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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New -v, S. C., as 2nd class matter. Tuesday, August 24, 1909. The Columia State deserves a greai deal () <redit for having raised more than $11.000 by private sub scription for the fund for the erec tion of a monument to the Women of the Confederacy. The legislature ap propriated $7,500, to be available when a like amount was raised by private subscription. The State decid ed to raise $11,000 by private sub scription, concluding that amount was necessary. and more than $11,000 have been raised. This was a worthy cause in which the State used its endeavors, and we congratulate the State and the people of South Caro lina. Newberry's contribution is now more than $400. Newberry's sons and the mothers and wives and sweet hearts of Newberry's sons in the War Between the States took a position second to none in the whole Southern Confederacy-and the Southern Con federaey was a nation which, while short-lived, was the greatest which ever brightened the pages of history. More money will not be amiss. The greater the amount, the better will be the monument. Why should not the patriotic sons of Newberry-patriotic as .Yiled to the Southern Confeder a and as applied to a reunited coun try-those to whom the Southern Confederacy left a priceless heritage, get together and make Newberry's contribution $5001 The fund is already sufficient for urgent needs, but do not the sons of Newberry county owe so much to themselves? The campaign in behalf of good roads in Spartanburg county is going to bear fruit, w~hether the bond issue carries at next Tuesday's election or not. If the bonds are carried, we will have good roads all over the county, the main roads and the cross country roads as well. If the bond issue is defeated, we will either have a liberal direct tax levy for building roads, say about 5 mills, and a fine start will be made in good road building, or there will be a bond issue of $100, 000 to $200,000 by Spartanburg town ship, to be used for good road pur poses within this township.-Spartan burg Journal. Same in this cou.nby, though :i would frighten the advocates of a di rect tax almost to death to suggest 3 mills and we do not do it and yet with less we could not accomplish mueh. The agitation, however, is re sulting in good and we will have some better roads bonds or no bonds. From the current issue of tihe Good Roads Magaine we learn that the good roads movement has taken root in Africa. A road connecting Lake Victoria and Lake Albert is under construction and motors are now run nig over it. A year ago, it is stated, it took six days to travel 104 miles and now the same journey was ae complished in seven hours. When these roads are completed the natives ~will cease to be beasts of burden and motor wagons will take their places. They can then devote their time and energy to the cultivation of the soil and the development of the natural resources of the country. Surely if Africa can and does appreeiate the advantages of good roads we in civ ilized America ought not to object to the creation of a small debt to secure them. It is pretty certain that we will not get good roads in any other way in a long, long time. 'Every newspaper worker in the t ate. all of whom arec his personal riendsl. and tionsands of other 1n Sout h (Caroli na anid mnany' other States. whio are his~ personal friends. smprathize with Col. .Jamnes T. Bacon, of the lEdgefield Chroniele. in his ill ness and unite in the hope that he may soon be restored to health and that he may soon1 again be wielding ~ acile and brilliant pen. The Newu nd (rier said beore Ihe election that. the blind tigers of Cliarlesti w,uld vote for pir)ohibi-b tion. The result proved the esteemed News and Courier to he in error, as only 300 votes were east for prohibi tion. There are more than that many iblind tigers in Charleston.-Spartanl burg Journal. You Would searcely -onllhide ihl. oily pnhiblitinmists voted the prohibi tion ticket. Tiere are prohibitionistS who are prihiitonists and there are others who do not practice it, but vote it and then in Charleston there must be some prohibitonists who voted for the dispensary. We hope in a few -days to have ev erything arranged and in shape in our new quarters upstairs and we will then be in better positon to handle your advertisements and your job work than The Herald and News .has been in its long life. Come to see us and bring your orders for printing along. We will give you prompt ser vice and good work. Several new sub scribers came in the first day our office was upstairs and we are ready to receive more. It is our purpose to give the people of Newberry the very best paper they have ever had. If the spending of $50,000 a year on. the improvemeni of roads would demoralize labor how about spending $250.000 in six months on the build ing of a cotton mill? Nobody raises that question when it comes to build ing a mill. Besides the people in t.he country would have the opportunity to get the contracts and do the road work themselves and thus keep the money in the community. But what's the use, the county is not going to build any roads. The election on the bond issue for good roads in this county will be held on next Tuesday. It is well for the voter to remember that in order to 'vote in this election it is necessary to have your registration ticket and your tax receipt. The law requires it and tihe managers will enforce the law. Mr. J. L. Keitt in his article giv ing the cost of the bond issue over looks the fact that the bill provides for a sinking fund which will retire the bonds and tihat the commission is required to place this amount at in terest and that 'the interest received in his way will largely offset the in terest which 'he calculates. THE IDLER. * * ** The Idler has not been feeling very well during the past several days, and that accounts for his not .having had anything to say in the last Her ald and News. The weather has been a litttle too hot for him. Wasn 't that heat wave something awful? They tell me the crops have suffered ter ribly, and I know they must .have, be ause I used to be somewhat of a farmer myself, though I never did make a fortune farming. They didn't have these improved methods of farm ing when I used to farm. I notice the editor took a trip out in the country the otber day with Mr. Duncan look ing over the crops of some of the government demonstrators and co-op erators, I believe they call them anyway, these people who are apply ing the knowledge as to farming which the government experts have gained after thorough research and careful study, with the money behind them which enabled them to find out: things. I notice that the editor says that these government-.demonstrators have crops way above the average. Well. faring is one of the great est callings in the world, and I don't see why there should not be business methods in farming as well as in any other calling. And I don 't see why there should not be progress in the methods employed. The world is going' forward. Our fore-fathers knew lots, but we started with what hey had learned, and our busi ness and our auty is to g.o ahead and in ereae the store of knowledge which they left us for an inheritance. Ap led seience is good for farming, .just like is is good for anything else. I haven't any sympathy. and never did have any, with the fellow that is content with things simply because they were good enough for ages past a --af The world is moving andl Whing : !la Iut. 1 1o Iceni m Herald and News soe time ag a reprt by a repreentill ive of Tihe Herald and News cif some speethes for aid agaiist the roads bnd issue :a barbetce at St. Paul's chur--h. in which the rejorter for Tie Herald amd News said that there were one or Iwo peOple found iwho didn't even want to improve their roads-that thir sentiment was that roadm that were "'O"d (11e"1nu1 for oenertitons pa.st wonld he good eni.--li j"',r fittire g1enerat ions. Well, even if Ilose Old roads hadn 't worn out lon, ago-if they ever ought to have been4 dignified by the name of roads-the time came long ago when they ought to have been improved. Progress is the watch word of this day. You can't stop it, and if you don't join the march you are going to be left behind. -0 But I am not going to talk about roads this time. I believe the people have their hads set to vote down the bonds. and what's the use to cry? if the people don't want any roads I won 't be hurt. I will get along fine just as soon as that flock of geese or that herd of Angora goats comes in. I started to talk about the weather and the crops. The weather got delightful on Sunday, but I am afraid the crops are still suffering very much. Well, not mixed to suit us, there is one not mixed up to suit us, there is one thing certain, and that is that we can't help it. We can make the best of it, though, and remain cheerful. A cheerful disposition is one of the greatest assets in life: It is a great thing to be able not to worry about things you can't help. I believe it was the great Lincoln who said: "Do not worry, eat three square meals a day. say your prayers, be courteous to your ereditors, keep your dig,estion good. ste'r clear of biliousness,. ex ercise, go slow and go easy. Maybe there are other things that your special ease requires to make you happy. but, my friend, these, I reckon, will give you a good lift." That's good advice for all of us. I want to answer another of "Wire Grass's" questions at this time. He asks: "Who owns the old court house square? The city or the county? If the county owns it, as I heard a mer chant say the other day, that the county owned it, that being true, how can anyone prevent the farmers and others from using it as a stopping place for their wagons, buggies, etc.? I don 't hear of the merchants kick ing about it.'' -0 Now, I am not much of a lawyer, and I wouldn't undertake to untan gle any intricate legal web. But I have always understood that law was not something made by man, but sim ply an embodiment into certain rules of conduct of what has always been right from the beginning of creation. In other words, as I undertsand it, it is simply a statement by him of something that always was. If that isn't what it is, that is what it ought to be. Well, now, applying "Wire Grass 's'' reasoning, if the Methodist church congregation should decide to keep a pen of hogs on its vacant lot, the city ordinance against keeping hogs in the city could not be enforced hecause the Methodist church lot be longs to t.be Methodist congregation and not to the city. No, "Wire Grass,'' while. as I un derstand, the county does own the old court .house lot, yet w'bile it is in the city limits it is subject to police pro tection and control. If that is not right, I would be glad to have some lawyer correct me.. And, talking about the old court house square and the wagon yard, I noticed a team of mules the other day calmly eating water-melon rind in front of the court house on the brick approach--or whatever you call it-I mean the part underneath t.he upper veranda-just beneath Judge of Probate Schumpert 's windows. The rinds were all nicely cut up for the mules, and the mules were having a jolly good time. Of course, it would be a great pity to disturb this hitch ing .and feeding place for horses and mules, and this water-melon eating place for negroes on these hot summer days, but Newberry has outgrown this kind of thing, and the wagon yard ought to be relegated to the ,rear. Speaking of feeding stock, I no-. ticed a drove of horses grazing on the verdant. pasturage on one of our principaIl streets on Sunday. It 's an ill wind that blows nobody good, as thousands of people have said before, andl I amr glad that something is hene fited by all this grass oni the streets. By the way. I haven't heard any thinig vet from the candidates for mu nicipal honors as to their positions on street improvements and other im provements that ought to be made in I.ades'Coa GreatlieMse'Toad skirts just received and special] Miss Riser is now in New York Notions, Trirnmings, Belts, Nec Tuesday and Wednesday, SEC Goidwell early for them yet. -0 "Wire Grass'' wants me to keep on after that park proposition-either the Johinstone woods or some other place. Well, I have concluded that that suggestion I made about the Johnstone woods is not going to be taken hold of very readily-or, at least, it hasnt' been so far. I regret it, too. I thought out that little scheme all by myself, and I thought it was such a niee l-ittle suggestion, too. But the city needs a park some where, and that Scott's creek -park hat I suggested from t,he railroad trestles up to the Werber place, I be lieve would make a fine park. What say the people of Newberry about it? [ would like to hear some discussion s to it. -o _ The Idler sawv some good street leaning on Saturday evening. Tihe paved streets were thoroughly prinkled, and then they were swept clean and nice. It strikes me that 's he way it ought to be done. The Idler has received a communi eation signed "A -Member' of the Civic Association,'' but it is not ac ompanied by the name of the mem ber, and the editor says I c.an 't use it unless I have the name -of the riter, not for publication, but it is rule of the office, -he says, and can ot be violated. I would like very uch to print the article and I hope the writer will send me her or his r its name.'Now I didn 't know the ame of "Wire Grass'' but the ed itor says he does and so it is alright for 'him to know. I am glad to receive uestions and suggestions and will be glad to have my friends write me. I will not tell your name if you do not want it told. I can keep a secret. Don't forget that.Sj I wonde.r what has become ofSu erintendent Wicker and his street fore. I came very near receivmg~ se ious inj]ury the other nig'ht by step ping in a big gully rigrht in the middhle > the sidewalk on a p)rominent street igt in town. You see, thoughi it wvas early-I neve.r stay out late at night -the new moon had just appeared in be western heavens and a's our com' nissoners are econo'mical the street ights had not vet come onl. The idler'. l Hait Opening Suits and Skirts a rnan tailored by A-nerica's bes d Wedniesday's opening sale. 'hree Piece Suits also on disk y priced. Thousands of yards sending us every day the n< kwear, etc. Be one of the firs' OND FLOOR. THE "HUMANIZATTON CURE." Doll Medicine For Child Who Had Never Had Toys. In decribing a defective child pa tient who was treated by Dr. Witmer, the University of Pennsylvania psy eholoist, Marion Hamilton Carter says in McClure's: "Gertru.de B. came from a county poorhouse, and was passed over to the Children 's Aid society in 'Phila delphia. The society put her in a boarding house, together with several >ther children. In both of these places she shown herself a menace to the other children, biting and slugging ihem on the smallest provocation. 'When Dr. Witmer first saw her, as e passed tihrough the laboratory where she was waiting, he thought er a mental and moral degenerate, ut on examining her found to his surprise that her mind was a good one. Suspecting that her moral might be ifferent from the 'character' she di1 een given, he got out some toys and doll. The little girl went almost wild with joy-she had never had any toys in her life. She showed the normal in stints here, at any rate. "Now the physician whom the Chil dren 's Aid had .ealled in gave it as his expert opinion' that Gertrude was a ental and moral defective, danger ous to keep with other children. Dr. Witmer 's diagnosis was: "Imaginat ive, active, self-reliant, purposeful-a aliant little soul, fighting like a rat n a corner against the conditions of oor-house life. So, in spite of the hysicial, Dr. Witmer admitted her to the hospital school and put her on tihe 'humanization cure,' her first medicine' being a doll for her own. n two weeks the 'cure' had worked such results that she was entered in the public school.'' The Spiritual Line. A good ste.ry is told of a very se date doctor of divinity. When re :n ning hy train from a church con ress a fellow passenger1 underto,ok to (iraw him into conversationl, and so far sueeeeded that the reverend gedn tleman asked him to what profession e happened to belong. "Oh" said t:he layman, cheerfully. ''I'm in the cotton line.' "Oh, indeed,'' replied the clergyman urbanely, "there is a good deal of msie oing- on ill tlhat branelh .just ,O'. -4" Sale!~ econdRoor t aes l lae nsl n waggner.$ eoIusnd d.''or Getfirst-choce,' com te elayan with Gatcnine mie"And taie aws t iSs,rliessGods atngy wth gethoengst srahet a oi ewafvelkow terpe trat, I uneam ndtesprtul"ie' e"imdFirsls, comanion, knowingly withd, witnnn isri,bnayl wink askwt, Is yu lhtain e yuav a.joe hev Fwasteer knorristoype.fo tre,rsa in e spirtuatholine."rh ime Hisandpaibut nowainly anda pffisgohn on the tSde,ctor's knees, butheaid orsa :eageran aded wast aesna expesriaene: k, "btA say,s wat a baricer shop have dute gin one of. "-hica Irishcprd oneralogtd. hv. eosrvdta thearbncher a Catoing chuare enta celerion bth Westide, tolak ahance Inryt a grou mofmlent tubr autrss buto hednied t yhethe' sAth priest,ntt as brershop con ductd byese one oun.irs pash oners, o'etr shvne,'' ansered that tbarber wssfeigfo e "Tet eebatos yout' dcoiued thae apcae.t In a fe moents"h ther user of liquor hawi daters "Yis, y 'r rv'rance,'' answered the barber humbly: "it makes the ski tinder.''-hicago Evening Post. A Helpful Plan. "Why do you always say that you appreciate classical music when you know you don't care a rap for it?' we ask of our friend. "Because,'' he answers, "when they ask me if I app.reciate it and I do, that ends the discussion. Other wise they bore me to death with ef forts to edluc'ate me up to an appreei ation of the stuf.i-Life. "What do you think of tariff re vision?' "Well answered Farmer C sel, "it strikes me that the tari good deal like the weather. No m what kind you get. it's pretty to be bad for somehodl ' business