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Shit ~MtxM Aim Mm? v\/ E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New errv. S. C., as 2nd class mattes'. Friday, January 121, 1908. Wouliln'1 il bo a good idea for 1 he young ladies of Newberry to follow tiie example set by lire young- men, and organize a gymnasium association ! An hour spent, each day in it would l>o of great, physical benefit to tlies young women who are contined in the shops, stores, ollices and school-rooms. Senator (iraydou of A.bbeville has introduced a hill denying any person the right I<> set up the plea of sell' defense in homicide case where a pistol was the instrument, of deatili unless l.lie defendant was at tin; time of the killing' on hi< own premises. Are we l<i infer that if this measure becomes law ili.it lie who kills on his j own premises with a pistol is entitled I t'> lie acquitted on (lie plea of self defense ivyacdle> of the eircuin- | stances.' Tin re i- as niueh reason in j tlie latter principle as in |he former. I It is rallier strangi. that so many distinguished citizens of Sout h Oaro- 1 lina, men who are know to be honest, <. honorable, men who are cultured and polished, should care to he elected 1 to the t'niled States senate, where tlrev would have In associate with ' -Aldrieh, Dvpew, I'l'att and t'eff Davis. While ,1 isotssinir the question of what to do w irli the oTd count, house biul.ling. don't forge! that Newberry needs a wagon yard?not on t.he public square, however. If vou are a progressive citizen of Newberry, he sure to contradict a'.iy report Inat may be in circulation that 1 a man got stuck in the mud on lilie [ street so j? that he had to be pull- i v?d out. It w'as a horse, not a man. j And at the same time, can't, you say to Iiic members of the town council ! Miai you won't vole against them iff 1 hey spend more money for street improvement"? IN A STEEL MILL DISTRICT. Life of Men Who Ddlv Face Death for a TiW Deilais. I Chicago Tribune. linn, M.ilciv west 01' tiie nulls of j the Illinois Steel company, ai South i Chicago, there is a colony about 1 three-quarters of a mile long, and a quarter of a mile wide, which lias no count'er-parl anywhere on the globe, j There are in that colony from 7,000 to 10,000 men of thirty different nationalities, and living in thirty dif-i fereni ways. To the sttrangvr it might seem as if these thirty( countries had each ; sent a number of their men as exhibit.-! for a sort of international living museum. Hut this is not the case. The men were driven from home by ]>overty, and they came to South Chicago to work in the steel mills and (better their conditions. Nearly all of them are men in the prime of life-? n ml til* thirty. The greater part of 1ihem are unmarried, and of those who are married but a small number have their families here. Most of them stay hero a certain period, save a few dollars, and return to their native land, where they spend the rest, of their lives filling the soil six days in the week and in "Ameritsa" on the seventh day over a glass of vodka or a jug of kvas. The few having families in this country work until they are incapacitated, tMitlu'r by accident or through natural causes, or until Chey reach ttlio ag'O limit?forty-five to fifty. Then (hey live on what their children earn or else they keep boardMi's. Of the (5,000 or 7,000 immigrants of the Slavic races, about 500 aro listo.1 by the company as being able to speak English. To the rest the Knglish language and American customs the sealed books. To tiie superficial observer the life of most of these immigrant;* may "seem primitive. They wear the same shirt for weeks. They seldom undress "when th'ey go to bed, especially, those working at night and sleeping in the vlny-'imo. Bathhouses ar? unknown in that vicinity and the congestion in 'the louses where 'hvy lives is more than most civilized men having an income of $10 to $12 a week, as those people have would submit to. But- this unnatural life, unnatural even to them, is the result, not. of savagery, hu1 <xf the strange conditions and harsh surroundings with which they are confronted upon their arrival here. America to tlmm is not a country for people to live in, to have homes, iiud la mi lies, hut merely 11 country work in, to make a lew dollars in, and to yet out of as last ;?. > one can. Legendary heroes braved tiro drag<> '? in their search for golden hoards. Those mill workers, men ol" more or less primitive instincts, comiii^* from primitive, environments, hare the dra gons of modern progress and industry, the most complex and dangerous machinery, to earn a C.iw dollars will) which to pay back taxes and nldeem their soil il'roni the hands ol" an oppressive and despotic Kuropcan regime. Duty and necessity, not. adventure, hiud tlicm 14? tlieir task, and I lie minute these duties and nci." jt-siliicK are met thevf leave I lie. mills and furnaces for the nioiv congenial life of tlieir native vi 11 ayes. i 'fie >iiper\i-c.' labor -.1 ||i.> ?:linois Sleel e< uipaiiy says iliat this hoi erogenous po|?111 a t ion i> "peacew 1 ' 111 i ? I. lit.-!, ::: i; 1 : i-t mi - a:; I ii"e men I." A policeman who was watching a crowd of Ihilyarians, Servians, Croa!ia is and ii.odness knows how many other nationalities, as they were enterin::' the gate. look a -lightly different view of Ilrem. 'Much home, life among them?" he was asked. "Ilome life? 1 should say so. They live Iwculy-live and I lurly-ilive in one room, so there must he home life," he answered not without a shudder. The policeman then told of certain places in the neighborhood where nearly 100 people lived in Ihe same space and number of rooms which an American working-man's family of live would occupy. Unvalued Advice. Surgeon (leneral U'ixey was talking about his recent- statement coueerniuy Ihe harm that cigarettes lo sailors. "Let I hem defend Ihe cigarette as they please.'' lie said; "whenever I hear these defenses I think of the J siek horse a.id the turpentine. "Toiu met Mill on the road one j day. " * * * I > i 11 I want a word j wilh you,' he said. " ' I ?e ?|itii-k. then.'' said Hill, j ' I "in in a hurry. " 'What .lid you give your sick horse the oilier day ?" | " ' A pint of 1 urpentinc.' "Tom hurried home and poured j a pint of turpentine down the throat I of his own ailing nay. winch at' once grew worse' and in an hour was dead. "Then Tom. diirusted with Hill's vetinary ability, sought liim out. "Why. Hill.' he said. 'I gave my horse a pint of turpentine and it killed hi:f .' " 'So it did mine.' said Hill."? Washington Star. i An Impenetrable Place. . | When Secretary ('ortclyou left the depart incut of commerce and labtv to iisuine direction of the pustollice department he took with iiitn a very! diyuiliied and gentletnanly old darky messenger. . A day or two after Mr. Cortelyous' assumption of his new dignities the old messenger was d'O/.i.ig in his chair just outside the anteroom of the postmaster general when another messenger approached him. saying: "There's a gentleman in the room acros the hall who wants to see Mr. Contelyon." "He can't see him.'' was the tirm reply. "Hut he says lie must see him." persisted tho second messenger. ''I do.1 't know nothin' about d'at." returned the old chap; "but T do know dait nobody can see Mr. {'ortclyou. Iltj's just gone to his sanctum sanitarium.''?Lippincott's. Saved Walking. Some years ago there lived in Perth, Scotland, a man of convivial hajbits., well known by his Christian name, d'amia One dark night an acquaintance Pound Jamie, lying al the foot of an outside stair. "Ts that you. Jamie?" asked th* acquaintance in a voice of the greatest astonishment. "Aye. it's me" replied Jamie in a tone of complete resignation. "Have yon fa'en doon the stair?" was the next question. ". T fell doon. but- T was comin' doon, whether ov.no." Items From St. Philips. 1 he new telephones which have raeeently been put in this section are Ihe cause of a good deal of amusement nowadays. Mr. Adam Iviblcv who has had a pretty severe spell of illness is able t'o be up again. Hr. . T. Picker!'s baby is very low at t.hds writing. There is a good deal of sickness in the community? mostly colds. rati i . 111ore will bo a shooting match aLi1'*"""" II. J I. Kul'f's si ore on Saturday, the i ? 'J-nli, beginning some limo in (ire ** morning. Tl.o next regular meeting of the , St. Philip's farnmrs' Union will take place on Saturday, tho 25tli, at St. Philip's school house. Tho meeting will begin at 2.00 o'clock p. m. v Decfmus. Sis Hopkins' Saying. By Hose. Melville. Some homes are aoqualie?so much "rowing"' I iiere. Pa says a man can crow without >eing coped up. It takes the green horn to make the loudest noise. A good many decided blondes came- I to a late decision. A tnan doesn't have to wear a mustache to have a hair-lip. An artist can starve while his pictures galflicr dust. A yirl doesn't have to change her ' mind Id change the subject. i .Ma says a nia;i can be insufferable without being in pain. Ma's motto for I'ramini?*: When a| I man ceases to donbl?he achieves. 1 I \\ Iwn a man drops the subject lie ' ! should !)e earcl'ul not to break iiis | | word. Ma says a woman can own the 'jewel soiej' without having any pre-' \ cious stones. Collie farm hands think they are I slick simply because thev own a eel-I i luloid shirt. It' Adam hadn't eaten the apple.' I poor man might have had an I'lve's WE ! dropper in his throat. : Anie| Ma says some men run to exllysines when ihey aren't hot-headed t.hey Tw have eold feet. ' fled A woman's axiom is 'I.el's all cry I niu* j and have a good time." ^Tlu i Fun is short-lived, but the bills it I u,a,,( j rnn> up for you go on indefinitely. Airy' I'he only hind of red hair a woman swim j l'ikes to have i* when it." isn't really. Engli N'ou ean make a uirl think you have. ^'1( la lot of sent invent bv never having I ',l' anv sense. earth most " ness A I?iiv passenger trains of the geolo Souilieru. one of its Florida specials, mate wrecked last Friday near Hiram, lla. the w I hree persons were k-illed. including niere ill - cnviuet r whose name was I'M- ( wards. He was a native of Abbe- '),x . ,, , , ,. surve viile. s. < . About SO passengers were j>01ui injured. apex ftiul 1 I he toihacco war continues i:i Ken- base, tueky. I tarns are burned almost niiihtly. The burning is done by "night tl10 c raiders'* who want t'he price 'o go up an(| and want all growers to hold their been tobacco. wll| , Incipcnt Knowledge. I Iiat the royal road to learning is A full of strange pitfalls is shown by light some of the definitions and state- It Is 1 incuts given by school children?some of whom are well ahum* the pi n , . , Chlcfi way. I lie following are boiia-tide ns j}, samples coming under the knowledge farm of one teacher. ho hn About this time Columbus was nu>' 1 cruising around among the West In- tlonft dies. went Jackson's campaign i:i the valley counj was the greatest ]>iece of millinery gt work over known. 1 ho ^ alkyric was were tho Choosers of the Slain, and and 1 the Valhalla the Haulers of the Slain on n' I he oldest son of the king of France cloth is called The Dolphin. Ben?l The duke of Clarence, accordion: to his usual custom, was killed in battle. Heathen are paragons (pagans) ! . ? that, wash up idle things. Tne Indians call their women squadljs.?-Harper's Weekly. In Russia and extensive domestic [iSy industry consists of the manufacture flffij of wooden spoons, of which as many ^8$ as 30,000,000 are made annually. They are nearly all of birch wood. oka: 10,000! Agents wanted at once, previous experience is not essential, write soon Schec it you wish to make money faster ^jV* ^ F. Clark, Conway, Ark. Ar. I than you ever did before. Address J. IjV- 1 Ar. G EXPERT TO INVESTIGATE. ] Scientist Will Obnerve Enrlbqaak* Lv, S Ileanlts on Masonry Structure*. Ar. I In order to Investigate the effect of Ar. / tho earthquake shocks In San Francis- j,v ? co on concrete and other structural ma- ? ' f terlalB, Director C. W. Walcott of the *r* } geological survey has ordered R. L. " Humphrey, export In tho structural Ar. ^ materials testing laboratory of St. ^0! Louis, to procee<t to California, says partu the Washington I\5st. ^ other Owing to the possibility of similar | Lfttio seismic occurrences In portions of tho west In which the reclamation servlco Is constructing great masonry dams and structures of concrete a careful Investigation of tho effects of the recent earth qua ko will doubtless afford much aiuablo Information. ^n .K/vw... *iVv- /? &KS. '^SS*wht''V ?A umor and Philosophy By DUNCAN M. SMITH T? LOOKS SO EASY. Hear tho latest? No? Well, horo It Is Standing rouml on ono foot Waiting to bo heard, If you w.'ll Just unfurl Your listeners And look Interested. No; It Is not a fairy talo Nor a Joke. Hut still to be on tlio safft sldo It might be \v?'U To have the buttons Sewed on your vest A Ultle tighter. The people who know it, Or think tliey do, Tell you nil about It With a straight faco. Evidently It impresses them Mightily. What Is It? Oh, Just Ibis little easy Simple third grade stunt? Wo aro going to abolish draft. That Is oil. Talk about falling off a log Or eating strawberry sliortcokc When you are hungry Doing easy. This boy's job Has them skinned Three ways From the county treasurer's ofMee j In that respect. Going t?> aboll.-h graft. That is all. Not going to make the earth Turn the other way Or cause water To run uphill Or make autoists Obey the ordinances. Just going to abolish graft. i i .IGHING OF THE EARTH, j rtcnii Scientists Will I'mc the i ( rent Pyramid In the Jol>. entleth century science Is dissatiswith tho accepted figures of (lie | i's* weight, says Tho World Today, i Americans tire planning to weigh a In. ; last time it was done was more half a century ago, when, under s direction, pendulums were g at the top and the bottom of an ish coal pit. ? comparison of their times of ? showed how heavy the whole was compared with the outerthlu shell, a shell of the thickof tho depth of the coal pit. Since gists were able to give a fair estiof the weight of this surface see 11 eight of llu* entire earth became a matter of multiplication. 1 same experiment is to be repeat* a scientific expedition from tlio y department tit Washington, ulunis aro to be swung at tlio of the great pyramid of Egypt n the chambers at its center and >m the swing of these pendulums | omparative weights of the earth of tho pyramid can be learned; I the weight of the pyramid having I estimated, the weight of tlie earth j dgain bo a mere matter of multi- | tion. Cniindlmi Hoy n KlnK. strange story recently came to about a young Ontario boy, and to the effect that he lias become a I among the South Sea islanders, an Ottawa correspondent of tho igo Chronicle. Ills name Is Thomirling, and be Is the son of a small or at Sparta, Ont. It seems that (1 a fancy for going about without clothes on, although sane and ra1 upon every other subject. Ho to Honolulu, but was transported there to San Francisco on acl of this fad. He was a student anford university for awhile and known there as "Barefoot Bill," tvlien he was expelled from thero ccoimt of his queer antics about Ing lie went to Tahiti and has now ne a virtual king among the South slanders. u can find daring in a man or og grit, but for real heroism e got to go to a woman. 8^ diiimcocaine and nrlUM WHISKEY i ' I Habits cured at my Sanatorium In weeks. You can return to your ggjJ home In 30 days well, froo and happy. I haTO mado thoso habit* a epoclalty for v9i 2? y^ara and cured thounandi. rnrr Book on HomeTreatment ?ent rnCC V Address I?R. n. M. WOOILKY, ^ 102 N. Pry or Street, Atlanta, Oa. RLE ST ON & WESTERN CAROLINA RY. lule in effcct November 3rd, 1907 re wherry (C N & L.) 12:40 p. m. 'aureus 1:52 p. m. inurens (C. & W. C.) 2:15 p. m. Greenville 3:40 p. m. Laurens 2:07 p. n.. Spartanburg 3.35 p. m. partanburg (So. Ry.) 3:40 p. in, Tendersonville 6:25 p. m. islieville 7:30 p. m. /anreiii (C. & W. C.) 2:00 p. m. Greenwood 2:50 p. m. IcCormick 3:55 p. m. Augusta * 5:40 p. m. to: Tho above arrivals and dores, as well as connections with companies, are given as inforn, and are not guaranteed. Ernest Williams, C?n. Pass. Agt., Augusta, Ga. Geo. T. Bryan, Greenville, S. C. Gen. Agt. I * , V$vr . * ' * * i .:..x '; .^ - M'? . - * ' - v y&: >-' ' . * ' :3&& *?:iW& t, **&]&? W ,>?-: MISS i MvLlvX l.A l 'KA YK. WITH "T OI'KRA lKH'-SK \YKDXI-i yMMMBBMoaBnaiWU'.l ATI?IA?/WViL:rnTT?LMP?H wy Plain Talks on A Talk to Fro: You use a fertilizer W^T".~2r^ of course, but do you .. use enough ? The yield per acrc, yX'ffiknnc' the profit there!'rom ^?mv increases in far greater ^jpfefcyr* proport ion I hail t he cost f of additional fertilizer. ??VJ||V' What is an increase in cost of ,S- 00 to SI0.00 per acre for fertilizer . when the returns therefrom show an increase of $50.00 to to I $25u.OO per acre? Fc | . ' . pr< The big Magnolia Fruit cq B Farms at Durant, Miss., tested no tlie well-known Virginia-Car- no olina Fertilizer P1 in different ^( I quantities on ^ j their straw- . I r?'?&&}?& berry crop. , Result: whon wh I MM 1.000 lbs. per ?? ! aero xvcre used /V j "Sv.p; l-VJ profit wr.3 , \ $75.00 more per ^ ; \Ju'. . &,?<^iZizD acrc than when 5 50 0 lbs. per | acre were used. Thin is modern intensive cul< Uire, the method that is doub- Ric \ )'::\{x a'.id trebling the crops of rZ a!.l l.i uls of fruit in j over the count ry?and in good soil, too. The early buyer Our stock is beir daily by the arriv* seasonable goods. LACES?Valencie Irish. Cotton Suitings fancy designs and Ginghams, best g colors. PercBles, Lawns, Buy wisely, there ' f;v.vr # 1 V x - V . .4. , V: .v\ i-f* . .. v>. ,' X]g vfSV' ' : > v-. . 1 . 1 UK lllvlU TO TIliK HOORA'll'." SI >A V, JAN. 25). WMHHHMHWW BHW^"'8KWWBHBMBMP'<B|PBMP> xxhci VXCJ<iv.^vvi c"< air .:. v n ; -k rt^.? ^ . Fertilizers j \ it-Growers | ?* $ 3 The yield will he ] " ? ] accord to t't.i %! amount < l ;; food | "1 you givo v-.u- !?v? or j ,, 6 plants--y: i ",.ii clc- j d $1 pencionu. The betivr 3 ;vfd t h o y c.t j l.'c; th e g ren tor | ?nj and mere valuable will V ^ be } crop. Fcrtil- j gj i;:e .< :p:\ringiy aiicl you reap sparingly. J The fact that over a million ns of Virginia-Carolina , rtilizer were sold last year :jves them to be witnout I ual. Every fruit farmer, S matter what method he g 1 \v use.% should get the Vir- S lia - Carolina ] is free to all I '3 0 are interted enough write for it. 4j3 Idre.ss us to ^ ) nearest city VIRGINIA-CAROLINA ? CHEMICAL CO. hmond, Va. Durham, N. C. rfolk, Va. Charleston, S. C. umbia, S. C. Baltimore, Md. , Atlanta, Ga. a Columbus, Ga. Savannah, Ga. Montgomery, Ala, V Memphis, Tenn. Shreveport, La. > V gets the best, ig replenished als of new and 1 innesandBaby u * 1 in neat and colors. Tade and good J 1 Linens, etc. 1 sfore buy now. .