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E. H. AULL. EDITOR.. Entered at the Postoffice at New. berriy S. C., at and class matter. Tuesday, May 21, 1907. CAPT. AGUSTUS P. PIFER. It may not be amiss in one wil knew Capt. A. P. Pifer, and res pected and adired him, and whi often went to him for advice and wa: advised by him, to pay to his muemuor% a simple tribute, its merit being it deep sincerity. Capt. Pifer died as he mIust hav wanted to die, amd as one who had] lived the life which he had lived, deserved to die. He retired to rest and gently fell on sleep eternal. When it was learned that he was dead, found dead in his bed, his features in as calm repose as though he were a child asleep after a day with its toys, one was reminded or tho omssing of Tennyson's ArthIur, for Capt. l'ifer was as kni.ItlY, and his passing.. was a fit Wet. We are told 1.ha:1 whei Kin.". A rtilmr was mo taly wottded, thenl saw he hlow there hove i dISky ha r ar. 1.1-k as a fiune1r al scarf from sIti to steini, beneath hii; and11l whe1 he was pled uponi it it 1in41ved rloiml the brink on3 amd oil, fill whe hull looked like one black dot a'gainlst verg.e of dawn, going from less to less and vanishing into light. It was as though Capt. Pif er's funeral barge had been launch ed upon the great. sea, gently float ing beyond the horizon of mortal vis ion, ''to the island valley of Avelon, where falls not hail or rain, or any anow, nor ever wind blows loudly, but it lies deep-meadowed, happy fair with orchard lawns and bowery hollows crowned with sum iner sea." Capt. Pifer was, first, a geItleman. He was east in heroic mould, but. he was a,s tender as a woman. He had a kindly word for every one of whom lie spoke. He realized the frailties and the Weaknesses of humaiiity, and for those who failed lie hald cheer and hope, and those who transgress ed he was ready to forgive. Ho ''spake no slander, no, nor listened to it.'' His owln life was pure and unstained, and(l lie was as far remov ed from lending himself to stain the character of others, as man is re moved from the erawling things of the earth. Exemaplifyinl ill his daily life and conduct the hi-hest ideals of the old Southern civilization, lie was ever courteous, and himself ''wear ing tile wilite flower of a blameless lie,'' lie reverenced t uIle womianl hood. 1Ionlor he held above price. It was far beneath him to take advan tage of aiiy man, in things large or small. Ie was always approaehable, and was frequently sought by those younger t han himnselfC for the adlvice whiich thIey knew t hey woubtd receive' at his han mds, antd whIiich t hey kn ew wiould1( he nmade va liuale b,y his symn paithet ic interest, his soumd jolg meiit al his deep iinsight inito hui mian (cha1racteri and. hunman a ffairis. It was5 worthi the time oIf any man to engage him ini conversation, for he was deeply lear.ned and widely readl, and his discussions of men and measures were always interesting andl entertaining. And in all his .conversations, as ini all his acts, there hvas ini evidence the gener'osity of his naturei'-,for generosity and( chairity ,-ere partis of himself. 'aplt. Piferi wasi a courageous man. HIe 11a( hothI phiysical aiid moral conrage of the highest, type. In the war bet ween the states lie had the (list ingiiishted honor ofC being captain of General Robert E. Lee 's body guardl and1 his comriiaces inl arms say that in t hose days wheni cour'age was put to test at the point of steel and at thle mouth (of the caninoin, lie did his dtuty and his whole duity. Personal let ters to him alter thle war from General Lee showed in w~hat esteem isld 4( 'ommiIanider' hld him. And Captain Pifer loved Gen eral Lee and( lie loved the south. Uie loved Southern t radit ions, lie loved Souther.n. peopIle and( lie loved South ern soil. Memories of the Southern Confederacy were (lear to him and were cherished by him fondly. And, as in the days of blattle, so in after years, lie shiirked 'no dlutyv avhiicht was his to perform. lHe was a knightly Southern gen.. tleman, aitd of no man can more be saidl. Those whlo knew him blest loved him most. J. K. A. GOOD ROADS. The Union Times, after stating that its editor does not own any real es tate and is a poor man and does not owni as muah as a lhen e'oop in the way of a house in all Union county, anid for t.hat r'eason. says it is hard to tal&e'a standl on a question wvhiebi is muech in the publie mind, viz., the building of public roads, proceeds to talk sense and give good advice on the subjeet. As a iatter of (aot as the law now stands, we would like tk ask tit, Union Times if what little work is done on the publio Mads, is it not almost entirely done bhy those who do not own any pro'pert4y, and many of them not as mneh as a mnle. Is it not also trae ih-at the corpor ations and t-he pmvrty owners in the incorporated tuwns contributeC practi cally nothing i) the working of the Is it not a1o true I,hat this class of pIperty and the people w'ho own it receive the greatest benefit fIXm im proved highways. No, the t'nion Times, whetlier its editor owns a hen coop or not, has a right to discuss this question and he is striking at it in the right direct.ion. Yout callnot build good roads w4h out money, and we believe that this monley should come largely at least from taxation upon tine property in the township or county in which the roads are to be improved. We believe that it is the best in vestment which the owners of this property coild m.ake. We believe ,0.i1t, it will pay tle bigest. returns of any ionley that t.hey could invest. We are Satisfied it' they would make the investizeni either in the way of honld.,;, which is iea) 1ly I lie nost qlinitll way, if you enn he assur ed that tile Imonvy is not goin to be wasted, or whether they make it. in f the way of a special tax, they will themselves be convinced t1-at it is a good investment: This question of improving the n Public highways cannot be .held up id before the people to'o often or too s strongly advocated. These good roads f are coming, and the sooner the bet- t ter. 7 We take pleasure in quoting the d following from the Union Times on f this subject: f But we believe the way to build i permanent good roads in Union coun- n ty is to issue bonds and build them. f The whole country will be benefited b) alld file whole county should build e the roads. The private subscription d method shows commlenldable public si spirit, blt it is a process that is too d slow an(] that is too liable to lead to it wrangling and to small results. The s< Times is always ready to give every v man who has a contrary opinion the A full and free use of its columns. h We have no "axe to grind," no b) political designs, no "fad'' to con, p stantly hold lp to the reader's 'pyes. We honestly believe Union county c, will he greatly helped in all material u lines by good roads. We believe the way to aret these roads is to issue p lihfis and build themt. But, the man u who believes somethinig else fand will Ib offer his arg-uments for publication c shall have tile use of our columns. a We believe in full, free discussion 11)on. all questions of public interest. o -Union Times. ( WHAT HURTS A RAILROAD. bi The late Iinii out of Columbia Tluesday was blocked in a wreck near Al1st on andl did ntot reach Greon.ville I utnt il a fte 1i o 'clock yest erdlay morn- A imi. There were a nnmber of Green-- a v'ille passenigers, and for hours their a fr'iend(s and( relatives wtaiting fore them here could not learn a single ti dletail ot' t.he accident. As it hap- hi Pented nto oneo was injured, -but Green- lI yille people would have beent none ~ he wiser htad there been casualties, e so far as the Southern Railwvay was h coincerned, for the 'omlpanly mnade ino effort to give the pulblic ally informa tion about te wreck at this end of o the line.-t There is a great dleal of travel over t.he Columbia And Greenville road, 1: and .t-he public has just as' munch right I t'o expect 'informna'tion as to the move- I ment of t raints at this termitus as i people in Columbia or anywhere else. Oii the main line of thle Sout-hern the< local railway people arc always well- 1 informed and anty inform'ation about tr'ains can lie obtained ftrom thei Greenvlille omnees. On, the Columbia and Greenville line, however', things are very dliffer ent. It is almost. impossible to ob-< la.in in formation about Ithe arrival of trains. Nobody in Greenville seems to know whether they are com- i ~ing inl on time or not, and as was the case Tuesday night, not a detail of a wreck tha.t locd the track for six htours was to lbe obta.ined ini Green.ville. The division omeials in Columbia should at ontce make arranigemenits to remed(y this shiort-comning. There is no reason~ why Greenville people0 abould not get 'as full and accurate information about trains over the Co lumbia and Greenville line as is to be obtained ~from the offices of* the Atlanta and Oharlotte division of the mian line.--Greenville News. We agree entirely wvith tale Green villu Neirs. 'XVe had an oxp)erieflce wvith- this samec train, and it Seems to us 'th.at from wvhat wve leaid of. the collision the delay was inugl greater tihan was absolutely 'nenann 1'he train was due at Newberry- at 4.36. 81 We were expeO ing sone delegates to f i convention that *ii being held at t LTowberry at that -time, and ,when the o lime came for the trai to arrive the o agent at Newberry informed us that A it was one hour late and When that ti hour expired, we were informed thait a it was two and a half hours late, and ti finally it came something after 8 t1 hlock, being nearly four;.hours late, li and those who were on -tho train u tated that the collision was' due al nost entirely to carelessneis, and it it Lloes seei that another engine could o: iave been got ton from Columbia in p very much less time than was con 1umed in having the engine brought y I) fromli Coluibia to bring the trainl im through to Greenvrtle. It does seei thaft the. i'ailroads j nake a mistake in 'not telling the el iVople. who are waiting on.trains at A Iarious stations that are delayed, el low much the delay is, and if there tc s an accident, giving them some in ormaotion as to the extent of the ae ideit. The INw requires that if a trainl is is much as 30 minutes late notice hall he -.ivent on tihe bulletin board ) -11h.t ellf'ecl, bu t thle law eanl he n omplietd with by posting it every at hirty minutes. thongn the author-t ivs miiiht know that the train was WO hours 1.1te. wve do not see whe,!rv t Would hurt tle railroads, and.1 it requently would he a very great 0on- j enienee to the traveling publi-. C til It seems -that the winding up comI iission of the state dispensary are Iseussing the question. whether it hall pay the $400.000 due e school und before paying the debts, which Oc lie state owes for liquor pnrchased. 'lie first, thinqg this commission 4hould o is to aseertain what the state owes ( ,r liquor and then ithndlsoS556.. :r liquor and 'then it should he paid. ,fterwards if anytihing is left, it Al tiglit lie turned over to the sehool [In(]. The amount it is claimed to P due the sehool fund was suppos 'I to Ie in 'the stock which the slate ap ispensary had on hand, but if the il ate owes for this stock, of course it is oeS not. )Cloncg to thie state and, fa ierefore, there is nothing for the tic 'hool fund. It. does seem that if that be 'as a bone fide offer, wIhich the tio ate had, to take the liquor off the at ands of the state, that somebody 19 hindered in not accepting the, pro- pro osition. -1 In that event the whole business Ti auld have been wound ill) at once and qu Ie would have been done with it. 1g As we understand, the state idis- en ensary is running very much as it 'as heretofore, and licior is hieing ed o tied atid sent. outi and sold in those i: )untics in which county dispensaries t i I-C in operafion' t.h As we understood it, the purpose ge f the carey-Cothran bill was to Close thi Iut an"d' wind up the affairs of the U tate dispensary ,as rapidly as possi le. " We regr'et that we could not1 ait pndl the closing exercises at Little foiiuntain i school0 on last, Friday. We rec pleasedl to learn, however, that teps have been take looking to the stablishment of a high school at his p)oinit under the provisions of the igh school act passed b)y the recent agislat.ure. We hope that the peo le of this community may lie sue essful in their efforts to secure the I igh school. Th'le coimptroller general has sent ut. to the counties the remainder of lhe dispenisary profits under the old *ispensary law. The amount distri-= 'uted is $63,409.94, and represents le last, payment of the state d'ie bensar'y made on Jan.uary 9. This rose from the business of 1906, but a5 the b)ooks of the (dispensary clos don November 30, it woul<I have ecen credited to 1907 if the dispen ary had( continued in business. It 4 s probab)ly thle last payment which lie sc*hool fund will r'eceive from the ftate (dispensary profits. 'Thle law rovided that the schools should re eive the profits, but there can be no A >ro fits, bu11t there can mieshrd lustaoifw. >r<ofit s until the debts are paid, and t is probable that the balance of the ~ tock wvill have to go to the payment >f the liabilities. Newberry received no deficiency, nit onl enrollment her part1 of' this listrIibuitionl is $1,343.82. It cannot lie trmuthifully said that thie immigrat ion experiment, by this state so far has been a failure. A number of immigrants are at woirk, mn various parts of the state, well la tisfied, and it stands to reason hat they will send back good reports to the old country. The dissatisfied )mes-we (10 not want them anyWay. G~ood riddance wVherver' they have one.- Green wood Index. ' It is perhapis true that the 4'. 4 iieni, as such, i's not a ftailuro'is nuch as we are poorer and 'er ~d visdom isnete ha,. gra 1h~O ry immigrants. One of the grati yng feAtures of the experin.t i at while we:qan retain the" benefi f our experience, we :have got ri4 ' the immfgrantg, such 'as they were 4lother. pleasing consideration i iat it stands to reason that the die itisfied ones, which means most o: tem, will send back bad reports ti ie old country and we may be de vored from having, another such lo n-loade'd' upon us.-.-Chcgter IAintern And while; we Yave gotten rid o imigrants we haVe also gotten ri< I a good deal of our cash in the ex Driment. LEOTION ASWSTANT STREEI OVERSEIR. City council will, on.. Wednesday ine 5th, 1907, at 8 o'clock, p. mn. ect an assistant -street overseer pplications may be filed with th< ork and treasurer at. any time ut 6 p. m. on June 5th. Eugene S. Werts, Clerk and Treasurer. TO DRAW JURY. Notice is liereby given t1hat we. the idelsigind, will on the 3lst. inst. s) 'lock A. Al., in the oliece of e Clerk of Court for Newberry mIIuytv, S. C., ope-:y 111( publiely, aw the nam1i;Ies of thir1Y six men 1m are to serv( as Petit .Jurnrs at e Court of Commillion Pleas for Sitil 'unly 111and State, which will convenle e 17th day of June, 1907, and con iie for one week. Jno. L. Epps, Wmll. W. Cromer, Jno. C. Goggans, Jury Commissioners for Newberry 'uinty, S. C. Nfay 20, 1907. IOMPETITIVB EXAMNATION FOR ANNAPOLIS. >plicants Will be Examined at An derson for the Third District. Tihe principal and both alternates, poimited as candidates for admission o the Naval Academy at Annapol from the Third District, having tled to pass t'he entrance examina n, a new appointment will have to made. A competitive examina n will be held in the Court House, Anderson, Thursday, June 6th, )7, for the purpose of selecting a incipal and two alternates, to be Med as candidates for midshapman. .e successful candidates will be re ired to report at Annapolis, June tIi, for the purpose of standing the trance examination. ;'acli applicant should be well vers in the followiAg subjects, to wit: gi.eli'h -amminer, English composi n. history, arithmetie, algebra, ouglh quadratie equations, plane >Melry, descriptive geography and elements of physical geography, ited States history and the outlines up, We know that ut not necessai ad a large stoc1 . New Good Lawns! La ) in. white Lawn, nice an< 10 cents yard. ) in. very fine white Lawn, p ) in. sheer white lawn, per and 25c. 5 in. Cannon Cloth, per yd. I lI light and blue Calicoes 5c. Embroidery, Ladies' Undervi )0 doz. L.adies' Bleached Ve 5c. eachi. The CheapE Now located We lose eVery daY, 1 259oloc pndn.e - of general history. Applieqnts must not be und'r sti t teen or ov'r' bwenty, yehrs of' age, must be bo""fide- residnts of the Third Congressional Distiict and must be able to"pass: a thoroigh physical examination. Wyatt Aiken, M. C. Death of K. D. Suber. r At the ripe age of four score years, I Mr. Micajah D. Suber quietly and - peacefully passed away May 9th, at 10 a. m. His death, though oot unex pected by the family, came as a shock, as he appeared no .worse than usual that morning. His wife had just giv- i en him the usual morning nourish ment andl he seemed to be resting quietly, when suddenly he ceased to breathe. He suffered much during his last illness, but he bore it with christian fortitude. He had commit ted himself to the Lord and was ready 1 AT THE'S c.ai.s. I In our ad. of last week we did Fronts which we are carrying thl more seasonable. Beautifully ei the thin materials so much worn Baby Irish effect. Also a varied round. In these too is the Baby For those who want much for some Waist Patterns, with the tr for $1.00, our price till sold 48c, We are selling lots of China 48c. to 85c. These Silks are used with Lac effects. Some of them wash we] Come. We will be pleased tc stylish things. L&iS.M We are agents for the America-The Home Jo UP' goods- have gone -y to feel it at thi k bought before ti s Coming in Ei W ns SIO00do2. Lad ieratspecial 10O< IeratThe best line city. See er yd I121c. One lot wide, yd. 15, 20 broidery, w Other lines ai Oc. Ask to see ou the yd.for men. C the yd.Drawers, H: ~sts, Etc. . Shoes, made sts at only 1,500 yds. gc ______64c., very Bee I ~st in South -CE in W. T Tarrant's BAILES, Propr axcept Saturday, at 7.30, for the summons. He leavc A wiY and ieven. children-foug sois h9nd three daughters-to mourn his death; lie died at the home of his younest son, J. M. 'Sber,..'near 'Jalapa, at which place they have been only i Cew nAonths. His reWains were in terred in Enoree cemetery, in.t A presence of a. 1rge number of syn pathizing friqnds,. the funeral sqf vices being coaiducted by 'his pastor, Nfay the Lord comfort the -ianiiy with the promise of an everlasting reunion beyond. B. P. Mitehell. Lots of men seem to think the wvrong side of a saloon is the out tide. Before giving advice a wise man )repares to dodge the consequences. There's nothing like a good reputa ;ion-if you -have the backbone to ive to it. TORE OF COWER 00. not speak of the line of Waist s season. There is nothing nbroidered on goods to match now, and combined with the lot of appliques, square and Irish effect. little money, we are offering imming needed, made to sell Silk in white or black, price '1 es of either light or the heavy I. show you lots of pretty and OWE C, best Patterns made in arnal Pattern. LIP. up a great deal, is store, as we* le advance. reru Day! ies' Bleached I15c. Vests at :., or 3 for 25c. of 25c. Ladies' Vests in thej these. very sheer, good edge, Em orih 50c., at only 25c the yd. id cheaper are in proportion.. r line of T. D. Barry's Shoes its, Childreis's and Ladies' by the leading factories. special at only 3ic. the yard. lIve! rolina. Old Stand. and on Saurdays at