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E. H. AULL, ITM t ..ntered at the Ptoffice at New berry, S. C.. as 2nd class matter. Friday, August 12, 1910. Newbarry: The city that does things. If the split log drags that are to be made could only be used on the roads then something would be doing in road building. The chamber of commerce is doing things. Let the membership reach three hundred and turn the kickers and knockers out to graze. The supervisor has done some good road work in the county during the past few months, but the people along these roads ought occasionally to help and encourage the supervisor by doing a little work along their their own roads. We do not recall that any of tve candidates for the legislature, espe cially the present members, mention ed the advantages of the township in spectors who were created by a spe cial act of the legislature for New berry county. We listened attentive ly to the speeches of the candidates and we expected some of them at least to tell us of the advantages of these officials. The Herald and News has recived a communication addressed to "The Idler" from New York which we would be glad to turn over to The Id-I ler but it is not accompanied .by the name of the writer. Let us have your name, and we will turn th'j article over. We will not publia b the name'] if it is desired to withhold it. ] We are getting more and more of the opinion that every newspaper ar- J ticle should be signed by thie name I] of. the writer and especially articles I - making criticism of the acts of others. SHOULD HAVE CIVIL ENGINEER It would be a great saving to the ] city as well as to the county to em- j ploy a civil engineer so that whatever .a work is done upon the streets or upon, the roads may be done in eLich a way( as to be permanent and we are satis fled that the cost of an engineer, who knew what he was doing, and who could direct and plan the work upon our streets and upon public roads of the county, would save' in actual cash every year much more than his sal ary. * A great deal of the money that is being spent upon the streets and pub lic roads is being practically wasted. A street or road may be worked aft er a rain and have th.e appearance of * having been well worked and is a good road or good street until the next rain comes when all of the work done is simply w~ashed away. * A TRIP TO WHITIIRE. I did not expect to be able to bek epresent at the opening of the cam-1 paign at Whitmire on Tuesday, but .at 9.30 o'clock on Tuesday morning Mr. Norris came by with his car and 1 insisted that I go with him. The car was driven by Mr. W. C. Waldrop, and1 carried, beside the writer and Mr. Norris. Mr. Fred H. Dominick, c'ounty chairman. We made the run to Whitmire in an hour and a half, counting a couple 2 stops. The roads are not as bad as. we expected, but could be very greatly improved. In a few places the hands1 were at work, but the work is not of a character to give any evidence of a good road in the future. The people at Whitmire are very much aroused on the sub.iect of im proving the roads and that township: has offered to co-operate with the su pervisor by furnishing money and I teams and labor as soon as he can send over his chaingang and direct and s:vrintend the work. He has rjois :o mjore over in thait com muni7 bythe~ 1Oh whe he hopes to hare fliished the work on the road( It is un:derstod that in addition to the teams and labor, which the people o~ ibouL $1,vo has been promise' iln noney for the working of some twen :y miles of road. With this money and :he teams and the chaingang, the: *oads in the township ought soon to t )e put in excellent condition. ir The crops seem to be in very good i %ondition, and in many places on the .p-land there is very fine corn, and, :he cotton is looking well. The report of the meeting is fur t nished elsewhere by a staff corre- 1 -p ; r spondent of The Herald and News. it Whitmire is an enterprising and progressive town, and has one of the best cotton mills in the State, and the nill is well officered. It also has a ery progressive and successful bank-: Mng institution. t For the information of those who,c ,ay desire to know we took some Aotes of distances on the return trip.: Even with the bad roads under the,_ ;killful manipulation by Mr. Waldr.p, r :he run from Whitmire to Newberry I was made in about one hour and fif- c .een minutes. We left Whitmire at 1.55 and reached Newberry at 3.15, C ind made two or three stops which consumed about ten minutes. The 1 listance from Whitmire to Newberry t s just 18 miles. The following notes of distances were made counting from Whitmire: e Phifer place.............. 2.4 c .egro church (Cedar Grove) .. 3.1 Forks of road near T. J. Eison's place.. .................3.4 Rock Cliff.. .. .. .. .. .... 3.8 Billy Whitmire place........ 4.6 1 rhirteen-mile post ..........5 T ?atterson's creek ..........5.7 V 3ad hill.. .. ............6 d ,romer's store.. ............6.7 ndian Creek.. ............7.8 1 iegro church.............. 8.4 t Zross roads.. ............8.9 q. C. Duckett's.. .. .......... 9 C 'Zilder's creek.. ........9.5C )r. R. C. Carlisles..........10.3 a 3ernard Carlisle^s.. .... .. ....10.8 c 3nlrplace.. .... .... ....11.91 setheden.. .. .... .. .... ....12.11 Iawkins place.. .... .... .....12.2 Cinard or Wicker place.. .. .. . .14.2 s .Benson Suber place 14.5 y tailroad crossing.. .. .... ....15.1 0 alapa road.. .. .... .... ....15.2~ n tailroad crossing.. .. . ......15.4 d len Mills' place.. .. ..........15.8 d Lull's mill.. .... .... .. ....16.4~ a as. A. Caldwell.. .. .... .....16.4 s: ~emetery .... .... .........17 d ~ewerry.. .. ......... .....18.2 * * * * * * * * * **. Il T HE IDLER. * t] d * * * * * * * * * * c "If a thing is good to do, do it now." read that sentiment somewhere mece and I think it is good enough to pass it on. ~There are so many peo-t le who mean to do good but they are' aways putting it off to a mor.e con renient season. - -0-.. This thing of postponing is a dread u1 thing anyhow. I know a lot of cople who never think of doing a indly act towards their neighbor un :i sickness or trouble comes. Then :hey are alL aatention. Well, that is. ery nice in a way, but how much sweeter could have been the ministra ;ions when sickness and trouble came f there had been just even a little dis.' lay and exercise of the neighborly ti pirit before there was sickness or. :rouble. A fe.w flowers in the path, vhile one lives and is able to enjoy hem is the spirit that will make ;weet the ministrations when sick-;y ess and death come-.t -0 What a fine pasture most of our treets and sidewalks would afford nd many front and back yards, vhere the lawn have been permitted, o go to seed. With the excessive rains t could scarcely be avoided and then he street force should have a vaca ion. . t1 The Idler: Mr. J. Chesley Domin ck told me the other day to say to a rou that he had given city council >ermission to pull down the old char- I 'ed and burned building in Friend ~treet near union depot about which i ou have been writing so much, butc ouncil had not done it.-Editor. Now, that is an excellent proposi 10:: ad I can': imagine why city -o::L has ro' seiz.ed it promp 1tly and~ a:d t:he crnis.s cleaned o,ff too. And I ar rechon p-irmission would also y :-'ii gi-' n to city council to s samne lot. I can see no reason g nd )i, up the lumber on it nicely or my use and I would also give the ity authority to put up for me a ice building and turn the keys over o me. Somebody ought to tear down his old building near the depot. It eally does not look so nice, now does t? It is too hot to write much and to isten to long speeches or to read long .rticles. I have a lot of things I want o say and I am going to ask you to ead them if the editor will give me he space. If I just had that Idler's ark I could go down ih-,re ti:ese hot -0nings and think and then I could ake my pencil along and make a note if my thoughts. -0 I thank the editor for the sugges ion that I remind Mr. Zach Wright if Newberry's need of a park and I ow imnedfliately tak my pencil in Land to write Mr. Wright and hope te will Immediatelv he right for my ark. Mr. Wright get right busy right iow and help me supply this need. eems to me I heard some one say, ir I dreamed it, that Mr. Burton, the otton mill advocator, had secured, r would secure, options on the land n either side of Scott's creek from ance street to Calhoun street. If te has not done so will he please at end to it at once and let me know Low much money it will take and I vill proceed .to raise it. That will be asy. Another mill adds to the nec ssity for a play-ground over in the 'ity. -0 It would-now I really believe this -it would help the looks of some of hese expensive business lots in the ity if they were mowed. I do not now that the hay would be very aluable but the point is the rubbish ould have to be removed before the aowing could be done. See? Now, I .o not like to suggest that -there is ny trash or unsightly boxes and ric-a-brac-brick on any of them, but hey are just too valuable to grow un 2 weeds when they could be turned to such beautiful lawns by the use f the mower. Just look again at the lentral Methodist lawn and then look t some others with the beautiful red lay all exposed. -o Talking about doing things now re inds me of a resolution I read, by uster Brown in the funny paper ome' time ago on Mr. Meant-to. Have ou ever heard of him? There are lots f 'em around here. Mr. Meant-to and [r. Didn't-Mean-to. They either eant to do things they didn't do or idn't mean to do something they did o. It is an awful situation but there re always' lots of people just in that ituation. One reason is they don't o it now. -0 Oh! that city council would do a lit e permanent work instead of throw g the people's money at the birds by utting sand out of the ditches into' be road to be washed back in the itches just as soon as the first rain omes. -0 That reminds me that the other ay some one called my attention to be beautiful work of the-town scrape, t takes all the rocks and brick bats nd tin cans out of the ditches and nes them up in the middle of the oad beautifully. They look like they ad been laid there with the greatest ossible care. Thaat may be the mod rn method of building automobile oads. I don't know what advantage the horse or buggy or automobile Sis to have these rocks and tin cans .nd other trash piled so beautifully a the middle of the road, but it must e some advantage or it would not be one, because it takes time and labor do this. -The Idler. "Hurrah! Hurrah." Mark Twain, as an example of un onscious humor, used to quote a [artford woman who said one day in le late spring: "My husband is the dearest fellow. "'Jim,' I said to'him this morning, tre you very hard up just now?' 'I certainly am hard up.' he re lied soberly. 'This high cost of living terrible. 'I don't know what I'm oing to do.' "Then, Jim,' said I, 'I'll give up all aought of going to the country for uly and August this year.' "But the dear -fellow's face changed, nd he said: " 'Indeed, then you won't, darling. thought you wanted to buy a hat ith an aigrette or some such fool ;hress. No, no, my darling-Jim an always find the money to let his ear little wife go to the country.'" -Washington Star. Peter M~cKenzie, the last of The old 1u:isn Bay factors, had al w'ays 1 r~at hatre! for fear of lawsuits. " dined: with Mr. McKenzie in Mon uai otlong ago." said a m~iin t ineer of New York, "and he reiterat a case in the lower courts, the higher courts, and the supreme court. Smith was thus finally awarded, after seven yars of litigation, $500,000. "When Smith heard the glad news he sped to his lawyers. "'Hurrah!' he said. ''Gimme my $500,000.' 'Yes, $500,00) was th,, award,' said the lawyer, and at the same time he handed Smith a dollar bill. "'But-what's this for?" Smith gasped. "'That's all that's left, M1r. Smith,' explained the lawyer, 'after the de: duction-of my fee, the cost of the va rious appeals and other expenses, which will be duly rendered you in an itemized account.' "Poor Smith studied the bill in his h*pd. "'Say, what's the matter with this?' he demanded. 'Is it bad?"'-'Ninneap ol is .Journal. A Tramp's Stratagem. A clever little bit of human nature was used by a "knight of the road" recently on a matron living in a sub urb of Pittsburg, and as a result he slept with a full stomach that night. The suburb is quite small, and when the tramp dropped off a freight and ambled up the main street he was quite hungry. There were about ten houses which gave fair chance of meals, and the tramp lost no time. He was not surprised when the first housewife slammed the door in his face, nor the second, for that was; natural and the proper thing to do. But when he reached the ninth house, or rather was help-ed away, he was thoroughly disguest ,ed. The town certainly had him hoodooed. After a short rest and a deep think the hungry one knocked at the idoor of the tenth house. "Madam, can you let a hungry man have a bite to eat? I don't think you can, though," he said. The woman opened her ears. "Why can't I?" "The woman next door said you didn't have enough for yourself." He got his meal.-Pitssburg Gaz zette. A Spartan Father. Recently a first-year high school pu pil handed her hisory teacher what she evidently considered an exhaust ive and final study of Lacedaemonian customs. In it she stated that one Spartan habit of strengthening youth was to compel the boys to sleep al ways on beds of thistles. The incident reminds one of a story that is told of one %f the Camerons of Lochiel.. The chief, when -bivouacking with his son in the snow, noticed that the lad had rolled up a snowball to make Ia pillow. He tbjereupon rose and kick ed it away, saying sternly, "No effemi nacy, boy."-Youth's Companion. Attention, U. C. V's. The delegates from Camp James D. Nance, No. 336, U. C. V., will leave here for the reunion, via Southern railway, at 11.57, Tuesday, the 16th of August, instant, reaching Spartanburg at 5 p. m. This will enable us to get to our stopping places, have a good night's rest, and be ready for the opening exercises at 10 a. m. th'e next day. It is very desirable that all delegates and members of the camp should go in a body. "Those- members of the camp who desire free accom modation must let the adjutant know not later than the 12th inst. By order: J. W. Gar'y, 0. L. Schumpert, Commandant. .Adjutant. August 8, 1910. Banington Hal! Do You Kno0WhNat It IS? 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