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VOL XLVI NO 71 NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 17. 1909TW NEWS OF PROSPERITY. Schol Opening.-Death of Mr. Dan jel Shealy.-Timely Discourse by Rev. Mr. Kreps. .Prosperity, Sept. 16.-,The graded seh".ol opened Monday with an enrol ment of 120 pupils. Several changes have been made in the various depart ments, and the year bids fair to be a most successful one. On account of illness Mrs. Browne has not resumed her music class, hut will do so at an early date very likely on Wednesday next. Miss Ethel Counts returned last week to Hampton, where she has charge of tihe sixth grade in the city schools. Miss Julia Schumpert went: to Greenville Tuesday to enter Chicora S-college. Miss Lizie Hawkins left for Mar ion, Va.. on Tuesday night to finish her ,ourse in the Marion Female col lege. 91iss Gertrude Simpson returned from Atlanta on Monday, where she had gont to attend the wedding of her uncle. Mr. Lawson B. Kibler. The many friends of Mr. H. C. Mose-ley were pleased to see him down town for a while one day tihis week. Miss Willie Birge left on Wednes day for her home in Austin, Texas,af ter a very happy sojourn with relativ es and friends here. Mrs. A. Z. Counts is visiting friends in Newberry. Mrs. J. P. Wheeler has returned from a short stay at Newberry. Miss Novice Brown has returned home after a visit to Miss Kate Thomp-son. Dr. Jack Kinard, of Ninety Six, visited Mr. Geo. Harmon last week. Mr. Drayton S. Conwell, who has been a suecessful farmer for half a century. says that this season's cot ton yield is the shortest by far in all these years. Mr. J. L. Wise spent last Sunday in Asheville with Mrs. Wise. We are pleased 'to note that Mrs. Wise's re covery is assured, and that she will soon be quite well again. Mr. Jno. Browne, of Johnston, made a week end visit to his brother, Mr. J. F. Browne. Mr. Ed. E. He-ndrix, of Concord, N. C.. 4isited Mr. Maxcy Harmon and other friends this week. . Quite a number of girls came to stay with us and attend tahe high school. Among them were: Misses Jessie Lorick, Minnie Hentz. 1Eunice Shealy and Lake. A former townsman. Dr. WV. Forrest Bedenbaugh. who has been with the .Union Drug company, in Columbia, for the past six months, has gone to Atlantai to a.ccept a position with the pure foods department of the Atlanta College of Pharmacy. He will pursue a couarse of study also. .Mr. Enos Bartman. of Atlanta, is on a visit to relatives in t'he city a nd~ Mr. John Fat Wise visited in New berry this week. Mrs. Kreps will arrive home today frota Salem. Va. Mr. Daniel Shealey, one of the old est citizens of the Macedonia commun ity, after 85 years of active service,. passed to thle great beyond on Tues day. The funieral on Wednesday was preached to an overflowing churc"h full of friends. A significant fa.et, on:e that testifies strongly to his Christian character, is t'hat there were *tive ministers present, and each spoke in ::o uncertain terms of his worth. Pastor Kreps, of Grace Lutheran church, delivered a most timely and excellenit sermon on Sunlay evenig when the regular services were re sumed. He spoke on The One Thing Needifu!. There were four major rm(inors to~ his discourse: He admonish en~ those whlo are ao s)on to wing the>r flight to various colleges and schol. that religion is t he gift par amount. and the one thing- tha't wyill cary them further anTd render them haioier than anything else. He said that this is a necessaryv element in church. State. society and ,business. Hie touched upon our religious status. :s prke enconragingly of the spi r lilt f our towu. saying that some of e best Christians with whom he i:' even affiliated are in this midst. tha: thiev have this thing so devoutly to be wisl'ed, and are generous and bro+herly with it. NEWS OF BACHMAN CHAPEL. Gathering Crops.-The Tent Meet ings Have Closed.-People Com ing and Going. Bachman Chapel. Sept. 15.-The weather continues to be dry and dusty 1 this section. We have had a shower or two re cently but not enough to help very much. The indications are favorable now and we hope to soon see this old dry, parched earth refreshed again. We are not complaining though, as there is always plenty to grumble about of things that we can help. We should be thankful that it is no worse. Mrs. L. L. Moore is contined to her bed at present with fever. Her sister, Mrs. Rebecca Koon, is with her for awihile. Misses Lillie and Mary Dehardt, of near Silver Street, spent last Sat urday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Franklin. Mr. Bert Epting, of Newberry, spent last Saturday night with Mrs. J. K. Epps and family. Mr. J. D. Quattlebaum has his gin nerv in fine trim now and is giving -his customers good results. He is only running one gin at present, but will start another in a short while. The farmers are making hay while the sun s1iines' as the old maxim goes. There has been a fine lot- of food gathered during the past two weeks. Cotton picking is in full sway in this section and is opening very fast. The crop is considerably off from last year but we hope to balance off i the price. We can't see anything to prevent the price from remaining good if the people just demand it. The tent meeting or week of pray er and thanksgiving to God which is muclh more appropriate to call it,whicl I announced in my last le:ter to be held near Bachman Chapel church was held above Mr. C. L. Wilson 's near the-forks of the roads and was closed on last Sunday night. The meeting was opened by Rev. Joseph L. Hodges on Saturday night, the 4th inst.. in the absenee of Rev. W. Ray Anderson, who was conduct ing a meeting in Lancaster county at that time. This meeting closed though and he joined Rev. Hodges on Mon day evening following and made an effort to assist him in the meeting, but was suffering with fever and had been for several days and he was ov er-powered and forcd to go to bed on Tuesday in the care of Mrs. Thomas son. w'ho showed the kindest care a COristian lady .could to him during his illness. The meeting was carried on ,by Rev. Hodges, who preached twice each day at 4.and8Sp. m. He set forth the mighty gospel truth in the fullness of its power and simplicity until Friday when he was called away to take charge of another meeting, whie,h was previously ar ranged at Leesville. S. C. After Rev. Hodges left Rev. An derson proceeded to finish the meeting trder very trying circumstances. suf fering with fever almost every sermon he preached. The interest in the mneeting seemed to increase more and more each day as there were larger crowds present. People came fr'om nearly every see tion of t'he county. Not euriosity seek ers. but his personal friends, who had 'jeard these brethren preachi before, attending their revival meetings at different other places. The time is fast approaching when our professed Christians are going to ease pointing the finger of hatred and scorn at these dear brethren who aelaboring so) faithefully and earnest Iv i: the interest of lost souls. Thank God that the minds of t'he people are becomnin;r more and more' unfolded and we hope it -won ': be long until this up-to-date stylish kind of religion that i.s beinue prac:ticed througout bur. Christian land wvill1 be a thing of The past andi that our lives will show how and where we stad(. Son. NEWS oF ST. PHILLIPS. Mr. James Henry Rice Gave Good Advice as to Birds.--Picnics.-I Services at S't. Phillips. St. Phillips. Sept. 15.--Ther'e was a large crwdatn the hb-ar-neu and the speaking was grand. There was also a 'fine speech made by Mr. Rice on birds. If the people would take his advice and quit killing the poor birds there would be better crops in this country to-day. Tohere was also inter esting talks made by others, and the day was very pleasantly spent. The picnic at Mr. W. G. Metts' was one to be long remembered, everybody had a jolly old time. The ta,ble was la.den with many nice thi-ngs. It has been several years since they have had a picnic at that place; they haven't had any there since I was quite small and this one reminded me of my childhood. At the table everything was plentiful, everybody was full of life and had their fun the entire day; the day was very pleasantly spent. We extend our tihanks to Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Metts for their kindness which they showed towards us. Last Sunday morning Mrs. W. F. Ruff cut a ham for breakfast, whieh weighed twenty-five pounds and a half. Mr. W. G. Metts found a shed off of a snake seven feet long. I noticed some of the correspond ents say the pea crop is short, but it is not only short but the people will scarcely make their seed. There will be services at St. Phil lips Sunday morning at eleven a. m. Services will be conducted by Rev. J. J. Long. Mrs. W. L. Holly, who has been visiting at the home of Mr. W. B. Kibler, has returned to her home in Wiunsboro; also Miss Bessie Seybt to her home in Greenville. Mr. Edwin Halfacre and family, of Prosperity, are visiting th.i family o-! Mr. A. B. Piester. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Kibler spent Saturday night with relatives near Pomaria. Mrs. Walter Long and husband, of Saluda, spent the latter part of la.st week with her father and mother, and his fat.her and mother also came with them. Wade. CONTINUE HARRIMAN POLICIES Judge Lovett Put at Head of The Union Pacific-Schiff and Rocke feller Elected Directors. New York, September 13--The con tinuance of the Harriman policies in the management of Union Pacific, Southerni Pacific and the chain of allied railroads was made certain today, tem porarily at least, when Robert S. Lovett, E. H. Harriman 's personal counsel and close friend, was elected to s'ueced Mr. Harriman ait the head of the executive committee of the Union Pacific Railroad. To strength en furtVher dominance. of the "Harri man idea.'' Jacob H. Schiff and Win. Rockefeller, both heavily interested in the Harriman enterprises-were elect ed directors in place of Mr. Harri man and the late H. H. Rogers, and also were ehosen to places on the ex eutive committee. The Union Pacifig still remains with out a president, as Mr. Harriman oc upied this position also. It is under stood. however, that an operating man --proba,bly L. F. Loree, president of the Delaware and Hudso-n, will be elected for the place at the annual meeting of t.he stoelqholders to be held on October 12. 'The office which Judge Lovett as sumed today is the most importans in the manage'ment and financial sup erision of the Union Pacific. Judge Lovet:t. who in view of his new office becomes for t-he moment one of the most prominent railroad men in :he publi-e eye. came to New York city in 1906. Born in Texas 49 ears ago, he entered the railroad bus iness while a boy. as a .$40 a month freight clerk for the Houston. East and West Texas Railroad, at Hous ton. While serving as a freight clerk e studied law at night, and eventual ly became a country counsel for the railroad, a district counsel and then eneral consel. His next step was mebership in a firm wvhieh represent ed the Southern Pacifie. He b)ecame so valuable to this system under Mr. Harriman that he was made general counsel with offices at Houston. Three ves ago Harriman brought him to SALUDA ONVICTS. Penitentiary Wins Out in Fight For Convicts Sentenced to Over 10 Years. Columbia, Sept. 14.-In the case of tihe State of South Carolina, ex relatione D. W. Padget, supervisor of Saluda, vs D. J. Griffith superintend ent of the Penitentiary, arguments were heard before Judge Memminger this afternoon. Attorney General Ly on appeared for Superintendent Griffith and Messrs Thurmond, Ram age & R. W. Able appeared for the petitioner. Several weeks ago Mr. Lyon ap peared in Edgefield, but. he won out on a jurisdictional point, and the hearing was tbrought here today. The contention of the petitioner is that the Act of tihe Legislature of 1909, which gave certain county su pervisors the right to work convicts from the Penitentiary, is a plain man date of the Legislature, and within the proper jurisdiction and not to be confounded with any of the Acts con cerning the authority of the Courts to senten-ce prisoners. Also tihat the section of the Code which has refer ence to which prisoners sihall serve in the Penitentiary. and which may be used. on the roads, if in conflict, with the Act of 1909, .can be construed separately and yet each Act will be given full force and effect. That if the two Acts are in confli-et and can not be reconciled. tihen the Act of 1909 must have preedence in effect. This is in brief, the outline of the con tention of the petitioner to have cer tain prisoners delivered to the coun ty supervisor of Saluda. Attorney General Lyon's conten tion was that Section 77 of the Code, which says that prisoners, who .have not longer terms than ten years may work on the county roads, (except in rape cases. as provided in this see tion.) would not allow certain of the prisoners to be delivered. The second con.tention of Mr. Lyon is that the A-et is special legislation. therefore. repugnant to the Constitution. The Act of 1909 related to only four coun ties, Lancaster, Lexington, Sald and Bamberg. The contraet with John M, Graham at the State Penitentiary is brought into t,he ease. This con tract sets forth the terms of the em ployment of convicts in the boisery mill. Upon this the Attorney Gener al's argument was that the obliga tion of contract was impaired if Wallace. Free, and Perry. of the prisoners, would leave the Peniten tiary. After the arguments were conclud ed, Judge Memminger upheld the con tention of Attorney General Lyon. This means that only prisoners sen teneed to less than ten years may work on the public roads. The recent Act of the Legislature would have given the supervisor of Salluda anid four other counties the right to make all prisoners to work in the respective counties. The act is by the ruling today ren (1red inoperative in that confliit with the previous Act limiting the period for prisoners to work in the counties. HORSE BRINGS DBAD HOME. Mr. J. Warren Blakely, of Laurens County, Found Lifeless in His Buggy. Laurens. September 15.-Mr. J. Warren Blakeily, on'e of the most sub stantial citizens of the county, was found dead in his buggy late yester day afternoon. The news spread rap idly over the city and county and caused many expressions of regret. Death was in all probability due to heart failu-re. It is learned from the home of Mr. Blakely. who resided in the Tylers ville sectio-n of the county. a few miles from the city. that he had left home in the early afternoon for Ora. At about 6 o'clock, the faithful old horse that he drove carried the buggy noP to the door of the old home, and Mrs. Blakely, alone at the house, was greeted with the sigibt of her husband ling~ on the seat ot the buggy, the reins hanging loosely over the dash hard. She found the body lifeless. but still warm, evidenstly death had come but a few mi-nutes before. The alarm was given, but the kind assist -ae of many friends wa of no avail. Solomon or th A Legend of tI By Col. D. "This tale I stell is a story of old, I give it to you, as to me it was told. No, I will not vouch for one word of it. I write it just as it has come down to us, among the many. other legends of historic old Du,+eh Fork. Away down in' that "God's coun try," the, land of lovely .women and good Dutch oven bread, in the forks of Broad and Saluda rivers, lived a family, by the name of Fundelwinder, or old Fundle, as the head of the house was called by his neighbors. At the time of the coming of the late War Between the -States it was a home of peace, thrift and content ment. The country of Du,tch Fork is a kind of place in the abstract, illusive, evanescent, a mirage to those ap proaching from afar. But it is veri tably a country, notwithstanding, for it was the home of my ancestors. Formerly coming South, from the old North State, along the old Buncombe road, the first of the great arteries of trade that ran from the mountains to the sea, the traders, the firmers and drovers, taking their wares to our Capital City, called all below Spar tanburg. Dutch Fork. Union people called .t:hose -down in Newberry by that name. while Newberrians who did not relish the title called all below her dividing line .in Lexington. Dutch Fork. Now, this Dutch Fork. like an& cient Gaul, was divided into three parts. The upper section was known as the "Stone Hills:" the broad belt of pine barren that ran east and west through it was called t:he "Pinev Woods.'" while that down near Co lumbia was called "The Fork.' The family of whom I speak lived near one of -these dividing lines, and consisted of Fundelwinder pater, his good wife. two grown sons a-nd two old maiden sisters'-Tena, no -doubt a corruption of Christina, and Polly. These two sisteyrs took charge of do mestic affairs aund directed the house hold economy. more especially Tena. She was .t:he factor factotum, for ev ery thing she said or ordered went without question. Mrs. Fundelwinder was a good, easy soul, a-nd gave way without complaint to her sisters-in law, feeling, perhaps. that their broth er had honored her suffieien,tly by bringing her into their family, and that she should be content with her station, and to allow Tena and Polly to run the household. Polly, the yonger. contented herself mostly in carrving out the wishes and policies of ''Sis,'' as she termed her ~older sister. and was always worried lest that personage would overdo herself, or some of her instructions might miscarry for want of stress on 'her part. Sis did the baking. mi-lking and weaving and churning, while Polly a.tteded the lesser duties, such as ooking and sewing, while the mother was always a tired soul. giving her self up to much lamentations about things that never came to pass. Day by ciay the spinning wheel hummed, as Polly glided baek and forth, t:he lon, endless yarn winding around the spindle. Polly singing'all. the time one of her favorite hymns. while the loom in the back shed kept up a contir -al bang, bang. as Tena was weavig off yard after yard of twilled and sin gle sley. All these people made all their wearing a.pparel. The younger of the sons. a youth in his latter teens, at the time th is story begins, had long since gone off to the var, in Capt. Drury Nuiamaker's company, and the fa.ther was on the coast, in the artillery. The first born was left at home with the women. not to take care of. but to b)e cared for, iby Tena. Now. :his tir1.t brn was named Sol "1on, after the wis king of the house of .Juda:h. He never wa nicknamed by his votung comrades, like other boys, an1d called Sol: he was always Soomon. In the family circle he was invaiaby known as Bud. He was a e Red Jacket. Le Dutch Fork. A. Dickert. great pot-bellied, flat-headed, bow legged sort of a chub, and known throughout the length and breadth of the land as "light-witted," or fool ish, and inoffensive and given to quiet and solitude. He was not an idiot by any means, but as one apart from all mankind, giving no heed or t1hought to his surroundings, obeying no law, but the dictates of his own free will. He invariably wore .the childish grin of one whose mind has been dis turbed by the inscrutable working of nature, ibut Tena always said Bud was good enough till you roused him up, then he would clean up the kiteh en and the Old Boy himself could do not'hing with him. So Bud had been given a free hand from his ehildhood up. So under all these con'ditions, we might be safe in saying, this was a peaceful and contented household. But it is of Bud that I wish more par ticu}arly to speak. There.were no writ ten chronicles of the times kept, but all ,these events of which I write, came down orally by tradition, and if there be any now living, who were fa miliar with the house of Fundel winder, who think I err, in my state ment. they must mark it down to the lapse of ,time, not to intentional or wilfull discrepancies. While Bud loved solitude and lore liness. he had a friend who was ever faithful, and followed like a shadow Watch, his idolized dog. Watch was of no known or partic ular breed, but' was composite, a mixture of every race or genus dog. Bud was wont to take long rambles, followed by Watch. with that slavish ness known only in the dog, but he would always turn up at nightfall. No uneasiness ever seemed -to be felt for his welfare on these rambles, and his home-coming could always be knowu by the savage crack of this long whip, wit-h which he was ever fortified, and by .the joyous yelps of the delighted Watch. In the spring Bud made whistles out of the young branches of the pop lar and hiekory, and the shrill noise he emitted was nerve-racking. In his. wanderings around Little Mountain, or about Dennis Sultan's still house, or up and down Crooked Braneh, Watch would sometimes tell, ,by his savage baying, that he had treed a terrapin. This never failed to delight Bud. and he would squat upon his haundhes and urge W~atch to "sick 'em.'' It was glorious fun for Bud to see Watch darting in and out, as the crustacean thrust back and forth its heads And should the terrapin close himself up for good, it would send Solomon into spasms of delight to see the outwitted dog bite and scratch to make it move. So the Fundelwinders moved peace ably along in the even tenor of their way during .the first stages of the war, with no thohght ever bestowed upon the possibility of Solomon's be ing called into service. He had pass ed two. conscriptions unscathed, al ways being "zempted'' without ques tion. Tena always said Bud was as likely .to shoot friend as foe, when he got into one of his "tantrums." But toward the last. when the army kept dwindling, and other people's sons .being killed, and, Lee 'had robbed the cradle and the grave,'' yet still kept calling, then some ma licious persons, no doubt, began say ing Solomon had sense enough and should go to the army. He could stop a bullet, perhaps, from some better man. they would say, and he should not be allowed to fool about, when every man that could carry a rifle should be at the front.'' Ulric Slice, a one-legged discharged soldier, was in the forefront of such bantering, and vowed he was going to report Solomon to the enrolling authorities in Columbia. This put Tena upon her mettle. and she flew into a towering~ rae. She had her own notions and