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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New erry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. Friday February 12, 1909. The trouble. with the provision in the appropriation bill by Mr. Doar is that it will be diffienit to determine W,ho are deserving children, and if it was his purpose to help the children in the rural districts it :would have been better to provide that books be furnished all the children in -the pub lie sehols at the expense of the State. ED In our comments on the proposed new bill by our delegation for im proving roads .and bridges in this county we stated that the provision requiring six days work or a commu tation tax of $2.00 was the law at present. This is an error and we has ten to make the corraction. The law as it stands at present provides not more than twelve days nor less than six days, or a commutation tax of $8.00, instead of $2.00. In other words, the bill which our delegation -has passed reduces the commutation tax from $3.00 to $2.00. NEWS OF WHITMIRE. The Briggs House Burned-Great Deal of Building in Progress Personal and Otherwise. Wmitmire, Feb. 11.-The Briggs; house, belonging to Mr. James Tid-' marsh, was burned down early Suz; day morning. The origin of the fire is unknown. Some suppose rats car ried mat6hes between the walls, as the bouse burned from the top. The house :was - occupied by negro tenants, who lost all they possessed. The house was not insured. Quite a numibe-r of new buildings are going up in town. Mr. J. V. Thomasson has completed a neat wooden store just back of 'the Cooper company, put in a stock of goods, and become a merehant. Mr. John Morse, chief of police, is building a dwelling on his lot nearI Mr. James Bishop's. Mr. P. B. 0O'Dell has 'torn down theI old 0O'Dell house and is building a modern cottage on 'the spot. Mrs. Sallie Payne is building a four room house on he~r lot opposite Mr. J. G. Setzler's, and the Glenn Lo:w ry ManuLfaturing company are erect ing a large house on Coleman avenue, near Mr. J. W. Hipp 's. Misses Kate Hargrove and Mary Bufler Fant 'have returned' from a ~pleasant visit to ther frienj Miss Bes sine Williams, at Kinards. Rev. J. C. Roper hel .dthe first quar 'terly conference at Mt. Tabor on Sat uirday and Sunday. He preached at the church in the mill village Sunday afternoon, and in the Methodist cihurch here Sunday evening. Mr. Roper is a deep thin'ker 'and pleasant speaker, and his sermons were very mucneh enjoyed. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Cofield and son, Joseph Edward, are spending the week at Mr. J. E. Coifield 's. Mrs. Sailie Henderson is visiting 'at M1r. M. E. Abrams'. Mr. 'and Mrs. J. G. Setzler have re tturned ,from a vist to Mrs. Mary Setz ler. Mr. James Henderson 'has received a s':ipmen't of fine mules. He !has sold some of them. The others are for sale at Mr. E. L. Street's 'livery sta ble. Mr. Henry Taylor, Whitmire's en teirprising furniture dealer, has bought out Whisonant and Rein.hart. Hie has moved 'his stock of goods into .the handsome briek building belong ing to Mr. B. F. Morrow, and expects to monopolize tehe furnitu;re business here. Mr. T. C. Jeter spent a day or two in Clinton 'last week. Mr. J. S. Wheeler visited the se!hool' here a few days ago. Mrs. Minnie Abrams, who ifas been quite ill, at the home of her brother, Mr. Z. H. Stmbe'r, is improving. Misses Sarah and Wil-lie Mae Shan non and Miss Iola Cromer delighted their friends here 'with a few days' visit recently. Mrs. B. F. Morrow, of Henderson ville, is here looking 'after 'her finan eial .interests and visiting 'friends. Mrs. R. R. Jeter visited Mr. Wil liam Coleman and family and Mrs. S. A. Jet er Saturday. Mr. 'Ford Hodge, of Union. was in town this week. Mr. Edward Mathis is visiting his frienid. Mr. Farman Shealy. Mr. J. M. Major was in town Sa:t ord:v" and Sunday. Ms J. M Major left today for a Some Questions In Re Good Roads. Ili. Elbert Hernan Aull.-Devot ed Father of the Good Roads Move ment of Newberry Counity: Will you please answer the following ques tions? W-ill you please tel-I me if the bonds -s*uld be reduced to $22,000, if we could compromise them for $11,000. by giving a renewal note with addi tional security? Why not one commLssioner for each township? Why not one commissioner who was a Reformer, or Tillmanite, in 1890, who stood true to his eause? Why not one who has brought about this movement-W. K. Sligh or yourself? Where will 'this $300,000 be depos ited -until spent! Remember the Augusta -railroad, the C., N. & L., and other bonded institutions. Some of our fathers voted ithose bonds. Who are paying them? What have we got for these bonds? County officers are made .to pay for .their own bonds. Why should the people pay for the bonds of these commissioners and their clerk? Why should the bank pay less for the deposits than the people pay for the bonds? The bank gets the cash, the people, what? Can -a commission sueh as this Act creates levy a tax? Under Section 6 of this Act, will not .those townshps irepresented on the boa:rd get all of the good roads? Why not No. 1 always get first choice, as she has a majority of the board? What about the majority of th; commissioners being from No. 1 and condemning lands in the other ten townships? Why not a commis sioner from each to'wnship? Under Section 9, with 'her large taxable property, and ithe majority of t'he commissioners from No. 1, can ot all of the good roads be put in No. 1? Under Section 16, will .not a ma jority of the commission decide on No. 1, and will not the others, picked by a select erowd in town, go with the majority ? How many directors of one bank are on the board? Will that bank receive all -the deposits? Why could not a mass meeting of the white people of 'the county select the com-riNioners as 'well as a few of the select ga-thered itogat'her in town, as was dorre? T h.ese questions are not asked to stop the issue, bat we want infornia tion, and want it before 'we vote. We well remember the purchase~ of the "Marie Mitchell'' for ithe Newberry and A'ug'usta railro-ad, on our bonds, ibut we have not so fa heard her whistle, nor seen the ears that she pulled.' Yea, verily, we see the C., N. & L., and thear the "Duteh Fork Special'' blow, buit we are payimg bonds, and the tax-payers pay -to ride; bt the stockholders and .direcitors a:re receiving large dividends, and the road is paying handsomely. We ar1 )roud of -that, but we are paymng bonds and athe stoekholders are get ting dividends. Bonds? Why, yes. See the Act of 1908 creating a special Sinsking Fund for our county, to care for our 'bonds. Bonds? Sure. See if our county is now pa:ying any bonds. Yes ? Well, what ihave -we goit for these bonds'? You say these commissioners are homeolks ? So, so. Yes, and so w-as . Well, those who elected t'hem thought just as much of 'them as 'we do of these. And Well, if we keep' healthy, possibly it will be all right, but if oar hea-l'th shold fail, 'do you Think we could get itwenby-two for eleven? Your answer to 'these questions will 'be highly appreciated by one of those 'who 'has believed you to be faithful in this movement, but now in error, and 'who,' while the father of the movement is not even on the comamis slon. Yours faithfully and devolted'1y, Cole. L. Blease. Personally Conducted Tour to Wash ington, D. C. Arangements have been made for a delightful personally conducted tour via the Seaboard Air Line .to Wash ington, D. C., during the inauguration of President-elect Taft. The trip is to commence Monday, March 1st, reaching Washington aarly Tuesday morning; returning leave Washington Friday evening March 5th, covering a pdriod of six days. The total cost has been fixed at .the very low figure of only $49.00 from Columbia, S. C., which will cover rail road fare, pullman berth, meals en, ruote, sight-seeing automobile trips, seats in the reviewing stand and hotel accommodations .while in Washington for four days. For booklet and full information address Mr. J. D. Hlardin, P. 0. Box 77, S;aannah, Ga., or apply to any visit to her sister, Mrs. Win. Razor, in Greenville. Messrs. Joe Bishop and Rhett Truesdale, of Macon, Ga., were in * * *WILL SEABROOK'S TRAVELS* * * * * * * * * * * ** * * ** * (By W. B. Seabrook.) Special to The Herald and News. Saintes Maries-de-la-Mer, France. How many Ameiieans know wh.a-t became of the Virgin Mary, Mary Sa loine, Mary Magdalene, Joseph. Laz arus, Martha and Mary of Bethany, and the other personal friends anil kinfolk of Jesus, after the crucifix ion? V-ery few,' I am sure, for the Bible has .little or nothing to say on the subject, and, so far as I can learn, the legend has never found placc. in English literature. Yet a wonderful story exists, a veritable Odyssey, fa miliar to the peasants i.n the south of France, cherished and -handed down from generation to generation with a touching, simple faith; not only have they enshrined in their hearts the memory of Sainites M-aiie, but have preserved here, in a little eburch up on the Mediterranean shore, three caskets, which are believed to contain the bones of these holy women. Here is the legend (the history, if you prefer) as it was recounted to me by the Curate of this church-up .n-the-saiids. The Jewish heirarchy. who had hop ed by cruifying Christ to put an end to the propagation of his teachings, which th-ey regarded as revolutionary and socialistic, becoming alarmed by the miraculous events which followed the (rucifixion, were driven to des peraitioqn and decided to arid Jernsa lem, and Palestine by one daring stroke, of the most fervent disciples and relatives of the Saviour. A com pany was formed, without the know ledge or connivance of the Roman government, a plot was carefully laid, and, one night, the Mother of Christ, the other Marys, Martha, Joseph, Trophime, Lazarus and a number of their companions. were seized in th-eir beds, bound, gagged, and hurried across country to a desolate spot up on the coast, where the different bands of malefactors had arranged a rendezvous. There they were liberat ed from their bonds and forced aboard a leaking ship, withut sails, Irudder or anchor, and abandoned to the mercy of the waves. As the water logged -hulk was being pushed from the shore, the little band of martyrs, as well as their m'urdero'us captors, were startled by the sudden appear ance of Sarah, a devoted maid-ser vant, whom the kidnapp'ers had niot thought worth the trouble of their at tentior., but who had followed -their footsteps and 'now demanded to share the fat-e of Mary, her mistress. The prayer was granted, Sarah was per mitted to enter the ship, shared in all the adventures of her companions, and eventually became ithe patron saint of the Bohemians and Gypsies. in a curious old French cantiele, the scene of the embarkment is thus described: "Entraz Sara. dans la nacelle, Laare, Martha et Maximin, Cleon, Trophime, Saturnin, les trois lares et Marcelle, Eutrope -et Martial, Sidoine avec Joseph, Vous periroz dans cette nef. Alez sans voile et sans cordage, Sans mat, sans anere, sans timon, Sans aliments, sans aviron, Alloz faire un triste naufrage! Retirez vous d 'ici, laisez nous en re pos, Allez crever parmi les flots.'' (A ?riend of 'the editor makes t-his free tradaiilon:) Enter Sara, into the lit-tle boat, Lazarus, Martha, an.d Maximim, Cleon, Trophime, Saturnin, The three Marys and Marelle, Etrope and Martial, Sidonie with Joseph, You will perish in this nave of the chureb. Go without sail, without rope; Wtout mast, without anchor', with 'out rudder, Go and make a sad shipwreck, Go from here and leave us in peace, o kill yourselves among the tor rents. But the little band was miraculous lv saved from the waves. Searcely had the sinking vessel drif.ted out of sight of land, when Trophime, who was kneeling in the prow, beheld a snow-white dove descending from the clouds, with a silver cord in its beak. The cord was fastened to the bow sprit, and the dove flew northward. For three days and three nights the ship was drawn, light as a wind-driv en foam, upon the dancing waves, then? land was sigrhted, and as the ive r'e:nou.nted tihe sky, the boat zronded upon the shore of Camar ue in the delta of th-e Rhone. upon tre very' sp)ot where'thuis village of Santes-Maries-de-la-Mer was later founded. After rendering thanks to ad foe thair adverance, the exiles misl%sB)inaries m1 (411ul. Lazarus and Trophiime followed the course of the river and reached the city of Arles, at that epoch a great Roman metropolis; Lazarus, af ter fearlessly hurling from their ped estals the statues of Venus, Bacehus, and other pagan gods, suffered mar tyrdom in the Arlesian arena; Trop hime, who was no less zealous but more conservative and intelligent, ex entually succeeded in converting the city to Christiani-ty. afnd lived to be come a bishop. It seems to me, in passing, that 20th century preachers and missionaries might draw more than one useful moral from.this little incident. As for the Saintes Marie, they spent their lives in pious pilgrimages from village to village, from city to city. throughout all Gaul, spreading the Gospel, healing th-e sick, and com forting the afflicted. Sarah, the hand-maiden, was separated from her companions, and made a long journey into the country of the Huns (now Hungarian Bohemia) but later rejoin ed the Marys and upon her death was buried by their side. Nearly every provine upon ithe Mediterranean coast continues, in its purely local legends and folk-lore, this Odyssey of the Saintes Marie. Upon the slope of a gigantie cliff in the mountains of the Alphilles, in the neighborhood of Les Baux, is an enor mous detached block of stone, over hanging a precipice; upo'n the eastern face of this block are graven three grandiose female figures. objects of the superstitious veneration of the mountaineers. These three figures (which T examined while visiting Les Baux. several months ago) are cer tainly 900 or 1.000 years old. Two distinct legends are woven around the statues, or. more properly speaking, the has reliefs. and both legends con nect them with the Saintes Marie. According to the great Provencal poet. Frederick Mistral, the three Maries visited Les Baux and were zo hospitably received by the inhAl.itasS of ithe village that Mary Magdalene traeed with her finger, . upol! the mountainside, the po.iraits of her self and her two compaoon;. in or der to render eternal the souvenir of their visit. The other e:end. record ed by Jules Canonge. is n.. so credi table to -the hospitalitr of the villa ger's. who, according to this second version, treated the saintiy wonen as sorceresses and chased the~m frm thie neighborhood witht -;i and stones. Shortly afterward. Les Baux, until tha.t moment the healh'est spot imaginable, was afflieted by a terri ble plagare. a species of choPbra, which threatened to wipe out the vil lage: sacrifices to the pagani gods and godsses proving of no .svail, the priests. remembering that the three. strange women. who 'had rec ently vis ited the mountain, had claimed to be tre messengers of a new and unknown god, came to the conclusion that this deity. offended b y t'he indignrit-ies heaped upon his emmissari.es. had sent the plague a's a punishment; conse quently they decided to erect a shrindi to the three mysterious women, and arved upon the cliff the three figur es, which have remained until this day. Unfortunately for .those who seek to discern a shadow of real truth in either of these tales, the stone figures themselves -suggest, or rather impose. a thrd more prrac'tieaa and :less poet;ic explanation of their origini. Their style is indisputably Roman, and they were executed by habile workmen. Furthermore. the groupang, drapery and head-dresses of the figures love little room sto question that they were intended to represent the three Graces. But let us return to the legenid. The three Marys and the servant Sarah, having converted the Gauls, and hav ing grown old in 'the long, long course of their wanderings, r'eturned to the Camargue to spend their few remain ing days in peiee, and to die here upon the spot where they had dis embarked. The fishermen of the neighborhood, who had known and honored the holy women during their lives, protected and respected their sepulchre, and laiter, the faithful ratis ed a shrine and altar, to which they made a pious pilgrimage every year upon the anniversary of the Marys' death. Such was the origin of a fa mous pilgrimage, which is still cele brated every' 'ea-r. and which. by its picturesque character, annually at tracts thousands of tourists of all na tionaties. Horrible Example. A certain bish'op 'was famnious a's be ing -the plainest main of Englamnd. One day. 'as tihis h:omnety parson sat in ian oimniibus, he was amazed by tihe per'sistent stanring of a f4Row passen er. who f.inalEy said: mbindl comi-n' 'onme with me to see my wife?'' Tm :gi'li ne the wtife was sick and need assista.nee, the elemgym.aan, at er.est inconlivenlienc~e 'to ihimself, went. n .ar'ivin a.t *the house. 'the manr The 10 C to supply your HOUSEP Everv department coi Tin Ware, China Ware Ware, Household Harc cessities, Notions, NoN Always receiving son Watch our windows. Anderso Newber FOR io Shares Mollohon Man1 This pays 4 per cent and will make you a spI FOR One Store on upper Main conveniently located. I have $2,ooo to $3,000 to . J. A. BI ''The Man ODDE Ihavejust comple and I find that I odds and ends, and I have put them c COUNTER at a ye and see if there is need. These barge DON'T FAIL TO poited to the astonished parson, and salid (with a grin otf <ldight: 'Look 'e 'ere, Satiary. Yeir said this morndin' as I wus tihe buglies~t aap in Henglaind. Now, just look a.t tihis b2lke!'' TOWN AND TOWNSHIP BOARD 0OF ASSESSORS FOR 1909. The following persons 'have been appointed to serve as Town and Township Assessors for 1909: . Township No. 1 Town. Otto Klettner, Jno. A. Senn and L. W. Floyd. Township No. 1 County. Jio. C. Neel, S. P. McCraeken and G. MDuffie Sligh. Township No. 2. Dr. W. C. Brown, Ohas. S. Suber arn B. B. Lei'tzsey. Township No. 3. . H. Ringer, E .L. Glymiphand B. H. Maybin. Township No. 4 Town. David Duncan, P. B. 0O'Dell and H. E. Kohn. Township No. 4 County. Z. H. Suber, James C. Dunean, Sam V. Derriek. Township No. 5. (. C. Glasaow, Welchi Wilbur and ir WV. Buford. Township No. 6. M. M. Livingstone. Gee. P. Boozer nd J. B. Smiith. Township No. 7. Pres N. Bozr, A. P. Coleman and ent Store, every need in IEEPING. nplete in Enamel Ware, , Crockery Ware, Glass iware and Kitchen Ne relties, Etc. : : : :: riething "NEW." n 10c Co., -ry, S. C. SALE ifacturing Company Stock. dividend every six months endid investment. RENT Street, also two Cottages Loan on Real Estate. JRTON Between" DS SALE ted my.stock taking have a great many in order to sell them n my BA R GA IN ry low price. Come not something you tins await you. [TINES ok Storo 0 0 is "E Townshi N . W. T., Gibson Towsip No. 8ou. , J. T. BHaira, H. . oGart W.nd Township N. 10w. A.a H. HAkin, . B. Cook and W B. ..Gineo. Township No. 10. Perry Halfaere, R. H. Hipp and ~Feix A. Graham. The above named assessors a:re re quired to meet in the office of the county auditor Tuesday, February 23, a-t 11 o'clock a. m. for the purpose of *taking othe oa-th of office and atitend ig to ot;ker business necessary 'before passing on the assessments for 1909. This is an important meeting and ev ery member is urged and expected to be present. Respeetfully, Eug. S. Werts, Comnty Au.ditor.