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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New verry, S. C.. as 2nd class matter. Friday, June 3, 1910. That was a good address by Dr. B. Mayer, on civic improvement, pul lished in the last issue of The He: ald and News, and everybody in Nev berry ought to read it, and, havir read it, Newberry ought to go ahes and make some "civic improvement There is room for it here, even Newberry is- the best town in t1 State-and Newberry is. In tre recent industrial edition the Abbeville Press and Banner cu were printed showing the park in tl public square, surrounding the Co federate monument, and the magn ficent city hall and new court hous These public buildings have lawi and flower gardens in front of thei with cement sidewalks leading them. Abbeville has made gre strides in the past few years in bea tifying the town, and it is improv ment of the kind which appeals mo strongly to strangers in her midst. FRON NEWBERRY TO UNION. Newberry was glad to welcome t] delegates from the Union chamber commerce who were in Newberry Wednesday in the interest of go< roads. Whether or not the propo ed Columbia-Newberry-Spartanburi Asheville highway goes by Union, - ought to have a good permanent ro from Newberry to Union, and t] Union delegation told the Newberi people that. Union was ready ax willing and anxious to build her pa of the road. The route for the proposed higi way from Columbia to Newberry h; already been definitely decided upo and what Union should do now is1 work for a road from Union to Nes berry, and if the through-fare fro: Columbia -via Newberry and Spartal burg to Asheville does not go throug tnion, then the Unton road could ta the highway at Newberry anid go1 Columbia via the Columbia-Newberr: Spartanburg-Asheville highway. We can't have too many goc roads, and the ultimate object of tU whole agitation is good roads. We nee a good permanent roa from Newberry to Union, and. Ti Herald and News pledges the Unic chamber of commerce and the peop] of Union its support in helping to g< ii The. gentlemen from Union. wil were in Newberry on Wednesda made many friends while here, ai Newberry will be glad to see thel again~. The Herald and News wants to sus gest to the people of Union that the lay asie any -thought of tryingi take the highway from Columbia Asheville up Broad river, and the they co-operate with the parties wi pave already definitelyr decided g bringing the highiway by Newberr: and if the main through-fare does n14 go from Newberry to Spartanbari via Union, that we build a road fre Union to Newberry tapping the mna through-fare here. That seemed1 be the sentiment of the Union repr< sentatives of the chamber of cot merce who were in Newberryc Wednesday, and it is along this lit that U"nion should work. Why have a campaign meeting: every township in the entiry th year? There is very lit activi in county politics, and the peop know all the candidates who are C fering or are likely to offer for cou ty offices. What the people need do, anyway, is not to listen to much speech-making or to engage so much hand-shaking, but to ahead and elect people to fill their c flees as if they were selecting somi body to take charge of their priva business affairs. That is the spi] which we need in ou- primaries. takes business ability Pa run a cou ti and to run a State, and in ti county and in the State and in the ni lion men of character and men of i: tegrity and ability should be put in charge. Three or four campaign meetings will be sufficient. REMEDY WITH THE PEOPLE. The bribery scandals in Illinois constitute the latest chapter in the graft record. Graft seems to be prev alent everywhere. The only way to ). stop It is for the people who cast the - votes to elect the right men to office. C -- A member of a legislature is the rep. t r- resentative of the people who send tg him to the legislature, and, construc d tivly, what he does, they do. The E ." people are too lax in choosing people t if to office. THE STORY OF THE MAINE. Shocking Tragedy of Havana Harbor in 1898. tsI e The Maine was our first modern battleship. She was a vessel of 6,682 tons, with a main battery of four 10 inch guns. She was built in 1888 from e. Eglish plans-for we didn't know Is much- about battleships then-and n, she cost in round numbers $2,500,000. to On February 16, 1898, she was blown . to bits while lying in the harbor of at the friendly city of Havana, Cuba. - From that incident sprang the Span e- ish war. st Since theni the wreck has lain, half in and half out of the blue water of, Machina, with 68 skeletons of the brave men who manned her lying in side her shattered steel hull. Despite e repeated efforts it was only on Wed f nesday of this week that congress, mpassed the bill making possible thel wreck's removal. d The feeling between Spain and the - United States had been growing more - and more bitter during 1897. Gomez e and Maceo, with rag tag rebel "army" Ld had been harrying the Spanish forces .d on the island and Capt. Gen. Weyler ie had put into execution his scheme of 7 reconcentration, whereby the people t d of the rebellious districts were hud rt dled into camps under military guard. Here, according to report, they were, I scientificaly starved. Meanwhile Gomez and Maceo were adding to the Ls suffering by burning all the tobacco t 1, and sugar plantations they could ~ :o r.each-each side was trying to ruin the other physically and financially-' the Hearst Journal had rescued Eve- I n1 lina Cisneros fromn a dungeon keep. - the Three Friends was busily run hning in filibuster and ammunition . p .from Florida, accongressional commit tee had raade a solemn inspection and! :o report of conditions on the islg.nd and ~" all America was sizzling with the growing belief that Spanish rule in d Cuba was one of tryanny and hideous ecruelty. "The flag of blood and gold," the Journal called the red and yellow ' ensign cver Morro. So did most con-1 dtemporaneous. high school orators. eEnter the Maine. a in In 'the midst of this feeling the e Maine, then lying at the Pensagola t tyard, was dispatched for a "friendly visit" to Havana. The order which ~ sent her there has since been most o0 bitterly criticised. The presence of 7a white fighting ship with the Stars a d and Stripes over her staifrail was nbound to rouse violent anger in theFc Latin-American bosoms, bound to pro mote jubilation among the revolution- t ary Cubans, bound to make things r Imore unpleasant 1for Minister Fitz- t yhugh Lee and other American citiz- t oens in Havana. However, the statet oand navy departments seemed to ethink. a warship the necessary protec- dj Ltion for Americans. The Maine went. ~ LO It is related that when the Maine, c n entering the harbor, ba,rked a salute r , fi-omtnier little six-pounders at the a t grim Morro her mnen were all at Cluar ters behin~d the 10-inch guns in the is turrets anid the ship was stripped for a ction. It is also related that there f n never was a more serious and solemnr onaval function than When Capt. Sigs .ibee, in full dress uniform received 3~ the Spanish officers who came over the starboard gangway. A Spanish ~ cruiser lay nearby, but the blue-jack- ~ eets of the two vessels did not frater nize. Indeed Capt. Sigsbee allowed his men no shore liberty. The Maine came in on January 25. Havana harbor was filthy beyond be is lief in those days. To avoid stirring up the sewage which formed the har e bor's bottom ships did not anchor;< ~.instead they were assigned by the ~ captain of the port to fixed mooring Ibuoys. The Maine's first mooring was o well up toward old La Punta Fort. o0 Subsequently she was moved down nopposite the shears of the old Span- j oish navy yard. Afterward this change by Spanish authority was regarded as intensely significant. e- The Tragedy. e February 16 was a quiet, starlit it tropical night. Capt. Sigsbee was It writing in his cabin. Marine Private William Anthony was the orderly on duty outside his door. Most of the te twenty- six officers and practically all' -the 328 enlisted men were aboard. A stringed orcestra was jsaying on the TUBERCULOSIS ( Clemson Extensiov In the present movement for the radication of tuberculosis from outh Carolina one important source f danger has evidently received lit le consideration-the tubetculous ow. While some difference of opinion xists regarding the danger of inter ransmisibility of tuberculosis, most avestigators are convinced that it is iossible for the disease to be trans aitted from cattle to human beings. ,uropean and American scientists Lave shown that healthy cattle .con ract tuberculosis when human tu oercle bacilli are injected into their iodies and, as bovine tubercle bacilli re frequently recovered from the tis ues of the human body, it seems that he transmisibility of the disease must >e admitted. As dairy products form an import nt part of the diet of practically all ersons and in some instances the ntire diet of infants, the tuberculous airy cow can not be overlooked in a ight against the white plague. Unfortunately cattle which are ii .n apparently healthy condition are Iften affected with tuberculosis and, a the diseam pr6gregget slowly, maY ive for years without causing their ,wners to even suspect the pr esenc if the disease. In the meantime, how ver, the cattle may be disseminating ubercle bacilli, infecting the milk as ;ell as their surroundings. It was formerly believed that un ess cattle were affected with tubercu osis of the udder the milk could be afely used, but recent investigations tave shown the fallacy of this belief )r..Schroeder of the U. S. departmeni if agriculture has recently showr hat faeces from apparently healthy attle contain large numbers of tu ercle bacilli which have undoubtedly ound their way from the diseased ungs to the mouth and throat and hence to the intestines. In -view of he fact that milk is almost iriviably ontaminated with faeces, it now eems that this is the most. common hannel by which tubercle bacilli in ect milk. Experiments have shown 'that tu iercle bacilli retain their virulence ipanish cruiser. Havana was, ablaze ith lights. From the Calle San Isi ro, which Lie close to the water front, oated the sounds .of revel. At 9.40 there came a terrific explo ion. The for*vard part of. the Maine, there was situated the ! forecastle, saped high out of the wa$er. In tantly followed another explosion midships-at least so say some of de Maine's survivors and several 'ood American citizens who were sit ing on Machina wl'arf, or what Is ow the Malecon-thed ship seemed plit asunder, there was a lurid glare, howing for an insta.nt the .rending ulk with bodies flying through the ir, then darkness. Sigsbee came charging from his abin. Here was where Bill Anthony ron undying fame.. Like Bui,wer Lyt :'s Roman sentry, who stood at his ost by the gates of Pompeii, while he terrified city fled past him ' and he red glare of Vesuvius sbone on he brazen helmet and grim face of a ian who knew only that he was a sol ier of Rome not yet relieved from uty, Anthony remained the captain's rderly. In the blackness . Sigsbee ushed against him, The deck was a lew. Anthony saluted. "I have to report, sir, that the ship Sblown up and is sinking," he said.. Boats came flying from the shore, rom the Spanish man o' war and rom a Ward liner lying close at hand 'or the most part they were too late. 'he sleeping men in the forecast pro ably never knew what had happened. 'hey were shattered by the explosion r plunged too quickly"into the murky ;aters. The Heroes. Of the officers and men 254 were :illed outright or went down with heir ship. Thirteen others died in he Havana hospitals of their injuries. 'wo of those who went down were fficers. Coxswain Job Anderson wam ashore towing two messmates. Then he got there both were dead. A ieutenant of marines held up ans en ~ineer officer until a boat reached hem, then sank, but was pulled to afety by a Spanish sailor. Capt. sigsbee stayed on his quarterdeck un ii the ship settled under him. In his report to the secretary of he na.vy, sent on the night of the ex alosion, Capt. Sigsbee wrote: "Public >pinion should be suspended until iirther report." With what restraint he American people bore themselves s a matter of history; but the de ~truction of the Maine is fitly describ d by C.apt. Sigsbee as "the n1tima.tE IF DAIRY CATTLE Work-Artide VII. for a much longer time in dairy pro ducts than in the body discharges and Dr. Schroeder 'has also proved that tubercle bacilli may live and re main virulent in butter for a period of five months. Bearing in mind that cream and butter as well as milk may 'contain virulent tubercle bacilli, it is not difficult to see how bovine tuber cle bacilli may gain entrance to the human body. In this connection it might be well to state that Dr. Rav enel, a native of South Carolina, was one of the first to show that tubercle bacilli can pass through the intestin al wall without injuring the same and eventually reach the lungs and other organs of the body. Although one of the most common diseases of dairy cattle, it is practi cally impossible to diagnose tubercu losis by a physical examination un less the animal is in an advanced stage of the disease. Fortunately, however, the tuberculin test enables competent veterinarians to detect the disease in its early stages. This test, when properly conducted, enables the cattle owners to discover tuberculous cows and remove them from his herd, thus preventing spread of the disease. which would otherwise result. Tuberculin also maks p'assible the enactment of city and town ordin ances for protection of public health by prohibiting the sale of milk from cattle which are thus shown to be affected with tuberculosis. (Green ville and Spartanburg are the only cities in South Carolina, having such ! ordinances.) At the present time 33 States (in cluding South Carolina) have laws re quiring the testing of all dairy and (breeding cattle and their freedom' from tuberculosis before they are al lowed to enter these States. Laws of this kind, by preventing :the importa tion of tuberculous dairy cattle, place the individual States in a position to begin systematic eradication of the disease, and as 19 States passed such laws within the past year, this indi cates the awakening of the people and1 a great advance in a national cam paign against the tuberculous dairy cow. M. Ray Powers, State Veterinarian. incident which compelled the .people of the United States to regard Spain as an impossible neighbor." An American court of inquiry which conducted its deliberations aboard the lighthouse tender, Can9 grove, while the little crusier Mont gomery took the .Maine's, place -as guardship found that the ship was destroyed by- an explosion outside her' hull. A Spanish court,found that the explosion came from inside. It open Ied that her forward magazine had, blown up and that the second explo sion was the waist magazine. In the state of public mind nobody In Aurer ica believed the Spanish report.' There was a cry for war and .war came. Roosevelt's Rough Riders went up Kettle Hill with the cry, "Remember the Maine." So the Texans at the Brazos, "Remember the Alamo." Why the Delay. The .Maine sank in six fathoms of water. For twelve years she has been settling in the mud. At any time it 1would have been a comparatively easy job to raise her, but for some reasoni the United States government would never do this-not even to give decent sepulcher to the bodies inside. Once,, in 1904, the Cuban government began Iher removal because she was a men ace to navigation, but here our navy department stepped in with the an nouncement that the wreck was Unit ed States property, which could not1 be abandoned without act of congress. For twelve years congress declined' to pass the act. Now the wreck is to ~be removed. Why the long delay? IIn Cuba there are people who be- * lieve that when the rusted plates are liftd they will be found bent from the,t insideout, thus tending to show thatt the explosion did not come from a t mine or a bomb, but from something in the ship's interior. But as the maa on the Malecon says, "Quien sabe?" t Their Deserts. 2 Prof. Thomas Nixon Carter of Har-'t yard was talking about Socialism. 1 I"Socialism is no world panacea,"' y Ihe said, "but in the future it is to be reconed with. Socialism will, in the 1~ *future, protect the poor against -in- t] justice and hypocrisy. It will ex pose fraud. Yes, Socialism, like old n Higgins Wentworth, will bring out the truth. ti "Higigns Wentworth was hoeing one April iorning when tiiree rough-, n looking men climbed the fence and crossed the field. to him. They had h inst been shipwrecked, they said, on Real E. The population of the about ninety millions. more than one person each is no increase in land are of population makes high Several people in Newl comfortable fortunes frori estate values in the next f you be one of the far seeii this harvest of easy dollar . It is our business to find ments for you. . Let us tal if we haven't just what wi New South Real Compaj Herald and News Building, Newherry. TH E FarrandC PIA Plas she MostDI With Perfect Tun Expression of A Three Year CAN. PERATE IT One of these marvels of ism is on exhibition in ti next door to the Post 01 should call and hear the i of the compositions of th< Holland Brothers, of Gr representatives for this in one will be on hand at take pleasure in showini to all. This is a great op Holland B SCOTT BUILDING NE ebrig Maria. They had lost even 'fH erclothes. Would Higgins hepfield iggins Wentworth looked close-"" to the sailors' faces, for he knew ie ays of men. Then he said: ho 'ou, the bowlegged one, go stand about ards to the right, and I'll get ye elp me a miniute, with -the seed .You, baldy there, you stand 20 snort< rs to the left, three he two men complied, and then wrc gins Wentworth said quietly to Detro eman who remained: What did you say your captain's am was?" Williams, Capt. Williams,' was The reply. and "he old farmer sauntered to the: think, noff on the right. Iprede What was your captain's name?' mr sked.drn "'Erett, dir,' the man ~ansWered. for ti tate United States is Ihe increase is minute. There a. The density price land. >erry will make increase of real. ew years. Will ig ones to reap desirable invest k it over and see IH appeal to you. stateTrust Masonic TemplefaenwooL u ecian fic. Eeryo c endion tfhom mall tmehan-il eiteionstrusme robet msers eenwns odentwr thrsed all ties nd will he nwsCtrmnJne gins Wentworti croaned o nd gathered. the three me him. fine lot of sailors you are,' d, 'to go to sea in a ship WI captains! No wonder you w ed. It served you -right" t Free Press. The Way It Seemed. benedict was in a mou reminiscent mood. "When "he said to himself, "of xnf' cessor, who died and left mne to -is widow, who drives me to I feel as if he had stuck me e drinks."-Smlart Set. ..................- V..