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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New berry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. I Friday, November 25, 1910. 1 I THANKSGIVING. The Herald and News is issued on i Tkursday morning, or rather late r tWednesday evening, in order to give s ,he force holiday for Thanksgiving. .E newspaper work there are very fews holidays, the strain continuing every t iay in the week and through Sundays, c 'ad The Herald and News tries to maake it a rule to give its force an op portunity to observe Thanksgiving s aad to take off a couple days at Christ was. t This setting apart by the president of the nation and the governors of the various States of one day for the giv ing of thanks to the Creator for his v goodness and mercies during the past C twelve months is a beautiful custom. e in the strenuous age in which we live 9 we are prone to make the material 3 things of life all-important There is a none of us soo poor or so lowly or in s such distress that he can not look v s back and count many blessings for t which he should be thankful. WHAT ABOUT THAT RAI]ROADI We hope that the railroad commit tee of which Dr. Jas. McIntosh is I chairman, will get together and fmd < out just what the promoters of this proposed road from Augusta to Spar tartburg expect of Newberry, and have a meeting of the chamber of com merce so that we -may get busy and do our part. This is probably the last opportunity for Newberry to secure a through line from the North and West. It will mean a great deal, not only for the oity, but for the entire county, and especialy for that section between Newberry and Saluda river, and New berry and Whimire. Every .man through whose land the road will go ought to be wflling to give the right of way without ques tion, and every encouragement should be given for the building of this road. We lost a great opportunity some years ago simply by our indifference. The Seaboard offered to come through Newberry and only asked the right of way and the good will. The people in control of affairs at that time seemed to think there was nothing back o,f the proposition and gave no encouragement and the result is the road just passed around us. We must not -let history repeat itsdlf in this particular. THE "GET-TOGETHER" SPIRIT. We desire to direct attention to the address of Secretary A. McP.1 Hamby, of the chamber of commerce1 of Columbia, which is printed in 'full on page 7, of this paper. He says some very good things, and they are well said, and, even if you heard the address, It will do you good to read it. The get-together spirit runs throughi the whole address, and it is the spirit which we need to cultivate, and to practice in this community. As Mr. Hamby says, to develop this State and to develop your own com munity requires "concentration of forces, thorough cooperation, good wUI! one toward another from every1 quarter of the State, to lay aside petty jealousies," and getting together for the up-building of your community and your State. President Taft returned to Wash ington from Panama by way of Hamp ton Roads and Richmond, instead of coming back through Charleston. That must be because Charleston was not the same op.d place to the president without the genial smile and the cor dial welcome of Major Hemphill, who seems to have been the first to wal come him upon his arrival in Rich mond. A dispatch from Greenwood an ~iounces that Mr. F. Barron Grier has b,een appointed general counsel for the C. & W. C. railway to succeed thet sate Col. Stobo J. Simpson. Mr. Grier is one of the leading attorneys of A DARING WOMAN BVNDIT. !ought Sheriff's Posse and Burned the Home of Her Enemies. Bloody Tangipahoa parish, the home f the feudists, and the blackest spot a Louisiana, is on the hunt for a wo nan bandit who has been robbing tomes and holding up pedestrains in onely lanes and roads in that rural teighborhood. She is rounding out a areer of crime which began when she hot a neighbor's noisy dog and retal ated by shooting and wounding the eighbor when he protested. She has hot two men, burned down the house f a neighbor whose daughter refused er son's attentions, given battle to a heriff's posse until wounded and cap ured, served a term in prison and ome from her imprisonment vowing engeance on society. "I am branded a convict," she says. I am one -of the victims of society. I hall have my revenge." So she goes up and down the roads f "Bloody Tangipahoa" robbing and 3rrorizing so effectively that the vic ims fear to identify her. A few weeks ago Mrs. Georgia Wren ras liberated from the State's prison, rhere she had served two years on onviction of arson. She had been giv n an easy place as cook in the An ola convict farm, not far from the orderland of Tangipahoa parish. Im iediately on liberation she procured revolver and a Bowie knife and tarted for her old home and her re enge. She has been "on the road" ince,- committing any depredations hat came within her range. Unrequited love is at the bottom of ,er strange choice of vengeance. The 8-year-old son of Mrs. Wren became :aptivated by the rustic charms of dary Wyly, the daughter of a neigh ior in the cabin settlement. The bu -olic affair was running smoothly mough until suspicion of numerom )etty robberies fell upon Mrs. Wrer md her son. The Wylys were among :hose who believed the imputations md they began to discourage the at .entions of young Wren to theii laughter. Nothing, however, came of the sus. picious until the dog-killing episod4 ind the wounding of the animal's mas ,er by the woman. The parish settle ment ostracized the Wrens and .th< won was forbidden the house of th Wylys. No arrest followed, however !or the wounded man probably sanel; aoncluded that the aim of the womar might be better on the next occasiol should he give further stimulation t< aer Ire. It is the 'habit of the place and pea pie. Petty bckerings are settled 11 personal encounters; trifling enmitiei tre answered by the shot in the dar) >r the bullet from abush. Feuds ar< [fore frequent than crops, and ti land of private vengeance thrusts it self into every phase of life. Thus i: Mdrs. Wren rather a product of the en rironment. This she demonstrated in answer t< bhe Wylys' demand tha.t her son re nain away from their home and theil laughter. One night not long after w'ard fire broke out in the Wyly cabii mnd it was consumed. A torch ha4 een applied from the exterior. In this case the law was invoked M1rs Wren resisted, with the resuli :hat a sheriff and three deputies were sent out for her. Armed with a re rolver she gave the men battle, firing :hree ineffective s!hots even after all from an officer's rifle had cut -s rash in her neck. More freightened it the blood than the law, she sur rendered, was tried and sent to prisoz 'or two years. Her son was found guilty of complicity and given a terIn ialf as long. When she surrendered she cursed Sie officers for shooting at a womai mnd vowed her revenge on them and -hose who had caused her arrest Prior to this affair she had shot and rounded another man besides the >wner of the noisy dog, which caused: ier first resort to firearms. The neighborhood in which this wo nan bandit now operates is inhabited t1most entirely by the poor and the ihauls" she makes are in proportior small, yet she goes about her work ;vith all the color and dash the James is knew. Armed with two big revolv ;ers and 'her knife, clad in a wide som >rebo of straw, a kimono waist, and a rough skirt, she looks a land pirate. She is tall and powerful, with a coarse, nasculine face and a voice in confor nity. Yet she is not without a leaven od :onsideration. Those who shelter het she does not rob and she has ever >een known to return the fruits of hei ioldups when poverty was pleaded. Eer chief aim appears to be yen ~eance on those who have excited her tnger and a general vendetta against tn organization of human beings that >unish wrongs. Neighbors who ac nised her of robberies, the Wylys, who lent her to prison, the officers who irrested her, and all her sundry ene rdes are uneasy of the result. On leaving the prison farm she talked to the nearest railroad station, mnd then down the track a few mailes BAKIN Biscuits More Tas Absolut 44L1 dark and she asked for supper. "cowboy" costume excited a littl riosity, and even fear, among th men folk'at the farm, who eye( nervously as she ate supper. finishing she drew her revolve . demanded: "Give me what money there is : house, and be quick about it." This command was quickly ol The woman had only a few d< which was handed over, the 4 saying: "This is the last of my only b cotton; I was saving it to buy < I am a widow, and these two gir: my daughters." S"Keep your money! I a.m a ' Smyself. I will not make others , 'I should not have demanded i Sfrom a woman !" the bandit ansi 1The woman robber then threy~ 1a dollar on the table for her si )put her revolver beneath the fo: her kimomo, and left. - An hour later she met a s t hand walking down the track. H i evidently surprised to meet a : woman at that hour, but was e surprised when she thrust a re' Sinto 'his face and ordered: - "Turn your back while I searct pockets!" -He saw the gleaming barrel < revolver by the faint lighLt, an coarse, rugged features of the 'w --more like a man than a woman he obeyed, perhaps uncertain wI t he strange creature was in earni jesting-whether an acquain Imasquerading as a woman and ing a practica-l joke. She relieved him of a few dc Lall he had, and a revolver,'whic put in her belt. As she strode she warned, "Keep mum about The next several days num farmhouses were visited and the pants were "held up." There w few dollars, and only a ~few, at house, for the ileople in that si are extremely poor. At houses1 she asked for lodging for the she considered it a breach of t tality to rob, and paid her bill i Imorning. She talked little, givin hosts to understand that she tramping it through the country: ly to be traveling; that she was to New Orleans to see the world as she had no money she had to IBut the farmers had heard c "mysterious woman," and she never refused meals or lodging. were glad to escape so lightly. cago Tribune. New Way to Swear Off Taxe The best way of not paying tax your personal property is to them off. says Success. By "swe off" is meant going to the tax ass and making a deposition that really don't live where you see live, that you really don't own you seem to own, and that, while appear to be a very rich man, yo really overburdened by debts ' you have hitherto successfully cealed. Since personal taxes b so many ways of swearing off been invented that the tax autho had come to believe that there no new tax dodge under the sun. But the tax authorities were mi en. A few days ago a man cat ask to be relieved of his per: taxes. "I have only $5,000," he "and that money is in city bonds is being held in trust." "For whom?" 'asked the tax missioner. G POWDER rule rs,;j 1 Cakes, , Hot Breads ty, Economical, ely Healthful Her at first there was no answer, but the e Cu- tax commissioner insisted. Finally, in wo- a stage whisper, the swearer-off ex I her plained. Upon "The money is held in trust during and his lifetime-for my dog." n the NEEDFUL KNOWLEDGE. >eyed. Newberry People Should Learn to De ldestteet the Approach of Kidney Disease. offee.f The symptoms of kidney trouble [aeare so unmistakable that they leave no [saeground for doubt. Sick kidneys ex vidow crete a thick, cloudy, offensive urine, uffer. full of sediment, irregular of passage oyor attended by a sensation of scalding. teredy The back aches constantly, headaches ere. hl and dibby spells may occur and the r. afvictim is often weighed down by a fpper feeling of languor and fatigue. Neg Id tlect these warnings and there is dan ainger of dropsy, Bright's disease, or dia ec was betes. Any one of these symptoms is warning enough to begin treating the lone kidneys at once., Delay often proves more ftl ror You can use no better remedy than Doan's Kidney Pills. Here's New tyour berry. M. L. Long, R. F. D. No. 5, Newber >f the ry, S C., says: "I believe Doan's Kid d the ney Pills to be an excellent remedy oman for kidney complaint. For some time -and my kidneys were disordered and I tether was caused great annoyance by too est or frequent passages of the kidney secre tance tions, especially at night. Learning of" play- Doan's Kidney Pills, I. procur-ed a box at W. E. Pelham & Son's Drug llars, Store and began their use. The con b she tents of one box made me feel better away in every way. I have no hesitation in this.'' recommending Doan's Kidney Pills to erous Iother kidney sufferers." occu- For sale by all dealers. Price 50 ere a cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, each New York, sole agents for the United iction States. here Remember the name-Doan's-and night take no other. Lospi n the NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMIENT. g her Notice is hereby given that as was guardian of the estate of Holland nere- Boozer, minor, I will make final set going tiement as guardian of said estate in , and the Probate Court for Newberry coun walk. ty, Tuesday, December 20, 1910, at 11 f the o'clock in the forenoon, and immed was' jately thereafter apply to* the said They Icourt for letters dismissory as guar -Chi- dian of said minor. W. E. Lake, Guardian Holland Boozer. S.11-18-4t-ltaw. es on Saved From the Grave. wear "I had about given up hope, after aring nearly four years of suffering from a essor sever lung trouble," writes Mrs. M. L. youx, of Clarksville, Tenn. "Often tha yupain in my chest would be almost un m to bearable and I could not do any what work, but Dr. King's New Discovery Syou has made me feel like a new person. Its the best medicine made for the a are throat and lungs." 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With each bottle Rexall Cherry Juice Cough Remedy-25 cents size, 100 votes; 50 cents size, 200 votes; $1.00 size 500 votes. With any other Rexall Remedy-25 cents size, 25 votes; 50 cts. size, 50 votes; $1 size,'100 votes. There is a Rexall. Remedy for every ailment, and they are the best. -Look in our window and see the $15.00 'doll, also the most beautiful line of dolls, from 25 cents to $5.00 each, ever shaown in the city. Gilder & Week THE RIGHT DRUG STORE BEING PHOTOGRAPHED Is a duty we owe our friends and loved ones. We never know when it may be too late. Now is the time-why wait? Nothing ever comes to those who wait. See the attractive display of artistic Photos, fin ished in the most approved tones a,nd latest mount ings. First see the street display, then call in the Studio of Otwey and Miss T. E. Salter, East End Main St. In Copeland Building. For Chiristmas Gifts A box of Nunnally's Candies is a dainty remembrance. They have a quality touch renowned throughout the Southland. se,.':nGile&Wek assure freshness. ie e k 'cock a. in., Wednesday, December etc. Terms of sale, cash. 1910, all of the personal property Frances L. Haltiwanger, !the said deceased, consisting of Nov. 21, 1910. ymAdxitratici mrling imn1ements, merchandise. 11-22-2t-1taw.