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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postof lice at New berry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. Tuesday, May 15, .1906. ABOUT ROADS. We pablishiil.another llolum to (lay th repot of i siwinei omimlilittee froim llokingharn vonty, N. C., Which was m.1nt down to Cha111rlotte to investigate Ilie liundillg ald eost of pul1,ic roads inl flilt vointly. The (uestion f vot ing bonds for the piurpome of biiildiig roads was up for decision inl tle eounty (if Rjock ingliai. It will bv nlotieed that this Coliiltme, thoulgfh opposed to issuing bonlds f'o' roal bibildiig, whenl they left Ifockingham, u1idfe ai lilmllit"ouls report ill favor. of' the honld issue oil their reltiurn and4 after their inlvestigil tionl and e!xamjinatl Iionl of Ihm roalds in) itid aIrotnd Chalr-lotte. Ileeklenbiulrg eountiy has bveln liiuild ifig'these roads for ab1ot twelity years, anid lits cimplelted about $Ite huilded adifyile i' tiiis. The Verdict o! thle people ( this coiuty is that instedt( of' building by pleei meal if Ihey had il Ito do over, they wotild is sulo bol.s and billd tIe f roads at 0onCe. Thal is whit Ile tomlimitee fromi limkinginimi -oiuty has decided to do, and that1( is what file people of Newberry county would deeide to do if they ('olid eachll one see for them selves these -oalds in Meekleniburg county. A pe!ollople it seareely lay vlains to the highest lype of civilization Vho will eldile seluhi a systei of puiblic roads as we have in this eountly for the greiler pirit ol the yeli-, atildi 0is eoutiiiy is no exeieptionl to (11i1er voliln lies filroughouil the south. We do not lielil to be 111<(ler-stood as saying that the r'o4ads liow Il-1 wors, 1i l1m1 fi(\lu. halve hvwrttof'or. been. \\ lleanl to (.1r11h11.size the Il-eessity of i,.on imll Pr v0-\11t114-11 alld Ilhe fac[;t 1hat if our people ('oulad Se4' 1111d tialvel over first elass roads, I\hey would soon loome eliilusiastiv advocatvs f roa im provementil. As we i have-( siaid (in previous oeeit siollNs, Ilolley pit. into good roads is an investmeint which will paly large dividends to those who make th( in vestment. Thie state board of railroad assem sors hive made very large increase in) the assessment. of railroad property in this state, tle totil increalse being nearly $40,000,000 over what it wias a year 11go. It, Was reported fron Waslington somne days ago that a omgressman A. F. Lever would oppose Senator Liati inor for re-election at tie expiration of his term twvo years from no(w. A laJiter report c'(lines iti which' Mr. Laever says: "'I anm noti now a candidate foir the semnte. I uam a candidate to sue eeed1 myselft in congress f'rom the 7th~ distraict, and should the people of thait dlistrict. de(sirie to r'eturn'I me heie for another t erim, I shall crta aily (14 aill inl my pIower' tor' lieir good.'' Mr'. L eer lias made (pUite at good r'ecor~d since lie has been in c'ongress andt( will lbe return'ied from his dis trict this year' witho(ut oippoisition.. In the event lie should desire to opp)ose Mr'. Latiimer two( years hence, he would have a st'onig followving throughout the state. Notice is given from Clemson col loge that Prof. J. N. Harper and his assistants wvill ho0ld farmers itnstitutes throughout the state during the sum Requests for these -institutes must be sent ini very soon1. Why could not one of them be held in Newvberry. We would be glad if our farmer friends wvoulId read1 whliat Prof. Harper has to say about this wvork and to make re quest that he hold an institute in Newberry,. We trust they will take 'this matter with himn at once. Th le meeting of representatives from various towns along the Colum bia atnd Greenville division of the Southern railway held at Bolton on last riday may not result in any im mediate improvement of sehedutes, though it certainly will accomplish good. Formationi of a permanent organt *ation to look after trat11c must' re sault in benefit to the people along the Sineo of road. The representatives wore ii.~animous in their requests for a ~ ionng train into Columbia, and an iternoon train ont, and it Is hoped ~that thie request to giVe such a train ttial .may be granted by the rail Speople. There seemied to be very decided op & ,poltiop fromi Greenwood to Ander ~set agine i ohange of schedule in C uiday trains. Anoether meeting I' hel4,inf'.reenville 9a the 26th and we trust something will copie out of these meetings, by which we may secure the morning train to ColumbE 11ad the aftenilooln tra.in out of Co luimbia. It is stated from Marlboro that the refusal of the county convention to pass 1resolutions conlemning the state dispensar-y and approving and endors ing tle Brice law, does not mean that 1arlboro desi1-s to ebange from pro hhibiion which has prevailed in that couinty for a good many years. It is stated, om the contr.ary, tlint the peo ple of MAIrlboro are well satisfied with the workings of prohibition and do nlot CealC to have any change. A Tribute of Love. 'ThIe iadies' Missionary society of l'riosperity A. It. P. dichurei has lost by (lentil one of its most <iutiful mnm heis, Alrs. Sallie L. Fellers. Sincve its olrgalnization1, site has ever beeln faithful. It was her lesir-e to lo any and everything in (lhe society and elsewhere that would be for the glory of, her God. I1er faith in prayer to Iiin wits am inarked ebmaneteristie. She truly strived to follow close to ite Master, whom she loved so well to serve, and we trust that she is now in IIis presenc'e, enIjoyinhg the ple4sures of, Iieavenl, whi ls, Shall Ie forever lIno(re, F'elinlg our loss so keenly, we Ie solve, l'irst, To Iow reverently to the will of Him, who doethi all things well, and thank hlim that although she is removed firomi us, that her Godly in fhtience shall continue to be felt. Second, Thlt in her death we have lost ia dieerftil, nll ever-willing wor-k erI, at gentile ald sympathetic friend, aind one whose plaef will not be easily filled. TTir, That we exteld ourl. sympa Ily to lei live- owes. and point theni to lliim who will eomfllort anld slistnin thell. 111111 ial Il wolin lie dealt inl Ifive. l''iurth, Tint a copy of these re-io Iutions he sent to the A. It. Plreshyte riinl ianid too tle county papers for inbication, and that a page in our Iniliute hook he kept saered to her Mrs. H1. C. Moseley, Miss Josie Thompson, Miss Lula Moseley, Miss Mae Dominick, Committee. Causes of Secession. I should be sorry for any maii who fought, suffered and bled foi- south ern independence, if lie should be lieve that soithelrn1i slavery was alone the eaise of secession. But if lie reads no history except tile South Carolina schol histories, lie is like ly to eomeip to that veIy Conclusion. One of the I problems that the eon veintiin of' 1787 wrestled with wats that. of ad(ljustinig (lie balance of pow er between the sectionls. It is said that miijorit ies always oppress ml norit ies. IHenee taking counisel of his fears, (lie father of thie constitution laid down (lie principle, that when ever there is anagpr of attack, there shouhld be ai constitutional power / dlefene(e. When the new union was formed (lie north~ had eight stat es, and (lie south live; which gave the former section at majority of six ini the senate. If, therefore, the balance of power was to he maintained, the south should have a majority in the lower house of congress. After dhe liberating and bringiing their united wisdom to bear upon the, subject it was believed'thiat by a:doptng the three-fifth clause, the 'south wvould have a majority in the house of rep resentatives. The north though did return a majority of flye in the house of representatives. Before the con vention the south was' increasing in wealth and population faster than the other section ; rand it was believed that she would soon overcome this major ity in the lower house, and each houde of coingress wvould act as a check up.. on the other. The design of (lie framers of the constitution was to suffer, by entering the new union. From a small begin ning in both branches of congress at the formation of the more perfect union; the northern 'majority gradual ly grew to fifty-four in :The lower house in 1850; with other states ready to be admitted to swell the northern majority in the senate. If the south could have foreseen that, she would have entirely lost the balance of power; she would not ?have put her neek in the yoke of the northern ma jority by entering the uniion, Prior to tloe war, the South turn ishied a good share of the presidents, but then the. law making power is vested in congress, not the piresident and a man at (lie head of the govern.. ment with a majority in bth houses of congress unfriendly to his political views, is powerless, except to veto loge lation - deetned by hhn to b*tijut ot opieressiye Tha tlmar *u section presidents at that period Of the government. Lincoln was thi ffrst sectional president, and did he not,de claie that lie would not be bound by the decisions of the supreme courti but that lie would enforce the cnsti tution as lie understood it, andniot as it was understood by that high tribunal. Thomas Benton, who was an anti slavery man, said in the senate in 1828: "I feel for the sad changes that have taken place in the south during the last fifty years. Before the revolution it was the seat of wealth, as well as hospit,lity. Money andl all that it contained abounded then. Now all this is reversed. Wealth has fled from the south, and settled in the regions north of the Potomac; and this, in the face of the fact that the south, in four staples alone, has exported produce since the revolution, to the value of eight' hundred million dollars; and the north has exported eomparatively nothing. Such an ex port would indicate unparalleled wealth, but what is the fact ? In the place of wealth, the. people are push ed to the verge of universal self -de nial, for the preservation of family estates. Did slavery accomplish thii? Slavery accompanied the south in her palmiest days, hence it could not have been the one cause of such adversity. Under federal legislation, the exports of the south have been the basis of federal revenue. Virginia, the two Carolinas and Georgia may be said to defray three-fourths of the annual expense of supporting the federal government, and of the great sum fur nished by them, nothing, or next to nothing is returned to them in the shape of government expenditures. This is why wealth disappears from the south and rises up at the north." 'Political economists of tle north, who had studied tle sources of na tional wealth, gave the same explana tion of the sudden and wonderful dis -i.-rance of wealth fron tle south, but if' the north, with a majority in bot1 h houses of congress had not op i-essed Ile souti, it would have been untlike any otfher imshiaekled power in tie world.'' A philosophical for eigner inl 1833 said, ''If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority." Massachusetts was the first state to threaten to leave the union, f6l. lowed by similar threats by other northern states. ' If this section had and i mi.nority in both. branchps of congress, as the south had, they. would likely have outstrijped South Caro:. lina in the race of secession. The old articles of confederation claimed to be perpetual, but when -the convention meceded from them and formed the, more perfect union, it did not, stamp immortality upon the work of its hands. .!* Of all the men who took part in the struggle for southern independence, .Jefferson Davis wvas the most harshly treated, lie was imprisonedl for eighteen months and cruelly treat edl. He lived twenty years afterwards and was never,blroughtt to trial. This fact ought, for all times, to put to rest the charge of treason. And the en couraging of secession in South America by our govenment makes the impression that those at the head of the government are inconsistent, or they have changed front about this ma tteri. The sou'th is now in the union to stay. Every lover' of his country re joices at the decadence of socialism andl welcomes the return of the era of good feeling. When this era comes. to stay, a consummnation de voutly to be wished, there* will be no questioning of the patriitim of those of our section wvho participated in the struggle that ended at Appomattox. Grady and McKinley par nobile fra trum, were pioneers in the good wor'k of reuniting the sections, May their spirits rule us from their urns. 0. M. Buzhardt. Dots From St. Phipip 's. The cool weather that we have had has damaged the cotton some, but we hope that no one has lost their whole crop. We hope that the weather will make a change so that everything can grow off nicely. The grain crop is looking fine, and we believe that there will be more made thIs year than has been made in years. There are plenty of peaches this year, but app~les are scarce. Mrs.- Anna Shealy, who has be n sick for soine ime,.Is greatly. Isn proved. Mr. J. J. Kibler hAs returned homne from his school in North Carolina. We are glad to have him with us again. Mr. Edwin HXalfaere Is painting his house, which Avi'll be the onlg white house in .1(flula. -I will close for this time with much success to 2the ljle1 and News, Years Have ( AMERIC) A( Plia Mad C. & G. THE "I can't understand why the edi tor refused that sketch of a lien, it was so life-like." "So he thought." "Ilow is that?" "He threw it into the waste basket and it laid there." liqostoit Cominercial Bulletin. " See here, " ' said the lobbyist- of the future, "I want you to secure the vote of Mrs. State Senator Jiggins. You ought to get it for $100." ''Oh, mny! I wouldn't think of offering her that." "You don't mean to say that she'd want more?" "Oh, 1o I'll offer her $98.98.' '-Philadelphia Press. Stella-They say that Helen mar ried feor money. Mildred-I don't believe it. Stella-But her husband is awfully rich and awfully homely. Mildred--True, but when he comes jiome late she scolds him for an hour. -Chicago News. TO DRAW JURY. We, the undersigned Jury Commis sioners for Newberry County, S. C., will on the 25th inst., in the office of the Clerk of Court for said County at 9 a. mn., draw the names of Thirty Six meni who are to servd as Petit Jurors for the Sessions Court for said County which convenes on the 11th day of June, 1906, continuing for one week. Juo. L. Epps,. Wmn. W. Cromer, Juo. C. G4oggans, Jury Commissioners for Newvberry County. May 14, 1006. ILLUSTRATED POST CARBS I have a large as sortment of SOUVENIR CARDi Have a splendid view of the Cols lege. Price: Two for Fie Cents. All others Thromfor 5c. sf Work and -Pla ombined to Mal N LAy 1LADY1 ..orset- of Strengi bility and Beaul e to Fit The Fo S. MOW LADIES' THE MUTUAL BENEFl THERE IS A VAST DIFF "SETTING" AND "MEE on the cardina Security, Econo: The Mutual Benefit not only sets the Ce bound to security by its high reserves, Bou ment by its low rates of premium, and Bot holders by its liberal policy contract. The insure his life has a right to expect econoi man will always insure where all his rightj tual Benefit has fully recognized the "righ uPcmeo oOC3 B. L Office McCaughrin Building. Think twice before you buy, Then buy your goods from Hill & We are not content to otherb. We must under SHOES, SHO] Men's, Womer.'s, Boys', Girls' ar ity, High Cut and Low Cut. Cheape of Newberry. Others may clain to se: them and make money. Standard Granulated Su, HIL STATE] Of the condition of Th'e Commercial Bank, close of business May 4th, 1906. Resources. Loans & Discounts. ..$375,597 60 Co Demand loans .... ......4,647 56 Ui Overdrafts .. ...........3,912 88 Furniture & Fixtures .. ...3,051 93D Due from Banks & Bankers 44,774 80) Currency-.. ........8,759 00 i Gold .. .. ..... ......2,400 00 Silve,r, nickles, pennies ..954 64 N< Cheeks & cash items .. ..4,004 46 .$448,102 87 STATE 01F SOUTH CAROLINA,' COuNTY oF' NEJWBERRY. Personally appeared before me J. Y. Mc Bank, who swears that the above statemen edge and belief. Sworn to befofe me thIs 4th day of May, Attest: Gee. 8. Mower. W. 11. Hunt. 0. B. Mayor. emE BAIDEP SIT ', , *R, Faead oe ae ,nning ze the CORSET -hp :y. rm. ER CO. TORE. SLIFE INSURANCE. ERENCE BETWEEN TING" COMPETITION I point of tly and Rates mnpetition on these points but it is ind to Thrifty Methods of Man - ind to Liberal Treatment of - thrifty man who denies himself 6 a!; of his trustees, and the prudent are faithfully recognized. the Mu tW" of its poliey-holders for over Le Yea0MM. JONES, Special Agent, Newberry, S. C. Sligh. be as low priced as sell. Es, SHOES. d Children's Shbes. High.Quzal :r than ever known in the town 11 Shoes at cost, but we undersell gar. 28 lbs. $1 .26'. L & SLIGH. VIENT located at Newberry, 8. C., at the Liabilities, spital Stock paid in .. $50,000 00 idlivided1 profits, less eur rent expenses & taxes . paid.----.. ........43335 75' me to Banks & Bankers . 1,874 78 me unpaid dividends .. .. 675 00 dividual deposits subject to cheek-.. .....252'217 34 >tes and bills rediscounted -- - - .... . -.. 100;0O0 00 $448,102 87. Fall, Cashier of the above na1~d t is correct to the best of his knowi J. Y. McFALL, Cashier. JOHN C. GOGGANS, o. o. 0. p. rick! Brickli For Sale by, C. H. CANNON.