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L XLVI'NO. 61 NEWBERRY, 6. . TUES D AY. A UGUST 3. 1909 TWICE SOUTH CAROLINA is NOW VERY, VERY DRY ALL DISPENSARIES CLOSED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. Will Remain Closed Until Result of Elections in Wet Counties Is Declared. Columbia, August 2.-At the close of business this afternoon-just the moment the sun sinks to rest-the dispensaries in the- twenty-one wet counties of South Carolina will close down and will remain closed for one month or longer. In twenty-one counties to-day the sales of whiskey and beer will be larger than in any one day since the dispensary counties were big, as many wished to lay by a supply of whiskey for the dry period. The dispensaries, as has been already announced. will remain closed until the result of the election has been de elared. the election to be held on Au gust 17th. TRAIN MANGLES FARMER. William Lawson Killed by Engine. Buggy Smashed to Pieces. The State. Union, July 31.-A shocking acci dent occured in the northern part of the city this afternoon when the train from Lockhart ran into and instantly killed and decapitated William Law son, familiarly known everywhere as "Sugar Bill," a substantial farmer of the West Springs section in Bo gansville towns1ip. TET LOSE LIVES. Sixty Others Injured on Electric Roads.-Two Trains Crash To gether. Spokane, Wash., July 31.-Ten per sons were killed and at least 60 were injured in a head-on collision of two electric trains at Caldwell, Wash., on the Spokane & Island railway late this afternoon. FALLING GUN KTLS CHILD. Little Daughter of Darlingtonl Man Meets Sad End. Darlington. July 30.-The children Sof Mr. Watson Baker, while playing with a watermelon, rolling it around the room, rolled it against a gun that was standing in a corner of the room, causing the gun to fall and be dis charged. TPhe load entered the breast f the four-year-old daughter of Mr. Baker. killing her instantly. Coroner R. G. Parnell viewed the remains, but decided an inquest was not necessary. A Card. To the Democratic Voters of the City of Newberry, S. C.: In response to the inquiry from many of you I beg to state that at the proper time I shall announce myself as a candidate for the office of Mayor for the yea.r 1910 and shall request the City executive committee to ar range thiree meetings to be addressed by the various candidates, one in front of the old eourt house, one at or near the Mollohon mill and one at tthe Park in West End so that the people can be informed of the plat forms and positions of the candidates upon the various questions that may he brought up for discussion. In case such request 'is not granted, then I shall publish my ideas as to the im provements ne!iled and my ideas of, municipal government and shall also stand ready to address such meetings as may be arranged for such purposes. V ery respectfully,. Cole L. Blease. August 9, 1909. Trymng to Get Near It. Chicago Record-Herald. Hw much do you think a 'house uch as 'osu have planned for us will ost '' asked the prospective builder. A s voa will see by examining the simate I have furnished,'' replied th architect. "the amount is placed at 11.500." a es, I know that is your estimate, wat is your private opimni? MEXIGO SiIKEN BY SEVERE EARTHQUAKE CHILPANCINGO DESTROYED, AC N APULCO PARTLY RAZED. Shocks Extend Over 1,000 Square Miles.-Loss of Life Not Defin itely Known. Mexico City. July 30.-With Cli pancingo destroyed and Acapulco partly razed and the loss of life pro blematical, Central Mexico from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Quer anto on the north to Oaxaca on the south, an area of more than one thous and squa.re miles, was -4haken- at an early hour to-day by a series of the most severe earth shocks felt in the region for the last quarter of a cen turv. fhe lquake was severe in Mexico City. but not prolific in destruction. 'Reports telling of the loss of life are meagre, but the official figures thus far given show fourteen killed -and more than a score mortally injur ed. While word comes from G. Poyros, an American commercial traveller at Chilpancingo. Guerrero. that that city was destroyed and the inihabitants are living in the open. suffering from the elements, the loss of life is not defi nitelv known. The shocks continue at Chilpancinzo tonight, with subterran ean rumblings and flashes of light ning, rain and hail. Aepulco. Guerrero was partly raz ed. but the extent of the damage i not known, as communication with that part of the Republic is not well establisihedl According to observatory records, the first shock was at 4.15 this morn ing, the oscillation being from east to southwest. It was severe, causing the bells of many cathedrals in Mexico City to toll, breaking crockery and in some instances leveling walls. The inhabitants of the capital had hardly recovered from the fright of t,he quake when a second and more severe shock caused an outpouring of nearly all the residents to the streets and open plazas. This movement was of a twisting charactar. and lasted with severity for ninety seconds. Tall buildings swayed and in some instances cracked, the pavement opened in places and in the poorer quarters a number of houses ollapsed. So far as can be learned, six lost their lives in Mexico City and en virons in this second shock. Two men of the lowwer class, the othbers being three women and a child. Four now in hospitals caxnnot recover it is said. After the second shock no one ven tured indoors again until daybreak. The large American colony escaped unsathed. They, with the entire na tive population, .remained in the pla zas or squares until daylight gave them courage to enter their dwellings. Aztec Legend Foretold Disaster. The pecohs were terribly frightened. For days these humble folk have been predicting a disaster, because the snow on the peak of the volcano Pop oatapelt, visible from here, has been melting. An old Aztec legend declares phat when- the snows on tihis volcano disapear, so will the city at its base. In Memoriam. Whereas, God in his all wise prov idence has seen fit to remove from our Society our sister and co-worker, Miss Mary Boozer. Her aspirations along the higher lines of a true Christian were unmistakable. Resolved first. That the Missionary Society of Lebanon has lost one of, her best members. She was ever un tiring in her efforts to the upbuilding of this cause and w'aile on her bed of affliction, we feel sure her prayers would go up in behalf of our Society. But, while we loved her he.re, God loved her best. Second, That w,e extend to the fain ily our sympathy in their bereave ment and commend them to the "one 'that doeth all things well." Third, That a copy of these resolu tions be published in the county pa pers and one be sent to the family. Mrs. Nora Cromer. Mrs. Mattie Sligh. Mrs. Eliza Wendt, Committee. THE GLUTTONOUS GOAT. Ability to Eat Many Things Makes Him Dear to Uncle Sam's Rangers. The goat has never been a social fav,orite. In days gone by it was pre sented with the assorted sins of the community and assisted to hit the long trail. More recently tin cans have been its titbits and the joke col umn its hall of fame. At last, however, it is being taken seriously. On the western national forests the goat has been set to eat ing wide swaths through trackless thickets, which munched off paths are to act as roads and fire breaks. Far ther east the capacity of the goat to eat is being utilizeid for the clearing of brush land. In each case, says the World recently, the despised creature is doing better work in its line than can man with all his ingen-u;'y. A goat will eat with the sole idea of consuming quantity and with an indifference that is absolute as to what manner of thing it devours. From clover to sagebrush and from parsnips to tree tops it is all one wit%h the goat. Armed with this capacity to eat a flock of 3,.000 goats may be huddled together and kid through a chaparral thicket such as skirt the forests. The men in charge hold back the flock as it advances that it may have time to make its task complete. Its errant appetite wanders from dry leaves on the ground to the rank weeds growing in moist places and the dense branches of the chaparral. As the abundance is exhausted the sweep is made cleaner. The leaves and the larger limbs of the chapa-rral are attacked. T.he goat stands on its hind legs and reaches for its food, it gets astride the branches and rides them down, -eating as it goes. Finally it falls on the bark of the larger bushes and eats their bodies bare. There is no vestige of life left in its track. The firebreak is as clean as a ball-room floor. The usefulness of the goat as a co laborer with man by no means stops here. There are millions of acres of land in many of the Ltates that are overrun with brush. Tne tendency 's always to revert to that condition even after the clearing is once made. Rank weeds, sunflowers. eockleburs and such :have spoiled for cultivation millions of acres elsewhere. The chaparral is smothering~ out all other vegetation in such sect-ions as west Texas, where originally prairies un wound themselves for hundrelds of miles and were kept clean by oft re curring prairie fires. For all such the goat is found to be the savior. These lands would re quire from $12 to $20 to clear were men to do the work. The.goat will do it for nothing. In fact it will per form the task and in the meantime yield an abundant fleece, produce pal atable goat "venison'' and furnish a gade of milk that entirely outrar.. that of the cow. The goat is today actually harness eid to the task of eating up oak brush tields in Iowa, broom sedge wastes in Virginia, cocklebur patches in Louisiana, sunflowers in Kansas. sage brush in Nevada, lantana in Hawaii, chaparral and an unlimited miscel lany everywhere. It is the Angora goat, the aristo crat of all the tribe that is doing the work. This because of the existence of great herds maintained for their wool before the new duties were laid down, and because there are more profitable by-products in these than in other varieties. These great herds are in t:hie west particularly in New Mexico. They are beoming migratory under the call of their new usefulness. As they go about seeking what they may devour they will continue to give up the fleece that makes such dress goods as mo hair, such commercially valuable ma terial as the plush that covers the seats in all railway trains and such qua.intly amusing articles as the wigs with which the members of the theat rical profession are wont to make sport.-New York Sun. Going Up. Stranger (entering elevator)-Six ty-four. please. Elevator Boy-Yes, sir. Floor or ofie -.oston Transcipt. 'Bond Issue Dj MesSrs. B1 LARGE CROWD AT 'CUE AT ST. PUL'S CHURCH A SHORT TALK BY THE REV. J. A. SLIGH. [r. C. L. Blease Attacked Bond Is sue and the Bill and Prof. W. K. Sligh Replied. (By John K. Aull.) It has been the history of great movements, almost without exception, that they are in their inception and until they are. well under way oppos ed by the gret majority of the people whom. they will most directly and most largely benefit. 'Ihe movement now on for good oads in Newberry county is no excep tion to the general rule. One who drives from here to St. Paul's church, in No. 10 township, taking the left hand or Jolly Street road at Jno. C. Neel's place, and go ing on down by T. J. Wilson's place the direct road-if he is in favor of the bond issue before he leaves New berry, is apt, before 'he reaches St. Paul's, to be willing to go the bond issue people one better and be -will ing to advocate the purchase'of some air ships and the establshmient of a trunk line, as soon as the Wright Brothers have their aeroplanes per fected. The roads could hardly be worse. And yet the people gathered at St. Paul's on Friday, who had traveled these roads, and who must travel them every day, were-the great majority of them-opposed to the bond issue for the building of roads in Newberry county. And. this in face of the fact that the one-mill tax for roads in Newberry county, which will be collected if the bonds are not voted, will bring in for No. 10 only $274, while, if the bonds should be voted No. 10, wit-h -only a two-mill tax, would get its share of the more than one-third of the total of the bonds which No. 1 township alone would pay, on the present as sessed value of property, to say noth ing of the additional amount which will come from No. 1 when the new $20,000 mill soon to be erected is completed, and from other increases in taxables values which are sure to come soon. It is one of the greatest opportuni ties which Newberry county has ever faced, and yet Newberry county at this time seems disposed to pass it by. It is the greatest opportunity, along material lines, which No. 10 township has ever faced. With an assessed valuation of only $274,000 the two-mill tax which would be lev ied to retire the bonds would amount to only $348 in the whole of No. 10 township. Collected annually and ap plied as collected, this wou-ld not start the work which is necessary to be done on the roads in No. 10. With the bond issue by the county, Newberry county can be made a net-work of permanent roads, reaching No. -10 and every other township in t.he county. Yet, st range to s;ay, it is an oppor tunity which No. 10 is going to do its part towards turning down,, unless the sentiment of the people was changed after the addresses at St. Paul's on Friday, or changes between now and the time for tih-e election. It is gratifying that the people of that section are in favor of good roads. But they seem afraid of the bond issue. -In reply to Mr. Blease's argument on Friday, Prof. W. K. Sligh explained clearly and in detail the bill under which the election will be held, and he distributed a number of printed copies of the bill. It is to be hoped tihat the people will read the bill thoroughly for t-hemselves. While the people at the 'cue on Fri day were, as a general rule, in favor of good roads, there were a few excep tions even to this. There were one or two who thought the roads they had Fwere good enough. This is probably because they believe, inasmuch as the American Indians got along without any roads at all for hundreds of years,, and civilized man has got along in certain sections of this country with practically no roads ever since, t'hat hey can continue to geet along as their rscussed by .ase and Sligh fathers did before them. This is not the sentiment of the community, however. It is only one or two extreme cases. The fact is, if some efficient work of some kind is not soon done on some of the roads in the lower part of the county, there will not be any roads at all. Ten years from today many of those, even in No. 10. who are most violently opposed to a bond issue, will be its warmest advocates. -The good roads movement has come, and it has come to stay, and it is growing day by day. With a bond issue as the only feasible plan, the bond issue is bound to come. T,here were two addresses at the 'cua at St. Paul's on Friday, one by Hon. Cole. L. Blease agAinst the bond issue, and one by Prof. W. K. Sligh in favor of the bond issue. The speak' ers were introduced by tha Rev. J. A. Sligh. who made a short talk in favor of good roads, saying that he had not yet made ip his mind as to how he would vote, and that .he would do so only after mature deliberation. Mr. Blease delivered a broadside against the good roads bill. Mr. Sligh .replied to him, giving the history of the movement which had brought about the passage of the bill. There were between three hundred and three hundrd and fifty people at the 'cue, .and a large audience heard the speak ers and grave'them close attention. ,Considerable space is given to the addresses in this issue of The Herald and News, for the reason that Mr. Blease's speech was along the lines which he has taken in the newspapers, and gives his 'position in full, and P.rof. Sligh's speech was a reply to Mr. Blease, and the whole fight against the. bill, and the reply of the bond advocates is thus brought before the people of the county, giving them the opportunity to judge for them selves. Mr. Blease stated that unless he is brought into the discussion by an at tack upon his articles in the newspa pers or ais address at St. Paul's, that he will not further discuss the matter, believing that his position has been fully set fortih. The writer, in company with Mr. Blease, drove to St. Paul's via the Po maria road, as it is called, turning to the left at Neel's, and going oti down by Jolly Street. The road is bad near ly all the way. It is as bad as it could well be in places-.-in faet, if it were any worse, it weild be-well nigh im passable. There are h'les which al most shake a buggy to pieces. The bridge over Timmerman 's creek has swayed on its foundations until it looks, unsafe to drive a light buggy over. The bridge over Curls' creek, further on, is a good bridge, but im mediately beyond the bridge the road is covered with water and a little fur thr on there is a place in the road where there is a sheer drop which is calculated to wreck any vehicle un less the driver is very careful. The grades are steep and bad, and the roads are a succession of bad holes. Coming back the road via Prosper itv was taken. This road is fairly od most of the way to Prosperity by far better than the other road. From Prosperity to Ne vberry the con dition of the roa'd is well known. It mav- be remarked, however, that the mile of road recently built by Mr. Toms, the government expert, is by far the best part of it. This road is now getting packed, and is hard and firm. Mr. Toms stated that it would take some months for it to pack, on account of the fact that the county had not gone to the expense of using a steam roller on it when it was com pleted. It is~a fine road now, and will be better when it is thoroughly pack ed. But it is already an object lesson inroad building in Newber'ry county. There were in the neighborhood of three hurndred or three hund.red and fifty people at the 'eu at St. Paul's on Friday. The e.rops are remarkably good along the whole route, both, along the Po maria road and along the Prosperity road. Occasionally therj is a field, wihich is very backward, but as a whole the crops in this- section will compare favorably with those any were else in the State at this time. The speakers were introduced im mediately after dinner by the Rev. J. A. Sligh, and they were given good attention. The Rev. J. A. Sligh. The Rev. J. A. Sligh, in introduc ing the speakers, spoke of the press ing necessity for better roads, and of the heavy md tax which the farmers are paying, saying that this mud tax was the heaviest tax which they were now laboring under. So, he said, all were in favor of good roads, and the question was the best method of get ting them. Some said levy an annual tax and some said vote bonds. It was an important question and it was to be discussed here this afternoon, with the people as the judges. He hoped that no,prejudice nor any politics would enter into the discussion, and that tbe people would not jump at hasty conclusions, but would make up their minds after thoroughly study ing the question. He was very mueh against the bonds at first, he said, but he had been studying the question since, and had found that there was merit in what was being said on both sides of the question, and -he was now at a loss to know how to vote. He had said he would vote against the bonds, but in that he had done him self an injustice, bceause it was not an intelligent decision. He- did not now know how he was going to vote, but was going to make up his mind after weighing the matter aud care fully considering it from every stand point, and then he was going to vote, as he ihoped all the people would vote, for what he considered the best inter ests of the whole county. Mr. Sligh said he had been very mueh impress ed with the remark made by a small farmer to him recently. The farmer had told him that he was going .to vote for the bond issue, because it was the first opportunit, he had ever seen for the small farmer, who pays little tax es, to get. something for nothing. "You and I," said Mr. Sligh, ''will pay very little, and yet the people in the country are the ones who use the roads most." Mr. Sligh said he was opposed to a two-mill annual tax, be cause it wouldn't amount to anything, bringing in only a few hundred dol lars. to be frittered away. Mr. Sligh said that he was, of course, in favor of enforcing the pres ent law while the present law remained. To go on as the county was going on at present, said Mr. Sligh, was sui idal. Afte.r awhile we would have no roads at all.. -Mr. Sligh said he was going to lis ten carefully to the speeches and read what was written by botih sides on the question, and then make up his mind after carefully considering it. He introduced as the first speaker, Hon. Cole. L. Blease. Mr. Blease paid a very pretty tni bute to the Rev. Mr. Sligh, telling of when, as a boy, he first knew Mr. Sligh as a friend of his father's, and how Mr. Sligh 's political campaigns and services to 'his county had first inspired Mr. Blease with political as pirations. He said that Newberry county owed more to Mr. Sligh than to any other man in it. It owed him, he said, freedoin of a fair discussion of all questions. Mr. Sligh had .rais ed his voice for government by the people six years before the great Re former was ever heard of. Mr. Sligh, .be said, was the first man in South Carolina who had ever raised his voice in the halls of legislation for the high er education of women in a separate college for them, and while Tillman was the father of Winthrop, it never theless was the direct result of Mr. Sligh 's efforts before Tillman took. hold of the movement. He hoped the day would come wh-en some man would write the true history of Mr. Sligh 's. life, and when it was written it would compare favorably, not only for .his services to this county but to the State of South Carolina, with that of any other man who had ever lived within her borders. Mr. Blease said he had been drawn into this roads discussion because 'he in the newspapers had asked certain questions of the commission on differ ent occasions, which questions he thought fair, and his questions had been ignored. When they were ignor ed, hae said,he determined that the peo ple should be informed of the county's financial condition, and then if they wanted to vot-e the bonds it would be all right. He said he .bad no axe to grind, because he paid only the tax on