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E. H. AULL. EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New derrY. S. C., as 2nd class matter. Tuesday, Augst 20. 1907. REST ROOMS. There has been considerable agita tion recently in regard to rest rooms. Greenwood is a progressive city and vith. such an increase in its annual business it seems very appropriate indeed to exert every effort to keep abreast with the times, as we have take on new life and activity. There is as much or more business done in Greenwood than any other town in the Palmetto State of the same size. The fail trade will soon be on us and it is our desire to see the merch ants of this city take hold of the mat ter as it means considerable more business will be done here if the proper provisions are made to induce the buyers to do their shopping. So why can't the business men of the city get together and see if we can't have a place to accommodate people when they come here to do their shop ping?-Greenwood Journal. There are a great many towns, which are making arrangements such as suggested by the above from our Greenwood contemporary. It is a very important matter and really should have the attention of all towns and cities, wh' h depend upon a large country trade. It would seem to us that the old court house might to fitted up and ,one of the rooms used for the purpose suggested in this editorial and it could be done in connection with the pro position, which the ladies are agita ting, to have this building turned over to them for the purpose of a public library. Of course in order to do this it would be necessary to have some work and repairs done on the old building, and in addition, the park should be extended to the front and sides Pf the building similar to the one which is in the rear, so that it would be impossible to have wagons and buggies driven up to the building and the horses hitched against it. Such an arrangement would beauti fy the public square and would make the rest room here suggested very easily of access to our friends from the country, and also practically in the centre of the business section. We simply make this suggestion and throw out these hints. We really do not know what is the intention of those * charge of this old building, nor do we have any idea of what will be done. We realize that there is very great difference of opinion as to what disposition should be made of this old building, but its does seem that it woild be a great waste of pro -tear it down., The public square should not be used as a wagon yard. We should have a wagon yard, in some portion * of the city that would be convenient and there should be some sheds put u lp in the wagon yard and water for the horses so that instead of having wagons and buggies standing in the publie square the animais in the sun or cold, they could be given better * attention. It is well to agitate this question and get the views of our people upon it, and if possible, have unanimity of action in whatever is done. The city coneil of Anderson has passed an ordinance adopting the cur few, which is rung every night at 10 o'clock and all ehildren under four teen years of age are required to be at their homes unless accompanied by some older person. This is the first city in this state that we know of to * adopt the curfew. We believe it is the proper thing to do, but 10 o'clock is rather late. It should be sounded not later than 9 o'clock and in the winter season when the nights are long it would not be bad to have the curfew rung earlier even than 9 o'clock. The town of Clear Lake in Iowa, has passed an ordinance, which pro hibits the ringing of church bells on the Saibbath. It is the intention of 'the mayor to make "the place as quiet on the day of rest as a grave yard at midnight.'' That, it seems to us, is carrying the Sabbath observance law as far as the most extreme Sabbatarianis could de sire. The state board of health of Texas adopted some very stringent rules in regard to sanitation for tuberculosis. In connection with the address by Dr. Wvehe before the County Medi cal Soceiety a short time ago which was printed in The Herald and News, it may he interesting to know what -the board of health of the state of Gnks in regard to this disease and also the rules, which have been adopted in the effort to prevent the disease in that state. The* follwing are thei rules: --1Tubercular vicums are not al.low ed enployment in any publie build- I in. iL any school, ehurch, or bake oir slaughterhouse. 'Burlap is prohibited for a floor covering; passengers on trains are not allowed to wash their teeth over wash I basins, and careless handling is made t to be used in. water coolers is made I an offense. "Floors of public buildings must e be swept every day after being sprink-' I led with sawdust wet with for- t maldehyde. Boarding house, hotel and ( restaurant ice boxes must be scoured with acid once a week. "In jails a prisoner must have 3,000 i cubic feet of air per hour. walls must i be whitewashed every month and painted every six months." By permission of the Business Mag azine of Knoxville, Tenn., we print on the first page f The Herald and f News today, including cuts, an article which appeared in the August number of that magazine in regard to New berry. Some of these scenes have probably appeared in The Herald and News heretofore, but the article with t the cuts are reproduced so that our 1 readers may know just how the write- e up appeared in the magazine. There is a growing sentiment in the. state that Clemson Cdllege should be owned by the state. This idea was first sugested, if memory is not at fault, a by Mr. MeMahan when that gentle- t man offered for governor last year. I The idea grows out of the fact that a while the college is supported by the state, the state does not, nor can it j ever, control the institution as things i now stand. This condition obtains by t reason of the fact that the life trus tees appointed by Mr. Clemson with the power of naming their successors. constitute a majority of the board. The change would cost the sta-te quite a tidy sum and would help the Clem son heirs considerably in a financial way.-Greenwood Index. We are inclined to agree with the Index. If Clemson is to be a state college it should be under the con trol of the state and not under the control of Mr. Clen1son. It would be better for the institution and better for the state. Every citizen of south Carolina realizes and appreciates the good work that is being done by Clem son, and there is no disposition and would be none to do anything that would in the slightest cripple its use fulness.4 We notice that the Georgia legisla ture is collecting the privilege tax for the ostensible purpose of support ing agricultural schools and the pro made in the last legis lature to increase the tax ffom fif teen to twenty-five cents so as to in rease the revenue for this purpose, It would seem that if Georgia could do this that it might be easy for i South Carolina to let this tax, which is a similar one in this state, go into1 the state treasury and make direct appropriations for the support of, Clemson just as we do for other i16- i stitutions of higher learning. We t have been told that if this was done i it would be very easy for the ferti-li- a zer companies, under -the decision of j Chief Justice Fuller in the case of 1 Patapsco Guano Company against ( North Carolina, to have.the entire tax j knoked up, and therefore, the whole , of this tax has gone direct to Clem- ~ son ce1lege and sometimes the college E has more money than it ouzht to hie i but. :>f course, this is n ;t the ques tio. vhich we started out here to dis- a cuss a'nd we 'repeat that we agree I with the index that South Carolina i ought to aave entire s.cai of thisI institution just as it hias of thie ote e state colleges. T:e county of Ramberg will holdr an election very soon on the question y of having a dispensary in this coun t. Barmberg is now selling whiskey under the county diispensary plan and it is said that the vote will probably g~o very close. Dog Homing Instinct. Contry Life. The other day, writes a correspon- i dent, a dog was sent by carriage to Brandon station, in Norflok, en route r for London, from Buckenham hall. At Ely it slipped its collar as the 4 guard took it out to give it water, the time was after dark on a winter evening and the dog dashed away and could not be found. At 6.30 the following morning one of the stablemen at Buckenham heard] a dog* whining and howling under the window. It was the same dog re turned. The distance from Ely to Buckenham is computed at 17 miles. The dog is a female spaniel and it is virtually certain that its local knowledge~of the contury about Buck eiham on the side toward Ely was li r.ited to a mile from the former. This v>uld leave an unknown tract of 16 r. ~les to thravel through dark in a sinle night. By what sense was it NEWS FROM MAYBINTON. 'leasant Dance-Many Happy V tors-The Roads Need At tention. Maybinton, Aug. 19.-Over here ave had fine rains the past w hat have refreshed the hot air , auch. Mr. R. E. Lyles, from Hami ounty is -visiting relatives here. as charge of a lai-ge farm oper y W. H. Sondley of this county ol. W. 0. Tatum of the lower par outh Carolina. Misses Bertha and AnnieDell H [ton, from Carlisle, have been v tg here the past week. Jim Caldwell and sister, Miss re visiting the families of W. lardy and P. P. Hamilton. Miss Daisy Whitney is visi riends in the city of Union. Mrs. Roebuck and daughters Hi nd Lucile, from Gainsville, Fla., isiting Mrs. Roebuck's sister, I C. Eison. Maj. Overstreet paid his resp o friends here recently. The Maj mgs to what we call the high rs. W. B. - Whitney was a uch impressed with his style. Miss Annie McCarley visited ] essie Rutherford of Mt. Pleas . C., the past week. Mrs. Higgins and daughters Ai ,nd Marriam visited at B. S. Har< he past week. Also Miss Tedd, Terna Maybin and Miss Mamie I -ins, of Fairfield, S. C. Mrs. W. D. Rutherford opened tenwick school the past week. noted as one f the best prep ory teachers in the state. Miss Kate Wilson is on a reeks' visit in the city of Cheste F. B. and P. H. Hardy have I ttending protracted meeting the veek at Mt. Pleasant. The Rev. Spears, from Whitu onducted a few days mcetings ] he past week. W. A. Andrews and Z. H. Si rom Whitmire attended prelael ier( the past week. F. E. Maylbin, now of Goshen ] vas here recently. A dance was given at the hom _rs. B. S. Hardy to the visitor 'hursday night. Among those I int away from here the i Kaybins, the Misses Higgins, fewberry. The Misses Roabue] -ainsvile, Fla., Miss Mamie Higi 'airfield county, the Misses Rul iords, of Mt. Pleasaait, Miss Jo. C el, Caldwell, the Misses Hamilj iarlisle; and Mrs. F. W. Higgin. sewberry. The order of the day here is: atching, which only -lasts- until irst rain: eomes. Our supers ught to inspect the roads here a ;hey are patched then I know ould either send the road cr >aek and comped the overseer to< >y with the road law, as to orking or resign as supervisor. tave roads over in this part of -N own.hip that have not been wol n -three years. I will say six yE ,nd that is the road leading ~f razzleman 's Ferry into the Colut oad half way between the Pe shiek place and the old Oxner pl t is partially patched, not whole patched every year. But rear it hasn't been touched at .nd if a man in a buggy can ride< without spilling part of -his ion, why he could safely stai cross the Rocky Mountainis. Thet abor enough on said road '.ng worked according to the 1 aw tc keep said road in trave ondition. But nobody ever come ook ater it. We pay taxes all ame. If parties that have a oads to travel on were to go overi oad why they would think that upervisor was dead. B.S. I Advertised Letters. Lettr remaining in the posto it Newberry, S. C., for the week ng August 17, 1907. B-Frank B. Baker, Mr. Stand ] C-Mrs. Anna Collins, Fanny ( nan, Miss Ada Counts. l-Mrs. Jessie Green. Mr. Ge< ioffnin. H-Mrs. .J. C. Harper. J-Mr. W. 0. Janes. Mr. L K-Miss A. L. Koon. T-rs Manie Levester, Mr. ' P-Rev. W. N. Peterson. R-J. L. Ray. S-Mn Hattie Shealy. Miss: Thirley. Mrfi Georgia Smith, I S3e toekman. Mrs. Patita S& T-Mrvs. Ethel Thomas. WMrs. Salie Waters. Mr. Ne Williams, Mr. H. M. Wicker, Tane G. Walker. Persons calling for these lel ~il please say that they were a ChsisePucel,P CHINAMAN PLAYED TRICK. isi- Got Good and Even With Prospector Who Made Him Hunt for Gold. all 'I was readin' somewhere the oth aek, er day,' said the weary pilgrim, ery "about a man that located a mine ia a graveyard. I had knowed of lots of ton fellers locatin' graveyards in gold He mines, lots of 'em; but this was other Lted way about. and "The average man will start out t of huntin' gold an' he don 't know no more about mineralogy than a billy am- goat knows about roller skates; and sit- he'll mess around in .cold water and sleep on a bed of pain and sage Jo, brush; an' he'll eat hard tack an D. corned mule; an' he'll work like a Kansas farmer; an' if he washes up on an everage of 28 cents worth of gold a week he wouldn't trade his chances of wealth with the fattest t1lie salaried guy in Chicago. are "All Chinamen are like thet. But Irs. Chinamen are lucky. They find the dust. Why, a Chink will wash a bunch ets ,' gold outen a pile of pine sawdust, be- sew it in the tail of his empire gown fy an' be half way to China with the ery bones of his Uncle Mike rolled up a customer's shirt before a white man [iss has got through locatin' gold-bearing ant, quartz with the help of a wilier wand an' .a bottle of whiskey. Huh! Me! inie Look not upon the mine when it is red ly's clay! and "When me and Bill Pooley was in fig- the Black Hill we met up with a Chink thet had just finished washin' the two ounces of gold dust out of 2,500 She tons of dirt thet hed been through ira- th' Homestake gins. We figured thet a practical miner like him was too two good to lose. So we took- him to th' r. hills with us to hunt gold. een "I disremember now whether he >ast wanted to come or not. Anyhow, we didn't ask him. We roped him to a tire, burro's tail and fondly promised him iere a killin' if he hollered. He didn't s-ay .rothin' back-jes' come ' patterin iber along, an' when we let him loose he iing lit into th' pantry an' begun cookin dinner with a headling gallop thet would hev' made the banishment of Mazeppa -look like a dump cart wait in' for a funeral to pass. We was right pleased with him. ones ''Me an' Bill located in the meosl sses onlikely place we could find an' :be. of gan putting down a shaft. We work. of ed the windles and th' Celestial did the pick and shovel work. An' we didn't let 'him out only to cook th4 ad- mea-ls. ons. '"Well, sir, I s' p's we 'ld beer , of digging' yet if somethin' hadn't stop ped us. An' thet s'omethin' was the oad Chink. He was workin' away like the sixty one day an' was down aboui isor fifteen feet when all of a sudden hle fter Ilet out an awful yell. he "''Gold !' sez he; 'Alle samee hear wd muchee!' om- "Well, me an' Bill was about crazy 'oad We was afraid to let the Chink stay We down in th' hole fer fear he'd steal o. 3 th' mine, an' we dasen 't go down~ 'ked while he was there, 'cos' they wasn 't ar, no one to pull us up. So we pulled ron John up an' we both got in the buck. ibia et an' told th' Chinaman to lowex tus away. ace. "We forgot t'het one little nubbin yen like him couldn't handle two hig med this like us, but we recalled this faet to all, mind right away. The bucket went er down like whiskey down an Injun, an :eli- we hit the bottom all in a heap. But 't a th' poor Chink ! Thet win 'lass twisted e is him up an' spun him out like a yarn by from grandmother's spindle. An' oad w4hen he let go he got slung clean ing across th' eanyon an' then turned sto h.ardsprings and summersets for about the a mile. I wish it had killed him. :ood "'Why? Why, do you knew wot said th'et abandoned, lost in darkness the heathen done? He come back an" cut th' rope an' left us in thet hole ! Yes, . Isir! An' then 'he went away with ev erything we had except a few .tracke we had made .about th' place. An' it iice took us three days to cut steps an' nd- get out, an' two more days before we e-ot to a feedin' place. ur- "Gold ! Course they wasn't. An' how you goin' to get even on a thing oll- like that? "Me an' Bill all but murdered four re Chinamen thet we thought was John but the nex' minute we see fouir more as like him as peas. uis "But it cured me o' th' prospectin .hatbit.''-Chicago News. OLD PIANOS AND ORGANS for which we will allow the highiest prices towards now Instruments. Nc tta Club rates to offer. but we PledgE fiss better Instruments for the satme. mn hr. less mo'ney. tihsn these at club roe off ers. ison Write Mahm;es Music House. C' iss lumbia, S. C., for special prices an' .terms. :ters ver- As for the Slandered Oil company .John D. thinks himself the wholf I. show.-News & Courier. THE MOWR CO. is offering for early buyers a beautiful lot of Black Voile Skirts, $6.50 to $12.00 and some BLACK SRIP-K PETTICOATS $6.50 to $7.50 COME AT ONCE. C. .L MOWER CO. APRONS! NOTICE. 28 doz. White and Ginghams Aprons withTHE BEE HIVE and without bib, for. Nurses, Grocers, Meat will move Sept. 1st into Cutters, Soda Fountain the store roorr now Clerks, made of nice used by Shelley& Sum quality Lawn and Can .mer, formerly-eeunr non Cloth, full size, at pied by Kibler-Dennis T~Be B1e88jjIf Furniture Co., oppo UUsite Daniel & William For 25c. each. son's Jewelry Store.. E,L BAILES 00. E. L BALES G0~ EXCURSION. -TO COLUMBIA -via Columbia, Newberry and Laurens A. A, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28 From Schedule Round Trip Rate. Laurens,.-..................$~1.5 Clinton,..... 7............. 12 Gold ville, ......................... .25 Jalapa,......... ...... . .- 12 L.ittle Mounta3n,7. Ar C lu bi . ... .. 7....~. 10.0 -........15 August..............07.2 8 .2 ................... 1.2 5 WAr. ClumIG, .... ... . 1.50VNGT N S . Ch ildrengon, N.lv C. rs Coalfbi,ates. - icet oo t etrno rgua trisutlIhrdy