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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New berry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. Tuesday, April 13, 1909. They say that Aorii 1 was a very quiet day at Clemson this year. Very much like any other day in April. It it well. The price of beer has. been raised in Charles,ton. There are several con ventions seheduled for Charleston during April and May. Harvey Jordan says the Cotton As sociation is dead. When all the lead ers got good jobs it was no longer any need on their part to keep it alive. So far as they are concerned it has served its purpose, and to them has served it well. Congresman A. F. Lever won his figJit for the farmers not only of South Carolina but wherever com menial fertilizer is used. By the way, who can tell who the other members of Congress from South Carolina are. We are proud of Lever. He is ai tle Newberry College boy. It is stated in the Atlanta papers that the "law firm of Anderson, Felder, Rountree and Wilson will re ceive between $150,000 and $200,000 as their fee for their services in win ning the famous South Carolina Dis pensary Commission case, recently decided in the favor of their clients, and involving about $1,000,000 in cash on hand, and between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 in claims." We do not know whether this is t.ru4 or not but we are inclined to think that the amount of the fee stated is somewhat exaggerated. Sen~atorSmith is preparing to make a hard fight against the 20 per cent. tairiff duty on potash and kainit salts. If the proposed duty on this ferti lizer ingredient becomes a law, it means the takig from the pockets of the farmers $200,000 annually. The necessary information will be furnished the' Senator, . and 'the peo p}e of the -South can feel assured there will be a fight to the finish to prevent this iniquity from being forced upon a class of people who are burdened already more than any oth er one class.-Manning Times. Whil'e Senator Smith was getting ready to make the fight Representa tive Lever won the battle and from 'the news reports from Washington Mr. Lever seems to be about the only representative up there froin South Carolina who made any fight for the taking out of the tariff bill the 20 per cent on potash and kainit salts. Florence is about to hold a sewer age bond election, and a petition is being signed by. freeholders to bring .this abont. In Charlestoil a petition is also being prepared for a similar election, and Florence should, not be 'allowed to beat Charleston to .the ballot.-Charleston Post. make it unanimous. T'iere is no de .tition for 'the same cause and she must not let either Charleston or Florence beat her to the ballot. The extension of the sewerage sys tem in Newberry is an absolute :necessity and we just as well meet the issue fairly and squarely and make it unanimous. There is no be batable ground on the question at all. We are up against it and tlie quicker we get to work the better. Representative Lever, who is es pecially the friend of th.e farmer, hag succeeded in keeping the duty off potash, which would have increased the cost of fertilizer materially. Now if he will hold the duty on rice and sea island cotton he will please the farmer some more. Being a low tariff Democratic. Congressman must be a nice, delicate job.-Chiarleston Post. Just what we have claimed all the time. The tariff is purely local. If & sh~ would be beneiited by a protective tariff, then we would be for a protective tariff. The hosiery -mlre u rging the tariff on hosiery and the people who wear them want theni as cheap as they can get them. We congratuiate Mr. Lever on the victory he won for the farmers of the South, all the same. It is stated that the railroad com mission has ordered the Southern Railway, Columbia and Greenville division, to run an extra coach on its trains between Greenwood_ and Green ville. We have seen this train very much crowded between Greenwood and Co lumbia and we would be glad if the railroad commission could induce the Southern railway to resume for the summer at least itS chair-car ser vice between Greenville and Colum bia. It was claimed that this service did not pay, but it was never given suffi cient -trial to see whether it would pay. A car something like the one which is operated between Asheville and Charleston, being an accommodation buffet car, would be a great conven ience to the travelling public between Greenville and Columbia, and cer tainly 'the travel between these two points on. the C. and G. road is as heavy as it is -on .the road between Spartanburg and Columbia. The Herald and News has been at considerable disadvantage for the past several days owing to the fact that Mr. James L. Aull, who is in charge of the mechanical department, is confined to his room with measles, and the young man who had been operating our machine accepted a po sition with the Columbia State. Mrs. Clarence Gaxvin, who is in Newberry on a visit, and who op erated the machine for us some years. ago, 'has kindly consented to assist us, and we were fortunate in securing Mr. Edward Moore, of Greenwood. In this way we have managed to get the paper out on time, a~nd will endeavor to keep up our job depart ment as best we can. Died-Mrs. Karon Perry, March 19, 1909, in her seventy seventh year. Her maiden name was Merchant. She was first married. to a Mr. Jennings, by whom she had three! daughters. Next, to James Perry, by! whom she had five daughters and one son, our well-known townsman, Thos. Perry. This good woman mothered -the whole neighborhood and was -loved. far and near, by rich and poor, white' and black. The unusually large at tendance at her funeral was a touch ing evidence of her great popular'ity. She died of heart dropsy and was buried at Bethany Church, of which she had long be'en a devoted and con sistent member. On her seventy-fifth~ birthday she had a family reunion at the old home stead, two milet from Perry 's Cross Roads. There were five generations repre sented, and over two hundred people present. . "To live in hearts 'we leave be hind,.is not to die,'' and this good wo-1 man, who, like Dorcas, made gar ments for. thi needyT, find helped to lift bu-rdenis from many a troubled heart, still ever live in t-he'haedrts and memory of those who knew and* loved her. Her beaut.ital li.: ~was worthy of emulation,- and was a blessing and benedibtion to all around her. *PIANO RECITAL. At' the Opera House Friday Evening by Prof,. Landrum. Prof. Landrum, the great pianist, will appear in the opera house on Friday evening the 16th. Prof. Landrium plays with a capti vating grace and his recitals a.re very artistie. lie appeared in the music world qunite early, givin:g his first per formance at the age of seven. For ten years he studied under fine Ger man professors; and in addition to this he is natu-rally an artist. In Augusta he is the noted Ponce de Leon concert pianist. He was chosen at Tampa out from many mu sicians as pianist for Bryan day and William Jennings Bryan said of him, -lIe is an arVtist, indeeCd.' This was high praise from nn who had heard the beCst p)erformner~s of many lands. Don 't miss this rare musical treat. The proceeds from these recitals are tor the pu1rp)se of a spcCial course * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *' * * THE IDLER. * * The Idler has lived in this town a good many years. Just how many .years does it matter. Ijong en ough to see the town grow from 3 000 to 8,000 people. eNver having a much abdut accumulating wealth, or rather I should say not having a great deal to do and not caring genius for money making or money saving, I have had opportunity to observe men and things and I have, according to my ability, always tried to :help on every good cause and have not envied those who accumulatel wealth. I have managed to get' three fairly good meals each day and have been able ta sleep and have thehggg been able to sleep well at night. But money, I have not cared much for it, except to spend it for those things I needed and wanted. -0 You know this is a pretty good town; but it has, unfortunately, some very small people and some very nar row gauge epople in it. I guess that is true of every community, but you know this town has been an education al centre for more than half a century and it should have broadened its citizenship and made its people, and especially its business people, see be yond the confines of their own selves and further out than the ends of their stubby noses. -0 Now I do not intend to be person al, especially as my identity is not made known, and I am coming to ;he point after awhile if there is a point to what I am trying to say. -0 Permit me to repeat, this is a good town and I love it. A good many of my idle days have been spent bere and it is now my purpose to spend the remainder allotted to me here, and while I am only a small atom in the make up of the community, and have never accomplished any thing myself, my leisure has given me an opportunity for observation. I wonder sometimes if it is tne same elsewhere. Of course that same selfish spirit pervades humanity wherever it is found. -0 Here is what I want to say: Just lt anybody start any movement to :1o something which will benefit the whole community and you will hear somebody, and several somebodies, all about in spots make remarks that are calculated to injure the enter rise. These remarks may be made in the same breath with the declara .ion that they want the enterprise to succeed,but they don 't think 'the right man is at the 'head of it, or he is oo slow, or something else, but all he time they protest their great in erest in the success of the enter rise. It does not occur to me that is he way to help build up , the com nnity. You know -what it means o say he is a good fellow and then add with a sh:rug of t'he shoulders and a wink of the eye, but-You know what that means. -o I want to see everybody get to ether and stop saying unkind things f others and especially those'others who are trying to do something. Newberry has a lot of gentlemen f leisure, and, of course, that gives pportunity to look after the affairs f other people. It is best for every body to have something to do and then go -at it in 'earnest. You know if you want to get anything done ou can accomplish it much quicker and more satisfactorily if you take the busy man.. The man who has no employment never has time. That may seem paradoxical, btit it is literally true. I hear that efforts are being made to build another cotton mill. Every man, woman and child in Newberry should give the movement encourage ment and support. You know the town has got to the point where it is necessary to increase the pay roll if the city is to grow any more. It is these pay rolls that keep the town moving and the merchants busy. In fact they are the blood and the arteries and everything else. Some thing' that keeps the cash moving. The fellow w'ho locks his money up in the bank vaults, and lives on the little interest isn't worth much to the life of the community. -0 Every merchant in the town, big and little, every clerk, whether his or he.r 'salary is great or small, s. :ould take some stock in the mill. If there is no prospect for any dividends for ten yearis thle investment will pay. Th:e pay roll of ichl mill wh il, buiild ing~ and wJwn inl operation will giv'e moe trade to the merchant and an i'u'ware ina salary' to the clerk. It one-man, eart, fo.r cleaiiiiig the paved streets will soon arrive. I want to see th experiment tried. Some times they sweep without sprinkling and the dust and microbes and germs from the street fill the air and the stores and offices and I do not think these are conductive to good health. -Q What about setting apart that general cleaning up day. Or is the town ideally clean already? I really don't know, for the sun is beginning to come out and I don't like to walk about much but what few places I have seen, it seems to me, a little cleaning up would not be detrimen tal to the appearance or the health of the city. I heard somebody say that th.e city was going to pass or had passed an amendment to the trash ordinance. I have not seen it publishel so I sup pose it was a mistake. -0 By the way, I heard a man ask the other day who was alderman in a certain ward and nobody could tell him for some time, until he had op portunity to study over the situation. How many who read this can tell who are the aldermen, even the wards in which they live. I want to see every alderman get busy and look after the interest of his ward and the whole town. -0 When I went to the post office the other day I saw Jno. Mayes with his coat off plowing and crushing clods on the Methodist church lot. I sup pose he has planted something aic! wa may expect a pretty lawn there soon. Hope he has put out some of those roses which he bjught some time ago so that with the grass we may have some pretty flowers also. I wonder vhat has become of i:at pst office building. I saw by ;he paper that the site at Uniuz bad al ready been selected. Bi-i were in vited from Newberry abo.Lt .-c same time. That Methodist church lot is the rost desiraw, p. foe t .e ne,. p,t office buil3u g But some L..s n it is too small. i. an sure a building could be put on there suitable for the post ofiee and give hitehing room for the carriers, that would accom modate this town for twenty-five ears. I am making no suggestions because I know I have no influence with the powers that be. -0 It is only a question of time when the Union passenger station will be moved to Caldwell Street. ~There is where it ought to have been put when the question was -agitated a short, while ago. Mir. Childs said if -it were located there he would have been willing to build a nice brick station. He has built a nice one at Clinton-a much ,smaller town than Newberry. -o fBy the way, Jno. Mayes :has re eived that carload of ferns from Bush riyer and he has nearly solti. them out already. I saw a man from right -down on Cannon's creek, where there are lots of ferns, buy two or three the other day from Jno. Mayes. They a.re nearly all sold and if you want one you better come quick to Maves Book Store. The Idler. Death of a Young Ma! After a short illness, of measles and pneumonia, Mr. Thaddeus Rich ardson died on Mar. 31. The follow ing day his body was laid t'o rest, in St. Paul's graveyard, his pastor, Rev J. A. Sligh conducting the funeral service. He leaves father, mother, sisters, brothers and a ihost of friends to mourn his death, but why shou.ld they mourn, for God in His infinite love, power and wisdom sawv lit tc>1 take this brigle? young man 'from among you, that He might add ano tier to. His home in glory. Our deepest sympathy is extended to the bereaved family who knew him best and loved him most. ACTUAL STARVATION. The Gilder and Weeks Drug Co. Give Facts Regarding Dyspepsia. Although Indigestion and Dyspep sia are so prevalent, most people do not thoroughly understand their cause and cure. There is no reason why people should not eat anything they desire-if they will only chew it carefully and thorougihly. Many actually starve t-hemselves into sick ness through fear of eating every o. d-IA oking, g ood-smngiling and good tasting food. because it do.es not agree with thlem. 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They are very pleosant to take; they soothe the irritable stomach, st.rengthen and invigorate the digestive .organs, promote a ealthy and natural bowel action, immediately relieve nausea and all stoma'ah ir:dtion, produce perfast ad Le-' by digestion and assimib tion' and promote autrition. A 25 cent package of Rexall DJys ppsia Tablets furnishes 15 days' treatment. In 'ordinary cases, this is ufficient to produce a enre. In more hronic cases, a longer .i ment, of ourse, is necessary, and depends pon the severity of the trouole. For such cases, we have two larger size.s which sell for 45 cents and 89 eents. The Gilder and- Weeks Drug Co., Newberry, S. C. NOTICE OF ELECTION. The School Board of Newberry raded Schools will on May 6th hold annual election for the following po sitions. One male Principal at salary of a.t salary of $1,500 a year. High School Department. One Superintendent of the Schols $90.00 per month. Two teachers at salary of $60 per month. Grammar School and ~Primary De partments. Nine teachers at salary of $58 per month. Hoge School (Colored). One Principal at salary of $45 per month. Four teachers at salary of $30 per month. No application will be considered unless said applicant shall, hold a Arst grade certificate or diploma from some institution recognized by the State Board of Education. J. M. DAVIS, Secretary. TO DRAW JURY. Notice is hereby given that, we, the undersigned, Jury Commissioners for Newberry County, S. C., will on the 23rd. inst., at 9 o'clock a. in., in the office of the Clerk of Court, openly and publicly draw t.he names of thirty-six men, who shall serve as Petit Ju.rors at the Court of Common Pleas which will convene a.t Newber r. 8. ('., May 10th. 1909. JINO. L. EPPS. EElT. S. WERTS, JXo. C. GOGGANS, Jury~ om. for Newberry Co.. S. C. 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