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VOL XLIII. Nom.NEWBERRy, S. . T UESDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1906. TWIOB A WEEK.-$1.50 A YEAR TO BuWLD TROLIIES. Mr. immes Representing the Soutb 0a Olina Public Service Corpora Ion to Visit Newberry This Week. The He 'ald and News has several times spok 'n of the proposed build. ing of troll lines through the Piet mont and in this connection of th( South Carolin Public Service Cor poration, of New -ork City, who seen to have this matter under considern tion. Their plans according to theli maps and surveys cover this sectioi with a network of trollies, which, ij biult, would annihilate distance be tween the towns and cities of thi Piedmont. Mr. C. R. Van Etten has had som: correspondence with Mr. A. C. Jones as chairman of the Trahsportatioi Committee of the Chamber of Com merce. Only last week notice of applica tion for charter was published in ou: local cotemporary, and Mar. Jones re ceived a letter dated Orangebtrg fror Mr. Van Etten stating that Mr. J. J Timmes, who represents the financia end of the South Carolina Public Ser vice Corporation, would visit Newber ry next week and would like to miee the represenatives of the conmercia interests of the city with a view to ex tending a trofly line from Charlestor to Newberry. Arrangements will be made by'th: Chamber of Commerce to hive tI proper committee meet Mr. Timmei and give him such information a may be valuable to him in the mattei of indgcements to have this line tonel Newberry. There can be little doubt that in thi near future there will be a networl of trollies throughout this state, an when they do come, it will be worth great deal in the development of on rural communities as well as in th building up of the cities and towns. We trust that Mr. Timmes will no disappoint us and that the proper re ception will be given him. . Mr. Jones sent the following tele gram on Saturday in response to t01 letter which lie.received: December 8, 1906. Mr. C. R. Van Etten, Orangeburg, S. C. Letter received. We shall be gla to meet Mr. Timmes and yourself. A& vise us what day you will reach New berry. A. C. Jones, Chairman Committee on Transporta tion, Chamber of Commerce. News from Excelsior. Excelsior, December 10.-Mis Maggie Stone has returned home. The weather continues delightfu and our farmers -are about througl work and getting ready for Christmas Miss Janie Kinard has been spend ing several days in Leesville and Sa luda. The farmers association will 1iok the~ir regular meeting next Saturda: afternoon at 2 o 'clock. Thme public roads are in good condi . tion. Mr. D. B. Cook is improving the ap pearance of his yard paling. Mr. Ira Nates, of Columbia, ha been on a few days' visit home. IMrs. William Werts, of Mountvillc visited in this section last week., Mr. Ira B. Schlumport and famii; have moved back to their home ii Colony section. Mrs. Berry Hartman aund childrei have been on a visit to relatives ii Pomaria section. Grain is looking nicely in this see tion. Mr. A. B. Piester who lives on the Dr. J. B. Simpson place in Bachmmas Chapel section got his cotton houis burned down on Wednesday evenin; about sundown. The house contAines about forty bushels cotton seed, on< load of corn, six or eight bushels o seed oats, plow stocks, hoes, two good baskets, etc. Mr. Piester informs us that his losi is aboi't $35 and he 'has no idea as t< the- cause of .the fire.' The buildinj stood near tile road, was an old on; but a good one. Sigma. Never judge a girl's beauty, by he' photo. GOOD SdAEDULES PROPOSED. A Change on the Southern Which Is 01 What Newberry Wants-Let it Come. ,.. The foll6wing is taken from the Greenville Daily News and gives fur- th ther information as to the proposed is change of schedule about which we ol< have written elsewhere. This is the in schedule which will suit the patrons m of the Columbia and Greenville road Oil in this section. It is- what we have been wanting for a long time, and it vc is what we went to the meeting at Bel- gc ton to ask for, but came away asking so for an extra train to be put on. If the st Southern will try this schedule 'for a bc itime, we believe that it will be more. pt satisfactory to all of the patrons than I the present one and we are satisfied to that Capt. Anderson, of the Blue w, Ridge, can very easily arrange a sche- ge 'dule which will be pleasing and ae- er ceptable to the people of Anderson gi and the Daily Mail. Please note that ii Capt. Andelson says the travel to his fi road from below Belton does not si aiount to much and therefore the h Southern's schedules should not be w controlled by the Blue Ridge. u1 It was rtimored in this city yester-- ti day that a change of schedules would aa be nade on the Columbia and Green- p ville division of-the Southern Railway al on December 16. The officers for that o division are in Columbia, and the cor. al respoident of The Greenville News in ol Columbia -last night said that on in- c quiry at the division ofAices, no infor mation could be gotten about the pro, tt posed trains. Superintendent Wil- ff liams has not returned to Columbia b< from President Spencer's funeral, and a, his chief clerk said last night that p, while there had been no definite ar- h< rangements or schedules made for a r( change, it was probable that some o change would be made. P4 The correspondent of The Greett- H ville Neivs at Anderson in a special 'c last night said: p Capt. J. R. Anderson, superintend- st ent of the Blue Ridge road, has re- aQ ceived from Mr. J. N. Scale, master til of transportation of the Southern, the to outline of a new schedule which it is G proposed to put into effect oil Decem her 16, if it proves satisfactory to all the interests that will be effected. By the proposed schedule the train a nlow leaving Greenville at 9.40 a n,. will leave at 7 a. in., gets to Columbia he about 12 noon, leave Columbia about T 4 p. m., arrive Greenville about 10 p. w m. The morning section of the ''Merry- d 1o-Round'' between Greenville and Anderson will leave Greenville at 9.40 t] a. in., run to Beltoil and double back into Greenville, leave Greenville i ei the afternoon on the present schedule, 01 run to Grenwood and double back to bl Greenville, leaving Greenwood about 4 o'clock. The schedules of trains 15 hi and 16 will not be affected. b This schedule, if it goes into effect, st will require the Blue Ridge road to t put on an extra train equipment and two newv train~erewvs if all the cornnee- t tions are made at Belton. There will. be a passenger train almost every i hour between Anderson and Belton ki and between Greenwvood and Green- tl ville.w m Capt. Anderson is up inl the air con eernling the proposed chlange. He does not see how he can arrange to make - all the connections at Belton W and at the same time take care of the je trains from WValhalla into Anderson. The travel from Walhalla, Seneca, ~ Pendleton and Clemson College to An- wv derson is very heavy at all seasons of mn the year and thlis travel Capt. Ander- ti - sonl snys, must be takeli care of at all hazards. The travel to Columbia from 1b4 a tile Blue Ride road will never ll 1 amonnt to muelf, and Capt. Anderson m a does not think it will ever amount to er a great deal 0on thle (. & G. road abiove it I Greenwood. ' hi 3 There is aniothier prob)lem confront- ma inlg thle Blue Ridge omeinas. Tile v< I Southern hlas recently put on a new r't trainl between Toccoa and Charlotte, i and( ill soon put on another train of b ietween Atlanta and Washington. ec SThis means nlew connlections that have st to be made at Seneca. Capt. Ander- C son cannot rearrange is schedcules uIn- w til be gets the figures as to the arrIv.. al of thle new trains at Senecn. He has wired for these figures, and asT soon as he gets th-em he can begin~ figrurineg on the new schedles. TH HAMPTON UNVEILING. 1 Yeteran Thinks "Our Sons" Orowded the Old Oonfederate to the Rear. The following communication, Cugh some time after the unveiling, still apropoA, It is written by an I veteran, who attended the unveil g and-who:gives expression to what >st of them feel who were present this occasion: On the morning of the 20th of go Inber the C N. & L. train landed a. odly number of the old veterann, ns and daughters, at Gervias street ation, 11 a. m. Naturally every dy went to the state house. Th#Y trade did not start until 12.30 p. m. had decided that I would not go in the parade, but was afraid that I uld be crowded out, so I had better t in the procession, that the old vet ans being guests of honor, would be ven a place of honor near up to 1o monument. With this thought xed on my mind. I went into the ate house, where Ithe (daughters Ad dinner spread for the veterans. I is told to help myself, was waited )on. After helping myself to all at. I wainted, I felt like I was a hero Id that it was our dity to go in the 'ocessionl and all of us who were able id some not able, some of us leaning i walking sticks, some with crutches, I so eager to show our love for the d chieftain, whose memory we had me to commemorate. We, who had followed hin through e storm of battle; some of us had lIen all torn by shot and shell, orne from the battle field, leavin* arm or leg, maimed for life, but oud that we were alive to do image. We, who in '76 put on the d shirt, and followed Hampton to ir state capitol, turned the usur rs out and placed our Immortal ampton in the governor's chair. You n1 imagine how our hearts beat with ride as we followed our sons down the reets of Columbia, just as proud we were when we marched along is same street in 1861, keeping step the tune of ''Dixie'' and ''Th' ri I Left Behind Me.'' As the old soldiers neared the state imse, we were marched right oblique 'ound and brought up on the other de about seventy-five or one hun ed yards from the monument, and ft there. Our sons had deserted us. iere we stood, we could not and we tuld not believe for some time that. ir sons would treat us so, but they d. I do not know why we were eated so, I do not know whether the aus miscarried or not. I am incin t to believe different, for there were lough soldiers there, already 'ganized with their arms in their inds to have formed a cordon around e monument and kept the crowd ick and given the old veterans any ace they* chose. - Under the circum ances I am constrained to believe at the veterans were neglected by e committee on arrangements. Our sons have deserted us, David still alive, but Absolom is declared ng- and now sits upon David's~ i.one. Like old David, we beg the wrld to deal gently with the young on, I thought as I looked at the monu ent that if Hampton were there, lhe auld have asked to let the old sold rs come nearer. I say, our sons, T think that right. hen we look over the names of those bo went in wvith HIamp)ton and the mnes of those now in control, I find ey arc sonis of thio'e men. If, instead of the monument, it hiad ~en Hampton there, and( he would tre looked over there and seen the en, who had immortalized him, (wded out and mnade to stand back. at instead of sitting there the hero, wouild have dlismnounted and gone dtaken his place among the old ~teranus, his soldiers and his com des.' - The whole proceeding remindled me ai song the 01ol)rivates used1 to sing, lied, ''The Offeers of Dixie.'' 1In end of Dixie I will substitute South irolina, and instead of privates, we ill says veterans. ''The officers of South Carolina alone ie glories share, the honors wear Throughout old South Carolina. OPOSBED POOL AND BILLIARDS. Mr. A. 0. Jones Writes President Chamber of Commerce-Why Not Have Some Amusement And Work Also. Mr. A. C. Jones, wiho is chairmat of the committee on Transportation of the Chamber of Commerce, and who has taken an active part in that organization, is opposed to having billiards and pool in the rooms of this organization and to place upon recort his opposition to them, has addressed the following letter to Mr. Z. F. Wright, president of the Chamber of Commerce: Newvberry, S. C., Dec. 8, 1906. Mr. Z. F. Wright, President Chamber of Commerce, Newberry, 1. C. My dear sir: As the Chahmber of Commerce is managed and directed almost entirely by its officers and Board of Gover nors, the individual or private mem ber has practically no voice in it. For this reason I have hesitated to say much about it, but in justice to my self, I feel that I should say that I do not approve of the billiards and pool, which you have in the rooms. As p membcer of my church I have not re garded it consistent to joiln ally or ganization that had anything oimeet-. ed with it that I did not approve of. Billiards and pool is the world's way of taking men from the work of the church and keeping young men from joining the church, and I was sur prised when the matter of the redue tion of the admission fee was under discussion, that some of our membere, who are supposed to be active mem bers of their churches, should urge these things as a reason why the fee should be reduced to induce the young men of the city to join us. Billiards and pool are not part of flh work for. which the Chamber of Commerce was organized, and the money used in this way could be used to a better advantage in promoting the business interests of Newberry. They might be made a feature of a Commercial Club, but tliat feature wonld keep me 'nt of it. Sincerelv. A. C. Jones. T1he lerald ma:1 Nm.; 'n s-ee no serious (0) (jection to oC)O1l an1d billiards. In fact they are inno'cent amusements andl help to divert the mind of the busy business manl anld to give it a rest from the cares of life; at the same time they should not. he the p: * cipal feature of the organization. There are many things that this or ganizatioii can do for the advance ment of our city and among these Is to advertise the city. In fact, when ever anything is done, they s1ould be anxious to publishi it in the newspa pers that are publislied here, and the newspapers would always be glad to secure anything of that kind which conltainls an item of news. The Chamber of Commerce should pa~y a secretary a sufficient salary so that lhe might secure a part of the time of a stenographler 0and typewriter and thus keep before the public tihe ad vancement of this community and if there were such compensation a man01 fitted for that work would b)e easily secured anid by dividing the salary, which lie would receive, wvith his steno graphler, the services of such a person could also be secured and( the two cou'ld assist the president and( the board of governors and tihe commit tees in their wvork, and thins exploIt lhe many advantages of Newberry. We are entirely too modest. We do not even claim what we have. Pulaski Lodge I. 0. 0. F. Expects every membher pre'sent Fri dafy evening at 8 o'clock. 4 (jualrter duies arie now payab8lle. C all on J1. P. Cook, financial secretary, and get your receipt. Many3 an otherwise honest young man dloesn 't hesitate to steal a kiss. Should a grand soiree be given, The Braided Lyons take the eve 'n, Tfhe veterans, no, they don 't feel slighted, They didn't expect to be invited.'' 01(1 Vet.era. The .ause of Insanity. t Chicago, December 8.-State regn- ii lation of marriage was advocated last a night by Dr. Frank Billings, pre41- d dent of the Illinois state board, of li charities in all address before the,Na- p tional Conference on Truancy. His a audience was largely made up of ex- ii perts in charity and reformatory lines, b and his declaration, while it created v surprise, was greeted with applause. s lie was speaking of ' 'Should wards ai of the state be separated from* the s public school children?'' and drew a s picture of the backward methods of i instruction which the state hoard of ' charities had found in certain institu- s tions. ''But we physicians believe in get- t ting to the root of a disease,'' said Dr. f Billings, bringing his address to a t close. t 'There is no use in taking any oth- t er point of view. The root of this trouble lies in the existing freedom of marriage. I don't believe there should be any such freedom of marriage. I am no lawyer, but I would like to see society put on its statulte books a law forbidding two people to be married, not merely until they had secured a certificate of health from a reputable physician, but mitil they liad obtained a certificate of inheritance showing their antecedents. "This sounds drastic, but the in crease in) the defective elasses is so impressive as to warrant such a cot,. elusion. Two per cent of the popula tion of Illinois is insane. The number of defective is increasing 3 per cent annually. Concerning Negro Education. New York Sun. It will perhaps astonish a great many complacent and unsuspecting persons in this part of the country to hear it said that a very considerable number, if not, a majority, of the old time great Southern slave-holders were heartily opopsed to "the institu tion.'' Such is the ruth, nevertheless, as every one familiar with the inner history of that section knows full well. There is no room for argument. hen we enter the domain of im perishable fact we shake from our heels the (lust of controversy. But a still more novel and disturbing truth is tihat, long before the civil war certain Louisiana land-owners of the magnificent, patriarchal type conceiv ed a plan for ''educating'' their sla ves, so wise, so enlightened, and, as it proved, so substantially beneficent, that modern paternalism could ad vantageously hark back to it at least in some particular respects. To put it briefly, we may say that long before "Uncle Tom's Cabin" saw the light, and while as yet the great slave holding magnates of the South regarded slavery as an estab lishment beyond the reach of social agitation or political vicissitude, 'wise and kindly member of the ruling class had conceived and set in operation a system whereby slavery could be rob)bed of all its most repulsive as pects and transformed into an agency of exaltation. They were not doe trinaires, these well meaning men, but they loved their slaves and they felt it their duty, as it already wvas their earnest wish, to lift them out of the mire of degradation and subjection, if such a thing wvere possible. Thius it came about that schools werh estab lishied on hundreds ,of plantations, nothing like our modern schools, of course, but just plain, simple agencies of exp)erimenit andl observation. The idea was to disclose the sp)eclal gift, prioelivi ty oi talent of the individual, not to set up a Proerustes bed( in thle way of a smug enirrielm. The idlea was to encourage and( dliselose any special talent and p)roeliv'ity ini the ind(ividual. The young were suibject edl to a benevolent and enlightened in (luisit ion. There was no cut and( dIried formula of appr'aisemeni. The born artisan was not drilled to death in botany or ethics; thme appointed coop-f er, mason or blacksmith was not re (luired to qulalify as a pianist or a mat hematician. Special gifts and tendencies were ascertained, develop ed, perfected. And so it followed that thousands of slaves became brick layers, carpenters, blacksmiths, tail.. ors, engineers, sugar boilers, artisans of every kind, even musicians, andI 0ons in perfect freedom, mqrely..pay ig to their masters a small percent go on the assessed value of the in ividual. In all respects they were at berty. They lived where they leased, acquired their own homes and ecumulated their own properties, and I all these respects were protected y the law. It is a fact that the negro rho dwelt under this dispensation, eventy-five years ago, enjoyed more etual freedom and received more sub tantial consideration than do his de eendants of today, who strut about, nflated and misled by the worthless 'education" of the latter day public chools. A detailed record of the fruits of his system would astound the phil m1thropists of the present genera ion. It is a fact, notwithstanding, hat the slave holders of the past cen ury did more to uplift and help the legro than all the doctrinaires and ocieties and Governments of our day ire doing or are likely to do; 4nd that, onsidering the results in view, is a rery inadequate and pallid statement )f the case. Those funny fellows Murphy and \U1rphyN, are offering a new comedy of Ol ica ions this season whichl they -ail i'lhe Trish Pawnbrokers''. The )ivee is said to excel anly previous 'elicles they have hiad. It is from he pen of a well known writer and thounds in repar-tee, quiek dialogue im sIapl)y action. Special music has >een wri( ten especially for this pro luetion to which has been added all he very latest. New York sonz, hits. 1'he cast contains many well known irtists. Murphy and Murphy, the old rella Ales, who are famous for their style >f comedy will present to their many ldmirers a brand new farce upon their appearance here next Friday, December 14, when they will present the first time here, ''The Irish Pawn brokers.'' This comedy is very much in line with their former successes as to movement, color and (itiekness of iction. They have surrounded them elves this year a very en1ble com pflly. Ohristmas Holiday Rates via Atlantlo Coast Line. One and one third fares plAus twen ly-five cents for the rouinld trip to all points ill Southeastern Passenger Ter ritory, and to poi'nts Oil eoinnectiig lilies east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomne Rivers, in luding St. Loulis and intermediate stationis. T'iekets on sale December 20(h to 25th, inclusive, 30th1i, and 31, 1900, and January 1st, 1907, final limit January 71h, 1907. T. C. White, W. J. Craig, Gen. Passenger Agt. Passenger Trafic Manager. I Remember, I Remember. [remember, I remember, The house where I was born, rhe little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn. [ETo never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a (lay; B3ut how I often wish thIe night H-ad borne my breath away I rememb)er, I remember, The roses, red and white, rhe0 violets and the lily-cups Those flowers made of light! I'he lilacs where the robin built, And where my brother set rhie laburnum on his 1)irtlhday The tree is living yet! r remiiebe, I rememb)er, Where I uIsed to swing, An 11 ho t10Ihe air must rush as fresh To swallows on 1the wing; ~Iy spiril flew in feathers thlen, That is so heavy now. dsummer pools conid hardly cool The fever on my browv! [ remember, T remnenmber, The fir t rees dark and high ; [ used to think their slendler tops Were close0 against the sky, rt was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little foy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.