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74 VOL XLIII. NO. 28. NEWERRY. S. 0. FRIDAY. APRIL 6.19013. OUR PROSPERITY LETTER. Municipal Election April 10-Anni versary of Sorosis-Personal Mention-Jno. Rikard Hurt. Prosperity, April 5.-Our young friend, F. H. Sheely, has gone to Whitmire to be day operator for the S. A. L. Mr. Sheely has been assist ant for the Southern for the past six months at this place. There being an error in the date an nounced for the election it has been corrected and the municipal election for the town of Prosperity will be held on Tuesday, April 10th. The voters of the municipality will please govern themselves accordingly. F. E. Schumpert & Co. will be found hereafter in the store formerly occu pied by Messrs. G. A. Maffett & Co. 34r. M. B. Bedenbaugh havinig bought the stock of G. A. Maffett and Co. will consolidate the two stocks and the firm will be F. E. Schumpert & Co. Mrs. C. M. Harmon and Miss La than spent -Tuesday with Miss Euge nia Summer in Newberry. Miss Marie Lathan, of Little Moun tain spent a couple of days with her aunt, Mrs. A. G. Wise, last week. Mrs. Reagin, Mrs. Hunter, Miss Reagin, Misses Bessie Bowers, Maggie and May Lee Barre spent Tuesday in Newberry. Mrs. D. W. Boland has returned from the land of flowers. Mrs. Warren, of Columbia, is vis iting Mrs. W. A. Moseley and Mrs. F. E. Schumpert. Mrs, Emma Mahon, of Niwberry, is visiting Mrs. A. G. Wise. Mr. J. P. Wilson paid our to,wn a visit on Sunday. We cordially invite Mr. Wilson to call again and that right soon. Theological student J. B. Harmon, c4-'M. -Pteasant, Charleston, S. C., spentSxunday night in town. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hunter were in town on Tuesday. The Sorosis will meet with Miss Margaret'Leekie on Friday afternoon. Several of our young folks took in the "Isle of Spiee." Mrs. A. H. Hawkins and Miss Belle Hunter have been visiting in the St. Luke's community. 'Uncle Mike Kempson, of Saluda, was in town on business Wednesday. Miss Nannie Hair, of Newberry, is visiting Miss Nanefe Stockman. The executive committee of the S. C. synod will meet here on Friday. Miss Jane Cook is at the bedside of her brother-in-law, Mr. B. L. Domi nick, who is very ill at this writing. Mr. B. L. Wheeler, of Columbia, (a Prosperity boy) and railway mail clerk on the run from Columbia to Greenville, is spending a few days with his parents. During recess on Wednesday at the Shiloh academy while the childr~en 'were plaving, Be'n Bouknight acci dentally hit John Rikard in the head with a rock. Beyond the loss of a -little blood at the time nothing was thought of it, but.about an hour later the boy began to have convulsions, and at one time he was reported dead. But hew as still alive at 8 p. m. Wednesday. It is suposed that a clot formed on the brain from the blow. Miss Nell Roper, of Columbia, is visiting Mrs. F. E. Schumpert and Mrs. Win. Moseley. Mrs. F. E. Schumpert is visiting Mrs. Smith Livingston. Miss -Mars, of Mt. Carmel, was in town with Mrs. Hunter on Tuesday. The list of adjectives is inadequate to describe the anniversary banquet of the Sorosis, and your readers will have to read in the adjective that best suits them. We will simnply say it was grand. The menu was all that heart could wish and the musical program was quite elaborate. Solos by Mrs. Wyche and Mrs. J. S. Wheel er and both vocal and instrumental duetts by Misses Jessie Moseley and Eva Lester; Mrs. J. F. Browne and Mrs. J. S. Wheeler. Violet was the prevailing color but no one was blue. Thus passed another one of these very pleasant occasions. Miss Gertrude Simpson spent Sat urday and Sunday at home. At the risk of butting in your cor respondent would like to say that it would be nice if Newberry college 'would get out a souvenir volume with cut of the alumni and a short 3ketch of each one. This would be a vol ume that would be preserved. It is so easy to give advice you know. Mr. Editor, or to knock that we naturally fall into the one or the oth er habit, but we would like to see such publicity given through the commit tee on publicity of the semi-eentennial of Newberry college that the author of Frye's geography will know that there is such a college in the state of South Carolina. With two editors and one of them the president of the State Press Association Newberry college should be knowh from the mountains to the seaboard and from' the old North state to the Savannah. We have the promise that another of our suggestions will come to pass. The offering of premiums to growers of corn. Watch out boys and capture that five dollars. The Editor will offer about $25.00 in premiums this year. If you are not a subscriber to The Herald and News, subscribe at once and start right now to win one of the prizes. We are glad to see our suburban neighbors building sidewalks, etc. Messrs. E. 0. and J. C. Counts are extending the sidewalk from Mrs. Reagin's to Mr. Berry Livingston's. This will enable the travelling public to pass down the road without cross ing the railroad track at such a dan gerous place. Mr. Copeland, of Clinton, has been in town for a couple of days the past week. Mar,ried Sunday, April 1st, by Rev. S. P. Koon, Mr. Cornelius Counts and Miss Mamie Alewine. We extend congratulations. We have noticed quite an ado in the daily papers over the fact that the Intendant and wardens of the town had asked Governor Heyward to send a constable here. The fact is there was quite a quantity of li quor coming here and we are told that when the marshal would attempt to catch the tiger he would make for the incorporate limits and once be yond he was safe. The constable could go no further. We. were told Con stable Eison had captur-ed 5 or 6 packages. This is a small amount it seems to make such an ado over, but then some folks like to make much over such things and say "I told you so.' "Instea<d of the dispensary you have the blind tiger.'' Yes, there is blind tiger liquor sold here, but w do say that the amount sold and shipped in does not begin to aggregate the amount sold here by the dispensary. We see it in a lump sum and it seems like "a lots.''" We've been reading what S. and D. W. have been writing about that new court house. If one-third or one half of the $40,000 is expended for a site how much more will it take to complete the building, when it is once. started0? Will it take 50, or 60, or 75,000? Who can tell? Yes, a new court house would be a nice thing but what will it cost? Who will pay the bill? The dear people, of course. Then let the dear people have a say about it. This is democratic. We note that Senator Tillman has fired his broadside into anti-dispen sar ranks. We haven't heard any howling from any that were hit but just watch the little me toos that will be popping up and saying, "Yes, I agree with the Hon. Ben Tillman. I am for this and, for that; yes, me too'' Coat tail swingers pure and simple-nothing more or less. Departed this life at his home in the town of Prosperity, Mr. B. L. Dominick in his 74th year. Mr. Dom inik leaves a wife and three chil dren. He will be laid to rest this afternoon in Prosperity cemetery. Mr. Dominick came to Prosperity about 1870 and has been a resident of. our town for the past 35 years. He was a prominent business man hav ing been in the mercantile business here for years, retiring about 20 years ago with a competency. -He has lived a long and useful life and has been gathered to his Fathers at a ripe old age. Mr. Dominick leaves many rel atives and friends for he was well known in No. 9 township and in the county. A girl hiasn't much faith in a for tune teller who doesn't predict that she wil marry rich. HOME NEWS IN WASHrNGTON. What Our Representatives Do for For Their Constituents. R. M. Larner in the News and Courier. Washington, D. C.. April 3.-In spite of the mystery as to the contents of the omnibus public buildings bill just reported to the house, it is known definitely that Representatives John son, Lever, Finley and Aiken are pro vided with a slice of the pork for their respective districts, in the shape of public buildings. While Represen tative Patterson is served with a half portion providing for a site at Aiken. Members of the committee on pub lie buildings and grounds are pledged to secrecy as to the details of the bill, and the members decline to disclose any of its details owing to an honor ary pledge exacted from them by Chairman Gillette. Messrs. J. J. Earle, J. H. Whaiton and John Bell Tower, railroad com missioners from South Carolina, ar rived here today en route to attend the National convention of Railroad commissioners and to participate in the proposed trip of the conmission of Cuba. With the party in Wash ington are Capt. A. D. Hoke, Fred Symmes, of Greenville, Mr. and Mrs., Wilkins and Dr. Gasque, of Marion. Representative Johnson today re ceived notice from the United States fish commissioner that a carload of mountain trout will be sent to Green ville to be distributed in north and middle Saluda river and other streams in that vieinity. R. Ways Cleveland, an enthusiastic. fisherman like his namesake Grover Cleveland, has vol unteered to haul the fish from the fish commission car to the various points of distribution. Representative Finley today re ceived notification from the superin tendent of the salary and allowance division, postoffice department, an nouncing the location of the new post office in the Masonic building, on Main street, at Lancaster. Four sites were under consideration, but the Ma sonic building offers superior advan tages in many respects, according to the inspector. Representative Ellerbe today rec ommended the establishment of a new postoffice at - West Marion. A Marion county lumber company has erected a large mill there and many operatives are employed and reside in that immediate vicinity. The sub ject was taken up at once and propmt action is expected. Mr. Ellerbe also applied for increased mail facilities between Charleston and Florence. It appears that several small towns be tween these two points are not served by the railway service, because it is said the force of railway mail clerks is not sufficient to handle the mail for these intermelliate stations. The su perintendent of the railway mail ser vice, acting upon a formal complaint from the citizens of Bannockburn, is investigating the subject and recom mends an increase of the service at that point. Favorable reports on rural routes to be established from Dillon and from Homer, in Mr. Ellerbe 's district, have been received at the postoffice department. W. A. Sadbold of Marion, is here! visiting his brother-in-law, Represen tative Ellerbe. Representative Patterson's bill pro viding for a fish hatchery in South Carolina, has been included in a gen eral bill favorably reported from the committee on fish and fisheries, which includes three hatcheries-one in South Carolina, one in Georgia, and one in North Carolina. This bill has been favorably reported, and Mr. Patterson and the friends of the measure expect to secure favorable action on the bill by the house shortly. The bill provides that the sites for these fisheries shall be left to the fish commission. In the meantime Mr. Patterson is using his best efforts to have the South Carolina hatchery located in his district. Many available sites in Barnwell county are suggested, in eluding Turkey Creek, Salkehatchie river, Edisto and Savannah river. As a result of a visit to the post office department by R.epresentative promised to give the postoffice at Chester an additiorlal clerk to expe dite the handling of the great bulk of mail matter now going through that office. Mr. Finley learned that the receipts of the otfice at Camden up to March 31 have been sufficiently large to ad vance this office to the second class. The new classification will take ef feet at the commencement of the next fiscal year, on July 1 next. This ad vance will, of course, entitle the Camden office to additional clerks and will warrant an increase in sal ary of the postmaster. Taking the present rate of increase as an indication, Gaffney will be the next town in the fifth district to ad vance to the rank of a second class office. From the present outlook Yoit- and Lancaster should enter the second class in two or three years. Representative Lever also called at the postoffice department today in re gard to mail facilities at Goodwill, Sumter County. Postmaster E. W. Dabbs, of this office, was recently elected to the state legislature, and since that time his vife has been serving as postmaster. Mr. Lever requested the department to continue this office until he can get a rural delivery route in that section. He succeeded in having the necessity For a petition waived. This will re sult in making the case a special one, and, it will be put in the hands of an agent at once, who will investigate Lhis territory as soon as possible. The Ohio River on Fire. Pittsburg, La., April 3.-The Ohio river, at Sewickley, fifteen miles be ow this city, is on fire and all efforts to extinguish the flames have been un sucessful. Thousands of people from Pi t "s,rgvisited the river ba2k to-, iay and watched what appeared to be a startling phenomena. From almost the middle of the stream covering an area as large as a aity block, flames issue from the water and shoot up. All traffic on the river has been abandoned. the fire is not as strange as it seems. The flames are fed by a break in the twelve-inch main of the Manu facturers' Gas and Light ceompany, which crosses under the river. Yes terday a tow boat was passing and a deckhand threw a burning match into the stream. A great tongue of flame burst forth, and if they had not been moving fast it would have been set afire. The man who threw the match had all his clothing burned off. The gas will have to be shut off to ex tinguish the flames. New County of "Fairview." Messrs. A. S. Peden and J. E. De bard of Fountain Inn on April 4th, filed with Governor Heyward the pe tition. for the creation, of the new county of "Fairview.'' *This propos ed territory will include parts of Greenville and Laurens and a little of Spartanburg. Saluda river will be the southern boundary and Enoree river the north ern boundary if the election is carried in behalf of the new county. The north and northwestern boundary will be a line running parallel to the line between Greenville and Laurens coun ties, near the town of Simpsonville.: Some of the best territory of the state would be embodied in this parallelo gram. The petition for election is signed by the required number of property holders in each of the parts of the old counties affected. From Greenville it is proposed to take 220 square miles; from Laurens 159 square miles, and from Spartan burg 24 3-4, making a total of 403 3-4 square miles. There would be 23,742 inhabitants in this territory and $2, 314,126 worth of property. The only railroad property would be Columbia, Newberry and Laurens extension to Greenville. The petition declares that all con stitutional requirements have been met, but it is not stated in the way of an affidavit. Governor Heyward sta ted to Messrs. Peden and Debard that he could not name the commissioners of election until all of these facts as to population and taxes should be submitted in affidavit from the audi trs of the respective counties. COUNTY DISPENSARI AGIINST STATE HOW IT WORKS IN RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA. A Review of the County Dispensary System As Seen By A South Carolinian in a North Caro lina Town. Raleigh, N. C., March 31.-Two or three months ago when a number of citizens of this town signed a petition requesting the board of aldermen to call an election to decide how liquor should be sold, mandamus proceedings were filed and a final ruling was hand ed down by the supreme court. There was no election, the court holding that while those who had signed the petition were registered voters they were not qualified voters, under the Watts law, and no election was held. If the people should vote tomorrow the dispensary would remain, because there is a profit feature which touches the pocketbook and the revenue to day is larger than in the good old days of the bar. The Raleigh dispensary is fashion ed after the manner of the South Car lina system, but those of us who have due regard for the truth do not speak of it as a temperance measure. It is not that. The main difference is that it is a local and no.t a state institu tion, and the people can decide the question as to how cocktails shall be served, if at all. All incorporated towns have a right to kick the dis pensary, prohibition or the saloons. Raleigh, for instance, has kicked out the latter, nobody is seriously agita ting the subject of prohibition, and the dispensary seems to fill the bill. That is true because of the big reve nue. Still, as the citizens put it here and keep it here the howl against- it is not like that in a neighboring state. Now and then there are hints at graft ajd all that sort of thing, but dispen sary magnates don't travel around in automobiles and blind the common herd by the sudden flashing of dia monds in the sunlight. Probably a dozen other towns have adopted the same plan and next to property own ers, who have watched the reduction in the tax rate, the element most' sat isfid with it are the. gentlemen who supply the thirsty from a hole in the wall. Why It Remains. Last year the total receipts from the sale of beer and liquor amounted to $65,000 or thereabout. Of this fund the city government receives four-tenths, the road fund three tenths and the school fund for the county three-tenths. Raleigh last year ot $26,181 83. When.the present law went into effect twenty-three bars of high and low degree were driven out of business. Each paid a license of $525, $300 to the city, $200 to the county and $25 to the United States, so it will be noted that the city'?sirev enue in saloon days was $6,900- less than one-fourth of the present reve nue. Men familiar with local condi tions contend that with high license, say $1,000 for the city, there would not be over ten bars, so by any rule of addition or multiplication there is nothing to equal the dispensary mel on. And that is why it will remain. Moreover, the local tax rate has been reduced 20 cents on the dollai and the indications are that sales for the first.quarter of 1906 are far above those of last year. The city will gel $30,000 before the end of the year if the thirst keeps up. Charges Not Sustained. Last fall there was an investigation, charges having been preferred againsi the management, but they were noi sustained. It was shown, however that the establishment was filthy and that the rates for case goods were ex cessive, though the proceedings did not shake the faith of the property owners, who have rejoiced as the tas rate was steadily reduced. The place where the morally stunt ed purchase their wet goods is on a little street which runs from Fayette ville to Wilmington streets, just north of the public market. This town is somewhat like Charleston in the lay of the thoroughfares, and the dispen sary location corresponds to the little ol Ri+t on Maret street where the buzzards dream in the noonday hours. The red lights of that Rialto are not in the shadow of this grog shop, how ever. But while there are no ques tionable resorts nearby, there are oth ers which are not questionable, and in that respect conditions here are umique. Proceeded to Get Rich. When the bar tenders took to the woods many with enterprise and brains remained and they opened cafes and restaurants near the market house and proceeded to get rich. They sell nothing stronger than lemon soda, but they provided chairs and glasses and water and waiters and a man is welcome so long as he Can pay the service fees. If he enters with a thirst a black and grimy rascal smiles and then goes hot-footing to the dis pensary. There are regular rates; they call it corkage fees. If it is beer it costs a man 2 1-2 cents to drink it, the same amount being charged with a whiskey glass and a chaser of plain water. There is no objection on the part of the city to these establish ments and they are permitted to run as they please. One of the cafe men says he is making more money today than when he conducted a bar; con sequently he is a believer in the dis pensary. Bars and Bay Trees. North Carolina is leaning toward prohibition-in a way. Charlotte and Greensboro and a handful of other fine towns had to succumb to the craze but in Asheville, Salisbury and Wil mington the bars flourish like a green bay tree. Just how mudh liquor Salis bury ships to dry and dispensary cen tres there is no man who can tell. Re cently the statement was published that the heaviest movement from Salisbury was to Rock Hill. Much of it goes now to Greenville and Spar tanburg. Some of the politicians are doing- their best to make prohibition the real issue of the next campaign, with little chance of success. It has been said that the Whiskey Trust is behind some of these new fangled laws and movements, the idea being to get North Carolina out of the corn liquor trade. There is a world of hy pocrisy in the crusade, and meanwhile the moonshiners keep the distilleries. running, the product being shipped as far west as California. This wave of reform, however, will die along with the politicians who want to ride to glory upon it. IThought He Was a Rabbit. But to get back to the Raleigh dis pensary. There is a board of commis sioners elected by city council and a manager, the latter buying the stock which is retailed at enormous profits. The rates are not far above or below the South Carolina prices, but there is no "hog'' selling at 10 cents a half pint. That, of course, is in our fa vor up here. A man from Tennessee, a year or two ago, drank a bottle of this stuff in his room at the Mansion House at Greenville, and feeling queer he went out 'for a* breath of fresh air. Jst as he hit the street a dog barked and the man took to his heels. He did not stop running until he had dodged into the bushes on the Furman Uni vriycampus, and when he returned and sobered up he told a friend that e thought he was a rabbit. Being more merciful and seeking larger profits, Raleigh does not print hog li quor on the wine list. In the sum mer beer is kept on ice and is still cool when served in the neighboring afes along the market boulevard. All standard brands of whiskey, in luding the Salisbury product, are on the shelves. It Cured The Preacher. The editor of a religious newspa per published here, who voted for the dispensary in the election, wrote an article just after Christmas in which he said that he would never do it aain. He watched the mad rush of Ithe mobs at the doors and the failure of two policemen to keep them in or der. It cured him. He was bitter in his criticism of this scheme to beat the devil around the bush. He could not support the bars, and he naturally turns to prohibition, although Ra leigh will defeat that. That profit feature is the opiate which dulls the public conscience. As ''Bob'' Haynes Iof South Carolina, expresses it, ''they couldn't beat the dispensary with a stik.' "and he adds with a sigh that it wil never be possible for a man to toe