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E. H. AULLY EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at Nel ,erry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. Friday, July 9, 1909. FOR GOOD ROADS. We notice that the Evening Record, of Columbia, will start out a path finding car blazing out. what it terms t:he Capital to County Route. The Herald and News suggested a few weeks ago that the people of Colum bia take up something like this, and we are glad to see that the Recordis going to do it. It will stimulate an interest in good roads and we believe will result in having at least one good road from t.he capital of the State to each coun tv seat. If that much is accomplished it will be a very easy matter to get more roads built. This subject of good 'roads is a hobby of ours and has been for a number of years. We are fully con vinced that there is no investment, whether it be in the shape of a direct tax or in the issue of bonds, that the people of this State can make that will pay as large dividends as the building of good roads. We are glad to see the movement is taking shape throughout the State and we are very anxious that Newberry shall be in the lead in this matter. Especially will good roads be of great value to the rural districts. We now have the delivery of mail every day in almost every section of this county, and the telephone reaches nearly every community and we need the roads so that we may hav.e better schools and that the churches of the rural districts may be built up. Then will come the day which we have been wanting to see during our lifetime When people will desire to move to the country instead of crowding the already overcrowded cities. For * many years the prosperous farmer has longed for the day when he could * move to town. That should be re versed and the town and city man should long for the, time when he would be able to move to the country. One of the reasons for leaving the country is to secure better se'hool and chureh facilities. With the building of good roads these advantages will come to the country, for without roads schools and churches would not be worth muc0h to the citizen who. moved into the rural community. We will take pleasure in cooper ating in any way we can with the Evening Record in its path finding enterprise. Good roads between Newberry and Columbia would make the distance no further by dirt road *t,han it would be by railroad. We believe that if the road is built froin Columbia to the N'ewberry county line that our people in New berry will cooperate in extending the road through the county seat to the Laurens and Greenwood county lines. "Don't alway's be asking the -pa pers to boost our city, but get ou' and do something for the benefit ot the -town and t,he papers will always do t-heir part and more. It is very easy to write of the good things that will do our city good, but if these things are never done all the news paper boosting de's not amount to anything. It is results that count. and without the results there is very lit tle t.o count.'' The above sage utterance comes from our neighbor, the Cherokee News, and is wortihy of commenda tion. We do not say it inl a spirit of boastfulness biut it is nevertheless a fact that Gaffney's newspapers have - ontributed about as much toward the g-rowth and prosperity of the town as any other enterprise of the community.-Gaffney Ledger. The above will apply with equal ferece to Newberry. We are glad to note that the State R. F. D. earriers decided to hold their, next annual meeting in Newberry. And we ar pleased also that they showeNd thieir .*d jugmn by ag.ainl eleIea Newhaerrv man euent T;ey coQuld not have done ben rithan to bestow t.his honor upon Mr. Wiek COCAINE. Withia rece-nt years the cocaine habit among negroes has grown to be a great evil in Charlotte and many other Southern cities. The negro who takes cocaine becomes temporarily crazed and there is no crime which he will not commit or attempt when under its influence. Policemen dread him as they dread nothing else, for he has both a maniac's strength and a maniac's fury. In Charlotte are joints wheire cocaine fiends hold peri odical orgies; these places. filled wit-h crazy demons, bear little resemblance to the dreamy atmosphere of Chinese opium joints. Opium or its deriva tives-morphine. heroin, etc.-would from the standpoint of society be far preferable. To procure cocaine the habitue will undertake any crime; and siie he is or soon becomes, worthless as a worker, crimes and shifty expedients constitute almost his only resource. The police know well that the fre<tent purse-snatch ings on iharlotte streets are attribu table to cocaine fiends. They know, too, that crimes of violence in the community rise mainly from this same cause. Thus the cocaine negro commits crime to supply himself with his drug and is a most dangerous criminal when supplied. Continued spread of the habit threatens the ne gro population. and the white South in its relation to the negro popula tion, with a menace unmistakably grave.-Charlotte Observer. We don 't know how true it is, but we have heard that a good deal of the cheap whiskey being sold in various sections to negroes, and possibly to some others, by blind tigers, is dosed with cocaine to give the desired effect after it has been freely diluted with water in order to increase the quan tity and make the profit more. The cocaine habit is dangerous, and every means should be taken to pre vent its spread. We have a. very strenuous law in this State regulating the handling of cocaine, but it is none too strenuous and ought to be strictly enforced. THE ROADS ELECTION. The approaching election in this county on thbe question of voting bonds for the improvement of the roads is being watched with interest throughout the State. The Winn3 boro News and Herald of recent date says: When commenting on tihe work that is being done in the counties adja eent to Fairfield last week, we over loked tihe part Newberry is taking for the betterment of her roads. Through an act of tahe last session of the general assembly, the people of that county will on August 31st vote on the proposition of issuing $300,000 for road improvement. Should this be successfully carried through, this will place that county right to the f-ront in tihe matter of road building. And again' we repeat that Fai.rfield must not lag behind tihe procession. Good roads are of the most vital concern in the future progress of t.his county. A bill is being prepared to make marriage more difficult. Still it is doubtful whether such a bill would quite prolhibi't it.-Atlanta Journal. Some marriages are unhappy. Why not prohibit marriage, and then ap point an investigating committee ? Commencing to name babies after him, tahey are also telling Governor Joe Brown' that' "baby will look for a handsome.present from you.''-Au gusta Chronicle. We hope the crop of Georgia ba bies will he a little more handsome than the Georgia governor, for whom many of them are being named. The Herald and News has an in teresting ar;iele by Mr. M. L. Long, f Co. G, 13t-h R.egt., C. S. A., on the battle of Bloody Angle, which we will )uliSh inl our next issu.e. We present to-ay a story by Col. Dickert, en titled "A Sad Tragedy on the Salke hatehie. (Col. Dickert's thrilling story, in which he tells how he led his company away from the enemy with out surrender after the Southern armies had laid down their arms, will begin in an early issue. The Greenville correspondent of the News and Courier, in speaking of the meeting 4'f tihe State Pres -so iaio n in G reenri1lle this week. sa.rs 'that. President Aull. in hiis le5lP"!l5e t" te addreCses oi \Velcome "spoke o the lad:i. ''I the asoito . I l Arnold, who said that he supposedl adi es n haot en mentioned on the ztgiii, wlivni wi fen were tuenti"4 11 ed they were supposed to embrace the ladies." From the language of the correspondent it is not exactly clear to us whether Mr. Arnold or Mr. Aull was guilty of this. We would not have tihought it of either one of them. THE IDLEX6. 'p * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The editor told me just .as he was ready to start for the press associa tion in Greenville that Mrs. E. M. Evans had phoned him to'tell me that she knew the trash cart 'had arrived, and that sie had seeni it on the Sum mer Bros. grocery corner, and that she had been after Mayor Langford to put it to work, and that he had promised to do so, but it still stands there idle. I will, therefore, have to ask his 'honor, the mayov, why .that pretty little cart standeth there idle all t-he day long and why a man has not been hitched to it so that it might have had at least a test of strength. Let it get busy. -0 Friend ldler": There are just 47 different ways in whichl you ought to be ashamed of yourself for flirting the caustic from your easy-going pen upon the place that used to form a sub-base for my unfortunate cuticle. I t1hought better of you, and being as uncertain as to your identity as everyone lese,I wish to assure you that I was in ignorance as to the ownership of that "King's English" you speak of, until the flaying knives had done their 'horribly inhuman work. You see, I had been reared in the belief that the title to same was vested in dear old Aunt Victoria, who occupied some kind of a position in the baili wick of England. Now, whilst I'm aware that you fail to see the advisability of indulging in poesy-"in such serious matters'"-I am forced to impose on you the fol lowing: We don't always mostly ken The thing that 's going to happen, Until it's over, we know then It's lh-1 to tell the Cappen, or words to that effect. Now, I'm growing another ''hide'' and you, I'm sure, will view it with envy, for it will be as thick as Roosevelt 's biggest rlhinoeros, with duck feat'hers all over it, that will enable me to stand with complacency anything from a gentle shower of 'causti'' solution to such volcanic eruptions as a poor unfortunate devil of a cle-- (I liked to have named a position that don't exist) scribe, who has tile temerity to think that he has. such a tiling as an opinion of his own. So long, I'm going out to sun my plumage. Yours truly, Scribe. -.0-. The Idler never means to be "caus tie,'' but it did strike me that a se rios matter was being treated in a very 1,ight vein. It is all over no0w, however,~ an.d it wasn 't very muc'h of my business, anyhow, because I am not the guardian of the county, if some ,people do accuse me sometimes of dipping into a little of everything. But, you know, the fellow w.hlo pays tie smallest amount of taxes is al ways the Liggest kicker, and, then, I never charge anything for my advice or for my comlments. -o Speaking of paying taxes, I can' for the life of me understand why a great many of the people in the coun try are opposed to the bond issue for good roads. Why, they are the .people who will be most directly benefited, and t'he taxes whi.c'h they will pay for the roads will be very, veil little in coparison with the great good which they will derive from them-the im reased value of thei.r lands, and the increased profits on their marketable products, to say nothing of the corn fort and convenience anld pleasure' whlich t.hey wvill bring. And they tell me that the town will .pay about one third oIf tihe taxes if tIle bonds are voted. It takes people a long, long time sometimes to learn the thlings that make for their material welfare, ald sometimes you have to force on a fellow what is good for him before je will take it. After lie gets it, of course. lie is mighiitily pl1easedl. -0 About the only highways the ,Idler ever uses are the sidewalks of 'New berry, as he loafs around town, ob serving people and things-and some people who a.re thiings-but it. makes me weary to see people who would not e directly benetited by ~ood roads. e'xcp)1 in heway. that whatIeVer benie tjit S the coun1 lty beniefits all it!s Peo ple. worethe ones to beC diretly benie titei, to Vote for~ good4 roa'ls. and mayv of1 the -country pe''ple pulling against it on account of the tax which die mud tax iey are now paying is man ino t Iw o mills. -0 I like to read "Talking It Over" in the Augusta Chronicle, because I like a fellow who doesn't mind ex pressing his thoughts. Of course, there are some people who don't think at all-but I am not talking about that now. T. D. M. in "Talking It Over" is kicking about sweeping the streets in Augusta at an early hour in the evening. He says: Sweeping the streets-Broad street -at an early hour in the evening is a mistake. In other cities the princi pal business streets are not swept at an early hour. This is particularly true of streets where there are a num be.i of residences over the business houses. To sweep Broad street be fore midnight on Saturday night, for instance, is an inconvenience and an n1oyance to business men and pedes trians whicoh siould not be inflicted. -0 The Idler was giving a little friend ly advice about the same thing in Newberry some time ago, but I have not seen any of it here very lately, and I hope we have improved. Of cou.rse the sidewalks ought to be kept clean, but the cleaning ought to be done in a cleanly manner. _kt No doubt the horses and cows in Newberry were glad to see the heavy rain on Tuesday morning, because it makes t-he grass on the sidewalks grow, and some of the sidewalks in Newberry are fu.rnishing pasturage for a good many cows and horses. The Idler knows of one stretch of side walk in a populous residence section of the city where there is nothing left of the walkway except a little path. Possibly this sidewalk would be in better shape if there were more lhorses and cows in that section. -0 But Supervisor Wicker has done some fine work in a number of places. His great trouble is that he hasn't enough hands under his control to do effective work. He starts a piece of work and before he finishes it as he would like to do, he is called some where else, and before he -gets back to the piece of work which he 'has started, what he has done of tihe un finished work has got in bad shape and he has to do lots of it over again. It strikes me the town ought to put more work on its sidewalks and streets, just as the county ought to do some permanent work on its roads. The Idler, though, didn't start out to make a kick, and hasn 't done so, and I hope nobody will tihink I am kicking. Maybe I haven 't got any right to kick, and for that -reason I never do so. I regret very much that I did not attend tile performance by the Cita te waste basket, you'll be a hbat bye house on Tuesday night. Thytell me it was a good, clean minstrel show, and tihen they sang one song that I would have -liked to have heard. It' was something a.bout don't cry, lit tle waste basket, you'll be a hat by and bye. Those who were there will possibly remember the song I am talking about. Softens the Water. If more women only realized how much easier it is to clean the elothes, the dishes, the pots. and pans, the1 floors and everything else about the house with soft wate-r, they would never think of using any water forI cleaning wit.hout first softening it with Lavadlura. Lavadura is the name of a new pure and harmless white powder, whie'h when sprinkled in water softens it and greatly increases its cleansing power. without hasrming the most del iate fabrics. When Lavadura is used the hands do not get red and rough from washing the dishes, tihe clothes. the floors, etc. Dirt and grease dilsappear as if by magic, and the dishes or clothes not only look clean but smell sweet and pure-be cause Lavadura' (destroys odors. Put a little Lavadura in the bath and von'll feel far' more refreshed the skin will be soft and white, wholesome and beautiful, while for shampooing tihe hair it proves a lux ury indeed. It makes the hair soft and fluffy. and destroys~ d:mldruff. Nothtl11anding its many valuable uses. Lavnidu.i is very NI inep5niXe- it sells in drug and grocery stores in 5e and 10e packages--and a little ac complishes a great deal. Why not try TEACHER WANTED. Applications will be received by the undersigned for teaceher for Helena. school up until July 15. Ap piats will please mention salary ired~(. Addre''s trust ees care of chairmanIf at Newberry. S. C. Welch WVilbur. ('bli illunai. WV. S. 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