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OL XLVI1 NO. 88 . NEWBERRY, S. Q. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 16. 1909 TWIOE AM. S15OA YEAR * THE IDLR. * ** *** ** * * * ** ** * Somebody has mailed to me the following. I had already seen it in the Columbia Record. You know, I generally have the pleasure of seeing the 'Record, and I like it. In fact generally read it, but with the oppor tunity of location and schedule the Record ought not to take so many pages of advertisements. Take more . space for the subscriber and less for the advertiser and charge the ad vertisers the same. Don't you see how I know just how the other. fellow ought to run his busiaess. And then * I have looked in vain to see an edi torial comment now and then iless than a column in length. Now that's none of mv-busi.esS either, except as a readTt have *a right to speak. Haveni-' IT y,.how I did get off the sub t stae on. But you know how eas'g that V.hen one starts out to 1el tlie otheifellow what. he ought to do. The following is the quotation or editorial: . DAR.. iNJGTON. Darlington is to have z public park. Darlington is to be congratulated on this evidenee of foresight. The: eity council has purehased for this purpovse - -traet of land iU the city, -which is described as well suit ed to the purpose, with good eleva tion and natural trees, vines and flow ers'in profusion'. Pioperly beautified and maintained, the park will be an ornament to the city. Darlington may not. need a park at this Itime. so much, but if the town expects to grow into a eity--and what town does ndt ? -she. will need iit. It is this sort of foresight Which makes a city not only beautiful bt prosperous. Dar lington is now both, and she will evi dently renlin so. Of course Darlington can have a park. Greenwoqd can have a park. Abbeville can have a park. But New berry. Somebody says we are not ready. Lets wait awhile. A little more slumber. A little more folding. of the hands together. A little more waiting. Now, let me tell you, we are not going to wait on ithis thing mueh longer and if ,these old stum blWing bloeks don't get out of the way we are going to throw them in-to the fiery furnaee and make kindling wood out of them. Do you see? Do you .heart Newberry has the natural ad vantages that no other town has for a beautiful and a central park and the park she is going to have. The thing that worries me is I am grow-1 ing older every day and I want it to Tome so that I may enjoy it just a little now and then. Have you read this: .Here is a genuine republicean edi torial from a genuine republican pa per, the Fremont (Neb.) Tribune: "Somewhere, sometime, some candi date will get up and say he doesn't care 'a doggone about public interests but wants the office for what's in it, and he'll win in a canter-voters could not help admiring such unique truthfulness." That thing will never happen in South Carolina unless I should take a fool notion to run for office and when I do I want to see a good salary! at the end of the job, I mean at the; end of each month, and thena I am' going to be honest with the dear; people and tell them frankly that I don't give a snap of my finger for them and will look after their inter ests only when my own can best be subserved. That I want the job and that I am not running because of the overwhelming demands of my friends. I know I can't be elected on such hou et: statements, because the people 'like to be fooled. But I may be fool enough to try it some of these days and if I do I am determined to make things lively. -0 Did you ever see a man or a wo man either, who was all the time hunting for trouble. In fact I have heard of people who had lots of trou -ble most of which never happened. Vnu know that 's the kind of trouble that hurts too. I saw the following interview in some paper recently and it gie a good' idea of this trouble seeker: "You look mighty sorrowful, to be walking. around in this glorious weather. Have you loit- your best friend?" t'Oh, no." "Your fortune?" 'Oh, no. I'm jest huntin' for 'irou ble. ''What?' "Jest huntin' for trouble. You see, it's this way: I kr.(,w that trou ble is comin', sure as the sun shines, an' I don't want it to take me by surprise.' -0 Have you ever seen him or her? Just stop a moment and think. We should stop hunting for old Mr. Trouble. He will some soon enough. Don't you forget that. And there fore, don't waste your energy..on him before he. arrives and you- will be stionger to. bear with him when he does come. But what's the ude for me to be writing this? 1And the carnival has silently fold ed its tents and moved to other pas tures green. ~I advised city -council against the coming of the carnival bnt they heeded me not. I suppose city council got about. $100 license and we have left a.case of small-pox to care for which will cost us about $200 and we may count ourselves for tunate if all our citizens escape the disease. And I can almost assert with no fear of contradiction that there has been no moral uplift to the com munity from the presence of the car nival We lose financially, we lose morally. Where is the benefit of the carnival? Will some one who fa vors a carnival explain the benefit. Now, Mr. Mayor, and Messrs. Al dermen, you better listen to The Idler now and then. I make no charge for my suggestions but they -are val uable all the same. Now, how about that town clock. I heard somebody say the other day that it was s;till too fast, but not quite eight minutes. Maybe -be sparrows have been riding on the right side or on the minute hand when it was climbing the hill. At any rate it would be a small mat ter to have the elock keep right time. A clock that does not is not very valuable. The Idler. No Other Ciae.. Mr. Smith, who was earried to the house of detention on account of small-pox, is still there. Another man who was Smith's companion and who was with him, has been detained also, although he has not yet developed a case of small-pox. Smith is doing as well as he could, and his partner will be detained until next Sunday, when he will be released if he does not show any developments of the. disease. The 'Carnival packed up and left Newberry on Sunday. The shows were opened during the week and it is understood were largely attended. THE INQUEST HELD. Berry's Body Carried to Greenvill.. The Testimony 4Taken at the Inqut The Herald and News on Friday printed the facts in connection with the killing of Logan Berry by the C. N. & L. passenger train last Thurs day. The Coroner went down to the scene of the accident and empanelled the jury on Thursday afternoon. The inquest, however, was adjourned to Newbefry on account of the neces sity of securing the testimony of the engineer and other people connected with the train. The inquest was resumed at New berry on the arrival of the passenger train from Greenville at 3:20 on Fri-, day afternoon, when the testimony which is printed above. wVas taken. The body as stated was taken in charge at the request of Blease and Dominick, attorneys for the road, by Undertaker Baxter. Mr. John Henry Baxter. of thris firm, embalmed the body and it was kept at his under taking parlors awaiting the investiga tion or location of the relatives of Berry. It was stated by Lawrence, who claimed that he had known Berry for only a week, that Berry 's home was in Grenie. Efforts were made to locate his people in Greenville, but o Friday morning his father was located at Gaffney. Whether he had any other people is not knoAh. The body was shipped on Saturday -to Greenville. The following was the testimony before the coroner's jury: Joe Lawrence, the man who was walking on the track. with Berry when the accident occurred, testified as follows: We were walking on the railroad track from Columbia. There was an engine just passed over the other track. We were watching it and paying no attention to the train on the track we were on. Next thing I knew the pOrter and a young man had hold of me. I was on the left hand -side. -Berry was in -the- middle or on the crossties, I don't know which. lis. name was Logan.- Berry. We .were walking. hi . Joe X Lawrence. - mark A. P. Rice, -trainmaster of the C., N. & L., who was n tihe train at the time, testified as follows: Was on C., N. & L. train No. 52 coming up. Be fore accident happened saw Southern freight. It was stinding still. . Just after we passed engine of freight I felt the air brakes applied and the train came to sudden stop Thought air hose had burst. Got off in a few minutes and saw others going back. Hurried out and got there as Mr. Lawrence was being lifted up by por ter and others not known to me. Saw dead man lying out on ground; went to ihim and saw he was dead. Engine blew below there for road crossing; not positive about hearlg any but that. A. P. Rice. D. McCrany, -the engineer on train No. 52, testified as follows: Was en gineer. on train No. 52 on the C., N. & L. road yesterday. After coming out of palt of last .curve between 38 and 39 mile posts I saw two men walking on the track with backs to ward engine- at a point 150 feet in frout of engine They were coming toward Newberry-same direction as the -ngine was coming. I sounded danger signal and applied emergency brakes, and, it looked like both of them would get off, as one of them looked back; they had aniple time to do so. Train stopped 150 yards from point of accident. Injured parties were looked after. There was no ob struction to obscure their view from either road. Signal wa blown for road crossing, which was 200 yards below there. D. McGrany. T. W. Hornsby, the fireman on No. 52, testified: Was firing engine when I heard danger signal sounded. When I looked out saw two men on track; saw one man look .back, but he did not have time to get off track,before engine struck him. I did not see but one' man hit by engine, but when I looked back saw two men lying in ditch. I heard danger signaL - -Thos. W. Hornsby. W. G. Webb, conductor on No. 52, testified: Was 'conductor on No. 52 train for Greenville yesterday. Nov. 11, 1908. Was sitting in rear car talking. to deputy sheriff of Green ville. Heard all road-crossing sig nals blown, when my attention was attraeteds by application of emergency brakes. Train was stopped by Engi neer M.eCi-any and backed up within short distance of scene of accident. In looking at the point of accident w e found the body of Mr. Logan Berry in the ditch, it 'being taken out by Mr. Caldwell and my porter. There were two laps of fongue and he passed away. Everything was done that ha man skill was known to avoi51 2v killing and to care for the injured. This happened at 1:08 p. m. The bell of the engine was being rung as we crossed over the crossing. W. G. Webb, Conductor .52. A Celebrity Signature. Tit-Bits. -Whose signature, amongst those of celebrities of to-day, is worth most from the point of view of the auto graph dealer and coilector? The question is a difficult one to answer. for the simple reason :hiat so much depends on the charaeter and im portance of the letter or document to which the signature is attached. For instance,nacnording- to a can alogue issued a short time ago by a London dealer in autographs, while a Kipling letter referring to his writ ings is worth 2 guineas, an ordinary epistle of the same writer would be sold at 1-2 a guinea. The signature of Queen Alexandra can be bought for a guinea, but attaehed. to a let ter writen in her girlhood days would fetch five and propably ten times that amount. Here . are a few of the market prices, so to speak, of other celebri ties: Sir L. Alma-Tadema, 10s. 6d., Sir Squire Bancroft, 3c. 6d.; J. M. Barrie, 5s.; Max Beerbohm, 10s. 6d.; Sarah Bernhardt, 1 pound 5s.; Mr. Birrell, 2s. 6d.; Miss Bf4don, 5s.; Hall Caine, 10s. 6d.; Mark Twain, 2 pounds 2s.;- Sir A. Conan-Doyle, 7s. 6d.; Sir W. S. Gilbert, 5s.; Rider Haggard, 4s.; and Sir 'Chiarles Wynd ham, 5s. With regard.do famous ?-fen of the past it is iiteresting,to note that, while 63 -poo-ds.0. asked for a tTennyson:4aetter, ;a Byron was only priced at gpvineas, and a. Cowper at 10 guineas. Tfie,-latter amount would. also havie bo'ght one - of Pope's, while the signature. of Sir Walter Scott was ' valued at 15 guin eas. Twenty-one pounds would have bought the signature of -George Washington, and 12 pounds that of Queen Victoria. Thirteen and 14 guineas was askbd for the autographs respectively of Dickens and Thacker ay, while that of Edward Fitzgerald was priced 'at 21 pounds. Mention of the autograph of Geo' Washington reminds one that accord ing to a New York dealer. one of the rarest American aufographs is that of Thomas Lyneh, Jr., who signed' the Declaration of Independence as proxy for his fatler, who was ill at the time. Soon after, young Tom Lynch went to sea, and was nevee heard of again. Autographs of dec laration signers are much sought af ter by collectors, and the dealer' re ferred to bought one affixed to a letter addressed by Lynch to George' Washington for 800 pounds and sold it to Augustin Daly for 900 painds. Daly sold it, and ultimately repur 'chased it for just over $1,000, even tually presenting it to the Lenox li brary, where it now is. Itvis curious to note how variable are 'the prices of royal signatures. While, as already mentioned,. 12 pounds is asked for a Queen Victoria letter,- a twvo-page epistle by the late Empress Frederick of Germany only realized a guinea. -The sign-manual of George I has been sold for 2s., that of George' III for 1 pound 63., and that of George IV for 11s.; and it is an interesting fact that, while at one sale a letter from Charles I to the Earl of Kingston, dealing with the request for a loan of $5,000, only fetched 31 pounds 10s., Cromwell's signature went for 80 pounds. There are many persons who col lect series of signatures. Some pre fer those of artists, musical celebri ties, politicians and so on. A remarkable collection was that which came into the possession of' a London bookse-iler two years ago,con sisting of parliamentary ''franks;'' or post-paid letters. Previous to the introduction of the penny post niem bers of both ;houses of parliament had' the pi'ivilege of franking or causing the free delivery of the let ters of themselves and their' friends. Thus many thousands of envelopes passed through the post signed in the left-hand ,bottom corner with the name of a member of the house of lords or columns. An enterprising gentleman succeeded in accumulating 10,000 of these franks, probably the greatest collection of autographs of members of parliament ever made. One of the most eurious collections of autographs is that possessed by a celebrated London firm of hatters, who number royalty: amongst their customers. On the back of the card board ''shapes'' from which a hat is modeled is written the name of the customer, his address, the date of the order, and other'- particulars. The person ordering the hat in most cases writes his own name, and in this way the firm have secured the signiatures of many illustrious personages. A woman is never quite satisfied until she is sure that at least three ther women envy her.. A NOTABLE ADDRESS. Grand Chancellor A. G. Rembert, of Spartanburg, Delights Newber ry Audience. Prof. A. G. Rember, of Spartan burg, Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of South Carolina, delivered in Central Meth odist church on Sunday morning one of the most notable addresses heard in Newberry in recent years. Prof. Rembert is of the faculty of Wofford college, at Spartanburg. He was chos en Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias at the re cent convention of the Grand Lodge held in Charleston. Some time ago he was invited by Newberry Lodge, No. 75, Knights"of Pythias, to: ad dress them in Newberry. He found that it would be imposbible, to be in Newberry except on Sunday,. and Dr. Woll.ing, pastor of .Centra Methodist church, and the congregation.-of 'Cen tral church. invited Prof"Rembert to deliver his address in the church. The various lodges of the. county and all visiting Pythians and the public gen erally were ivited to .hear Prof. Rembert, and there was --1arge atten dance of the memb6rs of Newbrry Lodge, No. 75, and of O'Neall Lodge, No. 154, and of Pythians who are members of other -lodges. In addi tion to the Pythians present there was an andience which completely filled the church auitorium. Grand Chandellof -Rembert chose as his suUjeet the world's need of today, and the part which the fra ternal organization of the proper character is doing and can be made to do in meeting this need. His ad dress was eloquent, strong, clear and incisive. He spoke for neary an hour and not once did he lose the undivid ed attention of his large audience. He scored the conventional barriers of society and showed where the fra ternal organization meets a pressing demand by bringing meu together in to closer relations on . the common level of manhood and merit. The speaker did not minee words, but spoke the truth as he felt it, and in a manner which convinced his hear ers. After a few introductory remarks, Prof. Rembert said that he wanted to point out some few ways by which the fraternal organization could be made a for.ee for good-was *a force .or good, and could become an ally, not a peer, of the church, but ;one of its instrumentalities for touching hu man hearts and uplifting hunian souls. He would grant, .he said, that fre quntly lodges 'did not measure up to the* standards -of tihe order of which they were a part, and members did not live up to ther obligations, but that did not detract one iota from the utility, and possible usefulness cfi the organization,. In passing, GranLChancellor Rem bert told; the ladies that ~there were no secrets of any consequence con nected with. the order. In beginning his d,ieourse, Grand Chancellor Rembert said that it was a significant fact, believing in the inspiratioi1 of the Bible; .s we .do, that Mwien we look to the first act in the drama of man's. life after he was put on his own responsibility, after being ~driven out of Eden, the first significant fact or act was the slay ing of Abel by his brother. Cain. Turn, then, said the speaker, to an other crisis in the progress of the hu man race, when the Savior may be said to have assumed his mission as teacher, Savior, Messiah. He called attention to the first act in that great drama of the world moving on to its redemption, as recorded in the first chapter. of John. In the first drama as recorded in Genesis the predomi nant note was selfishnes. Cain was dominated by selfishness, from which grew envy, shading off into jealousy, and finding its climax in hatred and murder. Turn to the other act, and! what was the predominant note ? Andrew, when he found the Savior, went to find Peter. The Savior foundi Philip, and the first thing Philip did was to go and look for somebody else. And in each instance where they sought some one else, said the speak er, the one seeking found a larger and! be:ter man than himself. As the dominant note of the former period had been selfishness, so the dominant* note of the redemptive period was service. To these two-service- and selfishness-might be traced- all the happiness and all the blessings- and on the one hand, and all the miery and suffering on the other, of hu man life. The speaker said that he desired to touch only on one side of maodern life today, and that was the side that the fraternal organization comes in. to direct contact with, or can, by ear rying out its principles, and that was the outward dominant spirit of man today of abounding egotism, insidious selfishiness and the spirit of confliet, which is. war. The speaker said that he was no pessimist, but was simply stating conditions as he saw them,. There were forces in the world today making for peace, and among thMeu he mentioned the Mohonk conferenee, the International Peace association, the Hague conference, and men and women in the smaller activities of life and through the magaziies and newspapers working in the interest of world peace. But fhose who read the newspapers could see that the people of the world largely had no faith: it these - activities. The, speaker said that he believed theseservices work ed for good, but the point of contact, the point of begiAning, for world peace, niust be sought- first in the in dividual human heart, and in smaller sections and communities than the world-wide. Beginning with the individual first, what was the attitude of the indivi dual towards his fellowt John and Bill would grow up in the same com munity. One would play have with -his life an'd the other woola rise to power and command over his fellows. When one heard of John's success the first thought was oni of a sort of envy-" why couldn't I do it, toot" The speaker said that'he-was speak ing from his own personal experience, because he had felt this spirit, .but he was, thankful that he had been able to choke it. It had been there, nev ertheless, he said. Many people had been able- to overeome it, but it was implanted in our hearts. and lives, and we showed it in our attitude towards our brothers. Take the community -life, said the speaker. He cited instances show ing that the dominant business .of the world today-that which occupie'd our minds, which we carried to bed with us, which we got up with, whieh. we went to our meals -with-was money making, getting on in the world. What is the spirit that domi nates -that dominant activity of the world todThy? he asked, and his ans wer was, War, srife. 'There was now talk df a jariff war. between the- United States and Can ada, said the .speaker, the boundaryv line between whieb eountries was the only boundary line .not paced hourly by armed sentinels on -either side of the line. There was talk of a' tariff war between the United. States and France and other countries. Tha mayor of Newberry had his tinme tak en up with thinking how .to arest cit izens, with his police paeing t-he streets in the uniform of citizens. Everything was dominated by the spirit of conflict. Call that brother hood?i he aske'd. - - The spirit of conflict, he -said, came into .the very sacred domicile of the home. One of the saddest things in. common experience was to see how brothers and sisters, nursed at the-1 same breast, sleeping side by side in the 'same little trundle bed, perhaps, and certainly sleeping in the same radle, listening day by day to the / same lullabies from the same mother, would go -out into the great world and belittle one another and speak harsh ly of one another, and, worse, than that, for the sake of a pitiful little sm, brother had .been seen in court fighting against brother. The speak er said that it was probably true that in fifty per cent, of our homes, if a will dispute should come, there would be an array of brother against br6th er, or of brother against. sister, and sometimes brotiher and sister against mother. The church itself was not exempt from this spirit of conflict. Some men and women had converted the very church into an element and means o conflit. The speaker said that he was thankful to say that the war as i denominational differces was practically over, and that these dif