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VOL XLVV NO. 81 NEWBERRY, S. U., TESUDAY. OCTOBER 19. 1909 J. EPPS Vice-President and General Bell Telephone and I The Atlanta Journal of last Sun day prin:ed a Georgia Educational and Silver Jubilee edition and gave sketches and cuts of the men who had helped make Georgia prosper and wto .aad contributed to the develop ment aad growth of the whole South land. Among these men is a New berry boy and The Herald and News is always delighted to note the suc cess which our sons attain who seek fortunes in other fields. In connec .... ...... ........... I- AM tion with a large eut of Mr. J. Epps Brown the Journal says: Mr. Brown is a native of South Carolina. He was born in Nt.wberry, that State, in 1867, the son of Dr. Thomas C. Brown, a prominent phy sician and planter of that communi ty. After completing his elementary education in the public schools of his native city, he took his college course in Erskine College, Due West, S. C. Upon leaving coilege, Mr. Brown engaged for a short time in -the mer eantiie business. He soon, however, saw the very attractive opening in ity, coupled with increasing knowi the insurance field, and gave up his I mercantile work to enter the insur ance business about 1888. He then ing :ne following twelve years, he met with great success, and built upi a larze and lucrative insurance bus-] iness.3 In May. 1899, Mr. Brown accept-1 ed the position of manager for the Sonthern Bell Telephone and Tel e How the Wind Blew. Se:.ator La Follette, discussing eertain tariff changes .at a dinner in Washingto'n.. said: "One knows what will happen, even if one is not told outright. A! word here and a word there show how the wind blows. Thus Harvey Lanigan never said he disliked his othrer-in-law. ~but- I "Harvey Lanigan's mother-in-law -as taken siek at his house one night and ne:ped herself to a ]arge dose of at poiso;n. thnigi as painkill I. "They had a frightful time with he o:d ladv. She ha-d consumed suf-! eien: poison the doctor said. to kill a dozen persons but she pulled through. "'It was a close shave,' said the doctor the nex: morning. 'She took enough to kill the whole family, but he stuff, fortunately must have been n stock for some :ime, and nearily l!isstrength was gone.' -A month later a friend asked arvey Lanigan to rec~ommend a re liable druggist to him. "Squills is a good man. I uinder stand.' said a friend. 'Know any thing~ about him?' -''Well.' said Harvey Lanlgan, slowly, ' I couldn't conscientiously rec-ommend Squills & Co,to you, old< 2nan. Tihey swindled mue on some rat poison once. '"-Louisville Times. To acqure a straight back remem-< ber to keep the abd'omenl in nld the the chest 'u: Cold :; te dashed 4 n1 the face andi ehest 4a mor)Inin~ aires the same toie eftt a t.:Ie (cold pilnge wi:hi-1 BROWN Manager of the Southern 'elegraph Company. graph company in Amricus, and losed out all of his insurance in terests in order to devote his entire time and energy to his new position. Eighteen months later he was trans fered from Americus to Atlanta -to become chief clerk to the superin tegdent of the Southern Bell Tele phone and Telegraph company, with ffices-in .this city. When the general offices of this 3ompany were removed from New iork and located in Atlanta on Feb mary 1, 1901, Mr. Brown was made .hief clerk to the general manager. His great diligence, fidelity and abil ity coupled with increasing knowl dge of the business and wide experi ence made hi minvaluable to the com pany and won its cordial recognition. He was promoted from one position Of rust and responsibility to another, aach time to -tihe further demonstra tion of his own ability and the greater satisfaction of the compa ay, atil in April, 1906, only seven ears after he entered the company's employ, he was elected its general manager, and thus put in charge of its extensive and important business in the seven states in which it oper ates. As in lower positions, so in the office of general manager, Mr. Brown met his grave responsibilities and discharged his onerous duties ith eminent ability and success; and eansequently, in recognition of his great services and worth, he was, on arch 1st of the current year,elected vice president. as well as general man ager of the company. This office he aow holds; and under his wise, ex perienced and progressive admisis tration the affairs of the company are being conducted in such a way s to win the approval alike of its lirectors and of the public which it erves. Mr. Brown 's career is full of in -piration for the young men of eorgia and the South. It is a tory of ability, energy and tidelity :o every -duty in every position, win ing deserved approval and steady romotion to a position of highest responsibility in the compnay, and to a reputation and a place in the' ront rank of the makers of the new South. us it is too often does in summer, try utting a 'little baking soda in the ,rater ini which you wash. Nothing relieves the sting of mos luito~ bites or the intense itching of iies like bathing in a weak solution >f carbolic aciid and water. Learn to relax if you would be ree of lines in your face and cheat >ld age. Mosta4f us keep ourselves ttetion, menta. .rnd physica. If relaxing exercises will take the tinks out of your face. relaxation-' :he kind best suited to your taste vi remove kinks from your soul. If you overboil. potatoes you can irain off t'he 'water. d r tilem out over he fire. Afterward they can be mashed! mtd be beaten in the usual way. A good furni:ure polish may be nade of paraffine. oil and turpentine. Lhroene, too, is very good, while, prude oil may be used to darken ood that has not been varnished. Dandruft' arises from different ~auses. but when it is very mucl. in idence it is usually a symputon of epleted roots and~ tie scalp needs eeeding wri h a grease or. tonies. Brass takes a mos: beautiful polish f wa4hed inl mixture made of one )anee of alum and1 a pint of lye. oiled together and used while still Va rm. WSorn br' oms orF whisks mayr be lipped illl l)lot wvater and unevell des trimmed with shears. This nakes lhe straws harder. and the 'imming~ makes tihe broom almost as ood as new. D)o not negleet thle value of fruit ii unprovm :i ee compledx imn. No thi 11 e(glals ille .juie ot or'angeC alnd emoulis to (lear' upi ihe skin and Fi llteii e eS. Ti aI ate F mi5 lilti-*ed d 4 take:s wi:ho ut snea r: ABOUT PERSONS AND THINGS News Briefly Told.-Gathered From In and Out of the State, Nation And World. Y. Z. Newberry, mayor, of Beau fort, N. C., and a member of the board of commissioners, was shot and killed instantly while entering his house on Sunday. The person who did the shooting is unknown, but the sheriff and a posse left on a special train to search for the mur derer. The selection of a successor to Dr. P. H. Mell as president of Clemson College is still being discussed. Sen ator Tillman spent a day at Due West and from this it is thought, that Dr. J. S. Moffat is thought of, also Dr. K. G. Mathison. Dr. An drew Shedd. Dr Henry N. Snyder and Prof. A. J. Bond scem to be bunidar consideration. but as vet, so far as ,is known, nothing definite has been decided. From all accounts business seems to be picking up at Florence as the hotels were unable to accomodate several traveling men who applied for rooms on Friday. Florence has two hotels,. one with 93 rooms and the other .having a capacity of more than 85 rooms. William I. Buchanan, of Buffalo, N. Y.. American Minister to the Ar gentine Republic and Panama died while being taken to St. George's Hospit'al, in London. The cause of his death is not definitely known, .but physicians who examined the body itat;e that it resui4ed apparently from heart disease. R-etrospectiona leads the people of Yorktown back to the stirring times of the Revolution, and they are now ready for a rousing celebration of the 128th anniversary of the sur render of the British forces under Lord Cornwallis to Gen. Geo. Wash ingron, October 19, 1781. Judge James Cameron McRae, dean of the law school of the University of North Carolina, died suddenly of heart failure, at his home a: Chapel Hill. He was 71 years old. The work at Columbia College is encour'agin1g. It has been necessary in order to find additional room for students, to rent another residence, the Van Metre house. ini the meani time active preparations for the new buildings .have commenced. ;Preparations are bein'g made for the State Fair. There are many features on the program aranged this fear. There will be something new every day from Monday to Satur day, with some special features. A large at tendance is certain. A balloon, containing t wo men, which started from St. Louis. de scended near Charleston.It traveled the 660 miles at the rate of 44 miles an hour. supposed to have left St. Louis o~u Friday the 15th, landing the 16th. I.t was seen by people in Anderson and also at Seneca. Narrow Escape. .During the South African war an Irish trooper on outpost duty one night felt so desperately tired that he thought he would have a five min utes nap. Placing his hemlet on a dock he lay down and was soon in a sound asleep. Waking suddenly, he mistook his hemlet for one of tile enemy. drew his sword and dealt it a sever blow. Pereeiving his mist ake. -:he t roop er' picked up his helmet, whichi he had ut in two, and gave thlanks to hieav en that he had taken it off before ly ing down. "For.'' hIe soliloquized, "'had my head been inside that, it's ten to one a dead man I would have been seeing myself at this moment!' -Philadelphria Ingnirer. Doubt or Dyspepsia. Scot t-Tlhe differen~ce betw~eeni a One wvori'es over his next nwal and iher other OVe?r h is las: .--Kanu-as ('ity\ Lo,-un.1 THE IDLUR. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Nobody has made a noise yet like a park. I wonder what is the mat ter with Newberry. It may be that the price of cotton has got all of our patriots thinking about how much money they are going to make this fall. Well, the price of cotton does sound good and I wish I was a farm er, for just now I would with the farmer like to stand. And the spinners did not put the price down. On the contrary it just kept going. up. And now the spinners say they did not intend to put- the price down but simply intended to put the price of goods up. And that is the rea son for curtailment. -0 But the best thing in the whole: matter this year is that the price has remained up while -the cotto-n was still in the hands of the producer that is to say the small farmer will get the benefit of a good- price this year, something he has not done for many years. Heretofore when the price did go up it was after the; liener and the little fellow had been forced to. sell. Cotton.may go higher and I believe it. will, but if I was a farmer and: owed anybody one cent of money I would sell my cotton just as fast as I could get it to market as long as prices remained around where they are now. The price is so much bet lter than it has ,been in a long time that I would be afraid to risk any thig on an increase. You know I am greatly pleased to see interest in agriculture increasing. This is the best country in the world and we could make just about twice what we do on about one-half the land if we only would. We are learn ing every day and in the past ten years more progress has been made ihan in the fifty years preceding. And we are just in the beginning of even a more wonderful advance in agriculture. In fact I believe the I industry is just in its infancy yet. Especially in this wonderful South land of ours. I have always wanted to go back to the farm since I left it even if it were to have only forty acres and a mule. WVell. I reckon my ambition ini this line will never be realized, but my advice to the young men of this day is to buy a farm and go to work on; it. It is worth a great deal more than hanging around a town. I saw the other day an article i-n the even ing paper of Augusta, Ga., an edito rial along this very line, which struck me at the time as being very good and containing sotme mighty good ad vice. It is a little bit long for this age to read, but I want every young man to read it-that is if the editor does not eut it out of my article-I think it will do him good. I know it will if its advice is heeded. A year! on .the farm would mean a great deal for a number of young men. Here is the article, and I want it printed and then I want it read. --- A Year on A Farm.1 A suggestion that is worthy of the 1 serious consideration of those to] whom it is addressed is made by the Jeff erson Reporter. Wit-h bu,bbling enthusiasm and evident completeI faith in its preachment it advises: Let the young man about town out of a job try a year on the farm. Plowing will give him a niew consti tution. take the kinks out of his head,< the frog out of his throat, the gas< off his stomach, the weariness out of is~ legs. the corn off his toes and give him a good appetite, an honest liv-1 ing and a sight of heaven. I One mistake is made in tenderinig this well-meant advice, which, how-< ever, is natural for a country 'editor to make who probably has read the< sesational stories found in yellow I] jornals .sometimes about the va:st 1 numb)er of unemployed in the cities. t There( are ndo youngl men in town-in anyi town--who really desire work, who are out of a job. There are un- 1 (employed.- but invariably they are men. young or old, who do not de sire work nearly as much as they pretend( or' think they do. and who; -.nh pefr loafing- To this class ti the pull which comes from faitifal ness to duty and hard and intelligent work. But why go on, every one knows what can be done. The thing is the willingness to do. I rejoice in the success which has attended Mr. Brown and all the other young men who have gone out from Newberry and made good. And those who have remained at home and made good. Just like the world loves a lover I love the man or the boy or the wo man or the girl who can do things and who does them. They are the kind the world has need of. And the circus is sure enougIL coming to Newberry. Now I want to advise all my country friends to get the children ready and bring them to town early on the morning the circus is to come and let them see the whole thing. Of course in this advanced age there is not that lenthusiasm among the children of the country .there was when I was a boy over the coming of the circus but there are still some children left to whom the coming of the circus will be a great. event. -0 There are so many things happen ing in this age and suah rapid zu,e cession that it takes an old man a long time to catch on and then it is impossible for him to keep up with the procession any way. So I have about decided to take life easy and if I don't keep up with the procession I am going to try to keep out of t.he way of the Juggernaut and watch the procession go by. pz Mr. Idler: If we vote the bond is sue for extension of sewerage will there be new bids for them or is Mr, Glenn to have them at his old bid! If Chester, Gaffney, Rock Hill and other towns can get above par why !should Newberry have to take so much less when she is larger, wealth ter. and more responsible for ther debts? Who is to get the $800 knock off What salary does our commissioners Don't vou think that the Editor of The Herald and News is right on the law about the election? Is the elec tion ordered just at that particular time for another purpose than it shows on its face? If forty thouxsand is voted ihow~ much .will the :.people get the benefit of? It looks strange to me ihat the eleetion is rushed just at this time and the''eople had better Watch. -- --- -* Taspayer. As to .these questions which 'have been~ ianded to The Idler by the edi tor I irish. they had not been asked. I do not know what the commission will do about new bids, but I am sat isfied they will do those things which in their judgment are for the best interests of the taxpayers as they are pretty good taxpayers themselves. iThere was no "knock off.'' The $800 as was printed in ,both the New berry papers went to pay the cos#s of printing the bonds and possibly in those other towns the bids were not net. I am sorry The Herald and News raised any constitutional ques tion for the extension of the sewer age is of paramount importance to the good health of the city and every citizen will get the benefit. This election, as I see it, can have no influence on any other election. It would be a terrible catastrophe to have the sewerage for the city shut off, which will result if we fail to vote for extension. "Taxpayer'' must not be suspicious but get himself to gether for the best interests of the ity. The Idler. Her Safe Proposition.. She was trying to persuade her husband to ~give up smoking, and she had pointed out to him one day the exact amount of his expenses for to baeco during the course of a year. "Besides, my dear." she persisted, "ou will be better off mentally, pysically and financially, without the pipe and the cigars.'" "Well. maybe so; but all gres; en have smoked"' he agreed. ''Well.'' she sighed. ''just proaii - ise me. dear that you'il give up. smolkX 12 mII 1 ji On diri wr:t. Tlimn T'll ha the advice .to go out on a farm and plow is like casting pearls before swine. It is not work they want, but a soft snap which will allow them abundant time to sow wild oats or at least to loaf. i But to young men of the cities generally this advice is good advice. If they would take it they would de rive benefits from such a course which would last through life. There I is talk now of adopting compulsory education for our state, and such a law may be a wise one. But if a law were passed requiring every young mon, on completing his school course and before he engaged in any busi ness in town, to work at least one whole year on a farm, it would do inealculably more good. Having lived in town, and not en joyed to the full the advantage of sun, open air and physical exercise to develop physically, and having been confined more or less closely to is studies, the young man in town is released from school with his mind much better fitted for work than his body. A year in the country, not as an idler but as a worker on the farm ould benefit him physically all and more than is so enthusiastically Alaimed by the Jefferson Reporter. It would be beneficial otherwise. It would broaden the young man's views. He would be brought in aloser touch with nature, and in see ing plants grow, learning the ways f animals, in the experience of the farm and the course of thinking in luced by the simple life, he would expand mentally as he would grow trong physically. Not a few young men, after such ? ra experience, would elect to remain )n the farm permanently, but those who should return to the city after )ne year of such work would be bet ter equipped, physically and mental ly, for their life-work in the city. -o Another thing I have noticed is that as a rule the young men who nake the towns grow and who throw life and vitality in the great arteries >f trade are the young men who had their early training on the farm. Look around and see the. men who are doing things in the towns ad cit ies and see where they came from. Ask yourself where they had their arly training. If it wvas not between the plow handles following a mule. Now don't you for a moment con elude that I am in any way talking about myself because I have said beretofore that I once lived on a farm, for I would not have you to take me as an example, because as the world counts success I hrave&been aPmonumental failure. I am" t.aking about the general rule. -o But as this Georgia editor says to uceed anywhere there must be a willingness to work. Just as I have said before -any able bodied man or woman anywhere in this country who, wants to work can find something to do. It is a question of being willing t'o work. There is plenty of work to do on our streets, for instance, and I suppose the city would pay for the work if the unemployed wanted to work right bad. The city ought to be willing to' give employment to more :han are now employed. There is no loubt about that in the mind of any alf infgrmed person in Newberry. I'o succeed at anything, even as :he world counts success, there must >e a willingness to do things. -o The founder of the groat Colgate oap was a poor couintry boy who vorked his way from nothing to one > the biggest manufacturers in this ~ountry. It seems to me that I read omething about him once working iis way on a boat on the Mississippi! iver to get to New York. Well, any 1w there are great possibilities for he youth of this day if they are ).ly wiilLng to work. I could give ~ou an illustration from one of our >wn county boys who has risen aidly anad is now the head of one of he ~biggest industries in this coun ~y and he did it by dint of his own vortKu and indomitable energy and .eternination to do something and h e something. Nearly all of the >peof Newberry know Ep 1own. Hei is now the head. of the southern Bell Telephone and Tele raph1 companly and he has risen to