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VOL XLIV >10 103 NEWBERRY, S. O., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31.190.TIEAWE.$.0AYL BABY SHOW AT PROSPERITY. Negro Killed by Train-Several Hap py Marriages-The Holiday En tertainments-Persopa. .Prosperity, December 30.-Again the bells have been ringing the wed ding acclaim, when Mr. Ernest Pugh led to hymen's altar Miss Linnie Counts on December 22. The cere mony was performed by the Rev. S. P. Koon. The W. 0. W. will have their an nual banquet on Thursday evening, January 2. A generally good time will be had. Jokes will be the order of the evening, but no speeches. Mr. J. L. Wise has gone west for mules, and is expected home this woek. McFall Wise. Mr. Wise's old est son, accompanied his father. Capt. R. H. Rusell, of the S. A. L., is at home for the holidays. Alfred Brown, Esq., a rising attor ney of Atlanta, has been visiting re latives in Prosperity for the past week. A copy of Dun's Inter National Review fell into our hands last week and in it we found copied from an English Commereial and Financial Joutrnal a very pleading ndtic'e of one of our folks, known familiarly to us as Prof. Haynes. Mr. Haynes married Miss Minnie Lee Bowers, daughter of our efficient post master. We are all interested in Consul and Mrs. Haynes. After speaking of Consul Haynes' succes the Re view says :"It is becoming more and more evident that frst-class men like Consul General Haynes are of im mense practical value to the nation sending them out. That the Consular service needs many such men.'' 'The wedding bells do not only ring in the -St. Lukes community, but in the Mt. Tabor section as well. Miss Essie Bowers and Mr. Enos Sheely were united in wedlock by the Rev. M. 0. J. Kreps o.i December 26. Miss Bowers is the daughter of Mr. Geo. W. Bowers, one of the pillars in Mt. Tabor chureh. Mr. Sheely is a mem ber of the famous Sheely family of that section. On the same day, by Rev. S. P. Koon. Miss Annie Nichols and Mr. John Bowers were married at the re sidence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Nichols. These young pe0ople are well known and .popular and we extend ha'ppy congratulations. Mr. E. B. Luther has 'returned frgm El Paso, Texas, and is now with his,arents i'n Prosperity. In\trying to get on board a mov ing train on Friday at Slighs, a von. negro boy, son of Press Moses, fell and, had his ankle and leg crush ed. He. was brought to Prosperity and left 'with the agent. His father - was notified of the accident and came for him. He died on the way home. It was said he had on -a load of John Barlev co.rn which was an overload, a,'d he paid the penalty, as so .many -do. gere was only one shooting scrape in to n during Christmnas. so far as your ~rrespondent can learn. .Tno. -M! 'yhet a t Rentben Thompson. (>winr fi a la-ek of a clear eye and a et'-.'av Napd. no daman was done, and the totwn is financially better *Our town had fnn galore last week, and tonight there is to be a masquerade party at the city hall, with refreshments. The Christmas exercises of Grace Sunday school were enjoyed by all present. Thte baby show on Thursday af ternoon was the most interesting fea ure of the week. The following ba ies were entered: Helen Bedenbaugn, race Wheeler, Pearl Lybrand. Anse-. brand. Lerena Counts. Webster minick, Horace Dominick, Siloame -inick. Louise Bedenbaugh, Jas. ~ght Bedenbaugh, Elizabeth wne. Zaccheus Wert>s, Mary Bed ugh, Vera Merchant, L. C. Mer t, Pauline Counts, Helen Matis, Hartman, Geo. Hartman, .Janet ar. R.obt. Pugh, Myra Hunter, Wise, da~ss Lee Counts. Nanmie 1oung-twenty-five in all. The -. Prof. Joseph B. Hunter. of on College, and Alfred Brown, f Atlanta, award d the prize e g-irl to Vera Merchant and a bhov to Robert Pugh. The I candy booth and the recital at S p. were thoroughly enjoyed. The cha ter realized towards the monume fund $34.90. The Candy Booth was presided or by Misses Moseley and Bowers az Mrs. Werts. The Dime Reading on Friday nig was largely attended, and was hea tily enjoyed., Dr. Wyche as the Re Jumbo Jum, a colored (black) har, shell Baptist preacher, brought dov the house. The participants in all ti exercises of the week rendered the parts so well that it would be "pain ing the lilly or gilding refined gold to add anything at this writing. The holidays are rapidly passin and all the students will soon retu to their schools, and all others their usual work, and life will r sume the normal and all will take t their tasks with firmer resolve ar renewed endeavor to do their be in the new year. after the brief r laxation from study, business and e eryday cares that they have enjoy, for the past week. May we all 1 stronger to resist the wrong and u: hold the right and assist the weak at erring in the year that is before u thah we were in the year that is pas Turning our faces to the rising st oif the New Year let us look wil hope to the future and go forward every good work that it may be oi opportunity to be presented to. Wisi in, all the readers and friends of TI Herald and News a happy and pro perous New Year. Fairview Items. This is certainly the dullest. Chris mwe I ever saw for the Fairview con munity. There was a vary nice eak walk given by -Mr. and Mrs. Jol Moore, on Friday night. The Chris mas tree at Fairview was certain nice,. although, on aecount of ba weather there was not a very lar. crowd. Miss Jessie Brown spent Wedne day nigh.t with Miss Rena Moore. Mr. Maxey Morris has returned Newberry. after spending a few da; with his fatrher and mother, Mr. ar Mrs. L. D. Morris. Miss Jessie Brown spent Frid, night with Misses Estelle and 011 Dominick. Miss Iizzie Moore will soon lea for ewberry Cotton Mill. Fairview sc'hool will reopen aga on Thursday, January 2. Mrs. John Turner and little sc Master Aivi n, of Newberry, spe Christmas with her parents, Mr. al Mrs. J. Burr Connelly. She-i s e a cooking school and nursery are among the innovations be tried soon in Seattle. He-And is there no Soeiety f the Prevention of Cruelty to dh dren in Seattle. I wonder ?-Yonke Statesman. .Gettinig Even. The absurd practice of printi: bills of fare in French evidently a noyed a patron in a New York r< taurant not long ago, for, afi g'ancing at the card, he ordered t waiter to bring the head waiter 1 fore hit. When that dignified ps son appeared the patron remarked5 'I don't want any of this stu: Haven't you anything fit to eat? G any sine qua non9'' 'No, sir; I'm afraid we're out, sir,'' the head waiter gasp4 'Any tempus fugit? Any si die? No ? Well, bring me some seml: eadem.' 'Very so.rry, sir: hut I am afre we havent' any,'' the man said, tb ing to edge away. 'Oh, well; bring me some e plu bus unum'' the diner said, sinki back in his chair. 'iSems like I've heard of that tie man muttered, and rushed f the kitchen, only to return with h aard look upon his face. 'Ain't got thai, either.'' he sa despondently. 'Well, see if you can find ome roast beef, potatoes, coffee a apl)e pie, the patron snavosted. 'Yes, sir! In a minte, sir the man exclaimed in delight, a disappeared like a flash through t swin dor.c-Tarnar4' Weekly. n. FOR BETTER ROADS. p it Resolutions to be Submitted to Meet ing of Rural Letter Carriers in er the Court House Tomorrow. id Editor Herald and News: I presen it herewith a few resolutions which: r- intend to submit to the rural carriers v. meeting in' the court house here to - morrow and, respectfully ask tha -n you publish them so that the car e riers over -the -county may read then ir and have their minds made up witl t- regard to them when they arrivi Wednesday morning. In this connec tion, I want every rural carrier in , the county who is interested in the n betterment of the roads to be presen o and help us to set on foot some e- scheme that will finprove the eon ip dition of the roads. This is getting d to be a serious question and demands st of us all of the consideration ta e- we can give it. V- Here s my scheme for roads cover d ed by rural routes: )e Whereas, we believe the presen >- system of working the public high a ways is a faiilure, and, whereas, w s, as rural letter carriers, are the great t. est sufferers from bad roads, we fee ,n it encumbent, upon us to suggest re ,h medies looking to the improvemen1 .n of the public roads cover-,d by oui r routes; therefore be 'it, 3- Resolved, 1st, 'That we petition outl e representatives in the general .as s- sembly to alter or amen: our pres ent road law with regard to th'e op tional feature of the law which al tows a person subject to road duty t< t- work a number of days or pay a - commutation tax, and require the pay e- ment of such commutation tax with n out any other option whatever. t- Resolved, 2nd, That in case ou iy representatives should fail or refus Ad to abolish this optional feature o: e the law, that we do hereby reques our patrons, as a speciel favor to. uE s- and as a benefit to themselves, tc pay the commutation tav in lieu o to working the required number of day rs on the roads. id Resolved, 3rd, That we do hereb: request the county supervisor to re L serve the money collected as commu ie tation tax and apply such money ti the impr:,vement of that section o "e road from which it was collected. Resolved, 4th, That wherever prac l ticable and wherever so much as te: miles of a public road is covered b; ri, a rural route that we request th nt county supervisor to hire an able 2d bodied man-white or colored-L work daily upon these ten miles a a specified wage per month to be pai a out of the commutation tax fund col to leted from this road until such fun is exhausted. or Resolved, 5th, That the laborer s 1- employed be required to report dail, rs to the carrier and that the carrier b allowed to direct the movement o such laborer showing him where t work and what kind of work it i most desired to be done. nResolved, 6th, That wherever a se< .tion of 'road is thickly populated an er a large eommutat4ion tax fund a~ he rues therefrom, that two labor~ei e- be employed to work. together, i r- stead -of one. : And, now, a little amplitude wit .Iregard to the these resolutions. I ai .'aware that this scheme is an exper tment and like all other exeriments must run the gauntlet of the criti all and the skeptic. If it should fai d. we wvill have lost nothing more tha ne we are losing already by our presen er systm, beca.use it also is a failure a most lamentable failure; and, if d should prove a success, then we hav y- eertainly profited by the experimen Now, lets briefly review our pres ri.. ent sstem of road working. The firs g stumibling block is the, option a working six days on the puxblic road " or of paying a commutation tax a or hee dollars. In a great many case aa person subject to road duty doE neither one. He does not pay the ta .in the hope that he may not be warr td, ed out to work, or. if he .should be, mri be for only one or two days a, "a he iherehr fi<rure3 on savin' aop nflt dollars. This is unfair and an injm tic u his neig'hbor who has paid th !"txi full. ndAgain, when working the road tl1 hehands accomplish as little as possibl, ih~ i, c thm u isfam wi do as much work in a day as five them on the road. Again, there - under the present system. but < conve;ient season for working I roads and that is when the crops laid by. Of course no one t blame the farmers for this, for t' get their living from the cultivati of their fields and not from diggi in the public roads. Certainly ode blames them as individuals J bad roads. It is the system that at faulit. Now, as I have just sa the most convenient season for. woi ing the roads is when the crops laid by; then, afterwards, all i holes, all the rougIh places, all I deep ruts must stay there until tl are actually worn away by travel until the next crop is laid by. L take an example to illustrate. brush gets into a side-ditch; it raJ and this little brush chokes the dii causing it to overflow and run do the middle of tire road. In. a f weeks after a few rains you've r a ditch a hundred yards long right the middle of the- road that plai your horse's back on a level w: your dashboard, and a job that c man with a shovel could have dec [ ed in three minutes becomes to that will hold a dozen men an hc when the crops are laid by. Aga where is the carrier who can't poa with a siekly kind of pride to beaitiful red and yellow mud pud; - on the tip top of a hill somewhere - his route? It stands there from I -ember until may or June a nuisa to the travefing public all because is no- particular person's business -go tlpre and work maybe fifte - minates to give the water an outl - At aother place there is cloister stone's protruding several inel above -the iifface fT tbhe road-bi You are going at brisk trot but wb you reach this place you must' sl, down to a walk in order to save yc vehicle from damage and your ho from stumbling or falling. A rr a shovel and a few shovels-full dirt would fix it and the next ti you pass you can keep up your sp( without anv discomfort or damage v. hiele or horse. Now, right here - word as to time lost on account these bad places. If you will t4 2 notice of the times you are compel to break your speed on account - bad places and then figure how von could be on your way if you i not have to slow down to a walk 3 e will find th'e timne saved would - v baek to the postQffice from hour to two hours earlie.r every d tAs for your horse, it wilil be a I easier for him to keep up a stes - gait over smooth roads than to go break-neek sipeed over a sh stretch of goo"d r'oad in order to g Sa little time and then come to i walk as *he tugs and strains to I e ou and your vehicle out of a b f in the road deep enough to bur.y -1 0 in when he dies or to pull you o s a bridge with the approaches5 six ten inehes above the road level. I The fiixng of 'such pilaces would t~he duty of the laiborer referred in the 4th resolution, under the s reti,on of the rural carrier on t - road, I am aware ,that this p would not lie expedient on .a r< a where there was no carrier or ot person .traveling the- road regul~ -every day to see that the labc t rendered bona fide set-vice. Since carrier travels his 'road daily 'wou4d know just how much work]l i been accomplished from the s~ - time the preceding day so that t laborer would have little or no cha: a of ''playing off" or ''killing ti -on a carrier who is anxio)us to h: his roads improved. f i Carrier No. 3, Newvberr.y ST. E. Wicker. 'Newberry 'Circuit. s The first quarterly conference Newberry eireuit will be held the and 12 of Janu-ary inste:.d of 18 19 as first announced. It will be jj e a New Chapel instead of ,Trin ~ T-here will be preaching Satr< ad Sunday 11 a. m. at New Oha at Trinity 3.30 p. m. ~, jA. H. Best. P. C 1 Decmber 30, 1907. of WILL NOT COME TO TRIAL. is, ,ne Satisfactory Settlement of Love- ) ;he Bailey Case Agreed Upon by' ir Cpunsel. an --- rey News and Courier. u on It is understood that counsel rep- it ng resenting both sides in the ease of d no Love against Bailey, (an action for n or damagEs alleging breach of contract t is of marriage, brought by Mrs. Phena 6 d; S. Love, of Jacksonville, Florida, ?k- against Mercer S. Bailey,. the well- tl tre known manufacturer, merchant and a he banker of -Clinton, in the United .Sta- w he tes circuit count,) have agreed upon t. ey terms of adjustment mutually saltis- n or factory to both parties, and while it w ts will probably take some time to con- I A summate the settlement, It will be 2 :ns eventually carried out. ch -- e' vn BOY KIT..n NEAR AIKEN. - ew a ;ot Son of Resident of Atlanta Accident in ally Shot by his Uncle. es th Aiken, December 27.-Jaames Hum ne phrey, of Atlanta, Ga., was shot and t killed this afternoon near Aiken ac sk cidentally by Mr. Ben F. Tyler while ur hunting. The full charge of a shot gun loaded with bird-shot took effect Lnt in the boy's head, literally tearing it a off. Mr. Tyler is prostrated with h le grief, and made threats of commit- a n ting suicide. )e Lttle Jaimes, with his motaer and B t other members of the family, camre * iover from Atlanta to spend the holi to days with relatives in and near Aik en en. The family resided at Montmor et.nei,- near Aiken, until a few years a ofag Mr. Tyler was an uncle of the 3dead boy. eIIr en . Reprieved on the Scafold. Birmingham,. Ala., Dec. 27.-Just .,se assthe blaek cap was about to be plac- S ad today over the head of Henry s of Thaxton, a negro convi'cted for the me killing of S. T. Hunstu'cker, white, a e ed telegram from the governor, ordering s to a suspension of the execution for 15 a .days, was delivered to the sheriff. The . of prisoner raised his hands and ex- t ke claimed: "My God." lei - of - Mark Twain's Discounts. Far Washington Post. t id "Mark Twain is the most interest on ing character-in A.merican literature r t today, and has mades.more money out an of it than any other author,' said A. av. S. Swanson, representative of one of o the great publishing houses. "He t Ldy lves just arounid the corner from our at place and so we see him very often. 1 ort He is never so happy as when tell an ing a story, and is often seen doing !Q a so in a group of congeniali spirits. He ull was telling me that recently he went ole into the sales department of our im house, and being attracted by a par ver tienilar 'book asked the price. to " 'Four dollars,' said the clerk. "Well, now,' said Mr. Clemens, be 'I am a newspaper writer. Don't I to get a discount for that?' . di- "'Certainly,' replied the obbhying at clerk. - -. I lan 'I am also a magazine writer. yDo I get something off for that?' her ~' 'Yes,' said the clerk, you get a r y discount for that.'j rer "'I am also an author. Don't I ecome in on the author's discount?' t 'Yes, sir, you get the author's he diont.' ia., " 'In addition,' said Mr. Clemens, .me 'I am a stockholder in this house. I the Does that 'entitle me to something I ace of f?' '' " 'Yes, sir,' the clerk returned. t "'Now,' continued Mr. Clemens. a re'I would like to state that I am rj Samuel Caemens. Does that fact en- f - title me to another rakeoff?' " 'It doe's,' said the clerk after a f moment's hesitation. ""-That's good,' replied the autho:, ' for 'now how much do I owe you?' 11 " 'We owe you eighty cents,' said md the clerk." ~t.stern Parent (anxiouxs to impress t ly i"iesson)-Now, my son, teli me i wy I have caned you. p ommy (bitterly)-Boo-hoo; there, you've given men a good lickin' and don't even know what for..-Chicago News. VOTED FOR A DISPENSARY. fnion Election Results in Majority of 11 for Sale of Liquor. Union, December 28.-Complatae nofficial returns of the election held i this county yesterday on the issue, ispensary or no dispensary, give a iajority of eleven votes in favor of ie dispensary, the total vote being 14 for sale, to 603 against sale. In nearly all the outlying precinets ie vote was principally the sanme as t the eleetion held two years ago, ,hen the dispensary was votea out of i2 eounty, but a great change was ianiifested in the town of Union, shere the majority against the dis ensary was reduced from nearly 0 to 8. -There is a great deal of talk of a :ntest, and it is very likely one will e made by the anti-dispensary forces. An official can.vass of the votes and declaration of the result will pro ably be made next Tuesday. The Lection was very quiet, very little ex itement being manifested. RED IN MOST FLAGS. There is only one flag in the East rn hemisphere that does not eon tin red. That is the flag of Greece. Other standards in the Wetern emisphere not containing the color re those of the Argentine Republie, razile, Nicaraugua, Guatemala, Urn. lay and Honduras. In this country there is no red the union jack nor in the flags of ie secretary of the navy, the admir of the navy, the rear admiral sen r in rank, the rear admiral junior i rank. Red appears in the pen ant of the rear admiral second in arine. The war color is also in the United tates mail flag, the pennant for ves is in tie lighthouse serviee, the acht ensign, the ensign of the rev aue marine, the president's and the eretary of war's standards. The flags which are -mntirely of ad. except the devices in some, are dose of Egypt, Morocco, Austria inngary and Japan. That of Tar ey is nearly all red. The flags of forty-two other coun ries also contain most conspicuously be color which is supposed to rep esent war. A~ to devices, the star is repres ited on twenty flags; the cross, in: luding t,he double cross, on twelve; he anehor on two; thie 'eagle Oft our; the eleph.ant on one, Siam; the ion (not including the -lion and the niorn) on one, Persia; the dragon n ne, China; the sun on ,three; while ~uma is the caly' flag on earth.which a the turkey. The only all yellow flag is that rhich represents quarantine. An authority on the subject oe ia- inicludes the Confedei-ate flag. [his authority says: 'During the civil war the seed ng states had a ntuber of distin@t lags. Early in 1861 their congress ailed the Stare and Bars, which was omposed of tFhree broad, horizontal tars, the two outer ones red and th* niddle one white, with a blue union ontaining seven white stars m a ir. The number 4f stars was ubsequently increased to thirteen." The Confederate battle flag used hroughout the war consisted of a' ield of red on which was a blue Saint Lndrew 's cross bordered with whita ,nd bearing thirteen white stars. In 863 the Confederate Congress adop ed a flag having a white field with ,union or canton of the battle flag. 'his was sometimes mistake2 for a lag of truce, so in 1865 a red bar ras imposed acress the end of the The present coat of arms of New ork was ca the Colonial flag of ew Amsterdam which was carried v armed vessels that saiied from ew York. The new generation may ot know the -ignificance of the eaver in the coat of arms now on he state flag. The device was the dea of the Dutch and was meant to ndicate the industry of the people t that time and the wealth of the 'ur trade. After red, blue is the prevailing olor in the flags of nations.