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L Ir IAi AU 7.TA. VLX INO 68 NEkk Bi1n,.'. FRIP Y. A UGUST 97,.19(-.W9 EK,$.0AYA RED SHIRT RIDERS MEET IN ANDERSON. STATE ASSOCIATION IS FORM ALLY ORGANIZED. Col j. 0. Stribling Chosen Command e.-Big Parade and Stirring AddresseL Anderso". August 24.-The State Association of Red Shirt Men of ,1876 was' formally organized here to day by the election of the following offieers: Commander. Col. J. C. Stribling, of Pendleton; tirst vice commander, D. H. Traxler, of Florence; second vice commander, C. D. Smith, of Green ville; treasurer, Jas. M. Payne, of Anderson; secretary and historian, Edwand Trescott, of Pendleton. The purposes of the Association as set forth in the constitution and by laws drawn up by the Hon. W. L. Mauldin, of Greenville, and adopted to-day are to perpetuate the deeds of the men of 1876, 'to teach the coming Cenerations the importance of the part they had in the State's history, P and to record the deeds of the men of the time. The meeting to-day opened with prayer by the Rev. R. R. Dagnall, who was followed by Mayor J. L. Sherard, who delivered the address of welcome, throwing wide the doors of the city to the visitors. Response was made by Col. John G. Mobley, of Winnsboro, who closed by inviting the Red Shirts to Columbia to attend the State F-air, in ovember. which invi -ration was acepted. To-night Judge Robert Aldrieb, of Barnwell, spoke at the Court House. To-morrow will be the big day of the reunior, featured by the great parade to be pulled off at 10 o'clock, when it is expected tha c there will be several thousand in line. Senator B. R. Till man and former Governor John C. Sheppard are here and will speak to .orrow morning, as soon as the pa rade has reached the park. Dinner will be served immediately afterwards. 4f'here are a number of companies . camped about the city and so far about F00 delegates are here. Tin0an Roasts President Taft. *Anderson, August 25.-Addressing an audience of 10,000 people at the reunion . of the "Red Shirts,"' men who in 1876 wrested the political ma chinery of the State from the negroes ~ and carpetbaggers, United S.ates Sen ator T.illman declared that President Taft is "the tool of a great political machine'' and that the president's appoirtment of census enumerators in the South is but a fu-rtherance of his efforts to break the "Solid South.'' He said the "machine'' is preventing Mr. Taft from carrying out his inten tions as expressed in his Atlanta speech. Senator Tiliman warned the people of the State against compulsory edu eaton. haying~ that it would *prepare the negroes for the ballot and might inl t,im: result in their controlling elec si Sjut h Carolina. "Th- mai1-. today was featured'by ..a caade4 in which seve: al hundred members of thle 'Red Shirt" brigade partiipated. moun.ted and wearing red shirts. Many women too'k part in the parade. Anderson, Aug. 25.--Fifteen thous and men. women and children came to Anderson to-day, some to take part -and others to witness the great Red irt parade. The line of march ed under Commander J. C. Strib g. F'our thousand men and ladies earing red shijrts, some mounted and- othe?rs on foot. formed the pa rade, which was more than a mile long. After the review the line marched to Buena Vista Park. where Ex-Gov. Sheppard. of Edg'etield, and Senatr Tilman spoke to five thous and persons. The association request -~ed their speeches for publication, an~d they will be published as soonl as Sthey are received. N Now. Clarence,"' said the Sunday oo !:.eher to a s:nall boy in the uveie ass ''can you name the three principal feasts of the Jews?" "Yes. ma 'am,"' replied Clarence. --They are breakfast, dinner and ,anner. FOR THE BOND ISSUE. Mr. John C. Neel Again Urges the Voting of Bonds for Building the Roads. Editor Herald and News :-There has been a lot of discussion, both pub licly and privately, about Supervisor Feagle's work. We have never .had any but good men in the Supervisor's office. Mr. Feagle has only been in about six or seven months and in that time he has done what none of the others did, and that is. 'be built one mile of good road. He was in this community about 7 weeks. an'd in that time he made this mile of road, a new three-mile road from Mollohon mill to near Mr. W. H. Bobb's; 'he worked four or five other roads: he had two teams and eight or ten hands out a couple weeks making bridges and it raining about every other day. He didn't spend any more than -half of this seven weeks on this mile of road. Mr. Feagle. and his assistants, Miller, Burton and Cannon, got out of the chain gang negroes all that was in them, at the same time trea-ting them as humans. While wor?-ing near here, I ahve seen a good many of tthem give completely out and be compelled to lie in the shade for several hours. Without question the chain gang is well managed. Mr. Feagle and his board have1 helepd to crea.te the strongest road workina sentiment that we have e-er had in this county. There seems to be a general im ptession to this effect. that, if bonds are voted, this will do away with the present road law. Now. this is a great mistake. for it will not effect it in the least. Bonds are only intend ed to work the roads. Take -the Observer's figures; that there are 6,000 people in this county subject to road duty. If we would begin a once to do permanent road work by letting these hands work on their own sections or group several sections to gether, counting these hands at $1.00 per day. 6 days per year each, $500 to the mile. they would build more than 70 miles everY twelve months. The chain gang could build 30 miles per year: the bond commission, 50 miles per year. In from 7 to 10 years we wouli% have every road in the county clayed and sanded, which is nto doubt better to travel over than gravel, and! much cheaper. Of course where we* cross the swamps and pipe clay places, we would put gravel. All we need is 6 or 8 traction en eines scattered over the county, (to! haul with) and some ~dynamite for these hills where you can't get around* them. Some ask where you are going to getI this sand and gravel. Creation itself has provided sand and gravel enough' to build roads enough for 1,000 coun-. ties like Newberry. We have our sand, clay and' gravel ridges running all through the coun tv in streaks from 1 to 5 miles wide. All we have to do is to take these en ines arid se'atter this sand along the road. Mr. Oxner, who pulls his gin, thresher and sawmill over the coun try with a tractio.n engine, paid us a all not long aoo. We asked him what his eniene could pull over this mile of road and he didn't hesitate in say in that it could pull our house were it on wheels. We have no idea just what the house ivill weigh. Town, railroads and telegraph comn panies pay 60 per cent. of the tax of Newberry county, and these peo pe have never thriown a shovel full of dirt in a hole. In the counmtrv the roads are wash ed otY and we have a chance to get eh> to wvok these roads. Let 's take wh 1 we can get! Farmners don't think that the town neonle and railb>ads want these bons. Thero is a str n- opposition amonO1 these towns and railroads coni erning this tax. Tn hauling wood over this road, we find that, in making three or four trirs per day, we gain about one hour in time every day. Br this mile of road Prosneritv and Newberry are brought half a mile nearer to zether.' With these roads all over the coun t. the distance in every direction a man now hauls .5 bales of cottol to market with t wo mules lit could then haul twelve. This county has a big thing in her second growth of pine timber, if we had roads by which we could haul it to the railroads. The Piedmont coun try has to have this timber. We could' then take t.hese traction engines and haul it twenty miles, cheaper than we do now going only three miles with a wagon. This is a day of progress. There would never have been a graded school, water works or electric light system established in any of the towns or cities, had it not been for bonds. We feders on the farm are even catching a little of this pro gressive spirit. Show me an individual who has never gone in debt and accomplished anything and I will show you a thousand who have done something by going in debt. What a day this would be for New berry county, for the churches, schools, women and children. This $300,000 is an investment for Newberry county that will bring back three fold in values and conveniences. J. C. Neel. CARD FROM MR. BLEASE. He Urges the People to Vote Against the Roads Bond Issue on Next Tuesday. Editor Herald and News: I hear it said in regards the bond issue, "that the advocates of bonds have given up the fight and are not taking any interest in the matter,' and "that there will be no election as the other side has given it up.'" This kind of talk is exactly what will put the bonds on the people, and is talked for the purpose of keeping those who are opposed to bonds away from the polls. The people were told in anoither campaign in this county that taxes would be no :higher if they voted a certa.in way, and that the -schools would not -be' injured. Look at your tax receipt for the years 1904-05, then look at the one for 1908, and save each of them until you pay this fall and compare them with 1909, then think of the fact that in 1905 the county was out of debt, then remember that in only three short years your county is -twenty-five thousand dollars in debt and cannot pay its official salaries, no, not even its paupers their small allowance. How many schools in the county losed this year one or two months earlier than they did heretofore? How many, if any, of your schools have trustees w'bo are not patrons of the school'? Where is or what has become of the twenty-five hundred dollars that was set aside a few years ago to be used in improving the old cordit house building? Have we been deceived or misled in eletions heretofore in regards the increase of taxes? Havc we been warned and refused to take notice? The Act of 1903 to raise supplies reads as follows: Newberry county For the county of Newberry for ordi nary purp:loses two and one-'half mills. The county was -then out of debt and paid her claims promptly. The Act of 1909 reads as fo)llows: Newberry county-For the county of Newberry for ordinary coun t: pur poses three and one-half mills. The county is twenty-five thousand dol laui in debt, and has borrowed that amouit on this year's taxes and has petit, and today she cant pa her county claims and will :have to run the balance of the year on credit. Are taxes any. highler? We were told from the stump ii 1903 that taxes would noit be any higher and that our schools wvould not be injured? Ask Hlons. J. L. Epps and J. S. Weeler if that is true. Look at you-r tax receipts. Wait until you pay taxes this fall and see who told you e (ruth. When the Legislature meets next year your levy will be still higher and or. ta~xes will be higher next year notwithstanding the fact that the Tax able property of the county has in reased several thousand dollars. and that thousands of dollars are being sent yearly ouft of the county to Salis ville. and other places outside of the! State. besides what. has gone to Peak and Columbia. What I have had to say about the bond issue has been for the best in terest of Ithe people of this county as I see it. If the bonds are voted I will not consider that I personally have lost any fight, and if they are not voted I will not be so foolish as to think that I have won any victory (iti will - be the people's victory); for there are some voting for bonds who have voted for me every time that I have ever offered for office, and there are those voting against bonds that never have and never will vote for me. for :they have brought their prej udice from -the fat:her to the son, and there is no love or admiration lost, for one of my principle mottoes is, "Thine own friend and thy father's friend, forsake not." I have written three articles in the papers begging the people to register and be prepared if they should need them at any time. Some heeded, some did not, and as a result there are many today who want 'to vote who cannot, as they have not listened when warned. Go to the polls next Tuesday. Au gust 31st, and take with you your last tax receipt and your registration tick et. Make no excuse. Go in the morn ing. It might rain or you might have indigestion in the afternoon. Your vote is needed. Leit none persuade you to stay away by making you believe that your vote will not be needed, for we want a decisive majority against pretty maps, one-man rule, and forty ear fat berths for the favored few ait the expense of the whole. Don't forget Tuesday next, August 31st. is the day. Whatever is the result let all be friends and continue our work for better roads and the upbuilding of our county and her interest. Respecitfully. Cole L. Blease. Newberry, S. C., Aug. 26, 1909. NEWS OF PROSPERITY. Mr. Frank Ward Schumpert Married. -Catalogues of High School Out.-Personal Mention. Ptof. Thornwell Haynes has gone to Hopkins to make an address at the Educational rally to be held there on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Burch, of Columbia, spent Sunday at Dr. J. S. Wheeler's. The following of our townspeople went to Savannah Saturday to enjoy the beauties of that city and the surf at Tvbee. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Browne, Mr. H. J. Rawl, Mr. J. L. Wise, Mr. Charley Long, Misses Janie Russell, Mary Lizzie Wise, Willie -May Wise, Mrs. C. M. Harmon. Miss Kohn returned from Williams ton Saturday. Misses Clara Gibson and Willie May Wise have gone to Newberry to spend several days with Miss Blanche Galman. Mrs. Malcolm Cook returned Mon day last from a visit to her sister, Mrs. Kennedy, at Due West. Mr. Win. Long, who has been occu pying the Shealey house. in Main street, has returned to his home in the countrv. Mr. George Cook, of the Zion com munity, was elected cotton weigher for the approaehing season. One of our former young men, Mr. Frank Ward Schumnpert, who is now in Millen, Ga., was married on last Sunday to Miss Maggie Joiner, of that place. We extend to these our best of good wishes and a cordial welcome to our midst at an early date. Very creditable catalogues of the hgh school have been issuel. All who are interested1 will find them to be had for the asking at any of the stores in the city. A large number of prizes will be offered for the ensuing year. whii ch begins September 13. Ar rangements have been made to accom modate all the students from a dis tance who care to ene Jire for in M~'iss Hattie Groseelose has return ed from Columbia, where she went to see her sister, Miss Leila, at the C'o lubia hospital. We are glad to ea: that she is improving and will .be iA our midst next week. Rev. Ira Caldwell has gone to Washington, D. C., for a fortnight's ROMANCE 0 C THE OLD SOLDIER'S By Col. D. (Continued.) The old sailor man had been wait ing our coming for some time. The girls all called him Captain Buck, saying he had been a buccaneer, or a pirate, or something like that, and we all called him Capt. Buck, too. He was a jolly good fellow, and looked the true skipper that he was, with his oil skin cap, his sou'wester coat and a leather belt encireling his waist, from which hung the ever-ready sail or knife. His face was weather beaten and bearded all over, and out of it sparkled merry brown eyes. He seemed to be on the best of terms with the girls, especially the little Mother Superir, calling each and every one by her first name, and they calling him Buck, with equal candor. Once on board, Capt. Buck yelled out, "Cast away the bow line, " and we began backing gently out into the stream. The sails gradually spread as they caug.ht the wind, and we soon found ourselves midway in ithe murky and turbid waters of the James. We all sooa paired off with our girls, in stray corners of the rakish little craft. The wind was against us at the start, so we had to zig-zag down I the stream, missing a mud bank on one side, a torpedo on the other. The river was full of these sunken mines, a stick projeeting out of the water to indicate a danger point. The girls pretended to be timid and skittish at first, continually asking, 'Don't you think old Buck will run afoul of a torpedo?" or saying, '"The boat will sink," etc., and such like kittenish things. But the' young gal ants would stand by with reassuring airs, boasting their ability to swim ashore and save them should an ac cident befall us. In fact, I felt that I wanted something to happen, just to convince my little trusting Maggie nat a man I couM be for her sake. Capt. Dell was having it out with ester. Dell declared there was ro -anger of her drowning, so long as er shoes held water tight, that she ould row herself ashore. Hester, ame back by saying his upper deck vas so light and airy, Ihe could not, sink if thrown into the water, Ducklegs, with the little Mother Su perior, promenaded the deck, talked of stars and constellations, and the bea.ty of 1the. shadowy banks, as our lights cast a shimmer on the foliage, Duck even comparing the light in her little black eye.s to that of Orion or CassiopeaB. or some such outlandish argon. Well the truth was, the little widow did look marvelously beauti ful that night, as she stood by that ungainly. lanky combination of arms nd legs. But Ducklegs held his end' up pretty well. and. to a centa.inty, Connie didn' t let hers drag. Hot Spnir and Dixie were all the time talking about battles and seiges, hile the other couples would go be low occasionally for refreshment. But Maggie and I-well we 'talked nd we talked. No battles, nor stars, nor stupid sentiments;--we talked of love, or. at least, I did. Her little eves of heaven's blue were watching :he lit:tle billows as they splashed up gainst the vessel's side, but her ears were eagerly, it seemed to me. drink-t ing in every wvord of love. I never tired of telling her of my affection, nd she seemed not loath to have it repeated. Occasionally she would lift her eyes f-om athe water and look vstfully into mine, as much as to av. "Is this all true?" -then would cast them downward again and to me it looked as if she (vas satisfied and said, " This is true, he loves- me.' When I pressed her little fingers I :wOe etertnal love anid loyalty, and h when this cruel war is over, (*.. etc. Well I b)elieved it at the time, and perhaps so did The. "TIt is eiter to Kav? loved and lost. than ee- to have loved at all. '' I wonder where my little first love is toniht T noe1 dCwabt tainht I F ROCKETTS TORY OF THE JAMES A. Dickert. had fallen in the trenches, or, like so many thousands of others had gone down in the great wind-up, or she might, if living, be wondering "w'a - ever became of that deceitful, lying St. Luke." (And a sickly smile game over the wrinkled face of the old sol Idier,as that half-century memory came back to him, and with his kerehief he wiped away beads of-or was it a tear -from his furrowed brow. Continuing the old veteran said:) We glided along smoothly at last, down the river, to where-no one knew and no one cared. Dell and Hester sang bars of Norma, while some of the others let out on the old song, popular at the South in those days. "Longsbreet's on the right, he telR3 us not to fear; Magruder's in the center, and Jack son's in the rcear." Then another couple would take it up leaving out the curse words, of course. There was a kind of gambling chorus about "laying your money down." "We charged them at Manassas, We charged them with a yell, And drove them from their breast . works, Dad blame their souls to-. I lay five dollars down, I count them one by one, If anybody tells me, H6w fast those blue coats run." Now -wasn't it strange, to look at it, at this :ristance, thatt these young officers left their post on the battle line, in the face of the enemy,. and that enemy Grant, without leave or license, to go between the lines on a lark, led by a lot of girls whom none of us had long known, and who, for all we knew, might be leading us to destruction? For, to be caught by friend or foe would have been our undoing. In any army but the South's t.o be caught thus away from our post and duties would have spelled "cash iered." But we took big chances, for we knew, like many in other parts of the army, Lee wanted just sudh boys w*hen the roar of battle was on. And just such frolicsome boys and fier blades commanded those units of the army that, by their cohesive ness, made the Southern army the greatest that ever strod the planet, an'd helped to make the name of Lee immortal. Who were Mhose young men? Well, I sha 'n';t name them, but you all knew them, or some, at least, mighty well. We never tal.ked much about this lay-out, for the reason that we were all ashamed of it. But would you believe me when I tell you, that "Recruit" was seven tirnes congress man, and got to be governor of one of the greatest States in the South; another has been adjutant general of this State; a son of one held this same office for -two terms; one became sheriff of his county,-another one of the greatest cotton factors that lived on the Mississippi during the last half century, and so on? Yes, yes, all but those who fell in the trenches did well. Of course I 'ye never done much, but I guess I have had as much fun as the best of them. After we had run some seven, or eight miles, the old bairgeman called out, "Model Farm just ahead!" Now, this time coming down was not all spent in promenading and "mooning" with the girls, but the couples would go below to have refreshments, and drink ale and porter, a vile bitter con coction, that neither Maggie nor I, ol stand. But the others, why they could drink the stuff like English lords, and tfhen like the daughters of he horse leech. ''cry for more.'' There, standing before us, on a great bluff overlooking the historic river, was old "Model," with its great columned porticos, its Queen Anne style of architeeture, grim, de serted, and as silent as the great "Towers of Silence" themselves. Who bunl it when sad for what