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v OL. XLII. NO. 136 NEWBERRY. S. C. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1905. TWICE A WEEK. $150 A YEAR THE NEWS OF PROSPERIT Death of Mrs. Quattlebaum-IM Mills Accidentally Shoots His Foot-Personal Mention Other Matters. Prosperi:ty, December 4.-Owing the sudden illness of Mr. .S. S. Bir; and the necessity of his going atoon to the hospital in Columbia I was n able to get any notes up to The Hera and News this week. We will beg now, rThursday night, and will ha them ready for Tuesday's papi While at the thospital I 'had the pleg ure of meeting Mr. T. S. Duncan w informed us that in a few days would return home. Mrs. Elizabeth Cameron has be on a visit to her son, Ben, in Colui bia. She was accompanied by her I tle granddaughter. We'saw an old negro on last S, urday Who is 81 years old and he i formed me that he had never be, :Sick in 'bed in his life until about thr weeks ago. This was so unusual th we want to make a note of it and a if any one knows of another such ca! Mrs. Thornwell Haynes (nee Bo ers) left Prosperity December I to join her husband who i's Americ consul 't Nankin, China. Mrs. Hayn goes to Vancouver and will sail f Shanghai, China, December 5, reac ing her destination. January 5. TI is a long journey, but the present d; conveniences are something wond 'ful. Mrs. Haynes' baggage will checkea through from Columbia. C., to destination. We wish her b toyage end trust that she -will rea T.-er destiation safely. The farmers and others are pled ing much of theirr cotton and the his been over 500 bales pledged ai tfie returns are not near all in. Again we are called on to record t work of the grim .nonster who 'ev waits to strrke down some loved 6 Mrs. Sara '.'iQuattlebaum (nee Lan ford) was laid to rest in the quiet ci of the dead on last Sunday. M Quattlebaum was the youngest ch of Dr. A. F. and Susie' Langford a was born in Saluda county, (th Edgefield county/in 1871. When qu a child her parents moved to Prc perity and she grew up in our ton She was a graduat: of the Columi Female college in both departmen classical and. music. as well as t Girard Con.servatory of Music, Phi delphia. She was a fine instructor a: taught in her alma mater for ty years and was principal of the muw department of the Carlisle Fitti: school, Banmberg, S. C. She was mi ried to Mr. Jas. D. Quattlebaumn ] cember 29, 1896. She leaves two ch dren. one sister and three brothe and her husband and many friends mourn her death. She was laid 'co re * by 'her pastor, the Rev. J. I. McKai Mrs. Julia M. - Quattlebaum, Bam'berg, is visiting 'her son, Mr. D. Quattlebaum. Mrs-. Maggie Fellers and A. W. F gle have been on a visit to friends Saluda county. Mr. Garrat Quattlebaum, after short visi-t to our town, has return to his home in Bamberg. Mr. -C. D. Hunter. of St. Luke spent sever-i! days in Colum'bia .~ past week. The Prosperity Drug Co.. has ad ed hot drinks to their "menu'' at thi soda :'ountain. The election for marshal 'held I: week resulted in the election of A E. K. Bedenbaugh. This is not a ni line of'work to Mr. Bedenbaugh as has done a great deal of private< 'ective work. Mr. W. E. Monts. we are glad note, is ouXt again and will soon turn to his work in Newberry colle: The Jolliest Jolly of all the Jolli the Jolly dozen 'have 'had was the B1 ter Brown Jolly of last Tuesday< ening, given 'by Miss Lillie Mae R1 sell in honor of her guests the Miss f. Hopkins and Cleveland. 'Miss Hc V. kins and M-r. S. B. Bowers won the S Buster Brown prize. I 'XMiss Della Bowers of the St. Mat- V thews graded school came tip to bid ti -her sister, Mrs. Haynes, good bye. and ti returned to her school Saturday. a Mrs. Nora Hoffman 'has gone on a p visit to Columbia and Sumter. e to Misses May Lee and Kate Barre o ge and Mrs. G. Y. Hunter spent Thanks- a: ce giving with Mrs. Kenneth Baker, at I ot Greenwood, S. C. ti Id Mr. S. C. Barre (the general) s>en' in Thanksgiving at 'his old home with it ve 'his brother, P. B. Ellisor, Esq. ei !r. Misses Edna and Lucy Fellers spent tl Ls- Thursday with their brother in New- si 10 berry. sl he Rev. C. P. Boozer and Mr. N. L. Black, of Saluda, were in town this z en week. 0 n- Uncle Mike Kempson was over to t< it- see us last Saturday. Always glad to ree you, Uncle Mike. ti Lt- Rev. W. L. Seabrook spent Wlednes- . n- day with Pastor Kreps, the President o en -f Synod, arranging some of the many n ee mnatters of syond and the executive ti at .ommittee. - sk Miss Jo Langford and Dr. J. R. t. se- Langford, of- Swansea, and P. L. o L- Langford, of Kingville, came up co st, .ittend the funeral of their sister. an ' Dr. and Mrs. Reames will go to es Jo'nston for a fev days before the or doctor goes to his new work. We re gret to lose the Dr. and his estimable is wife. n Dr. A. C. Traylor, of Kershaw, has be 'succeede to the place made vacant S, by the resignation of Dr.' Reames as g phArmacist at the -Prosperity Drug .Dr. LeGrand Guerry came up to see 0 Mr. S. S. Birge on Wedhesday and c g by his advice Mr. Birge was taken to C re .ch Colurbia 'hospital for treatment a. for appendicitis. We learn that Mrs. Margaret Beard m he had the misfortune to lose her en- n er tire household effects and three bales d 9e. of cotton 'by fire on last Tuesday night. We have not learned the cause I ty of the fire. . Id. The next Lyceum number will be IT Ad given on Wednesday. the 27th of De- t] en cem-ber. te Don't forget the WV. 0. W. meeting f .on Th ursday nig'ht. December 7. Elec- 'e tion night. ec >ia The Ladies' Aid society of Grace ts, :huirch will meet with Mrs. B. 0. p he Cou:nts on Thiur.sday ev'ening of this c ta- week at 3.30 p. mn. n ~1 nd Uncle Boddy Wheeler and Mr. J: P. vo Bowers 'have' returned from their 'trip sie to Oklahoma. They say the lands areF efine. We hope .that neither of them tr will take a notion and go west. Mr. e.. 3. C. Schtumpert wvent on to Dallas. I i- Texas, to visit his 'brother. Mr. F. E. sSchumpert. to'Mr. Berry Mayer is improving. We :st hope to see him out -soon. in. Airs. A. H. Kohn and E. E. Young of wen't down to Columbia Friday, to'V . visit Mr. S. S. Birge. Miss Alma Fellers has 'been visiting 'o- Miss Nannie West, of Saluda. in Our boys a't Newberry college were at 'home for Thanksgiving. -.Mr. Jno. F. Taylor has moved to the ' d F. P. Wicker place near Colony church. He has lived on Mr. B. L. ', Dominick's Stoney Battery place for he 25 years. Mr. J'. Hannibal AIewine has moved' Id- to the Stoney Battery place vacated eir by Mr. Taylor. Mr. Charley Hunter, of Texas. made i a flying visit to Prosperity Friday. 'Jr. Once more wve would call att-ention tw to th'e dearth o'f 'houses to rent in our 'he town. There is not a single vacant le- house in town. WVe do not have any reference to territory outside -the in to corporate limitus. When we speak of re- anything or condition as. existing in ge. town we do not mean adjoining com- u les munities, but 'have reference to the a is- limits within the incorporate lines. ni tv- Your correspondent 'ha'i the pleas-- tl is- ure of spending last Sunday wi'h an a es uncle, Mr. N. B. Wheeler, of Wheel- c pa community andatndning tihe ja unday school at Wheeland academy. t was a very enjoyable occasion. Vihat do youthink, Mr. Editor, of put ng 78 children, besides officers, achers and visitors in a building bout 15 x 20. All of the 78 were not resent last Sunday and yet two class 5 had to go out 'doors to recite. One f the needs there is a larger building ad that building should be a church. a a community as thickly settled as iis one, they ought to have a church. Dr. Littlejohn, who had gone to vis his parents in Pacolet, was expect I to return Saturday, but owing .to ie serious sickness of a sister in Mis ssippi he has been call-ed to her bed de and will not return until the izth. Mr. Wallace Bruce, .. former citi -n of this town, -but more recently f Columbia, has gone to Spartanburg ) reside. Mr. John P. Mills had the misfor me while 'ut hunting Saturday to not'. himself in the foot. He stoope.. ver to tie his shoe and by some -eans the gun .was discharged the en re load entering the foot at the base f the toes. Wie have been unable at uis -writing to learn to what extent r how serious is the wound. * Mr. Geer, of the State newspaper. ,as in town Saturday looking up the -iends of his paper. Mr. Wesley Conkel having sold his rm to Messrs. Birge and Kohn will iove to town and occupy the house ear the milt. Mr. A. N. Crosson spent Thanks iving in Clinton. t There is very little cotton selling iese days and it seems as though u folks are going to do what they n to help the Southern Cotton rrowers association win' their fig'ht gainst wall street -and the bears. Quite a number of our Nimrods rere out gunning Thursday. We have ot heard of any casualties on that ay. We learn from Dr. Dominick that Ir. John Mills who accidentally shot imself on Saturday is doing nicely. he entire load of shot passed through ic foot between the toes and instei, iivering the bones in the foot. T.he >r.took 20 or more pieces of shat ter :i hone out. He is doing as well as 3uld be expected.; MKr. Birge was .free of fever and the ai had gone out of his side. He is nsid-eredl practically out o-f danger ow. In Memory of Malie Shealy. 'or The. Herald and News. Christian boy is gone Our hearts are saddened now: ut a Father's 'hand hath dealt the blow And we in siletuce bev nd we are left to 'weep How can we stay the tear! Ve thought we needed him most on earth He was to 'his parents so dear. ut the Lor'd the end doth see And he doeth all .things well: Ve bow to his will though dearest hiope It be a funeral knell. ;nbalmed in a thousand -hearts Our Mallie still will live; lay the God of love to the mother's :heart His plenteous comfort give. nd a tender father be To his son thus bereaved; .ord pour .the oil of healing A Neighbor. The Georgetown Centennial which ,ill take place on D)ecember 19 offers rare opportunity for many who have ever seen that quaint old "City by ie Sampit" to catch a whiff of salt ir and test the merits of the climate f a region that is becoming famous a winter resort. St. Paul's Items. St. Paul's, December 4.-Sunday, w as a very fine day. We- had the pleasure of hearing an address from Mrs. Jas. A. B. Scherer, of Newberry college, Sunday morning on the subject of Missions. Mrs. Eargle, of Columbia, S. C., assisted in the service in the rendering of some beautiful solos. Sorry the audience was so small. We are gla-d to say Mrs. Scherer and Mrs. Eargle did credit to themselves and were a bcne fir to us. Mr. James Sease and Miss Dessie Epting were joined in matrimony by Rev. J. A. Sligh at the parsonage yes terday (Sunday) afternoon at 3 p. m. The ,farmers in this community are in better circumstances than for many years past. Some have cotton that they are going to hold for 15 cents. They are plenty able to hold for a long time. A quantity of grain has been sowi and more to be sown in the spring, that is the right thing to do, lets raise everything we need on the farm. That will help to reduce the acreage in cot ton and in the long run we will be bet ter off. The 'hens in this community are on a strike-no eggs. The St. Paul's Missionary society will meet Tuesday, the 5th, at the church, at 2 p. m. All of the lady members of the church are asked to be present. E. The Local Newspaper. It is fo the interest of every town to support a good newspaper, says .the Atlai-ta Consivtntion, not throv- gMt iride alone, ivdt for practical business: reasons. A newspaper is constantly \loing ten times' as muc& for its owM town as it could ever :hope to get pay for-more than it could charge, for, if it would. The more prosperous a newspaper is the more it is liable to do. S'how us a good weekly paper, full of live lo cal ads, with a general circulation throughout the country. and we will I show you an tip to- date. prosperous, progressive community. Show us a community that persist ently proceeds on the idea that the editor of -che home paper can live on the "pi" that accumulates in the offce, whose offcial bodies think it a waste of pu-blic money to) t-hrow him a bit of public printing occasionally at liv ing price's, whose citizens have come to regard it as onme of their inalienable rights to wvork 'him for long winded1 obituary notices and in "'memoriams" with three inches of hymn book poc try at the end, to say nothing a'bout an occasional notice of a lost cow or some cotton seed sale, and *we will show you a community that is living from Hand to mou-Th, and is always on ther agged edge of adversity. People ought to stop to think about these things. l.t is an important matter. It is their own good 'chat is involved, the welfare an.d progress of their com munity, therefore of themselves. A local newspaper is absolutely nec essary to any community. No mer chant, no grand jury, no town coun cil that spends every year all it -can afford with :the :home paper, whether the expenditure is absolutely neces sary or not, makes a wiser, more prof itable investment. They are not "giv ing" 'the home paper something. On the contrary, it is earning every cent it gets, and more, providing it is a paper worth picking upl in the road. And if it isn't that sort of a paper it is usually t'he fault of the town ini which it is pu-blished. It makes a man a good deal madder to be called a liar than to be one. A girl can make an awful lot of trouble 'by not letting you kiss her when she wants you to. When a woman says that her cook is just dying to stay she means she may not go till the end of her week. A person always has an idea that when he is half asleep with a fishing Lucky To Be Born Poor. "Ihere is nothing so valuable as to be born in poverty and to be compel led to go forth and battle for your self." So says Andrew Carnegie. Many will applaud the saying. But is it true? Zoologists tell us that it is not struggle that develops races and spe-i cies, but the favoring environment :hat permits them to struggle suc cessfully. Were it otherwise, the Esquimo would be the "superman." Very many-Carnegie among them -have developed from poverty to emi nent success. But these are men of unusual talent or genius. They are the. men with whor. environm nt counts the least. The exceptional man of inherited wealth also conquers his environ ment and attacks his task with the en ergy of educated ambition. The difference between poverty an< wealth, in the effect upon real char acter, is largely.a matter of imagina cion. We cannot grasp it because it is thin air. The youth marked for success cre ates his' own atmosphere. Whether he dwells in a hovel or in a mansion, wears jeans or broadcloth, eats the toughest meat or the tenderest, his ideals are the same, above the clouds and unobserved by daily common place. It is a common error that as we eat and drink and sleep we live. These things thavve the least to do- widr our real lives. Socrates, with -his coarse fare and, hard bed, lived an infinitely higher Hfe than does the modern mil Hion ' whose every bodily want is anticipa ed by' a troop of trained- ser vants. The main question is not how well we subsist, but what we live for. -iThe poor -have no -monopoly of vir tue or intelligence. Extreme poverty beseiges the one and dulls the other. Poverty has its handicaps as well as wealth. It is easy to say that the vapid and vicious young man of fortune would have -been a decent fellow if born ,to poverty. But it is hard to prove. With his temperament *he might still have been a burden 'upon society. Wherever it grows a weed is still a weed. But .the rose, no matter what ground it grows in. opens its beauti ful 'buds and flings out its sweet odor. He who does not rise above his en vironment and become master of it, whatever his environment be, has not ini him the stuff that success is made I,t is character, not condition, that counts.. The question is an old one. It can never 'be settled except as each man settles it .for 'himself. And whatever the truth may be, the essential fact is. tihat no man can change -the condi tions of his own 'birth, and the. most 'he can do is to make the best he can of his condition.--Atlanta Journal. Inexcusable. Some one has been making depre dations and generally abusing the in terior of the Johnstone academy building. The matter has 'become so bad that the trustees have felt it their duty to offer a reward for information leading to the capture of the guilty parties. Such dastardly deeds are ab solutely inexcusable and the good peo pIe of the comimunity should rise en masse and fix the guilt on the guilty party or parties and give them to un derstand that such acts will not be tole ~rated(. 1,300 Barrels Flour. M'oseley Bros. have now received their 13th carload of flour and are sell ing it right along. It is all due to their advertisement in The Herald and