The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, June 25, 1909, Page FOUR, Image 4
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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.''
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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
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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