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Ill* :'fewkt tut? Mm* E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at Nevvfccrrv. S. C., as 2nd class matter. Friday, August !), 1!K>7. RAILROAD TO SALUDA. Wo direct attention in another column t? t lit* <*< mi in 11 ti icii t if >n 1 rom Saluda written by a special correspondent of The Herald and News. We have from time to time urged upon our business men and the Chamber of Commerce to take up with the Saluda and Kdgolield people this proposition for a railroad, and have warned I hem if something was not done, that we would find ourselves in the same predicament t.liat we were when we sat still and let the Seaboard Aid Line skirt the city,'for the people of Cireeuwnod are alive to the value and importance of securing all the railroads that it is possible. This, it seems to us, is our last chance and we cannot understand how a Chamber of Commerce, whidli is supposed to be organized to look a>fter 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 here should lie aroused to the importance i>|' seenriii'.: railroad connection with these people. It is probable tlia-t kunooiie has received the resolution to which our correspondent refers, but if so, we have not heard of any act ion beint*' t akeu. Newberry could have iiad the Seaboard Air Line siniiply bv show1U|? interest enough to give it welcome, hut by inactivity and indifference ii went just above us. If the same tactics are pursued now, Saluda will be connected with (ireenwood and Augusta by rail or trolley and the trade, which now comes to ns, will go to these points. We are satisfied from what we have seen and from what our correspondent has to say, that the people <?f Saluda and Kdgi'tiold nietin business and they are going to have railroad connection somewhere, and until Newberry shows a disposition to cooperate with them, it will be natural lor them to no in the direction where they are invited and where the people show an interest in them and a desire to he connected with them by rail. Naturally we believe that the people of Kdgeliold and Saluda would prefer the road to be extended to Newberry, and as a matter of fact, that is where it ought to go, because there is a direct line from Cnion, Whitmire, Newberry, Saluda and Kdgolield to Augusta, and it would be to the advantage of the Saluda people to come to Newberry and certainly it. would be to the advantage of Newberry to have them come. We earnestly beg that our Chamber of Commerce, or our city fathers look into the matter and if these organized bodies do not take action and take it quickly we would be .triad to see the business men, who appreciate the importance of something hcinir done, get in touch with these people. The t|Uesliou is. does Newberry realize the importance to the growth ot' this community of a railroad leading to Saluda. Mayor <5. I ley ward Million, of (ircenville, came very near defeating all three opponents on the first ballot. He has made a good mayor and the people of (ircenville will do well to re-elect him. The meeting', which was held with the physicians on Tuesday afternoon, it seems to us, made a noise something like a hospital for Newberry. We believe that everything is in good liapc now for the building of the hospital. l! those who are interested, /will keep at it. we believe that plnn> will take definite shape very soon foi the accomplishment of their work. (Sow Hoke Smith has signed th< prohibition bill, which was passed h\ the (i corgi a legislature, and it is nov the law of fleorgia, but will not g< into effect until the lirst of January The signing of the bill was witnesse< by some two hundred enthusiastic pro hihitionists. including a number ol women, and when the act was done a great shout went up. Kx peri once should tend, us?and i is a dear lesson we have learned? that those who object to another rail roa \ on the s. ion ml that a small towi might be established near Saluda riv er, should not be considered, and tin business men of the community shouh ) hM ,:0 lost- no iiiiM* in yet tiny into touch with i llie Saluda and Kdyelield people, who I have dctei mined to have* another rail-1 mad. j .. We desire to rail attention again to the meeting <? 1" the County Medical Society in the Chamber of Cemmerce rooms this morning. IIow to prevent disease will he discussed by Dr. C. T. Wvche. of Prosperity, in a plain and practical manner, so that the laymen may understand as well as the professorial men. Dr. Wvche will talk especially upon tuberculosis, typhoid fever and malarial fever. The ladies of the community are especially invited to attend this meeting and hear Dr. W'yche on this subject. There is no more important question, which could be considered by I lie people of anv community. * CHINCH BUGS ARE EXPENSIVE, j From 1850 to 1906 They Cost Nine j States $330,000,000. New York Sun. Few insects, and certainly no other .species of the natural order to which this one belongs, have caused j such enormous pecuniary losses as has the chinch buy. lint for the extreme susceptibility of the very youny to destruction by' drenching rains and for the less t thouyh not siynicanl destructiveness duriny rainy seasons of a certain parasitic fungus on both the adults and youny. I he practice of rai ;ng grain year after year on the same area.-, as followed in the Cnited Sta-i I ' tes, would become altogether nnpro-i lilable. -I The chinch bug is a very widely j distributed little beast, found in Kurope, Asia, Africa. North and South I America and some of the islands of j the sen. It hibernates in the ndull staire. so! thai when spring conies it is already "Tnwii up and ready to take up lmsi-I ness at the point where i! stopped' j the previous autumn. I In the timothy meadows of north-] 'eastern ('l.io the t inted States (!ov-i eminent ayent has witnessed cases I | w here the chinch buys h:i<l commenced j operations along one side. worked pari way a cms the Held, killing the timothy as I hey advanced, and continued their depredations the following year precisely where I hey suspeuded work the autumn before, i In wheal field* the females do not M'cm to forsake their gregarious habits entirely. as they do not scatter out evenly over the entire field, but appear lo locate in colonies, and when 1 he youny hatch and bey in to attack the growing grain their presence is lirsl disclosed by small whitening patches which increase in dimensions as the young become older and more numerous. In the low lying lields, says the report of the Department of Agriculture, these whitening patches more commonly appear on the back furrows j or on any slight elevations that occur i in the liebl. Dill on higher and level I ground the whitening areas are observed atlereo over the entire lield i and constantly widening until the whole lield appears to ripen prematurely and crinkle down. Wilien the migration is accom plishud by crawling, the females seem to spread only enough lo atVord food for | the youny until the latter are able to j 'make their own way from place to: piacc. The youny remain clustered on the plant about which they were] ,I hatched until ibis has been drained; jot' sap. when they make their way, i almost in a body, to a second plant, I and in ibis way day after day. | In the spring the chinch buy probably lingers about its winter quarters until a favorable day for miyrntion occurs. Transfer a typical Indian summer day to early May, and perhaps raise the temperature a few degrees, and you have a day during j which chinch buys may be seen on the winy, craw liny along on fences, I ' or at rest on the lops of fence posts ' as if takiny observations, and in realI j ity, as the writer has come lo believe, to catch the scent of wheat or corn ' lields. As to the ravages due lo this pest, the estimated loss it caused lo crops from IS.">? to 1SS7 reaches the sum of $2(57,000,000. If we could have careful estimates covering recent years they would undoubtedly swell the ' I amount to considerably in excess of ' I $,'tit0,000,000 for the period from 1S.">0 >| to 1 !)()(>. If the indirect losses were | to be added, the amount would iuI deed be enormous. During the out break in Ohio at least two !} niters P become discouraged, and thinking that the loss of their crops by the attack of chinch buys would result in their financial ruin, iu their dcspomlM ency they sought relief in suicide, "j When we take into consideration -thai I lie financial losses as above estii i mated have not fallen upon the en - tire nation, but almost without exception upon nine states. Illinois, Iowa, II Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wiscon A x X lJL^X\.r\I -I sod, Indiana, Ohio and Minnesota, il will Ik- seen that this diminutive inseet constitutes a formidable enemy to the agriculturist of these states. In l'a<*t. small as it is, this pest has cost the people of these nine states a sum of money which, a few years a;ii?. would 'have defrayed the entire expense of the national government for a whole year. Fire excepted, there is probably no other factor that has caused an enormous financial lo.-s within the same period over the same area of country. This being the case it is not surprising that the Department o?f Amiculture has made the most searching investigation into means of destroying the chinch bug. Its natural enemies are frequent rains during the hatching seasons in May and August 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 sporotriehum, is now '' raised" artificially and distributed to farmers. The government agents visited places where this fundus was sent and found that the effect was unmistakable. Going to the place in a field (generally a wheat field > when the fundus had been introduced 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 enveloped in their winding sheets of white. Along ravines, dead furrows runt her depressions the ground would be nearly while, the dead diminishing ;;; numbers as the higher grounds were reached, though these were by no means free from corpses. In one instance the hugs bad left a field of wheat at harvest, the sporotriehnm having been applied there before the movement began, and entered an adjoining cornifield. The way was marked with white, not only the surface of the ground, but Mi stirring up the mellow soil of the ed'je of the cornfield il was found to be literally full of dead chinch bugs to the depth <>f two or three inches. the white fungus covered bodies slr-muly contrasting with the black color of the rich roam. Xot only this, but under the sheaths of the leaves and <ni the leaves themselves hundreds ot dead were to be found on the outer rows of corn, on the grass and weeds, and indeed almost everywhere. Millions of chinch bugs were certainly destroyed in this one field. The dread which the chinch bug inspires may be inferred from the nature oI 'he various schemes for checking his mad career. One of these begins with the making of a smooth pa Mi ."long t'-.c .margin of an infected field where such a one adjoins the one to l.o protected. This can be done with a sharp hoe; and as the margins of wheat fields usually become compacted, 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 ."onI tar is run between them, being so a>lunged that it will reach the post hole near the inner side opposite the field from which the hugs are migrati tig. In this way as the bugs reach the train of coal tar they will follow along until they reach the post hole, while those meeting with the post holes will usually divide and following around it join with the I low of bugs moving along the trains of coal tar. The result is that they become congested in the acute angle where the coal tar train is intercepted by the post holes. Those in the apex of this angle ean not turn back, and thus are continually pushed into the holes by those behind. From these holes there is no escape, and here the buns can be readily killed by sprinkling with kerosene, I he slightest train of coal tar is sufficient to obstruct the passage of I the bugs, and light rains will not affect 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 tar is renewed daily or at most twice each day it will accomplish its work, and nothing further will be needed I than to kill the bugs that have collocti ed in the post holes. This measure is inexpersive and can be promptly put | into operation if the coal t.nr is at hand. The writer has been able in this way to protect effectively a field of corn surrounded on two sides by a wheat field literally overrun with chinch bugs at harvest and during a time when light showers were occurring frequently several time a day. FOR SALE OR RENT. IS.) acres of lan diving partly in j Saluda and partly in Lexington j county and on Saluda river will sell | or rent, cheap?has about fifty acres J .T.i\ W i\JUL.VVO. DR. A. K. H The famous Atlanta Opti< Tuesday, Aug Wednesday, l Thursday, Au* and will make headquartei EXAMINATION OF EYES WILL and we advise everybod; named and have eyes t Hawkes' Crust have been fitted on thous racy and T ell yourfriends, and reme Reliable PY joC well timber-land. For other in for- BSPH ?g pi) | mation apply to A. D. P. Nichols, || Route 4, Leesville, S. C. Residence 2 g |Lg miles from Simpson ferry. 2t-pd STAT 10 OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. By Frank M. Schumpert, Esquire, O H Pi IT! K Probate Judge. . VliailU WHEREAS, J. J. Amick hath j-i j ? made suit to me, to grant him Letters PICAiil QOl of Administration of the Estate of and effects of Bennett H. Amick jBl^OAA/n THESE ARE THEREFORE to cite and admonish all and singular the I j_ __ * ^ kindred and Creditors of (he said Bennett II. Amick deceased, that they be and aj f ear before me, in the Court \A/ i|"0 of Probate, to be held at Newberry on \\ ednesday, 21st day of August * next after publication thereof, at 11 inCH "tO 1' o'clock in the forenoon, to show causc if any they have, why the said Ad- I j r* y* ministration should not be granted. I^II 1I 1 GIVEN under my Hand, this 3rd _ . day of August Anno Domini, 1907. Lllf"10n ( F. M. Schumpert, J-R N-c- Linene TEACHER WANTED. PBGrlO The patrons of Yaughnsville school will meet at the Vaughnsville school ClOW WOT house on August 10th., at 3 p. m., to elect a teacher for the coming year. Val La^ Salary $40 per month, school to run 7 or 8 months. Those wishing to ap ! t/? jq U I rs * ply for the school will please send lOli 1??d.C their applications to the undersigned trustees. ElTlbrC C. A. Brooks. TO. C. Sailer. ]7nfrp H Henry Workman. 1?<I1LI tJ 1?' ? r? Waist Fi New Market. | Let us I have opened a first class Meat Market on Friend street, fi(| p| ||| next door to the Observer office, |1 |A I and am prepared to furnish I a ^ choice meals of all kinds. wH All orders entrusted to me will receive my personal at- ? .? tendon. DUE WE Come to see my market. It is the cleanest and most up- , . . k t , 1 he ideal place for to-daie market in Newberry. kind personal oversi*. t a facilities. New Cam J. A. WRIGHT, Klectric light, steam _ , mate and splendid h< Friend Street. Beautiful catalogue. Phone 232. i i rnnav. Auuust iwur. < AWKES. ^ian, will visit Newberry, ust 13th, \ugust 14th, ^ust 15th, < rs at Pelham's Pharmacy. . BE MADE FREE OF CHARGE, V to call one of the days ested. allized Lenses >ands with greatest accusuccess. I mberthedatesand place* larmacists. Drays, blues and grays, in ors 12 l-2c. yd. Linens, union and all \ 1-2 to 40c. yd. Linens, coolest of all, 36 0-4, 50c. to $1.00 yd. Lawns 25 to 50c. yd. 3ambrics 50c. to $1.00 yd. Jttes 10 to 12 l~2c. yd. ss lustre Floss for Sha k. ces,Torchon Laces, Baby -es 6 1-4 to 45c. yd. )ideries, in Bead in gs, eux, Insertions, Edges, 'onts, Corset Covers, &c. show you, COME. ? -ST FEMALE COLLEGE DUE WEST, S. C. ?.?<} C?IC Hull Willi clcKniit locations (or loo Ijonrdcra i heat, complete water works nnd sewerage. Delightful rli' fl jolth record The very best advantages fnv i ch* The President's address till September ist will be money' \ RF'V. JAM lis ItOYCK, Moil treat, N. C. . ^