The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, September 18, 1908, Page FIVE, Image 5
L THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY.
K Dime Reading Setember 25?Youixi
[ People Go Away to the Various
^ Colleges.
Prosperity, Sept. 17.?-Rev. Monro*
Epting, of Savannah, visited his sis
tev, Mrs. Abies, last week.
Miss Julia Kibler lias gone to New
berry to spend a tew days.
Miss Pearl MeCraekin, of Newber
ry, visited Miss Kohn over Sunday.
Misses Willie May Wise and Clan
Gibson have returned to Rock Hil
to resume their studies at Winthrop.
Miss Kate Thompson went Mon
day to Duo West Female college.
Misses'Ethel Paysinger and Lilliai
Hornsby spent Tuesday with Mi's. J
P.: Wheeler.
Miss Isoline Wyche goes Saturday
to Utopia to toaoh the school there.
Miss Jessie Moseley has gone t*
"Vaughnville to teach music, etc., it
tho school there.
Dr. Hunter and family have move<
into their -palatial residence on Mc
Nairv street.
Mr. and Mrs. Isanogle returned t<
Baltimore Monday. Roth have woi
many friends here during there so
journ of more than a year with us
Mr. Isanogle was the successful con
tractor for the Lutheran church an<
Dr. Hunter's home.
Mr. Cecil Wyche is home again.
Misses Lizzie Hawkins, Leila Grose
close, Tyouisc Counts, OIlie Counts'nn<
Dominick went to Marion, Va,
where they will enter college.
There will be a "Dime Reading'
at the auditorium on Friday evening
September 25. There will he debates
illustrated songs, tableaux, drills an*
reading. Everybody is invited. Th
. entertainment will begin promptly a
8.30, and you are promised at leas
two hours of such things as wil
drive dull care away.
Rev. W. H. Hiller, of Lexington
was in the city a few days this week
Mr. Jacob Dominick, of Kinards
has been visiting his sisters am
mother.
Miss Hannah Wilson is with Mrs
Browne at Wise Hotel.
Mr. Robert Wilson, of Savanna!
is visiting Mr. Clifton Kreps.
Messrs. Marks and Lillins Simp
son have gone to Clemson college.
Mr. Willie Barnes lias accepted
position with Harmon Bros.
Dr. Dominick has just purchased a:
automobile to facilitate his practice
Miss Annie Lee Langford, of Spai
tanburg, spent a few days at horn
last week.
Mr. Herbert Langford has return
ed t.o Wofford college, Spartanburg
Miss Lillie May Russell is in Cc
lumbia for a few days.
We are glad to report that Mrs
Bridges is improving and also Mrs
Jane Ixnig.
Mr. John Hawkins has gone to hi
school in Georgia.
Mrs. Lane has returned from Hen
dersonville.
CHANLER NAMED
TO FIGHT HUO-HE
New York Demoeratio Conventio
Selects Ticket.?Present Lieutant
Governor Selected
Rochester, >T. V.. Senl. KJ- NTon-i
nat-ing all hut one ?>f its cand'ds.ie
by acclamation ae.l a-liptini; a plat
form which arrniyns the a>!mi!ii>t r.i
tiou of Governor tiu-.'J.es ami p'cd'.'.e
earnest support io ;he Dmvr plat
form and candidates, the. democrat:
State convention today no.isin.iled a
the head tjof its ticket for g?.vcru.>
the present lieutenant governor of tii
State, Lewis Stuyvcsant Chanler, o
Dutchess county. John A. Dix, o
Washington county, was nominate,
for lieutenant governor. All opposi
tion to Mr. Chanler disappeared afte
a conference of State leaders whic
occupied a greater part of last nigh!
The ticket decided upon by (he lead
ers with one exception seemed !
meet the approval of all the delegate
and the nominations were made wit]
great enthusiasm until the office o
State engineer and surveyor wa
reached. The conference candidal
for this office was Philip P. Farley, o
Brooklyn, an Anti-McCarren man
Senator McCarren, amid the cheer
of his supporters, took the plat fori)
"to resent an insult." He declare*
the nomination of Farley was agree*
to without any regard to the King
county delegation and was intende*
to embarrass them. Ho declared h
would always support dcmocratl
nominees, but would not hold himsel
responsible for the action of peopl
who felt themselves insulted. Farle;
won on a roll call, but a motion t<
make the nomination unanimous wa
lost by two of three scattering nega
tives. Judge Alton B. Parker was tin
permanent chairman of the conven
tion.
' The convention adjourned withou
ilelfcy after United States Senato
1
(Jure, iii' Oklahoma, had -made a brief
address.
y '' 'I lie promises of reform upon
which (lie present governor was elected,
the platform alleges, have not
been kept. We point as proof of
i? this fact to the expenditures of 1907,
_ which are larger than the extravagant
sums expended under the predecessors
_ ol' Governor Ilughes. We charge him
with the responsibility for this waste
_ and with giving his time and attention
to the pursuit of spectacular
t methods and self-advertising issues
\ rather than to the work of reform
and retrenchment upon the proceeds
_< of which he was elected governor two"
years ago. We insist that in this
l most important .feature of his'dministration
he has been derelict and remiss.
Instead of cutting off the tax
>r eaters from the list of office-holders
he has caused new ones to be added
j to it, and in the two public service
t commissions, which have been brought
into being at his suggestion and dicI
tation, he has created office-holders
_ who have woefully failed to better
the condition of affairs confined to
^ (their charges.''
1 BRYAN WISHES CHANLER WELL '
!. * 1
. Democratic Standard Bearer Pleased
^ With Action of New York
Democrats.
Utica, N. Sept. 10.?Soon after
\ receiving word at Amsterdam, New
York, of the nomination by the democratic
State convention of Lewis
> Stuyvesaut ('hauler for governor,
, Win. J. Bryan, on his way to Koches.
ter, sent him a telegram of congratu^
lations as follows:
e "Lewis Chanler, Albanv. N. Y.:
(, Please accept my -heartiest congrafut,
lations on the deserved honor done
I you by the democratic convention.
Your character and record will
strengthen the democratic cause.
:. "(Signed) . Win. J. Bryan."
Of Mr. Chanler Mr. Bryan had this
rl to say: "Mr. Chanler's nomination
is very satisfactory. During his ofTic.ial
career he has grown in popularity
and the compliment paid him by
it the State convention was deserved.
He represents a type of citizenship
i_ which I hope to see an increasing
number of representatives, lie is a
^ man of means, whose sympathies are
with the masses, and he finds a
,, pleasure in rendering public service.
, 1 believe that in the future we are
going to have more of these men,
e who, having enough of this world's
goods to relieve them of possibility of
want, will unselfishly devote their
, time to the consideration of public
questions and to ibe rendering of intelligent
service to their fellow men.
. I have no doubt that Mr. Chanler
. will poll more than the party vote
and give strength to ibe national ticket."
s
WINTHROP CONTRACT LET.
J. D. Elliott, of Hickory. N. C., to
Build the New Dormitory.
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News and Courier.
,, Kock Hill, Sept. 1(1.-?The building
committee of Ibe Wintlirop board
has been in session here two days considering
the score or more bids subj_
milled for -the building of the new
s dormitory al l lie college. The eon_
trad was iliis afternoon awarded to
!_ Klliolt, of 11ickory, X. C. The
figures are not given, but it is imdcr_
*t???d thai ii is in the neighborhood
of .+.>0.000. Work will begin in the
s near hit lire, so (liat the building mav
be complete by llie beginning of the
^ next session.
[ THE JEWISH FESTIVALS.
Rosh Hoshanah or New Scar's Falls
i< On September 25?Yo?n Yippur
I, Fast Will Follow.
Charleston Evening Post.
0 The Jewish festival of New Year
s falls this year on September 25 and
the celebration of the still more im?
portant feast, Yom Kippur, or the
s day of atonement, will take place ten
days later.
The largo Jewish community in
! Charleston will observe the festival
R period at the synagogues on ilascli
ft,*d St. Philip streets and in their
homes, and the new year 5,609 will
be auspiciously entered upon. The
s celebration of Rosh Hoshanah or
\ New Year's as is the case wit'll all
R Jewish festivals, begins at sunset
R with services at the synagogues and
f preparations aro now under way for
R the observance of the festivals.
y It seems to have been a general
n custom among Semitic peoples to
s count their year as beginning in the
- fall synchronous with (lie harvest
a festival, and, since all Semitic people
- arrange their calendar according to
the phases of the moon it can be I
t readily undomtood why following the]
r ancient custom, the Jewish New
Year occurs in I ho fall. Ami bo- <!
cause of this discrepancy between ji
Hie lunar and solar years there is a t
few days' variation from year to
year in the dgte of the celebration ?l
according to current calendar. I
Ditterent from the ordinary con- <i
ceptiou Rosh Uoslinnah has a deep 'J
religioous significance. It is called, t
in tlie Bible, the day of remembrance, e
I lie day of judgment and the day of 1
blowing t'je sliofar, or trumpet. It is t
more than anything else really the c
preparation for the great Yom Kip- :i
pur, or Day of Atonement. v
1 lie days between Rosh lloshanah t
and Yom Kippur are being known as a
the awtul days, or the ten days of t
penitence, each of which is observed a
as a halt-least day by the more or- 1
thodox. Jews, while the Yom Kippur t
itself is invariably observed as ?i li
complete fast.
The rabbinical allegory that on t
Rosh liosahannah (Jod commands the t
recording angel to open the books of v
each one's sins and merits, leaving ti
'the record open to be finally and c
irrevocably closed on Hie Yom Kip- v
pur, indicates at once the significance t
of the day and the appropriateness t
of calling the New Year the day of
remembrance, judgment and of blow- t
;ing the sliofar. 1
| Perhaps the most distinguishing t
| feature in tlie ritual of Rosh IIos- i
J hauali is (lie blow of the sliofar. The ^
: sliofar is made of curved rams horn, |
and as in earlier times the blowing I
ot the horn was resorted to as a sig- t
i nal for preparing for war, assembling i
j for special purposes and particularly c
|t;? announce religious ceremonies. The '
cu"t >.n of blowing t!io sliofar in the '
jy ."'iii'ogue has been retained. The 1
! blowing of the nhofar on Rosh llosjhunnch
is the signal for each soul
I to rouse itself, consider its past, re- i
<t.cot upon its deserts and prepare to 1
jl>e more worthy in the future. t
j In tlie law commanded in the twen- '
t.v-third chapter of Leviticus it is *
said that (Jod in the observance of {
atonement day observed: "When ve 1
shall afflict your souls." The meaning
ot the words is rather obscure, 1
; but the early rabbis interpreted them I
I to mean abstinence from food, hence, i
! fasting has become the universal <
custom in the observance of this day. '
j The Succolh, or the Fcasf of Tab- 1
: crnacles, which corresponds with the 1
Christian Thanksgiving concludes the >
cycle o| holy days with a week's celebration,
and, as in all such cases, ]
the first and last days of the obser- |
vance are marked by religious servic- '
es. This week is really the thanks- ]
giving festival which is largely anal- <
ogous to the modern harvest home. Tt
partakes in no wise of the nature of j
the two preceding holy days and is ,
connected with them only in time. ,
I his feast belongs rather to the cycle
of the three pilgrimages, concluding ]
ilie Passover, the Penticost and the
| Feast of Tabernacles.
i As stated in the sixteenth chapter j]
l<?f Deuteronomy: "Three times a L
jyear you shall appeair before (Jod." I
i on these occasions (of course during I
the existence of the Hebrew state)
every Hebrew who could, assembled
in Jerusalem, so they were political,
economic and social as well and re- \
ligious in their character.
Added to the forming whioh might
| l?o called the eighth day of the Feast
of Tabernacles was another celebralion
known as the Feast of ConduI
fion. which in the Hebrew is Shrmini
At/.ereth. which, according to the Hi- ! '
jblical injunction, winds up the cycle. '
j lu past Biblical times I content i '
j u i 111 this. the rabbis inaugurated a]'
[further celebration which they called
the I* east ot the Rejoicing of the '
Lew?Simchas Toraih. '
. I
HARD LOT OF PEARL DIVERS, j
Misfortunes of Natives of French Is- '
lands In the Pacific. ?
i
About 4,000 people on the Tuamotu <
Islands, thousands of miles out in the I
Pacific, are now living in a stale of 1
destruction and wretchedness and is <
scarcely paralleled in any other part <
of the world. They are the victims of
the great storms of 3003 and 1005, I
and of the indifference, neglect and t
mismanagement of French officials. I
Their story is printed in the Bulletin <
of the Comite de 1'Asia Francaise, ^
from the pen of Father Bracconi one i
of the Roman Catholic missionaries in (
the islands.
The Tuamotu Islands form the |
most extensive of the archipelagoes s
controlled by France in Oceania. TJicy ?
comprise eighty little atolls, narrow t
rings of corral rock rising a few feet I
above sea level and enclosing lagoons. 1
Though tihey nro scattered over an 'I
ami 700 miles long (and 200 miles I
wide, the total land surface comprises t
only about 215,000 acres. <
Nearly 0,000 natives lived on twen- i
ty islands before the storms of 100,'J i
[and 1005 reduced their number. Many i
'of the uninhabited islands are visited J
in pursuit of the only important in- t
lustry of the group, diving in Uu? }
ilgoons and in some waters outside j
lie atolls lor mot Iter of pearl. j
10 very islander in his prime is a
liver, iind Father Braeeoni says that
>rofessional divers in no other part
if t?lie world can compare with thorn.
[Miey ean swim as though water were
heir native element. Thev do not
vt n come ashore to eat, hut eateli
i<h with their hands and devour
hem raw. Four or five commercial
nmpanies of Tahiti have practically
mule slaves of these islanders. For '
ears before 1 !HM the average producion
of mother of )>earl was 401) tons ,
year. The trading companies bought
his tor about 000,000 francs, all payble
in merchandise, und sold it for
,500,000.? They -luul besides the exortionate
profits derived from the
arter trade.
The pearl diver was always in debt
o the traders and they manoeuvred
o keep him in debt, and he was always
straining every nerve to bring
no re shells, for his creditors never
caved to bully and threaten him. It
s-a-j a bare existence, hand-to-mouth, <
'or every one of the (5,000 natives in
he. archipelago.
This had for years been (he si tun- '
ion when the storms of January,
flOM. destroyed every cocoanul liw on
ho islands, overwhelmed the low
oofs on which the natives lived,
vashed all their lints and fishing imdements
into (he sea and drowned <
lundreds of (he ishMiders, including
nnny of the best divers, whose fainlies
have since been de|?endent on the
hari'ty of their poverty-sl ricken
leighbors. They had begun to get n i
lew start when (lie islouns of March,
!00"), occurred.
These slonns were even more destructive
than those of 100M. The
riant waves not only hilled nearly
1,000 people, but dug to the bottom of
he lagoons and carried out to sea the
livalves that yielded (he real wealth
if the islands, mother of pearl. In
idditiou not a drop of potable water
ivas left in the islands.
There are no brooks among these
it tie rings of rock. The people dcHMided
upon cisterns of mason work,
n which (hey caught the rain. Ev>ry
cistern was destroyed in (he gales,
lnd the first thing to do was to remild
them, spreading cloths meanvliile
to catch the rain and (has alleviate
suffering from (hirst.
I'nder these circumstances the isandcrs
lost courage and wished to
flee from the scene of their trials.
I'hey son! a delegation to Tahiti to
ay (heir case, before Governor Julli511.
"We've lost everything but our
lives," said the old chief, who was
their spokesman, "and nearly every
family is mourning its dead. We
men are not. afraid to stay on (he islands.
but wo fear for our women and
children. We ask you to give us some
[daces on this great high island, where I
>ur families may he safe. Help us a I
little at first and we shall not ask for
anything, not even for work."
The governor was much alTo-ied
ind promised assistance. Nothing v..is
lone, and in the following December
mother great storm occurred. There
ivus not much left to destroy cxrt? pi
human life, and it took its share of
Ilia t.
France heard of this last blow and
SO.00(1 francs of the public fuiid.-*
were voted to relievo the immcdi.in* i
needs of t he .sufferers. A coiiiur *i'?u
ivaalso ap|iointed in Tahiti to \I i:
I he islands and see what could be
lone to ameliorate the situation.
Father Braeeoni severely criticises
the commission. Tn the lirst place it
used a large part of the money to
liny Furopean fishing gear, which
ivas useless to the natives. A few
thousand francs were u?ed to build
cisterns. It was voted to build very
drong platforms on which the people
night take refuge above the cyclone
>f them, but to (his day not a step
nis been taken to carry oui this proposal.
A good deal of the funr. is
arried on I he books of Tahiti as "receipts
ext raordinary.''
The one good outcome of these related
tragedies is the destruction of
he trade monopoly. The native*
lave been helped by the government
o organize (heir own syndicate,
vliich markets their mother of pearl
n Tahiti, and its full value >s ivce.v d
by the divers.
The present situation is that the
leople are thrown into terror at ihe
[lightest indication of a storm. The.
government, will not let them have
he islands because to admit their i;ilabitability
would ruin a valuable
lossession. Tho v/hi'o teachers in
Puamotu say that Ihe abandonment of
he islands would be unnecessary if
lie government would fulfill its plain
Inly to safeguard life there by every
nouns in human power; if Ihe government
will not do Ibis il should not
nsist that 4,000 people continue to
ivo in a region where they believe
heir lives are always in danger.
GENTRY BROS
FAMOUS SHOWS
Saturday,
September 26
M ANIMAL ACTORS 200
f
The Great Steines Troupe.
The Comedy Weylers.
M'selle De Oesch?Queen of the Air.
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