Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A FRIGHT IN MIDAITl1. Going Up In a Balloon and Coming Down in a Parachute. I once went up in a balloon and came down in a parachute. Something went wrong, and all te money in the world doubled woula not induce me to make the experiment again. One grows strangely accustomed to dangers as an acrobat, and when it was suggested that I should earn $25 in as many minutes by taking the place of a parachutist who had fallen ill at the last minute I jumped at the chance. It was at a large country fair. The lauzhing crowd had probably never seen a ballon go up. As the great silk bag gradually swelled a silence fell uron the onlookers. The siek parachutist ' manager pat ted me on the back and said it was money easily earned. I agreed-then. "Keep cool," he said, "and what ever you do, don't look down except to judge your distance from the earth. You see that tower. When you are that distance up pull the check string and shut your eyes." A dull murmur rose as the ropes were east off and I felt my feet leave the' ground. The upward movement was gentle, and a great cheer came up to me until the band drowned it. I hardly heard the cheering or the band. The involuntary murmer still rang in my ears. Perhaps my nerves were upset, possibly it was intuition, but from the moment I was drawn up from the ground I felt the conviction that grim trouble lay ahead. Ignoring the oft repeated instruc tions, I looked down. How slowly the balloon went up! Could it be possible that I had not gone more than a hun dred -yardst The giant overhead be came a living thing, intent on tortur ing the puny mortal who had trusted 'his life to it. I knew I dared-not leap before I was high enough, for the par achute takes 100 feet sometimes to open. I shut my eyes and tried to count to kill time. but the figures became jumbled, and I looked down again. A swallow skimmed past underneath. Far below there was a sea of upturn ed faces, and the music floated -up dis tinetly. The balloon seemed to have stopped rising, and for an eternity I tried to gauge the height.. Again the band stopped, and I was in a silent world. The crowd of breathless specks far beneath was get-I ting fu-ll value for its money. The only noise I heard was the beating of the blood through may head. I was afraid. It was the first real fear I had ever felt in my work. When the supreme moment came I pulled the string without realizing what I was doing. What years I lived in those next w seconds. An appalling nausea and consciousness when my feet onched a wild desire to iive came with the first terrible rush, and my rt stood still as I looked eagerly loft. The ropes of the parachute had isted and I was falling to instant eath. Grasping the ropes in a clutch of teel, I shook them frantically. Half he huge parachute bellied out with a ise like a pistol shot, and the speed f the fall was lessened with a jar. Again I shook the death trap. The pes were sliding at a snail's pace, tnd bit bv bit the parachute was open e. Still I fell far too fast. I could ot breathe, and my hands seemed to refusing to bldd on. Bane! The last fold had opened ut. and I was saved. Dizzy and numb 'th fear. I held on tightly, wonder e whether I shonld faint before 1 niehed the ground. That, and that y, was my thou.ght as I sailed rough the space. I had almost lost e ground gently. And then I col sed--Buffalo Times. CUBAN CHARACTER. omething Concerning Which Ameri cans May Have Misconceptions. ''Americans have gsined a wrong nression of the Cnban character,''I id Max J. Baehr. IUnited State; con at Cienfuegos. Cuba. to a Wash Post renorter. ''It is a mista.k class Cubans with Central Ameri s as lovers of strife and as eon ntlv drone to insurrection. T as know. nsm stationed in the hot of re'cent revolutionary uprisines the island, and the troubles have Sdue to the feeling on the part the natives that they were not to i've their political rights and not an insurrectionary spirit. On the whole, there is no better aeter to be found anywhere than f the Cuban. The majority of habitants of the country are ly law-abiding. peace-loving of sweet dispositions, and it n the ities that vou find the have 'been contaminated by d have beome bad citizens. *The Cuban- .re a temi)erate peo pie," continued Mr. Baehr. "They d not drink intoxicants, unless you cal their coffee intoxicating, for the; make that very strong, and drink i six, seven or eight times a day, al though, of e-urse, not large cups at time. "The Cubans appeared to be satis fied with the workings of the nev election law created by Colonel Crow ther. They realize that by it the: will get their rights, and after the las election they acquiesced quietly an< seemed satisfied. I think that was al that was necessary for them to be come convinced that the law woul< bring honest results. "Therefore I believe these inter views coming from Americans whi have an imperfect knowledge of con ditions. saying that there probabl: will be another insurrection in Cuba are untrue and unjust. I shall not at tempt to predict the outcome of th approaching election. Both partie have nominatedi able men for presi dent and vice-president. and the ele tion may be quite close. In eithei event I am confident the result wil be accepted by the people in a law abiding spirit. The present adminis tration of the island has been exceed ingly successful. Mr. Magoon ha4 shown great shrewdness and tact ani the people are convinced they wil get their rights.!' CASH IN ADVANCE. In March, 1887, I became a par owner of The Herald and News ani have been connected with the pape continuously since that time. I wa, with the paper a couple of years prioi to that time when under other own. ership. I have, therefore, been th( editor for nearly twenty-five years During that time my duties have al. so been to keep the books and sub scription accounts. I have always had great faith ani confidence in the honesty of the peo ple and their purpose to pay theii debts. For that reason I have nevei believed I could conduct a strictl cash in advance subscription. For the past few months I hav been giving a closer study to the sit. uation than ever before. When the postoffice department is sued its order that a subscription tc a semi-weekly more than nine months in arrears could not be accepted ai the second-elass rate we endeavored to comply with the order and had tc eutt off about 650 names. We firsi sent each subscriber at least two let ters calling attention to the rui'ng be sides mention of it was made in the paper. This fall we have sent an other letter to these perso3ns. but we have. ree 'ived no response. These 650 owed us over' $5,000. MJany of them not only did not pay w"hat they owe.] but weni directly and oibscribed f: o-- r ectemporary and paid for it. We have no objection tc that but we mention it a's a reason for the shaking of our faith in the ho'nesty ,of the people. Tic certainly was a striking evidence o' ingratitude. We still have a goodI many sub~ sribers who are in arrears. State ments have been sent or will be sent in a few days to all of these. During the 25 years of our connee tion with this newspaper we have lost in unpaid subse'-iptions at least $20,000. We have no one to blame but ourself and the people would have though-t more of us if we had made them pay it. We are not com plaining but we propose to stop this leak or go out of the business. After the first day of February The Herald and News will be run strictly on the cash in advance plan. A post ard will be mailed you giving you thirty days notice so that you may have time to send in your renewal and to remind you if you should over ook it. There are doubtless some errors in the credits. If you will call our at tention to these we will gladly make the correction and in every case will re the subscriber the benefit of the doubt. It takes too muech of our time to end statements and to pay postage. We will keep no books except our receipt stubs and a cash book and the mailing galleys. We shall hate to part with any sub sribers but we cannot longer be an noyed with trying to collect these lit le amounts and then not get them. The post office rule doe~s not permit s to carry a delinquent longer than nine months and we had just as well put it on the cash basis. We find that for a eleven months of this year only about 1000 have paid anything at all. Just about one half of the present list. 'We can not pay our debts and keep up this rate of ollection of what is due us. And we do not want to offer compromise if ve can help it. Remember you have two months to put yourself financial. If you can't - note and pay the advane,, subscrip- 1 > tion. e The rule we adopt will be followed o strictly. No doubt some of those who p ; have been indulgod will show their li appreciation by getting mad and tak- n ing the other paper as some have done. t We will not raise any objection for T - we will have the satisfaction of know- if 7 ing that you will no longer get a pa- a - per without paying for it. Those who pay no heed to what they , t owe us will have their accounts turn- 0 I ed over to a collection agency. 0 1 We have worked hard to serve the - people of this community and we de serve what we have earned. The Herald and News will continue to be an up-to-date paper and we I hope all of our subscribers will ap preciate the situation that it costs money to buy paper and pay printers and it is much easier for each one to; pay us than it is for us to be contimi ally hunting up these little amounts. If any man's subscription is in ar rears and he has a claim against us - an we will thank him to present his claim and if we owe it we will try to pay it. Remember after February first The. Herald and News is going to be cash in advance. 1. E. H. Aull, y Editor. t, mom_ p NOTICE! -i The County Board of Commission-) P ers for Newberry county will receive u applications for the appointment ot 1S a' superintendent of the county poor n house and farm for the year 1909, the d same to be filed with the undersigned v by 9 o'clock in the forenoon of De- ci cember 5th next. The board reserves n the right to reject all applications. a: H. C. Holloway, S Clerk. si Nov. 16, 1908. o: p BLUE RIDGE SCHEDULES. d Eastbound. No. 18, leaves Anderson at 6.30 a. S M., for connection at Belton with Southern for Greenville. No. 12, from Walhalla. leaves Ar derson at 10.15 a. m., for connection at Belton with Southern Railway for Columbia and Greenville. iS No. 20, leaves Anderson at 2.20' p. in., for connections at Belton with 'w Southern Railway for Greenville. ti No. 8, daily except Sunday, from " Walhalla arrives Anderson 6.24 p. E mn., with connections at Seneca with 11 Southern Railway from points south. 'b No. 10, from Waihalla, leaves An- S derson at 4.57 p. mn., for connections o: at Belton with Southern Railway for 'I Greenville and Columbia. A Westbound. 1 No. 17, arrives at Anderson at 7.50 T n. mn., from Belton with connections from Greenville.-e No. 9. arrives at Anderson at 12.24 o p. mn., from Belton with connections 'o from Greenville and Columbia. Goes *b; to Walhalla. No. 19, arrives at Anderson at 3.40 el p. in., from Belton with connections ir from Greenville. p No. 11. arrives at Anderson at 6.29 p. in., from Belton with con niections from Greenville and Column bia. Goes to Waihalla. s No. 7, daily except Sunday. leaves Anderson at 9.20 a. in., for Walhalla, with connections at Seneca for lo'-o1 pinftS smuth. Nos. 17. 18, 19, and 20 are mixed 0 trans between Anderson an;d Beltoni Nos. 7 and 8 are local freight ~ trains, carrying passngers betwE'en W:ilhal1a an? Anderson ._ T STATE.OF SOUTH CAROLINA, B COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. a IN COMMON PLEAS COURT. d Mary A. Spehl, Plaintiff, a Thedor H.Against ! Thodor H.Spehl, et. a!., Defend ants. By virtue of an order of Courtt herein, I will sell at public auction at" Newberry Court House, S. C., within the legal hours of sale, on salesday in January, 1909, towit, on Monday, * Jan. 4th, all that tract. parcel or lot b4 of land lying and being situate in b4 the county of Newberry and State a aforesaid, about one and one-fourth tI miles east of the Town of Newberry, I S. C., formerly known as the Home t Place of Theodore Spehl. now de- e" eeased, containing five and two-thirds tE acres. more or less, and bounded by di the continuation of Main street on es rhte northwest, by the continuation of T: Boundary street on the southeast, by street of the northeast, by lots of Nat Gist. R. C. May bin and Mrs. Hattie Bradley on the southwest, being the greater portion of that tract of seven and one-half (7 1-2) acres conveyed by Franees se E. Johnstone to Theodore Spehi. as es shown by det.d which is record1ed in et Beed Book No. 4, page 3'2. se Terms of sale: One hai cash and 'er one half on a credit of twelve months, im rare u S per vent per annam, redit portion to be secured by note f the purchaser and mortgage of the remises sold, with an insurance po icy of the dwelling assigned to the laster: with leave to each purchaser o anticipate the credit portion in vhole orin part; purchaser to pay 'r pape(rs, recording of mortgage nd for insurance policy. The above five and two-thirds acres rill be sold in two or more lots, plats f which will be exhibited on the day f sale. H. H. Rikard. Master. Master's Office, Dec. 9, 1908. 'he News and Courier and TheI Herald and News. Beginning with February 1, 1909. ie combination price of The Herald nd News with the Charleston Week News and Courier will be raised to wo dollars and twenty-five cents a ear. Two months remain in which ew and old subscribers may take ad antage of this splendid combination t the present price, two dollars. Send i your orders now. Think of it a Itle. For the small price of $2.25 ou get your own county paper wvice a week and a twice a week news aper that covers the news of the rhole world both for one full year. 'ublished every Wednesday and Sat rday, each issue of the The Weekly ews and Courier contains all the ews ofsimportance. not only of the ay of publication, but of all inter ning days. The cream of the Asso ated Press News-the greatest ews-gathering agency in the world ad all important happenings in outh Carolina are given, as well as ;riking editorial articles and stories F one kind and another. It has de artments for men, women and chil ren. It it a clean newspaper, and it a home newspaper. TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. In Court of Common Pleas. P. N. Boorer, Plaintiff, Against Grace Goodman, Ira Tribble an(d nla Goodman, Defendant:. By an order of the Couct herein I ill sell to the highe ;t bidder before e Court R'mse at N'orberry S. c., ithin the legal bowi:3 of sale, on onday, salesday, January the 4th, )09, all that tr-iet of ia id lying and eing situate in Newberiy County, tate of South Car:Bina, containing n'e hundred and ten (110) aci es, ore less, and ',oun'ded by lands of .A. Madden, Bet4y Good1win. M. E. [oore and other lanids of M1ary E. ribble.f Terms of Sala. One-third (I-3)j sh and the bh v e on' a credit of 2e and two years, the credit portion i the purchase money to be secured y a bond of the purchaser and a Lortgage of the premises sold. Pur 1aser shall have the privilige of pay tg all cash. Purchaser to pay for apers and recording same. - H. H. Rikard, Master.I TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. Court of Common Pleas. Laura C. Nichols as administratrix i Benjamin F. Nichols, deceased, andI dividually, Luke M. Nickols. W. [ampton and Willie E. Nichols, laintiffs, Against Daisy P. Hawkins. Bessie D. Lake, he Prosperity Stock Company, The ank of Prosperity. Geo. E. Hawkins id A. Hayne Hawkins. as partniers, ing business under the firm name 2d style of Hawkins Brothers, De ndants.m By an order of the court herein I ill sell to the highest bidder before e Court House at Newberry. S. C.. ithin the lezal hours. onl salesday in mary. 1909. ame bemgz 4th day of id month, the one-third (1-3') inter t in all that tract of land lying and ~ing situate in the County of New ~rry, State aforesaid, containing six ~res, more or less, better known as e mill tract. including the building, achinery and other mill fixtures ereon, said interest belonging to the tate of Benjamin F. Nichols, de ased, and bounded by the two hun red and twelve acre tract of the tate of B. F. Nichols, lands of N. E. vlor. J. W. Boozer, and Wicker. Terms of sale cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. H. H. Rikard. Master. At the same time "nd place we will7 1lthe other (2-3) two-thtirds inter t in said mill tr:;ct, building, ma inery and mill fixtures above de ribed. Terms of sale cash. Purchas to pay for papers. N. E. Tavlor. .Tas. W. Boozer. ,- A Fhe Mo IS STILL C Splen 0 Fine I T VERY L $12.00 to $15 duced to $10. $10.00 Coat4 $7.50. $9.00 Coats $6.75. T Eff POEPLE F VITH CASH I Our custome A check acco Bank will el difficulties oi funds as you Your busines corned. .., lHE EXCHANGI of Newbei D. A P '''7de. YOU SHOULDN'T MISS IT when you go hunting to have one of our new L. C Smith, Winches ter, Bemington,"LeFevere or Par ker guns or Winchester repeating rifles with you. We have every thing for the sportsman in guns, ammunition, loading tools, clean ers, etc., as well as a full line of leggings. When you need anything in this line you will find the best that money can afford at our store. SUMMER BROTHERS CO. wer Co. )FFERING did Line F . . oats low PRICES! .00 Coats re DO. .:; a reduced to reduced to he Gun that Gets the Game We have just received a big lot fine guns which arrived too late and we are offering them at a great reduction in price. Don't miss this chance to buy a fine gun cheap. They must be sold. No goods charged at this cut price. ~UMMER BROTHERS CO. 'AY BILLS HESE DAYS rs know~this. unt with this iminate any -using your wish. . . . s will be wel E BANK rry, S. C. M. L. SPEARM AN,