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VOa m ?.1 EDGEFIELD WANTS fO COE TO NEWBERLR AGITATION OF PROPOSED TROI LEY LIN. The Edgefield Chronicle Advocate Bringing the Road to Newberry, If Newberry Helps. Staff Correspondence Herald & Nem Edgefield, Aug. 15.-Public sent ment in Edgefield and throughout thi section of country seems to, hav fixed upon Newberry as the most a( vantageous point to which to buil the proposed trolley line, provide Newberry and the people along tb route will extend the necessary ai and encouragement. A line from Edg field to Newberry would, of courg pass through Saluda, and would I extended on to North Augusta, cox necting with the trolley line now i operation between Aiken and Augu. ta. That the people of this section c the country would favor Newberr as the point to which to carry tl line, if Newberry should show any di! position to get to work and hel build it, or help to get the movemer started,'is shown by the followin editorial which appears in the Edg4 field Chronicle of this morning: "Judging by the interest which hz been manifested in the proposed tro ley line from North Augusta to Edg field, and, thence, on to Salud Greenwood,Newberryor Plum Branel we believe that the time is now rij for building the road, and that a nlnecewary to secure it is that tb movement should be vigorously pusl ed. Saluda, Newberry and Greex wood all realize the great advantag of a line conneeting them with Edgo eld and Augusta; and in Newberr espeqially the niatter has been ear: estly agitated since the Edgefiel meeting, so much so that the peop] all along the proiposed line from Edg field to Newberry are willing, read and anxious to do all in their power t assist in building the road. The New berry Herald and News, in speakin of ,they Edgeaeld meeting -says "Naturally we believe that the peop] of Edgefield and Saluda would prefE the road to be extended to Newberry and as a matter of fact, that is whet it ought to go, because there is a d rect line from Union, Whitmire, Ne'w berry, Saluda and Edgefield to At gusta; and it would be to the advar tage of the Saluda people to come t Newberry; and certainly it would t to the advantage of Newberry to hav them come. We earnestly beg the our chamber of commerce, or our cit fathers, look into the matter; andi these organized bodies do not tak action, and take it quickly we woul be glad to see the business men, wh appreciate the importance of some thing being done, get in touch wit these people." "There is probably no section c the entire south with greater epossibi ities than the section of country froi here to Newberry, through Saluda and there is no section needing road, more, or more eager to hel build it. or more able to support: after it is built. Old istorical Salud is now without railroad facilities c any kind, and a. county of Saluda wealth must have railroad conne< tions. The people of Saluda reali2 this need, and would welcome, er courage and aid the building of trolley line from Edgefield. "From Saluda to Newberry th people are prosperous, and many c Sthem are people of wealth, and the and the people of Newberry woul see to it that the line is carried o to Newberry. It would be an oppo: tunity whieh Newberry could not al ford to let pass, and which we do nc believe Newberry would let pass. "As an instance of the prosperit of the country between Saluda an Newberry, it might be stated that on of the homes midway between the tw places, and twelve miles from eithel is ligte with electricity, Mr. A. I Coleman having installed his own' liihting plant. .,As a result of the Edgefield meet ing, the whole matter seems to have resolved itself into this: The people to be reached by the proposed trol lev realize the importance of the movement and the advantage to them- t S selves of securing it, and it is only necessary that the movement should t be properly launched in order for it to carry itself forward of its own s weight. It only needs now that Edge field should push it, and, as was ex- I s pressed at the meeting here, see what section wants the road most, and is e willing to give most aid in building i-. d 'It is a great opoortunity for Edge d field, and one which the people of e Edgefield should not, and we believe, d will not, let slip." * It wil be seen fro mthis expres sion of the Edgefield' Chronicle-and - it is an admirable expresf-ion of the e sentiment of the people of this com - munity, so far as your correspondent n has been able to learn-that the Edge field people are expecting Newberry to show'some substantial interest in the matter, to wake up, and to take ' notice, and that when the people of y Newberry show their interest the peo e ple of Edgefield are ready to join - them, and to go to work to build the road. There are men behind this t movement who mean business, aad t who are able to bring about results. g It is no "hot air" proposition, but a ,- bona fide movement on the part of earnest and energetic men to build a trollev line, a movement backed by s men who generally accomplish what they set out to do. Newberry, it is - believed by those who have kept in L7 touch with the situation, is the poiat favored by the majority, biut they want some manifestation of interest e on Newberry 's part. The Saluda Court. e A great deal of business was 'is- 1 posed of at the criminal court in Sa luda last week. Of the large number I e of cases tried, there were only two ac quittals, one in a murder ease, and the other in a gambling ease. The murder case in which an acquittal was secured was that of the State v. Jimmie Jackson, who had been tried e at a previous term of court at which -time the jury failed to agree. He was 7 represented in the trial last week by B. B. Evans, of Saluda, and Mr. E. S. -Bease of the Newberry bar. *. L.4 Henderson and Alfred Free, charged with murder, were convicted of man e slaughter, this verdict ending a case r which had become celebrated in Sa- I luda. The case had been tried twice e before, resulting each time in a mis- 1 -trial. Henderson was sentenced to4 -serve twelve years in the penitentiary and it has been stated that he will o to the penitentiary and begin his serice immediately. Free, who was e gi,ven a tpn years' sentence, will pos e sibly appeal. About the only cases of ,tany great importance left on the Y doeket were the Taylor case, youngI i Taylor having hilled his father, and' e the Lowery case. Lowery having kill- . ed his brother. Neither of these cas o es could have been tried at this term. Judge Watts pushes the business of I a court, and there is no unnecessary] delay when he is presiding. In the two former trials of the Henderson and Free case, at least two days were Staken each time to try the case. Last week the case was tried in a day, the a jury being sent in to deliberate upon P their verdict the same day the case] .was begun. Solicitor Cooper is a a strong prosecuting officer, and he made a record at the court last week s of which he has a right to be proud, and of which the circuit which elect ee1 d him should be proud. A Kick. aThe service of the Southern Bell e Telephone Co. between this point and f Newerry is. in. common parlance, y "something fierce.'' The trouble is 11a not in the Edgefield office, and it is ai not in the Newberry office. oJehnston - seems to be the bridge which it is 4 - hard to cross. And then if Johnston t can be induced or persuaded to give j Ithe connection, it is~ sometimes impos- ,j y sible to h1ear or to make one's self .~ d *heard. What this trouble is, of e course, I do not know, but it does o seem that t.he service in the Johnston , , office could be improved. J.K.A. . THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. tI daking Good Streets-Reunion of Company G.-Geors and Plenty Old Corn-Personal. Prosperity, Aug. 15.-In a trip to he Bethlehem section on Tuesday it i vas your correspondent's good for une to find himself about 12 o'clock Lt Mr. W. D. Bundrick's, whose hos- t )itality was duly enjoyed. Mr. Bundrick showed your coirLs )ondent a bridle and pair of gears e hat he made 28 years ago. They are n good condition yet, and bid fair to ast for many more years. He has a x ollar that he bought at the same ;ime that he is still using, plowing i md wagoning with it almost daily. fr. Bundrick has a erib of old corn i hat makes one's mouth water to look t it, especially if he is buying corn E t 90 cents a bushel. There are quite 0 L number of good farmers in that see- E ion and we hope to get back in that ommunity in the sweet by and by. i We think that in the way distant )ast we heard, or thought we heard, hat South Carolina had a state geo- i ogist. Can you tell us, Mr. Editor Lnd member of the legislature, what ias become of him, and what he is do- 4 ng. As he is paid from the public unds the public ought to hear from t iim once in awhile at least. While in Columbia last week we ieard it stated several times that the 1 nuch expoloited Public Service Cor >ration was none other than the )outhern Railway and that they were ; et'ting thes.e franchises to shut oat ny other company that might mean )usiness. They would shut out or ] ut off trolley competition. Towns hould look closely into the privileges hey vote away. We heard this and nore too. We pass the above on tor vhat it is worth. Our city fathers are having the ;treets put in good condition putting erra cotta where needed. and repair ng the sidewalks generally. Your eor- 1 -espondent hopes to give in -the near uture a finaneial statement of the - mprovements'fOr the past. year, The annual cue of Co. G., 13th S. . Regiment,. will be given at Young's rove on Saturday, Aug. 24. The 6th, coming on Monday it will be riven this year on Saturday, Aug. 24. esides the'business meeting at 10 a. n. in the city hall, Dr. D. M. Cros on, of Leesville, will make the prin ipal address. Dr. Crosson will also1 -end a history of the Company writ en by his father the late J. T. P. d rosson. This will be one of the most < nteresting meetings ever held as the ;ons and daughters association will 2 nee.t with the survivors of Co. G. Let very member be present if possible f the Company and also of the sons td daughters. You may never have mother opportunity to meet with Married, by Rev. S. P. Koon at the arsonage at St. Luke's on Thursday, ug. 8, Miss Lucille Lester, d.aughter if the late N. R. Lester and Mr. Dud ey Moore. Congratulations to the ma.ppy young couple as they start out m life's voyage.t Mr. Earnest Mathis, who has for he past year been with the Batesbiurg )rug Co., will return to his first love , md will be again with the Prosper t Drug Co., after to.dtay (15th). ~arnest 's friends will be glad to wel ome him back to his old home. Miss Johnstone, of Newberry, is n'siting, Mrs. Ella Beidenbaugh, of Cibler's.i Miss Julia Schumpert has been risiting friends in the Pomaria see ion and is now enjoying the hospi :ality of Mrs. Bedenbaugh, of Kib er's Bridge. The following left Tuesday for the' rmestown exposition: Messrs. F. E. schumpert, Olin Bobb, [1. P. Wieker, irs. H. P. Wicker and Miss Mary Some of our merchants are taking~ ddvantage of the cheap rates to amestwn to go north. Mr. F. E. . ehumpert has already gone. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Moseley and 1 irs. S. W. Calmes, of Prosperity, ana vfr. and Mrs. J. H. Wise, Mr. and i irs. C. F. Lathan and Miss Toy La- E han. Littk 'Mountain, left Wednes Lay by way of Jamestown for the i iorthern markets. Miss Miller and Miss Smith, of I inrs, afer a veryeasant 'visit i Miss Lucy Wh eeler returned home ednesla. Miss Maude Crosson, of Leesville, s visitinl4 Miss Nannie Simpson. Miss rosson will also visit relatives in Tewberry. Mrs. -Jeff Reames. ot Georgetown, s vi--iing her mother. Mrs. M. B. Bed nbaugh. Mrs. J. M. Cook is visiting her sis er, Mrs. Kennedy, in Due West. Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Duncan and son . B., are visiting relatives in Ander on this week. Mrs. E. B. Kibler is visiting her' ister Mrs. Jno. M. Suber. of Whit nire. "Uncle Bob" Elmore made a fly n' - visit to Prosperity this week. Miss Lois Eleazer, of Spring Hill, s visiting Mrs. J. C. Singley. Mis. Phillips, of Springfield, Or ngebu- county, and Miss Black, of )aluda county are visitingA Mrs. H. C. Lnd Miss Lula Moseley. Mr. T. H. Thompson, of Columbia, vill spend his vacation with his fath r, Mr. J. Y. Thompson. Mr. Wilbur Long who has been ith the Cash Grocery Co. here willgo ith the Ewart-Perry Co. Sept. 1st. Ve are sorry to lose you, Wilbur. .ome to see us. The Sunday school and congrega ion of Colony church will have Old Tolks day Sunday, August 25th. Ad resses will be made by former pas ors and Sunday school workers from ther schools. Full program will be iven later. It is expected that Revs. r. D. Bowles anil 2. W. :nbaugh 611 make addresses. Miss Louise Fulmer, cf Little &ountain, is visiting Mrs. S. J. Kohn. -Mrs. C. G. Barrier isvisiting friends Lt Leaphart 's in Lexington county. Miss Lilla Kibler is spending her -acation with her sister, Mrs. J. A. 4impson. Miss Kibler will teach in donroe, N. C., next session. ;iss Mattie Miller is visiting her ister,. Xrs. Joe. B. Hartman this reek. Miss Julia , Schumpert returned Vednesday frolm a visit to friends in &e Broad river-section of the county. September Events. "'Events" a monthly illustrated nagazine published at Washinzton. D. 3. wil make its initial appearance arly in September. T1is magazne il deal particu1la>y with those iational affairs of which 'the pedple ave but slight know#edge, and should e read by every good American. The i-rst number will contain an article >n The National Banking Act which 'learly shows that this legislation is esponsible for the financial troubles if the people' today; the article on.the >ersonal Reminiscenees of the U. S. supreme Court is one of the most in erestig ar.ticles ever pubilished con erning that august body. The opening chapters of the article n Our Government, its origin and Levelopment'' should possess unusu 1 interest for every reader; the arti le on the waterpowers of the south presents a new phase of the forestry Luestion, and shows the intimate rela ions existing between ths forests and he people; no comnmunity is without ome direct interest in this great pro-. ilem. The fiction is bright and mn resting, and all in all it is a maga ;ina that should be in every home. sena $1 to Editor, Events, 715-13th t., N. W., Washington, D. C., for next rear's subse2ription, and you will re eiver the first four niumbers for noth Wben Woman Throws. Eouth 's Companion.. A man who runs a truek farm in lirginia tells of the sad predicament n which a negro named Sam Moore, vho is in his employ, recently found imself. iSam had had considerable iffficulty in evading the onslaughts of dog from a neighboring farm. Fin ly the dog got him, as Sam kicked Sam's wife, hearing a tremendous eel, rushed to the rescue of her -has and. When she came up the dog ad fastened his teeth in the calf of aa's le and was holding on for lear life. Seizing a stone in the road sam's wife was about to hurl it when amm, with wonderful prirsence of find, shouted: 'Mandy! Mandy! Don't frow dat oeat de awg Frow it at me, Man TOO GOOD TO LOS. Why a Brave Man Saved the Life of His Enemy. In the little town of Midway, Ky., two men lived at enmity, personal and political, so long that their feud rwas one of the traditions of the town. Only the intervention of friends had more than once prevented them from -doing each other bodily injury. One day a year ago, says World's Work, one of the men, Richard Dodson, was discovered at dusk lying senselebs in his private gas well, dying of suffo cati6n. No one of the crowd that gath ered at the mouth of the well dared to risk his life in an effort to save him. Then his enemy, Rufus K. Combs, came breathless to the spot. By the light of a lamp he looked down and saw the body, face downward, in the mud at the bottom of the well. With out hesitation, 'he slipped into the narrow manhole, hung by his hands and dropped into the darkness and the suffocating fumes of the pit. He lifted the body of his enemy, and, by dogged effort, raised himself to a foothold on a small tank inside the well, and lifted the body above his head to the manhole. The crowd caught Dodson's hands, pulled for a moment and lost their hold. The body fell back into the mud. The rescuer's o;wn breath was fail ing. He raised his head out of the manhole long enough to fill his lungs with air, -and dropped again. Again 'he strugg! I with his burden to the tank and raised it to the open ing overhead. , This time the crowd drew the body out. Choking with gas, Combs clung desperately to the rim of the manhole until the crowd drew him up into the open air. Two hours later, When he rocever ed consciousness, some'one asked Mr. C6mbs why he had risked his life to save his enemy. "I hated to see sueh a good fighter choke to death," he said. At The Eighty Furth -Ve=& Ai am?nan sary is t Id of a Scottish minister jho arrived at the kirk without the man-script,of his ser mon. He could not preach without it, but it lay in his manse a miles away when the time had come for him to mont into the pulpit. -fHere wAs a poser only to be solved by giving out the 119th Psalm. While the congre gation were singing it off to his manse for. the sermon yalloped the minister and with equal celerity galloped bak. When he returned, the congre gation were still at it, and he asked the clerk with some trepidation how was the answer, "'they've got to the end of the eighty-fourth tverse, an' they're jyst eheepin' like wee mice." -Life. Blufed. Pall Mall Oazette. Sam Warren, the author of "Ten Thousand a Year," has been the sub jet of many aneedotes, none of them better than one which I first heard related about him by his friend Mtatthew Davenport Hill. Looking in one day at Warren's chambers, Hill noticed' that he seem ed a little troubled.'"It is," said the awer-noelist, "most unfortWnate. I ought to have dined tonight with the Lord Chancellor, but Mrs. Warren is about to present me with another olive branch; how can I leave her? I hope his lordship won't be annoyedl at my putting ihm off." "Oh", re turned Hill, "don't make yourself uneasy; -I am one of the guests; I know him so well I can put it all right for you.'' With these words the visitor prepared to leave the room. At first profusely greatful, Warren presently seemed a little perplexed and said: "By the by, after all, I won't trouble you to say anything about me to the chancellor..Between ourselves, I have not been invited." "Well," rejoined Hill, "make yourself comfortable on that point; for that matter, neither have I." Mr. Jawback-Let 's celebrate our golden wedding. Mrs. Jawback-How silly! We've only beeni married six years! Mr. Jawback-That all? How 'd I get it into my head it was fifty ? eveland Leader. USEFUL SPIDER THREADS. The Tiny Strand Used by Science In Instruments of Precision. The cultivation of certain species of spiders solely for the fine threads which they weave for scientific uses has an important bearing upon astron omy, the oldest physical science, says Answers. No substitute for the spid er's thread has yet been found for biseeting the screw of the micrometer used for- determining the positions and motions of the stars. Not only because of the' remarkable finness of the threads are they valuable, but because of their durable qualities. The threads of certain spiders rais ed for astronomical purposes with stand changes in temperature, so that often in measuring sun spots they are injured when the heat is so great that the lenses of the micrometer eye piece are cracked. These spider lines are only one fifth to one-seventh of a thousandth of an inch in diameter, compared with which the threads of the silkworm are large an clumsy. Each line is %made up of several thousands of microseop ic streams of fluid. Under the most powerful magnifying glass they 'ap pear true and round. The work of placing these lines in the micrometer requires the delicate touch of the ex parts who operate ith the aid of micro scopes which magnify the line a thousand times. The lines are plae ed parallel with each other; and two.. one-thousandths of an inch apart. GENESIS OF EMPIRE DRESS. Costumes Worn by Josepbine-Match ing Toilettes a Dream of Beauty. Now that the "Empire dress" has gained such an-eztraordinary- popu larity with English women, we must -in order to understand this popu larity-eross the Channel and picture to ourselves, says the London Tribune, not the present day Paris, but the Paris of- long. ago, the parrof the FirstEmpire. Josehpine de Beauharnais as em press, introduced into the court of her time such distinguished elegane of dress, such charm of manner, such perfection of taste-accompanied with a perhaps too fatal extrava gance-that the..whole court was revi vified under her influence. When we think of the care that the Freneh women at. that period daily bestowed on their toilette, the posi tion of supremacy which they now hold in matters of dress need not be surprising to us. To be dressed as the French women were dressed-in the costume of the First Empire, this daily care is absolutely necessary. To be practical in the wearing of this modified Empire robe we must have a perfectly fitting underbodice or combination robe, and this bodice must be boned for at least seven inch es below the waist and for four inches above the waist. This will insure a better foundation, which will greatly help, and without which, especially on a stout figure, the dress'ecannot hang as it should, but will flop un gracefully. To describe some of Josephine's Empire costumes were to describe a dream of beauty, every accessory be ing perfect. She was often robed in white; the texture was of Indian mus lin tissue, so exquisitely fine that she had the appearance not of an earthly being, but of a phantom of air. The expense of this glorious tissue can be but faintly imagined. Around the bottom of her skirt were edgings of gold broidered of pearls, and the bod ice was draped in folds which left the arms naked, and ends of the material were eaught up oni the shoulders, be ing fastened together by cameos, buckles of diamon(!s or ,dolden liois' heads which formed elasps. To a person of a litle later period than the First Empire the magnift ene of Josephine's diamonds was al most unbelievable, but to a present day society woman they do not create much surprise. Stela-Did the Count propose? Bella-No; he said with the pres ent investigation craze he was afraid of American securities.-New York