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Urk E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postofice at New brry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. Friday, June 25, 1909. AUTOMOBILES AND GOOD ROADS Let us consider good roads from the standpoint of their value to the farmer. They save him time, de crease wear and tear, increase the drawing capacity of his team and', the carryig capacity of his vehicle; enhance .e value of his lands and add incomparably to the comfort of country living and the advantage of city marketing. In this connection let us place credit where it is due. Automobiles are doing more to pro 'mote good roads building in the .South than all other agencies com bined. And be it not forgotten that good roads are of greater value to the farmer than to any other class of people. Farmers used to consider automobiles their most vicious ene mies, but they are now changing tiheir minds and regarding them as a blessing in disguise. Don't lose sight of this one fact-the automobile has come to stay, and with it comes good roads.--reenville News. The Greenville News is correct. The automobile has come to stay. We are glad to know that the farmer is ridding himself very rapidly of any prejudice he may have had against the automobile. Now or then a horse or mule becomes frightened, but where the automobile is used the horses soon become accustomed to it. We believe that the use of rhe au tomobile is going to be a very impor tant factor in stimulating an inter est in road building. It is almost a waste of time and energy to write of the importance of good roads. Every body admits the value of good high .ways and the saving in time and the decrease in wear of stock and vehi eles. The question is to get the means with which to build the roads. We have long contended t'hat if a move ment could be started in any county, and a few miles of permanent road built, that it would not be long be fore the work would be extended to all parts of the county. We want good roads, but we. are afraid to go into an expenditure of money for them unless we are satisfied that the road is going by our own gate. In Newberry county, for instance, if 'we build 200 miles of good maead am sand and clay roads we would put a good road in a very short distance of every farm home in the county. Of course it is not practical for every mile of the public highways in this county to be made into macadam sand and clay roads, but even were such roads diagonally across the coun ty it would be of great benefit to every citizen of the county, and would more than repay him directly in dol lars and cents for the cost of build ing these roads, whether they passed immediately by his gate or not. There is no doubt that t'he senti ment in favor of building roads is growing very rapidly, and it will not be many years until we have great improvement in the highways of this county and State, and we must give a good deal of credit to the automo bile for the creating and extending of this sentiment for better roads. .COUNTY TO COUNTY. The Herald and News is pleased to note that the Columbia Record has joined) it in the movement first pro posedby The Herald and News, for an intra-state county-to-county high way. The Record says: The Newberry Herald and News asks: "Even if the na.tional high way is to go via Augusta would not >ur friends in Columbia like to have a road branching out from that 'point via Newberry, Greenwood and Abbe ville and another via Laurens to Greenville from Newberry.'' We think we can safely say "yes'' for Columbia. The capital city is indeed anxious to have good highways lead ing out in all directions and is anx ious to have good highways in all por tions of -the State, whether They reach Columbia directly or not. The Herald and News, answering ~its ownl query. then says: '"Why not try to 'help us build some roads in this sect ion, instead of constantly remind ing us that the national highwav is; via Augusta.'' Recognition of .the fact that ulti -aie the interstate hig-hway, from: .Nort; [ toutI, owill o to rluriUa as its Southern terminus, need not. and will not, discourage road movements elsewhere. There may be more than one tourist route. There should bk a local tourist route from Charleston to Greenville or to Spartanburg, pass ing through Columbia and Newberry. But the Northern automobile tour ists will travel to Florida, rather than i to Atlanta. and therefore they will go from Columbia either to Augusta, -o Savannah, perhaps to both, the road between Columbia and Augusta at present being the best. It is only because ('olumbians interested in this plan realize these Sacts that they de sire to see Augusta wake up and get into the game. But The Herald and News makes a suggestion, which is exceedingly ap propriate. ~It has been already ser iously considered and will before long be actively taken up. The Herald and News says: "We would like to see Columbia in augurate a movement to build a good )highway from the capital to each county eapital in the State. Why not start such a moveemnt? It would be worth more to Columbia than a na ional !highway. If you get .the road built to the Newberry line we will start a movement which will build it to Newberry and we will help to send it on to Laurens and Greenwood. It would take very little money and work, comparatively speaking. It is just forty-three miles by this road from Newberry to Columbia. We are -now building seven of these miles be tween Newberry and Prosperity. For three miles out of Columbia the road could not be improved. For seven or. .eight miles this side of the river the road needs but little work. The building of twenty miles of road would give a first class road for an tomobiles between here and Colum bia and the material is there along the roadside. If built for automobiles it would be good for buggies and wag ons also." All of this is true and timely. Cam dent Orangeburg, and Barnwell, as. well as Lexington and Aiken, are just as anxious as is Newherry to have this plan carried out, and Sumter and Winnsboro will also come in.to it, no doubt. While Columbia is working for the Capital Highway, from State to State, she will not forget to work for the countyto-counlty intra-state highway -a road running out from .the State's capital, like the spokes of a wheel, wide enough and smooth enough and' solid enough for all sorts of vehicles. There will be general as well as particular relief, when this old dis pensary business is wound np.-Spar tanburg Herald. Amen. "UNNING THE GAUNTLET." Col:. Dickert will begin in an eardy issue of The Herald and News his stcry, "Running the Gauntlet," the. most exciting and thrilling of all his war reminiscences. He. deals with the feat of bringing out his entire comn pany an dothers, to the number of about one hundred men, from the army just priro to Gen. Johnston's surrender. With their guns and ac coutrements, they march west through the centre of North Carolina, then:1 south into t-his State, avoiding the Federal pickets posted at all river. erossings to overhaul soldiers without paroles. It has been said that Gen. Gary was the only officer who brought out his command without a surrender. This was cavalry. Col. Dickert 'is the only infantry officer, so far a.s is now, known, what accomplished the same: feath. Neither' the nor any of his men surrendered. The story is full of life and excite ment, from start to finish, and reads. like a romance of old, or the] laring escapades of Marion and Sum ter in the closing years of the Revo-: ution. That it is all facts, can be easily verified by men now living in this and adjoining counties, who 'fol-1 [owed him throughout the march. The story .has its moral, showing what an obscure country boy can ac omplish, when he has grit and per severance to back him. The story will run through several: issues of the paper. Those whose subscription is about to expire had better renew at once, or else lose the best of all Col. Dickert 's war stor-ies. Subscription for two months, 25 cents, eoin or stamps. j THE PRESS ASSOCIATION. President E. H. Aull, of the South1 Carolina Press association, who has ..eecn+1y been in conferenrce with the 1 hwald coninui ttee at.reenv* lill m n erence to thei forthcoming conventi which meets in that city on July 6 says that the indications for a w attended and very interesting me ing of the association are very encot In speaking further of this meeti Ile said: "The citizens of Greenvi are taking very great interest in p viding pleasant entertainment a most cordial reception for the me bers. The headquarters of the me bers of the association will be at t new Ottaray hotel, one of the m< magnificent and best appointed hot anywhere in this section of the coi try. --The first session of the associati will be held on Tuesday evening a will consist of addresses of welco by Mayor Mahon, Mr. Capers for I board of trade,~ Mr. Arnold for I Business Men's association, and 1 McGhee for the local press. "After these formal exercises th! will be a reception in the parlors the hotel, so that the members i ,become acquainted with one anot] and with the people of Greenville. is important that all of the memb reach Greenville Tuesday evening. J rangements are being made to ta the association on a visit to Clem, college during Wednesday. It is sired to arrange for a special train leave Greenville at 1:30 p. m. a freturn in the afternoon to Grei %ville about 7:30. It is possible, ho ever, that we may not be able to tain a special train and if not the ti will have to be made on the regul .train which leaves Greenville at 11: a. m. In that event those membi who do not reach Greenville on Tui day evening would not be able to there in time to take the trip to Cle son. I find there are a great ma members of the association who ha never been to Clinsun. and I am sy none will care to miss this trip. "Arrangements have been ma with the railroads in this State furnish -transportation in exchar for advertising for those editors w have no transportation in order to tend the meeting in Greenville. any members desire additional trai portation I would be pleased to ha them notify me at once so that :t P2 be secured in time. "I have already given notice of t side trip which is proposed to Tal] lah Falls but so far have .heard fri very few who indicate a purpose take this trip. The railroad and I tel people would like to know as ea' as possible if the trip is to be takt Those who have not indicated thi burpose to take this trip, bu,t who a sire to do so will please let me he frem them as early as they possib ean. I think tahis will be a very a ightful trip and can be taken at ve small cost. The scenery in and arom: Tllulah Falls is said to be the fine in this section of the country, and act Tallulah Falls is known as- t: Niagara of t-he South.'' ' * * * * * * * * * 1 * * * * 4WILL SEABROOK'S TRAVELS C * * * * * * * * * * * * ,* * (By W. B. Seabrook.) Rome Italy, June. 1909.-Nev shall I forget these glorious hours lorious sunshine; wvhen the brig skies and awakening spring are bo an inspiration to work and a tempt ion to lazy dreaming. I have yiel ad to the temptation, and have n time before the next mails to wri my weekly letter to America, a: nust perforce impose upon my niew aper friends in t'he home land a fe >f the erude notes from my diar ist as they were written each nig luring the past week. Monday-T-his morning I went :he Baths of Caracalia, where I paid Br~ane for a ticket and entered t ruins through a country fair tur stile. Shelly considered them t] ost majestie and grandoise relie :he imperial period. The loftiest se :iment they awakened in me was cu osity. I have niever realized befo low powerful is poverty to develo] meanness and all kinds of narre small-mindedness, and I could ni ielp contemplating myself with di ust when I realized that I was n n a mood to care for or apprecia :hose wonderful ivy-grown a'reh( ;imply because I begrudgifl the fran Coming back home I took the roi hat winds between vineyards fro ;he Thermae to St. John Lateran, ar nidway along the route I came to reen field from which rose a gre ~ragment of the Aurelian city wa mass of crumbling brick work, se ral hundred feel long, twelve fe hick and about forty feet high. T-I nward face of the wall was hone; ~ombed by niches in the masonr hich may once have served as she ers for the sentinels~or guards, ar n the holes of these a nuinber of po< ~amiies had made their homes. pa ially stopping up the openings vil rush and loose stones. There wi something primitive, almost prehi -ric about the cne. In ne of tI :K- eave, a mother wa, seated on the n earthen floor. suckling a. babe and -8. erooning a lullaby: the father, cloth ell ed in a single garment of leather. ?t- which left his legs and chest bare, ir- carrying on his shoulder a wooden pitchfork, which was nothing more ng nor less than a long forked stick with lie its two prongs hardened in the fire 'u- had just come in from the field and Ild was wiping .the sweat from his brow m- with h,is hairy arm: a dog was seated m- in the mouth of the cave: on the grass he two baby boys, stark naked, were roll )St ing and tumbling like puppies, with els their pink bodies glowing in the sun in- light, pretty as the peach blossoms that the wind was scattering from a On nearby tree. The father dropped his nd rude fork and stopped to grab one of me the babies and toss it high in the air, :he while I went back to civilization, en :he vying him with all my heart. One Jr. month of poverty had soured me, I was thinking for the moment, but a re life of it had left him sweet. of .Tuesday-This morning Signora X, ay the good wife of my artist host, came ier home piping mad from the Capuchin c:hurch around the corner where she rs had gone to early mass. Some vil lianous wrete'h had poured a bottle e of ink into the holy water basin. -The 011 worshippers sleepily entering the dim le- church in the early morning had to each mechanically, according to the nd custom, dipped a finger in the basin M- and then touched their foreheads to W- make the sign of the cross. Result: some twenty of them, among whom 'P the signora, had daubed their faces ar with ink, b6fore the deviltry was dis 30i 3covered. I In the crypt of this same church et is the famous Capuchin cemetery or M_ossuary, a series of subterranean I Iyrooms with walls lined from ceiling ye to floor with skulls, the r-eilings dee-I ve orated with rib-bone arabesjues. the re-angig lamps suspended by and dec de orated with strings of knuckle bones, fastened together on wires: skeletons ge of long deeeased brethren still cloth h ed in robe and cowl and standing everywhere around in niches: some iof them are not really skeletons but dried corpses, often with part of the I face gone and the bone showing in places through the cracked parchment skin: these latter are horrible. But e the skeletons are not. Their monkish garb lends them an indefinable air of upeaeful benevolent tranquility, and toI had quite a pleasant conversation twith one of them, an old fellow whom ythe sacristan afterward told me was teFaBenedetto di Rieto, deceased F ebruary 21st, 1728. It gave me a 1r queer sensation to gaze into his cav eernous eyes and think that he had! - abeen standing there for more than a generation when the old State house c ry bell at Philadelphia pealed ou-t the u rdefiance of the Thiriteen Colonies to sBritish rule: that he was still stand-,e sing immobile when Napoleon changed ethe map of Europe, and that be would estill be standing there when we all lies beneath the sod. On his face there e tons grin, but he was smiling, and *there was infinite wisdom in his d smile. Two American girls, who t * e ame into the crypt at the moment I * was talking with Fra Benedetto,' stopped a moment with feminine a ,curiosity to see what I was looking tl f at so fixedly: they caught the shadow t of that smile, and maybe part of its lmeaning also, for they turned giggling t a nervously and rustled their pretty silken skirts with a pathetic flourish' tas if to say, "No, No! What have we eto do with that? Youth and life are b deternal,'' but soon the nervous mirth was frozen on their lips and they hur ied from the place with t-heir after- b noon spoiled, while 'the old monk d smiled calmly on.t Wednesday-In the upper part of b the Capuchin church of which I was: a writing yesterday, hangs one of theq e most celebrated oil paintings in h a-Rome, a picture, which all the world e comes to see, Guido Reni's St. Mieh- t t ael. I don',t know very much about t . art, but I have common sense enough r- to despise without affectation the a re wishy-washy false sentiment of Guido Reni's work, and I don 't beVeve hes w ever painted a poorer pict.ure than1 t the Archangel of the Capuchini, s though nowhere in history, mythology .l .tor 'revelation can be found a more *h te glorious subject. St. Michael with shis flaming sword is the incairnation c. of warlike strength deified. He is the id Christian Mars, but a Mars, who lets p m loose the dogs of war only to battle t a for the right, a Mars, wvhose shield1. a and helmet are illumined by a more 0: at unearthly splan dor t'han ever shown , from Mount Olympus, and atlndb - whose radiant presence are clustered b et the wonders of the Apocalypse. And s e just see what Guido has painted! A , pretty wax-doll face with a rosebud t v, mouth, and wavy, flaxen wax-doll i I.. hair, a big soft body with beautiful tc id feminine curves and a pair of rosy T yr feet with the toes done up in blue A - baby ribbon. The vanquished Devil, -h pi Supon whose broad, bent shoulders s Saint Miehvnel stands. is obviously m SPECIAL ANNOUNOEM NT THE Globe Tailoring Co.s Fall and Winter Saoples will be on display at THE NEWBERRY HOTEL Sample Room FROM Sat., June 26th, to Sat., July 3d, ORDERS FOR SUITS, OVERCOATS AND TROUSERS taken for immediate or fu ture delivery. Call in and inspect the line. G. F. WE ARN. like a gre'. Engish nmast if hat Mother-in-law-Oh! to see Califor-' adescends to let baby Bobby climb nia -and then die! on its' back for a ride around the Son-in-law-This afternoon we vn. If tihe mastiff chose, it could start for California. ew baby Bobby into bits in the ~inkling of an eye: and if Guido NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT ni 's Satan chose, he could do the Notice is hereby given that I will nme with the Archangel. As I look- make .a final settlement of the estate Iat the picture I wondered how this .of Nannie M. Wessinger, deceased,.in ~eminate painter had managed to, the probate court for Newberry coun int such a fine, husky Devil, and I ty, on Monday, July 26th, 1909, at i not understand until I learned 11i o'clock -a. in., and immediately at he happened to be quarreling thereafter apply for a discharge .as th Pope Innocent X at the epoch administrator of esaid estate. en he was working on this canvas, George W. Summer,. rd that the Satan is a portrait of* as Administrator of estate of lPope, a piece of spite-work that Nannie M. Wessinger, deased. Lde the artist forget his mannerism June 25th, 190.9. g enough to be strong and realis- 6-25-4t-1taw. I don 't intend to essay any more BLUE RIDGE SpHEDULES. rateurish comments on art, and i Eastbound. ybe I shouldn 't have written this, tNTo. 18, leaves Anderson at 6.30 a. t there are so many poor pictures in., for connection at Belton with Rome that we go to see and try to Southern for Greenville. mire simply because the guide No. 12, from Walballa. leaves An-4 >ks tell us we ought to, that it has derson at 10.15 a. mn., for connection ne me good to have 'my say about .at Belton with Southern Railway fo? s one. INo. 20, leaves Anderson at 2.20 T'hursday-Today made the ac- Ip. in., for conneetions at Belton with aintance of the Dying Saul render- Southern Railway for Greenville. so famous by Bryon 's lines telling No. 8, daily except Sunday, from w he was "butchered to make a Walhalla arrives Anderson 6.24 p. man holiday,'' and afterward sawm.wihcnetosaSnea it muder-tricken nurthe ofpitoe," Southern Railway from points southi. ich every schoolboy 'has read about No. 10, from Walhalla, leaves An Cicero. In an adjoining corridor derson at 4.57 p. rn., for connections Ethe Capitoline picture gallery, I at Belton with Southern Railway for pped long to look at Michelange.. Greenville and Columbia. '3 portrait by himself, one of the Westbound. v'things he ever did in oil: the sad No. 17, arrives at Anderson at 7.54) ht in the eyes and the bitterly un- a. mn., from Belton with connections ipy expression of t'he whole visage from Greenville. s so depressing that it recalled to No. 9, arrives at Anderson at 12.24. emy own troubles, I am p. mn., from Belton with connections ndering where that long ex- from Greenville and Columbia. Goes ated check can be. T:bree Ito Walhalla. tusand miles from home and friends No19arieatAdrnat34 th exactly 47 cents and a 'half jar m fo Betnwhcnetin honey as my sole available wealth. fo revle riday--The whole world looks N.1,arvsa nesn a ght and rose colored, like the sky 62 .i. rmBlo ihcn tind St. Peter's dome, seen at sun- ncin rmGenil n ou. tfrom t'he Pineio. Yesterday ~ Is GostWahla et "stone broke,'' lacked even the N.7 al xetSna,lae >o cents to get a cup of coffee. My le Roman mother, Signora X came Adro t92 .i. o ahla the rescue with a loan of 20. lire. lhcontisatSeafrlca his morning I got the check fromponsouh ierica, accompanied by the good No.1,8,9,ad2 armie 'ws that two or three more newspa- tasbtenAdro n etn s in "the States'' have contract- Ns n r oa rih to print my stuff regularly, which tan,cryn asnes ewe eans that my financial9,warriessin Anderson anWaalandbtw3.40 urop ar ened.Ws1,l arrve at ndersona