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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New berry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. Tuesday, March 30, 1909. BUILD THE ROAD. An article appeared in last week's Saluda Standard signed by a Saluda business main asking the question, "'Why does not Saluda build a rail roadI' We desire to repeat the question and ask another question or two. Why will not the people of Newbe ry, the people of Edgefield, and the people of Augusta assist Saluda and cooperate with Szuada in this work? We believe that they will and we beliave -that Sakuda with their cooper ation *an build a xailroad. We do not know who the Saluda business man is but if he really means business we would like to cooperate with thim, and 1we are atisfied that the road can be built. Salnda shoul have a railroad and should have had one long ago, but be ease she has not gotten one yet is no reason why she should not go to work and get one .now. We are satisfied that the people of Newberry will cooperate with Saluda in this wo<k. The Saluda business man suggests *hat a stoek company be 6orped and that the stock be placed at $10.00 a share and that al he people around bout Saluda be given a chance to suibscribe to this stock. The plan is- feasible and we would like to see this Saluda business man take hold of it. TAKE A LOOK AT NEWEERRY. Newberry is fussing about the school question. We cordially invite the whole crowd of 'em to Laurens to just .ake a look at us, and go. back home and do likewise. Laurens would make a model for any town, in school matters.-Laurens Advertiser. -You are entirey mistaiken. New bery h3as ,not been ''fussing.'' We have just voted .by a very decided majority to pat up the very best .equipment for tihe enlarging of our. asehools to meet the growth of our city. There was a little protest- but everybody is satisfied now and oyu 'would do welil to comne down and look at Newberry. .Nothing helps a commnunity .like good schools and we understand Laur tens has 'ei5. Newberry will, have 'em, too, and we are not going to ''fuss'' abouit it, either. EXTEN~D THE SEWERAGE. The commissioners of public works ~and .the board of health and the city couneil1 have been in conference for .Eme time regarding the extension of -our sewerage system. It is absolutly necessa.ry that this .ork should .be done. The sooner it *sdone the better. The health of our ~ntire community is involved in the extension of the sewerage system and in.the removal of the septic tank. The question of voting additional nds for this improvement should be ~imitted to the voters of this city pvtJout -further delay. - FWe are satisfied that all of those -who voted -to extend tihe equipment -of~our schools will now vote most aeartily for the extension of our sew erage system. *Some of those who op .posed the issuing of bonds for the ;school did so on the ground that it was necessary to have an extension of the sewer system. Ahere should be practically, there 'fore. no opposition to the issuing of bonds for this purpose and t.he qjuick er :the city council submits th-e ques tidn to the people the sooner we can ~get to work on it. A survey ought to be made showing just where the system is to extend - and an estimate of the cost. About, a year ago we understand a surveyv was made for this purpose but it seems to be a.itirek1~ unsatisfactory and it is n.ecesary that another survey- be made and that the sewers be located where they are most needed. While *we are at it they should be extended so os to puit the system within thc CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. A live board f7 trade or chamber of commerce~1~L is alhn( St ab)solutlyli n1Lecs sary to tile proper growth .d1141 dev1 opment of a community like Newber ry. Every business man and every cit izen of the community should be a member o-f sue-b an organization and not simply a member in name Ily but an active member and one who is ready and willing at all times to speak a good word for the organization and to help it to accomplish results. The disposition among some people is to criticize and by criticism to find fault with what others are trying to do while they themselves do nothing. It is a very easy matter to find fault and we all make mistakes. Some one has said that "Errors like straws upon the sur face flow, He -who won-l seek for pearls must dive below,'' or something like that. What we want in Newberry is a -chamber of commerce composed of members who pay their dues prompt ly, who are willing to say a good word for the organization, and are always willing and ready to uphold the hands of those who axe put in office and to cooperate with them in doing some tbing for Newberry. And E. D. Smith used to say that Goodwyn Rhett was too ,thick with the republieans.-Anderson Mail. You should havre learned by this time the difference between a plat form to run for office on and one to be guided by after you are elected. There is a lot of difference. You bet ter look into the matteT. The farmers are supporting Clem son college nobly. The college has already received $150,000 from the sale of fertilizer tags this year.-An derson Mail. And it matters not how big the tax gets Clemson manages to spend it. According to t-h-e present rate the in come from this source this year will reach $200,000. A committee from the Farmers' Union went to Clem son some fime ago -and .reported that Clemson ne:eded all of it. Parents 'will do well to look after their boys in regard to this writing on the sidewalks. Mayor Babb is thoroughly alive to the situation and will doubtless have little mercy ini the matter of fines.-Laurens Adver tiser. We have seen some writing on the sidewalks in Newberry that should not have been there. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - * * THE IDLE.* * .* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Speaking about th,at sermon The Idler heard the other Sunday aboui, taking thought for the morrow, and sufficient unto the day is the evil of it I read the other day the following from Talmage: Write on your daybook, on your ledger, on your money safe, "Suffi cient unto the day is the evil there of.'' Do not worry about notes that are far from due. Do you pile upon youir counting-desk the financial anx ieties of the next twen'ty years. Mel ancholy is the owl that is perched in many a Christian soul. The good times, if we will but believe it, are now; the better times are not back ward-but beyond. We believe, as in the past, so in the future, the world will grow better and better. By and by the world and all that is therein shall pass away, but in the. new heav ens and the earth righteousness, only righteousness, shall dwell; and cheer fulness-and growth will ever mark the progress of the soul. It is true that too many of us wor ry about things we can't help instead of direoting our energies to those things that we can help. I heard a gentleman say once that the hardest fall lie ever received was while he was looking back at the rock over which he had just stumbled. Had you ever thought of that -and the lesson it contains37 If not think about it. -o There are some people who do not worry much about the notes and ae counts, not even those that are near due. Then t.here are some "melan holy owls'' who apparently worry about leaving debts for succeeding generations when by so doing they can leaive them an inheritance of many good thiings, such as an educat ed citizenship, good roads, improvedl st reets anrd generally an up-to-date and progre('s1 ie commnunit ty, especial ly if vou call this debt by thre name of( onds. Yesterday is gone: tomorrow Il e W Vt l V (Is 1!!- Ii we 1,,, v usIjejv c uv I ~a Ie ~u t illes ar 110w .1nd itf we do eieer fuliess and urowtih' will surely mark our progress. -0 Atlanta has passed a back yard ordinance which I suppose being translated means that you must keep your backyard clean as well as your front vard and if von don't the sani tary department will clean it up for you and charge you up with the ex pense. Is it not just a little bit strange that people have to be made to do thQse things which are foir their own good. And then some peo ple get made if you make them. -0 There would be a good job don-e in this town if the people could be made -ever ,persuaded-implored-to keep their front yards and the streets in front of their front yards clean. Why not get the board of health to pub lish th cleaning up ordinance or rule if there is one, so that the people would know what it is and then they could throw the debris on the street intelligently? -0 The Charlotte News complains that in their town "It costs $10 to expec torate on the strteet, while the fine for similar conduct in the court house is only $5. We think there should be no -competition of rates in this matter, and the court should should be reprimanded for underbidding." -0 I think I heard once that there was an ordinance in Newberry against "spitting," not simply expectorating, on the sidewalks. Am I mistaken or is there an ordinance on this sub Ject? -0 "To call a man a liar," says Judge Arthur Powell, in handing down a de cision in the Georgia court of ap peals, "and raise a stick to strike him, if in anger, is a menace of viol ence and is calculated to excite alarm >r to provoke a breth of the peacc. Being to the manor born, the judges f this court take judicial cognizance >f the fact -that in Georgia to call a man a liar, even without threatening him with a stick, most generally means a fight. There may be exc7p tions to this rule, but they are rare exotics and find little nourishment on Georgia soil and under Southern skies. Judgment reversed.'' -o Over in- South Carolina "to call a man a liar'' i"a menace of viol enee'' without raising "a stick to strike him.'' Just what the courts~ would hold on the subject I cannot sai as I .am not much of a l-awyer, but the man who uses the epithet generally finds out that words do some times cause blows whether they justify them in the sight of the law or not. I heard the other day that the last legislature passed an Act with this title: "An Act to provide for the recovery of personal prosperity.'' I am waitng with great anxiety to see the provisons of this act. I want to know how this is to be donie by an enactment of the legislature. I knew the legislature had undertaken many things but I did not know before that they were going to provide for us to recover prosperity. I am afraid, owever, that the law assumes that the fellow once possessed prosperity for how could he recover somethin; e never had. If so the courts may :elare it unconstitutionn~ because it is not general in its term a. But then. ou know, this is an age of local on tion. St.i.ll, if it is construed to mean former possessi . I am afraid it wvill nt help The idler. -0 A gentlem-an in the postoffice the ther morning, so I am told, suggest d thait it would .be a good idea to ave a large trash basket placed in he lobby in which the waste paper hich now finds its way to the floor ad on the street might be thrown. What says .the civic association. You are heard of the Texas congress m'an wibio was visi.ted in. Washington by a -entiltuent firom the wild west ad who useid ith'e jui:ey kind of tobae x> and as he empt,ied this juice on the mja,bl'e -ioor had athve fine briass eusp:i do,rs pushed in line remarked to his esonrress1inal finienid. "'If you keep on uitting :thWt -t'Mug in my way I'll spit in .it.'' Maybe if a trash basket was pl.aced in range somebody mih't itihirow somne wsate paper in it. t is worth ~trying. The printer made The Idler in the rast issue mix up a little paragraph about Mr. J. H. Ringer so that it made no sense. I say it was the printer or somebody connected with the office because I 'know I did not write it as it appea-red. That machine posibly is tihe cause of the mistake. I wanted to comnmendl the plan of Mr. Ringer of raising his own supplies on te farm to other farmers and to say that it was the surest way to keep out of debt and to be happy and con tented on the farm. The Tdier. Great Easter Sale AT UALIIWELL &HALTIWAiN6ER'S NEW STORE, 1217 Main Street, Next to EwartPerru Co. GRAND DISPLAY of Dress Goods, Silks, Muslins, Lawns, Embroideries and White Goods, Shoes and Oxfords. Don't think of buying your Easter Hat, Dress and Oxfords until you see our line. Coat Suits! Great Easter Sale Men's Goods. 300 Coat Suits in, stripes, 500 fine Shirts at 49c each plain, etc., placed on sale at 500 pairs 25c. Half Hose 15c. Easter prices, $3.49, $4.49 and pair. $5.49 suit. 100 Gauze Vests 24 each 500 ready made Waists worth 500 15c. Collars at 3 for 25c. up to $2.00 on center counter, SPECIALS GATHERED AROUND THE STORE. take choice, Easter sale price 10 c Per uton 1 c 98c. each.cad 50 fine Voile and Panama 50parMe'Tnad Skirts at special Easter prices. BakHl oeIc ar 100 Children Dresses, em- 20fn 15 e ped broidery trimmed, 24c. each. at9cech 100 Children Dresses, em- 10fn c oesa c broidery trimmed, 49c. each, ech 100 Children dresses, em- 50yadGnhmsDrs broierytrimed9850echfstyes Shirt yatr9cdech MILINEYpaILLINEY. Hl oec ter Ht til yo ViStou store roo ss2c Hueds Silks! Silks!5c.rCtasat Oxfor Sale! One housndyrdsbeauiful Sol acyrds raButne finc. blueoldOSeandtherhadt 5hoe fopadiMens. Grand s Eastr sle ric 29.yrd.tersla Ha of roeady . $ai .0 300 yads eatifl0Lwnnin $.50 BdSped withut brder, 3 c.ard. and Oxford forMenh.e 500 ard fie Vl Lae ad Srin ine n5 owedy ar 0 500 yd. fne,smoth40 n. ougas Shos aindhavmo-Drs Lawner atrimed 1 98c. ad .nstyle.yad For yoreaevMlery w atmnt ry Goods, Sersa illoiery and Ntonos. 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