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VOL XLVI NO. 79 NEWBERRY, S. 0., TUESDAY. OCTOBER 12. 1909 TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR THE IDLER.. V ** * * * * * ** * * *** * Thait must be a curious city coun cil they have over in Spartanburg. I saw a copy of a Spartanburg paper the other day and it made the state -ment that it had refused to qicense a circus. Just think of it. Not license a circus. Why a circus is the greaT est institution that ever came to town. I am still young enough to wan't to go to a circus. It is a great edu cator. And yet this same city council, this paper states, grants a license to a "hypnotic comedy company" to show inside the city for a whole week and to pararde the streets every day with a noisy band that produces noothing -1but discords. That muzt ,be a carni va. And that city council must have peculiar tastes. --- I believe 'that we are to have a carnival in Newberry some time soon. Now, I don't know much about earn ivals, but I believe our toT:n would be much better off if the carniva'l did not come. I have seen one or two car nivals in Newberry and I never saw anything elevating or uplifting in any of them yet, and I can not see how -they benefit the town financially. Maybe they do. I am pretty sure lthe carnival will not get any of my money. That is, of course. taking it for granted that I will have some aboirr that time. Talking about the circus, I think I saw in some paper where there is to be a real circus in Newberry now some 'time soon. I hope it is true. And I want the performance to be in -town. too. for I can't walk very far and cannot afford to hire a hack. We ail want to go and take the children. Some of my most pleasant recollee tions of my childhood are in connee tion with the circus. It was a great every for the country boy or girl in those days. You know I was reared in the country and I hope some day to return. In these days, however, when the youth are so much ahead of the youth of fthose days. and have so many more opportunities of seeing thinS and of learning., it may not be so much of an event. Why, after we went to tihe circus, whieh always came once a year, we had somethin'g to talk abou'r for months. And then for months before the circus came we talk ed abomt its coming. It helped to relieve the monotony of tihe eountry. Then we io't to see the real live animals that we had read about in our school b>oks and whose pictures we had se..n so' ofiten. Yes. 1iet the circus come and be sure to take all the children, es pecially the eount ry children. In this same Spartanburg pap.e above referred to I saw the fol'owing paragraph whie:h I think ought to be printed here in Newberry. I w.edd Ssuggest tha't the two editors in Neu' berry stand up and take notice: A Missouri editor refused to pub lish the death notice of a non-::ub scriber. "People who don't take the home paper," lie said. "never we~ - alive, and their passing away has no * news value." I can scarcely conceive of a live man in this age who does not tako .his home paper. Hie must alrea-l be< dead and his obituary ought to be written before he ae:ually passes away. It is like trying to enu a bn.+ iness without advertising. It can't be done successfully. It seems -:0 me that erry man in the county of New berry ought to take the county paper. The cost is insinificanr:. WVhat wouVid you think of a town the size of New berry, and a county of the wealth and intelligence of Newberry. that did not have a paper, and yet if every one did like tf:hose who do not take any pa per why there would be none pu.blish ed. But this is none of my business. The editor warned me the other day that some of his subscribers had. come ':o him and told him that he must stop me from knocking and I. reaAly thought t:he editor was afraid he might lose some subscriber unless he warned me. Well, it is all a mis ta:ken tiea. I am n't a kicker. I am onyno;- anld thien :rying ,to cail at ention t.o some thingZs that I ob serve a's T stroll around but if the ed I am willing to stop this subject al together. I don't know. but when I see ftiings tha ought to be done, and things cdone that ought not to be done. I just caL't help ealling attention to them. I am not a kicker. I am a booster. I am a talker for the prog ress of Newberry. I want to see the people get toget:her for the betterment of the town. And for their own good as we'll. - Just think for a moment of the many valuable suggestions I have made to city council and the civic as socia,tion and the 'health officer. and that it has not cost the taxpayers one cent, and how these officials have.a.et ed upon those suggeszions. and calcu late if you can the great benefit I have been to this community. And there are many things yet -that need to be done, and will be done, if the atitention of these officials is simply called to them. There is 'that beauti ful bridge in JCollege street, there is that wagon yard that Mayor Lang ford is arranging in the rear of the opera house, there is the one man cart sweeping our paved streets ev ery day and taking up the trash, there is the Methodist church 'lawn beau tifully mowed every neek, there is the beautiful crop of peas on the Baptist church lawn-or preparatory to a beautiful lawn-there is that park that we are going to have along either I bank of Scott's creek-and-what's the use to enumerate further. These are some of the things -hat I have ac comp!ished in a very short time, and there is no telling the many things that will yet result from my wise and timely suggestions. This is not ego tism-I believe that is the word-for I am the humbiest and most modest and timid of human beings and my work is purelr and simply a labor of love and patriotism for my adopted home in wihich I have great pride. Now, I want every lover of this town to come along and help me make some other improvements. That park for instance. That cails for more than talk. It will -take moiey and muscle. I have got the muscle if somebody will furnish the money. I want seven men to get together and form a park association. and :hen get busy to raise the (Oin t buy the 1and. Then we will have some organiznd body to re eeive the monev. I am sure the reason no contributions have been received is that the rich men are afraid to put their money in it. unless there is an organized head. It is a great scheme and it will take ,but a short 'time to have a beautiful park. Look at Wil towbrook, how quick it was made. It takes determination :o do it. Lets all determine. Then it 's done. --- Organization, yes, that 's the word. Organize and pull toget:her. And 'those that can 't pull cean push. That is the way to accomplish results. Did you ever notice a te'am of mules when all' of them pulled together how easy it was for them to carry the load. And then a team where there was even only one balky mule and how hard it was to get along even wit:h almost no load a': all. Well. that's the same way here, only to a very much great er degree . Get together, that's the slogan to use. And ':hen pull together and p)ush together as well. T'en you can see this towni grow and its business increase. The Idler: I want you to thank Mr. Wicker and Mayor Langford for coming out and doing that li'tt'le work in Boundary street. 1Thy are doing it nicely and it will hielp theL appearance of the street veryv much. Residen:~ of Boundary Street. I knew this would be done as soon1 as tihe matter was calved to the at tention of the authori:ies. The fact is Monroe Wicker is uyne of the best street overseers we have had in this town. He knows how and he is do- . ing permanent work. The 'trouble is he has not foree enough to do the work that is to be donie. I believe our streets will com;>':lre favorably with those of any o:thr town. I know j. they' wilJ fo t he fsrer~ that is emi I p'manen t woirk an imIIetend (1o keep~ la1 re:m air Ijhe~ !ri( . ree&t miiilea<re we here in Newherr:'y .via the force we *ave to do theC work. As I have sag- I gested before -:here ought to be a force of hands kept in each ward to do the repair work and the .cleaning and the-a there ought to be a foree to do 'the permanent work. And most of the money ought to be spent on per manent work. But -these t;hings will come in time. We shall labor and wait. The Idler. GOOD FOREST WORK ON VANDERBILT ESTATE In point of variety and scope the forest work done on the Biltmore es :tate, in Nort-h Carolina, is remark able. The forests, which cover 130, 000 acres, are made profitable by the production of various forms of ma .terial. Four million feet of lumber, 5,000 cords of tannic acid wood and fuel, a thousand cords of tan bark, and sev eral hundred cords of pulp wood are cut every year. At -the same time the forest through wise management is bettered and is steadily increas ing in value. Workmen employed along the boundaries of the forest do duty as fire guards. Thus fire pro teotion is secured at least throughout all the accessible parts of the tract. In connection with all lumbering operations permanent logging roads are built. These minimize the pres ent cost of transportation, and will greatly reduce the cost ,of marketing future crops. Thus the extension of the roads is steadily adding to the investment value of the forest. Moreover, they serve also as a net work of fire lines. Fores.t planting is practiced where fire will not threat en its success. The experimental work in silvicul ture which is done at Biltmore is cer tain to make important additions to the science and practice of forestry. With the bankers, merchants, law yers, doctors, preachers and other business and professional men of Charleston behind it, bhe city of Charleston is announcing a music and festival week which should take hun dreds of South Carolinians to "The City by the Sea" between October 25 and October 30. Charleston. always an attractive city to the visitor, is especially so in the Fall morths, and the numerous torpedo boats of the Atlantic Torpedo Flotilla, which are due to return from their summer maneuvres during the Festival week. will prox de a feature of special interest to those who dwell away from the coast. Amusements of various kinds will be offered to suit the most varied tastes. The financial support guaranteed the enterprise of the ,business men of Charleston who are promoting it is such a.s to make the assurance absolu.te that the en tertainment will be adequate in all respects. The distinguishing feature of the Festival. however. will be the five great musical concerts, for which the most elaborate preparations have been under way for weeks. A chorus of more than .two hundred picked voices will take part in these concerts and the musical programme has been ar-' ranged with extraordinary care, and ffers a musical treat, features. of which will surely excel anything hith rto given in this part of the coun :ry. The~ Russian Symphony Orches tra which has been engaged for the :'meerts has gained fame in the East md West wit'h a rapidity almost sen ational and will now make its initial pearance in the South, fifty pieces ;rong with Modest Altsehuler as its ~onduetor and accompanied by solo sts of distinguished ability. To miss earinw one 0or more of theseC conHcerts s to mniss a musical opportunity of :he first magnitude. The Festival is being extensive-ly Ldvertised and Charleston expects to mtertain a record-breaking crowd.! >ut there will be room and entertain nent for all, and all who come are >rOmised a hearty we-come. Winners. [istrict Visitor-I've just had a etter from my son Arthuivr..saying he ias won a scholarship. 1 ean't tell rou how pleased I am. Rustie Party.-:1 can unde&tAand -er feelin 's, mum. 1 felt just the ame whi n our pig w 'n a medal at hc agricultural fair Th,w.-Piladel MR. E. W. DABBS WRITES Of His Trip to Newberry.-Good Au dience.-Good Work Being Done by the Newberry Union. r. E. W. Dabbs, vice president of the State Farmers' Union, who was in Newberry about ten days ago and made an address before the quaiiierly meeting of the Farmers' Union of this county, writes the following to the Sumter Watchman, of his visi't to Newberry: "Thalt evening the writer went to New,berry, via Sumter and Columbia. At Newberry 'the audience was larger than at either of the other places and your editor was the only speaker at ,the public meeting. His remarks on 0he importance of education before any true progress is possible, were re ceived with marked approval. When the routine business was finished and officers elected for the next year, it was resolved 'to have an essay at each meeting on some 'topic of farm econ omy. The subject for the November meeting was selected and Brother Jos. L. Keitt was appointed to write 'the essay. The subject: "Reclamation of Worn-out Lands" shows that New rv Union is star(ting at the bottom to lay the foundation good and strong for success in every other effort. A very interesting feature of the meet ing was Ithe report from various mem bers of their efforts in a systematic campaign of education that covered every point in the county where there is a union or prospedts of organizing one. One of the ideas they reported that they had to combat was that if one joined the Union he had to hold 'his cotton for 15 cents. whether he could or not. or whether his judg ment thought it advisable. All were agreed Ithat the adoption of "impos sible'" resolutions, ("Long ranged res olutions " the writer has named them) had done more to discredit the Un ion than anything, else. In conclu sion: I want qto impress upon my readers that the Union is in better shape now in the counties named above than it has ever been-the weak-kneed, lihe visionary, the im practical. have gradually dropped out. Those who remain are among the best of our farmers thoroughly imb.ued wiith the ideas of education, self help and neighborly co-operation. Not the least of the pleasures of these trips were the meeting of old friends on the trains and ait the meetings, re neming old acquaintance, forming new onies, and finding among the great diversity of interests, the com mon aim of placing farming in the front rank of the learned profess ions. I trust to have a~t future meet ing of Sumter Countv Union some of: the men who are making the Union go in these other counties.' Not the Kind He Wanted. Professed politicians who have re duced public office to an exact science find the independent voter a sad stumbling block, a fact which is amusingly disclosed by a story found in the life of the late George Monroe Grant. the eminent Canadian edu cator and clergyman. Toward the end of Sir John Mac donald 's life he and Principal Grant, then the head of Queen's colleg'e, met at a dinner at the house of the pre mier 's brother-in-law. Prof. Wil-1 iamson. ,. ''How I wish,'' the premier said to the principal. "'that you would be a steady friend of mine." "'Mv dear Sir John."' the princi pal replied. "I have always sup portedl you when you were right.'' The premier's eyes twinkled, and he laid his hand upon the shoulder f the principal.. "'My clear man." said he. "I have no use of that species of tfriendlship!' Hard Hearted Parent, "Here is a telegram from papa," ays the eloping bride. ''He says for s to come right home and live withI im and mamma." ".I didn 't think he would be so indietive as all that.'' sighs the eoping bridegroom.-Life. "I would like to help you. miy poor01 ail. but I haven 't much work to giv.e -Ou." T!:at 'l1 suit mec down to the round. ma 'am. I don 't want much.' OPINION BY CITY ATTORNEY. Holds That Election in Municipali ties Does Not Call for Closing of Registration Books. The Herald and News takes pleas ure in presenting the opinion of City Attorney :Cromer, on the matter of the sewerage election bonds. This opinion does not touech the point raised by The Herald and News but City Attorney Cromer says that the section of the constitution quoted in regard to closing registration books does not apply to municipal elections. October 7, 1909. Hon. J. J. Langford, Mayor, Newberry, S. C. Dear Sir: I have your inquiry whether it is necessary to open spe cial books of registration for 'the spe cial bond election to be held in No vember. As I understand it, the books of registrat ion are now open for the registration of all qualified electors for the regular election to be he'.d in December, and the question is. whether it is necessary also to open books for the special eleciion on the bond issue. An aet of the legislature, approved Feb. 26, 1908, contains the following requirements: "That twenty days prior to any special election to be held as afore said the books of registration sha-ll be opened for the registration of the names of the qualified electors there in, and shall remain open for a period of ten days.'' This provision is added to 'the law requiring the books to be opened by a supervisor appointed for that pur pose ninety days before a regular election. It is my opinion that you should di rect the supervisor of registration to open books for the registration of electors for the special bond election, that these books should be kept open ten days as required by law, and that a notice should be published to this effect. It is not elear that this is ac tually necessary in view of the fact that the books of registration of the town are already open for 'the regular election, but it is my opinion that it would be wise to carry out this spe cial requirement of the act. Yours very traly. Geo. B. ICromer. City Attorney. REV. D. G. CALDWELL DEAD. Was Professor of Latin and French in Erskine College. Due West, Oct. 10.-The Rev. D. G. 'Caldwell, professor of Latin and French in Erskine Colege. died at 3 p .m. to-day. Two weeks ago he suffered an apoplectic stroke, from which he never was able to recover. Prof. Cald'well was born in Meck lenburg County, Nortlh Carolina, on the 19th day of February.,1If66. He as reared in Concord. entered Erskine College February, 1871; entered the Seminary in the fall of 1873; was raduated in 1873, and was licensed to preach in 1873. He married Miss Lizzie B. Sitton in Due West in 1875, was engaged in'- the regular ministry in North Carolina with W. B. Pressly. He was pastor at Gilead for six eyars, and upon the death of W. B. Pressly was c'alled to the charge in Statesville, where he la bored for six years. From States yille he went to Leslie. S. C., for hree years. After la,boring diere for hree years he was sent by Synod to he chair of Latin and French in Erskine College in 1894.. He is survived by his widow and ive children. three sons and two aughters. having lost three children wvhen at Statesville-two sonis and ne daughter. Prof. 'Caldwell was f kindly disposition, modest and un ss um!inig, yet with a strong person aity. He was always wielded a sronmg influence amolng ti:e student ody of the College. He will be reatly mourned by the students. rof. Caldwell possessed those Chris ian graces and t hat kindly adsdress which made him universally beloved. Ii lo)sing Prf'. ('aldwell Erskinc soraens the loss of one oft her hes; rofessors. For the past sixteen; -er lie has labored in the C'ollege. ~Iany alumni i this and o)ther' State5 vil hear oft his deat-h with supremc EDUCATING NURSES. Free -cholarships Available. 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The physician declar ed that one of his patients, an Irish aan, could not understand whyi one of his arms refused to perform its usual functions, the other should re main normal. "It is the balancing power of na ture,'' explained the physician. "If a man is blind in onie eye, nature gen erafly prdvidas additional strength for the remaining eye. When deaf ness is discovered in one ear, the hear ing of the other ear becomes unusu ally acute. "Now that you mention it, Oi be lave 'tis so,'' said the patient."Whin a mon has wan short leg. th' other leg is generally longer. ''-Judge. Many Men Sail ini Them.. "And your husband is a yachts an? "Yes, indeed, and awfully enthus astie about it. He has a nice boat f his ownf.' "Is it a centreboard b,oat?'' "N-no. From what I hear it must e a sideboard boat.''-Cleveland eader. Olever Man. Blobbs--Henpeek thinks you are' he finest fellow in the world. How lid you manage to make such an im ression? Slobbs--Oh, I pretended to be sur rised when he told me~ he was