The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, November 06, 1908, Page FOUR, Image 4
E. H. AULL, EDITOR.
Entered at the Postoffice at New
berry, S. C., as 2nd class matter.
Friday. -November 6, 1908.
PRIVILEGE TAX.
Cvirmissioner of Agriculture Wat
son has prepared some figures on
:farrmin2 conditions in South Carolina.
Amo-ng these we find that from July
1. 1907, to June 30, 1908, there was
sold in this State 565,666 tons of fer
tilizer and 114.906 tons of cotton seed
meal. He puts the average price of
the fertilizer at $22.50 per ton and
the cotton seed meal at $26.00 per
town. From these figures it will be
seen that the farmers of South Car
olina for the year ending June 30th
spent about $15,000,000 for fertilizer
and it is sta-ed that in 1900 they
spent only $4,500,000. He estimates
the corn crop for this year 37,100,
000 bushels.
The point in addition to showing
the large amount spent for commer
cial fertilizer, which we desire to
make, is this large sale of fertilizer
means that Clemson college received
for the same time about $170,000
from this source. The exact figures,
according to the books of the State
-treasurer, of privilege tax paid from
the first of July, 1907, to the 30th of
June, 1908, is $171.648.69. Accord
ing to the figures given this income
is about three times what it was
eight years ago. The college has
scarcely grown three times as large
as it was eight years ago, and even
if it has the cost of operating it ought
not to be three times as great as it
was, because there are certain ex
penses, which have to be met that do
not increase in proportion to in
crease in the institution.
The contention of those who claim
that Clemson is getting more money
than is needed for legitimate expen
ses would seem to be justified by the
figures given, and if the privilege
tax is to be permanent some means
ought to be devised by which Win
throp college could he.supported from
this same source, or what is not need
ed at Clemson for legitimate expen
ses could be set aside for a perman
ent endowment fund for the institu
tion and in a few years this fund
would be large enough to assure the
support of the institution without ad
ditonal taxation in the event the pri
vilege tax should for any reason be
discontinued.
Hon. D. L. Smith, of Colleton coun
ty. a member of the last general as
sembly, is a candidate for reading
clerk of the house oL representati. -s.
Mr. Smith is in every way qualified
tc fill the position with satisfaction
to the members of the general asem
bly. He is intelligent, pleasant, and
well educated and has a good, clear
and strong voice, qualifications which
make an ideal reading clerk. So, far
we have heard of no opposition for
Mr. Smith and no doubt he will be
elected without opposition.
The estimate of the forecast of the
national election which was printed
in The Herald and News of last Fri
day and as given. by the New York
Herald of the Sunday preceding was
very near correct according to the
figures which were contained in the
daily papers yesterday.
That estimate gave 280 votes to
Taft as reasonably sure and 26 with
Republican leanings but doubtful,
which would have given him .306
electoral votes. It gave Mr. Bryan
156 as reasonably sure, and 21 with
Democratic leanings. The result
shows th:at Mr. Bryan carried the 21
with Democratie leanings and lost
Maryland with 8 votes which were
counted reasonably sure. leaving 148
and gained Colorado with five which
were put down with Republican lean
ings, and which gave him a total
vote of 174. Those given to Mr.
Taft as reasoniably sure were carried
by him and to hlis columin was added
Maryland with eiglt votes and from
those with 1lepublican leanings Colo
rado was carried by the Democrats
with five electoral votes. making
these changes the Republicans re
ceived .309 votes.
T here were considerahle Democra
tie eanus in the West. and some Re
publican gains in some of the South
ern States, and New England was al
most solidly Republican.
Congress remains Republican in
both branches.
THE CONVICT'S WARNING.
This scene takes place in a crowd
ed courtroom. The prisoner, charg
ed with i hc morder of hi3 wife, st:nds
before the judge. The jury has just
returned. The judge is the first to
speak:
''Gentlemen of the .iury, have you
"Sir. we find the prisoner guilty
of this charge."
"Yes, there could be but one de
cision in a case like this; the prisoner
stands condemned. Do you hear, you
heartless murderer of the innocent?
You shall pay the full penalty for
your deed. You are condemned to
die! It is well that justice can end
a life like yours, and seal forever
from the eves of honorable men a
record of debane ery and sin as i
black as the eternity into which you
go! If you look for mercy here, re
member. you look in vain. You are
a drunkard, a reprobate, a murder
er. For such there is no mercy. And
were it not that custom disapproves
you would swing from yonder scaf
fold before sunset. As it is you shall
go back to your cell, there to b-ood
over vour horrid crime and awaitl'
vour doom.
"Mav you speak before you go?
Yes: for so the law allows. But do
not think that any word of yours
shall ehanc our decision."
"Your Honor, since so the law al
lows, I will speak. No, I shall not
ask for mercy.. I deserve no mercy.
You call me a drunkard, and so I am.
You call me a reprobate, and this <
I do not deny. No one can know I
better than myself what my past life <
has been. No one can realize more <
fully than I that my record is stain- I
ed with unforgiven sin, and that I
have no place on earth but a drunk
ard's grave-no place beyond but a
drunkard 's hell. No one can feel i
more deeply than I the horror of my
crime-my crime, did I say? No! In I
the name of God. judge, it is not my
crime! Killed my wife'? No! It is a
lie! I did not kill my wife: drink
killed her! Do you hear me judge?
Drink killed her-killed my wife,
killed Mary! 0 God. Thou knowest I
am not guilty of this deed! I lov
ed her better than my life. I was
unconscious when I struck the blow.
I did not kill her-DRINK killed
her!-Judge, you may call me a re
probate and a drunkard, but a mur
derer I am not.
"No, let me speak. I do not plead
for mercy. I have said I deserve no
mercy. But, listen! Hear my story.
I shall speak but this once. I would
have you and all these people know
that I was not always the wretch
that now stands before you. I was
not always a drunkard and a vaga- ,
bond. I once had a happy home-a
beautiful and luxuriant home. I was
then as pure and good as any child;
and I had a mother, judge, a mothers
who loved me. Oh, how well I re
member her! I seem to see her
sweet face now, as she used to take
me up close to her heart anid kiss
away my tears of childish sorrow.
At night I would kneel by her side1
and pray-I have almost forgotten
that prayer-eand mother! 0 God, I
brake her heart! And I promised at
her death-bed I would meet her. 0
God, don't tell her! Don't let her
know ! If I must die upon the scaf
fold, in mercy shield Thou that seaf
fold from her eyes!
"Why, what's the matter, judge?
You look so strange! No, I ask no
'mercy-soly I kept that promise,
judge, until I grew to manhood. Then
I went away to school. You are sur
prised? Why, judge, I graduated
with first honors of my class. I
I was not always as you see me now.
" Then, one day, I met a girl! She
was as beautiful as a spring flower,
and not less pure. I loved her and
won her as my bride. Oh, how full
of sunshine was life, then! No home
was happier than ours; it was like
heaven, judge-a bit of heaven here
on earth ; until, one day ! s iehkld
temptation and took a glass of wine.
But I didn't tell her. Mary didn't
know. I said. 'I' will never drink
aain,' and a month I kept my word.
But then the tempter again appear-(
ed; he called himself 'friend' and I
drank again. I knew it was wvrong,
but somehow the tempter's power
was stronger than my will. Again y
and again I yielded to my destroyer.
The wine eup was put aside and i
st ronger. liquor filled my glass. I
then began to stay out late at night,
and gradually the truth was revealed ]
to~ Mary. No flower ever lost its
bl)Iom mnore gniek!y than did Mary's
(iheek. She prayed and pleaded
with mec to Thun the saloon and save
our ho:ne. buit drink now had me int
.ein era.im. and while I knew Ii
was breaking her heart I had not the
power to quit it and live a man.
"One night-0 God, must i recaIll?
-T was drinking in the Waverly sa
loon, when suddenly someone said:
'Jim. go home, your child is dying!' Ii
"' 'What! My child dying-my lit
te Nell?2 Oh, heaven, it cannot be. it
cannot he'5
Half erazed by rumn and dread, I I
rushed to mv home and dashed in at
the front door. 'Mary !' I called,
'where are you, and where is little
Nelli''
p-de a t e 1r1-.1 mI I II door.
Someone was sobbing withinl, and I
pushed it open. There. upon a little
--ot. lay my only chili. and my wife
5 kneeling )y 1 slil.
"0 God, how can I bear tat sight
"A voice then called mie-it was
tie doctoi.,'s. 'Jim, said he, 'do von
vaiit to know?'
'Yes, tell me.' I replied. 'Tell
ne the truth if it kills me:
'Well, Jim, little Nell is going to
lie!'
'Oh, no.' I said. 'It cannot be!
[t cannot be!'
'Yes, Jim, she was struck by a
trolley tonight, while crossing the
'racks near the Waverly saloon. I
4appened to be on the car and car
-ied her home in my arms. When she
!irst Came to consciousness she said,
Where is pa.pa? I'm going to meet
im tonight.'
"Ah, judge. words cannot tell it all
--how God in that moment of agony
;ouched my sinful soul! How I knelt
)y my dying child and poured out
nv heart full of guilt and sin, and
Isked God to take what manhood
vas left and make me again worthy
>f a true woman's love; how on that
)right summer morning we laid our
larling in her little grave and cover- -
!d it with the flowers she loved best;
iow our home seemed empty and sil
nit when we returned without little cl
NTell; how we missed her sweet songs tI
.nd childish prattle, and, as the
nonths passed. went often to her lit
le grave to weep and pray: how sr
)eneath this stroke of sorrow I re
rained my lost manhood. and with s
t honor and the confidence of my _
riends; how the bloom came back
o Mary's cheek, and once more the
pirit of true love ruled our heartss
md home!
'But here, judge, the sunshine t
mds. The rest is black as sin. You
it unmoved! There is no pity in e
rour breast; yonr heart is stone! But
rou shall hear it all. b
"One night, in our city. a great
)anquet was given in honor of my
ollege class. We were at this ban
iuet. Mary and I. Wine was served. p
Fe both declined. But as I did so c
he odor of the brimming fluid ii
roused my -old raving for the curs- tc
d drink. The tempter held the ei
~lass before my eyes, entreating me
o be sociable. I reached for it. Mary a
cereamed and sprang to save me
~rom ruin; but it was too late. I
natched it from the tempter's hand g
nd drained its dregs of death. You
vere the tempter! Do you remember,
udge ? Ah, well you may draw back, m
~or from that hour until the hour
~hat sealed the crime for which I p1
tand condemned the demon of your al
loody cup has stained my soul. I e c
nust die for a crime which yo)u ti
rourself have caused; so stands your
rerdiet. d
"Now lead me to my cell, or, better
till, to death! But beware false ly
udge! I shall meet yor~ at the bar m
>f God. There, before the Judge of
ill men, we shall learn who, in the hi
ight of eternal justice, shall prove tc
~uilty of this crime."'b
Albert Albertson,
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa
Some Scottish Jokes. a
A minister reproached his congre- of
ration for fallin~g asleep, and em- pl
>hasized his rebuke by calling atten- m
ion to the fact thiat Jimmy, "the
iatura,' always remained awake
hroughout the sermon.
''An' I had na been an idiot. I di
vud hae been asleep tae," was Jim- w
ny's unexpected comment. ol
Wilson, the poet, better known as
'Christopher North,'' is the author
~f many of the wittiest things now
urrent in Scotland, and many things n<
ie did not say are attributed to him. as
)ne morning afiter a "granu nicht," al
vith a group of his cronies and anti
abundance of "'whusky"' and v5t, he
twoke with a throat like a lime kiln
md called out for t.he landlady of the
ittle inn on the shore of Loch Le- fu
nond, where lie was spending his er
o!idav: rr
"Bettie, guid dame, I'm uneo dry. er
retch in the loch."
A Dundee minister was ea.ught in
shower Sunday morning and :on
ulted with an unsympathetic sexton E
s to whether he'd better not dhelay E
he service a little while until he got 1)
rv.
Just get up and begin preaching
mnd you '11 soon be dry enough." was
he unkind reply.
An enterprising commercial trav- mf
ler attempted to bribe a country bE
nerchant in Scotland with a box of hE
igars. r
"'Na. na."' said the merchaunt, o
haking his head gravely. "I can
a ' em; I tner dae business than way."'f
"Nonsense"' said the drummer, ofI
'but if you have any conscientious hi
eruples you may pay me a shilling
or the box." I.
"Well, wll," aid the honest
No Plow c
prices ai
When you
Sumi
L
iopkeeper, "I'll take two boxes."
"If you feel inclined to sleep in
urch, take a pinch of snuff," said
e minister to a member of his con
egation.
''Wud it not be better to put the
iuff into the sermon'?"
There's an abiding prejudice in
otland against "paper meenisters"
-those who read their sermons from
anusyi t. arid a erit - once sum
1 1. h-is i; oo.ieetioni,. t-> zs certainl
rmon as follow,: First. it was read.
cond it was no weel read: and,
ird, it was no worth reading.'
A visitor at an insane asylum ask
if the clock was right.
'If it war, dae you think it waa
here?" retorted a patient.
The Powder Test.
One day, after listening to a story
rtitcularly offensive with age, Lin
In McConnell, the Georgia evange
t, told this: An old darky went in
a store down in Georgia and ask- 'I
Say, boss, you got anly gunpow
h heah?''
"Yes, we have gunpowder.,, a
"Lemme see some of that theahi -
npowdah.''
The dealer showed him some.
"Pore a little of that powdah in
r hand."'
The old darky took the powde.r near
.e light, ran his forefinger arou'nd
d around in it, looked at it criti
~lly, and then smelled it two or three
res.
"And you say this heah is pow
"Yes,'' answered t.he dealer sharp
"that is powder. What is the
tter with it ?''
"Dunno, boss'.-the darkey shook L
shead doubtfully-' 'but hit smellsC
me like hit's been done shot off x
foah.''-Judge. G
For Mayor.N
J. J. Langford is hereby announced
a candidate for reelection to the
ce of Mayor of Newberry and is
eged to abide the rules of the De
~cratic party.
For Alderman Ward 3. I
[ hereby announce myself as a can
ate for alderman in ward 3 and
1l abide the rules and regulations
the .Democratic primary.
E. H. Leslie.
S. K. Bouknight is hereby an-1
aneed as a candidate for reelection
alderman from ward 3 and will
de the rules and regulations of
e Democratic party.
For Alderman Ward 4. .. .
ohn A. Senn is hereby announced
reelect:in as a candidate for aid
an bf ward 4 and will abide the
es and rezulations of the Demo
tie party.I
For Alderman Ward 5. -
[ hereby announce myself as a can
ate for reelection for alderman for
ird 5 and will abide the rules of theF
~mocratie primary. ir
Gregg C. Evans.
TOWN MEETING. 8
An adjourned meeting of the De
eratic party of the Town of New
ry, S. C., is hereby called to be
hi in the Council Chamber on
ursday. November 5th, 1908, at 8
lock p. m.. for the purp)ose of pro
inz for the nomfinationf of 4lih(ers
- the ensuing yea r anid for such1
me business as may p)roperly be(
mieht before it.
0. B. Mayer.
H. Hunt, Chariman.
Secretary.I
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