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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New '-erry, S. C.. as 2nd class matter. Tuesday, August 31, 1909. A WORD PERSONAL. On account of moving our office, rwe have been unable to give atten tion to our mailing list, and did not notify subscribers whose subscription expired August the first, and, there -fore, we are carrying over a few sub scribers whose subscription has ex pired. We make this statement so that those who have not paid may do so, and not lose any copy of the pa per. The mailing list will .be revised between the 1st and 10th of Septem .ber, and the subscribers who do not attend to their subscriptions by the 30th will be taken from our mailing list. We hope to send all of them a statement in addition to this notice, and to say that hereafter the cash in-advance system will be strictly ad hered to. We are anxious not to part with any of our subscribers, and we hope that you will give this matter your im mediate attention if your subscrip tion has expired. The Mecklenburg Agricultural Conference will be held at Charlotte on September 1st. An interesting programme has been arranged and ex perts will discuss questions pertaining to the improvement of the farms. We are inclined to think that Mr. Blease is mistaken in his article in reference to the school fund published in Friay's Herald and News. The sehools, as a rule, have a sufficient amount of money to pay the expenses and to pay.cash as they go, and the .terms have not been shortened, but in many cases they have been lengthened and the salary of the teacher has been increased. In several districts where a special tax has been levied it has been taken off. The levy for school purposes is fixed in tihe Con stitution and as the taxable property increases the levy remained the same. Of course, the revenue to the school ihas been increased. As to the ordinary county fund and the condition of our county finan ces we are inclined to think that his statements are correct. The county ihas no money with which to pay cur rent expenses and has erbhausted the money borrowd. In addition to the levy which he mentions as having been made by the last legislature for ordinary county purposes, there is a levy for past indebtedness, and if the bonds s'hould not be voted for roads there is an additional levy of one mill for roads which will, under the terms of t;he act be virtually an increase of one mill for ordinary county pur poses. Wle undgrstand thrat the epunty ceommissione' s have already borrowved and spent .$5.000 in anticipation of the proceeds from this one mill which is only to levied after the bond is sue is defea:ted. The State Board of canvassers has had a deadlock in deciding the cou test in those counties wvhich voted out the dispensary. The question of the constitutionality of~ the act was raised before the board, and Messrs. Jones and Jennings held that it was without the provinee of the b)oard to p)ass on the c.onstitutionality of the act un]de.r which thev were assemblledl. Mr. Me ('own and Mr. Lyon t ook position1 that the board did have the right to consider the question. We agr~ee with the position taken by Mr. Jones. if every board or executive officer has a right to pass on the constitutionalitv of Acts of the legislature, we had just as well abolish ou.i supr.eme court. Thle Spartanhurg .lournal now pro what wmuld have b)en paM by he township itf the hand elctMion hiad (ar zae a is about all that would have 1e ]( w ti. t tilt, Wor'k. THE ELECTION TODAY. The election will be held to-day onil the bond issue for good roads. The general impression seems to previl t:hat the bonds will be defeated and tihat there will be a light vote polled. The people of this county do not seem to be ready just yet to take this advance and progressive step. The question has not been present ed to the people as systematically as it should and much has been written which was calculated, unintentionally n' doubt, to give wrong impressions oi the purpose of those who started the movement. But road building is a live issue and one that will not down and it will not be long before those who now oppose bonds will wonder why they did it and will regret it. It is a movement that is for the best interests of the people and an invsetment that will pay larger divi dends than any other investment the people could possibly make. The Herald and News would appre eiate it if the managers would send us the vote at their box as soon as I the votes are counted. Send by tele graph ~or -telephone or messenger just as soon as tie result at your box is known. * * *t THE IDLER. * * * * * * * * * * * * *4 * * * Well, well, I heard some one had said that that motto which I credited to the heathen was the golden rule, and belonged to civilized man. I am glad that there was some <,ne in Newberry who recognized it and I hope there *are many more who are living it. It is alright to live by and will stand you in good stead when you come to die. -0 The heathen haye the same rule only it is sta.ted in the negative or rather negatively. The golden rule, whether heathen or Christeian is a mighty good one and it always gives me exquisite pleasu.re to see it prac tied.. Somebody has handed The Idler 'the following clipping from one of the Greenwood papers. I don 't know whih one-I believe there are twvo papers at Greenwood-and I went The Herald and News to print it in full-heads .and all. I hope it will not shoek the good roads advocates in Newberry: COUNTY BUYS AN AUTO. Supervisor T. C. Burnett Will Have An Auto to Ma'ke His Rounds. The County board of commission ers have purchased an automobile for the use of ,the county supervisor in ma4ing his rounds over the county. The machine bought was a Ford tour abot, sold by John I. Chipley. This is a progressive move made by the ~comissioners of Greenwood and shows that the officials are alive to the important matter of good roads and means .that Greenrvood county hall have good roads. I am satisfied if the County comn missioners would buy an automobile for the supervisor of Newberry there would be several deaths in New-berry county from sheer shock. I, there fore 'in the interest of humanity and the welfare of -all the people do most solemnly waa n our county comtms sioners not to do it. Please don't do it, or if you do dto it please do it gently and break the news to the pub lie very, very gently. And yet you must not forget that Greenwood is one of the most pn~o gressive counties in ihis State and they have pretty good roads, so I am told, and this .auztnjobille will give the supervisor an opportunity to get -around q1uick and to look after the roads. It will prove a good invest ment fr G~reenwood-but Newvberry -wll we are not vet ready to take Ian advauce step in the ma: ter of roadl building. By the way. talking about roads did vo read1 Mr. Brown 's article. 1 mean Dr. WV. C. Brown's. in the last issue of the Observer. He is a grood fig urer.'' He says that mile of govern men roadi cost $1,503, just about three times what the supervisorP sayvs it cost. Sup!po se ii did wouldnt't it be a god In. '.* w he' !( b iii would rsnl n' a 1 m tll . :\n i ltiw . jhusta ind d ir ex ake exactly thirtyI oair years andi igh weeks - ildl 300 miles of Haven't we been jus somethint like iwo hundred years building one mile t ood road and now wouldn't it be ;-reat progress if we could build 300 miles in exactly thirty four years and eight weeks. But what 's the use ? -0 And then Dr. W. C. Brown takes a whack at that "siren so-ng" that these good roads people are singing. And not only that but listen-"where the grey squirrels leaped from bough to bough, .and the enchanting tunes of ,thousands of birds were sung in perfect happiness "-all this prom ised by .these bond people-'"a lovely home with fields ever green, with grasses and legumes in the summer and clover and grains in the winter, and wbere the bee can gather the pplien from multifarious plants, and the horse, cow and hog roam through splendid meadows" -and so on, so forth. Well it is fine. It is beauti ful. How he can draw such a picture and then take old dry "figers" -and prove conclusively that we can't get the picture he paints. It is too bad. But what's the use. -0 Dr. Brown, I am told,. is a pro gressive citizen and a good farmer and how he -can draw such gloomy pictures with old "figers" and then paint the rainbow like he does is be yond my comprehension and I don't intend to wear out my little brain in an effort to reconcile such. antipo des and inconsistencies. Somebody sent me a clipping from the New York World. Read it. It is just like I have been telling you for some time. They are going to regulate us bv law and sta,tute and if that fails thei there's the injunction. It seems ,io me that this is what they do now and then in this Sta,te-trial by in junction-even if the Constitution does warrant -nd guarantee trial by jury. What matters an old constitu .tion when it stands in the iay of progress or in the way of some am bitious fellow citizen. Constitution, whew! But I am getting off the ques tion. Here is the clipping: The crying of a babe has kept Gearge W. Crater, of No. 148 Sherman avenue, Newark, without a wink of sleep for a week and yesterday he appeared in the First Criminal Court to make .a complaint. Crater is a father, so he knows something about babies, bat the one next door to him, ~he says, has the best noise-making apparatus he ever heard. C.rater works atnight a:t t.he South street station of the Pennsylvan~iaRalod "'The wall is so thin I hear the child 's mother call ou.t every once ii a while: 'John, is it 11 o'clock'' Then, 'John, is it 2 o'clock7' Those are the baby 's feeding hours,'' said Crater. Judge Hahn sa:id he knew this kind of babies. He said he could not take a complaint and advised him to get an injunction. Now, I want that young and hand-' some editor of the Laurens Advertis er to read this and tell me honestly if, he thinks this is wise-to try to stop the baby from cry-ing by injunction. Isn 't it according to the wise provis ion of nature for the baby to cry. The Idler. A Family Contribution. To the Editor of The State: When the conditional appropriation was made by the general assembly for the purpose of building a monument to the women of the Confederacy in South Carolina and you offered to take up the matter of securing the ne cesary amount to get the appropria-' tion and build the monument. I wrote Mr. John M. Kinard at Newberr. from New York, where I was at the time, and told him that I approved of the plan and that the Sons of Vet erans should take the lead in raising the money, and suggested that, as commander of the Sons of Veterans Iof Newberry county; he appoint a committee to solicit subscriptions for. this purpose. I authorized him to subscribe $10 for me and said that our camp would raise $200 (we have sent more than $150) and I was l hopes Newberry would send at least $00, but it has done reasonably well. My object in writing you now is t> approve of the spirit shown by thle White family of Chester in sending their family subscription IAn August 1.anId while it is too late to get many others to do the same. I desire to add for the members of my fan;ily to this fund the following: Mrs. A. C. Jones.. .. .......1 0 Mrs. Win. C. Schenek .. .......1 00 Miss Lula Macbeth Jones . .-.. I 00 Miss Mary Lou Jones .........1 00 vou have laken in this iatter. We may differ in regard to questiois of public policy, but we can al! meet oil ComLmol ground in honoring our mothers, who did their part nobly in the most trying period of,the State's history. A. C. Joies. New York, August 21. This raised Newebrrv's eontri>u tion to $408.50. Rubbing It Iin. Law Notes. When one Jose Maria Martin was in the year 1858 convicted of murder in Taos county, N. M., sentence was pronounced upon him by Judge Kirby Benedict as follows: "Jose Maria Martin, stand up. You have been in .dicted, tried, and convicted by a jury of your countrymen of the crime of murder, and the court is now about to pass upon you the dread sentence of the law. "As a usual thing, Jose Maria Mar tin, it is a painful duty of the judge of a court of justice to pronounce upon a human being the sentence of death. There is something horrible about it and the mind naturally re volts from the performance of such a duty. "Happily, however, your case is re lieved of all such unpleasant features. The court takes a positive delight in sentencing you to death. You are a young man, Jose Maria Martin, ap parently of good constitution and ro bust health. Ordinarily yoi, might have looked forward to many years of life, and the court has no doubt you have. and expected to die at a green old age. but yor. arp about to be (ea off in consequence of your own act. Jose Maria Martin. it is now the spring time. In a little while the gras will be sprilging up green in these beautiful valleys and these broad mesas and on the mountain sides. Flowers will be blooming, birds will be singing their sweet car ols and nature will be putting on her mbst attractive robes, and life will be pleasant and men will want to stay. But none of this for you, Jose Maria Martin. The flowers will not bloom for you, Jose Maria Martin. The birds will not sing their sweet carols for you, Jose Maria Martin. When these things come to gladden the senses of man, you will occupy a space six by two beneath the sod, anid the grass and these beautiful flowers will be green grow:ing about your lowly head. "The sentence of the court is that you be taken from this place to the county jail. That you be safely kept and securely confined in the custody of the sheriff until the day appointed for your execution. " Be very careful, Mr. Sheriff, that he have no opportun-ity to escape, and that you have him at the appointed place, at the appointed time. That you be so kept, Jose Maria Martin, until -Mr. Clerk, upon what day of. the month does Friday about two weeks from this time come?'' "March 22nd, your honor.'' "Very well, until Friday, the 22nd of March, when you will be taken by the sheriff from your place of confinement to some safe and convenient spot within the county, and that you be t.here hanged by the neck until dead, "And the court was about to add, Jose Maria Martin, 'may God have mercy on your soul,' but they will not assume the responsibility of asking an All Wise Prov.idence to do that which a jury of your peers have re fused to do. The Lord could not have mercy on your soul. However, if you affect any religious belief, or if you are connected with any religious or ganization, it might be well for you to send for your priest or your minister and get from him, well, such conso lation as you can, but the court ad vises you to place no reliance on any thing of that kind. ', "Mr. Sheriff, remove the prisoner. The sequel of the above remarkable sentence is interesting in that Jose Maria Martin, "escaped from the county jail"' and several years after wards peacefully met his death in Lincoln county by falling backwards out of a wagon and breaking his neck. VICTORIA AS A MATCHMAKER. The Queen Liked to Act the Part of Fairy Godmother. Queen Victoria used her influence several occasions to further the cause of love 's young dream. When the engagement was announced between rincess Fredrica of Hanover and Baron vonm Pawel-Raminigen. the king H an hIover opposedC( the ma tehi. and( thew lqeen ot Hanover~ was 5) erVI wit her <lfhur ter~ t hat she )no( -mthier. Our late queenl not o1l ee(ou1raged the matchl, bult gave\~ t-he brie away and provided a home for On-i~r ;li her i~bushmti :n lI;Inpton court palace. Again1. it was Queen Victoria who eneouraged the deep at taehment of the Princess Louise for the Marquis of Lorne. now Duke of Argyl, when all her relatives were violently opposed to the match. The German emperor's marriage on his 22nd birthday to the Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Hol stein, a niece of Prince Christian, was immensely popular throughout Germany, the reasou being the fact that the bride was a native princess and not from a foreign clime. It is isaid that Queen Victoria brought about between the kaiser and the primcess, and we all know that the emperor made his future wife's ac quaintance at Balmoral when -he visit ed his grandmother in 1878. The ac quaintance was renewed at Silesia in the autumn of the following year, when the kaiser was shooting on the estate of Duke Frederick of Schles wig-Holstein, the father of Princess Victoria. Here an engagement was arranged and the marriage was sol emnized on February 27, 1881. Born in 1862, Prince Henry, the kaiser's brother, married, on May 24, 1888, his cousin, Princess Irene of iHesse, daughter of -the late grand duke of Hesse and Princess Alice. Queen Victoria helped to bring this union about, and it is said that she was partly responsible for the mar riage of the kaiser's sister with the hereditary prince of Saxe-Meiningen, G. C. B., on February 18, 1878. Pointed Paragraphs. tChicago News. It is easier to renew a good reso lution than a promissory note. Misery loves company, but not any more than happiness does. Reflections of a Bachelor. New York Press. Even a man who is supported by a rich wife will grumble about how much it aosts him to raise the chil dren. Reflections of a Bachelor. From the New York Press. The easier a man can kiss a girl the harder it would hav'r been if he had asked her. Pointed Paragraphs. Chicago News. IBetter a good paying job than a low salaried position. If you are not satisfied with you'r lot, trade it for a better on.e. Some people fast because there's nothing to eat in the house. The tax assessor thinks he has an excuse for being a pessimist. Five-cent tonsorial parlors are re sponsible for a lot of bad scrapes. Redections of a Bachelor. New York Press. A joke is always a joke when it is on the other fellow . "Let us have the faith that right 'make might, .an'd in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we under stand it. "-Abraham Lincoln. "Do 9ot dare to live without some clear intention toward which your liv ing shall be bent. Mean to be some thing with all your might. "-Philips 'Brooks. A Devonshire Joke. A few days ago a Devonshire showman played a practical joke at Barnstaple. As the country folk passed his tent they were interested t seeing the sign: Musical dog; admission two-pence. Nat urally a good many people paid their two-pences and entered the tent,w-hieb was empty save for a big dog wear ing a me'tal collar, but no "musical dog" was visible. At last impatience mastered curiosity. and one of the au dience asked the showman when the performance was going to begin. He seemed much surprised at the ques tion and madc' for the tent door. Once there and in reach of the open ground he pointed to the dog in the tent, say ing: "'Why, that 's the musical dog. Can't you see the brass band around his neek?'' "Don't stand and cry; press for war.d1 and remove the difficulty.'" Dickens. Soldier Balks Death Plot. It seemed to J. A. Stone, a civil war veteran, of Kemp, Texas, that a plot existed between a desperate lung trouble and the grave to cause his death. "I contracted a stubborn cold," he writes, "that developed a cough that stuck to me, in spite of all r emedies, for years. My weight ran down to 130 pounds. Then I began to ueDr. King's New Discovery, which restored my. health completely. I now w'ah 1-S pounds."' For severe Colds, btinatie C'oughs, HIemorrhiages, Asth ma. ani d t o'rVenlt Pn~eumionia it's fu ivaled &. MeC. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by W. E. Pelham &Son The Right Directioo To take in buying that FALL SUIT is to direct your steps to this establish ment. The unwavering fidelity to artistic ideals by the manufacturers of our cloth ing has produced garments which embody the utmost of good style and good workmanship. Suits from $8.00 to $30.00. No man need pay more than he pays here, and none can pay less as a matter of fact. EWART-PERRY CO, 't 40 13 n rei iV. FrCs the fullest I ij am.ft on abo.t all 1Seeds for the D--d Gtarden, CrP.ses and Clovers, VetJ s, Alfalbb, &ed Wheat, Oats. Rye, Bariey, etc. If I' o tells all about Ie & 0 0Wer S-eI th t e -1 e pla:ted in the failtok ad-,anLsae and pmL.At, and about M-yaci- 's, Tulips ar.d other Flowering bulbs, Vegetab'e and - Svwc.---y P'ants. Poultry I Luppiies iind Fertilize rs. I -- T- ar. sadenr ,ihould i Notice. The trustees of Union School Dis trict No. 32, will receive applications for teacher until September 10th,. 1909. An experienced teacher is pre ferred. Applications can be sent to eiher of the undersigned Trustees. C. L Wilson, Prosperity, S. C., R. F. D. D. W. Buzhardt, Newberry, S. C., R. F. D. P. H. Kinard, Slighs, S. C., R. F. D. SALE or PERSONAL PROPERTY I will sell on Saturday, September 11th, 1909, at 11 o 'clock, at the late residence of Mrs. Mary L. Connts, deceased, in the town of Prosperity, the personal property of whieh she die possessed, consisting of House hold and Kitchen Furniture. Terms of sale cash. J. M. Counts, - Administrator. 8-31-09-St itaw. NEWBERRY UNIION STATION Arrival and Departure of Passenger l'rains-Effective 12.01 A. M. Sunday May 30, 1909. Southern Railway: No. .15 for Gre-envife .. . .8.57h No. 18 for Columbia .. . .1.40 No. 11 for Greenville .. ..2.43 No. 16 for Columbia ... . .8.47 . C.. N. & L,.R *No. 22 for Columbia .. . .8.47 a.m. No. 52 for Greenvill-e .. 12.56 p.m, No. 53 for Columbia .. .. 3.20 p.mr. No. 21 for Laurens .....7.25 p.m. *Does not run on Sunda7 whieh trains may be expected to de part from this station, but their de parture is not guarante and the time shown is subject to elbange with ..at notie. G. L. Robins, Station ast5La A styp to-dyn. Has cured itch magically for othe in Newb'erry and will cure for you. For sale at Mayes' Drug Store.