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VOL XLVIlA No. 86 NEWBERRY, S. 0.. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9,.190*9 TIEAWE..0AYA * THE IDIER. * - * * * * * Somebody has sent The Idler a copy of a' part of a Spartanburg pa per-I think it is the Spartanburg Herald. There were two pieces marked. One of them is headed., "Playground." The other is as fol lows: "The ' Playground.' How would that sound, with some honored citizen's name in the blank, through all -the .coming years" Just what I have been trying to suggesc to some of our people who have means, but I can't get a noise of any kind that would sound like that. A playground and a park are about the; same thing. The purpose is the same. What a great blessing one would be to Newberry and no town the size of Newberry has the natural advan tages that we have for making a most beautiful park. Well, it will come some time and the words I am wast ing now will ,bear fruit in the coming years and some one will give the park or start: the movement, even after I am gone and forgotten. So it comes, I don't care anything about the ered it. The people who really do things don': get the credit for the doing. T- e article in this Spartanburg pa per says: "Thiekening density of population steadily brings new con ditions to which timely readjustments must be made, if we would escape se vere penalties hereafter." Now that sounds good, doesn't it ? I wish I could write like that and maybe I could arouse our people to the im portance of getting busy in the build ing of a park as I have suggested. I mean, maybe I could get some one to make a noise like starting the ball rolling. No town has superior nat ural advantages. The north fork of Scott's ereek from the railroad. to Glenn street would make an ideal park. Listen igain to this Spartan burg editor, I suppose it is the editor: "Gifts of playgrounds to the city, dedicated forever to the childhood of our community and named after the donors would be a fine expression of civie spirit, for instance. In any ease, however, it is a matter to be think ing about. j Yes, something to be thinking about. That is good. Anything to keep us thinking, or to put us to thinking. I mean the people. As for me, I am thinking all the time. Sometimes thinking about where I .will get money enough to buy bread and sometimes thinking about the dlothes I will wear during the win ter, or rather where I will get any at all, and sometimes and mostly think ing about the improvement and beau tifying of this good old town of Newberry and how I ean best get the people aroused to the importance of doing things as they ought to be done. Well, any hinag to get the peo ple t@ think. Tha.t is .what makes life and what distinguishes man from~ the brute. The power to think. but what good is the faculty if it is niot exercised. You remember the tal enz spoken of in the Good Book. 'I'he man who buried his for fear he w ould lose it -what became of him'? Now, you people who have talents, vou troiuld b'2tter put them to use and not bury them in .some old bank vault. What good will they do in .there. I read in some paper te other day where some citizen of one of the pro wressive tow-ns of this State had sued +the town for injuries received from falli ng in a hole in a, sidewalk,, aind *that he had gotten a verdict for sev' erai thousand dollars. and that the town had cart ied the case to the sn ,preme court and the supreme court *had sustained the verdict of the low .er eourt, and the town will have to ~y ap. T simply mention this as a warning to the city council of New berry, and would suggest that the city attorney 'look up this case and .eail it to the special attention of city courmeil. Not that there are any holes in the sidewalks on any of the streets of Newberry-oh. no. not that-but voa know these are valuable things to have--I don't mean the holes--I meain this is valuable informatiwn to ;s.e -emma -jfhe official family circle so as to prevent aceide7ts. I think it was .some wise guy who said an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. -0 Did you see what Tim Murphy said in a speech whic he made in New York the other day. Well, I mean during the time they had the race on up there for mayor. You know, Tim, f course you do. Well, some of those yellow journals made Tim mad and he proceeded to give vigorous ex pression to his feelings, and it was strong, and it might have been Hearst's paper he was talking about. Anyhow, that does not matter for my purpose. Tim is a big, broad-should red Irishman who is a senator, and who has risen.from the bottom by dint of his own efforts, and Tim has ability, too, and you need not forget that. You know, when an Irishman has ability he is a strong man and be never fails to be out-spoken. Well, Tim, in the course of his remarks made this wholesome utterance: "I am going to pay my attention to a man who is trying to do two things that are impossible at the same time -run a newspaper and run for of fice.'' I thought this -iaight have a local application and if the editor didn't blue pencil it that it might carry a good lesson. There may be some people who can run a newspa per and run for office at the same time, but those who are successful at either, when trying to do both, are rare birds. The man who runs a newspaper like one ought to be run can never ;hope to be successful as a politician, and it takes a politician to win office. The people have about abandoned the old idea of electing statesmkn to office. In fact the man who tries to be a statesman, even, is generally a statesman out of a job. What ao.the people want with a man who does not agree with them and who has ideas of his own and w1o is willing to exprEss them? The sue essfuL candidate is the one who ha:s a nosefor the popular scent and who has the wisdom to follow it and at the same time make the people be lieve he is leading them and in the way they want to go, or think they do. But this is none of my business, as I am neither a statesman out of a job, nor a politician hunting a job. but I just can't help telling the truth sometimes. They say that the report has,been started that the White House is in fested with mice in the hope tbat it may not be infested with the suffra gettes. That may keep them away but I doubt it very seriously. It will take more than a few mice to scare a real woman suffrage advocate. Why is it anyway that women are so afraid of mice. Or is it really true that they are afraid of mice. To tell the truth I am not fond of mice my Did you ever see sueh a quiet can' paign in this city. You would not imagine that so great a prize as the maoralt.y of the city of Newberry was the prize ahead, to judge by the st.illess of Qhe. political,atmosphere. An yet it is tru2. Well, I am glad it is that way, ia. I L)pe the peop~o will just wa3k up to the polls and register t.heir preference in tihat same quiet and dignified manner. There is no necessity for any great big fuss over the matter or for any one to get excited. And no one should get mad with any one else. I see from the papers that there is to be a mass meeting at which the candidates will be expected to addre;s the voters. I would like to b? at that meeting but I uess I can 't get there as I am op posed to going out of nights. In fact, it doesn't agree with me. I want o avise. however, that the meeting be a quiet and dignified one and that every candidate who wants to speak e given a patient and dignified hear :Mr. Idler :-Some months ago, there was a lot of discussion in the maazines and reviews about a pro posed law to be passed in England to un the clock forward one hour and it was argued that by so doing. ev everybody would go to their work at their accustomed ''hour'' and they would thereby gain one hour's worli n each day. The propositon was not .-2u, but it sems that it has been adopted ki a modified degree in .Newberry witih. our City clock. We have a clock that keeps-excel lent time and seems to be perfectly regulated, for I have noticed for the past three or four months it has been just exactly four.minutes slow, which shows that if it were properly set, it would keep correct time. Last week, it suddenly hanged and now it is running about eight minutes fast, and I notice this morning that the Graded school bell has adapted itself to this time. This undoubtedly causes embarrassment and useless trouble to many mothers in town in getting their children off to school nearly ten minutes earlier these late mornings, and besides it causes trouble and in convenience with the business man who usually has a watch that keeps the correct time, and he is therebyl forced, in making or keeping engage ments, to guess whether he shall act by the correct- time or by the city time. This could be easily remedied by asking Mr. Strickland at the Tele graph. office the correct time, setting the clock by that time and then we would all know "where we are at." If nobody else will attend to it, I would suggest, Mr. Idler, that you look after it yourself for you tell us that you have nothing to do and I am satisfied that your time would be occupied in a good cause. if you would look after it. Tempus. Now, that is very nice and I feel highly complimentedfor tobe a gen tleman of leisure,whose only business is to look after the com'fort and hap piness and welfare of the .people of the community, is a distinction a citizen less important than I am might be proud of. Of course I will have this bell or clock matter attend ed to at once. It is too bad to have our people going too fast and it was equally as bad to have them moving too slow. It is just as easy to have the right time and the town elock ought to bt the standard, but you know bigger towns than Newberry have had trouble regulating their town clocks. Columbia, for instance. Now, Mr. Mayor, .can't you have this town elock adjust itself and get the e'orrect time every day at noon'? Sup pose you t-ry it. I want to report on it Friday. Do it uow. 'How wouild it do foi- Urile ~Brigs to get ani OpiiEr *as to whether or not the old con*t hoiise could be sld. The more I 'think about his su1gges tion Ithe more I am getting around Wd his idea. Almost anything will be better than what we have now. The town could buy it and put up a park all around it. Of course, the price would ndt be large. I would be op posed to selling it to individuals or private parties. It would take con siderable money to put it in condi tion for a library oi- rest room, bu once repaired it would be aa excel lent place for rest rooms and for public meetings. We have sorme sort of library association in the town iow. so I am informed, and if this ballding were secured, it would be er.!arged and .t.be usefulness of the as:; eiatioti would be enlarged. There woul-d have to' be strict rules adopted for the managrent and they would have to be enforced and the city would 'have to provide a keeper or li brari'an and a jai>tress. It is a sug gestion worthi thinking about and I won,ld be glad to have suggestions from our citizens. Now, take hold of this. Don 't do like you did in the movement for a Y.M .A. Talk and meet and talk and meet again, but do nothing. It is time now to .do something. Why can 't Newberry do something. Do something for the general welfare. I 'uggested once before dhat you write the word now backwards and see what you get. I want to ask all the teachers of the county to have all the pupils go dto the blackboard once a week and write now and then use the same letters reversed. One of the 'reat faults of our Southern people is procrastination. That is a bigger word than I am in the habit of us means get your dictionary. We seem to have adopted the motto "Never do to-day what you. can pu.t off until tomorrow.'" We are never just ready. Do it now. -0 I hear the street carnival is to be here. I told city council that we did not need a carnival but my advice was not heeded. Now let us have good order~ and no shooting for the stray bullet might do harm as it did before. ing. The Idler. NEWS OF WHITMIRE. Sad Death of a Little Boy.-New Buildings Going Up.-Whitmire Climate Gives Health. -Whitmore, Nov. 8.-Mr. and Mrs. Win. Coleman have returned from a ten days' stay in New York. Miss Winnie Henderson, a eharm ing young lady of Maybinton, is vis iting her sister, Mrs. M.- E. Abrams. Mrs. J. E. Nunamaker ana baby, of Columbia, after a pleasant visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Young, hive returned to their home. Mr. George Young is spending some time with his sister, Mrs. J. E. Nunamaker, and .taking in the State fair. Dr. and Mrs. H. K. Boyd have re turned from Columbia. They attend ed the circus which .they say was fine, and saw the beginning of- the fair, returning to Whitmire Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Cofield are at home again. They spent several days of last week with Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Rice at Carlisle and visited their son, 'George Cofield, at Mr. Epps Tucker's. Mrs. Isom, of Greenville, left for home today. She has been visiting her daughter, Mrs[ J. W. Hipp. Mrs. Maggie Buckner, and son, af ter a stay of almost a year with her mother, Mrs. Tidmarsh, have gone to their home in Colorado. Mrs. Buck ner came here just from the hospital. A year of rest and the delightful eli mate of Whitmire restored her to perfect health. Mr. David Duncan is having bail a nice brick, store joined to the hand some brick building already occupied by the Glens-Lowry Co. and Cooper Co. Rumor says that in this new building Messrs. Tom and Alpheus Watson will conduct an up to date grocery store. Miss Willie Rice visited her'sister, Miss Frances Rice, Saturday and Sabbath. Again death has entered ouf fuidst nd taken from us Fay Moore, the bright, handsome boy of Dr. and Mrs. James Moore. Fay was taken with gastritis on Sunday and died Thursday. He suf fered 'intensely all the while. All that a fond father and nmoth.er and loving friends could do was done to alleviate the suffering and save the child but God called and the little fellow went to join the other broth er and sisters who have crossed the river. Fay was a manly boy of about nine summers, miuch beloved by hi~ plamates. How touching it was tc see the little school-mates come, each with a handful -of flowers to lay on the casket. This death is unusual l sad because just a year ago these parents lost their oldest daughter Every true heart in Whitmire i~ touched with sadness and sympathy Heavy Rain and Hail. Whitmire was visited Saturday morning by a severe rain and hai strm. The rain began about hall past seven and fell in torrents fo nearly an hour. Hail fell with the 'rain all the time, many of The stones being very large. The ground wa literally covered with it. In drifts i1 was four or five inches deep. One day we are in the lap of sum mer. the next mot'her earth is wrap ped in her madtle of white. Perhaps President Wmn. Taft, no being accustomed to our sunn: Sothern clime thought best to bring the winter wiuh him. Nita. An Approach Shot. The Golfer (to the clergyman he ha: just beaten at golf)-Never mind, ol hap: vou will get even with me whei you read my burial service. The Clergyman-That will still b< yor,o,,- aside -leveland Leader. TAFT DELIGHTED WITH .HIS YISIT SAW MUCH OF INTEREST IN COLUMIA. The People Pleased With Him, and Hope fo See Mr. Taft Again. Columbia State, 7th. Not with pomp and circumstance, but with a genuine and democratic expression of sincere intere3t the peo ple of South Carolina va riously assembled in Columbia yes .terday gave a Southern greeting to the president of the United States, William Howard Taft. From ithe moment he alighted from the train until he again resumed his travel, Mr. Taft was impressed with, the spirit of the people, and. there were several incidents which evident ly touched him. He spoke with great earnestness at the luncheon yesterday afternoon. The city was decorated in great profusion, and this pleased the pres ident. The orders and planas of the out to the letter, and this also pleas ed. But what seemed to cause him most happiness was the presence of the school children on the university ca,mpus, and the presence of the wo men in the balcony at the luncheon. This was indeed something new. Mr. Taft appreciated the sentiment of the occasion, that this was an ex pression from the people of a great State and not an affair of a mere municipality, and he spoke with great pride of the fact that he was for. the first time in all of his 24,000 miles of travl being entertained at table in a State capitol. '.The president was escorted to the city yesterday by Gov. Ansel and Mr. Gonzales,, who had gone to Charles ton the eevning -before and after en joying .the dinner as members of the party at Mr. Taft's table, brought him on to Columbia. Mr. Taft met many of the mem bers of the dinner party when they assembled at the State capitol. The party was really a few minutes ahead of time and the luncheon was ran on schedule -time. In the meantime, the president had a great many mem bers of the party presented to him and they were all delighted. He im pressed all as being a man who can adapt himself to all conditions and In his swing, around the city, the prsident saw a .great' many things which. were to him unique and inter esting. The Baptist church of seces sion fame was one of these. He seemed in a particularly receptive frame of mind and listened to all that was told him of conditions in this State. In fact, he seemed really to enjoy himself. There were a good many features of the day and all were good, but one of the examples of patriotism was the conduct of the militia whose mem bers were on duty all day long, and many of them at financial loss. The Clemson cadets and the mili tia comnanies made a pretty picture of the State house yesterday when on guard duty. And Columbia has had a president here for the first time since Wash ington. it is said. He was reeeived cordially, t.hough without fawning or affetation. The American people seem everywhere to like the person ality of the man. President's Public Address. President Taft was heard by thous ands of South Carolinians at the fair grounds. He was introduced by Governor Ansel. The president said: "Gov. Ansel, Citizens of South Caroina. Ladies and Gentlemen: I em a 'ttle hit embarrassed in ad dressit~ ; his au'dienee because my anxiety is to reach those people in South Carolina that really have in fluence, and they are clear over on the seats. I do not like to separate those who think they are in comn and those who are actually at . I"It is a great pleasure, my deaV i friends, to be here, and it is a great pleasure, at the capital of this State, to address such an audience, to meet h.- Ad.ngnisheid citizens of this State, and in the names as they are pronounced to have recalled the great events in the history of the United States, in which -their families and their ancestors have taken part. I do not wonder that Gov. Ansel says that this is the greatest State in the United States. Great is South garolina. "Every South Carolinian not only ought to think so, but he inevitably does think so. Linked in a remark able way with another State in the far north, Massaehusevts, while they are distant from each other, they have played parts together and parts apart, in such a way that they are singled out from all the other States as a pair, and when you hear a Mas sachusetts man say that ~he comes from the Ireatest State in the Union you sympathize with - him. And when you hear a South Carolinian say the same thing, you sympathize with him, and you understand both. "Now this is an agricultural go ci6ty. Unfortunately I am an urban product. I never could get'votes by telling how I drove the plow. But one must be blind indeed to the progress of. this country and to the proper understanding of real ad vance in civilization and in the great arts of peace who does not realize the supreme importance vf agricul ture and the, ifimense strides that have taken place in its cultivation in the last two decades. "Such organizations as this make for progress. A farmer to-day needs to know as much as a lawyer . or a doctor or a minister in the *ay of scientific knowledge of the soils and how they are treated and of stock and breeding, and in addition to that he has to have practieal sense, business sense, persistence and endurance, that sometimes we think lawyers can get along without. If I, were advising young men who had no predilection in favor of any profession I should ad vise them to become farmers. - I do not know but down here I ought to say planters. Perhaps -that gives it an additional Jignity. But I am inclined to think that the meA that call themselves planters are or dinarily lawyers' or doctors who dO a little farming, and they don't ini prove the farmine by the pursuit of the other profession. ''You-and if I had not known it ever since I entered the Southern belt, I shoul know it by your e:* presons of .contentment---have cot ton at from 14 to 15 eents. As -I stid down the road, I brought up from Chaleston, and I think, that is some thing, I brought both your sens40tQe nd your governor in the same e*i,. and I learned there whiat I had had a dim impression before, that my brother, Senator Smith, has a good deal to do with that 15-cent cotton. "Now, do'wn in-where- was it, oh, in Maon-they had an arch with cotton bales and over the top-it must have been an Ohio man, I can not think it was a Georgian-had put the sign 'Taft and 15-cent Cotton, Prosperity.' Well, I am so innocent of hving ha7d anything to do with that, I withdraw, I waive my claim and yield to Senator Smith. I under stand that you have a great crop of ctton, too. Now, don't make any admiions, of course, about that. I have talked with a good many farm ers and when I ask what the per entage was, or whether it was equal to last year, there was a kind of a dim obscurity in his estimate, as if, at least I suspected that, perhaps I am wrong in it-tha!t if it became known that the crop was large it bight affect the price that those who are in Europe yearning for it would be willing to give for it. I bad the ,benefit of the company of your two distinguished senators and the governor in coming from C~harleston here, and they have at tempted to explain to me the agri enlture of your State, and the varia'. tions in it, and the great opportun ity there would be, if we are going to water some dry land in the West y the expenditure of Unele Sam's reveue, how we might get that wa ter and drain it out of your land down near the.eoast. 'I am not prepared to say that either senator was <(nvinced that you gra co nsina.1 layer and