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''? a..I VOL XLTV. NO. 32. NEWBERRY. 8. 0. FRIDAY APRIL 19, 1907. TWiCE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR E NEWS OF PROSPERITY. 0ouncil Gives Supper-Death of Mr. Bedenbaugh--The Editor has No Hammer-Railroad Ool lision. Prosperity, April 18.-Miss Joe -hompson is visiting her sister, Miss ate Thompson, who is a student at he Due West Female college. The supper .to the council elect was a very pleasant affair. Speeches :were'made by Mayor Kibler, Wardens Sedenbaugh, Quattlebaum, Messrs. H. SO~ . Moseley, G. Y. Hunter and Col. H. Hunt. A. H. Kohn was toast aster. Col. Hunt spoke of the pro -ess the town had made in ten or welve years he had 'been attorney, nd the f:neral interest of her citiz ens boded well for the future' of the. The ..iv council is now dealing out fiJestess'' to the violators of law at the old stand. The board of health of the towni having resigned, the fol lowing were elected as board of health for the town of Prosperity: A. H. Kohn, five years; Dr. J. S. .Wheeler, four years; J. M. Werts, three years; F. E. Schunipert, two .years; W. W. Wheeler, one year. Well, Mr. Editor, your correspond ent knows that it is not a news item, but we want to suggest to you to put ip your little hammer and quit knocking. Life is too short and there is too much to do to waste your good time knocking. Take the advice you gave last fall. If you don't agree, just pass it by. Take that chip off your shoulder. The council at its regular meeting last Monday elected Col. W. H. Hunt attoriney. This is about fourteen years that the Colonel has been the legal adviser for our town. Mrs. S. W. Calmes returned from the hospital in Charleston on Monday. . A. G. and Mrs. Wise- left today, Thursday, for the Red Boiling Spring in east Tennessee, where Mr. -Wise hopes to be fully restored to health. Mrs. MeMorris will entertain the Sorosis on Friday afternoon. It wll be a social meeting. John Pat Wise is at home for a day or two. Dr. Littlejohun spent Sunday in rs. T. D. Copeland is at her fath er's, Col. H. C. Moseley. Mr. B. S. Wheeler spent Tuesday ,Prosperity. . raee church will observe Newber college day on Sunday. Rev. Jas. B Scherer will preach in the morning. Old folks day will be held by Grace Sunday school again this year on the third Sunday in June. Prograniume later. Mrs. P. C. Singley spent a couple days with Mrs. A. A. Singley the past week. Miss Lilly Mae R.ussell, who has been in Washington, D. C.. for some time, will ret urn to Prosperity this wveek. Passed from the weary toils of this life into that rest found in the great beyond 'Mr. John S. Bedenbaugh, ag ed about 48 years. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn for a ond father and husband. We have no'wn Mr. B3edenhaugh for many ai-s. lHe was always cheerful and ~ed t.o do his part as he saw it. Hie qindustrious, and by attention to farm, had gathered ar'ound( him a home. He was nried at Colony Tuesday -afternoon, Rev. J1. A. performing the last sad rite. extend symplathy to the bereav car left the track on the C. N. . 's early morning's freight on ay.. Result, car wrecked, track up, no one hurt. ttrday night wvhen the west freight on the Southern reach 5place the engine was disabled o engineer had orders to take 4bound engine and continue. tehing ansl making the change teh wa loft open by the train kd in running back to' couple the train it was tur.ned into tehi and the collision tore up ek *and wrecked several.cars, completely, and badly injur ngine. The wrecked car was *(Inhcotton but no damag-e of weeAs done to it. Being on the siding traffic was not interfered with on Sunday. The town council elect, E. N. Kib ler, mayor; J. I. Bedenbaugh, A. P. Dominick, W. T. Gibson and R. F. Stoudemayer, were sworn in on Fri day night. The outgoing council gave the in coming city fathers a fish supper, a few invited guests enjoying the even ing with them. The town treasury had over $1,,500 t to carry on the work of macadamiz ing the streets and filling all drains with terra cotta. The frosts, cold winds and ice have ruined the fruit crop and seriously damaged the small grain crop. Cot ton planting is progressing. RETURN TO BLEEDING. Some PPhysicians Advocate Trying It in Certain Cases. Bleeding, once the first as well as thle last resort. of thle doctors, seemls to be comingi into mnore or- less favor 'The custom of blood letting,'' writes an English physician in the Medical Brief, "is passing into a stage of rational and moderate use. Venesection, properly employed, is a most valuable therapeutic agent.'' Dr. Perry, who contributes the pa per, says that he has tried bleeding most often inl cases of acute pneu monia because he looks upon it as a disease in which life may be saved and distress much relieved by a time ly blood letting. Acute pineumonia is one of the few diseases in which venesection may be used as a cura tive agent; that is an agent that may directly aid in the restoration of normal health to a patient-and not merely as a pallial,ive, as in chronic cardiac disease. "When the cardiac muscle is de generated or diseased,'' says Dr. Perry, "venesection can only be of value as a temporary remedy. The true value of venesection is here ab sent. I refer to the tiding of an or ganically healthy heart over an acute emergency, for in such case lies the real value of blood letting. "We have all seen a venesection save life for 'the time being where a sudden emergency, such as an un usual strain, has caused failure of degenerate heart muscle, but. this blood letting can do no permanent trood. Tt might, however, and often would relieve us from the gravity of a sudden and distressing death.'' Ot'herwise diseases in the treatment of which Dr. Perry has experimented with blood letting are cerebral heni orrhage, heat stroke and nephritis. The Bishop and the Tramr The experiences of Bishop Tt.. log ne th''Cowboy Bishop'' but iow bishop of central Pennsylvania, have been inany and varied ,and his book, recenVly published, ''My people of the Plains,'' gives a fascinating pie ture of life i-n the earlier days of the great west. Miners, cowboys-all loved him, and they still tell a host of stroies about him. ''Once while the bishop of Wyom ine: and Idaho, he went to St. Paul to attend a meeting of dignitaries of he chutreh. There, one noon, on the prch1 of the hotel, a tramp approach ed a group of bishops and asked for ' 'No.' onme of tIhe chnrehmen re plied, ''T dlonl'1t think we can do any thing. But down theer is the young est bishop of us all,'' (pointing to Bishop Talbot,) ''and lhe's a very greneroums man.'') The tramp went to Bishop Talbot and the others watched with interest. T.hey saw a look of surprise come over the tramp's face-t:hey saw that the bishop wvas talking eagerly, ear nestly-they saw the tramp look per turbed-but they flinall yas wthatI something passed from hand to hand Tfhe tramp tried to get away wit,h out speaking to those of the group, but the former spokesman called to himn ''Well did you got somnething from our yong brother?' Thei trampl. ginnemid shedpishly. ''No, I gave him a dollar for his blamed niew cathedral at Laramie PUROHASED CLARKE LIQUOR. rhis Was Necessary in Order to Keep County, Dispensaries Supplied Temporarily. rhe State, 18th. Affairs at the state dispensary are -unning along smoothly and it looks low as if the commission is going o be able to wind up the affairs of he G. M. I. sooner than was contem )lated several weeks ago . The expert tecountants expect to complete their vork within a few weeks, and the ommiss-ion may be able to settle sev .ral thousand dollars worth of the -laims by the first of May. Iaving accepted the shipment of i(luor bought of Clarke Bros. & Co. )f Peoria, Ill., as was announced in Mhe State of yesterlay, the commis :iol will he able to supply the de nands largely of the county dispen aries for chelaper grades of whiskey m1d at the samer. time .get rid of prae ieally all of the higher priced barrel 00ds n hand. 'Tle p'llrcllse was of that part of lie Clarke shipment which remain .d. Some had been shipped out al leady. The Clarke goods were accepted at i much less figure than they were )illed to the st,ate dispensar.N. These ignors will be mixed with $2, $2.50 md $3 barrel goods, then reduced in -0of. "ivimr a first class article in he X and XX goods. omine of the ii-her priced goods which are to be iixed with -the Clarke whiskey are 'ow worth consideralble more than llen they were originally pluchased. ileh of it has been in the warelouses .1r from two to five years and the :c which it has and the evaporation vill materially improve the value of he lower grade article. There has been a steady demand ror loweT-piriced gooas and as the 'ommission is not allowed to buy ad litional liqaors they had to accept he Clarke goods if they expected to eat rid of any considerable quantity f the hi-her priced barrel goods, for Vhich there is small demand, in fact, ractically none. By mixing the low grade goods vith the hard stock higher priced tuff, the commission will not only >e relieved of the goods for which lhere is praetically no demand, but vill be able to net the state a profit if perhaps $20,000. By accepting the Clarke goods it must not he understood it is said hat the commission ias disposed of [he question of the legality of their mirehase, nor have they forfeited for hie state any right to enquire into he question of rebates. The com nissioln, it is understood, will not only nsist up1)oni having the Clarke people heni over -to them all doenmentary wvidence in their han%ls affecting this illeged illegal purchase, but the same rolicy will be followed in regard to ill other purchases. It will be the policy of the commis ion to enquire minutely into all the :letails connected with all purchases made by the board of diirectors. They are given authomity under the law to uummon witnesses if necessary and ispect all p)apers and other evidence which might liave any possible bear ing upon the question of the legality ,f any of the transactions under the "ld regime. T)r. Murray has received several requests from b)anmks t hrouhou-t thle st.ate offering to pay 4 per cent, in terest upon the deposits of the dis pensary commission, nut no action 'an he taken upon this quei(stion) uni tIl another meet.ing of the commis sion is held. Tf it were absoluttely eertaiun thlat any great amount of this money would be in the hands of the commission for any on interest, but as it is likely that it will 1)e paid out. within. the next fewv weeks, possibly within ten days, it is not at .all pro-bable that any change will be made in the present mode of handling, the funds, that of deposit ing them with various banks in the city of Columbia and throughout the state on call, without interest. If the county dippensaries -through ant the state will give to the commis sion as large orders as it is possible for them to fill with their stoek on l and, it may 1)0 possibile to in d up tie affais of the old institution by the mf1idle of Soptemnner, or even ooa lier. There will not be a great deal of trouble experienced it. utsposing of the case goods, of which there is a great quantity on hand, as they are atandard brands and can be easily disposed of to dealers outside of the state or returned back to the original shippers inl many instances. The comninission will send agents around to the various county dispen saries every few weeks, to take their *'fill in'' orders. -.Senator F. H. Weston and his law partner, Mr. W. T. Aycock, are the local attorney for Clarke Bros. & Co. and the Lehman distillery of Peoria. APPEAL TO SCHOOL CHILDREN. President Calls Their Attention to .1 Arbor Day. t Presideni Roosevelf, has address ed a no4sage to the school children o0n t. i c of Arbor Day which, durin tho month of April is eelobratcd inl niany states. It is as follows: 'To ti11 School Childrel o t ie United Slates: ''Arbor Day (which means simply Tree Day) is now observed in every State in our Union, and mainly in the schools. At various times from January to December, but chiefly in this month of April, you g-ive a day or part of a (lay to special exercises, and perhaps to actual tree planting, in recognizing of the importance of trees to us as a nation, and what they yield inl adornment, comfort and use' fill products to the communities in which you live. ''It is well that you should cele brate your A Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we ha.ve, though with growing - hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature so bountifully sup plied and man so thoughtlessly des trayed; and because of this want you will reproach us not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted. ''For the nation, as for the man I or woman and the boy and girl, the i road to success is the right use of I what we have and the improvement i of present oppoi#unity. If you neg-. lect to prepare yourselves now for the (1!ics and responsmiliies which wil! fall upon you later, if you do n- learn the tlings which you will u'l to know when your school days are "ver, you will suffer tle conse- 1 (IQeneo. So any nation whieh in its yonith lives only for the da.y, reaps withlout sowing an(d consumes witloiut husbanding, must expect the penally I of ilbe prodigal whose labor could witi difficulty find him the bare meanis of life. ''A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as hopeless; forests wvhich are so used that they vanish and with thjem all their bene fits. A true forest is not merely a store house full of wood, .but, as it were, a factory of wvood, and at the same time a reservoir of water. When vou help to preserve our for ests or to plant newv ones you are act ing the p)art of good citizens. "T'h. v'alue of forestry deserves, I herefoI''re, to lbe t a uh in thle schools wlieh aimu to make .!ood citiz/enIs of you. If1 . Arbior Dafy ex(ercises help you to rea ie w"hat be-ncefits eachi one of youI riv e from the for'est, and1( how by you r assistaonce these bernefits may coniuiinne, they wvill s'irve ai goodt( "ind. * ' ' Theodore RooseIvel t .'' Most of the troubles in south and Central America seem to arise out of our' miniister's unidertakinig to run their offices as collection agencies for indi vidunals.-aS t. liouis Globe-D)emocra t. British consols have bceen touching t.he lowest .prices reached in more than forty yetirs. Is this also to be attributed to two..cent rate legislation out in Nebraska ?---Spr'ingfield Re Those people who feari tha t by' t.he ending of wvar the ear'th will become overplopulated, need not be alarimedl. The raOilr'oads are yet wvith us.-New Yor'k A mnerienn. )OES NEWBERRY COUNTY NEED CONSTABLES? IAVE THE REGULAR OFFICERS FAILED IN THEIR DUTY? !hat Is the Question-It Cannot Be Clouded By Other Matters Not Pertinent to the Issue As Raised.-Representa tive AuiU Replies to Editor Observer. To the Editor of the Observer: (oir editorial in Tuesday's paper s so full of misleading statements, dhich, no doubt, are unintentiona-l on 'our part, but which are calculated o put my position in a false light >efore your readers, that I feel it my luty o reply and trust your senlse if fa-irness will give ic space to do 0. ''lere are wo tlilngrs, however, of dclih 1 d esirev to (lisalbuse your milin( n the beinin.g. First, Ilh question it issue is no( tle $0.000 court onuse, nor how Rleprescnlives Auill mlld WTyclc acted on the senate miendment to the Caiey-Cothran et. Second, your efforts to make it tIpear tlat Senlator Blease, lepres ntative Wychc and myself are sore Pecause the appointment of the co table was made without our know edge and without consulting us hias aused me any heart burnings or has n the slightest degree offended my 'anity, is purely gratuitons on your, )art, so far as I am concerned. I :now that the law does not make it lie duty of the governor to consult lie delegation, and that he has a eifect right to make the appoint nent without doing so, and I so stat d in the last two issues of The lerald and News in referring to this natter. I do not claim any special privil. ,go as a member of the legislature, Ind I am willing to admit that any me of the fifty-two gentlemen, wl ;igned the petition, is a good citiz mii, and probably a much smallei lumber would have accomplished Jhe same result, but I felt that aF he senator and the three members of -he legislature hltod a commissior .rom the people of this couity to rep eseit them in the law-making body >f ! state. tihat it would he propel 4) wive Ilhem the opportlunitY to say lhetiher- or not th1ey eldorsed Ilh( mlttilg uipon the tax payers of thei -ounly the addilional expense, how ver small, which will be ilcurre( >y tle appointment of special ollicer o enf!Ioivrce a law, the provisions ol iwhich make it, the duty of the re ilarly elected and appointed ol 3ers in the counity to eniiforce. Whih Ile senator anud repr-esentatives, s. Par as I am concerned, 14) not elain my special privileges, yet so lonp is they hold tile commission, whiiel Ins beei g i tihem by the people ol his c'ouiity, t hey have Ithe anmthlorit td the righlt and1( it is t heir duty~ Ie levy the taxes which are to be col .eeted1 from the .people of' t his coun Ly, and they are held responsible by hie peop)le for the priop)er exercise of Lhat privilege, and( for that addit ion. 1l reason, I thought it was legitimatt .. ask them about this lit tle matter. ~vhich seems to be k indliing a greal iiifhauration. anid thus give then 11nd henice th Iinjt erviewr wihih ail 4(iere in Th'le lialdh and NewstV. lion. Alant Jo)hnIstone says thait h< told me ini the :iintervliw -that h14 wro4t e a letter1 anad onmly statled Ihali lie had seen the 1petit ion. Myv reol .fetionl of1 the initerv'iew is verv (lentl hat it is pr'iinted as lie 14old it to mie m)i1 1. desire t.o give him thle b)enefil >f this correction, though lie nevei aiulhed my attention to4 the mnistakt iiil after thle issue of TIhie Ilerahl and News in which the pietitioni anl the le'ter were puiblishued. .t would l)e glad if you1 would statt why '' the governor and those wht cot up the petition had reason te mnsp)eet'' that Senator Blease ani Represenatat ives Autll and WTycht would hiave dcllined to sign the pe it ioni. 1 do1 iiot think youmi will carg< hem withI favoring or (eoulrainig aviolatio o(i4f law. Ini yo4ur editoriail von have coivere? a gareat niany thins which aire 1o0 piert incent toi the issue. As it appeari to me, there are only two horns to the dilemma, and you are at liberty to take either one you choose. The Carey-Cothran Act is different from the old dlispensary law in that it makes it a duty of the regularly con stituted officers to enforce the pro visions of the Act, while under the old dispensary law, a special set of officers was provided. The only ques tion in this little matter is found in Section 38 of the Carey-Cothran Act.' That section provides, "that it shall be the duty of the sheriffs and their doputies, magistrates, con stables, rural police, city and town officials to enforce the provisions of this Act.'' This section goes onl and says that., ''If they fail to do so, it is hereby made the duty of the gov ernor to enforce the same, and lie is hereby authorized to appoint such de plifivs, eonlsibles and dleteetives ats may he necessary.' If liese oflleers have failed to per rormIl their d'utY or are unlable to d14 so, thlen it is Ihe July of tile governor to provide a spieial constable. Tf those who have signed this petition and the governor by granting the pe tition, do not mean to cllarge these officers by implication at. least with a failure to perform their duty, then I admiit I (10 not know what construe tion to put upon plain English. If they are performing their du1ty, then iter( is no iecessity and 110 law for the appoitentit of a special con stable. If 1 am not, correct in this position, T woul(l be gla(1d to have you point out. the inconsistency; if I am correct, I would be gla,d to have you admit inl your opinion and the opinion of those who asked the appoilitimnil of a1 special constable, that you charge those offleers by im plication at least, who ire specially charged with the enforcement. of the provisions of the Carey-Cotihran Act, with a failure to perform their duty. If you are unwilling to admit either one of these liorns of the dilemma, then please tell me and the public what tree you are up. It is not a question of the ellei eney of Mr. Williams, and there is nothing in what I have said as a rep resentative or as editor of The Herald * and News which you c(ani constrte as bringing Mr. Williams into tile con troversy. The question of the cost, of the new court house, so fai as T can see, nothilln.' whatever to do with it, a hd besides. I have nothinm whatevei' to do with the act providing l'for Ille -x(pe nldiIlure for a new eoirI house, as that ne4 was ifassed in 1906 wilen I was no a iembii of tihe legislatture, "xfept that wholl the eonilmision fmmd that *40.000 was not sufi'nt. :01( that with $5,000 addiitionll1 they Vonlh] hilel the ("url house, I favor ed fphe pas-,slln)e of anmi amnmiifilent to the net, givinx theim $5,000 m1ore, 1m,d T ai willin- to vindicate that nosition at 'any filme and in any for1-11mi. It w simly a nes p poiinwhich meant p saving of money to the tax payers, and, by the way, I w~oiuld like to know~ -if you hiave "tver 01nn)osed the buildlingL of a nlewt eourt house mn youri paper or' olherw'~ise, and if you are now op posed to it, or if' you have changed your opinin. If you wtill refer to yoiur paper' of' February Ii, 106, in which aef'erence is made to thle hill 'of' Nenaior' Blease providing for the im w eourit bonise, you will find( the llhowinig words co(mmenlCIding t his "This is a ',ood bill. 'Te county edsa ne w courit house5(, an id it spe einohly i'eeds one off I le publ)ic' armainre. Thue localtion of Ih pre.wntC91 I o';e is snehcl that very ofi *n thle noiso of wa'rons5 and1 ot her thinigs on the sltreet stop thle ('nt ire piroceedings of 'ouirt for sev'eral mintiteCs. With an nmnty wa'on ramttline along the street irinht under('1 tile windo1ws, it is i mipo.. sihle four judge or jur'y to hear'.'' When you ask '' why did Repros entatives Aull and Wycho permit that amendment to go through the Hous1e without object.ion,'' referring to t,he amendmenl to the Carey-Coth 'anu A ct. providing for an elect ion on thle dispensary this year, you display inexensabMmilelt i'gnorance(t 01' in tent ionial f'oi'et fuilneiss, f.oir I am1 sure' thlat youI mnust kno(w t hat such a (jpt.ionl implies te sta temenit of what is ab Lslitely" fal1st, and I am equally siu'e that youru sense of justice you liten