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VOL XI NO. 84 t.A. VOL XLVI O 4 EWERI8 3. FRI DAY OCTOBER 29. 1909 TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. Missionary Services at Grace and Mt. Tabor.-Sorosis Elects Ofi cers.-Personal. Prosperity, Oct. 27.-Rev. M. 0. J Kreps goes to Clemson Saturday where he will preach Sunday mori ing. Sunday evening he will address tie mission in Greenville. The pul pit of Grace church, in the pastor s absence, will be filled by Rev. J. A. Sligh. At a meeting of the Literary So rosis at the home of Mts. F. E. Schumnert Tuesday the fo"ewig o:Ieers were elected for 1910: President-Mrs. M. '. Morris. First Vice PresideLA-Miss Lang o-d. Second Vice Pre;ident- Mrs. G. Y. Hunter. Recording Secretary-Mrs. Wyche. Corresponding Secretary - Miss Kohn. Treasurer-Mrs. F. E. Schampert. Librarian-Miss Lester. Mrs. Bowers and Miss Della Bow rs have gone to Columbia -to spend few days. Miss Eugenia Meng, of Union, has one to Saluda to open her school here. Miss Kate Thompson returned to t. Pilgrim Monday -to resume her sch.ooi work there. Mr. Berry Mayer has moved into the Barr.mr home in Elm street. Mrs. -3J1. oCok returned Monday rm a :isit to her sister, Mrs. Ken dy, at Due West. Quite a party of our beaux aid 'es went up to Newberry to attend The Lion and the Mouse" on Mon evening. ev. and Mrs. Z. W. Bedenbaugh t.ave gone to Atlanta to spend a le with their son, Mr. Emest Be augh. r. Mike Monts leaves in a few s for Lownesville to assume his ol duties. r. Oscar Matthews spent a few s of last week with. his sister, ss Julia Matthews. The Skating Rink is again in the .endency and furnishes quite a lit f pleasure for the youths and maids. The U. D. C. met with Mrs. J. P. hee-lr on Wednesday They hav eided to purchase small marble clibs ;o mark the resting places of 0. heroes of the Lost Cause who are resting in our cemetery. Mrs. Matthew Boozer has gone for thor: visit to her brother, Mr. Sam .nnon. at Columbia. r' - Kibler, of Kibler 's Bridge, t the week-end with Mr'. F. O e did not hnave the pleasure of inIg Dr. Cromer Thursday ight was provideutially detamaa". ver. this treat is s:111 in store s at some tune not so far dis On Friday evening Drs. G3reev d Miller. of Columbia and 'ton, gave two strong, search ks ou foreigni missions. They deeply incto the whys and res o~f our missionis of omis .:d made most earnest appeals ty, speedy and telling work ssionary lines. inday evening P)residenit livered a most beautiful oinU5mison1 to a large tion. He gave a comparative ,f the religious that have and still sway countless mil aking as his theme, "There o c.her name giveii under heaveui rebyv men can be saved' and edA how an wvhy it is our; to stianize the world in this gen . N. F. Aull, of Hickory. N. (' ~dMr. A. H. Kohn's family week. lie has many frie.ud, he de here dulring his sojour:n of two as. were glad to greet him againl. MaBobb and Hawykis have ted delegates. with M\rs. and Miss Lucy Fellers al .to the U. P. C. Federatiou Kf ae E,argle. of Grenie. Fra.i nk Schmpert ret urne1 atr day I fom Texa'. where hie utravellinm forj a flitu'r and Miss Gertrude Simpson, with a sermon in the afternoon by the pas tor. This is an active church and quite interested in all the phases of work. The Children's Missimiary Socie tv of Grace Church under the aus pices of Miss Della Bowers will give a public service Sunday evening. Mrs. W. R. Elmore has returined home, after a visit to her daughier. Mrs. E. B. Kibler. Mr Barrier left Monday for Co lumbia and Mrs. Barrier and little son left Tuesday for Little Mountain. Miss Gertrude Simpson will make a-n address at Colony Church next Sunday to the Missionary Society. WOMEN ARE WARNED ABOUT MATRIMONY. Preacher Points Out Some of Pitfalls in His Lecture.-Advises to Fool Husbands. Chicago. Oct. 20.-Matrimonial mishaps and how to avoid them was the text of an address delivered be fore the Klio Association. a woman's ciub, by the Rev. D. D. Vaughan. About 200 young women listened to the discourse and went to their homes with some of the following epigrams to ponder over: "Marriage is the normal state, but it is no longer a necessary state. "Women often marry for a home, for money, or because they wish to show some other woman that they can marry that particular man. "Learn to understand your hus bands-men are transparent. "Pretty girls are. not in demand, neat girls are. "To hold the love of your hus bands. keep fooli'ng them. Make them believe you are the angel they sup p.ed you before the wedding cere mony. "Women should love their hus bands more than their children, or p:rents; otherwise, they will not be ideally happy. The minister'; subject was "Matri mony." which he had, he said, been studying for fore than a year. and upon which he felt qualified to talk on inasmuch as -he had circulated questions bearing on that subject among his congregation. and had re eeived over 200 answers. ''The idea that a man can live more cheaply after he is married than he could before. is fallacious and mis leading" said Mr. Vaughan. "That is possible o'nly when the candidate for matrimonial honors has spent hi income in riotous living. The simple man who has been thrifty will find wvhen he gets married he will be called upon t6 spend three times as much for living expenses as he did before." Robert Fulton. He plucked the terror from the storm, the fury from the gale, Forbade the glassy calm to mock the idly slatting sail. The siender craft he sent awvay, with puny paddle stroke. Has smothered all that s:.ately brood -the Sisters of the Smoke. And every dark and wreathing trail, across the waters be,nt, Shall spefl his fznue to men, shall be his deathless monument. .The fragile river sisterhood. arrayed in gleaming white. The ocean lane leviathans, majestic in their might. The rusty tramps that tiid a way where none have gue before. The awesome soidiers of the sea. the bristling ships of war, Perhaps he saw them passing by, .as in a golden dream le felt the Clermont anIswer to lie pulsing drive of steam. -James J1. Montague in New York American. The Ground Hog. Teacher wa telling her class little stories in natural history, and she asked if~ any one couild tell her what a round hog was. ip went a little - -Wel. C~ rl. you~i may~ t ell us whla t a zrondl( horg is. THE IDLER. * I read the other day a very inter estin- short article headed "Litnle bovs aid cigarette pictures." You know [ have seen little bovs around Newberrv collecting eigarette pie liures and most any of them could tell you the names of the leading players on the vari'Ous base ball teams of the coutry and I thought they were getting 'these pictures to have the noted base ball Players. I had never heard of the game of "'flip ,' but I bet all tihe boys in town with a pocket full of. cigare'tte pic tures can tell you all about it. I think it will do good to print this little piece. Sometimes we old fel lows need to be reminded that we were boys or girls once and only once and that we will not be agahi, thatjis with all the vitality of youth, and if we could remember it. possibly it would be better for us and the real boys and girls. Here it is: A number of papers have noticed how the lit'tle boys have taken to the pictures of famous base ball players found in cigarette boxes. How the little fellows "flip"' the pictures :o see whether face or back will 'turn up, how they win or lose their cards in this way. Some see breakers in the distance for these little fellows who "flip" the pictures, and seem to think something ought to be done to stop it. This craze is as much in evidence here as anywhere under the sun. You may ask any urchin you meet how many cigarette pictures he has and you will promptly get an answer of any where from 5 to 500. They flip the pictures here, too, just as else where; there is where the fun comes in. They block the -sidewalks and fill up the corners flipping the it-e cards. They win and lose just as old er people do at games of chance. It is the element of chance that in vites these youngsters to this game of "flip,'' but this is not tihe sole reaon they are interes;ed in thesel liatle pictures. There is a reward of $10 for a complete set of pictures and this helps as an incentive to collect The pictures. ' It is funny to hear a great big old ase hardened'' sinner preaching about the harm of these kds flippmfg their pictures. Old reprobates who have bought and sold .cotton 1hat nev er existed. by the hundred bales; who put up "sead'' on the home team ev er time they play; who never, misseu a horse race when the opportuntiy to be present was offered; who drop their nickles in the clock every time they buy a cigar or drink a glass of soda water in the 'hope that they may get three; who take chances at every raffle that comes their way-theseI f.?llows, fitting their thumbs and fin gers together, drawing down the cor ners of their mou:Ths, and talking about the harm of the kids flipping the pictures is like unto a fool par ent with -a six-inch stogie in his mouth, telling his child it is wrong to smoke. You remember well the day when von were a .boy, when you with other boys had pockets full of red ballo, scaly barks or something of the kind, how you took a handful,heH Fi-)ut to our eronyx..uttering withal i a ban tering spirit the word "'hull gull'' hand full. How many? etc. You Iwere not prompted by a spirit o.f gambhling. You did yourself no harm by it. It was all i'i a sp:it oF pa Suhi is the ease with the little kids :hev will get uo harm to them selves. or- any one else, flipping the You know there is altof hypoe~ i hin the world. Sometimes the big rest old sinners are the onies who have the most to say ab)om1 regrulat in the conduect of their neighbors. Aknd it has often appeared to me that we have mistaken idecas -i to ti.? hiei games()~4ehance Forinl5ton-el- thler e "ret wrong~ to het on a game of cad an(V~i~d it is gambllinig. but to bet n rise or fall oft ihe- ,en"r or the '' ildmaket is onily legiitimate buis inss Thrat is thet way somre of thlese old. ysl0ok at it. Wheni I was voung we boys and gairls i the coun try used to play hull gull, hand full, with ebinquepins and [ thave many times had my pockets full when the "'luck' came my way and then I have gone broke. It was all in a sPi4it of fun and I am no gambler in the sense that I make my living mit playing the markets or the .cards. It is as much gambling to bet on the diistance across the street as it is to bet four a.ees against four kings. -0 I would not have any oin to con elude frQm this that I favor gambling in any shape, for I do not, but I be lieve thai we can sometimes become too g-od in our own conceit. --- There are some people so good that thev think it is a sin for the other fellow to take a glass of beer, but not wrong to take one thiemselves. In the old days when we had pure stuff it was kept on the sideboards as one of the family necessities and there were not many sots. B-.t I _,eckon I am all wrong in my notions a-nd I must try to accommodate myself to the new conditions, but I just. could iiot help saying something. Let the town boys play "flip" and the coun try boys ''hull gull, hand full'' if they wam to. It will not hurt them. Mr. Idler: Having read your ar tiele about the old cour: hoz. I have thought a great deal about it. I can't agree with you in that it -should be sold, nor should it be removed. It is about the only landmark left in the town and it seems to me that the ex terior of the building ought to be kept in good repair, as -nearly like the original as possible. Other towns neither so old nor so large as Newberry have public free libraries, with beautif-i'andsplendid ly equipp.: bmilding N my itiea is for the county to give this build ing for a Public Free Library. If this were done I am sure that the enerous,. e-spi: ' l/tLeus of New.berry would soo-n raise sufficient funds to equip the building. Am equally satisfied that the ladies of the Civic Association and the Library Club would volunteer their services in putting this movement in fine run ning order. .Now, Mr. Idler, raise the standard and push the work and see how quick lv all Newberry will rally to your aid. L. 0. ---- It seems to me that I read some thing in the newspapers some time ago about a meeting in Newberry at which a Mr. Huntington was present and a movement was started to orga nize a Y. M. C. A. with a view to utilizing the old court house iii a way tha.t. would .be of benefit to the people of the whole county. I suppose noth in has come of it. Why not ask the promoters of this movement if they expect to do anything. Tbat is it. Do something. Not talk and write and meet, but do things. That ia what we need in this good old town. I noticed some few issues back the editor of The Newberry Herald and News had a long Philipie about sub scription accounts which had not been paid.' Well, it'- is too bad that he should have been treated so bad but it is ever thus. To make the average man think well of you you must make him pay you. If you have got the coin you are all right. It takes the place of a multitu.de of other thi-ngs and adds great affec tion. But I started to quote a para graph I saw the other day and maybe some of those delinquents will take pity and send you a few silver dol lars to help save your life, Mr. Edi tor. Here it is: "W. rea.d the other day.'' says a Missouri editor, ''where a fellow was shot and his life was saved by the bullet striking a silver dollar. Now, should we happen to get shot before you p)ay up your subscription and there is no dollar in our pocket to stop the .ball. we shall always pre sme vou might have saved our life.'' The Idler. - --\Wh d .>u'i you tell people you uz. wit (ook or Peary ?' inquired the townl sot. . . . * [ .e enough ahuse as it 1, reL~ ded the wanderini.g one.-Lo uisvile orir-Journal. MRS. TILLMAN AS A HSTF35. Story of Their Courtship, Their Ideal Family Life at Trenton and in Washington Described in Sympathetic Style. Writing in The National Monthly upon "Women of the Democracy at Washington," Miss Isabel Joyce says some very interesting things about the wife of the senior senator from South Carolina. Her ar ticle follows: Scarcely had the shades of the last session of congress iarawn when so ciety fled to the seashore and moun tain. vet even now there are signs of returning official life in Washington and it will be a matter of only a f< weeks before the social wheel will be whirling around as gayly as of old. Each year there are new faces to be met in all circles of society, -new homes to visit, new hostesses to han dle the social ribbons and new diver sions to lift the ordinary monotony which is bound to characterize, more or less, the regular calendar of the year. The coming of these interest ing additions .to the smart colony at Washington is always an event of great importance, particularly to the women of the capital. for there is al ways more or less anticipation in what is to be expected from these new hostesses. But, even with this keen anticipation and the new glo ries which always open with the eom ing of new social lights, the place so long filled by women who have been established here many years are. the interesting and familiar corners to; those who spend their winters in' Washington. Congressional hostesses of long residence at the capital have established not only a clientele of their own but their positions are rec ognized by every lement in society whether they make the usual social ''splurge'" which is so often. expected of the majority of t-hem or whether they keep within their homes and draw about them the men and wo men in whose society they find real companionship. These women are, after all, the ones who actually enjoy 'their winters in Washington because through their own way of ' doing things they are able to have about them just the people they want, to go where and when they please and to overn their social career here ae cording to the way it suits them best. Such a hostess is Mrs. Benjamin Ryan Tiilmau,. wife of tahe fiery and picturesque senator from South Caro lina. The Tillmans have one of the most attractive apartments in Wash inton in the Toronto, a smart new apartment house just across fashion able Dupont Circle and within a stone 's throw of the homes of the Leiters, the Robert Pattersons, the Boardmans and the Herbert Wads wort'hs, a group of homes which 1brought to the section of Massachu setts and Connectieu;t avenues the name of "Millionaire 's *Colony" Mrs. Tiilman is the .daughter of Samuel Starke, a distinguished citi zen and extensive land owner of El bert county, Georgia. The circum stances of the meeting ,be.:ween the future United States senator and the young girl who was to be his bride are more than ordinarily interesting and romantic. It was during the trou blous days of the Civil War w-ben the South was overrun with Union sol diers and when homes and lives were being sacrificed in the cause of the States. Miss Starke, a fascinating Iyoung miss of 15, was seated in her father's house one afternoon when two elderly ladies and an emaciated boy drove onto the plantation. The little party was on its way to some se cluded spot where the boy might re cover from a serious illness and stopped at t-he Starke plantation to rest. In those days every Southern home held i.ts door open to visitors and the two elderly ladies and their young charge, since known to- fame as "Ben" Tillmnan, were made comn Ifor tab:e for several days. A little more than three years later thle boy, 21 and fully restored to health, and he popular ;daugh ter of Samuel Starke were married. The romance, whib began under thio<e conditions, Ihas 'never lost its fervor and to-day the devotion of Senator andQ Mrs. Tilman (o each other is one of the congressionaL ser, wm puu wiw something like proprietary pride. Mrs. Tillman is one of the notable women in Washington society who does not crave the distinction of being a social lea;der. She is devoted to her home and her children and finds the greatest source of her happiness in the life and work of her distinguished husband. Senator Tillman has his enemies. Neither they nor he make any secret of this and be cordiality with which he is disliked by some members of both houses in congress is rarely concealed by either party to the pact. A writer once said that such a man as Tillman is the despair of analysis because he draws to him self the deepest affection and the most bitter ihatred. There is no medium with him. His big heart is the joy of those who are near and dear to him and his sharp and vitriolic tongue have been his undoing with many statesmen and with some of his con stituency. An opponent once said of him to a faithful Tillman servant: "Joe, I'm afraid lightning will strike your master some day." And Joe replied: 'Naw, suh. Marse Tillman is lightnin' hisself." Of this same old servant, Joe, Sen ator Tillman once said, in attempting to analyze the strong affection he felt for him: "I don't know whether Joe be longs -to me or I belong LO Joe." It is these traits throwing a side light on the character of the senator from South Carolina wohich have en deared his family to him. No social obligation is sufficiently important to take Mrs. Tillman away from his side in the evening or to leave vacant the seat in the senate gallery which she always occupies when her husband is scheduled for a part in .the debate. She knows polities like a book and is a constant reader on all political and economic subjects. 'The scope of her knowledge and understanciing is al most as great as that of her husband and not only does she contince her study of these subjects,'but it is her actual enjoyment. One of the great est bonds in the affection of me.n bers of the Tillman family for each other is their unde Aanding of the great questions of the day. Senator Tillman is a man who cares absolute ly nothing for society and any of its functions would prove an insufferable bore to him. He positively refuses to take any part in the socia.l program at Washington and wherever his pleas ure lies there also is the pleasure of his family. As a result of this, Mrs. Tillman is to be found unfailingly in the smart apartment off Dupont Cir le every evening throughou,t the ses sion of congress, either reading to her husband or discussing with him some of the political problems which are at ;:hat time meeting witih nis attention in the United States senate. Interest in her husband's career, however, is'hy no means the only one in Mrs. Tillman 's life. She has gain: ed a reputation throughout her own State and in many o.theis in the South for her splendid success in raising as paragus. Her asparagus beds cover five acres on the Tillman farm in Trenton, S. C.. and the family has not only enjoyed its products bu't many of their friends have been supplied with the delicacy and showered praise on its diligent sponsor. Mrs. Tillman is so interested in .this part of their fine farm t'hat when she is in Washington she continues hier instruction for its care and reports are made regularly 'to her of its progress. Mrs. Tillman has one of 'the finest gardens in the State of South Carolina. Indeed, sev eral of her South Carolina friends de elare it is quite the finest. Her chrys anthemums are said to rival those of Japan in the size and brilliancy of their coloring and her roses are note. 1througout the communiity. IMrs. Tillman is deeply devoted to her grandchildren, those of Benjamin Tillman, Jr., who is associated with his father in the latter's law practice. The youngsters spend much of the winter time in Washintgon with the senator's family and practically all of the summer at their grandparents' ome in Trenton. The Tilmans have another sou~ anid three dlaughters. The olest dlaug:hter. Miss Loua Tillmian, dhisenses all (f the social obligat ions of the family, while her imother dle