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~!ao #two E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postothce at New berry, S. C.. as 2nd class matter. Friday, May 13, 1910. We are pleased to learn that the Prosperity people .are taking an in terest in road improvement. Dr. S. A. Knapp is telling ths folks to go back to the farm. Good advice. The boys better stay there. The State convention meets next Wednesday. The comet makes; its -transit the same day. We want to see the rooms of the chamber of 'commerce filled next Monday evening. Let i everybody go out and- tell these secretaries that Newberry is a rtal live town. .It is not too late to plant corn Corn can be turned into hogs and horses and mules and cows and chick ens and turkeys and all these are now selling above the price of cotton. Plant corn. Every grade crossing of the rail roads betwet, Newberry and Pros perity is in violation of the recent act of the legislature and it is made the duty of the road overseers to en force the act. The way the papers are urging every one to be counted in the census some of the towns and cities must fear they have 'been claiming too many people. Newberry has never been a big claimer and, therefore, the census takers ought to be able to count 8,000 people with all ease. We would like to know' if there is a man, woman or child in Newberry who has traveled theimnile govern ment road between Newberry and Prosperity who is not heartily in fav *or of more miles of such road in the county even if it cost $400 the mile. *If there is one we would like to hear from him and to have him give his reasons. Country life wuold be a lux ury with such roads all over the *county and the cost would be a good dividend paying investment. Every time we travel the public road from Newberry to Prosperity we are the more impressed with the importance of changing It so as to avoid the grade crossings of the rail roads and we can not conceive how any one who owns land or lives along the road could object. On the con,trary it seems to us that all of them ought to be heartily in favor of the change and anxious to have it made. And the railroads should cooperate. AS TO BOADS. A good friend of The Herald and News and a subscriber for many years remarked to~ the editor the oth er day that he could find nothing In the paper but goods roads. Well, we are sorry that up to this time good roads have been confined to the edito rial columns of The Herald and News instead of having them as realities throughout the county. * We plead guilty to the charge of being somewhat of a crank on the subject of good roads and we desire * to say that we expect t.o keep up the agitation. If our friend is already convinced that we ought to have good roads and is willing to help to se cure them, he may just skip these ,articles about roads. We are glad to say that the senti ment in favor of building roads is growing in Newberry county for it is true that before we can accomplish any great reform or make any real progressive step, it is necessary to create public sentiment in favor of such reform or step. It is also true that those who are pioneers in this work receive no cred it for it, when the reform comes or the step is taken. We are not con cerned about this, however, if we can only secure the sentiment sufficiently1 m strong to get good roads in this coun ty. We are sure that sentiment is growing and that it will not be long before we have good roads because the development of the farm and the prosperity of the farmer means that he will not be contented with the things we have been dignifying by the name of public highways. We can not refrain in this connec tion from copying the following state ment by the commissioner of agricul ture, Mr. Thomas B. Hudson, of Geor gia, in regard to the public roads of Sumter county of that State, and we hope that the time is not far distant when Mr. Watson, our own commis sioner of agriculture, after a visit to Newberry will be able to say even bet ter things of the Newberry roads: "It was the first opportunity that I had had for some time of observing the work that has been done on the roads," said Commissioner Hudson. "I found the roads of Sumter as good as any in the State, and I was able to make the distance we covered in a time that would have been unbeliev able a few years ago. "The progressive communities which have taken the advantage of the new road law and are working convicts, have already begun to rea lize great benefits from it. I know of no one greater stimulus to th-e set tlement of a farming community than good roads. Good roads draw im migrants and the kind of immigrants we need in the dvelopment of the State. "Why, in Sumter county, a farmer can haul ten bales of cotton with a two-mule team now with greater ease than he could tw6 bales ten years ago. The same applies to the transporta tion of fertilzer, grain and other heavy loads. It does not take an ex pert mathematician to figure out the great pecuniary saving to the farmer in the matter of getting to and from his market town, which is found in good roads." Supervisor Feagle stated yesterday t he would move his chain gang Gum Spring today and work on this road, which he has been promising for the past three months, would be cmmenced next week. Today is Friday, and also the thir teenth of the monta which we will take to be good omen for the speedy biulding of a good highway from New berry to the Laurens line. * * * * * * 4 * * * * * * * * THE IDLER. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Speaking about Memorial day the old vets certainly enjoyed the day in Newberry and it seemed to me that there were more here than usual. The dinner which the good women pre pare and serve is getting to be a fea ture of the day in Newberry and it takes a lot of work, but the pleasure given these old fellows is ample re compense. ; There were two old fel lows here, they tell me, who are over 90 years old-Mr. Joel Cresp and Mr. Jacob Shealy. They were as spry as any of the boys and enjoyed the au tomobile ride. Well, it won't be long until we are all gone to join our com rades in the gerat beyond.. Talking about Memorial day, I came across a copy of the Greenville News the other day which contained a gem of rarest word painting which it said was an extrget from a speech delivered by Lucian L. Knight on "The Confederate Dead." It Is aworth preserving' in anybody's scrap-book. I want to pass it on. Here it Is: -0 "Let the magnolig. forsake its lofty bough! Let the violet quit its lowly bed! 'Let the lilies of the valley join the mountain laurels in beauty's pil griage to knighthood's holy land! Come, spirit of the Mother South! Come from the mansion's pillared pomp! Come from the hovel's hum ble hearth! Take toll of the gardens where the roses bloom and squander the garlands- where the love dlones lie! Bid the liveoak don her widow's weeds in the woodland's deepest soli tudes and make the wild rose wander to the farthest couch on which a war rior dreams! Zephrys, sweep your colian harps! Rivers, chant your funeral requiems! 'Ocean, peal your organ thunders! Your theme today is Dixie's dead. Let the willow's weep on every lowland plain! Let the cedars sigh on every highland height! And if an unknown grave be overlooked, 0 Dixie, round a dew drop there and whisper in the South wind's ~softest lnreath:. "'Thy mother loves thee still!'" Now,r don't ynn thinkr that is a bean.. HOLLANI TI Music OF GREENN have rented space the Post Office and P I A and will A SALE for du They will have a soon as all of their will possibly be abc however definite no same later. Mr. Jol firm will be here in tiful piece of word painting. I wish I could write like that. I would start out and do nothing but write and speak. -0 The editor has sent me another ebulition-is that a good word?-I haven't time to consult Mr. Webster from Uncle Eli. I think Uncle Eli, is trying to take my job from me. Well, if he wants it he can just have it, that is all. But here is (what he says: -0 Mr. Idler: I have no objection to you getting a park if you can. I think it would be' very nice in you. Can't you understand what I meant by saying we had enough idler's parks in the city. I don't mean a park as, you want and I hope you don't take it that way. I repeat' it, again: ".We have enough places in the' city for the idlers and loafers to amuse themselves." You were not over at Wilowbrook Saturday as you promised me you would, but that's airight, I saw you Saturday p. m. on the streets hunting something to write about as usual. I started to~ stop 'and ask yodu if you knew what p-a-r-k spelt, but I was afraid I would scare you, and that is one thing that is against my will, to have any one scared of me. Talking of scaring' people I suppose you thought you would scare ,me off by replying, but I tell you here I nev er' was scared but one time, and that was when: a lion got after me. You bet your life I did some running. You think you know who I am; that is al right if you do; but to proie that you do just write. me a short personal letter and I'll answer it, and I bet I won't miss who you are. How did you like it at Willowbrook Saturday' night? I know you enjoyed It if your are not jealous of the "factory people" as some people I know are, and those people do not live In West End. The park is very beautiful now, but don't you think it would help its appear ance If Mr. Wright would have- a row of willows on the Brooklyn side as he has on the other side. I heard he said It wasn't as large as he* wanted, It and was going to enlarge It next year. Talkiing about a park, yes I love the Willowbrook, and I go every chance I can get, but what will you do for music In Eastside park. Don't. you know you can't get a band over there to excel the Newberry concert band, second to none in South Caro-. lIna. I heard a lady say to her friend at the park the other night sshe was looking at the skaters enjoying the joys of a park, "Come, lets go from here; this remintds n' of cats looking at kittens."' Yes, that is it. We are the kittens and the cats do not want us to have a good time. But never mind, Messrs. Zach Wrig-t and Marion Davis are still with us, ad will do every thing for ouIr joy sad comfort that is in their powe. Now, Memorial day will be past and gone when this is seen by the people, but I would like +o make a little suggestion to the Daughters of Confederacy that . I don't thin1k they~ treat the veterans exactly right. Why: not let them take their dear old wives in to the dinner with them, as some' of you know the wives had it as haLrd as some of the soldiers did. So why not giver them a littlte enjoyment along with the ones they have fought ife battle with. They both are fast~ ) BROS. i E People VOOD, S. C. in the store next to are getting in some NO S conduct O Next 30 Days formal opening as stock arrives, which ut the 20th instant, tice will be given qf in A. Holland of this charge of the sale. passing away. How many do you suppose will be here ten years from now. Every memorial some have passed away. I was reading a poem that I thought was very appropriate for Memorial day. I made a note of it as follows: Cover them over with beautiful flow ers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours; Lying so silent by night and by day, Sleeping the years of their man hood away. Years they have marked f6r the joys of the brave, Years they must waste in the sloth of the grave; All the bright laurels they f6ught to .make bloom, Fell to the earth when they" went to the tomb. Give them the meed they have won in the past, Give them the honors their merits forecast; Give them the chaplets they won 'in the strife, Give them the laurels they lost with their life. Cover them over-yes, cover them over Parent, and husband, and brother, and lover, 4 Crown them in your heart those dead heroes of ours, And cover them over with beautiful .flowers. Cover (the thousands who sleep far away Sleep where their friends can not find them today; They who in mountains, and hillside, and dell, Rest where they wearied, and lie where they felL $oftly- the grass blade screeps round their repose, Sweetly round them the wild flow' ret blows; Zephyrs of freedom fly gently o-er head, Whispering names for the patriots dead. So in our minds we will name them once more,' So in our hearts we will cover them o'er; Roses, and lilies, and violets blue, - Bloom in our souls for the brave and ths true. Cover them overryes, cover them over Parent, and husband, and brother, and lover; Think of the far-away heroes of ours, And cover them over with beautiful flowers. Wel,1, weren't the showers fine Sun day. They were so -much needed and will do so much good in the gardens and in the farms. Now, if I take up too much space, Mr. Editor may cut :e or the other of us out, so I had better stop as I am afraid it would be -a iou. S2 goc-n iror'i your jt: "Uncle Eli." C I have several things I want to say fa but I guess I better hold off to the ij next issue The Idler. e THE PREMIER I For Certaint, and F Is a Judicious Invesh Values are cons antly increasin Let us show you some real good i have reached a higher price t, High products means high price increase rapidly. Here are a fe% 350 acres in Barnwell county c from Williston. Timber on the the price of $6.25 per acre. 170 acres four miles from Dy: has two sets of farm buildings, rei will cut 300,000 feet of lumber. 200 acre farm in Newberry cou some good timber and good pastu: from railroad station, for'$2,200. '55o acre farm, in good conditi( 12-horse farm open, really a mo: $12.50 per acre. 300 acre farm near Reno. all n portunity for a worker to make gC Why not buy a home for yourC Here is a ni:e 5-room cottage i well located, all for $2.ooo. A large two-story house, one location, for $5,ooo. An old fashion mansion, needs very desirable home, for $5,ooo. If you want to build your vidual taste let us show you sor and price can be found'to suit yol New South Rea Conmp Herald and News Building, Newberry. Enameiware Sal Anderson I 25c., 50c., 75c., ai EACH 25( Consisting of Boilers, Coffe :ew' Pans, Dish Pans and Buc :stomer. Sale begins at 10 o' *Anglerson Always Busy, "There's a Reason." 4o the As the ICE sea.son is nlOW upc -ces to you, and I want you te ,blishing them, thinking that t em. They are as follows: Book of 4,000 lbs. denomination at $12 Book of 1,000 lbs. denomination at $4.' Book of 500 lbs. denmination at $2.0( Book of 200 lb's. denonsation at $1.0X Book of 200 lbs.'dlenomination at $1.00 All Ice sold by driver at 50c. per 100 Do not tryi to change these pr ike, and thie driver must confo Lything you do not like as to Ld I will do my best to please. Respectfulla Newberry, S. C., April 18, 19: EILLED FIFTEEN. foi erie Explosion Wrecks Canadiaa Hi Powder Plant-Lays the CouR- We try Waste. ttawa, Ont., May 8.--An explosion hich late this afternoon wrecked eplant of the General Explosives -. :ipany of Canada, situated a mile m Hull, Quebec, and four miles mc 'm this city, killed 15 persons and ured 50 others. The force of the anplion was ierrific. The country NVESTMENT y, Security ro.t nent in Real Estate. g. Time to invest is now. nvestments. Farm products han ever previously known. faims Farm values' must real money-makers: n good public road, five miles property worth more than son, in Greenwood county, ts for 2,800 pounds of cotton, This property for $2,100. nty, two horse farm open, re land, one and one-half miles U, 3 miles from Troy, S. C., aey making proposition, at .cessary buildings, good op od money. Price on it $5,000. ;elf. iearly new, two acres of land, Lcre of land, splendid home sligiz repairsi would make a own home to suit your ihdi ae desirable lots. Location tEstate Trust 'any* Masonic Temple, Greenwood. O0c. Sto A $1.00 Valu 3. EACH e Pots, Kettles, Fry P kets. Limit,on pic dIock./ Newherry, S.t Publice rn us again, I want to know our prices, so1 he best way to let you know 00O, not taking less tha10 lbsk , not takig lessta 25 , st takinghlss&th=25 , not taking less thau 1 , delivered at wage 5 bs. ices, as I want rm to my rules. Irices, services,'&c., J. H. WICKER, Mgr. 10. Smiles around was laid waste kny small dwellings in the city ill, on 'the side nearest the se re flattened to the growid. Golden Eule Encampment. Golden Rule Encampment, No. 0. 0. F., will meet at Klettner's LI the 4th . Monday night in each' >nth at 8 o'clock. w. o. Wiso, Chief Patriarch. ur. a. Petersn n Sc i