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^ ||)c ^trolD atiD fjeros | VOL XLV NO. 4a NEWBERRY. S. C.. FRIDAY. MAY '20 1908. TWICE A WEEK. #1.50 A YEAR I DISPENSARY HEARING ENDS ( Justice Fuller Indicates that Decision F< Should be Rendered With All Possible Haste. Richmond, Ya., May 27.?Argument was concluded tonight in the 1 South Carolina dispensary case and 1 V an early decision is expected by the 1 e< United States circuit court of ap- b< peals. u Chief Justice Fuller did not in- 11 dieate when a decision might be u expected. The justice's question as , to whethci State funds were tied ^ I) by the receivership proceedings P id other inquiries of a similar R araeter indicated that he felt that ')( c matter ought to be adjudicated w tli all reasonable haste. P] The chief contention of the apHants in "the argument was that u e suit was in effect a suit against !?' f State and that the commission ' pointed by the legislature to wind uthe affairs of the dispensary was ').court and could not be enjoined , another court: no one save the ate had anv interest in the busi- . ss to be liquidated and that the 11 ate was therefore an indispen- ^ )le party to the proceedings. If this argument holds good the it faiis upon the principle that an j*' lividual can not sue a State. T. M. Mordecai completed his js gumcnt for the appellant at the jj Drning session and was followed p A. S. Barnard representing ths Gj me side. ac The case was closed for the State in B. L. Ahney of South Caro- aj a. in TARGET FOR BIG GUN m i Florida Only Slightly Damaged by c Terrific Shots-Unique Test l)! Takes Place. j 1 Old Point Comfort. Ya., May 27. The biggest gun in the navy an ! ^'] aviest projectile and the highest v' plosive known, combined at close M ngc and deadly aim, were allowed ^ work their full havoc on the tin - w t plate of the monitor Florida to w y. The result is declared to be a -.dication of the turret construe- tn hi, notwithstanding the fact that th z 12-inch hardened steel plate 111 is blackened and broken, the ar mis of the turret sprung and the a( rets a!id screws loosened and w isted. It was not five minutes .aftlic terrible impact that the tely balanced mechanism of the nj rret was being worked with per- te It ease atid the 12-inch gun on *c p left side was trained at will. ?' ^U^side th^} turret, where stand the tc !?/find gun crew, the havoc iCli less apparent than from OI fide. Examinations showed the many delicately adjusted ents for fire control, sight- at 1 operating the turret, few A vere out of working order. iiis had happened in battle h; ricla would be fighting yet," la e of the rear admirals with ism. Then followed a fu- M impt to destroy the newly C d fighting mast erected on n of the Florida. After five C( 0111 the Arkansas guns had f( pping through it the mast |)? iod firm. :y shots would not bring it v; md no enemy would waste C ition and time shooting at the expert comment. It was id that all new battleships (j. equipped with battle masts n' design. The story of "the ! r, > up" of the Florida bv the I j1; as is not contained in this! cj il statement of result. It was jy( it in which keen edge of|a1 tion was not dulled by th-!^, ion. Rear admirals and|a, ;r generals, together with j'V( iniors, scurried under pro-'tj, leeks and then popped up h; s quickly to look for the ii: done by )>he boom and roar -, ( d felt atjfl heard. Every na- > can vya^ represented, like- * 5 Ordnance and artillery de- ]\.i its of the army. M COMMENCEMENT AT PROSPERITY )rceful Address by Prof. W. H. Hand, South Carolina College?Medals Awarded - Other Matters. Prosperity, S. C., May 28. h commencement exercises Wednesday evening were very si ;ssfui in every respect. As a fitti ackground to the trustees, mm is et al, ami the sweet girl gru ates wiio occupied the rostru ere garlands of green pot plai iid the class colors floating gai he exercises were opened w raver by Rev. Mr. Caldwell. T raduating exercises proper wi 2gun then by Master Mcball \Yi ho debate<l the querry: "Is C01 ulsory Education Needed in Soi arolina ?" in a very convinci ay. Miss Eunice Dominick sn orted the negative admiral) liss Maud Livingston told of "T onscious Goodness" in a very ha y way and Miss Julia Schump* lowed clearly how and why / Kit Glisters is Not Gold." ^ M ula Taylor told how the "Lvo! on of a Character" is accompli* 1. The diplomas were presented upt. Wheeler, who said he coi 110 better than cite them to issage in one of the essays for t lotto for their budding lives, tl athing is lasting save that whi founded upon truth and morali >r. Hunter presented Master M all Wise the medal for scholarsl 'fe reel by the Sorosis. He bade h :cept the honor not for its glittt ig gold, but for what it stood f< i incentive to further attainmct after life. Prof. Hand tendered laster Clyde Shealev the histo icdal offered by the U. D. C. 1 >oke briefly of reverence and lo >r those who fought and bled f rinciple, but said the most beau d soldiery was that of peat "onor rolls from the different ( irtments were read. The address of tbe evening lr. W. I I. Hand was forceful, cc ncing, thoughtful and statistic e dwelt more at length upon wl outh Carolina has yet to do th hat she has done, t ie is the nu ho, as Mr. R. C. Counts said wh ; introduced him, dreams scho Iks school and thinks school ie time. His plea for better scho< 11st surely have converted all w e antagonistic. He interspersed 1 Idress with timely jokes a itticisms told very cleverly. Several changes have been ma ; the trustees for the ensuing ye; imely: No primary pupils adin d after Oct. 1. No pupils allow 1 leave the building for the purpc f taking music lessons. A til acher will be added to teachi >rps. Mrs. Browne's music reci 1 Thursday evening will close t cercises. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Quattebai *e spending a week in Batesbut iken and Hamburg. Mrs. M. C. Morris and little s ive gone for the summer to Lyk< nd. Mr. M. C. Moseley ancl Miss Li fosclcy are with Mrs. Copeland linton. Miss Frances Sutherland h mipleted her third term as millin >r Moseley Bros., and has go ick to Wilmington, N. C. Miss Bessie Randolph, of F mnah will be the guest of M laude Singley for a fortnight. "Old Folks' Day" services w ?gin promptly at 10:30 011 Su iv morning in (lra^e church. 1^ lember their will be welcome a )om for all. The Sunday sclu is been practicing music old, a ent, and new for a long time, a 111 are sure to hear hymns, if y -e on life's shady side, that y mg in >our childhood, and if y *e in tiie sunny prime those tl iu will like to learn and pr :em down to another cclebratic llf a century hence, maybe I > repeat, there is a welcome < Ml. Mr. Fred Long visited Mr. fi at Vise last week. Miss Marie Lathan and M lyrtle Dennis were tV- guest5 Irs. Harmon last week'. Miss Susie Langfotd has been tin elected a teacher in the graded in of school. Miss Langford is a graduate with distinction of the Columbia stc Female College this year. a Mr. and Mrs. Carper Keeps have lat ? returned to their home m Augusta, w; ou Consul and Mrs. 1 laynes and Cu ic- little daughter have gone for a visit ha 1114 to the former's mother. ],jt is- Mises Annie May and Heat rice |K. id- P?edenbaugh, of the county, are i|? m, spending commencement week witli |)a Us Mrs. !\ C. Singley. st( ly. Dr. White, of Savannah, was in nu ith the city Sunday. 10;l, he Mr. A. 11. I lohn attended the j u| Me Pythian convention at Aiken this j(S so, week. nr in- MesamesW. 11. and I. II. I mitii Hunt, of Xewherry, have been vis-I j|u ng iting Mrs. J no. Thompson. ! ,>T; ip- Little Miss Minnie lletitz, of j j^?c ly. Pomaria, is at Mrs. U. 13. Schump- Lf he crt's. Ljc ip- The Misses Lathan. of Little I t|u -it Mountain, are guests at Wise llo-if,^ ^1! tcl; ' on is. Mr. Hacliman Wise is here for ajst<: lu- few days. ill- The young men have planned a . (j1( by hop for Fridav evening to be held i ild in the city hall. j. ( a Miss Kosa Nichols, of Deadfall.! he is with Miss Mary Wilis for a few , Llat davs. i cn Cl1 Mr. W. I I. I land was the guest; ,-|1; *>' Supt. E. O. Counts during 11i( \V stay here. fjj, I'l1 Misses Eva and Esther Nickels, stc 'm of St. Luke's, are visiting Miss Mav tet ;r~ Lee P>arre. |le! >r' Miss -Icius and little Miss Cecil su< lts Coles, of Sharp.sburg, are visiting ha to at Mr. |no. Eellers's. th< r v le *^''S 'argaret Leckie, our popu- inj ve lar intermediate teacher, returns I im or Friday to her home in Chester. tin ti. | fa. HOW TO GfiT RID OF MAD DOGS j tic 1 lv !e- | .N Muzzlinp Of All Dogs Would Stamp Out J1,0 |)V Rabies?Real Value of the Pasteur or Treatment. I pa al. . . , lat Washington special to the M)C an News and Courier .->-ys: "Rabies, I h>' m, 01 hydrophobia. is known to be one ; no en ?t the most terrible diseases that af- ('? o!. flicts humanity. Wherever it is prea)l valent it causes constantly increas- Pa )ls 'n?f anxiety, sufferingg and death ho to man and beast. ?iot ft) mention by lis the tinancial loss, and these penal- soi n(f ties are exacted notwithstanding the to alleviation offered by the Pasteur tin do treatment." an iir, This is the statement made by to it- George H. Mart, V. M. D., assist- fo ed ant in pathology and bacteriology tic ?se in the department of agriculture, dis :th The (piestion has recently been ng brought directly to his attention by tal through th? case of Dr. Marsh, of pe he Brooklyn, who contracted hydro- wl phobia, suffered agonies while the an im deadly convulsions were on him and po -g, finally, after undergoing untold (3 tortures, succumbed to the disease, inj on "The enormous value of the ('x ;s- Pasteur treatment," continues Mr. (S I Tart, "as a preventive agent is 1111,ja questioned, and, while its effectiveat ncss is extremely high when taken in time, the actual figures from a roi as number of Pasteur institutes in dif-|th< ferent parts of the world show that th; tie *'1C ^a,'urcs 'iavc ranged from 0.18 tin to 1.58 per cent. It must be rcmem- 1111 la_ j hcretl also that for a number of reaj! j sons a large proportion of the per 'isonsatid almost all the animals that have received the virus through the j bites do not undergo the treatment. Lit |n" All that is required to rid us of kC" | this scourge is the muz/ling of all j flogs for a few years. This has )0' I been aninly proved by the experi1,1 j j once of several European countries. Cc n(1 j where the disease has been stamped inou.out in this manner." I "ntiI tecently it was considered ni, that the dog's saliva became viru- J. Ia | lent only three days before the ap'ssjpearance of the symptoms of ra- co' ' j bics. According to some recent exj pcrimciits it has been found that the 21 j saliva may become virulent six or spi j seven or eight days before the an 10-j symptoms develop. Therefore in tin !case the animal remains healthy for su issjtcn davs after it has bitten the per- P?1 ot son or animal, no danger need be 111 apprehended from that bite, even sui ugh t!ie de)g develop rabies with the next few weeks. The curative value <>f the mad >ne is still devoutly believed in b\ q;reat many people. Within the ;t few years a madstone was fortided vo the department of agrilture. the owner stating that il d prevented several cases of ra *s. and he was anxious for it tc tried by the department. Some ol :se madstones, properly called ir balls, are obtained from the >machs of various wild and do,'stic animals. They are in some <es composed of matted hair, lich the animal has iieked from bodv and swallowed, but in the ijority of cases the*y consist oi isses of vegetable fibre, such a? i lawns of clover and beard of ;iin. which have gradually colted over a considerable period time and are formed into a spheal shape bv the contraction of * gastric walls. (lall stones, intinal calculi, and in fact anv pors stones may he' used as niadmcs. After a person has been bitten ' madstone is applied to the nind. and it is believed that the iger it adheres the more eertaii is of preventing the* disease, hether it will stick or not depends tirely on the amount of hemoragc or discharge from the wound here this is profuse the blood intrates the meshes of the maildie. soon coagulates e>r dries, and ids to hold it in place, and it aelrcs for a considerable time under ch circumstances. (>n the other nd. where the wound is small and ^ discharge slight, there is noth* to hold the stone in place and il mediately falls off. Certain ol use madstones have been held ii nilics for three or four generaMis and are guarded as careful as a precious heirloom. Its spec! value against rabies is no greatthan that ol a piece of blotting per applied in the same manner The difference between liuinar ings and dogs sufTeiing tron drophobia is that the former can t bear the- sight of water, while gs will often attempt te) drink untile throat has become etitireh ralyzed. Mr. Hart and other experts or drophobia state that many per us are often mistaken in regard the color of a dog's mouth somenes believing that because tlv. imalV mouth is black it is sure be infected. This is erroneous r the reason that ir. som<* ms of the country there Is a <lou icase known as "black tongue.' I liere are half a dozen symptom? any one of which the ordinal") rson may generaly be able to te! len a dog is sufTering from rabies d these are: (i) Change in dissition; (2) alteration of voice ) inability to swallow; (4) leav ^ home and returning home in at hausted and emaciated condition ) paralysis of the jaw ; (6) swal A'ing abnormal substances, sue! small sticks, stones, etc. To protect persons from the terrs of hydrophobia Mr. Hart say :re is only one certain way, and it is to muzzle the dogs before damage is done and keep then izzled. GEN. LEE VERY ILL tie Hope Held Out for Recovery 0 Wotcd Confederate Leader Vieksburg, Miss., May 27.? ti. Stephen 1). Lee, coinnianderchief of the Confederate Vetins, is critically ill here and hi^ vsician reported late tonight that :le hope is held out for his reyery. Gen. Lee was taken ill on May st after a day's task in making L'cches and welcoming the Iowa d Wisconsin Union Veterans at ; National Park here. lie- ha* ffered a collapse and his son cwitt Lee, general counsel for tJi'< itiois Central Railroad, has been mmoncd from Chicago. ? Good Roads Catechism ? - * a#ft0o<>0ft0eo0 4#<>ik000<?<?<>0a?4, (l>y riios. E. Wicker.) Who made the roads ^in Xew berry county) ? t Man. What did man make the roads > out of? I le made them out of nothing. I \\ hat has he done since the time lie made them out of nothing? lie has made them into nothing. : Are the roads very wicked? \\ icked is not exactly the word, i hut they certainly are vcrv, very had. It they get much worse where ; will they go? They will go to the devil. It you should follow them where would you go? !!! (For further information see Dante's Inferno II?. Canto 24.) What are buzzards? I hey are scavengers. \\ by were they made with , wing>? So that they might fly from one . place ot business to another without , having to suffer the tortures and discointorts of traveling the public . roads of this county in the discharge . of their duties. It a road overseer is a land owner where do you invariably find . good side ditches? I Along that section of the road . adjacent to his lands. Why do you find good side ditches there? Because the overseer is working . for self-interest?he wants to keep the water off his lands. f If all the land owners along a , given road could be overseers at the same time what would we have: We w?/i:!d either have good side ditches all the way ??r we would have a big scrap every time the* tried to work the road. It you should meet a mad dog j in the road near a stream of water ( what would von do? lake a dive immediately if not , sooner il the water was deep enough. When you came up what would you do? 1 would risk my nose and mouth above the surface long enough to . inquire what he was made about. It he should look steadfastly at the mound around him and turn and fall down and roll over a few times what would you understand * from his behavior? That he was trying to tell me '. that lie was mad because the roads were not kept in a condition to make " travel easy and comfortable. Is this tin- scientific and psycho1 logical explanation why there are so ' manv mad dogs at this time ? Yes! What does the present system of road-making remind you of? < )f the fellow who is trying to ' get something for nothing. Does the honest man ever get something for nothing? \'o! If we ever have good roads how j will we get them? By paying for them like honest ' men. To whom does the court house belong ? To the public. Who keeps it up? The public. To whom does the jail belong? To the public. Who keeps it up? The public. lo whom does the county Home belong? ' To the public Who keeps it up? 1 The public. To whom do the public schools belong? To the public. Who keeps them up? The public. I'o whom do the public roads be1J long ? I'o the public. Who keeps them up ? The farmers and country niir1, gcrs. '! If a man should be found arguling that he should not be taxed to keep up the public roads because lie derives no benefit from them what would you recommend? That he be sent to jail and occupy one of the cells so that he might get the benefit of the tax he pays to keep up that institution. I )o the public roads benefit everybody ? Yes, either directly or indirect Who then should be required to keep them up? Kvcryoody, including corporations as well as individuals. Cyrus Townsend llrady, the author and clergyman, told at a dinner in Toledo a story about charily. ".v millionaire," said Dr. lirady, "lay dying. 1 le had lived a life of which, as he now looked back on it, he felt .lone too proud. To the minister at his bedside lie muttered weakly. "'If 1 leave a hundred thousand It liars or mi lo ine cl.uivh will ni> -.malion in. assured.-' " The minister answered cautiously : "'I wouldn't like to be positive, hut it's well worth trying' "? Washington Star. Some \ear.s ago there lived m A1. kansa> a mar. named iv.v mdds who owned a nai row gauge railroad from Ala!\vu Junction to Hot Springs. It was partly due to the fact tiiat he had put by a neat little foil;.i.e. and partly to his habit of wearing an enormous diamond shirt stud that he had won the nickname of "Diamond Joe." It was Diamond Joe's boast that no one had ever stolen a ride on his little twenty-live mile road; and, not content with telling this to his friends, he offered a reward ol $100 and a suit of clothes to the man who could do it. ()ne clear moonlight night a man came into hi> office, drippiu from head to foot. "Is this Mr. Revnolds?" he asked. "Yes," replied the owner of the narrow gauge, involuntarily glancing out to see it" it was raining. "Well, I've come for that suit of clothes and the $100. I've beat my way on your road, Mr. Reynolds, in the boiler tank of the engine; it was hard work kcepin' my head above water, but I did it?and ? here I am !" The examination for tin? award of 'M'-ant Scholarships in Wintlirop e.ollc?;e ami for the admission of new students will he held at the County Court Mouse on Friday, duly d, at !) a. 111. Applicants must he not less than fifteen years of aye. When Scholarships are vacant after duly d they will he awarded to t'nose makin.tr the highest a vera ire at this examination, provided they meet the conditions governimr the award. Applicants for Scholarship should write to President Johnson before the examination for Scholarship examination blanks. Scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. The next session will open September lti, 1008. For further information and catalogue, address Pres. I). IS. Johnson, Rock Ilill, S. C. CHARLESTON & WESTERN CAROLINA RY. Schedule in effect February 16, 1908. Lv. N e wherry ((' X & I/) 12:50 p.m. Ar. Laurens 2:02 p.m. Lv. Laurens ((' & \V (') 2:!t2 p.m. A r. Greenville 4:00 p.m. Lv Laurens 2 :d2 p.m. Ar. Spartanburg 1:0") p.m. Lv. Spartanburg (So. Ry.) 5:00 p.m. Ar. I leudersouville 7:45 p.m. Ar. Asheville 8:.'{() p.m. Lv. Laurens ((' & W C) 2:.T2 p.m. Ar. Greenwood .'5:42 p.m. Ar. Mof'ormick 4:38 p.m. A r. Augusta 0:20 p.m. Note: The above arrivals and departures, as well as connections with other companies, are given as information, and are not guaranteed. Ernest Williams, flen. Pass. Agt., Augusta, Ga. Geo. T. Bryan, Greenville, S. C., Chin. Agt.