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VOL XLVI NO 7; NEWBERRY, 6. .. TCESDAY. SEPTEMBER 14. 1909 TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR NE~WS OF POMARIA. Cotton Selling at 12:30.-Rain at Last.-As to Roads.-People Coming and Going. Pomaria. Sept. 13.--The dust is settled at last; good shower on last Saturdry night. Miss Eloise Young, who will teach the Bundriek school, opens her school next Monday, ,the 20th. Miss Young is a most excellent teacher. There has been about 180 bales of cotton ginned at t'his place this sea son aid about 220 ba-les sold on an average price of 12:30. Good price for cotton, if the cotton crop is off one third, and at t-he present price the farmers will realize as much for their cotton as if it was a full crop. Mrs. Bowie and daughter, of An derson, who have been on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Setzler, returned home last Saturday. Mrs. J. J. Hentz and Mr. Eugene Hentz returned home last Saturday from a visit to Renno. Mrs. Eugene Hentz having chills and fever caused her to remain at Renno for awhile longer. Mr. Ed Feagle and Miss Lurline Aull and brot'her, Herbert, went to Newberry Sunday. Mr. Feagle re turned on Sunday night. The gypsy is in our midst. Some of our people make good horse trades. I mean in the gypsy's favor. One man, I am told, traded a mule for a horse and gave fifty dollars boot, and aster getting home got dissatisfied with his trade, took the horse back and had to pay thirty-five dollars to get his mule back. Who was the gain-, erin that trade? Mr. Perry Folk, son of Mr. M. H. Folk, rettirned ,to his studies at Clem son "olleze last Tuesday. this being -his second yea-r at that institutio. This makes the third son of Mr. M. H. Folk. who has gone to Clemson eplege. It is .ertainly a fine instu tion. Miss Eugenia, daughter of Dr. E. 0. Hentz. returned yesterday to Due West, where she will resume her studies. Mrs. Harris and son are still at P,owman. Ga., where they 'have been for some .time at the bedside of her son, Horace, who has been very low with fever. Mr.. J. L. Graham, wife and little daughter, spent last Sunday with Mrs. Hentz 's family at Walton. Mr. A. I. Sheely and family,. of Newberry, have been on a visit to Mr. Jesse Sheelv 's family. The many friends of Mr. Sheely were glad to see him .ora again, after so long a spell f sickness. Mr. R. HI. Hipp went on a business trip to Columbia. on last Thursday. If there is a day when nobody on the place is rushed with work. send out a team with a plough and a road drag for a few hou'rs. The ffirst of September -has come and gone and now. Mr. Supervisor, what siborit the overseers who have failed to work t'heir roads. Now let 's see if you will put your words into pratce, when you said von would prosente the overseers who did not work the road by that .time. Now, Mr. Sunervsor. vou have the chance, and believe vou are a man. who will stand to the rack, fodder or no fodder, do our duty regardless of feelings, ir resective of person. .and you will be the gainer by it. Mrs. W. E. Koon, who has been on1 a visit to relatives at Swansea, O.r angeurg count,v, has returned home. Tue fight is on ,between Dr. Cook and Commander Peary, the two great explorers, who elaim to be successful n reahing the North Pole. Now, if the famous English seientist, Sir. Robert Ball. and Otto Tittman, su verintendenlt of the Coast and Geo deti, surver. believe that Dr. Cook ~id succeed. who of us are in a posi ,-ion to donht it. while others claim that Peary was sn.ecessful.so probably both will get the 'honor. Stoney Battery pl:ayed or e.nossed ot o' Pomaria diamond on last Sat urday, 0laving 10 to 0 m1 favyo. of Pomaria. This ends the base ball for This season. Mr. James A. Riser is sick with ty phol at this writing. Ruth. FIFTEEN CENTS FOR COTTON. Resolutions Adopted Favoring Com pulsory Education and Another Favoring Good Roads. Birming'ham, Ala., Sept. 11.-While nothing was given out officially it was sai.d that the National Farmers' un ion fixed the minmum price of cotton at 15 cents per pound before final ad journment. The convention to-day adopted a resolution in favor. of compulsory education, and also adopted a -resolu tion favoring sta-te and national aid for good roads. The farmers went on record as ,being willing to put forth their best efforts for road improve ment. A Marriage Amidst Mountains,- Pis turesque in its Sublimity. S-unday afternoon. Sept. 5. 1909 Down .the long corridors of time there is one scene recorded in sacred Writ that has lived for all ages in Vhe heart of mankind. Nations have passed in to oblivion, proud Empires. witth all their wealth and glory have tottered into nothingness, but the story of Eden with its paths of love and sor row is felt in every home and land un der the sun, whether hearts and ha:nds are joined in holy wedloek or by sav age rite. no matter if seoffed at and mocked by infidel, its mysterious truth is felt in .the heart throbs that beat in a man's breast when t'he wo man he loves is called 'wife.' "For, as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be." On last Sunday afternoon Maigie Ledbetter. the youngest of teh living daug!hters, was married to Jasper A. Lamb. of Horace, N. C.. bY Rev. Wil cox. of St. Luke' Church. tle Episco pal cler-yman of this Mission. This Child bride o-f seventeen ye-Ars. gowned i;l simple white. surrounded hv her sisters and loving parents. wi.Th banks of native fl-,wers. thoughtful friends had arranzed a.s a bower before which they knelt for prayer. was a picture in keeping witth a pla--e where Nature has lavished her charms. And nowhere else could we h:ave been so impressed as we gazed on the sunset floodinz .the land with a glory unspeakable. send ing shafts of golden glow among or ehards bending with red apples and fields of . golden rod. that were as she~s of gold beneath tall ethestnut trees, in which the night birds kept time to the cadlence of th:e mountain stleams. On the South a silent sentinel. Phimnev Rock's great dome. While in between, wi.th ceasless moan, Broad river sweeps along. Siging the refrain that ihas For centaries .been its song. While crystal streams flow in the plain With cadence sweet and low, . Kissing the brookle.t's pebbled beds. As seaward on they go.I M. A.E. TO EAISE FUNDS BY COUNTY BONDS. Counties Which Are Prepared to Spend Money for Roads Building and Road Maintaining Should First Learn what Types of Highways Are Best Suited to Traffic and ClimaticI Conditions. Logan Waller Page. Director of the Office of Public Roads of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has ap peared before the State Legislatures and county boards in various sections of the country during the past few wmm , n re=nonse to~ invita,tions to tel whi + m"e+. ids are best for ob-I taininz funds fo;r oad construction .nd w th'e row n ~ould be main taned after they have~ once been se cured. At the present time there are two "rr -inzfl methods of r''i-ing funds for these pu'porea. but Director Pate blieves the before plans are set on foot for 2isinle funds, much should hy' sia rc'rding2 the manner in which e voters of a i'vnt'- showv a readi .. .d -, merous~ sum ml im provne- t'>eir roads, it is of para mount imnortance to .them to first as eertain what class of roads should be constructed. t hould not be assumed that sim ply because a county owns quarries from which irap or liimestone rock can be secured that the exqpensive macaam inmust be buiht. Tie qualifi cations of any rock cannot be definite lV decided1 ui4on until la,boratory tests have 11pen held. Much money has been almost thrown away in this county. "however, on the construction of rock-surfaced roads. those haing the construction in charge neglecting to call in .the services of expert chem ists. and using roek totally unsuited to their traffic or climatic conditions. In many. many cases, the results were disastrous, the roads quickly raveling and going to pieces because the ce menting value was lacking. A county which shows suffieien't progress to bond itself in a liberal amount for the purpose of securing improved roads should keep its money intact until -its offcers have learned exactly what class of roads will best meet its .requirements: what type of road is best qualified to constru,t. and what it can best afford. Those facts can be secured through the aid of the National Government. the Office of Public Roads standing ready to give ratuitous advice and to supply skill ed hiahway engineers who are quali fied to tell what type of 'highway would best meet tha.t county's re quirements and to demonstrate those decisions by supervising the building of stretches of model highways. after which local officials may take. pattern. Wide-awake State and county offi ei,ils are now showing the liveliest ap preciation of the results which follow visit by these skilful men. and the demands for t1heir services are so heavv that it is impossible for Direc tor Page to meet more than 20 per eent. of the requests being filed in his Office. When county officers learn to ap preciate the fact that road building is an art. they will rely more and more upon expert advice and scientific demonstration, and when they have learned what class of roads is desir able, they will cons-truct them and then guard them. Thrc-ein lies one of the most im portant of all American highway quetions. Americans build as good roads as Englishmen or Frenchmen, but Laving done so, they rest content ed with their efforts and let each pass ing breath of- air, speeding automo bile. or drenching rain blow or wash the road surface away. In the coun,tries of Europe, where the well-nigh perfect roads are the piide of the citizens and the envy and adiration of visiting Americans, most jealous care is constantly given; a careful day-by-day inspee.tion is made and: every depression is quickly filled and all inequialities rolled or tamped. Two requisite's, therefore, confront the county supervisors at the outset first ,to ascertain what roads would be most suitaible to that particular sec tion, and to provide for funds to ex spend in their maintenance af.ter comn pletion. Those are vastly important and the Nation's very small percentage of im-! proved roads is due largely t'o a fail ure to give consideration -to them. Millions of money have been wasted.in building roads whielh local conditions rade impracticable and out of all ost proportion to the county 's reve There are exceptions .to all rules, however, and Pike County, Alabama, tands as a glittering exception to the usual construction blunder. There the ounty officials had :planned .t.o expend a la ge sum in the building of gravei W. L. Spoon, United States Super intendent of Road Construction, be in sent to make an in.spection of .the ounty's road possibilities, learned that 700 miles of important routes needed improvement. He figured tha.t the cost of gravel roads would be $3,000 a mile-plainly a sum greater than the county could be bonded for. Conditions, however, were ideal for sand-cly construction and he strong ly urged i.:s adoption. P>y a legal )roso t':ie county could be bonded f fr onl y 3 1-2 per cent um of the as sse~c value of the real and p)ersonial property. The plan was dlecided upon nd an issue of $143.000) was voted. .ne hundred thousand dolla rs worth of bonds were q1uickly sold. being dis oed of in $50,000 allotmen.ts. ~he first allotment b)rougiht a p)re i,m of $623 and the second one of $825. Forty thousand dollars was at i once spent for mules and road-build ing machinery and work was star-ted. With the sum remaining, 118 miles of the finest sand-clay roads in the Soutih had ,been built within two years from the date of the bo.nd issue; a generous sum was still on hand; eight gangs were at work, and the people were so pleased that t-hey stood ready to take up the remaining issue of $43,000 and e.vpend it in the same way. It is the belief of the Director of the Office of Public Roads that such facts should be impressed upon the people of all counties desirous of ex tending and improving tiheir high ways before actual work is under way. When that has been done, he is warmly in favor of the raising of funds by issuing county bonds with the restrictions which the Virginia Highway Law imposes, viz: that all moneys so raised shall be spent un der the watchful sapervision of a State Highway Commissio,er, be cause otiherwi.se the money may be wasted. Many farmers fear a bond issue as they do the visit of the chinch bug or the Kansds grasshopper, but the benefi.ts they derive from that meth od of raising money for road improve ment are far-reaching and immediate,' while the individual tax on each is so small that it is scarcely .noticeable. In reality, borrowing money t:hrough the sale of bonds is like buying a house, a farm, or a business on the in stallmen.t plan. The purchaser re ceives the object at once and derives the benefits from it while paving for it. As the benefits derived from per feeted highways cover long periods of time, fairness and equity demand that the rising generation should bear a portion of the cost and that tihe in creased citizenship. always attracted to the locality by a system of good roads, should also aid in paying for the added benefits. Besides that, there is a financial wisdom in floating county bonds for road improvement. In many eases t.hose bonds sell at a premium, and everybody in-terested gains a bene fit. In some Southern States good road bonds have brought a price so high that the premium -h.as wiped. out two or three years' interest on .tihe pjrincipal. In Bradley County, Ten nessee, but a few years ago the su pervisors voted a bond issue of $90, 000. Those bonds bore interest at the rate of five per cen.t. S: entenuiastie were the citizens for road improvement and so much confidence did they have in the locality ip whic!h they lived, that the premium was $20,000: the cash sales placing in the county treas ury $110,000. It has,been ascertained by' the Office of Public Roads, the Bureau of the1 Federal Census, and the land and in dustrial divisions of twelve great railroads, that the building of modern highways immedia.tely er!hances the value of the property through which they run to a marked extent. This increase is estimated by the most con servative a.t $2 an aere, and by the more enthusiastic at $9. All concede, however, that the increase is immedi ate and inevi.table. Place the aereage of t!he -rural portion of a county, .therefore, at 200,000 acres and the in reased valua.tion due to the construe tion of better highways at bdt $4.50 r,A acre, and it will be seen that the property holders whose land is to be. thus benefited would gain not less t>an $900,000- So great an increase in the assessed valuation of a coun t would certainly seem to constitute a powerful argument in favor of a liberal first expenditure. From An Author's Journal. I don 't dine on ineense: I eat beef --when I'can raise the price. I don't wear long hair. This is a business age, and that 's what I am here fo-r. My fall book has been announced, but I trust it won 't fail too f,ar. Mv novels live about a year each. but that is long enough to paiy the grocery bills. Natur ally, I have great hopes for the fu.:re of American literatu:e, as I am writing a great deal of it. F. L. S. MIow do vou over-comne insomnia . "Sav the mnult-iplicat ion table uip to 12 times 12." 'But I can 't get the baby to learun it ''-...Cleveland Leader SLEEPS BENEATH FLOWEES. Troops of Loving Friends Lay the Body of James T. Bacon in the Grave. The State. Edgefield, .Sept. 10.-The ,body of Col. Bacon was laid to rest in Willow Brook cemetery to-day at 1 o'clock. The entire town and community and a host of sorrowing friends from a distance came to pay t.he last sad tribute to the dead. So great was the throng that only a small fraction could gain admission to the church and the yard and streets were crowd ed. The floral tributes were plenteous and most exquisite and never was Trinity church more beautifully dec orated. Loving hands had draped in white the organ over which he had presided for forty years. The services were conducted by the Rev. Royal Shannonhouse, his pastor, assisted by the Rev. Ernest Cornish of Charleston. The e" el was occupied by all of the ministers' of the town. Touching tributes were -'aid to his memory by Revs. Royal . Shannon house and Ernest Cornish. Dr. C. E. Burts, of the Baptist church, Rev. L. G. Gillespie of the Me,thodist church, Rev. E. P. Burgess of the Presbyte rian church, ex-Gov. Sheppard, Hon. E. H. Aull of Newberry, Hon. E. B. Nicholson, Editor Mims of the Adver tiser and S. McG. Simkins. Edgefield has done all she could to honor the memory of her best beloved son and he will sleep to-night beneath a pyra mid of flowers. James T. Bacon. Editorial Columbia State. About three weeks ago a member of the staff of the State, who had for many years enjoyed a very deligh<tful intimacy with Mr. James T. Bacon, re elved a letter from him inclosing a letter for publiea.tion in the Sunday State made up of clippings from the FEgefield Chronicle. The personal letter was an apology for his failure to write something. especially for 'the State of the coming Sunday, and it said: "I am sick. Yesterday, I dug the grave, with my own hands, of a child -a little negro. There was no one, else to do it." The letter gave no fur their details. There was illustrated the character of this brave old gentleman, born to wealth and luxury and destined for poverty and hardship, but rich al ways in gracious humor that wnade ev ery path easier for his neighbors and lightened' all the burdens of his friends. He fea.red;kne danger; he shunned no . sacrifices.' In the latrer years we have had in South Carolina few minds so gifted a'nd yet so modest was he and so content to move among his own friends and give his labor and his talents ~to them that he was an old man before his uncommon mer its received casual 'recognit'on in his own State. Poor in the world's goods, "ignorant as a baby of the value of a dollar'' (how often have we heard him say it!), his sense of humor was so broad and perceiving that he could be .tolerant of every human frailty and sympathetic with every human fault.' It seemed that through all that he said and wrote laughter rippled but 'it was tempered with a gentle melody that. soothed and healed. He was wise be yond his generat.ion, he was a philoso-1 pher whose comradeship was welcom..I ed among the choicest spirits, bat it was his wish to yield without stint of all that he had to his own people, --to be at hand-forgettinig hi's age and his infirmities, to dig the grave of a little negro child, though it cost his life. "where there was no one else to do it.'' So he was one of those of whom it may be said: "He scarce had need to doff his pride or slough the dress of Earth E 'en as he trod that day to God, so walked he from 'his birth. In simnpleness and gentleness and honor and clean mirth." NOTT0Eh. I.i. Regemberi 20t". nine A. M. I w\il h)e in .:he n& ""orn nine to eler~ en n Tnrv. rua '' rnd Satuir day previous t: ti'e onening fo the purpose of w&'"* ne PfllSt: their respective gra W. A. Stueker. S'me:-i ntendent. BRUTALLY EAT CIL. L. A. Matthews Arrested for Chastis ing Elizabeth Morrow.-Girl's Injuries Not Fatal. Spartanburg, Sept. 9.-Terribly bruised and cut with an unmerciful beating administered by her foster father, L. A. Matthews, Miss Eliza beth Morrow slipped away from the Matthews >home on Pollard street at 4 o'clock this morning and sought ref uge at the home of Mr. P. J. Doeken dorff, a neighbor, living on Morgan avenue. Matthews is alleged to have beaten his adopted daughter because she allowed young mn to .talk with her at the box office of the Magic the atre, where. she sold ticets. It is said that Matthews began beating Mi Morrow about 1:30 o'elock this morn ing and continued beating her for. about an hour. The whipping was ad ministered with a hickory stick and in the presence of Mrs. Matthews. -The young lad4 was called up out of 'her bed by Matthews and made to take the brutal punishment he admi-n istered without clothing to protect her in the least. At a late hour to-night Dr. Banch stated .that -he did not consider Miss Morrow's injuries as extremely dan gerous, but that she was fearfully bruised and her nervous system all broken up. She will need days of quiet rest and careful attention. The whippin" of Miss Morrow was reported to Chief of Police Hall this morning early, and as a result Capt. Bobo and Officer Nolen arrested Mat thews about midday in front of the Magic theatre and locked him up in the city jail. Later in the day a war rant was sworn out before Magistrate Wetmore by Chief Hall charging Matthews with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. Bond was fixed at $500 and made good by Messrs. 0. L. Johnson and Joe Miller. The New Idea Woman's Magazine For October. David Belasco tells "How I Der veloped a Star," in the New Idea Woman's Magazine for October. Tihe producer of realistic drama describes how he has studied life in slum, and street, and hospital, and how he has made use of the knowledge gained at first hand in training women to de pict emotion. In this number Anne 0O'Hagan wrtes of " The Profession as a Social.. Asset'' and William Atherton D>uPuy describes tihe evolution of " The Con solidated Rural School.'' Rose Mac Rae's observations eonerning "The Girl and tie Newspaper Game'' will be of deep interest to young women who cherish an ambition to enter journalism. One of the important features of the month is Annette Gordon's bril liant picture of -the home of/Williami Northup McMillan in East Afriea. "With Roosevelt's Hosts in the Jun gle, '' will throw a fascinating side light upon one of the visiting places of .the ex-President. Two other notes wor!hy articles are "Unknown Wives of Well-Known Actors'' by Ada Pat terson and "Eighteen a Week and Happiness for Two'' by Katherine Glover. The fiction for the 'month includes "A Husband for Rosamond,'' by Una Hudson. "The Little Fat One,'' by Si Sin Far, and "The Suppressed Initerview,'' by Arthur W. March mont. The serial story, "The Heir Apparent,"',by Grace Eleanore Town drow, is continued. Hallowe 'en receives special at ten tion. There are many clever sugges tions for games and entertainments. T6e fashions are reviewed and sump tnously illustrated. The October number of the New T4a. Woman 's Magazine is one of t.e mnost attractive and most enter taining of the curren.t periodicals. It & bri.ght, progressive and well writ n. 1: (-overs a wide field of interest. SPARKTERS. Iknow a land of rest for all, ost excellent for camping; Where through the forest primeval The startled deer go stamping. Where trout go leaping up the fal.ls Of merry, rushing ,brooklets; Where nature, sweet-voiced nature, calls IT' -n the r-ilrmad brooklets.