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V. -A 1tw 9. VOL XLvI1 O -8NWER~S . USA.MA 1 99TIEAWE.$.0AYA WILLOWBROOK PARK IS FORIALLY OPENED INTEREST IN EXERCISES HELD ON SATURDAY NIGHT. West End's Park Beautifully Locat ed and Laid Out-A Credit to The Community. In a blaze of electric lights, with inspiring music and happy and ap propriate addresses, and with fully one thousand people present, Willow brook park, in West End, was for mally opened on Saturday night to the employees of the Newberry cot ton mills and .to their friends among the public generally. Willowbrook park is beautifully located and laid out. -Situated in the heart of the mill community in a spot favored by nature, it will be an ideal resort for recreation and in nocent amusement. It takes time and care to bring a park to all the beauty of which it is capable, be cause it takes time to grow plants and grass and flowers, and Willow brook will be even much prettier in the years to come than now. But it is a lovely spot now, and Newber ry has a right to feel proud of her 'first park. The park is laid out on either bank of Scott's creek, whieh. is a pretty stream in its graceful windings at this point. The pavilion is located near the south bank of the. creek. In size it is 65 x 45 feet. The floor is of hard wood and excellent for use in the various amusements for which it is intended. At the east end there is a rostrum for public speakers and for the music. The pavilion is bril liantly illuminated with incandescent electric lights of red, white and blue, as are the grounds, and there is also an are light in the grounds. The grounds, which contain some four or five acres, have been artis tically laid off into plots of grass and flowers and plants of various kinds, with white gravel walks running be tween. Swings and other means of amusement have been provided for the children, and for the older folks as *well. In fact, everything lias been done to make Willowbrook a place of beauty and of joy, where recrea tion and pleasure may be sought and found by the operatives of the mill. It is the happy and successful con summation of an undertaking for the hiealth and happiness of the mill com munity for which the management of th.e mill is to be heartily commended and upon which the management and employees are to be congratulated. The formal exercises, which were held in the pavilion on Saturday evening beginning at 8 o'clock, were attended by an appreciative audience of the people of both mill communi ties and of the city generally. The' excellent program which had been ar ranged was well carried out in every particular, and auspicious occasion was very much enjoyed by all those who attended. President Wright, of the Newber- I ry mills, presided. In opening his re marks at the beginning of the exer cises, he said that a great deal of the credit for the beauty of the new park was due to Superintendent J. Marion Davis, who was not only an excellent' mill superintendent, but who had also proved himself a most excellent land scape gardener. He said -that Mr. Davis had outlined the park and sub mitted the plans for inspection. Pres ident Wright said the occasion was a happy one for him. He wanted to say to his friends of the mill that this park was theirs, and he wanted them to get all the pleasure they could out of it. It was rnot necessary to say that unbecoming things would not be tlerated; lie knew the people of thbe community would see to it that there should never be any such con duet in the park. President Wright said he was a believer in the old adage that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."' and heI wanted to see the children and the1 older people. too, enjoy themselves here. It had been his experiencee that the people who worked when ther worked andl who enjoyed them selves when they were outside did the best work. He hoped there was not a ma ithe villae who would sit in his home and gather the cloak of self righteousness about him and say this park was not a good thing. If there was one such, he wanted him to come down and see the children play. He wanted the mothers to come and bring their children and to sit down and talk while the children p'ayd. And he wanted the fathers, and all the people. to come and enjoy them selves. The only reward that he .and ihe mill management hoped for was that the mill people should enjoy the park to the fullest extent. At the conclusion of President Wright's -remarks, the "Grand Na tional" was skilfully and excellently rendered by the Newberry Concert Band. This band has been in exis tence for several years, and is an ex cellent musical organization, and a credit to .the mill village. Th-e rendition of :the "Grand Na tional" was followed by a song by the West End school, under the di rection of Miss Laura Blease. The children showed thorough training, and their welcome song was rendered with sweetness and volume, and they followed it with the inspiring notes of "Dixie.'" President Wright then introduced Dr. 0. B. Mayer as one who had al ways taken an interest in the mill and as a monument to whose gener osity Mayer Memorial Lutheran church now stood. Dr. Mayer expressed his gratifica tion in the success of so important an undertaking. The conditions of modern life and the environments of the present day, 'he said, made it al most necessary that we should have parks. It was -estimated that in the United States 150,000 annually died with consumption, and that in this country today there were a million people affected with some form of consumption. The home where there was the least sunshine, the least ven tilation and the least pure air was where consumptive germ thrived. Pure air and sunshine were the best forces for the destruction of the germ. He proceeded further along this line, showing what a great force in the health of a community a park can be made. There were never any statues, he said, equal to the figures of a -happy husband and wife sur rounded by their children, and there was never any music as sweet as that of prattling ehildren. The park, he said, could only be of benefit if it was used, and he hoped the people of the village would resort to it whenever they had opportunity. Dr. Mayer's address was followed by a song by twenty-two young la dies, which was rendered with feeling and effect, and which was very thor oughly enjoyed. The "Merry Wid ow Waltz'' was rendered by the Con ert Band. The next speaker was President J. Henry Harms, of Newberry college, who said that 'he would warrant the assertion that there were iew people in Newberry who realized what a splendid park had here bee~n built. He spoke of the need of such a park, and of its great benefits. He thanked God, he said, that there were places like this where the people could go and be fanned by the cool breezes and hear the singing of the birds and be in the brightness and the warmth of God 's glorious suhshine. He paid a tribute to the ladies pres ent. and said he hoped the park would be a place for courtship lean, high, honorable and pure. And he hoped that it would prove to be a place where friendship would be fos tered. Fiendship and co-operation were the needs of the age, and long may these parks of the land, he said, conduce th.rough these to the bringing about of that One fa-f divine event. To which the whole creation mov es the brotherhood of man and the fed erationi of the world. He prayed that the park might long stand as a place from which should come clear brains, sound bodies and sweet souls that would pass up through Nature to Na te's God. Preident Harms' address was fol [owedl by a skilfully rendered concert olyW. IH. Wherry. and by the --led Wing'' by the Concert Band. :!an. C'ole. L. Blease was then in tredAneed by President Wright. Mr. B1e.se saidl this was more thn a happy occasion to him. He said to night memory had carried him back many yea:rs. and he had thought if it was possible to look down from the other world, the first Confeder ate volunteer from Newberry would have looked down tonight upon his niece, Miss Laura B.lease, and pray ed God to bless her for the noble straining Ahich she had given 'the children under. her charge, and, above all, to bless the sweet land of Dixie, of which they had sung. And if an other could have looked down, he who had stood as one of the promo ters of that monument to the indus trial development of the South, would :have said, "I thank Thee, 0 God, that I was the founder 'and the first president of the Newberry Cot ton Mills."' President Wright was his worthy successor and was carry ing out the work which -he would 'have carried on had lie lived. Mr. Blease's theme wAs "Opportunity," and he told the boys and girls of the mill of the opportunities which life had in store for men and women, and u~rged them to prepare themselves not only to take advantage of opportunities when they were presented, but to make opportuinaties for themselves. He cited a number of examples of il lustrious men to inspire them. "Make for yourselves your opportunity," he urged. He hoped the park would be a joy to the people of the Newberry Cotton mills, and that within its bounds there would never be a single thing to desecrate it. The mill in building it, he said, had set an ex ample which could well be followed by Mayor Langford of Newberry, and by President Summer, of the Mollohon mill. The exercises were closed with an other 'song by the young ladies, which was equally as enjoyable as the first. The accompaniments on the piano were rendered by Miss Following the exercises an ice cream festival was held on the grounds. THE ORPHEUS CLUB. Give a Charming Rendition of the Daughter of Jairus in Lutheran Church. The Daughter of Jairus, a sacred cantata which was given Sunday evening by the Orpheus club, of this city, at the Lutheran church of the Redeemer, was a great success. This splendid oratorio was exquis ittely rendered by some of the finest musical talent in Newberry and the lovely music composed by the cele brated John Stainer was beautifully interpreted by Mrs. Susie E. Halti wanger, the accomplished organist of the Lutheran church.I Those who took part in this saered cantata were Misses Ethel Boozer, Carolyn Cromer, Margaret Gibson, Mesdames S. J. Derriek, Alice Rob ertson, and R. Z. Thomas, soprano; Misses Martha Joihnstone, Minnie Todd, Mesdames S. B. Jones, and J. T.' Mayes, alto; Messrs. Marion Bowl es, Clint Riser, and Geo. Wright, tenor; a.nd Messrs. S. B. Jones, Mo ran, and Rugheimer, bass. The devotional exercises were con ducted by Rev. E. Fulenwider, the pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. TAFT AND TILLMAN. President and Senator Joke Each Other at Banquet. Washington. May 'S.-President Taft tonght was entertained at a banquet tendered him by the citizens f Washington, under the auspices of the board of tirade and the chamber f commerce. More than three hun :red representative business men of the national capital were present and an array of prominent men in public life we're present as guests. While the president was being in troduced Senator Tillman strode into the hail toward the president. The atter greeted him and grasped his h:md cordially remarking: ''Hello, .Senator, what are you try na- to pass yourself off for tonight ?'' Tillmnan laughingly re.joined. ''Oh. I ast drifted in here to see how you old behave yourself among the ommnon peo~ple."' This merry inter 'Hinue provoked much amusement. FARMERS' GO-OPERATIYE DEMONSTRATION WORK FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DEM ONSTRATION WORK. District' Superintendent Jenkins De livered Addresses in Newberry County Last Week. Mir. J. Mitchell Jenkins, of Spar ta-nburg. district agent of the Farm ers' Co-operative Demonstration Work, was in Newberry last week and delivered addresses at Jalapa on Wednesday, at Smyrna on Thursday, and at Keitt's grove, near the resi decen of Prof. T. W. Keitt, on Fri day. Tihe meetings had been arrang ed by County Agent S. M. Dunnan. While the attendance at the meet ings was not large, 'those who were present gave close and sympathetic attention. Mr. Jenkins preaches the doctrine of thorough preparation of lands, rotation of crops, and the se lection of seed-looking towards a better yield, diversification of crops, and crops each succeeding year of better grade and, therefore, of more value. He is thoroughly posted in his work, and he is an interesting talker. He was for a time connected with the agricultural department at Clemson, and h.e has also been con n-ected with the experimental station at Charleston. His headquarters are now in Spartanburg, and -he -has the co-operative demonstration work of a number of counties, including New berry, under his directin. Good Doctrine For The South. Mr. Jenkins is a strong advocate of less eotton, and of raising home supplies at ihome-not only supplies for the particular farm, but for the home markets as well. He can see no reason why corn should be brought into South Carolina frow tho west, at prices far above the cost of rais ing it here, when South Carolina has the world's record for the yield of corn per acre. He can see no reason why alfalfa shourd be shipped into South Carolina from Oklahoma, South Carolina paying the freight from Oklahoma and the profits of the Oklahoma planters, when hs good alfalfa as can be grown in the world ean be grown 'here in South Caro ina. He knows the Sou'thern farm rs can, if they will, get together and demand a living price for their eot ton, having the price regulated by the natural law of supply and demand, instead of being' dietated to by the speculators on Wall street, and he believes the quickest and practically the only way to accomplish this 're sult is by rotation and diversification of crops. He preaches the kind of dotrine which the South must heed if it is ever to emerge from the thraldom of mhe stock manipulators. And even if there were no fictitious ad speculative values placed upon the South 's products, it a: the doc trine of common sense-itensiied and diversh'edi f-iming, al>ng scien tifie principles-raising first the ne essities of life at home, 'put'ting the Southern farmer in position to de mand a fair price for his money rop, and each year improving the land andi raising the standard of the 'rop grown. A representative of The Herald and News derpve to the meeting at Keitt.'s grove on Friday with Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Duncan. There are some good fields of grain along the road. and Mr. Jenkins. who was in this county last year; expressed him s~elf as much gratified in the increase f areage placed in grain, and in the nodern methods of farming of whieh some of the crops gave evidence. The Meeting at Keitt's. The meeting at Keitt 's grove de veloped somewhat into an experience neeting. This was encouraged by Mr. Jenkins, who asked questions of his hearers and invited questions from them. As stated. the crowd was small, but such meeti'ngs are of great -alue, and it would be well if they ould be held in every community in the county. Mr. Jenkins began his talk at Keitt's grove by saying that those n charge of the co-operative demon 4rationl work were greatly pleased ith 'the results of t:he work in this ( (Crmtinuedl on pae 7.) - A DANCE WITH DEATH By Col. D. A. Dickert. Written for The Herald & News. All rights reserved. (Continued.) This satisfied the Colonel, and he asked me many questions. I told !him of ouT -army, whibber it was moving, where the western army was to make a junction with ours, and that there was no enemy in his front. He gave us passports to Gen. Stewart's army, -to avoid the embrassment of meeting scouting parties of his army, and' declared that he would break camp at once and rejoin-bis com mand, on the faith of what we told him. He furnished us with two rickety old horses, and we commenced our tramp in the direc tion of Hood's army. It was growing dark by this time, but we reached Spring Hill, fifteen mitles above, before midnight, over one of the sloppiest, muddiest roads it was ever my ill fortune to travel. There we gave some pickets, who had sbeen sent out from the army above Pomaria, the fright of their lives. Their growth was prematurely stopped. Apprehending no danger, these worthy videttes, violating all irules of war, had left their station in the road and taken up their quar ters in a room of good old Mrs. Eleazer's house, and were having a tea-ring-down good time before a blazing fire, after have regaled themselves at the bountiful table of the good old Dutch Fork wo man. We hitched oar old steeds to the fence, near where the troop ers had fastened theirs, and walked through the house and into the room where the five troopers were sitting around the fire. We con tinued our conversation about the -river and' roads as if we did not know there was a man in five hundred miles. We did not take seats, as there were none to offer us, but stood up with our baeks to the fire, facing the men. For more than five full minates these men sat like statues, staring at us as if we were wild animals from the jungles. I knew they thought when we first walked in that they were surrounded by Yankees, and that we were just toying with them; in fact, they told us so afterwards. We were just hav ing our fun with them, wishing to give them a good fright for leav ing their post. To have done them justice, we should have come in, pistols in hands, and made them prisoners, but Dixon said that would be carrying the joke too far. By some :telepathic sign, all five arose and walked out to see what was up, and, incidlentally, to have a look at our horses. In a few moments they all came back, with .cocked .revolvers in their hands, demanding our surren der. We laughed and said all kinds of foolish things. I t'old them we would go out of .the house as easily as we came in. Dixon would tell one tale, in answer to questions as to who we were and our business, and I would deny it. 'Then I would tell a tale,.and Dixon would dispute it. We saw they were growing imipatient, and we pulled Col. Roberts' orders on 'them. Then 'harmony pre vailed. Mrs. Eleazer gave us a fine supper, and I told her all the news of Hardee 's army, in which she 'had three sons. At daylight the pickets and ourselves left for army headquar ters together, reaching Gen. Bates' quarters, which were some miles above Pomaria, early in tihe day. He commanded t.he ad vance division, a.nd 'to him we -reported. He would not believe one word we said, and laughed at what 'he called our imposition upon Col. Roberts. He declared if those people around there knew me, as I professed, we were deserters -and should be shot. He sent u~s under guard to Gen. Cheatham, the gallant Kentuekian, who com manded one wing of Hood's army. Gen. Stewart, commander-in chief, was back' on the .Saluda, waiting to 'hear news from Hardee. They 'had heard nothing of him si-nee Sherman began his march through this State. Gen. Oheatham treated us quite differently from 'the manner in which we were treated by the Tennesseean, He listened to our story patiently. We .knew little in common. He questisedc~ me closely as to .how our troops were commanded, 1: stat.n::: d at Chickamauga, and all about. Longstreet in East Trn::cssee. to which I gave correct answers; for I was always ''up in Q.'' wher. !! came .to an army in wh1ich I had served. At last he slapped us on the back, and said: ''Eraivo! my g- b oys; I find you all right. You 'have done us a e:eant s'ervice. S:keen thousand men you say H'ardee has, and 'a tre Santete? Ue r'ants us to join 'him at Cheraw and send a con: ier everyx t wed:.-f)ur hou'rs? T.hat sounds good, and by , v:e will do it. I wiE! dispatch.to Stewart at once, and before night fall ererv ten:t shall be down. Then for Hardee, then for Sher men''-a lot more of this jolly talk. He gave us high praise f n- s:o succesfully carrying out the perilous undertaking. T-: genial old Kentuckian gave us a lot of good advice. He < harged us not to fall into .the hands of 'their cavalry, saying we er'd niever make ourselves understood, and, as the cavalry could iu it bother with two 'prisoners, they would shoot *us without cere m.ony. T'&is sounded encouraging to a degree, to be told now, that we wou:d be shot it mattered not in whose hands we fell. He ad vised us. now that our mission had been accomplished, to discard the blue Yan-ik'u'aiform and don the gray, saying there was less risk in being taken prisoners by the enemy than in being shot by our* own men. atnd even offering to fu-rnish us with a suit of gray each. We told him we had never intended to be taken prisoners bthe e nemy. and would trust to lmek about 'his cavalry.