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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New berry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. Friday, November 13, 1908. SORROW FOR AN INJUSTICE. It is distressing when the affec tionate ties of years are severed, for the wisdom of the world has declar ed that old friendships are the truest, but comes our long-time friend, Edi tor Petty, of the Spartanburg news paper, of Spartanburg, S. C., with the information that he will sue the Char leston News and Courier and the Ob server for mental anguish. for that, as he alleges, they mislead him of and concerning the result of the re cent election, as aforesaid. He may recover from the News and Couriei, for it was ever a oav deceiver. but no charge of this character against the Observer will lie. It never prophe sied. He further alleges and says in his complaint that he has no griev ance against the Statepaper. of Co lumbia, Which is the Sheriff of Souti Carolina and all out-lying territory, becau.-c he never believed it, being sure that it didn't know any bettei but was honest in its ignorance. So, therefore, he thinks. he has cause of action against contemporaries whom he has heretofore trusted. The threatened suit does not concern the Observer because its vindication is in its files; but -it is distressed that an old and valued friend should accuse it before the public of having pro phesied a thing it never prophesied and which didn't happen.---Cha.rlotte Observer. This is all too bad. The Statepa per, of Columbia, made a valiant fight and if "in its ignorance" "it was honest" so much more desperate was the fight and deeper the mental anguish a't the terrible result, and therefore Mr. Petty is right in hav ing no grievance against the Stat' pa per of Columbia. We thought, how ever, that the Charlotte Observer and the Charleston News and Courier, did prophecy Democratic victory and con tributed a gander to the campaign fu.nd which was finally raffled in Charleston for a good big sum. A gentleman asked us only the other day if we thought a broad, non partisan paper, that would tell the truth as it appeared, and give both sides of all questions, political and otherwise, without personal abuse of those who differed, could succeed. We doubt it. The people want to be told what they want to hear and to read an enthusiastic Democratic paper down South one would believe all the raseais were on the Republican side and all the Democrats were saints, that is if they agreed with the parti san editor or paper, but if they did not they were meaner than a Re publican. There is need for a broad gauge, non-partisan, truthful newspaper in? this section. By that we mean one that will present all views fairly and iinpartially and not have personal enemies to purnish, by unfair and unjust personal attacks or by sup. pression, and not have personal friends whose interests had to be pro 'moted and whose every little act had to be exploited as the doings of a great statesman. A paper that would so present the issues and the news that one could say it was fair and impartial whethei pleasant or not. A paper that could and would dis cuss questions and issues in a manly and fair manner and without descend ing to low and bitter personal attacks. There is room for a daily paper ot that kind. -It would take money and brain to establish it. The people have become so accus tomed to the partisan newspaper that they expect it and a fair and impar tial discussion of men and measures would be too 'tame to suit the public at present with its -tastes cultivated to look for harsh words, and th]e ques tioning of the motives of any one who dares to differ. Let us hope that the time wvill soon come when the reading publie will realize, and demand, if not in the non partisan paper, that the present par tisan publications shall understano that the public can no longer be fool ed to accept personal abuse and bil lingsgate for argument and fluency for brains. And that a man may dit fer and differ honestly and still be a gentleman and not be subject of ridi cule or have the purity of his mo tives questioned. Alabama voted an amendment to te State constitution by which the convicts of the State are to be used on the public roads. That is one thing which should be done in this State. The State farms should be sold and the conviets put upon the public highways. So far as throwing light upon the probable yield. the census figures (f cotton ginned are valucles. unles, there is also giver an intelligent statement of conditions prevailing in the other years.-The State. This is correct. The zinners re ports do not help the cotton grower. It gives the speculator jus what eot ton ha,s been ginned but it does not give the cotton grower any informa tion as to the amount of cotton on hand in warehouses and in possession of the manufacturers. CURIOUS LAMAS. Subjecting Themselves For Years to Senseless and Acute Torture. Once in Tibet we passed two young lamas from Kham. write; Sven Hledin in Harper's Magazine. They did not walk like ordinary pil grims. but literally measured off the distance with iheir own bodies. Lying dlown full length on the rouiind. the'.. would join their hand over their helads and read a prayer. then make a mark on the r-'wl. arise. join their hands together again over their 1ea(ds. and. muttering a prayer. take a few steps forward to the mark. to fall full length once again and re peat the entire ceremony all the wa.%* round the mountain. Performed in this manner by "prostration.'' the journey took twenty days. The two lamas we saw had only done about half the distance, and they contem plated doing the whole journey twice. One of them was to return there af ter having completed his duty as pil grim. The other-he was barely twenty years old-was to pass the remainder of his earthly life in a dark grotto on the banks of the Up per Tsangpo. Few forms of self-mortification are of such valae as this life spent in the dark, this absolute separation from the world, from one's follow men and the light of the sun. In Linga-gunpa I obtained much valn able information regarding this eur ious custom. In the praver grotto at that place--a little stone hut at the foot of a cliff-was then a lama who had already been immured for three years. No one knew him, no one knew whence he came nor wvhat his name was, and even were one to know his name it was forbidden to mention it before human beings. But they told me that the day he went into the grotto he was followed in most solemn procession by all the red monks of the monastery, and when all the ceremonies prescribed in the holy books had been gone through, the narrow entrance into the grotto had been closed up again. We were standing outside it. I asked the head lama whether he could hear us talk. He replied, "Oh, no, he can neither hear nor see: he is sunk night and day in profoind meditation." "How do you know that he is alive '" " The food (tsamba) which is pass ed in to him once a day through an] underground passage is eaten up by the morning,- but should we find the dish untoehed one morning, then we should understand that he had died." A stream flows through the cave in the day time; by this means he gets water. How wonderful! For days and weeks I could not drive the picture of this lama out of my mind. Never to hear C human voice, never get a limpse of the sun, never to see the u ifference between night and day, on y to know of the apnroach of win ter by the lowering of the tempera ture. I pictured to myself the day vhen he was entomhed in the cave. [e sat there alone and watched them Fill up the onening with blocks of stone, the light growing continually less till finally only a tiny little hole as left. Through this he took his. ast farewell of the sun, and when that. too. was finally closed up he remained 'in complete and utter dark-e ness. Since that time three years ~ had now elapsed. In another tern ple, like Linga absolutely unknownt > Europeans, a lama had lived im mured in this manner for sixty-nine rears. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1 COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. IN COUR T COMMON PLEAS. t Martha L. Epting. Mary M. Leitz- c se. Amelia L. Wieker and Maggie E. 1I rate, Plaintiffs. Against: William M. Ridlehuber, J. H1. Rid- d1 Lehuber. J1. D. Ridlehuber. Waltet 4 T. Rh-hiuber, C'hristian Suber. Tfate j 1 suber' and Thme Setzler (Company. De-d feud ants. Pairtition. Ry order of the court herein. I wilh I rell before the court house door at o fewberry, S. C., on Monday, the 7th a ayo Decenmbe, 1082,a t'e sme be. A COLD _ _ IS HERE THE BE ON MAIN Is loaded from cellar to Heavy Comforts, Overco Jershirts, Cotton and Wo Overcoats L Ladies' Wool Vests, all grades, 1 Pants, best that we have Knee Pants and Boys' Kn( rom manufacturer at s -an offer at way under LADIES' CLOAKS. BLANKETS 100 Dr. 11-4 Cotton Blanket 100 pr. 1 1-4 Cotton extra hE 100 pr. 12-4 Wool Blankets, Fine Wool Blankets, $2.50, COMFORTS $1.00 Comforts at 75, $1.50 Comforts at 98 $2.00 Comforts at $1 $2.50 Comforts at 1., NOTIONS, NOo Men's heavy Sox at 5 Men's heay .Wool S( 8 Balls Sewing Cotto& All-Linen Handkerchi Children's Handkercl Ladies' Hose Suppori Good Napkins 2 1 -2c Men's Suspenders IC 1 Doz. Pearl Buttons Men's 25c. Suspende German Silver Thimt Big .lot Women's 25c Handkerchiefs at I Matting! Matting!! Mat :eved a big lot of Matting, the ve sell them at 35c. and 40c.; our pi Shoes! Shoes!!-Don't for IAen's and Ladies' Shoes, all styli Men's and Boy's Clothing, Me ress Goods, Silks, Rugs, Lace it prices way below competition sell up-to-date stylish goods for :hants pay for them. Come and See Us ai BEE ieapest Store in the State. ag saleday, within the legal hours St f sale, to the highest bidder, the real state in Newberry county of which sal illiam L. Ridlehuber died seized, 5 ontaining three hundred and tweni- on y (320) acres, more or less, bouid.- a d by lands of R. I. Stack. W. T.. ert ~pting. WV. L. Leitzsey. George Buu.- pa rik and others. Said lands will be m old in three separate tracts as foi sal Tract No. 1, the home tract. con- pa aining one hundred and five and mfl ne-fourth (103 1-4) acres, more or or ess, bounded by tracts No. 2 and pe 7. 3 and land of W. L. Leitzsey.' Tract No. 2, containing one hurn red and seven and four-fifths (107 -5) acres, more or less and bounded I yv lands of Dave Suber. Georg~e Bunt rik and tracts No. 1 and No. 3. Tract No. 3. containing oneI hun- fbi trud and nine and fiftyv-five-one r undrethIs (103 55-100) acres, more mn r less and hounded by tracts No. 1 co nid No. 2 and lands of Dave Subeu, ae: Chinal We have just opene Japanese China, shif Japan. The prettiesi have ever shown, and than we havp ever b you. Hundreds of oth( for CHRISTMAS GIF Do four Christmas SI Anderson i( N E W B E R R WE ARE ALWAYS BUSY. f REN~ FIUR E FIGURE Compute the amount you Then multiply it by ten. Ic a small home, or nearly so? Then Why Pay Especially when you can bu ment plan? Perhaps you ha Consult This Ag If so, do so now. Take foi new street leading from the new Court House. I also 1 tage and barn in High Pc cottage close in for $1,200. A seven room house and lot as the Methodist Circuit house and lot on South Stre J. A. BU 2 ~e 1. o5careles r HIS ethod demands that yukeep your money - in th-e bank where we employ el ,every means to make it se- ai acure We are responsible for si -loss when funds aire in our b' care. We give you safety. g: This is an absolutely .|which the bank furnisk: The Commner NEWBERR JNO. M. KINARD, 0 B. MJ President. Vice-Pre *The First COauah a Eveji though not aievere, has a ten< *tive mzembranes of the throat an<4 Coughs then come easy all winter, s lightest cold. Cure the first coug * set up an inflamation in the dlct g lungs. The best remedy is QI +SYRUP. It at once gets night at moves the cause. It is free from i KO a childasifor anaduzlt. 25 cents at MAYES' DRU China! I several cases of )ped direct from : assortment we prices much lower een able to quote ,r articles suitable rs. iopping Early at ) Cent !uo. Y, S. G. THERE'S A REASON. T E R IT U P. pay for rent in one year. ;n't that enough to pay for Rent? y a home on the easy pay .ve failed to ency. - instance the lots 'on the Presbyterian Church to the iave a nice four room cot int for $1,350, and another on Cornelia Street, known Parsonage. A five room st. RTON ck Account prevents s of money by theft, sness or accident. ~ ~iiii your money in the bank, you may issue a eck against it. Your checks e good only when properly gned, and can be cashed only T the party to whom you we it, who must eadorse it. safe convenience tes without charge cial Bank, Y, s. C. YER, J. Y. McFPALL, sident. Cashier. f the Season, lency to Irritate the sendi i delicate bronchial tubes. every time you 2ake he h before it has a chance to * Scapillary air tubes of theg 7ICK RELIEF COUGH :he seat of-tr ,uble an-i re. Iorphinue and is as afe tor 3 STORE. W1AVF AND E HIVE STREET garret with Blankets ats, Heavy Wool Un :> for Men and Ladie. Jndershirts Cloaks /len's Suits and Men's ever offered. Boys e Pants Suits, bough uch discount that wi price. A new lot o BLANKETS s, $1.25 goods, at 98c pr. avy Blankets at $1.25 pr. $3.00 goods, at $1.75 pr. $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00 pr. COMFORTS c. each. c. each. .5 0 each. 8 each. riONS, ETC. c. pair. >x at 10c. pair. a 5c. efs at 3c. each. lefs Ic. each. :ers I5c. pair. .each. c. pair., c. rs at 15c. pair. 'e 5c. each. Embroidery 5c. ting!!-We have just re ry best grade, most store -ice while it lasts 22 1 -2c. yc get we are headquarters fc as and prices. n's and Ladies' Underwea1 Curtains, Bed Spreads, etc anci comparison. We ca less money than most mer ad Be Convinced. HIE J. N. DELL CO,, Proprietol Ick and W. L. Leitzsey. Plate will be exhibited on day o 'erms of sale: The purchaser to pa; -third cash and give his bond an< nortgage of the premises for th dit portion of the purchase monex able in two equal annual insta] ts, with interest from the day o e at the rate of eight per cent able annuadlly unitil the debt id, with leave to anticipate pay t of the credit portion in whol in part. Purchaser to pay for pa rs and recording of same. H. H. Rikard, Master. faster's Offce. Nov. 10, 1908. SALE OF LAND. will -sell to thle highest bidder be~ ' the c ouFtIh1lns :11 Newberrl' I' et o f lan 1 p(1 wh)0 'i rl ich Ir w re'. No. 9 Towvnship on Satluda rivert itaining one hundred and thirt; ces. Terms: Cash. . E BRoner.