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E H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postorice at New ,erry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. Tuesday, August 3rd, 1909. There is a work that should bIe taken up by th e euMbined Chambers -of Commlerce of Sumter, Columbia, Charleston, Grecnville, and other places interested. It is the securing of chair cars on the various passenger trains. Day after day one train after another rolls into Sumter and pulls out again filled to standing room only and to discomfort. There is no ,rea son why the Atlantic Coast Line should not give us chair cars on the more important trains, and pressure should be brought to bear to make it do so.-Sumter Herald. The Herald and News and the Greenville News have been agitating this for a long time and we had about reached the conclusion that Sumter and Manning were indifferent. We are glad to see that you have waked up 'and we hope you will arouse your chamber of commeree. Concert of ac tion on the part of the patrons of the road from Charleston to' Green ville will .do much in securing the at tention of the railroad people. Let representatives from the various chambers of commerce get togetiher and do something. His Kick. "You don't remember I reckon, said the sour-faceld man, putting his arms on the show case, "that I bought a clock of you twenty-five years ago ' "I certainly do not," answered the elderly jeweler, "but I'll take your word for it if you say you did." "Wel. I did. It was twenty-five years ago last Monday." "Remember what you paid for it?" "Yes, I paid you $10." "Ever had to get it repaired'?" "It's a pretty good clock, then, isn't it?'" "Oh, yes; the clock is all right. But I've found out something about it that you 'didn't tell me.'' "'So ?'' "Yes. When I bought it I asked you how often I'd have to wind it. You said onee a week.'' "Well?'' "Well, I've just found out that it will go eight days without winding." "Certainly; most clocks are eight day clocks. That's .to allow for your forgetting to wind it sometimes." "I never forget to wind it, sir. Reg ularly every Monday morning for twenty-five years I've wound that clock. That makes fifty-two times a year. If I had known it would go eight days I would have wounfd it on the eighth day, and I would have had to wind it only forty-six times a year. It takes me about two minutes to wind it up. I've wasted twelve min utes every year on the thing. See ! in twenty-five years IPve put in 300 min, utes, or five hours, the half of a man's working day, standing on a chair and wid\ling up that blamed old clock when it di'an 't need winding." "Well," said the stupefied jeweler, "what do you want me to do about -"Nothing, sir. I only wanted you to know it. That 's all. When you sell an eight-day clock to a man you ought to tell him it 'N an eight-day clock. Goodday, sir!" Straightening himself up and pull in his hat brim down in front, he turned on his heel and stalked out of the store with the air of a man with a grouch who had freed his mind. Chicago Tribune. Wbporpe-r1tETAX)INSHRDLUCMF STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. By Frank M. Schumpert, Esquire, Probate Judge. Whereas, William H. 15endrix made suit to nie, to grant him Letters of Administrat-ion of the Estate of and effects of Catherine E. Hendrix. *These are therefore to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Catherine E. Hendrix, deceased, that they be and appea.r before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Newberry, S. C., on the 18th day of August, next after publication thereof, at 11 o 'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administra tion should not be granted. Given. under my hand, this 30th day of July, Anno Domini, 1909. Frank M. Sehumpert, J. P.N. C. 8-3-09-2t. 1taw. Many a man gets a reputation for being good-natu-red because he is too laz to stand up for his rights. * * * *. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * THE IDLER. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * fev days I lve been thinkiii a goi deal and I have comeX to thle conlusion that it is best for me not tc, think th at iS if it ca!n be lheped. Well. when one has no(thing to 'o it is hard to keep from thinking aho bi that p)robal*y it xNwiuldih beSt no0t to be though-t abliluit and Vet how can you help it when these thiingi are before your very eyes and are read of in every paper you pick up. I am. at least, not going to try to write all I have thought. I said some time ago that I was go ing to try mighty hard to persuade myself that the world is growing bet ter and I am still trying. Have you, dear reader, read the daily papers recently? Have you noticed that col umn after column every day is but a recital of all sorts of crime and some the most horrible? It is eitih-er a murder or a suicide or some man wlfo stands well in the community going down under the temptation to get rich quick or some man running off with some otherman's wife or some woman taking to the woods with some other woman's husband. Or some trusted official making way with the funds entrusted to 'his keeping. In fact if you are not going wrong it seems that every one gives you credit for doing so. What does it all mean? And then in the face of it all we hear of more sumptuary legislation than ever before recorded. I 1-0 We want to regulate by statute law not only what we shall drink and what we shall eat and what we shall wear but how we shall ride horseback. I think if they should pass a curfew law and have it rung in time to bring the boys and girls in off the street at a reasonable -hour ievery evening it would p.robably be more effective and I do more good in the bringing up of them in the straight and narrow way than all the prohibitive laws tha-t could be placed on the statute books. But then I know and realize that I am an old fogy and don't know much about how things ought to be done. And it is none of my business so long as they don '-t botiher me. But to tell you the truth I sometimes stop in the midst of my quiet life and ask myself the question: "Is this me?''" -0 Suppose we continue to believe that the world is growing better and the people are getting more liberal and are cultivating brotherly love more and more every day and talk about something else and see if we can't in spire every body to nobler purposes and higher resolves. -o There was so much about the scout cars and the good roads during the early part of last week that I felt I had better hide out of the last issue. I wonder if all this is really going to do any- good. I hope so. I don't see. where it can possibly do anyI harm. Of course if a good road is built or a road is improved as a re sult of this fuss it can be used by the people who have no automobiles as well as by those who have tihem and therefore it would seem to me that it is a movement whie'h should enlist the co-operation of every citizen so long as the movement does not cost anybody anythinig. There is still a. disposition, just like there was some fifty or sixty years ago when I was a boy, to be ready and willing to ge something for nothing. And why should the movement not have the hearty kind word from every one so long as it is costless. Seriously speaking I do not see why all t'he people should not give their,. encouragement to pathfinders, wheher they be from the Atlanta Journal, New York Herald or the Co-' lumbia Record, so long as the scheme creates an interset in road improve ment even if these newspapers do get a little advertising for thmselves out~ of it. The automobile is here to stay, at least until the flyin: machine is perfected, and while .i believe that will be done I am afraid I am too old now to hope even to be here to enjoy it. In the mean time why not every body get together and help on' the good roads movement. The things that I read in the news papers anid hear of people putting up as arguments against the proposed issue of bonds make me so tired thQs I wish I had never read them or heard of them. And then I wonder if these people are really serious or if tihey do not sit down all to themselves and laugh at what fools some people are. And then I wonder if the people v 'll take them seriously. Well, as I htave before remarked I neither own a horse nor a mule nor an ox niar anH ass nor an automobile and it makes very little difference to me per sonally whether vou build any ov d ur e' 12 :11*0 1111 ( ab uit a1 tfie et nI arm' l I wil b IIe forrd t"(dI Bu;itt irnly I wovu1 l b>e to' se old EU berry take a forward -tep. 1i would dIo 11V (m Il heart g4od. I hIVe pent my beszt energies in Iref' bThalf. A \\-,I\ bac(7k vollder xv,1,11 I wils a1 boy I used to crave to be ar. editor. I used to sit down anld i my malJHi tio1 J could '.ee how nlie it. waZ to have a free ticket to the c''nlcert (r the theatre or to the b asei ball grounds or ratier town ball for :ha' was before the days of ba.e ba:. Then to have invitations to the pic nics and to be given the choieo-it of the good things to eat and to ride on the railroad without buyinY a ticket. And I used to read about tho wee trips which the editors took and how they got free meals at the hoteis and 0, how I did want to be an e litor. But I suppose all those nice Chings have been ehanged and now the editor ust p! up the cold ca 4, for whIat he gets just like t'he la'anee of us or dinary mortals. I judge that must be the case from what I see in som111 of the papers. Well if that is the case then I don't want to be an -editor. If he can 't exchange his space for some of these good things without selling his soul then I don't want any of the ed tor in mine. Thes;e are strange times and we do come upon some mighty ,urious things. But it will all come out right, I reckon, when the accounts are ll in. And then its none of my busi ness how anybody runs his business. I just can 't help talking about roads. I want to see the country dis triets built up. Roads are the best things to do this. I mean roads. Not the patIhs which some people call roads. I hope Newberry will take 1old of t'he suggestion I see was made at Laurens to build a highway from Columbia to Greenville via Newberry and Laurens. Then from Newberry to Greenwood. There should be con cert of action. If the people who.live along this road will co-operate this road can be built and I believe that it can be done without voting on the question of issuing bonds. If it is built so the automobile can go along it t'he ox and the mule and the ass and the horse can go there too. Don't forget that. Maybe if we could get a road we could induce the city of Newberry to do something to make the treets passable. And why not do it now'? Why wait until some other route is selected and the main .road is built around us. That is what we have done on th~e railroad situation. Alderman Green has got his bridge in College street acros3 Scott's creek well under way and it will be ready for use very soon. That's the way to do things. Go aihead and do them. Now let Alderman Green get in be ind that park for Newberry. If iny suggestion is not going to be adopted and there is no prospect of the dona tion why not organize a park associa tion and get the land on either side of the North fork of Scott 's creek from the railroad to the Calhoun street and turn it into a park. It would make an ideal one. The suggestion to take the old court house for a Y. M. C. A. is a good one and I do hope the plan can be put through. It will accomplish the rest room idea and the library idea and the auditorium idea at the same time be a great hellp to the young men of this community. Now I hope tshere will be no knockers on t=his proposition, but there will be unanimity of action. I cannot see where there will be any special privileges in this proposition but look out if some fellow doesn 't find a scheme in it somewhere. The Idler. As to Mnzzling Dogs. Has tihe ordinance relating to the muzzling of dogs been .repealed'? If it has not, why-do they live on the streets of the town without muzzles on? I fear that some other mother's child is going to be sacrificed to t:he canines unless more prudence is exer cised. If the muzzle is worth anything the ordinance intended to be a pro tection for our citizens ought to be enforced. Citizen. Advertisement. Bids will be received until 5 o'elo<-k P. M. August l'7th, 1909, by F. N. Martin, Chairman, for the remodeling of the Pope Building at Newberry, S. C., according to plans prepared by Shand & Lafaye, Architects, Colum bia, S. C. Bids to be accompanied by certified check for .$100.00 as a guar antee that if awarded the work, con tract will be executed and Surety Company Bond given for $1,000.00. Plans and specifications may be ob tained from Architects uponl a de posit of $10.00 as a a-uarantee of their s'fe return. The Board of Trustees reserves t'he rigrht to re.ject any or all bids. F. N. Martin. 8-n-9_4t Chairman. AT THE DISTRICT CONFERENCE A Gathering Largely Attended and Enjoyable, As Were Also the Melons. (Rev. J. W. Wolling, D. D.) The Co>kesbuiryv Districrt Conference 11hiS Year wd. held at Z;i-1n chare"i). jnur miiles out irin l'ro'Ijeriiy. lIn Newbrv ry couity there nre over lwo--) I1Ulalo (l lN(ni11e1 of h( it 'dist ehiure-h and of these 608 persons hold their membership in Prosperit v charge. In this eharge Zion is the largest ehurch, having a membership of nearly four hundred. And so it was in this thickly settled comamunity that about fifty pastors and laymen met, really out in the country, to hold the annual session. During the daily sessions the forest around was full of carriages and buggies with their im mense number of horses and mules, such an ar.ray as I have not seen in many a day. And it took all of these to convey the multitudes who came to attend theservices.Others will write about the conference sessions, I wish to writp about the people and other things. The singing was conducted with a heartiness and life which was very refreshing. They fortunately have a number of young ladies who can play the organ and three of these are reg ularly enlisted. Miss Connelly and Miss Marie Counts are always on hand and play well, and just 'iow Miss Tillie Warner, a professoress in a Georgia college, is at home visiting her parents who live right near and helps in the music, while Mr. Pierce Harmon and M-. Pink Cromer and about twenty young men and ladies join in and really make a fine choir. Of course once at the church we re mained all day, yes, all day until 5 o'clock in the evening. So dinner was served on the grounds and such stacks of fine bread and biscuit you can well imagine, and immense quan tities of fried chicken and other good things. The only thing lacking, at least for me, was coffee. I don't see why our good people can't understand that a cup of hot coffee on a hot day is very refreshing. Church people are models for a merry, joyful, but peaceable crowd, and the large numbers who gathered at Zion church on this oecasion fully sustained this repute.. I was entertained at the pleasant home of Mr. Bennett A. Connelly, where the whole family joined in making me feel comfortable. I wish to thank the son, young Mr. Connelly, for conveying me to and from t'he station. He drives a fine mule, but it couldn 't measure legs with that hghheaded old gray mule which raised such a dust and would never let us get ahead. One afternoon we went over to Mr. J. B. Connelly's to eat watermelon, and such a fine one it was. It was the first I bad eaten this season and put such a .fine taste in my mouth that I have wanted melon ever since. Mir. Connelly is a pleasant, smiling gen teman and I am sorry 'he and his melon patch dre so far away. Well, district conferences are all right, no doubt, but I do remember that Solomon says that something is a "weariness to the flesh,'' and if he were here now he could say, "Of agents and much talking at District conference there is no end, and the whole t'hing is a weariness to the flesh.'' Seven regular agents and two or t'hree extras were before the con ference and talked, some very good and a few missed the mark entirely. We had two sermons which were splendid and worthy of any occasion. Rev. D.r. Cook, of Ninety Six, and Rev. Dr. Sled, of Greenwood, did cer tainly glorify the Gospel of Christ and show the fine effects of careful preparation. And now a note by the way. On my return to Prosperity I called at the home of Mr. Lee Bowers, where had the pelasure, after many years, of meeting Prof. Thornwell Haynes, whose excellent wife is a daughter of Mr Bowers. Mr. Hay.nes, a graduate of Wofford c"llege, has had a dis tinguished career, first as a teacher in this State and then for a number 'of years as United States Consul in France and in the Orient. He now returns to ~his loved vocation as a teacher. I am glad I went to the conferer"-e and to Zion church, I am, as I 'hope, fhe better for it. The clock had struck 12 and the sleepless one counted the strokes and turned on his pillow wearily. As the last echo died away came the sound of a voice far down the street-the voice of some late homegoer, f.orgetful that a sleeping world lay about him, absorbed only with the joy of his own tiouhts, unconscious perhaps that he sang at all. Nearer he came; clear, rich. young, vibrant with life rose the voe- quick. firm steps. forming a rhythmical accomnpanliment. W:bat the song was the listener did not know; lie could not distinguish the words. an th tune melodious and piercing TUB SATU AND DRSON $1275 To Washinj and Rel Southern August 18th, 1909, got tember 2nd, 1909 other Virg A SPECIA Composed of day coac ing cars will be following Special Train l Schedule Lv. Augusta 2:45 p. m. Lv. Warrenville 3:15 p. m. Lv. Graniteville 3:18 p. m. Lv. Vaucluse 3:25 p. m. Lv. Aiken 11:30 a. m. Lv. Edgefield 2:30 p. m. Lv. Trenton 3:48 p. IP. Lv. Johnston 4:00 p. m. Lv. Wards 4:10 p. In. Lv. Ridge Springs 4:17 p. In. Lv. Monetta 4:15 p. m. Lv. Batesburg 4:30 p. n. Lv. Leesville 4:35 p. m. Lv. Lexington 5:05 p. m. Lv. Columbia 6:05 p. m. Arrive Washington... Arrive Norfolk....... QUICKEST SCHEDULE. A Rare Opportunity to Visit the Weeks in the East. DON'T MISS THIS UNE SFor Pullman Reservations and Co ern Railway Ticket Agents, or J. L. MEEK, Asst. Geni. Pass. Agt., Atlanta, Ga. sweet, w as strange to him. Perhaps it was a sentimental ballad, inspired by a sweetheart to whom the singer just said farewell; perhaps it was a song of adtion, of hope, of anticipa-. tion, expressive of youth 's dreams. The listener was not musically gifted and co'uld not interpret. He only knew that t-be song, now joyous and high, dropped to a minor, pathetic strain and in its refrain rose again to a lilt of triumph. He knew, too, that suddenly, in some way that he understood not, a door was opened that had long been closed. Old dreams came back, aspirations of youth, nev er, alas, filled; faces, half forgotten, that had once made a part of life, came out of the dark and smiled at him in the old-time way; visions once :herished of the future he had never found swept before him as a pana rame of a life not his own, yet, as he ne, really of his own life outg-rown. -Indianapolis Star. Cheap Enough. "Joel Chandler Harris,'' said an 'Atlantan, "used to write comic news Ipaper editorials. Sometimes he made fui' of rival editors in them, too. "Simon Simpson, .a rival editor in Mobile, having been made fun of, wrote angrily in his rag: " 'Joel Harris has been getting off some cheap wit at. our expense.' "Joel, on reading this, grabbed his pen and dashed off quick ps a flash for next day's issue: " 'It must have been cheap, Simon, to be at your expense.' ''-Pittsburg ChronicleTelegraph. The Hero of the Game. Mr. Phan (roaring from the top of the stairs) -Mildred! What is that young man doing down there so late? Mildred (sweetly)-He 's just dop i-ng out how the teams will finish for the pennant. Mr. Phan (mollified)-All right. Tell him to take his time, not over lookig p)ast performances and the possibility of a slump. and when he gcts done he can compare with my list behind th r-lor-k on the hook ease. SALE RDAY S10c1. O.. ton, D. C.. $12J15 'urn via. Railway. )d returning until Sep . Cheap rates to inia Points. L TRAIN ies and Pullman sleep operated on the schedule: .ound Trip Rate Round Trip Rate to Washington to Norfolk $12.75 $10.50 12.75 10-50 12.75 10.50 12.75 10-50 12-75 10.50 12.75 10-50 12:75 10.50 12.50 10-50 12.20 10.20 12.00 10.00 ii.6o 9. 90 II.6 I"9.60 11-50 9.50 ix.6o 8.6o io.oo 8.oo ...........8:15 a.m. ... ..........8:5 a.flm. .NO CHANGE GF CARS. National Capital and Spend Two SUAL OPPORTUNITY. mplete Information, apply to South W. E. McGEE, Trav. Pass. Agt., Augusta, Ga. Table of Values. "Now, children,'' commanded the austere instructor in advanced arith metic, "you will reci,te in unison the table of values.'' Thereupon the pupils repeated in chorus:.. "Ten mills make a trust. " Ten trusts make a combine. " Ten combines make a merger. "Ten mergers make a magnate. "One magnate makes the money.'' -Chicago Daily Socialist. The Modern Play. "A Play,'' remarked the theatrical manager, "is like a cigar.'' "What's the answer?'' inquired thbe innocent reporter. "If it's good,'' explained the man ager, "every one wants a box and - if it 's had no amount of puffing will make it draw.''-Bystande.r. New Hiding Place. These great caves just discovered in Arizona will be agreeable substi tutes for the tall timber in certain imminent political emergencies.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Notice. 'Comrades H. H. Counts, G. W. Mayer, and B. F. Sheely will please call on undersigned at once and re ceive t'heir Crosses of Honor. 0. L. Schumpert, Adjutant. 8-3-09-it. Soldier Balks Death Plot. 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