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City Oj HARO0 TH] THE MAI 200 Nis 187 Nis 100 Nis 75 Nis 50 Nig THE ONLY CHA EST COME PRICES: -.--------- ___________Um not been fairly treated, and that the banks were now making money of the formerly insolvent corporation. It was also brought out that the Nation Sal Bank of Newberry, since Mr. Mat thews had assumed the presidency, had loaned this corpo(ation $2,700 ore. During the trial some thirty-five witnesses have been examined, for the prosecution, and the case has brought out a large number of de tails, and the mass of testimony tak en has been a: times rather tedious Sand painstaking. This is probably the longest trial in this city in a number of years. How long it will take the jury to make up their ver dict is of course entirely a matter of Sspeculation, but it is a general im pression that it will not be done Squickly. *Inside Information!! Winnsboro News and Herald. The State thus comments on the note in these columns to the effect that Columbia could have interurban trol ley connection with Winnsboro and the Piedmont, if she would only let the Southern Power company in: "Our esteemed contemporary is evi dently the possessor of "inside infor mation"-an advantage which The ~State has not shared with it. Mean ~while, if the Southern Power company or allied interests would plan to build from Charlotte and Greenwood with * out including Columbia, why would it Snot build .from Charlotte to Winns boro, regardless of Columbia? Of course, the wish of Columbia is to have, trolley connection with the Piedmont both in the direction of Winnsboro and Greenwood-and Co lumbia will do its part in getting it." There is no use for us to disclaim any inside information on this prop osition. What we know is known to all, who have kept in touch with the de velopments of this gigantic concern, which is doing more than any other agency in this whole section for sti mulating increased business activities in the Carolinas. That knowledge is simply this: the Southern Power com pany made every endeavor to get into Columbia and admission was positive ly refused simply because of the strenuous fight put up by tae owners of the local company, who belong to that inner circle in Columbia that would have everything its own way and would shut out all competition. adColumbia permitted the Southern ower. ompany to come in, their lines aera House Drac E RECORD OF M4ON THE B0 ~hts in New York. ~hs in - Chicago. his in - Boston. ~hs in Philadelphia. ~hts in San Francisco. NCE TO SEE THE GREA DY EVER WRITTEN. $1.50, $1.00, 7E would have headed this way and this section in common with the Piedmont would have been reaping the benefits so largely possible from the use of unlimited ever-ready power. Modesty compels us to say that Winnsboro of itself is not a big enough drawing card to cause this company to build a trunk line to this point, when the possibility of not going further southward is practically shut off. True, there is hope for the line from Greenwood to be extended on through Newberry and Winnsboro, but even the probability of this would be great ly increased, if there were a possibil ity of building into Columbia, for it must be admitted that by virtue of her geographical situation our capital city is the psychological business cen tre of the State, with the advantage of having some things come to her without her having to go after them. But for her taking such immense ad vantage of this strategic position there would be some probability of Columbia getting busy and doing something worth while. If Columbia could only get above this shutting out-competition spirit, there is a pos sibility for her to get in the Charlotte class. However, it is most gratifying to learn that Columbia will do its part in getting interurban connectioni was born, and with Winnsboro, where he now resides. Without claiming to be a prophet or the son of a prophet, We venture the assertion that if Co lumbia will only let the Southern Power company in and will show her appreciation of the opportunity thus offered through this interurban con nection by putting up s.ome $300,000 in bonds, which would be in the pro bable ratio of what Greenwood has done, that it would only be a few years till the editor of The State could en joy the privilege of forgetting the strenuosity of his office work in Co lumbia by resting in his suburban *home at Winnsboro. Such a thing, though it be only an editorial dream, is well worth chasing after, at least to the extent of some passing com ment from Columbia's only morning paper on what Columbia might be, if she would only form a connection with a great concern that is doing so much for the development of other Carolina cities. With all due regard for Columbia, Winnsboro's big baby, we can not refrain from stating the facts as they are; in the matter of securing the Southern Power. company it has been this town's misfortune to be on the lne to our apnital city. , One Nigh RA TH'S. rr-itize by rac K Complete NEW YORK AS IT RAN. I SQUARE' FOR 200 sc., 50c. and 25c * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * RURAL TELEPHON~ES. * * * Greenville Piedmont. A propositon on which we will all agree no doubt is that the farmers are the backbone of the country. A second proposition over which there will be little debate is one important problem which faces the people today is that of turning the tide from the city and back to the farm-in other words, stopping the farmers from moving from their farms into the ci ties and leaving their farms in the hands of incompetent tenants or sell ing outright to companies or men who are not familiar with the work, and are going into it simply as a money making scheme. Now there are many methods sug gested for keeping the farmers at their work. There is one thing cer tain we can ot keep them there by legislation,'even if we wanted to. The fact is equally as well established that we can not keep them on the farms by claimng that the city is not attractive, because it is, and if it were not we would not be in the city will [iug to give advice to the farmer. Th'at brings it down to the proposition of making the farm equally as attractive, or at least as near so as possible, as the city, thus removing the tempta tion which is now before the farmer enticing him to the city. x Now the average farmer cares most for the comforts of life, such as am ple means of transportation, good roads for driving as well as hauling, schools for the children, churches, and means of communication. It is with the last that the people are just now beginning to take interest in. Every farmer has declared for good methods of transportation, good schools and additonal churches, but only recently have they taken an in terest in additional methods for com munication. To be sure the establishment of the 'alfree deliveRy i4ito the very heart of the country has done much for the farmers in the way of putting them in touch with the outside world but there is another agency which in time is going to do as much as the rural free delivery. That is the rural tephone. .. a many of the farming sections of -he South the rural 'phone has been established and in all instances it noys the libeal patronage of the t Only, Tu~ Ie TL DELGHT ,Original T PRODUCTIONT, LT MADISON THEATRE y NIGHTS. .SEATS ON 5 people and brings them much pleas ure for the money expended. In the city the 'phone has long since become a necessity. Our wives, as well as cur sweethearts, find it to be of great advantage to them. It saves many a step and many a nickle for the city woman even though she has~ any num ber of stores immediately around her, and finds it possible to secure almost any article she desires within a few hundred yards of the house. To the farmer it will mean much to be able to go to the telephone and order those things desired from the city or from the village stores. Sup pose a piece of machinery was brok en. A neighbor had st'arted to town that morning and if there were any way to get word to him he would make the purchase for you and save you a day's work. The 'phone sup plies that agency and it means dol lars and cents for the farmer. Then in case of sickness the time of one trip is saved and in many cases that means the life of the patient. There are a thousand and one ways in whichi the rural 'phone is developing the: country and tending to make it pleas ant for the farmer and thereby keep-] ing him from moving to the city. In the city the 'phone proves of great service to the housewife who does much of her visiting with her] close friends over the wire. She finds it a pleasure and a time saver. To the woman in the country it brings her neighbors who live milesI away into her home and proves a source of comfort and pleasure to her. The coming development of the rural telephone system is going to ac complish much towards the end of making the farmer satisfied with the farm and therefore to keep him at hisi work--which work means more to the city than his moving there. Going Some. The farmers were sitting around the stove in the general store and telling how the potato bugs had gotten their crops. Said one farmer: "The bugs ate my whole crop in two weeks." Then another spoke up:1 "They ate my crop in two days and ] then sat around on the trees and wait ed for me to plant more." | "Well, boys, that may be so, but I'llI tell you what I saw in this very store. 1 I saw four or five potato bugs exam Ming the books about a week before planting time to see who had bought eed"-Natin1 Monthly. 'sday, Octo FUL Co IE COMEDY THAT El BEEN WAITING 'l EIIS IS THE ONE BIG DRi DY TREAT OF THE 3U HAVE READ THE B THE PLA3 iALE MONDA LITTLE DORRIT'S LAND. Tabard Sfreet, Historic London Street, to be Demolished. London Chronicle. Though there are few folk living except perhaps its actual denizens who are not glad that Tabard street should be wiped off the face of the earth as a disgrace to modern civili zation, it is to be confessed that hard ly a street in London is so famously connected with history, poetry and every circumstance of greatness. In the old, old days, before the new Dover road wheeled round from the borough into the Kentish highway, Tabard street was called Kent street and was the main approach to London !or every one who arrived from any where in Kent, from Canterbury, from the Cinque Ports, tnd so one might almost say from Europe. Up Tabard street nearly 600 years ago rode the Black Prince, conqueror at Poictiers, bringing with him in triumph the captive French king, a pageant compared with which these twentieth century shows are but half trearted pieces of make believe. Up rabard street swarmed the peasants >f Kent under Wat Tyler and later :m Jack Cade and his Kentsh men. pouring in from the heart of Eng-1 land's industry, the "Laticashire lads" of that day. Down Tabard street some time be 'ore either of these events the Can terbury Pilgrims clattered over the stones on their way to Beck3t's shrine, jostling jingling in the, May norning a bevy of jollity and color. Yet even in those far off times Tab ird street seemed to have made up its mind to prove unworthy of this thonor of welcoming the comning and speeding the parting guest.. As long ago as the thirteenth century it was a haunt of depravity and poverty. In Shakespeare's time it was shunned by all respectable folk. For centuries it was deplored that distinguished for signers coming from the Continent should get their first impression of Eondon from Tabard street, and some :lmes they used to be hurried through >y night so that they should see as ittle of it as possible. So on to our own times. The re ~ent resource of changing its old 1ame to something pretty and poetic ias had absolutely no effect. Vi'ce rnd dirt seem to be in its very air Lnd since the creation of Dover road :urned the stream of traffic alsewhere t has just quietly degenerated intoa ber 25. MEDY ~ERYONE HAS '0 SE E. OMATIC COME SEASON. 00K NOW SEE Y 9A. M. back slum, from the associations of which one fancies the very earth will need to be cleansed. Yet with it all, the very dingia,st -though not the worst-features of Tabard street still have romance for us of today. For their last distinction was that of being touched by the genius of Charles Dickens. Not a hun dred yards from Tabard street Little Dorrit was born. At St. George's church hard by she was married and there too, is the vestry porch where the kindly beadle laid her to sleepb with the burial register for a pillow.. Even the old Marshalsea, the debt ors' prison where Mr. Dorrit was so. distinguished a resident, where Dick ens's own father was not unknown. and to which Dickens himself paid: many a visit as a boy-Is still to be traced to a far greater extent than can be imagined. One has only to. dive into Angle place-the little court on the left just before one comes to St. George's from London bridge-to find the grim old walls of the Mar shalsea standing as they stood a cen tury ago, with here and there an old grated window that still recalls those times of tears. Following the old walls round by wfehousess and offices flanked 'bty gloomy little paved alleys that are probably themselves Dickens survi vals, one reaches the Southwark mor tuary-a blithe resort by comparison, surrounded by a little garden of old fashioned owners. Close by is a bat tered old doot-once an actual door of the old Marshalsea. If one peeps over' the wall here from across the alley close by the entrance to the mortuary one may catch a glimpse of the old Marshalsea belfrey, still practically just as it was when It rang out lock ing up time for Little Dorrit and het' old father. Coming round into St. George's church yard one has com pletely encircled the famous old pris on that was the world of little Dor rit's girlhood.. Indefinite. A nurse had been called asj a wit ness to prove the correctness- of the bill of a physician. "Let us get at the facts in the case," said the lawyer who was doing a cross-examination stunt. "Didn't the doctor make several visits after the patient was out of danger?" "No, sir," answered the nurse. "I considered the patient In danger so' long as the doctor continued his vis fI."-!htcagn News.