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THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. Old Folks' Day at Colony Next Sun day-Program-Personal Mention. Prosperity, Aug. 19.-Rev. I. S. Caldwell, after an evangelistic tour of three weeks in Texas returned to Prosperity on Friday. Mr. Edmund Sheeley had the mis fortune to lose two fine mules by a stroke of lightning on last Thursday. ,Mr. Sheeley had one of his mules severely snagged the s'ame morning. This mule, it is thought, will get well. Mr. Sheeley's loss is heavy. Mrs. V. L. Normon and children, of Concord, N. C., left for home Mon day, after a pleasant visit to Prof. Counts and others. Ernest S. Kohn left Monday for Concord, N. C., to take a position with the General Electric Co. He will re turn to Clemson later. Don't forget that you are invited to join with the good people of Colony in their old folks day next Sunday. Program of old folks. day at Col ony church Sunday, Aug. 24. Music by choir. Hymn No. 233. Reading Scripture. Prayer. Address of welcome. Introduction first speaker. Hymn No. 177. Address. Music by choir. Collection for aged and disabled ministers fund South Carolina Synod Doxology and benediction. Recess. Afternoon exercises. Music by choir. Prayer. Hvnn No. 338. Address. Hymn No. 371. Address. Closing Hymn. Benediction. Hymns selected are from the Book of Worship. Mr. P. A. Rikard, of Atlanta, came over last week and joined Mrs. Rikard and will spend his vacation in and around Prosperity. Mr. Rikard is an expert linotype operator on the staff of the Georgian an . News. There will be two services at Col ony next Sunday and dinner will be had on the grounds. All are requested to bring baskets. Come and enjoy a day of good things. Messrs. Kinard and Kibler have opened their doors for business in their buiilding next door to~ the Peo ples National bank. Mrs. Lillins Warren, of Columbia, is visiting Mrs. F. E. Schumpert. Sunday school picnic at Mt. Pilgrim on Friday, Aug .30. Everybody mn vited to be present and bring baskets and enjoy the day with the Sunday school. There will be addresses in the morning. ROBERT HDWARD LE - By James R. Randall. * ~ As a Soldier. The. military opei-ations of Lee .are Sbriefly but epigrammatically narrated by Prof. Shepherd. We think that the only shadow on the perfection of Lee as a soldier of the very first or der was that he resembled Hannibal rather than Alexander the Great, or Ceasar. He knew how to win victorie3 and was unsurpassed in defensive warfare, but did not always know how to reap his triumphs. How much he may have been thwarted by his auxiliary Generals, or by what Shil ler, as translated by Coleridge, calls S"the unspiritual god-Circum stance,"' we may not venture to ora cularly declare; but he seermed to somewat lack that quality so con spicuous in Jackson and even more notably in Forrest, of relentless pur suit o:f the enemy and is capture or annihilation. In that respect For rest was a "heaven-born General," like Clive, and had he been in com mand in the West instead of the wooden-headed Bragg, and the reek less Hood, with men like Cleburne at his side, the Western Army of the Confederaey would have matched in successful glory the triumphs of the FArmy of Northern Virginia. But For rest was a phenomenal soldier, and nothing else, while Lee towered above all of his Generals and all of his civic contemporaries in those moral quali ties which ally us to the heavenly choir. Why he did not, after Burn side was overwhelmingly and disas trously defeated at Fredericksburg, drive the Federal General and his discomfited army into the Rappahan nock river, or bag the whole force, I have never had satisfactory explana tion. Jackson advised a night attack, but his plan was not adopted. He was like Forrest; he saw no use in oaining victories without substantial results, and believed that a beaten enemy should be kept on the move! and either captured or demorahizeg Lee preferred to "build a golden bridge for a flying enemy.'' This was elassic proverb; Forrest neither knew norard or ue epi. irms prIOverbs of atiquity. and so pE forined. ill O1il me'e art of war pl digies which seemrfed to be in defian t 4centlitie ."atr ,-Give mie. said to Bragg, after the tremendo Confederate victory at Chickamano "one brigade of infantry and wi my cavalry, I will drive Rosecra into the Tennessee river, or captu his whole army." I believe he wou have done it, just as Burnside wou have been compelled to surrender Fredericksburg had a man like Fo rest been in command or Jackson li tened to. The defeat and capture Burnside would have left no organi ed army of the North between L and Boston, just as the capture , Rosecrans would have opened up t] West and prevented the disasters th subsequently came upon us. I remai ber riding with Dr. Gaston, one i the chief surgeons in Lee's army, a ter the battle of Gettysburg. He sai< "There never stepped on this plan such an army as Lee led into Pennsj vania. They felt capable of defea ing any Yankee force, composed no matter how many foreign ai bought soldiers, and Lee had t] same opinion of them. Yet Stuai Early, and incidentally, Ewell, r'uini the Confederacy, so far as they coul however unconsciously, in that battl and Lee himself, in trying to repa the blunders of his Generals, counti too much on the miracles of valor thi could perform when he ordered t] onset of Pickett and Pettigrew up' heights which, but for Early, wou have been occupied by Confederat after the first day's battle. Mead in assault, would have been cut pieces as Grant was afterward Cold Harber, and his retreat to Was ingon would have been disastre beyond conception. I asked Maj Kyd Douglass what caused the r pulse at Gettysburg.. He answer me as he had done the Comte Paris: "'Stonewall Jackson w deid," meaning that had Jacks( been alive in command of his o corps and along with the vangua coiamanded by Early, he would ha occupied, not Gettysburg town, b the trategic Gettysburg, the inviro ing heights of Little Round Top a Cemetery Hifl. The Spiritual Side. But there was in Lee something much greater than military prowe o the first order that all physical material. talent sinks into almost i sinifi sance. It was his virtue, b soul. his supernatural natare that, last, made him worthy of eiven tl extremest eulogy of Prof. Shepher He might have repeated without va: ity and. with much more truth wh Byroni wrote: "T:.re is that within me which she tire Torture and time and brea the when expire; Somethi'.g unearthly which they w not of, Like the remembered tones of a mu lyre, Shall' on -their softened spirits sir and move, ln hearts, all roeky now; the late r morse of love." What Might Have Been. Then, after lovingly tracing L through his almost perfect course< husband, father, college president ar then to the heart-break of his diss lution, Professor Shepherd comes that remarkable final chapter of b book treating of the calamity whi befell the human race when "Enrop Asia and Africa," plus Yankees, Dr. Brickell, states it, overwhelma the physical south in arms. I unde stand that a Dr. UThler, in Baltimor chiefly because of this chapter, reft ed to'let Prof. Shepherd's extraort nary work have entrance to a pubi library. This was a prodigious blu der, like the exclusion of the state Brutus from the Roman processic which only made the people remei ber all the more of Jefferson Dlas because his name was chiseled frc Cabin John Bridge. I do not hesita to say that I endorse every word1 Prof. Shepherd's final summing 1 and have, in my own poor way, f years, feeb~ly expressed what he f rulates, though speculatively, with "pomp of purple words" and vera os eloquent. The one a gument in oposition to_ h thesis is that as God Pe mitted the overthrow of the Confe eracy in arms, therefore it is a rig teous verdict. This is mere fallae although Frederick the Great sa that "mighty battles were fought b ond the stars." God does not tal away our free will; He even allo, His own Church, at times, to suff apparent demolition. In the case the Confederacy, ominous warni are given at this day that the Fede al Union, the Union of the Father instead of being preserved, has be' lestroyed or is on the road to destru tion; that negroes, instead of beir benefitted by emancipation, followir reeom, are being- physically ar i 1U rally i u iled. loatil-;nlV di r- eaed and doomed to final extinctie o- in th"is country; that the curse t ce Marino Faliero on Venice is on tl: be eve of fulfilment in this Republiv us and that the demons of Socialism an a, Imperialism are rr :shalling thei th hosts for a battle to the finish. An< ns while the South has not been exerl re tionally materially improved in man Id ways, and somewhat morally degener Id ated, we of that olden time can proud at y declare with the poet: r- -o; though Right trampled b counted as Wrong; of And that he called Right which i Z- Evil victorious. ee Here where Virtue is feeble and Vi f lany strong ie 'Tis the Cause, not the Fate of th at Cause, that is glorious." n- Final Triumph. f And, as fdr Lee, his name goe .f- down the ages more and more lumir i: ously with the best of all the greateE et of those who "waged contention wit ,1- their time's decay," and whose caus ,t- is as undying, somewhere, as its heaN of enly inspiration. So,. like the poet id picture of the Grecian luminary, ie may be said of him, *t, "Slow sinks, more lovely ere his ra< d be run, P Along Morean hills the setting sun; e, Not, as in Northern climes, obscurel ir bright, d But one unclouded blaze of livin y light." ie INDIAN NAMES IN OKAHOMA es What Early Settlers Have Calle to, Some of the Towns and at Streams. The cowboys, plainsmen and earl D settlers of Oklahoma. and the India e- Territory were not possessed of d highly developed poetic sense. Som of the names they bestowed upon th as settlements and localities were mor forcible than elegant, and were inspii ld ed by some incident of the moment < ed by a desire to perpetuate the nam ve of an individual. In spite of thi ut says the Kansas City Star, howeve . many of the early white settlemeni a received Indian names that deligh the ear and are eminently suited t the locality and the counr. As samples of the titles given t ssome Indian Territory waterway or there may be mentioned Dog Creel Five Mile Creek, Hell Roaring Rive is Mud, Oil and Polecat Creeks. Thes at are scarcely to be preferred to a coi 1e pie of Indian names-Hiayona an d. We-WoKa. Some of the white man names for towns mentioned are Bo at Grit, Amos Bailey, Fame, Biartowi Owl, Fishetrown. Beef Creek and Jin town. These may be compared wit Lsome Indian names bestowed on oti er localities--Al-lu-we, Checotal y Papita, Miskogee, Nowata, Okmulge Sequovah, Tahlequah, Wewoka, Koi ot omis, Ochelata, Tiawah and Wetn te Oklahoma is likewise affected wit many rough and ready names thi ik may have seemed hiighly approprial tor the pioneer but hardly answer ti e- purpose as permanent titles for con munities that may some time beconr important cities. Archibald, Fr: Monk, Nail, Pawpaw and Kelleyvil se are a few. On the other hand, the] of are such Indian names as Atak id Kiamiehi, Tologa, Waukomis, Waur o- ka, Waynoka, Tonkawa and Ogeech is Mr. Fairbanks dare not look in tk ah direction of a striker lest he be sui >e, pected of looking coldly-News as Courier. r- STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, *e, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. s-Court of Common Pleas. .i .Hgo Clary and Matthew V Car,partr:ers doing business undt n' the firm name and sty'le of Clai of rothers, Plaintiffs,. n. vs. -- Mountain (Giy Mill Company, DU a fenidant. m Summo::s for Relief. te -f. the ' sendant. '1r.hxtai:: Cit of Mil:l Company, P. You are hereby sunmmoned and r< or quired to answer the complaint'' i r- this action, of which a copy is on fil a in the office of the Clerk of Court c c- Common Pleas for Newberry Count: ~ and to serve a copy of your answe 1s to said Complaint on the subseriber r- at tl'rir office in Newberry, Sout d Carolina, within twenty days after tb service hereof: exclusive of the da y, of service: and if you fail to answe id the Complaint within the time afort e- said, the plaintiffs in this action wi e apply to the Court for the relief d( v manded in the complaint. er Hunit. Hunt and Hunter, of Plaintiff's Attorneys. is Dated at Newberry, S. C. Augiu r- 16th, 1907. s, To the Defendent, Mountain Cit mn Mill Company: - You will take notice tho.t the con ig plaint in the above entitled action wa i filed in the office of the Clerk of Comn - ty, South Carolina, on the 16th day n of August. 1907. and is now on file f there. Hunt, Hunt and Hunter, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. d Itaw 6t. 8-19 r JOINT PICNIC. Y Piney Woods and Wheeland Farm er's Unions.-Saturday August 31. e To be held Saturday, August 31, 1907, in front of the parsonage near s Piney Woods Cchurch. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Newberry County, e Court of Common Pleas. George S. Mower, Plaintiff, against, NoThe Newberry Steam Laundry Com pany, Defendant. Notice is hereby given that all per sons holding claims or demands e aerainst the defendant Company or its P assets, including stockholders, are hereby required to render in and es tablish the same before fne in this ae ti;n on er. before the accond day of e Sptember. 1907. and that they have b :.rJ frf,m T1.k.seelting their sdemands elsewhere. H. H. Rikard, Master. LISTEN! A certain store in Newberry, that everybody refers to as the "Home Goods Store," owing to their having everything for the HOME always in stock, alhas just received a beautiful e I lot of Imported Japanese China, e hand decorated, which is being sold at exceptionally low prices. e If you want to buy or want ; to see something pretty for y your home, just go to SALTER'S Art and Variety Store, eAcross from Salter's Studio. WACQI Just received,4 t2 1-2and 23-4 V we will sell thes It's the strongest SWagon on the m Buggi We carry but c ufactured by ThE vilule, Ga. These be the best and r ~market. Our pr Buy a Summers factured at Barn: ~No more -brokei Sshafts, broken e ronly parties hanc SCome and see OL and you will buy FE. M. I Program. Prayer. 10:00 A. M. Moral Advantages of the Farm. Rev. E. J. Sox. t How to keep the Boys on the Farm. I Hlon. D. F. Efrd. The Farmer's Cooperative and Edu- 1 Capital $50,000.00 Deposits $3 THE COMMEI of Newber . e. TO 3WLDc an emergency you may The Comme is prepared to loan reasonable si at legal rates. If you seed mone or for other purposes come to th positors of course receive the pr Interest Paid in Sa% "The Bank for y JNO. M. KINARD, Pres. J. Y. McFAL DUE WEST FEM, DUE WE% iTAe ideal place for quiet study, thorough kind persnal oversight. The attendance ( Facilties New Carnegie Hall with elesu Nlctic light,stea heat, compet water eaautiful cague. Theresident' addr ~ar load of Fish I iagons. For the e. Wagons regar best made and arket. es! Buj >ne line of Buggie SSummers Buggy Buggies are con ieatest job ever ices and Terms Buggy Company svile, Ga., and yo a~ wheels, split, t prings or bent t( lng these BuggiE r stock of Wagor from WVANS ,atioiial Union of America. J. B. )'Neall Holloway. Address. Hon. A. F. Lever. The public generally are invited to hese exercises. Come and bring well Med baskets. Music will be furnished by a string )and. Surplus$54,924.33 24,552.E4. 1CIl. BANK ry, S. C., need a little money. rcial Bank ims on acceptable collateral y-to pay or discount your bills e bank and talk it over. De eference. 'ings Department. rour Savings." 0. B. MAYER, Vice-Pres. L. Cashier. ALE COLLTEGE, T, S. C. work, sweet Christian influences, and werflowing last year. Greatly improved mt accommodations for ioo boarders. works and sewerage. Delightful cli y best advantages for the least money. ss till Septem e 1twil E , Montreat, N. C. 3ros. high grade nexct 30 days dless of profits. easiest running ggies! in stock, man SCo, of flarns sidered by all to offered on .this are reasonable. 's Buggy,. manu u have the best. )odies, cracked >p. We are the is in this county. is and Buggies &.co.