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Entered at the Postoffice at New berry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, January 6, 1911. Newberry: The city that does thin-gs. What has become of that light that the old council ordered put up in Friend street, at the railroad cross Ing? We think it is high time for the News and Courier to let up on North Carolina, now that the legislature of that State is in session. On Wednes day, the day the North Carolina legis aure met, the News and Courier makes the impertinent remark that a great man will be born in North Caro 1ina some day, if his parents happen to be passing through the State at the time.' How could there be a legis -ature without g-eat men? We hope city council will soon give some attention to the crossings at the Vnion depot. During the recent rains the Johnstone street crossing was al MrLost impassable, and the Friend Otreet crossing was about as bad. The Main street crossing was very little better. People oCQing into Newberry will get a very bad opinion of the town before they get away from the depot, with the crossings as they are, not to mention the fact that something is due $o the people who live here, and most - f whom have to use these crossings requently. We believe if the legislature would make" the necessary appropriations, keeping them as low as poSble 0on istent with running the State on a iusness-like basis; pass a compulsory ducation law; pass a marriage li eensg at pass !a'ws providing for permanent roads in as many of the counties as w21 take iueh a law, hold the electionis andt then adjou i'a-these things, of course, in addition to the inaugui-ation-that the State would benefit greatly by the session. The position of The Herald and News is well known on- the question of compulsory ed,ucation. We do not be lieve that any parent has the right to rear a child 'without the rudiments oft a common school education, when the State furnishes tlle education. It is not a matter of taking away any rights from the parent; it is a matter of ,pro tecting the children' in their rights. A aompulsory education law for South Carolina is coming. It can not come too soon. We have no sympathy with the fogyism of President Lowell, of Har vard, 'displayed in his war against the college yell, but, in the spirit of deep est humility, realizing the density of 6 our ignorance, 'we 'would like to ask Newberry college the meaning of "Razoo, razoo, boys get your bazoo," which highly euphonious exhortation occurs in the Newberry yell. We have a suggestion to make, also: Sup 'pose the last "o" in the first two words should get changed to an "r," and the double "o" and the "a" in the last word shou1d decide to exchange places; wouldn't the resulting com mand be awful! It has very much that sound, any-way. But evil is only to him who evil thinks, and therefore there is no use to 'spoil a delightful and nerve-resting yell by so slight a change. THE GEN'ERAL ASSEMUBLY. *The general assembly convenes next Tuesday. With the policy of the State on the liquor question settled by the elections the past summer, one matter which has consumed a great deal of 'time at every session for the past num *ber of years will be out of the way, and the legislature will be free to give its attention to other questions, the most important of which at this time is the financial condition of the State, includ ing the subject of taxation. There will be several elections, probably the most important of which 'will be the choice of a man for ythe ftith plac on the suDreme benclh, if the legislature ratiftes the constitu tional amendment voted by the peo ple, as it is presumed it will. Ther is also a successor to be chosen t the late Judge Charles G. Dantzlei, .c the First circuit, and the term o Judge George W. Gage, of the Sixt" circuit, expires, and his successor w] be named. No opposition has bee: mentioned so far to Judge Gage. The work of the legislature couli be narrowed down to a small compas if only the really important matter should receive consideration. Ther are, however, always a great numbe of bills introduced, most of whi6h ar killed in one way or another or die natural death on the calendar. great deal of time is always consum ed uselessly, and too frequently th most important measures are rushe through in the closing hours of th session. As matter of fact, there i too much important legislation b: conference and free conference com mittees in the confusion attending th closing hours of the session, when re ports are adopted in the time it take. for the gavel to fall, many of thi mem,bers not having the opportunity t< see the purport of the bills an( amendments and conference report finding their way to the statute books Mayor Maddox, of Atlanta, who re cently retired from office, gave fur credit to the Atlanta naewspapers fo their part in the city's development It is refreshing to see credit given th( press in the graceful m.anner in whic it was given by Mayor Maddox. H said, among other things: "it vild be imDoselble -to gi" 9 ressue of the ptWft? @AId Dre&e ity of oial Idty Withbit kivihig due cred it to th riit played in our advance ment by the loyal and powerful p'esE of Atlanta. "Our newspapers have given theii hearty support to every worthy move ment, and besides making large cash svubscriptions to semi-civic enterpris es, they have donated hundreds and thousands of dollars of their vlaluable space in advertising this city through out the Union. "I believe it can be truthfully stat ed that the development of Atlanta in the past few years, and its standing ai present both at home and abroad is more largely due to the splendid co operation of our press than to any oth er cause. "The editors of these papers have not hesitated to criticise the a,ctions of our officials when they felt that they were wrong, nor have they been slow to commend when they deemed our actions worthy." COTTAGE PRAYER MEETINGS. Preparatory to Special Meeting at Central Church-The First Quar-. - terly Conference. .. The first ot the series of cottage prayer aneetings to be held among thE Methodists of Central church will bE at the residence of Mrs. M.' E. West, wrd 1, next Monday evening at 7.301 o'clock, leader, J. F. Gleason. On Tuesday evening the- meerting for 'ward 2 will be at H. M. Lomin'acek's, leader, C. L. Harris. All interested in Chris tian work are invited to these meet igs which are preparatory to a spe lial meeting at the chiurch to begin Fbruary 5. Rev. E. T. Adams, of St. Louis, is expected to assist in this meeting. The first quarterly conference for this charge will be held this evening at the parsonage at 7.30. TALUE OF COTTON SEED. Worth About One-Fifth as Much as The Cotton Crop. Wall Street Journal. The farmers of the South will re eive this year for the seed from their cotton approximately $165,000,000, at least one-fifth as much is they will receive from the fleecy staple itself. Within the memory of men still com paratively young the seed from the entire cotton crop, with the excep tion of the few saved for planting the next crop, were regarded as a bother and; nuisance and were used to fill gullies or thrown into waste places. Later in their raw state they were used for fertilizer and even a few~ years ago when cotton seed crushing had got a fairly good start 20 cents a bushel was regarded as an excel ent price and the returns were re garded as "velvet" by the farmers. Th.edti eri eln o ( na namn thin year is selling for 40 - cents to 50 cents a bushl. . There are in the South today sev e eral hundred plants for crushing the oil from cotton seed. Three large corporations are engaged extensively in the manufacture of the- products f of the seed, these three alone owning a nearly four hundred crushing mills and quite a number of refineries. These companies are the Southern Cotton Oil company, the American Cotton Oil company and Proctor & C Gamble. The scores of other mills in s the'South sell their crude oil to these s larger companies or to independent e refineries and the packing houses. The ordinary mill turned out three r products from the seed-hull, meal e and crude oil. The hulls and meal 3, are sold to farmers who mix them themselves for cattle feed, while the crude oil is sold to the large com panies or to refineries, etc. In some of the large mills the meal and hulls are scientifically mixed and blended 3 into boveta and other balanced cat 3 tle feed which has within the last year or so been shipped to the east ern states to dairymen and stockmen, while, by the introduction of corn, rice, bran and a small amount of mo - lasses, a horse feed resembling oats In its constituency is made, and this product, called scocotes, is becoming quite popular with those who pur cbase instead of raise their horse feed. Cotton flour for human consump tion was manufactured for the first time last fall and winter, It is made by a rather expensive pro'ess and has not been put on the market as a ] cheap product. Its claim to favorl: lies in the fact that it contain* ar, very high per cent of protein, a large-I er proportion, in fact, than -almostl any other article known, while the proportion of starch is exceedingly small. The flour is so rich that It can pot be made into bread by itself, but is mixdd with wheat flour or corn bati. Mited with- Wheat flour in the pi-56t~ Dioportion it Mkes a bread that renibleks gY'aham bread. The 6l its by far the most valuable produtt of the seed, being worth'] probably three times as much as all the other products put together. Few people have any idea of~ the large numb~er of uses to which' cotton seed oil is put. When the crude oil is i'e fined the flour bil ?-esults with soap stock as the by--pyddat. This by.' p,roduct is worked .if't'd see'vrai D[ar ketable products, inoluding soaps, piltch, paints, glycerine and others, while new uses are Censtantly being i found 'for it. The refined oil has many products a buit the naost important are .the cook ing fats.( One on the Judge. t New York Herald. . The lawyer for the prosecution had finished his closing argument, and the . fudge, a pompous and long winded individual, was charging the jury. . He was in the midst of an unusual ly long andI tedious address when he suddenly noticed that one of the jury men had fallen fast asleep. The in dignation -of his honor was boundless. Rapping sharply on his desk, he awak- i ened the slufnberer, who seemed not at all abashed at being thus caught napping. After glaring at him angri ly for a few moments the magistrate in his most sarcastic tone said: "So that's the way you attend to your duty, it. is? You're a fine speci men to have on a jury. Do you think your opinion will be of any value when I send you -out to determine the fate this prisoner?" "Yes, sir," said the juryman quiet ly; "I think so." "Oh, you do, do you ?" shouted the exasperated judge. "Pray tell me, sir, how long you have been sleeping?" "I dorf't know, your honor," was the reply. "How long have you been talk ing?" Too Smart to be a Lawyer. ase and Commant. B. Davis Noxon was one of the ab lest lawyers i-n centrail New York. A young -man -ent:ered his office as a stu dent and was given Blackstone to ~ study. At the en'd of a month 'he ask ed Mr. Noxon what U-e should read ~ next. "Do you understand Blackstone?" ~ "Yes," was his answer. I "Rieiad Kent," was the order. In another month he annouinced ~ that he had finished Kent and "what ~ next?" "Have you read Blackstone and Kent?" "Yes." "Do you understand them?" "Yes." I "Wl, said Mr. Noxon, "you had btter go home to -some other busi ness; you are too smartfto be a law-' ye. - A Brief Performance. f Cleveland Plain Dealer. Wyngs--Youi say you opened in i "Hamlet?" What did you close with? j Grooves- T --- ~ ~ .NOTICE OF .UNUAL .LLnk. . The annual meeting of the stock holders of the National Bank of New berry, S. C., will be held in the office of the bank at Nevwberry on Tuesday, January 10, 1911, at eleven o'clock, for the purpose of electing directors for the ensuing year and for transact ing anY other business that iay come before the meeting. R. D. Smith, Cashier. NOTICE DISSOLUTION OF PART NERSHIP. The par,tnership, for the practice of law, heretofore existing between Cole. L. Blease and Fred. H. Dominick, un der the firm name of Blease & Dom inick, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All parties due the firm will please make prompt payment to Fred. H. Dominick, who will continue the prac tice of his profession at the same of fices. Cole. L. Blease. Fred. H. Dominick. January 2, 1911. Columbia, Newberry & Lauren's I. . Schedule in effect October 6, 1910. ubject to change without notice. chedules indicated are not guaran eed: A. C. L. 52. 53. ,v. Charleston.. ...6.10am 10.00pm Ev. Sumter.. .. ... 9.41am 6.20pm C., N. & L. v. Columbia.... ..11.15am 4.55pmu v. Prosperity. 12.42pm 3.34pm .jv. Newberry.. ...12.56pm 3.20pm v. Clinton.... .. .. 1.50pm 2.35pm Lv. Laurens.. ..... 2.35pr 2.12pm Q. &s W. ct kr. Greenville. . .. 4.6Di i2.20pm kr. Spartanburg. .. 4.05pm 12.20pm S. A. L. tr. Abbeville .. .. 3.55pm 1.02pm kr. Greenwood.. .. 3.27pm 1.33pm kr. Athens.... .. .. 6.05pm 10.30am i. Atlanta...... .. 8.45pm 8.00am A. C. L. 54. 55. iv. Columbia.... ..5.00pm 11.15am .v. Prosperity... ..6.26pm 9.50am 'v. Newberry.. .... 6.44pm 9.82am iv. Clinton.... ...7.35pm 8.44am v. Laurens.. .. .. 7.55pm 8.20am C. &W. c. r. Greenville.. .., 9.20pm 7.O0am S. A. L. LIa greenwood.. .. .2.28am 2.38am r. Abbeville.... .. 2.56am 2.08am r. Athens.. .... .. 5.4am 11.59pm r. Atlanta.. .. ...7.5am 9.55pm Nos. 52 and .53 arrive and dapart rom Union Station, Columbia, daily, nd run through between Charleston nd Greenville. Nos. 54 and 55 arrive and depart ~ervais street, Columbia, daily, ex ept Sunday, and run through be ween Columbia and Greenville. For information ask agents or write, W. J. Craig, P. T. MI., Wilmington, N. C: .F. Livingston, S. A., Columbia, S. C. LSSESSMENT OF PERSONAL PROP ERTY'FOR FISCAL YEAR 1911. I, or an authorized agent, will be t the following places named below 'or the purpose of taking returns of ersonal property for fiscal year 1911: Newberry, January 1 to 10, inclu ive. Kinards, Wednesday, Jan. 11 Whtmire, Thursday and Friday, anuary 12 and 13. Jolly Street, Monday, Jan. 16. Pomaria, Tuesday, Jan. 17.' Walton, Wednesday, Jan. 18. Glymphville, Thursday, Jan..19. Maybinton, Friday, Jan. 20. Prosperity, Monday and Tuesday, ran. 23 and 24. Little, Mountain, Wedulesday, Jan. O'Neal1, Thursday, Jan. 26. St. Lukes, F'iday, Jan. 27. Longshiores, Monday, Jan. 30. Silverstreet, Tuesday, Jan. 31. Chappells, Wednesday, Feb. 1. And at Newberry until February 20, Lfter which date a -penalty of 50 per ent. will be added against all persons, irms, or corporations failing to make heir returns. The law requires a tax to be charg d on all moneys, notes and mort ~afges, also an income tax on gross ncomes in excess of $2,500. There shall be a capitation tax of ifty cents on all dogs, the proceeds o be expended for school purposes. ogs not returned for taxation shall ot be considered as property in any if the courts of this State. A?? male persons between the ages f 21 and 60 years are liable to pay >11 tax, except Confederate soldiers, r those persons incapable of earn ng a support from being maimed or rm any other cause. Nothing but personal property is to e assessed this year, but all persons vho have bought or sold any real es ate since last return are required to iote such transfers on their returns or 1911. Al property must be assessed "at ts true value," which is construed to nean "the sum of money for which uch property, under ordinary cir 1~ He Got the Goods. Milwaukee Wisconsin. Four customers had called that morning. The dealer reffected that the order by mail would necessarily take time, so going to the long-dis tance telephone he got his favorite jobber on the wire. This conversa tion ensued: "Hello! Is this the Ret-ier's Sup ply company?" 4"Yes." "Who's talking?" "Watt." "What is your name." "Watt is my name." "Yes. What is your name?" "My name is Watt-Charles Watt." "Oh! Charles Watt. Well, Watt, send me this order on this nou's ex press. (Here he reads order.) "All right. Are you Shott?" "No; I'm not shot, nor half shot." "I mean you are John- Schott?" "No; I'm Knott." "Well, then, what is your name?" "Will Knott." "Why won't you?" ''Oh!' My name is Will Knott, of KnoxviIle. I want that order sent out on today's express, sure." "Certainly, Knott. Goodby." -And 'Knott went back to the counter wondering whether Watt said he would or not, or what. But he got the goods. A Delusion Spoiled. - Tit-Bits. A venerable, white-haired person received a month or so ago several re quests from young women for a lock of his hair. The divine, pleased- at this expression of respect, gladly t6mnied with the i@es It was not long, howeVei, before his wife received a communiftifn that put an end to her husband's pleasant delusion. The note was as fiblows: "Dear Mrs. - Do please ask your husband to send me just a little lock - of his hair. All the girls have - been taking lessons in making heir flowers. So many of the girls have asked him that I thought I'd rather address you. Will you be so kind? It's hard to get white hair for lilies of the va:ley." I'tBt.Out of Commission. In- a c~ertainl camfp a. battallion was being. instruc~ted on "How to take a convoy throuigh an open coun.try." One bomxpany was told off to repres sent a convoy, the men being Instruct ed that they were to represexnt horses, cows and wagons. After being halted a short time thej advance signal was given and the -con voy moved on; but the major noticed that one man continued to lie down, and galloping up' to him in a rage, solid: "Man, why don't you -advance?" The soldier replied: "I can't, sir." Major-You can't? What do you mean?( "I'm a wagon," said the other, "and 've got a wheel off." An Act of Necessity. Cieveland Plain Dealer. A correspondent writes in to correct story printed in this paper several ays ago. "In that snake story I sent - ou," he complains, "you made one mistake. I told you that the snake Ci was twenty feet long and you had it mny ten feet long." jsu We are sorry for this, but the error WP as uYavoidable. We were very much hbis rowded for space when we used the 'hv story and we had to -cut severything .r' own. d . POLICY HOLDERS XEETING. - s The Policy Holdere of The Farmers' utual Insurance Association will eet in annual session in the court th ouse at Newberry, S. C., on Saturday, cu anuary 14, 1911, at 11 o'clock. a. mo. no A full attendance is desired, as busi ness of importance will come up. R. T. C. Hunter-,a Mi . I. Epting, President. Secretary. 12-30-3t. NOTICE OF ANNUAL KEETING. The annual -meeting of the stock olders'of the People's National bank, f Prosperity, South Carolina, will be held in the office of the bank at Pros eity on Tuesday, January 10, 1911, t 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose f electing directors for the ensuing year and for transacting any other usiness that may come before the eeting.fo R. T. Pugh, f Cashier. -sid umstances, would sell for cash." Please do not ask that your prop erty be taken from the auditor's du plicate the same as last return, for La the law requires that all property must be listed on regular tax return fir blanks an dsigned and sworn to by wh~ person listing same. - Name of township and school dis- go' trict must be -given on every return. Eug. S. Werts, Auditor Newberry County. fri Newberry, S. C. S-. -. -. - 4 chief requisite * for making Perfect Bake Day Foods.. Podeel }froiaRoMvIGraj e Cream dTartar *No Alun NoLime Phosphat r. is ar - innati CommerciTibn was .i Burnt Woos pa mer tht a ma with er Mp, redhair.n mn d a oat. Fo 1.ne8.l e.' her ?" esWat a inetighomercaleTiundne rtws in ut Wos ua nrake Eeim?~ang winith. eep an erct crragMe. e eep ri a nd n1e at.Ioedh dait in tier tble meann er e 'he elof the tae hee? away . from excitement. 'Right here" tner.on eat cool apearing colos i noh ove-onmtlheadgear.U tc hestae o laugh.er 'earee Eenngorscons. n ainy o es taleaner,dlr ymbp her elbwsof slhghtlloe s. ea din-id be away fom wablel. Br obby'serin olodrm 3uy' om o rniftal haga~ abby hiate jut reurned from : a spritngsl ry.ad.a hes f sitout leaher, l proud. oeall, ot bbddeo. hv Bobby's" mGoods Bomby tndb how jteturam nd mh~4 Well whayy did you a the rFrowed up."