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Q tW5E VOL XLVI NO. 86 NEWBERRY, S. C. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 5. t909TW 1 L. nia -ABOUT pERSONS AND THINGS. News Briefly Told.-Gathered From In and Out of the State, Nation and World. It is estimated that the plurality for Gaynor will reach 60,000 or more. II appears that Tammany has elect ed head of ticket, but lost the\offi cials who control purse strings of the City. Hearst ran a poor third. Estimates from 900 election districts placed him 32,000 behind Bannard, who in turn was 39,563 behind Gay nor. 0hairman A. M. Rodway. of the reoubican central committee,, has 'issued a statement claiming the ma jority election of Herman Baehr, re publican. Mayor Johnson, democrat, has been notified that Baehr has car riedi the city. Johnson is now serv inz his fourth term as mayor of Cleveland. The Geographic Society hails Peary's feat, and votes him a gold medal for discovering the North Pole. Experts agree as to the Cbm maader's achievement, after passing on his records and inspecting his in struments. A sub-committee of ex perts has been appointed to probe in to the matter of Dr. Cook's discov ery, with authority to send for such papers and make such journeys as may be necessary to arrive at some keinite understanding. At the regular fall meeting of the Carnegie Hero Fund commission Wednesday, fifty persons through this country and Canada were re warded for acts of bravery and il lustrious, conduct. The balloon, Melba II, with Capt. John Berry as pilot and Miss Julia Horner as aide. ascended at St. Louis Wednesday, in an effort to seeure ,the Lahm cup. Dusty. and travel-sore the cara van of autoists reached Atlanta in a blaze of glory, shortly after one o kelock Wednesday. This is the most successful cross country tour ever inaugurated. Judge Mann's majority for govern -or of -Virginia is about twenty-five tjhouxsand. .The legislatilve result assures the re-election of John W. Daniel to the United States Senate. Thirty of the students of the Georgia Military Academy who were poisoned last week, are still in bed bu: are reported to be doing very well. George W. Murray the colored ex congressman of Sumter, is now in Chicago pending negotiations for his extraet ion to this State. Murray was conlvjieted of forgery in Sumter in 1904 and there isan indictment against him charging perjury. The petitiou asks for a pardon on the conditiont that he remain out of the State. The paper has a large num ber of -ignatures. *C ongressman~Wyatt Aiken of the Third District of South Carolina, de elared Tuesday that he would intro.. duee a bill for prohibition in the Distric: of Columbia, at the next session of Congress. Mr. Aiken is a membe- of the house committee on the -District of Columbia, and he be lieves the prohibition in the SoutF wherever it has been tried has prov en berneficial to the people. A ;vnug rattle snake with two per feetly oimed and developed heads, eaeh uea displaying a forked tongue of livly characteristics. was found bv a er farmer at Rinede ou the A ly river. L. C. WXheeler of the United States secret -ervice arrived in the City of Chart:< onl Monday and met the comn mittee in c-harge of the arrange mnents for the reception of the Pr-es ident. going over the plans and mak in -rrstionts suchi amendmnents as w bete insur.e the safety of the ;pr-identt on hi viit Caa:. George B. Dean, aged ~0 years7 died at his home in Spartan ,,r, Tueda'r morning after a long illness. Capt. Dean was prominent in polities of the cou-ny for many r years, representing the county in f Legislature, and for eight years i was slheriff of the county. Before his I death he was one of the most sue- c cessful farmers in the county. i: I r Gov. Ansel was Tuesday notified by the navy department that the battle ship "South Carolina'' will not be tompleted until the 15th of t January, and that it will be two or three months before she can be got ten into shape to be sent to Charles ton for the ceremonies incident to the presentation of the silver service. f The presentation of the silver ser vice, which will cost $5,000 will have to be postponed until a later date, and the desire of Governor Ansel to have the members of the legislature attend the fete in a body will have to be calleed off. At Hamburg on Monday what nearly proved to be a fatal accident occurred, when an aeroplane that was being driven by a mechanic Pequet, began to burn and a moment afterw,ard the benzine tank exploded. Pequet succeeded in gliding to the earth, but the danger of burning to death was so pressing that he jump ed from the machine while it was fifteen or twenty feet from the ground and sustained injuries about the chest which are probably not se rious. News was received Monday morn ing from Dr. J. P. Crawford, -of Nashville, Tenn, of the sad death of his oldest child, Edward, who was sealded a few days ago by hot tea, and died from the effects of the burn Monday morning. Dr. Crawford is a native of York County, and a form er resident of Rock Hill. Mrs. Craw ford before her marriage was Miss Jennie Russell, of Rock Hill. Prof. Thaddeus S. C. Lowe. the noted aeronaut and scientist, and ,ead of Mount Lowe observatory near Pasadena, Cal., has planned to circumnavigate thd globe in a dirigi ble balloon, without stopping to re plenish the hydrogen.. He is now at work on this air craft designed to a, complish this remarkable feat. A. Eugent Byrne, a fourth year man at the United States MilitaryI Acadiy, who received injuries in a ame of foot ball at West Point, died1 Sunday morning in the citadel hos pital at 6.30 o'clock. He was only twenty-one years old, but was a vet eran of the army foot ball team, and was a resident of Buffalo, N. Y. Twelve men were killed in tihe Cambria Steel company 's coal mine, two miles from Johnstown, Pa., Sun day night as a result of whait is sup posed to have been ..a dynamite ex-! plosion. All the dead are foreigners. Three men escaped by a perilous climb on life ladders through poi sonous mine gas and falling slate up the walls of the.main shaft. At the time of the expl.osion only fifteen men were at work Ui the mine. * TEIDLZ I have beeti tiuking a good deal during the past few days about the matter contaiined in the article or questions of U:iele Brigs. Now ini the first p;ace~ I want~ to) congratullate Unele Brig f>r his good sense mi agreeing wit me~K about --iip.' but I mYust contess tiat his admission that hie does not know what t':e Igame is almost argues him a thous and years.behind these times. I'll bet -that is if i: is not against the stat utes-that every boy from Newberry to Smokey Town can tell him all Iabout the game. But that is not I here nor there. Uncle Brigs knows all about "'hull gull. 'hand full'' and that draws him near to me. Just to hear it mentioned recalls pleasant 'efoies of the good old times at he old countrv school house when we took ou diier~ in a tiln bucket and ourl molasses iln a small bottle and made a hole withi our thumb in he biscuit and filled tile hole wit'h molasses from the bottle and were appy all the rTay lner We went to chool then at eight o'clock iu the aorning and remained there uutil ve o'clock in the afternoon. You emember that, don't you, Uncle riggs? Well, those were the good Id days wihen we learned the alpha et before we learned to read. But ot so now. -0 But I am getting off the subject. Jncle Brigs wants to know what I hink about selling the old court ouse. Well, I think it ought to be sed for something, or it ought to be ulled down. But why not let the ountry people permit it to be used or a public library for the entire ounty. The people of the country ould get the benefit of it. But if he sentiment of the country people s agains that then I think the city )eople ought to buy it and make a )ublic library out of it, or a Y. M. . A., and get -enough of the public quare surrounding it to make a retty park and then let the ladies rom the country use it for a rest -oom. I mean make it so- there vould be several nice rooms one of hich could be used by the ladies rom the :country to refresh. them ;elves when they come to town. I hink I made the suggestion of a est room. If I didn't it is a good muggestion all the same. Uncle Brigs s mistaken. A good many ladies ome here and spend several houf's nd a good comfortable place such is here suggested would be a great 3onvenience to them and then this building is so centrally located it ould be very convenient. But if :he county is going to sell it for this purpose -the price ought to be very mall because it would be used for public purposes. Suppose Uncle Brigs ask the Newberry chamber of 4ommerce to take this matter up ind let the business men discuss it. You know I am so far removed from usiness life that I am scarcely a -ompetent judge and my advice xould not be very valuable. Some ing ought to be done. I ekpect the ewspapers are to blame. They should feep us people informed. And you %now sometimes by being quiet on the subject the people don't know just what to do. I mean the news papers keeping quiet-they don't >ften keep quiet-the people were let in the dark. T-hen we can put t on the newspapers any way. That Sa good way to get out of our part A the responsibility. But let the egislature submit the question to the people or better.. still pass an act au ~horizing the buildin~g sold. What's Lhe use of having representatives if hey must submit -every little que's ion like thi s to a vote of t-be people o tell them wha o do. Why not go head and do something. Wasn't that a light vote on the bond election~? Did you ever hear f such a thing? Forty people vot-. ing forty thousand dollars in bonds n our children. Jurst think of it. I ften wonder why our city people rake so little interest in city affairs. Vell. I hopye the thing is fixed right this time. and that the commissioniers ay be able to go ahead with the xtension of the sewerage system. 'ir. Idler: Recenftly I enjoyed a -e::stitutional through a short cut art of not more than 20 homes bu: remarkable from the fact that on his street are three churches, one on ~corner tFbat was built before the -.the other oppopsite a beautiful diee. the one in the centre of t-he ~tr't. also a fine new house of wor ~V. All have their distinct forms d ritual of the old world faith of iir fathers. Belief in Calvinistie :lotrine. 'the singing of Psalma of David. and the prayer book 'of the hureh of England. The chir--'y: ristocraev of the old world trans lanted to America, all have still the eligous sentiment tihat mark their aith and practice in Scotland and Englaad. Maybe. Mr. Idler. you got your idea as to pie eating from the fact of' this p,eculiar dissenting hurhi view -that could ntot partake vith others. But it is a truth that 'ovalt'v en.joys same pie. King~ Ed wvard is es:ueciallv fond of t,his dish ud his chief cook is paid a larger ~alary than a hanker here to prepare t for his table. The ex-Empress mond and .cream pie, with old sher ry wine flowing. And who dare say aught as to pumpkin pie. The Bos tonese skill in domestic science is equal to their intellectual aris tocracv of brain. Of such high or der that Southern schools and colleg es proudly number themontheir corps of teachers. In the pulpit, platform and chairs of oligies and isms they are sought and get a better pay 'than non-pie eaters. So I think we shall -study the art of pie making as it may prove a good brain food diet. ,But come to think of it now-I think you mean 'political pie.' Well that is so, but maybe some have tast ed it and it went down on -them. It is a difficult pie to manipulate. Great care must be taken as to the mixing ingredients. There are many things 1highly 'spiced and especially the upper and lower crust be press ed gently together as -Hot Air will burst. it open and if too near one will get a scare for life. Well, Calhoun loved ehicken pie and the simple life, preferred to sit in a rush bottom chair to that presented him by an empress and the ipasterpiece of a grand artist was not as beautiful to him as the red hills and green valleys of Oconee. He made no pretense to aristrocracy but was honored by the nobility of earth for his intellectual strength of mind and his love for his State. Scribbler. S-.0 'Now here comes 95ribbler again tal.king about a "een3titutional.' What is a "constitutional" any way? I thought only lawy:rs and members of the legislatu dae ...hlt in constitution but may he T !im %vro! r r it must evidently 1ave another mea, ;..s a2 well for su .ril.bler can't be making a raw point through a si-. sEreet. You kJ)>V when I tt.en; d pies Iinev:. .a in mind .-.dl uies and cream i a;;d such 9i:e aeleacies like thet :ut I was :hiak*.-. about tater muitard ' anc peach pies and apple pies and black berzy pies and such as we country people eat. But I am glad to know I that these people like chicken pie be cause that is an evidence of good taste. to say the least. Now as to political pie I never heard of that and don't know what it means. But .I stick to my first statement that we have good people in all of our streets. And for forms and ceremonies I am not much of a stickler. I believe in the good old time religion rather than in the form of it. In doing -things rather than in saying things. -o Now if pie is good brain food then I want to get the very best prescrip tion for pie making that Scribbler can furnish for my brain is in great need of nouris:hment. That is I un derstand some people have been kind enough to suggest that it needed somethimg-they didn't know just Iwhat it was, but I expect it was some of the same kind of pie the the Empress Eugenia had for des sert-that with the wine in it. I think I would be tempted to try it any way. May. be it would do me some good. The simple l-ife such as Calhoun led up in tihe old red hills of Oconee. Yes, I am ionging for the simple life. But pray tell me how one can live the simple life in this day of mad rush without being run over or forgotten. which is just as bad. Monroe Wicker is doing some good work on the streets now. If he just had the opportunity I am sure we would soon have some permanent sidewalks and some good streets in Newberry. We ought to do more permanient work. But that takes money. As a matter of fact a good deai of good work has been done on our streets. That sidewalk by Maves drug store is a good piece of work. Now Friend street ought to be paved to lhe depot. And that light ought to be put up in Friend street at the union station. But we can't do every thing at once. WYhat has biecome of the chamber of commerce? I do not see anything in the papers about it. The .business meni ought to get together now and they ought all 10 belong to the chamn ber of commerce and then all pull togethIer and talk Newberry . and build another mill and never mind aot the npric- of otton andK t:he threat or tie mius to .siu uuwll. . cotton stays up the price of cotton goods is going to stay up. Don't you fret. about that. We can never get too many mills in South Carolina, at least until 4e manufacture more cot ton than w e grow. The Idler. *' J. ., * -* * * * * * * *1 *1 THE SONG BIRD. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From out the recesses of a crim soning autumn wood came the sweet est notes that ever left a trembAng, slender throat of any feathered song ster. Deep and rich they rose, and floated in waves of cadence aeross the pulsing air, and trailed off along the horizon like the last whisper of some half forgotten song. They seem ed to only gather melody as they went, and to return to. the singer made stronger and sadder in their contact with the world, but at the same time they fell upon the unsus strange a note as when first trilled, because they, in their short journey, had met the blights of earthly griefs, the baffling winds of discouragement and has soared above these in an ecstasy too poignant to even dream of death. Poor little song; frail, tiny melody that spread its gossamer wings in an effort to cheer and bright en a mundane world. of grabbing hu manity, td leave the warm, red breast of a stalwart, happy little creiture, pouring out a heartful of silvery, rollieking harmony, only to, at last, heave -a pitiful sigh and fold its tired wings in a silence that rests like an awful pall upon the slayers. This is what happened to expel the blythe warbler from the green, ever blooming dales of Halcyon Land. A heavy g:oom settled down over the earth; just when the little good bye-to-summers marged the paths with a fringe of white, the lonely, unlovely old Man of Snow and Clouds mWas making his way down to earth and upon his arrival npthing would be bright. There would be no sound of laughter, no place for joy in the world, and mortals would be wrapped in a mist of tears,' from which bondage there ;vould be no re lief unless the warmth of happiness from a bird-song could be poured forth upon t-he listening ears of sad mortals. There was only one such creature in ail Halcyon Land that possessed this wonderful capacity for golden song, and he flapped his lit tie, erie wings with a willingness that was pathetie in an eagern'ess to brave the dire dangers of an un known world. Like a .crimson leaf he sailed to earth, his slender throat swelling with pent-up music. He sailed and sailed thbrough eons of', space and limitless azure, catching here and. there for his song tone and deep in tonations and expressions that should tell a tale of joy, and gladness and which would dispel the horrid gloom that went la ..- wake of the Old Mant of Snow and Clouds. His poor little wings were all a tremble with the great flight he had made, when at last he came in sight of the sorrowful world lying deep in hateful silence, nowhere could he find a place to rest his weary little body. No park could he find, with kindly, s.heltering arms of leaf-coy Ired boughs. The roofs of the houses were hard and1 cnld to tiny, pink feet that had knowni only the soft bark of trees, ead oniee when he had but lighted on the t wig / a tree a sharp crackling noise m :ne after a flash and report. and. :err''r- tricken. he once more - pred his . ired little russet wings and bete:!: himseff to a clump of woods away from the heart of the town. And here. in these he sat and rocked and poured out his soul in golden measures. and with all his might he sang, so that the song might reach the ears .of those for whomi he had come to endure this. The russet wings (juivered, bot-h with pain and joy, the bright black eyes. shone iridescently brilliant. and the s:lender. beautiful throat seemed al most bursting in an effort ,to send the clar, rich notes rineinr. ')ut be no reason for them to arouse only dead echoes of themselves. And at last there was a great burst of ra diant sunlight, the flowers all burst into a galaxy of bloom, and the gray garments of the Old Man of Sno'* and Clouds stood out in bold relief against the mellow blue of the far hills as he hurriedly beat his retreat. But this transformation lasted only a short -while, just long enough for a deep realization of the meaning- of it all to bring its lesson, and then in a wild attempt to keep the - woild laughing merrily, as the gladness faded away and the old Man of Snow and Clouds returned, the whirring wings sought the shelter of some leafy boughs in the heart of town, but none could he find, only bleak eaves of houses and dejected fences offered him a resting place. But still he sang, the notes growing indescribably sweet and mellow, the slender thtoat strained'every nerve and mus cle to prolong the glorious rapsody, only to liXt the veil, only to recall the sunlight. But the Old Man of Snow and Clouds still stayed, and the notes grew faint and more faint. A cold breath stirred the air, the notes came bubbling still but with a wierd, wild strain, and finally with a melancholy sob sank lower. and lower, until they ceased altogether. -4 The cold settled down and .closed about the heart of the golden singer as he: swayed forlornly, every nerve tense, and at last fell With aerackle like icicles and the little' bead eyes stared in frozen dullness. Once in a great while, if there is t. garden spot of a park in your vi einity there can be heard%the sweet est toned song that ever read'hes -the tired ears of mortals, and he who hears 'these notes is followed by the greatest of blessings; happiness, con 'tentment and joy will attend him, but he must have in his conunity a park, or the cold winds of the sordid world will freeze the notes in ther singer's throat, and the world will be dreary because it has not known the !bewildering melody of this bird song of Halcyon Land. Listen, and you may hear this won derful song, but first get your park and protect the n'oble ittle creature 'of good cheer. What blessings, then, may come to you. - Mirbh.' The Designer for December. A point too little ac,cented in the divorce problem is what shall become of the ahildren whose parents decide to live apart. Harriet Washburn - Stewart takes this uip in The Design' . er for December, in an article enti ted, "The Child of the Separation," pointing out stern facts and offering a practical remedy. The child wihose parents live apart is a growin'g prob lem. There are four million in the United States whose parents do not live together. This is enougg. to . make the most giddy pause and con sider. Other articles which command at tention are "The Church and the New Luxury,'' by tihe Rev. Henry A. Stimson, and "Choosing a Hus band, ',' by Helen Corinne Hambidge. These articles give some hints not in the routine of our thinking. Dr. Charlotte C. West, a New York phy sician, warns women about tubercu losis on points not usually empha4 sized. M. Landon Reed tells how to keep from having a harsh, c racked voice, which is the first thing a for eigner mentions. A Christmas relish hangs over the Designer for December. Most mag azines Santa -Claus on with a trowel; in this magazine it is a sweet breath. It shows Christmas the world around. There is a Christmas day with Pad erewski, the great pianist; a trip to the Latin Quarter in Paris on Christ mas eve; and a real Christmas story by Anne Warner. A dozen readers tell of "Christmas When I Was a Girl,' in a way to send the 'heart back half a century to maple candv and three-hour sermons. The fashions are particularly pleasing, and displayed in color. The latest in furs is give-n. and sugges tions for midwinter excursions into fnv needlework. The ntimber fits