoral. .Il kinds of crime, wickedness and vice abounded. And the most surprising part of it was, there w-as no public sentiment to condemn this immorality. There was, he said. an utter disregard for the institution of marriage, for truth and for chastity. The people were idblatrous, bowing down to gods of wood and stone, as their fathers and forefathers did. One half of the wealth invested in the buildings in the land was in Budhist temples. Religion and morality had been divorced. The most re ligious might be the most immoral, and a man's immorality did not affect has standing in the temple or in the community. There were many large cities in Kuyschu, and in one of these, Saga, the principal mission was located, with important missions in two other large cities. Among the things which Dr. Peery gave as constituting the open door in Japan was the fact that Japan was a land of religious liber ty; the fact that it was a land of ex cellent facilities for traveling and living among the people, in direct contrast to China, where the people did not tolerate locomotives because they were afraid their noise would awake their dead ancestors; the great thirst of the people for West ern knowledge; the fact that in recent years, with the advent of Western civilization the people had drifted rapidly away from the old faiths and were in search of a new religion. Not only, however, was there an open door in Japan, said Dr. Peery, but the work had its adversaries. The authorities, he nid, held that religion and education were utterly incompatible, and one who had gone through the schools,-and there were many excellent schools in Japan, and a number of colleges and two large universities,-came out with an extreme prejudice against religion in any form. Another thing which militated against the work was the extreme loyalty of the people to their coun try, their blind, fanatical patriot ism, and their idea that Christi anity was not friendly toJapan as a nation; their custom >f worshipping ancestors, the Christian religion leaching that worship of any save God is wrong; the fact that the great masses were Budhists, and that Budhism actively opposed the progress of the work; the character of many of the representatives of Western civilization liv'ing i Japan, many of whom were e- more im moral than the people of the coun try. In spite of all these things that militated against it, said Dr. Peery, the work was growing and pro gressing. Truth and Right were on its side and Truth and Right would prevail. As sure as God's word was true, Christianiity would ulti mately prevail. The prej udice in Saga against the work had been largely overcome. Ten years in Saga Uad produced 15o converts, but that was only a small part of the work which had been accom plished. Dr. Peery said that one of the native preachers in Saga at the time of his conversion was a mannufacturer of wholesale liqunors and a large wholesale dealer in liquors. When he was converted he did not wait until he sold out his stock to quit the business, but he broke up every cask that his liquor might not destroy any one else, and now there was not a man in Japan who hated liquor more strongly. He gave numerous ex amples of the quality of the con verts. One other tihing, and one most imp)ortant, which militated against last called attention, was the utter indifference of many of the people at home. In eloquent words he pictured sin-stricken Japan and her needs and pleaded for the support of the work. At the close of the address prayer was offered by Dr. 1'. P. McClintock and a collection was taken for mis siols. THE OLD REIABLE Absolutely Pure 7HERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE NOTICE. A CITIZENS' MEETING IS HERE by called to be held in the opera house on Tuesday, November 3d, 1903, at 7.30 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of providing for the nomination of muni cipal officerB for the next ensuing year, and for such other business as may be properly brought before it. CoE. L. BLEASE, Chairman. FRED. H. DOMINICK, Sec. REAL ESTATE BOUGHT AND SOLD MONEY TO LOAN On Easy Terms AND For Long Periods. A few more Shares of the first series Stock Lame Lopq and Trust Co. May be secured. Apply to Sec'y and Treas., Newberry, S. C. WHY NOT C< me and buy some of our Fine Cream Cheese Picnic Hams Bologna Sausage Smoked Pork Sausage Canned Goods, Cabbage Potatoes, Fruits, Etc? Chestnuts are fine this year. We have a new e nle1 the best gocds. Coints & Dickert, o e"lisd of Newberry, S. C. corgan1isneci 1800. Capital - - - $50,000 Surplus - - - 19,500 Paid Stockholders since organization 21,000 Paid Depositors in Savings depart ment since or ganization - - $9,200 A man working by the day is paidl for the time he puts in at work, but when that man saves a dollar for his (lay's labor it works for him nights, as well as days; never lays off on ac count of bad weather and never gets sick, but goes right on earning him an income. It's a nice thing to work for money, but it's much nicer to have money working for you. Trv it--open a savings account with u's and get some mounny working for you. Make a deposit in the Savings de partment today and let it begin to wvorkc for you. Initerest computed at 4 per cent January 1 and July 1 of n,aoh year.