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VOL XLII NO 28 .l .APIR" N NWI1h,litty S. o' . VRIPAY APIL 6. 1906.TIEAWEK%10AYA OUR PROSPERITY LETTER. kifnicipal Election April 10-Anni versary of Sorosis-Personal Mention-Jno. Rikard Hurt. Prosperity, April 5.-Our young friend, F. H. Sheely, has gone tc Whitmire to be day operator for the S. A. L. Mr. Sheely hai 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 b 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. Mr. M. B. Bedenbaugh having 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 N6wberry, is visiting Mrs. A. G. Wise. Mr. J. P. Wilson paid our town a visit on Sunday. We cordially invite Mr. Wilson to call again and that right soon. Theological student J. B. Harmon, of 4t. "Pleasant, Charleston, S. C., spent,&unday night in town. Mr. and'Mrs. J. H. Hunter were in town on Tuesday. The Sorosis will meet with Miss Margaret Leckie on Friday afternoon. Several of our young folks took in the "Isle of Spice." Mrs. A. H.-Hawkins and Miss Belle Hunter have been visiting in the St. Luke's community. 'Uncle Mike Kenipson, of Saluda, was in town on business Wednesday. Miss Nannie Hair, of Newberry, is visiting Miss Nance Stockman. The executive conmittee 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 children were plaXing, Ben 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 hiour' later the boy began to have convulsions, and at one time he wvas reported dead. But hew as still alive at 8 p.- m. Wedniesday. It is suposed that a clot formed on the brain from the blowv. Miss Nell Roper, of Columbia, is visiting Mrs. F. E. Schumpert and M~rs. Win. Moseley. MrIis. F. E. Schumpert is visiting Mrs. Smith Livingston. Miss -Mar's, of Mt. Carmel, was in town with Mrs. Hunter on Tulesday. The list of adjectives is inadequate to describe the anniversar'y banquet of the Sor.osis, and your readers will have to read in the adjective that best suits them. We will sitnply say it was grand. The menu wvas all that heart could wjsh and the musical program was quite elaborate. Solos by Mrs. Wyche and Mrs. J1. 5. Wheel er and both vocal and instrumental dluetts by Misses Jessie Moseloy 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 Simponi spent Sat urday and Sunday at home. At the risk of biatting in your cor respondent, would like to say that it would be nice if Newberry college would get out a sbuvenir volume with ents. of the alumni and a shert ketch~ of each one. This would be a vol time that woul(f- b6 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 or habit, but we would like to see such publicity given through the commit tee on publicity of the semi-centennial of Newberrf college that the author of Frye's geQgraphy 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 known from the mountains to the seaboard and from the old North state to the Savannah. We have the promise that another of outf 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. Married 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 constablie he'e. The fact is there was 4nite a quantity of li quor coming here and we are told that when the marshal would attempt to catch the tiger lie would make for the incorporate limits and once be yond lie was safe. The constable could go no further. We. were told Con stable Eison had capturbd 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.'' ''Instead 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 started? 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 V The dear people, of course. Then let the dear people have a say about it. This is democratic. We iiote that Senator Tillman has fired his broadside into anti-dispen sary ranks. We haven 't heard any howling fromn any that were hit but just watch the little me toes that will be pop)ping upl and saying, ''Yes, I agree wvith the Honi. 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 towvn of Prosperity, Mr'. B. L. Dominick in his 74th year. Mir. Dom iniek leaves a wife and three chil dren. He will be0 laid to trest 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 1)een in the mercantile business heire for years, retiring about 20 years ago with a competency. 'He has lived a long and useful life and has been gathered to his Fatheirs at' a ripe old1 age. Mr. Dominick leaves many rel atives and friends for -he was wvell known in No. 0 township and in the county.. A girl hasn't much faith in a for tune teller who doesnt~ predict that she will marry rich. HOME NEWA IN WASHlNGTON What Our Representatives Do, foi ror Their Oonstituents. R. M. Larner in the News and Courier Washington; D. C., April 3.-1 spite of the mystery as to the contenti of the omnibus public buildings bil just- reported to the house, it is knowi definitely that Representatives John son, Lever, Finley and Aiken are pro vided with a slice of the phrk fo their respective districts, in the shap of public buildings. While Represen tative Patterson is served with a hal portion providing for a site at Aiken Members of the committee on pub lie buildings and grounds are pledgei to secrecy as to the details of the bill and the members decline to disclost any of its details owing to an honor, ary pledge exacted from them bi Chairman Gillette. Messrs. J. J. Earle, J. H. Whartot 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 ir the proposed trip of the commissior of Cuba. With the party i'n Wash ington are Capt. A. D. Hoke, Fred Syimes, of Greenville, Mr. and Mrs Wilkins and Dr. Gasque, of Marion. Representative Johnson today re ceived notice from the United Statei fish commissioner that a carload ol mountain trout will be sent to Green. ville to be distributed in north and middle Saluda river and other stream in that vicinity. R. Ways Cleveland an enthusiastic fisherman like hit namesake Grover Cleveland, has vol. unteered to haul the fish from the fist commission car to the various pointE of distribution. .Representative Finley * today re ceived notifiction. from- tie su'p.rii. tendent of the salary and allowanct division, postofice department, an nouncing the location of the new post office in the Masonic building, or Main street, at Lancaster. Four site, were under consideration, but the. Ma. sonic building offers superior advan tages in many respects, according tc the inspector. Representative Ellerbe today ree ommended the establishment of t new postoffice at -West Marion. A Marion county lumber company ha erected a large mill there and manii operatives are employed and resid( in that immediate vicinity. The sub ject was taken up at once and propmi action is- expected. Mr. Ellerbe alst applied for increased mail facilitief )etween Charleston and Florence. I 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 foi these intermediate stations. The su. perintendent of the railway mail ser vice, acting upon a formal complaint from the citizens of Bannockburn, i investigating the -subject and recoin mends an increase of the service at that point. Favorable reports on rural route! to be established from Dillon ane from Homer, in Mr. Fllerbe's district have been received at the postometc. dlepartmnent. W.~T A. Sadhold of Marion, is here visiting his brother-in-law, Represen tative Ellerbe. R epresentative Patterson's bill pr1o vidling for a. fish hatchery in Soutl Carolina, has been included in a gen oral bill favorably reported from the committee on fish and fisheries *whrich includes three hatcheries-onE in Sout1h Carolinra, one in Georgia, and one in North Carolina. 'This:hbill hras been favorably reported, and Mr Patterson and the friends of th< mneasure expect 'to secure favorabli action on tihe bill by thehouse shortly The bill providea 'thrat the sites foi these fisheries shall be left to tihe fisia commission. In tire meantime Mr. Patterson is using his beat efforts to have th< South' Carolina hatchery located in his dlistrict. Many available sites ir Barnwell county Are suggested, ill eluding Turkey Creek, Salkehotehi< river, Edisto and Savannah river. As a result of a visit to,.tihe post. offie department by Representative Finley toda the dep..-en ha Promised to give the postofice at Chester an additional clerk to expe e dite the handling of the,great bulk of mail matter now going through that ollice. Mr. Finley learned thit the receipts of the office at Camden up to March 81 have been sufflciently large to ad I Vance (his otilce to the second class. ihe 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 omee to additional clerks and will warrant an increase in sal Itry of the postmaster. Taaking the present rate of increase , as an indication, Gaffney will be the iicxt town inl the fifth district to ad vince to the rank of a second class ofIlce. Prom the present outlook Yok-k and Lancaster should enter the second class in two or three years. Representative Lever also called at the postofilee department today in re gard to mail facilities at Goodwill, Sumter County. Postmaster E. W. Dabbs, of this pfflce, was recently elected to the state legislature, and since that time his wife 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 this territory as soon as possible. The Ohio River on Fire. Pittsburg, La., April 3.-The Ohio river, at Sewickley, fifteen miles be low this city, is on fire and all efforts to extinguish the flames have been un . cessful. Thousands of people from " tII1ergvisited the river bamk to day and watched what appeared to be a startling phenomena. From almost the middle of the stream covering an area as large as a city 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 company, which crosses under the river. Yes terday a tow boat was passing and a deckhand threw a burning match into tihe stream. A great tongue of flame burst forth, and if they had not been moving fast it would have been set lfire. 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. Do 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 Laurenas and a little of Spartanburg. Saluda river will be the southern boundlary and Enoree rie thme north ern boundary if the election is carried in behalf of the new county. Thew niorthm and northwestern boundar~y will be a line running parallel to the line between Greenville and Laurenms coun ties, near the townm of Simp)sonville. Some of the best territory of the state wvould 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 squarp miles. There wvould be 23,742 inhabitants in this territory and $2, 314,120 worth of property. The only railroad property would be Columbia, Newberry and Laurens extension to Greenville. I the petition dheclares 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 Dlebard that lhe otdld 'not name the commissioners ,of election until all of tihese facts as ,to population and taxes shouldl be sublnitted in affidavit from the audi topf of the respective counties,. COUNTY DISPENSARY AGAINST 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 naid 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 olina sy.5tem, 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 not 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, prolhibition 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 bre and keep it here the howl against it is not like that in a neighboring state. Now and then there are hints at graft and 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 monlds in the sunlight. Probably a dozen other towns have adopted the same planl and next to property own ers, who have watched the reduction in the tax rate, the element most sat isfied with it are the gentleien who supply the thirsty from a hole in tle wall. Why It Remains. Last year the total receipts from1 the sule of heer and liquor amounted to $65,000 or thereabout. Of this fund the city government receive.i four-tenths, the road fund three tenths and the school fund for the county three-tenths. Raleigh last year i got $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 t of $525, $300 to the city, $200 to the - county and $25 to the United States, I so it will be noted that the city's rev- , eanue in saloon (days was $6,900 less than one-fourth of the present reve tnue. Men familiair with local condi Lions cont endl that. wit h high license, say $1,000 for the city, there would not he over t en baris, so by any u of aiddit ion or' muiltiplicat ion there is nothiung to4 equal thle dhispensiary mnel on. And that is why it will remain, Moreover, the local tax rate has beeni reduced 20 cents on the dollar and the indicatioans are that sales for the first.quarter of 1906 are far' above those of last year. The city will get $30,000 before the end of the year if the thirst keeps up. Charges Not Sustained. Last fall there wvas an investigation, charges having b)eenl preferr'ed against the management, but they were not sustained. It was shown, however, that the establishment was filthy and that the rates for ease goods were ex cessive, though the proceedings did not shake the faith of the property owners, who have rejoiced as the tax rate was steadily reduced. The place where the morally stunt ced purchase their wet goods is on a .little street which runs from Fayette ville to Wilmington streets, just north of the public market. This towna is somewhat like Charleston in the lay of the thoroughfares, and the dispen sary location corresponds to the little old Rinito on Maket street where the bizzards dream in the noonday hours. 'ho red lights of that Rialto are not i the shadow of this grog shop, how 3ver. But while there are no ques lionable resorts nearby, there are oth 3rs which a-re not questionable, and in tint respect conditions here are Proceeded to Get Rich. Whien the bar tenders took to the woods many with enterprise and brains remained and they opened mtfes and restaurants near the market iouse and proceeded to get rich. They -oel nothing stronger than lemon soda, )ut they provided cliairs and glasses nid water and waiters and a man is velcome so long as lie can pay the iervice fees. If lie enters with a hirst a black and grimy rascal smiles mtid then goes hot-footing to the dis ilsary. There are regular rates; hey call it corkage fees. If it is >eer it costs a man 2 1-2 cents to drink t, the same amount being charged vith a whiskey glass and a chaser of ilain water. There is no objection on lie part of the city to these establish nents and they are permitted to run is they please. One of the cafe men ays lie is making more money today han when lie conducted a bar; con equently lie is a believer in the dis >ensary. Bars and Bay Trees. North Carolina is leaning toward wohibition-in a way. Charlotte and Ireensboro and a handful of other ine towns had to succumb to the craze >ut in Asheville, Salisbury and Wil nington the bars flourish like a green >ay tree. Just how mudh liquor Salis >ury ships to dry and dispensary cen res there is no man who can tell. Re ently the statement was published hat the heaviest movement from 'alisbury was to Rock Hill. Much of t goes now to Greenville and Spar anburg. Some of the politicians are loing their best to make prohibition he real issue of the Iext campaign, vith little chance of success. It has oeen said that the Whiskey Trust is lhind some of these new fangled aws and movements, the idea being o get North Carolina out of the corn ignor trade. There is a world of hy ,uerisy in the crusade, and meanwhile lie moonsihiners keep the distilleries unnin-, (lie product being shipped as ar Iwest as California. This wave of eform1, lowever, will die along with lie politicians who want to ride to .lory upon it. Thought He Was a Rabbit. [Iht to get back to the lialeigh dis wnsary. There is a board of commis ioners elected by city council and a nanager, the latter buying the stock vihich is retailed at enormmous profits. l'he rates are not far above or below he South Carolina prices, but there 110 hog'' selling at 10 cents a half )int. That, of course, is in our fa ,or I) here. A man from Tennessee, year or two ago, drank a bottle of his stuff in his room at the Mansion louse at (rcenville, and feeling queer me went (out for a breath of fresh air. [ust as he hit the street a dog barked mud thle man took to his heels, lie did itt stop1 runinmg uintil lie had dodged nito thle bushes on t he l'urman Uni !eisiI y c'ampllus, and wheni lie returned mud sobered up lie told a friend that im thiou.ht lie was a rabbit. Being nore moreliful and seeking larger >roits, Italeigh does iiot pr'int~ hog hi ior on the wine l isi. lIn t.le sum nor beer is kept on ice and is still ool when served in thle neighboring .afes aloiig the market boulevard. \llI standard brands of wvhiskey, in dhudhing thle Salisbury p)rodluet, are on lie shelves. It Cured The Preacher. Theb editor of a religious newspa >er pulished here, who voted for the lispensary ini the election, wrote an urticle just after Christmas in which io saidl that lie would never (do it igaini. Hie watched the madl rush of the mobs at the doors and( the failure >f two policemen to keep them in or :1er. It cured him. He was bitter in his eriticism of this scheme to beat the devil around the bush91. He could iot support the bars, and lie naturally ~urns to pirohibition, although Ra eigh will defeat that. That profit ecature is the opiate which dulls the >ublie conscience. As ''Bob'' Haynes >f South Carolina, expresses it, ''they souldn 't beat the dispensary with a.e itiek,'' and lie adds with a sigh that it ' ,vill never be ponsible for a man to toe