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m % * \ , l VOL XLIV NO 103 NEWBERRY, S. O., FRIDAY. DEOEMBKR 31. 19077 TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR H| BABY SHOW AT PROSPERITY. ( ^ Negro Killed by Train?Several Ha.p- t py Marriages?The Holiday En- J tertainments?Personal. 'Prosperity, Decem'bcr HO.?Again I the bells have been ringing- the wed ding acclaim, when Mr. Ernest Pug'h * K led to hymen's altar Miss Linme t B Count's on December 22. The cere- J mony was performed by the He v. S. s W P. Koon. 1 m The W. O. W. will have their an- c mini banquet on Thursday evening, I January 2. A generally gotod time i will be had. Jokes wil'l be the order t En; of the evening, but no speeches. tMr. J. L. Wise has gone west for si fig mules, and is expected home this t |V week. McFall Wise, Mr. Wise's old- t est son, accompanied his father. s Capt. R. IT. Rusell, of the S. A. I,., t is at home for the holidays. 1 K Alfred Rrohvn, Esq., a rising at'tor- i V ney of Atlanta, lias been visit'ing re- 1: la lives in Prosperity for tlie past c W A copy of Dun's Inter National s r Review fell into our hands last week h ft and in it we found copied from an e English Commercial and Financial t W Journal a very pleading nottiee of 1 one of our folks, known familiarly o | to us as Prof. Haynes. Mr. Haynes h married Miss Minnie Lee Bowers, e daughter of our elTleicnt post master. | o We arc all interested in Consul and ii I Mrs. Iiaynes. After speaking of 1 Consul Haynes' succes the Re- p B view says: "It is becoming more and WJ. more evident that Ifhtst-class men like B Consul General Haynes are of immense practical value to the nation n sending them out". That the Consular n jf service needs many such men." v K. The wedding bells do not only ring IS E| the St. "Lukes community, but in n ? the Mt. Tabor section as well. Miss n Essie Rowers and Mr. Enos Sheely v wore united in wedlock by the Rev. c M. 0. J. Kreps on December 20. Miss ! V Rowers is the daughter of Mr. Geo. d ft -AV. Rowers, one of the pillars in Mt. Tabor church. Mr. Sheely is a mem- > & her of the famous Sheely family of v it that' section. ^ E*" On the same day, by Rev. S. 1 . Kv Koon. Miss Annie Nichols and Mr. 11 Hk John Rowers were married at the re- 1 BKtL sidence of the bride's parents, Mi. W and Mrs. J. S. Nichols. These young f itarc well known and populai extend happy congratulations, o R. R. Luther has "returned 1 Paso, Texas, and is now with juts in Prosperity. C yinar to get on board a mov- J in on Friday at Slighs, a voun?v jiouro boy. son of Press Moses, |\ 'Pon anit,had his ankle and loir crush- n ft ed. lTe\ was brought to Prosperity b nml left with the agent. His father ..as notified of the accident and came t for 'him. He died on the way home. (] aid he had on a load of John c om which was an overload, paid the penalty, as so many was only one shooting scrape ^ during Christmas, so far as ^ rrewpondent can learn. Jno. shol nl Reuben Thompson. ^ 0 a lack of a clear eye and a linnd. no dam a or'* was do.ie, ^ . town is financially better ^ , . own had fun galore last nd tonight there is to be a afie party at' the city hall, " freshmen ts. Christ-mas exercises of Grace o school were enjoyed by all baby show on Thursday af- o was the most interesting feathe week. The following ha- v re entered : Helen Redenbaugh, i Vheeler, Pearl Lybrand, Anse,'. 1, Lorena Counts, Webstei i] k, Horace Dominick, Siloame jj [?k, Iconise Redenbaugh, Jas. Redenbaugh, Elizabeth j , Zaccheus Wert's, Mary Red- j i, Vera Merchant, L. C. Mer- ^ Pauline Counts, Helen Mat his, fort man, Geo. ITartman, Janet in, Robt. Pugh, Myra Hunter, rise, Joss Lee Counts, Nannie >nng?twenty-five in all. The s -Prof. Joseph R. Hunter, of n n College, and Alfred Brown, f Atlanta, awarded the pinm t 1 girl to Vera Merchant and d ? boy to. Robert Pugh. The 8 ft jandy booth and the recilai at 8 p. ni. vere thoroughly enjoyed. The cliap;er realized towards the monument Rc L'und $:54.?)0. The Candy Booth was presided over )y Misses Moseley and Bowel's and VIis. Worts. The Dime Reading on Friday night lie vas largely attended, and was hear- inl ily enjoyed. , Dr. Wyche as the Rev. nu (umbo Jum, a colored (black) hard- ni< ;bell Baptist preacher, brought down yo lie house. The participants in all the rij ixereises of the week rendered their an >arts so well that it would be "paint- rei ng the lilly or gilding refined " old" \Vi o add anything- at this writing. t'io Tiie holidays are rapidly passing, tin ind all the students will soon return bel o tlieir schools, and all others to j an heir usual work, and life will re- scl lime the normal and all will take up dit heir tasks with firmer resolve and to enewed endeavor to do their best of n tire n'e.w year, after the brief re- w? fixation from study, business and ev- J ryday cares that they have enjoyed cd or the past week. May we all be 1 tronger to resist the wrong and up- sy* lold the right and assist the weak and wa rriiijr in the year that is before us, as hail we were in the year that is past", est 'urning our faces to the rising sun it If the New Year let lis look with mt? ope to the future and go forward in (,f very good work that it may be our n>l pportunity to be presented to. Wish- i iur all the readers and friends of The ,-ej lerald and News a happy and pros- ?en erous New Year. (iut tio Fairview Items. lov This is certainly the dullest Christ- wo vas T ever saiw for the Fairview com- (.0i mnity. There was a vory nice cake- me i'alk given by Mr. and Mrs. John ou| foore, on Fiudny nrigiht. The Christ- i ias tree at Fairview was certainly 1Vfj lice, although, on account of bad ((> real her there was not a very large | \xrowd. <>iii Miss Jessie Brow.n spent Wed lies- nn, ay night with Miss Rena Moore. Mr. Maxev Morris has returned to xvo Jewberry, after spending a few days on rdlli his fattier and mother, Mr. and ] Jm. L. D. Morris. i*oc Miss Jessie Brown spent Friday S01 light with Misses Fstelle and Oilie )omi>nick. tin Miss Ivi/zie Moore will soon leave or Newberry Cotton Mill. ] Fairview school will reopen again (}(> ni Thursday, January 2. mi Mrs. John Turner and little son, a Jaster Alvi'n. of Newberry, spoilt (M), ^hris'tmas with her parent's, Mr. and bo? Jrs. J. Burr Connelly. wo ? a s She?I see a cooking school and a oui mrsery are anions: the innovations to ie(> tc tried soon in Seattle. is He?And is there no Society for he Prevention of Cruelty to Cliil- eai Iren in Seattle, I wonder??Yonkers to Statesman. all s1k Getting Even. W(' The absurd practice of printing ni< ills of fare in French evidently an- ' loyed a patron in a New York res- ',0 aurant not long ago, for, after a lancing at the card, he ordered the pi i waiter to bring the head waiter be- ^)c ore hi#. When that dignified per- ste on appeared the patron remarked: "I don't want any of this stuff. 1 <3-~ Taven't you anything fit to eat1? Got au ny sine qua non?" mc "No, sir; I'm afraid we're all mt, sir," the head waiter gasped. "Any tempus fugit? Any sine W!, ie? No? Well, bring me some semper sv> adem." a , "Very sorry, sir; but \ am afraid six vo havent' any," the man said, try- ccr ;ig to edge away. ; "Oh, well; bring me some e pluri- ent his unum," the diner said, sinking stu ack in his chair. wo "iSeems like I've heard of that," or lie man muttered, and rushed for lie kitchen, only to return with a a I nguard look upon his face. J101 "Ain't got tha<, either," lie said, ospondonlly. 1 . . inn "Woli, see if you can find me j j10 omo roast beef, potatoes, coffee and j j()j pple pie, the patron suggested. I "Yos, sir! in a minute, sir!", jinx ho man exclaimed in delight, and I t isappeared like a flash through th? j j,ftl wing doors.?Harper's Weekly. i FOR BETTER ROADS. solutions to be Submitted to Mee ing of Rural Letter Ca,triers in the Court House Tomorrow. hditor Herald and News: 1 preset rewith .1 ftnv resolutions which oinl lo submit In (he rural currier.1 'etin? in1 the c'niii'l house here If Trow aiul. respectf'uMy ask Hit u publish them so tliat I he eai ts over the county may read thei d have their minds made up wit iard to them when they arriv lidnesdav morning. fu this connet u, I want every rural carrier i ' county who is interested in th I lei meui of the roads to be presen d help us (<> set on foot som lenre that will finprove the go:: ion of the roads. This is got tin be a serious question and demand us all of tlie consideration tun can give it. Here :s my scheme for roads eovoi by rural routes: Whereas, we believe the presen stem o( working the public high ys is a failure, and, whereas, w rural letter carriers, are the great sufferers from bad roads, we fee encumbent upon us to suggest ro dies looking to the improvemen the public roads covered by on lies; therefore be it, iesolved, 1st, That wo petition 011 ) resent a fives in the general as nbly to alter or amend our pros road law wit'll regard to tire op nal feature of the law which a) ,'S a person subject to road duty t rk a number of days or pay nmut'ation tax, and require the pay nt of such commutation tax with any other option whatever, iesolved, 2nd, That in case on >resentatives .should fail or refus abolish this optional feature o > law, that ive do hereby requea patrons, as a special favor to u 1 as a benefit t(? themselves, t v I he commutation lav in lieu o rking the required number of day I he roads. Resolved, 3rd, That we do hereb piesl the county supervisor lo i\ ve the money collected as comnii io:i tax and apply such money t improvement of that section o id from which i! v.as collected. Resolved, 4th, Thai wherever pnu able and wherever so much as to les of a public road is covered b rural route that we request th inly supervisor t'o hire an abk lied mail?white or colored?t rk daily upon these ten miles a ipecilied wave per monl'h to be pai I of the commutation tax fund co! led from this road until such fun exhausted. Resolved, ">th. That the laborer s ployed be required to report dail the carrier and that the carrier b owed to direct the movement 0 ?h laborer showing him where t rk and what kind of work it i 1st. desired lo be done. Resolved, (>th, Thai wherever .a sec II of road is thickly populated an large eomnuitatiion tax fund a< les therefrom, that t'wo laborer employed to work together, ir ad of one. fViid, now, a little amplitude wit rard to the these resolutions. T ar are that this scheme is an experi nt and like all other experiments i 1st run the gauntlet of the criti il the skeptic. If it should fai will have lost nothing more tha are losing already by our presen Mem, because it also is a failureliost lamentable failure; and, if i >uld prove a success, then we hav tainly profited by the experimenl ^?w, lets briefly review our pre? system <if road working. The firs mihling block is the option o inking six days on the public road of paying a commutation tax o cc dollars. la a great many case person subject to road duly doe flier one. TTc does not pay the la the hope thai he may not. be warn out to work, or, if he should be, i v be for only one or two (lavs am thereby figures 011 savin*1: n ?o ipl lars. This is unfair and an in jus .j l>i his neighbor who has naid th ' in full. Wain, when working (he road th ids accomplish as little as possible I is, (f them on his farm wil t do as much work in a day as live of them on the road. Again, thero is, t- under the present system, hut one convenient season i'or working the reacts and that is when the crops arj laid hv. Of course no one can it lylrtnie the farmers for this, for they I fret their living from the cultivation i* of their fields and not from digging )- in the public roads. Certainly no it oiie blames them as individuals for r- had roads. It is the system that is II at flauii'. Now, as 1 have just said; h the most convenient season for worke ing the roads is when the crops are >. laid by: then, afterwards, all the n holes, all the rough places, all the e deep ruts must stay there until they it are actually worn away by travel or e until the next crop is laid by. Lets i- take an example to illustrate. A g brush .net's into a side-ditch; it rains s and this little brush chokes the ditch it causing it to overflow and run down the middle of the road. In a few *- weeks after a few rains you've .not a ditch a hundred yards long rig-hl in t the middle of the road that places i- your horse's back on a level with e your dashboard, and a job that one man with a shovel could have executd ed in three minutes becomes a task that will hold a dozen men an hour t when the crops are laid by. Again, r where is the carrier who can't point with a sickly kind of pride to a i" beautiful red and yellow mud puddle >- on the tip top of a hill somewhere on i- his route? It stands there from De> comber until may or .Tune a nuisance !- to the traveling public all because it <> is no particular person's business to a go lly?ro and work maybe fifteen minutes to give the water an outlet, i- At another place there is cloister of stones protruding several inches v nl?o\ilie surface or the road-bed. "3 You are iroing at brisk trot but when ? you reach this place you must slow it down to a walk in order to save your s vehicle from damage and your horse ? from stmolding or falling. A man, t a shovel and a few shovels-full of s dirt would fix it and the next time you pass you can keep up your speed y without any discomfort or damage to vehicle or horse. Now. right here, a word as to t'inie lost on account of ? these bad places. If you will take I notice of the times you are eonipellol to break your speed on account of bail places and then figure how far :i you could be on your wav if you did .V not have to slow down to a walk you c' will find the lime saved would put von back to the post'oflice from an ? hour to two hours earlier every day. d As for your horse, it will be a lot d 'easier for him to keep up a steady gait over smooth roads than to go at break-neck speed over a short stretch of sjood road in order to train ? a little time and then come to a .V walk as he tugs and strains to pull G you and your vehicle out of a hole f in the road deep enough to bury him ? in when he dies or to pull you over s a bridge with the approaches six to ten inches above the road level. The fiixnjr of such places would be d the duty of the laborer referred to in the 4th resolution, under the di"s rect.ion of the rural carrier on that >- road. I am aware that this plan would not be expedient on a road h where there was no carrier or other n person traveling the road resrularlv i- every day to see that the laborer ^ rendered bona fide service. Since the carrier travels his road daily he ' would know just how much work had t been accomplished from the same - time the procedang day so that the ' laborer would have little or no chance i " of "iplaving off" or "killing time" \ . ' on a carrier who is anxious to have I j his roads improved. p | Carriftr No. 3, Newberry. s | T. E. W.ieker. s j Newberry 'Circuit. s| The first quarterly conference for 1 j Newberry circuit will be held the 11 j ! and 12 of January instead of 13 ami I * rl j If) as first announced. It will be hold 0 at" New Chapel instead of Trinity, j There will be preaching Saturday! and Sunday II a. m. at New Chapel ^ at Trinity 3.110 p. ni. S| A. II. Best, I\ C. i li; December 30, 3007. t VOTED FOR A DISPENSARY. - Union Election Results in Majority of 11 for Sale of Liquor. I ivion, December 2S.?'Complete unollicial returns of the election held - in this county yesterday on the issue, f dispensary or no dispensary, give a ! majority ol' eleven votes in favor of I the dispensary, the total Vote being i (il l for sale, (o ngaiinsl sale. In nearly all the outlying precincts the vole was principally the same as I at the elect ion held two veai^s ago, - when the dispensary was voted out of i the county, hut a ureal change was - mauiifested in the town of Union, ! where the majority against the dis pensary was reduced from nearly ! 200 to S. "Tirere is a great deal of talk of a contest, and il is very likely one will l?e made hv the antMlispensary force's. An official canvass of the voles and a declaration of t'he result wiil probably be made next Tuesday. The election was very ?|iiiel, very little excitement being manifested. RED IN MOST FLAGS. There is only one flag in the Eastern hemisphere that does not contain red. That is the flag of (Jreeevj. Other standards in the Western hemisphere not containing tire color are those of I he Argentine Republic, I Hra/.ile, Nicaraugua, Clua tenia la, Uru, guay atul Honduras. In this country there is no red in the union jack nor in the flags of the secretary of the navy, the admiral of the navy, the rear admiral son, ior in rank, the rear admiral junior in rank. Red appears in the pennant, of the rear admiral second in rank, ana rfxo pennatu or itie icveimu marine. The war color is also in the United States mail flag, the pennant for vessels in the lighthouse service, tin; yacht ensign, tire ensign of the rev1 enue marine, I lie president's and the ] secretary of war's standards. ' The fiags which are nit i rely of red. except the device* in some, are those of I'L'.vpt, Morocco, Auslriallungary and .lapan. Tlui! >f Turkey is neai l\- all re.I. The flags of t'oriy-i wn lii;,r conntries also contain most conspicuously the color which is supposed to represent war. As to devices, the star is ;epr.is" e:ited on tweniv flags; the cross, in' eluding the double cross, on twelve; I he anchor on two; the eagle oil four; Ihe eiephant on one, Siam ; Ihe * lion (not including the lion and the unicorn) on one, Persia; the dragon ; on one. China; the sun on .three; whilo I'tUima is the i.nly flag <>n earth which ' lias the turkey, 1 The only all yellow flag is Hint whi-h represents quarantine. I An authority on the subject of I I'iay-s includes the Confederate ling, j! This authority says; | "During the civil war the seceding states Iw.l n number of diatinot ? I flags. Early in W>1 their emigres* I called the Stars and Bars, which win * i composed of three hroad, horizontal I bars, I he two oulcr ones red and the 1 middle one white, with a blue u.iiort containing seven white stars in a ^ circle. The number />f stars WAS subsequentl.v increased to thirteen." The Confederate baltic flag used throughout the war consisted of a > Hield of red o:> which was n blue Saint * Andrew's cross bordered with white ' and bearing thirteen white stars. In IS(5.'{ the Confederate Congress adopted a flag having a white field with * a union or canton of the battle flag. 1 This was sometimes mistaken for a ' flag of truce, so in 1805 a rad bar was imposed acres* the end of the l field. The present coat of arms of New > York was <:i the Colonial flag of New Amsterdam which was carried I l>v 'irmed vessels thai saiied from New York. The new generation may not know t lie ignifieanco of the heaver in the coal of arms now on * I he state flag. The device was the 5 idea of the Dutch and was meant to indicate the industry of the people , at that time and the wealth of the I fur trade. ) After red, blue is the prevailing color in the flags of nations . WILL NOT COME TO TRIAL. Satisfactory Settlement of Lovo Bailey Case Agreed Upon by Counsel. News and Courier. It is understood thai counsel rep resenting both sides in I ho ease ol Love against Hailev, (an action foi damages alleging breach of contract of marriage, brought by Mrs. Pliem S. Love, of Jacksonville, Florida against. Mercer S. Uailcy, the well known manufacturer, merchant an< banker of Clinton, in the United States circuit count,) have agreed upoi terms of adjustiment mutually satisfactory to both parties, and while il will probably lake some time to consummate the settlement, i'l will Ik eventually carried out. BOY KILLED NEAR AIKEN. Son of Resident of Atlanta Accidentally Shot by his Uncle. Aiken, Decem'ber 27.?James Humphrey, of Atlanta, C!a., was shot an.i killed this aifternoon near Aiken accidentally by Mr. Men F. Tyler whih Iiuntiii.Li'. T'ne full charge of a shotnun loaded with bird-shot took effect in the. boy's head, literally tearing il DlV. Mr. Tyler is prostrated willi grief. and made threats of committing suicide. Lit'tle J amies, with bis mother and other members of the family, camv over from Atlanta to spend the holidays with relatives in and near Aiken. The family resided at Montmoroivci, near Aiken, until a few years ago. Mr. Tyler was an uncle of the lead boy. Reprieved on tho Scaffold. Rirmingham, Ala., Dee. 27.?Just as the black cap was about to be placed today over the head of llenr\ Thaxtou, a negro convicted for tin killing of S. T. lTunstucker, while, ; telegram from the governor, ordering j? suspension cuf the execution for l.r days, was delivered to the sheriff. Tin prisoner raised his hands ami exclaimed : " My (Jod." Mark Twain's Discounts. Washington Post. "Mark Twain is the most interest iny; character in American literatim trday, and has made more money on ol' it than any other author,' said A S. Swanson, representative of one ol the ureal publishing houses. "II< iiv;.i just around the corner from on place and so we see him very often lie is never so happy as when tell in!? a story, and is often seen doin; so in a group of congenial spirits. 1I< was telling me that recently he wen into the sales department, of oui house, and being attracted by a par ticular book asked the price. '''Four dollars,' said the clerk. " 'Well, now,' said Mr. Clemens 'I am a newspaper writer. Don't get a discount for that?' " 'Certainly,' repiied the obliging clerk. " 'I am also a magazine writer Do I get something off for that?' " 'Yes,' said the clerk, you get discount for that.' " 'T am also n:i author. Don't . come in on the author's discount1?' "'Yes, sir, you get the author'; discount.' "'In addition,' said Mr. Clemens 'I am n stockholder in 'his house Does that entitle me to something olT 7' " 'Yes, sit',' the clerk returned. " 'Now,' continued Mr. Clemens 'F would like to state that I an Ramuei Clemens. Does that fact entitle me to another rakeoff?' , " 'It does,' said the clerk aftwr f moment's hesitation. " -'That's good,' replied the aut'io'now how much do I owe you?' " 'We owe you eighty cents,' said the clerk." ^tern Parent, (anxious to impress ;ii^ lesson)?-Now, my son, t.li mr why I have caned you. Toniniv (bitterly)?Boo-hoo; there you've given men a good lickin' a:i< don't even know what for.?Chicago News.