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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New berry, S. C., as second class matter. FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1905. Every now and then another sta:e.s man is mentioned for governor. There will be no lack in numbers. The Laurens Advcrtiser says the best thing to do is to elect Gov. Hey wood for another term. He has made an excellent chief magis:rate but there are others and it is bad to set a precedent for a third term. Mr. Ansel is now in favor of local option. Two years ago he was a dis pensary man. In Greenwood county a criminal case was held over a man and woman on condition that the woman leave the county and the man come to Greenwood only ii biusiness and leave promptly when through \ih his business. \\e do not eactly --.1uerstand why it should be more of a crime for the man to loaf around the city of Greew wood than to roam at large through the county. And why it is right tro put the woman on some other county. It is stated that if thi agreement is violated the case will be prosecuted vigorously. This is the season of the year to do some good road working. New berry needs i: as much as any coun ty in the state. If the chain gang could be put on some permanent road improvement and the supervisor could get a few more convicts from the penitentiary ins:ead of running the gang over the county fixing bridges we could soon have a prac tical and tangible demonstranon or what is meant by a good road. \\e .have been in several counties recently and they are all forging ahead of us in this important matter of road- im provement. The beautiful little town of Lees ville has built several miles of clay and sand road simply by putting the clav on the sand and it makes an ex cellent road at a. very small cost. Tn Greenwood county the chain gang is leveling off the rough places and running the crusher over t.he clods. A drive of eighteen miles in a bug gy in Anderson county the other day was a pleasure on account of the fine condi:ion of the public road. Spar tanburg is building macadam roads and is going at it in a business like way. It is an investment that wvill pay any county that will make it. But it must be done in a business like manner or you can soon spend a lot of money with no results. The rural delivery service has grown more rapidly and clone more, to help the people than anything that has been done in a long time. There is talk now of extending the service to our foreign possessions. Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Phillippines. More than 5,ooo new routes were put in operatio:a in this country for the ten months ending April I. It will not be long before every section of the country will have the mail at the doors of the people wvho live in the rural districts. The policy of the gov ernment is to extend the 'service and it is right. Everything that is of benefit to the comfort of t.he people who live in the country should be done. Sober Politicians,. Governor H-anley, of Inidiania, is a practical reformer . In speaking re cently concerning appointments to office under his ad,ministration, he says: --I have noticed that railroads and other large business enterprises of recent years have ruled against men who drink. This is a good policy, I think, and so long as I am governor of the state the same policy shall be pursue d."~ Fine! Let us have sober politicians. If railroad men who handle precious human argosies and sailors who steer the warships need to be sober, cer tainly the men who marage and steer the ships of state should be of like character. One of the accompanying but un n,eesar sins of politics is that of 1i(our drinking. NVatch tie hotel rs at any pditical conventinn. The h: ttin i k llV r'he ranCe <'Vnp:e - I., w:miit Ii CII t I c I %VlIwiV. 7,urely t iS C( -iming thr o>ngl hI C dle ad11(1 of great corptlration- ipt)n Ieir cm ployes. So hrietv in such service is absolute. And it is als-o1 I c.ming th rongh the s)l but ure education of social custom. In this age of strenuous effort so briety is a vital virtue. The business worl id has pti: its ban up,In iooze. And now if we can reform the poli ticians the millelinim may nolt be so far from realization as we may have Soherness is needed not only in railroad eiployes and politicians and office holders but in every walk of life. The man who is not entirely s,,ber at all times himself, if he is called upon to emlploy some One to take chirge of important and respon sible matters will always try to se lect a sober man for the work. Un der our system of selecting men for impfrtant litices-mien who are charged with making the laws and !evying taxes and appropriating the pubic : - i -t he Poolde frequently vote for men for these pobsi-:ons whoim thev w0ul1d rot think of cm ploying to attend to their private business. We are not always as care fil in these matters as we should be. Presidents in Retirement. Only ten men who have held the office of president reached or sur passed Mr. Cleveland's present age of 68; only six exceeded it by so much as ten years. and none exceeded it by quite twenty years. Only ten presidents have survived their retire ment from office longer than Mr. Cleveland. and four of these lived to a great age. Washington. who survived his re tremelnt less than three years, thlught himself an old man when he was firs: made president at the age 0f 57. John Adams survived his re -.rement a quarter of a century, and his son, John Quincy, who outlived his retirement nearly twenty years, was the only president who had near Iv as conspicuous a public career af ter occupying the presidency as be fI ore. Monroe's six years after his retire ment from office were passed in corn parative obscurity and his dying hours were embittered by scandalous eusations in connection with Jack son's seizure of Spanish forts in Florida during the first Seminole war. Polk outlived his retirement less than a year and there is every rea son to suppose that had Arthur com passed his ambition of an election to the presidency in 1884 he would have dlied early in his term, for he out lved his re: irement less than twvo ears. Tyler, who outlived his retirement twenty years. emerged from obscurity n~ar the end of his life to preside over the va in neace convention on the eve f tihe civil war. He afterwards serv ed in the congress of the Confederate states. Bunchanan lived more than seven :ears after his retirement and took the opportunity to write what was in effect a defence of his administration. Jefferson and Jackson were the on ly presidents who exerciser a really powerful influence over party coun cils after their permanent retirement from public office, though Van Buren was an active politician as long as he had hope of re-nomination at the hands of-any party. TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. An examination for teachers will be held on Friday. May 19th, 1905, at 10 o'clock a. m. Besides the ordinary subjects such as English grammar, arithmetic. algebra, geography, his tory, physiology and hygiene. ques tions wvill be submitted on Hughe's Mistakes in Teaching. Peterman's civil government. and surrent eevnts. The teachers are advised to read the Last of the Mohicans, and the Vsion of Sir Launfai. The examination for white teachers will be held in the of fice of the county superintendent of education, for colored teachers, in the court room. Co. Supt. Education. Suital for EasI We have all the ne and suitable things i MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS1 Shoes, Hats, Pants, Vests, Underwear, Neckwear, Hosiery, Collars and Cuffi White and Colored Shirts Laundered and NegligeE Suspenders,&c to make your outf complete for Easter. We have added great many new thing within the last weel and hope to have th pleasure of seeing yo often at our store thi month. See our new Panam Hats, Stetson Hatsfc young men; also Oc new s.If conformin Derby and Columbic White Canvas ShoE for Lawn Tennis. Shoes just receive( Come and see us. A. C. Jones. Newberry, S C., April 14, 190. OPERA HOUSE 3 Nights Commencing MONDAY, APRIL 1 Matinee Wednesday PAYTON SISTERS Big Company IN MODERN REPERTOIRE 1ION)AY ifcET THE MRAT ROR1I "UTAH" Specialties Between all the Act: Change of Play Nightly Night Prices - - 25, 35 and 5 Matinee Prices - - - 15 and 2 EARHA LIT, PIFER& BRRARDIT, Less,eet THE NEWBERRY COTTC MILLS. The annual meeting of the sto< holders of the Newvberry Cotton Mi wjll be held in council chambers Newberry, S. C., on Wednesday,t third day of May, 1905, at tenl o'clo in the forenoon, for the election of rectors for the ensuing year, and the 'trari4a'ction of other busine T. J. McCrary, Pres't and Treas Geo. S. Mower, Secretary. Newberry. S. C.. April 22, 1905. NOTICE. WVe will receive applications I dispenser at Prosperity, S. C., on t 15th of April up to 12 o'clock a. and will consider same and elect the 6th day of May, 1905. Appli< tiols must be legally drawn. Jacob Senn, J. P. Harmon, J. R. Scurry, Members County Board of Con trol for Newberry County. We Are f FOR YOU Spring B With a line as complete shown. All the new fabrics are hE Cotton and Mohair in gr( in qualities and-colorini complete line of Shirt Wa berry. The Pin Dot and in our Mohairs are charr Have you se the new with their ar tic colorir have a treat in store for y The new Laces are thread laces, Point de Pai .t tal Laces, Val Laces, bea it mings. a Our Domestic departmei s Millinery is beautiful t , Come to see us. We p e honorable treatment, p u goods as cheap as they c S where, and a fine stock t Yours truly, ir STATEMENT OF THE C -: OF : THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF - AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS, I RESOURCES. Notes discounted ...........$247,968 44 Capital Furniture and fixtures ....... 3,051 93 Profits. Due from Banks:............ 17,660 87 Individt Overdraf ts................... 2,254 34 Dividen C ksh and cash items........35,582 74 Due Ba: Bills pa $306,518 32 Organized 1896.P We pay interest in Savings:] At the Rate of 4 per cent. SKitchen Troubles and t An error commonly made by home ow -the necessity of proper sanitary equipme2 5e Only a few years ago it was consides the sink in wood thereby concer.ling the cessible and offering a place for the colle If this condition exists in your househol< learn the true state of affairs. he wayto do thissto employ ustomistla m. clean, '7tead Porcelain Enameled a find it a remedy for kitchen troubles. 3. . DVISNNw1 leady R silless is we have ever re in Silk,Wool, at variety, both 7s. The most ist Silks in New Pastel Shades ning. Silk Organdies gs? If not, we 'ou. here. Round s, Laces, Orien utiful for trim it is very strong s opening. romise fair and Dlite attention, an be had else o select from. wer Co. ONDITION IEWBERRY, S. C. IARCH 31, 1905. LIABILITIES. Stock.............$ 50.000 00) ..... ............... 33,387 21 tal deposits.........206,098 65 3s unpaid............. 935 00 ks................. 1,097 46 yable............... 15,000 00 S ~ $306,518 32 id in dividends $24,500 00 )epartment. per annum. be Remedy f irs is in underestimating it for the kitchen. ed good form to encase trap, making it inac etion of filth and vermin. I, examine into it and Do not lose sight of the fact that your food is prepared in the kitchen and the Sutensils in which it iiis prepared depend fl n the sknitaryar -aingements for. cleanliness, there fore safeguard against contamination of either food or utensils. The most certain snowy white, spotlessly Kitchen Sink. You will serry.C