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10 TWC A.EK,7.501YA NEICRY a. C. ar VOL XLVI NO. 77 NEWBERRY, S. (.. TUES DAY. SEPTEMBER 28. 1909 FARNU AUQUITIED OF BRIBERY CHARGE STATE LOSBS THE PIRST OF THE DISPENSARY CASES. Jurors Didn't Believe the Money Was Given for Corrupt Pur poses. News and Courier. Columbia, pt. 24-James S. Farnum has been acquitted of the charge of bribing Joseph B. Wylie, when the latter was a State dispen sarv director. Upon the back of the typewritten sheets of indictment No. 53 of the now famous "graft cases" are the following words: "Not guilty. W. L. Caughman, Foreman." To the de fend.ant these few words spell free dom-relief from that suspense which the trial upon so serious a charge necessarily brought with it. To the world at large these words also mean tha.t te State has failed in the first of the trials that have set the coun try wild with expectation. Six, hours it took the Richland County jury to decide that Farnum was Aot guilty. With the .elear cut words of Judge Memminger ringing in their ears the jurors filed one by one froml the C,urt room shortly af ter ten o'clock this morning and a little after 4 o'clock their decision was announced. It was a dramatic moment hi the Court room. The de fendant grasped the hands of the in dividual jurors and expressed his appreciation of their verdict. The general impression had been that a liistrial would result. - Mr. Cochran stated to-night that th3 verdict was expected under the estimoya and that the attorneys for the defence did not think that. 'any other verdict could have been ren dered uader the circumstances. CoL Nelson, immediately after the jury't -deeision was announced, made the la.c>aie reply to a question as to what .e thought about it: "All right," and his expression showed his pleasure. The defendant had a brilliant ar ray of counsel, Mr. Erenst F. Coch ran conducted the war against the in diciment and other technical features of the case with much skill. Mr. P. H. *Neson, of this city, w-as strong on the cross-examinlationl of witness es. Mr. Ben Hagood's argument for the defence before the jury was a feture. A,ttorney T. Moultrie Mor decai, of Charleston, while nzot ae tually taking part in the trial, was in continuous consultation with his associates. He sat next to the de fendant during the trial and gave advice at various times. Attorney General's Opinon. Attorney General Lyon. when asked coner-ing the trial shortly after t-he vedi; had been rendered by the gry -aid: "'I have nothning to say. the tesUion in the case speaks for itself.'' N:>t taiking otficially. the A;tora-v General. however, intimated ha.t th~ tirs: defeat wou:d not affect the~ 4": of :he State hn reference to t:th- ather indict men :s in the al hea~ pressed for an official state met . e Attorney General said: "I1 hav i>ard it rumored that the jury deeind to bring in a verdie.t against di defendant because they would not conciet on the testimony of an acompice. If this rule is to he fol lowed. it will always be a practicable itpo.iiity to ever conviet onie of briber., for testimny mvt such ea:se5 mt esnari:y come! from an ae Jurors Interviewed. O:'.=>t the ju:vymen. in speaking of th~ d lleration. said: \\We went to the ,.on : 10:1-> o'clock this morn nz. Ali of us wereC dieeply iterested n't'e -Mal anid the testimony. and it as a observation that every man in te~ room was a serious thinking man, who. knew his responsibility and intede'd to do his duty as he saw it. WVhe we were all in the room and had time to learn the opinion of each as t what verdiet should be render ed. i *eveloped that eleven werefo aquital and one for conviction. For five ong hours we argued with tlus man. We believed that money had (Cntinuned on Page T wo.) I. * THE IDLER. I ** * ** * * * * * * * * *. The Idler: Some time ago you sug gested that the city of Newberry get a herd of Angora goats to keep down the grass on the sidewalks. It may interest you to know that at- one time-and not so long ago, either goats performed this very work in Newberry. I don't know whether they were Angoras or not'. The oth er day I ran across an issue of the Evening Telegram-Newberrv's then daily-which was published in 1904. In the issue of May 19. 1904, appears this paragraph: "Friend :treet is the cleanest street in town. Nor is its creditable clean liness entirely due to the efforts of the town authorities. For severa-l dav, this street has been the stamp ing ground for a company of sad faced, bearded ,billy-goats, who hav ing doubtless read in the Evening Telegram an account of the street workers' strike, ate out with the truly charitable intent of aiding the city fathers in this, their time of trouble. The water sprinkler first got. in its good work on the dust, and then the devoted goats appear. Beginning at one corner they spread across the street and slowly eat their way ,0o the next, .consuming scraps of paper, tin cans, old shoes. barrel staves, and other ornament of a like nature which usually aid so much in beautifying our modern streetis. Everything dis appears before the hungry goats, and the thoroughfare is clean." So you see, Mr. Idler, actual ex perienee right here in Newberry has proved that your suggestion is a good one. And not only will the goats keep down tihe ,grass, but it seems they will keep the streets clean gen erally. So, you see, you might en large your suggestion to the effect that the city get, some goats, not only to keep the grass down, but to aid the work of keeping the paved streets clean. K. A. The above has been handed to me. Now. this is 'a little remarkable. I do have some recollection that there was a daily paper in Newberry some years ago called the Evening 'ele gram. but I had almost forgotten about it. As I recal it the Evening Telegram was a pret'ty good paper and the business men ought to be ashamed of themselves for not giving it sufficient support to keep it alive. it was a good paper for it contained some suggestdons away back there tha.t I am making now. But t'hose eoats must have been daisies. Friend street needs them today and some of the vacant lots need them much more. The street working force has not struck, because there are not a suffi ient number of them to go on a strike. Well, they are actually cutting the grass and now that I see some of the force back in the city we may expect some permanent work. If~ the grass and tin cans shouid get too bad, I commend to the miayor tdiis extract fron the Evening Telegram. By the way. I am told that that drain pipe in Caldwell street has been cleaned out and that. the health oicer was out that way on Wednes day. I told you it would be donel and on behalf of the citizens who live on that side I desire to thank these officials for their promptness. I thank ;ou also for myself, for I assure you it is a great pleasure to have my Isuggestions acted on so promptly. You know, I mean that, for I do not make any suiggesticn that is not I ood for~ the communlity. I have reached that point in life where I have absolutely no sehtish purpose to serve and. therefore, I can see with an impartial and unbiased eye those thigs that would ieally help the commnity. The above was written for Friday's -iper but fo)r somne reaMon my~ stuff was held up. I zuess it w:s just as well. Smnebody told me the other day :hat the (College street uear the new bridge wa.s in a1 feai f'ul condition. T:e chamber of commerce and the mechnts o-ht to look into thil. You know it is important to have good -oads leading into town. They were working this road a short time ago and were macadaniizing it with ,grass and weeds that the grass bri gade had cut from the streets. Now, I don't k-now this to be true of my own knowledge, but I heard a reli able and truthful man say so a few days ago. If it works good a patent will Abe Applied ifor on 'this char acter of road material. I will file the application myself. I notice that the Observer says that the Grenwood Journal has too much idle curiosity. Whe-n you come to think about it we all have too much idle curiosity. If we would go along and attend to our own business and let other people do the same we would save a world of trouble for ourselves and other people, too, and many a heartache. I was a little curious to know what it was that the Grenwood Journal had asked but then that is an ex hibition of idle curiosity for I know it could not concern me in the least. -o It is really a great deiight to an old man to see the hundreds of happy children wending their way to school. It has the appearance of life in the old land yet. They are so happy and have so much vitality that they make an old man feel young. And "they say,'" a man is no older than he feels and a woman than she looks. Newberry ought to have room enough now and we might get along for a year or two without putting up another building and the money placed at interest would a.ccumulate very fast. But this is none of my business and as I don 't know any thing about it, I guess I had better keep out. I - I have wondered why our cit-y council does not widen some of the s.treets, where there is opportunity. It seems to me that I have a recol lection that some few years ago the chamber of commerce had some com mittees on this subject and that nearly all of the property holders in Friend street had agreed to widen but. nothing has been done. The new postoffice building is to 'be in this street and it is the main thoroughfare from Calhoun to the union station. Take what you can get. And widen where you can. II have given so much good advice to this city that has not been acted ~upon that sometimes I feel discour aged, but .now and then my sugges tions are adopted when they think it is fa.r enough away from t-be time 'I first suggested to let some one else have the credit. I hear that Mayor Langford has cleaned out the vacant lot in the rear Iof the opera house and has fixed it up for a wagon yard for the use of the people who bring teams from the ceountry. You know. The Idler sug gested t'his plan several months ago. I don 't know how he has fixed it or what he has done except that I see in the Observer and The Herald and News that it is done. That is right. It ought to have a shed and a water. spout and a place to feed and then the people who bring teams to New berry could have no excuse for leav ing them on the public square. He had better go at this move gently, however, and fence in the upper part of the public square first by extend ing the rock wail from the rear of the old court house on either side up to about the mile post and then have that, parked and after awhile we can! get the lower square in the same con dition. A wagon yard in the -rear of teopera house will be just. as cou venient and some comforts for the mules and horses can be made. It is. a good move and I am glad to see Mayor Langford t.ake it. He should have the co-operation of -all the peo ple both town and country. But you know it is a mighty -hard matter to get the co-operation of all the peop)le in any good and progress ive movement, even though it he for the great benefit of the great major i:y. It is awfully hard to please the gre:ut majority. The only safe rule for any public official is to do what isright, and to do it. The fact is. not public officials, don't. you think so? I am still hoping to live to see the day when the people of Newberry will o et together for the advancement of the community in those things that are for the general welfare. -0 Have you read about those people up in Massachusetts who were hold ing meetings recently expecting the end of the world to come and who actually prayed the Lord that it would come to an end as they had said. They are members of the Latter Reign of the Apostolic Church. The end of the world will come soon enough for all of us and I expect be fore some of us are ready to take the journey into that other world whence no traveler has returned. I was read ing the other day in the Atlanta Con stitution under "Just from Georgia" a dialogue which was heard just. after this meeting a-nd it ran thus: "De worl' didn't come ter a end on schedule time." "No. Providence is too merciful ter de cullud race ter let de worl' burn up in de 'possum season.' At any rate Providence is too mer ciful to let man know the hour or the day when the world shall come to an end or when each traveler shall be called to pass from it. It would be a very miserable world if man could look into the future. The present is all that man has and he has that only one moment. at a time and some of us make mighty poor use of it. -0 Now I want the people of this city not to forget that I am still ready to acknowledge receipts of donations to that park. The mayor is going to beautify the public square by remov ing the wagon yard and I know the civic association will help him do the rest. The portion that is not set apart for parking should be paved and that should be done at once. The Idler. "HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY." Used in Fifth Grade.-"Parent" Wants to Know if There Is No Relief.-Too Much for Children of Tender Age. Mr. Editor: "The History of Our Country" by Cooper, Estill and Lem man is a text book in use in the fifth grade of our graded schools. A mere glance at the subject matter, mode of treatment and style of this book shows that it is entirely too dif ficult for children ten or eleven years old. There may be a place for this text in the schools, but that place is not. the fifth grade. A few extraets .taken at random is enough to show this. What idea can a boy ten years old gather from these questions? And what business has he with such ideas? "With no Bible, no priests, no tem ples. and but vague notions of God, there could be little defiuiteness or system about the Indian 's religious belief." Page 6. On page ten we find this: "That ti:e Indians made so little progress in civilization, is due par-tly to the extreme pride of his nature,- which ac kniowedged no superior, and partly to his superstitious imagination which maide him accept fanciful explana tionsof the phenomena of nature in stead of cultivating his powers of yeaoning in .dheik investigation." Mr. Editor, look at that sentence and then look at a child of ten or eleven years of age. Don't laugh, it is not a farce but a tragedy inat is being enacted in your schools. Here you have in one sentence, "civiliza tion'' "superstition," "imagina tion.'' "'elanations," "'investiga tion," "power of reason." and "phenomena of nature." This is from page 289: "Calhoun! having resigned from the vice-presi dency appeared in Congress as a Senamet from South ~Carolina, filljing a vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Hayne. he and Webster held another debate on the rights and prerogatives of the Federal Gov-: enent in relation to the rights and a,progatives of the States that was as famous as the previous one on the same subject."' Here is a sen :eneie otf about sixty words, but there are others just as long and some even longer. A little further on we read: "A brie stament of the legal ground of tne right of secession as held by the South is as follows." I copy one: "'Fourteen Northern States by passing Personal Liberty Laws had set aside the Constitution (See Art. 4, paragraph 2 of Cons.titution, in appendix).'' The child is not only asked to conisder a number of legal propositions bat he is gravely asked to consult the Constitution of the United States on a quetsion of inter pretation about which the ablest men have disagreed. From page 484 we take this: "Fi nally. after years of discussion in Congress and throughout the coun-try, a new Inter-State Commerce law was enacted in 1906. Under this law, which increased the number of mem bers from five to seven, power was vested in the Commission to fix a maximum rate of charge for ceitain articles, more stringent provisions were made against rebates, private cars and pipe lines were declared common carriers, and railways were forbid*n to eany co..modities owned by themselves, except for their own use." In this -same connection the fifth grade girl will find for her serious and tearful consideration an ac count of the "Sherman Anti-Trust Law," the "Elkins Act" and "State Anti-Trust Legislation.'" She will doubtless be grateful to .the school board which in the full discharge of its rights and prerogatives has made it possible for her thus early in life to become acquainted with such light, all absorbing and fascinating topics as the tariff. free silver, civil service, nullification, secession, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments and many others of like interest to children of tender years. Mr. Editor. Is there no relief? The school is for the children. Why not let them have books suited to their needs? Parent. REEDY RIVER ASSOCIATION. A splendid Meeting.-EverYbOdYOin Good Spirits.-Next Meeting With Bush River. The Reedv River Baptist aQsocia itio.. met with Hurrica-.e church in Laurens county. Uonvening on Fri day and continuing through Sunday. The association was opened with. deotional exercises conducted by Dr. Derieux, after the close of devotional wor.dip the association was called to order by ths former Moderator. On a call of the churches it was- found that there was not present a quornm as it had been raining the night be fore and the weather was still threat eing. A motion was adopted to have the Introductory sermon, which was preae ed by Dr. Derieux assistanltI secretary of State Mosion Board, after the sermon the meeting' ad jor'ied for one hour and a half for d'.uner. after enjoying one of those splendid dinners which Hurricane people are noted for at- expiration of the appointed time. the association res eth'ed for businiess, after half hour being spent in devotional exer .isee thie association was called to getter fof business, it beine found that a quorum was pr'een:. The as-I soci:'a en the election Uf Vi iers. w'hichi res;he:d i- to el-Tion of W. H. Hunt. moderator- Theo. Danielson, clerk; and I. M. Smith, treasurer. After organization, was completed. the regular order of bus ines w-'s then taken up. The re orts read on the various objeets f:'rered bv the assoA:ation were good d showed that the churches were iake to every interest. The dis i-ssions were of the very best order tht it hav been the pleasure of this writer to listen to. The whole associa tion as well as visitors were in a nod- imm'or. The collections were :he be-- in years. The delegates and ail were in a gi.ving spirit. The as soiation got pretty well through with its reports Saturday evening, except two or three. The report oni time and place of next meeting reported Bush River as the place, commencing Friday be fothe third Sunidav inSetm her and coautinuing through Sunday. The report on nomination of ex cutive hoard made but little change in the board. By a rising vote of the association, the former moderator of: thi .aoia.tion was elected a dele gate to the Southern Baptist conven tion, which convenes in May with Rev. G. A. Wright as alternate. Sun day morning there was a large crowd present. After the business of the association the missionary sermon was preached by the appointee, Rev. C. W. Hidden. The doctor was at his best and I don't think I ever saw better attention given to the delivery of a sermon. Every one who spoke of the sermon pronounced it fine and a grand effort on the part of Dr. Hidden. After the sermon a good collection was taken up for State Missions. Then after the singing f that grand old hymn, Blest be the tie that binds, and the saying of the last benediction of the association, being pronounced by Rev. H. Fowler, the oldest minister of the association, the large crowd then repaire to the church yard and partook of a sump tuous dinner, after which good byes were said and hearty thanks to the people of Hurricane church and community were tendered. Thus closed another successful year for Reedy River association. ATTRACTIVE FOLDER ISSUED Passenger Department of the Atlantic Doast Line Advertising Home seekers Excursion Rates to the South. The Passenger Traffic Department of the Atlantie Coast Line has just issued an attractive -32 page folder advertising especially the very low homeseekers excursion rates from No,rthern cities to points in the South. It is printed in two colors and begins with a general review of the agricul tural, horticultural, trucking, manu facturing and industrial features of the entire system and has a. short write-up of each State through which the Atlantic Coast Line passes, name ly: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, eorgia, Alabama and lorida; the section being very prop erly called, "-The Nation's Garden Spot." Special mention is made of new colonies which have -recently been and are .being formed on the At lantie Coast Line in the several States, each under a separate caption, due credit bein'g given those who are mak ing an effort to attract settlers and in t.his and other ways, trying to build up their respective localities.. The folder has a number of attraet ive half-tone cuts of agricultural and horticultural scenes and several maps showing the location of the various colonies referred to in the folder. These various features are followed by a list of representatives of the Coast Line throughout the United States, and a brief outline of the at tractive schedules from the West and from the East via that line. Then follows a table of the cheap rates, followed by the information that the round trip tickets will be sold on September '7th and 21st, October 5th and 19th, November 2nd and 16th kn December 7th and 21st, carrying ex eedi:gly liberal stop-over privileges with final return limit to reach the original starting point within twe'avY4 gi' d.-s from' date of sale. On thsack of -t ifTlder . .mip a T;rK e.1 St -tc e:M vL and in d'aIg St. Louis and New Orleans which is likewise printed in two col The Atlantic Coast Line deserves much credit for this innovation and. for its policy of a.ctivty towards pro moting and upbuilding the rich coun try through which it passes, and the results obtained from the. very ex tensive distributipn which is being iven this folder in the North will be uch in attracting desirable settlers to the South. that the folder will be issued regularly and in t-he future probably enlarged, as new efforts and enterprises, when knaown to the Corn-. pany, are created. A very unique feature of this fold er is that the outside page cont.ained lines for addressing and stamping the folder which is so arranged that it nay be mailed without being enclosed in an envelope. 1 Copies of the folder may be ob tained from Mr. T. Q. White, Gener al Passenger Agent at Wilmington, N. ., who will cheerfully mail copies to addresses of a-ny prospective set