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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New berry. S. C., as 2nd class matter. Friday, August 9, 1907. RAILEOAD TO SALUDA. We direct attention in another eol umn to the communication from Sa luda written by -a special correspond ent of The Herald and News. We have from time to time urged upon our business men and the Cham ber of Commerce to take up with the Saluda and Edgefield people this pro position for a railroad, and have warned them if something was not done, that we would 'find ourselves in the same predicament that we were when we sat still and let the Seaboard Aid Line skirt the city-for the people of Greenwood are alive to the value and importance of securing all the railroads that it is possible. This, it seems to us, is our last chence and we cannot understand how a Chamber of Commerce, which is supposed to be organized to look after the interest of the community, should not be aroused and in active cooperation with out neighbors across the Saluda. As or correspondent states, this is one of :the most fertile sections of South Carolina, and as our merchants know, a large proportion of their trade comes from the Saluda side. It does seem to us that the business men bere should be aroused to the impor tance of seeuring railroad connection with these people. It is probable tha,t someone has received the resolution to which our correspondent refers, but if so, we have not heard of any action being taken. Newberry could have had the Sea board Air'Line simply by show% in terest enough to give it wekome, but by inactivity and indifference it went just above us. If the same tactics are pursued now, Saluda will be con nected with Greenwood and Augusta by rail or trolley and the trade, which -now comes to us, will go to these points. We are satisfied from what 'we have seen and from what our cor respondent has to say, that the peo ple of Saluda and Edgefield men business and they are going to have railroad connection somewhere, and until Newberry shows a disposition to cooperate with themn, it will be natural for them to go in the direc tion where they are invited 'and where the people show an interest in them and a desire to be connected with them by rail. Naturally we believe that ete people of Edgefield and -Saluda would prefer the road to be extend ed to Newberry, andsamttr of fact, that is where it ought to go, beeause there is a dir,e line from Union, Wihitmire; Newberry, Saluda and Edgefield to Augusta, and it 'would be 'to the advantage of the Saluda people to come to Newberry and certainly it would be to the ad vaintage of Newberry to 'have them come. We earnestly beg that our Chamber of Commerce, or our city fathers look ifrto the matter and if these organized bodies do not take action and take it quickly we would be glad to see the business men, who appreciate the im portance of something being done, get in touch with these people The question is, does Newberry rea lize the iniportance to the growth of this community of a railroad leading to Saluda. Mayor G. 'Heyward Mahon, ofI Greenville, came very near defeating all three opponerAts on the first bal lot. He has made a good mayor and the people of Greenville will do well to re-eleet thim. The meeting, whieb ,s held with the physicians on Tu.. .ay afternoon, it seems to us, made a noise something like a hospital for Newberry. We believe that everythiiig is in good shape now for the building of the hos pital. If those who are interested, will keep at it, we believe that plans 7'will take definite shape very soon for the accomplishment of their work. Gov. Hoke Smith has signed the prohibition bill, which was passed by the,Georgia legislature, and it is now the law of Georgia, but will not go into effect until the first of January. The signing of the bill was witnessed by some two hundred enthusiastic pro hibitionists. including a number of women, and when the act was done. a great shout went up. Experienee should teach us-andi it is a dear lesson we have learned that those wvho ob.ject to another rail roa l1 on the un und that a small town mi2'ht be established near Saluda riv er. should not be considlered. and the the Snai n iIandi' r*:eneL1jII pej pe. \vii 1*t 1t We desire to vall attention a,ain to the meeting of the County Medical Society in. the Chamber of Cemmerce rooms this morninz. How to prevent disease will be discussed by Dr. C. T. Wyche. of Prosperity. in a plain and practical manner, so that the laymen may understand as well as the pro fessouial men. Dr. Wyche will taL espeeially upon tuberculosis, typhoid fever and malarial fever. The ladies of the community are especially invit ed to attend this meeting and heaz Dr. Wyche on this subject. There is no more important question, whieb could be con.sidered by the people of any community. OHINCH BUGS ARE EXPENSIVE. From 1850 to 1906 They. Cost Nine States $330,000,000. New York Sun. Few insects, and certainly no oth er species of the natural order to which this one belongs, have caused such enormous pecuniary losses as has the chinch bug. But for the extreme susceptibility of the very young to destruction by drenching rains and for the less though not signicant destructiveness during rainy seasons of a certain parasitic fungus on both the adults and young, the practice of raising grain year after year on the same areas. as followed in the United Sta tes, would become altogether unpro fitable. The ohineh bug is a very widely distributed little beast, found in Eu rope, Asia, Afriea, North and South America and some of the islands of the sea. It hibernates in the adult stage, so that when spring comes it is already grown up and ready to take up busi ness :at the point where it stopped the previous autumn. In the timothy meadows of north eastern Ohio the United States Gov ernment agent has witnessed cases where the chinch bugs had commenced operations along one side, worked part way acros the field, killing the timothy as they advanced, and con tinued their depredations the follow ing year precisely where they sus pended work the autumn before. In wheat fields the females do not seem to forsake their gregarious ha bits entirely, as they do not scatter out evenly over the entire fid, but appear to locate in colonies, and when the young hateh and begin to attacb the growing grain their presence is first disclosed by small whitening patches which increase in dimensions as the young become older and -more numerous In the low lying fields, says the re port of the Department of Agricul ture, these whiteniing patches more commonly appear on the back furrows or on any slight elevations that occur in the field. But on higher and leve] ground the whitening areas are ob served scattered over the entire .field and constantly widening until the whole field appears to ripen prema turely and crinkle down When the migrationi is accomplish ed by crawling, the females seem to spread only enough to afford food for the young until the latter are .able to make their own way from place to place. The young remain clustereds on the plant about which they were hathed until this has been drained o.f sap, when they make their way, almost ink a body, to a second plant, and in this way day .. after day. In the spring the chinch bug proba bly lingers about its winter quarters until a favorable day for migration occurs. Transfer a typical Indian summer day to early May, and per haps raise the temperature a few de grees, and you have a day during which chinch bugs may be seen on the wing, crawling, along on fences, or at rest on the tops of fence posts as if taking observations, and in real ity, as the writer has come to believe, to catch the scent of wheat or corn fields. As to the ravages due to this pest, the estimated loss it caused to erops from 1850 to 188'7 reaches t:he sum of $267,000,000. If we could :have care ful estimates covering recent years they would undoubtedly swell the amount to considerably in excess of $330,000,000 for the period from 1850 to 1906. If the indirect losses were to be added, the amount would in deed be enormous. During the out break in Ohio at least two fi rmers become discouraged, and thinking that the loss of their crops by the at tack of chinch bugs would result in their financial ruin, in their despond euyv they- sought relief in suicide. When we take into consideration that the financial losses as above esti mated have not fallen upon the en tire niation. but almost without excel) tion upon nine states. Illinois. Iowa. Wli IU s' !l iilI I 'his (1llill ilntive il sect voll!-t1ut e Z I millable Unen to the zaricuflturist of these states. In fact. small as it is, this pest has cost the people of these nine states a sum of money which, a few years ago, would 'have defrayed the entire ex pense of the national government for a whole year. Fire excepted, there is probably no other factor that has caused an enormous financial loss within the same period over the same area of country. This being the case it is not sur priing that the Department of Agri culture has made the most search ing investigation into means of des troying the chinch bug. Its natural enemies are frequent rains during the hatching seasons in May and Augusl certain parasitic fungi, the quail ana to a limited extent certain other birds and the frog. The destructive fungi have been the subject of much experimenting. One in particular. the sporotrichum, is now "raised" artificially and distri buted to farmers. The government agents visited places where this fun gus was sent and found that the effect was unmistakable. 6oing to the place in a field (generally a wheat field) when the fungus had been in troduced the track of the chinch bugs as they moved in any direction was in many cases almost literally paved with the dead bugs more or less en' veloped in their winding sheets of white. Along ravines, dead furrows or other depressions the ground would be nearly white, the dead diminishing in numbers as the higher grounds were reached, though these were by no means free from corpses. In one instance the bugs had left a field of wheat at harvest, the sporotriehum having been applied there before the movement began, and entered an ad joining corifield. The way was marked with white, not only the surface of the ground, but on stirring up the mellow soil of the edge of the corifield it was found to be literally full of dead chineh bugs to the depth of two or three in ches, the white fungus covered bodies strongly contrasting with the black color of the rich roam. Not only this, but under the sheaths of the leaves and on the leaves themselves hun dreds of dead were to be found on the' outer rows of corn, on the grass and weeds,.,and indeed almost every where. Millions of chinch bugs were certainly destroyed in this one field. The dread which the chinch bug inspires may be inferred from the na ture of the various.schemes for'eheck ing his mad career. One of these. be. gins with the making~ of a smooth: pe.th flong the mnargi'i of an infe.4ed field where such a one adjoins the.cise to be p,rotected. This can be done with a sharp hoe; and as the margins of wheat fields usually become com pacted, it is but little trouble to clear off a path a foot or more in width, smooth as a floor, with the surface almost as hard. In the midst of this path post holes are sunk as in the bottoms of furrows. and a train of coal tar is run between them, being so an anged that it will reach the post hole near the inner side opposite the field from which the bugs are migrat ing. In this way as the bugs reach the train of coal tar they will fol-low along until they reach the post hole, while those meeting with the post 'holes wil] usually divide and following around it join with the flow of bugs moving along the trains of coal tar. The re sult is that they become congested in the acute angle where the coal tar train is intercepted by the post hol es. .Those in the apex of this angle can not turn back, and thus are con tinually pushed into the holes by those behind. From these holes there is no escape, and here the bugs can be readily killed by sprinkling with kero sene. The, slightest train of coal tar is sufficient to obstruct the passage of the bugs, and light rains will not af fect its efficiency. In dry weather these trains of coal tar soon become covered over with dust and must be renewed, but in showery weather there is no dust, and if the coal tat is renewed daily or at most twice each day it will accomplish its work, and nothing further will be needed than to kill the bugs that have colloet ed in the post holes. This -measure is inexpersive and can be promptly pul into operation if the coal tar is at hand. The writer has been able ir this way to protect effectively a field of corn surrounded on two sides- by a wheat field literally overrun~ with~ hinch bugs at harvest and during a time when light showers were occur ring frequently several time a day. FOR SALE OR RENT. 183 acres of lan dlying partly in Saluda and partly in Lexington counts -na on Saluda river will sell DR. A. K. The famous Atlanta Ot Tuesday, At Wednesday, Thursday, A and will make headquar EXAMINATION OF EYES W and we advise everybt named and have eyes llawkes' Cry have been fitted on thc racy ar Tell your friends, and rer Willia E. F Reliable of well timber-land. For other infor mation apply to A. D. F. Nichols, Route 4, Leesville, S. C. Residence 2 miles from Simpson ferry. 2t-pd STATE OF SOUTH OAROLINA, County of Newberry. By Frank M. Schumpert, Esquire, Cha: Probate Judge. WHEREAS, J. J. Amick hath* made suit to me, to'grant him Letters p a o~f Administration of' the Estate of and effects of Bennett H. Amick B ro' - THEiSE ARE THEREFORE to eite and admonish all and singular the' kindred and Creditors of the said .1Be Bennett H. Amick deceased, that they, be and argear before me, in the Court WVhi of Probate, to be held at Newberry on Wednesday, 21st day' of August a next after publication thereof, at 1i1 nch C t o'clock in thedorenoon, to show -cause - if any they have, why the said Ad- L ministration should not be granted. GIVEPN under my Hand, this 3rd day of Atigust Anno Domini, 1907. Lif F. M. Schumpert, - J. P. N.C. Ln TeTEACHER WANTED. P e Tepatrons of Vaughnsville school will meet at the Vaughnsville school doW. M house on August 10th., at 3 p. in., to elect a teacher for the coming year. V1al I Salary $40 per month, school to run 7 or 8 months. Those wishing to ap I ris h '< ply for the school will please send their applications to the undersigned I E-i C. A. Brooks. trutes. E. C. Saler. Ent re Henry Workman.1 New Market. as I have opened a first class~ Meat Market on Friend street, next door to the Observer office,I and am prepared to furnish1c choice meats of all kinds. All orders entrusted to me will receive my personal at- ---- tention. DUEX Come to see my market. It is .the cleanest and most up. The ideal pia to-date market in Newberry. kicpersonl J. A. WRIGH T, Electric light, mate and splen Friend Street, Beautiful catak Phone 232. IS HAW ,KES5 )tician, will visit Newberry, igust 13th, , August 14th, ,ugust 15th, ters at Pelham's Pharmacy. ILL BE MADE FREE OF CHARGE, )dy to call one of the days tested. stallized Leqses usands with greatest accu id success. nember the dates and place 'ihami 1Son Pharmacists. E MOWERC. mbrays, blues and grays in :olors 12 l-2c. ydL . un Linens, union an.dal 12 1-2 to 40c. yd5 te Linens, coolest of all, 3 o 10-4, Soc. to $1.00 yd. n Lawns 25 to 50c. yd. n Carmbrics 50c. to $1.00 yd. ~nettes 10 to 12 l-2c. yd. less lustre Fioss for Sha fork. -aces, Torchon Laces, Baby .aces 6 1-4 to 45c. yd. >roideries, in B ea d ing s, Deux, Insertions, Edges, Fronts, Corset Covers, &c. us show you, COME. VEST FEMALE COLLEGE DUE WEST, S. C. ee for quiet study, thorough work, sweet Christian influences, and. aregie Hallathd eegan accommodations for eo imprdery da d eat cormplete water works and sewerae e gt li n >gue. The President's address till September 1s will bOE ,