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VOLUME XLIX, NUMBER 64. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1911. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEA]. THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. People Who Are Visiting Friends in Prosperity 'and Prosperity Peo ple Who Are Visiting Away. Prosperity, Aug. 10.-Mrs. J. F. Browne and little Misses Elizabeth Browne and Rebecca Harmon are vis iting in Greenwood. Rev. and Mrs. E. W. Leslie have re turned from Leesville. Prof. and Mrs. L. A. Sease are guests of Dr. G. Y. Hunter. Miss Lena Clinkscales, of Ander on, is spending this week with Miss ate Thompson. Mesdames Geo. S. Bearden and R. Luther are visiting in Columbia. & Miss Marguerite Devore has return eZ,to Ninety Six, accomp'anied by Miss Julia Schumpert. Mrs. D. P. Boyd, of Newberry, is -spen4ing a few days with Miss Joe Thomx)son. Mrs. J. A. Kinard and little son, of Little Mountain, are visiting Mrs. Joe martman. Mrs. Henry L. Parr has returned to Newberry, after a visit to Mrs. J. P. Wheeler. Mr. W. P. B. Harmon, of Ninety Six, spent the week-jend, in town. Mrs. I. S. Caldwell has gone 'to 'Staunton, Va., for a month's stay. L Miss Irene Curlee, of Winssboro, is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. S. Wheeler. Miss Susie Quattlebaum has return ed from a vidit to Batesburg. Mr. E. S. Kohn, of Columbia, is vis iting Mr. W. J. Wise. Mrs. E. E. Young and Master George Wise have gone to Williamson. Mrs. A. H. Kohn and Miss Nell Kohn, ;of Columbia, are guests at the Wise hotel. Mrs. L. M. Calhou4, of Barnwell, and Miss Toy Lathan,'of Little Moun tain, are guests of Mrs. C. M. Harmon. Items From St. Paul. St. Paul, Aug. 9.-The program that had been arranged for exercises by the small children of the Sunday -school was very successfully carried out Sunday morning at 10 o'clock fol lowed by a short sermon by the Rev. Y. von A. Riser. Our Sunday school is getting along ,fairly good.~ We bave on the roll at 'present shout 110 pupils. The young people of the con gregation have also organized a Young People's 'society. Thg officers of this societya will meet at the church Sun 4ay safternoon at 4.30 for the purpose, of receiving members, but all the young people of the congregation, -also of other congregations, who come will feel interested in this work, and ome out and help this work along. ~Dr. Sligh had a very severe attack Surday and Sunday, but is doing some better 'at this writing. Sorry to say Mrs. Y. von A. Riser has been confined to her room for a few days with fever, also Miss Agnes Richardson but all are on the mend.I Prof. Riser, superintendent of tha -city school Aiken, S. C., and Prof. M. \C. Riser, a meinber of the faculty of Newberry college, spent a week quite recently with their brother, Rev. Y. 'von A. Riser. Mr. Clemson Wilson, of near New berry, spent Saturday and Sunday, the guest of Mr. Clyde Epting. *Miss Nannie' Mae sligh is visiting friends in Saluda county this week. Mr. J. M. Stone and daughter, Miss nez, also his little son, Grady, of clifse, spent the past week with ne's sister, Mrs. Geo. Richard Louise Counts is visiting a d at Pomaria this week. iss Sara Wicker, of Newberry, is ting her sister, Mrs. H. 0. Stone. e have had some fine road work one in this section for the past few weeks by the county chain gang for which we are very thankful to the county supervisor. - -'We had interesting speeches at St. Paul's on July 28, on the good road question, made 'by Messrs. C. T. Wyche, Geo. Y. Hunter and W. G. iDudley. Fodder pulling is now in order through this section of the county. We have been having some very fine rains quite recently which will do our cotton a great deal of good. W. B. Boinest, L. C. Trout .Wedaman have gone to; lege to spend a few days.J Dr1t BACHMAN CHAPEL NEWS. Crop Conditions Much Improved as a Result of the Recent Rains. Personal Mention. Slighs, Aug. 10.-The farmers, are through laying by their crops and since the rains have been coming so regularly the crops are growing fine. With favorable weather the late cot ton may do very well. It is growing and fruiting nicely now. Most of the corn is good. I have heard of a great many wells failing, In fact, some are dry. This has been a remarkably dry year, but if the cotton had come up to a stand at first there would have been the finest crop made in many years. The cost of cultivation has been much less than last year. We certainly appreciate the weath-1 er report given out to us through the Southern Bell telephone exchange daily. Of course we don't expect the weather every time to be just exactly' as predicted, but some of the reports come very close to it. Mr. E. L. Strauss has purchased an engine and saw mill outfit. Mr. Strauss has recently had a quantityl of very fine timber killed by bugs and he intends sawing the remainder. He hopes to get started to sawing in two or three weeks. We are*soon to have another new enterprise in this section. Mr. J. D. Quattlebaum intends lighting his house, and around his home wherever needed, with electricity. He will gen erate the power with water, and has an embankment built of rock and cement across the creek near his home already completed. On account of the organ used at Colony failing, it was thought best to get a new one, and we hope to bave it by next Sunday, .the 13th. Mrs. Jas B. Baker, accompanied by her cousin, Mr. John Raymon Baker, of Whitmire, is spending this week with Mrs. Baker's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. L. B. Epps. Mr. T. L. B. Ep.s and family, ac companied by Mrs. . B- Baker and Mr. Jno. Raymon Bak, of Whitmire, spent last Tuesday at tho home of Mr and Mrs. C. B. Halfic-". near New berry. Mr. W. B. Franklin and family vis ited Mr. and Mrs.i El'ah Franklin and family, of Goldiville, fro4a last Friday until Sunday. Mr. Jno. T. Franklin, who has an attack of fever, is improving. There will be a picnic at Bethel school house, near Pomaria, on Wed neday, August 16, under the auspices of Ash Grove camp, No. 194, W. 0. W., of Pomaria. A game of baseball will be played in the afternoon between Pomaria and Saluda, on the Pomaria diamond. The public is cordially in vited to attend. W. SENATOR PASSES TO EEST. William Pierce Frye Dies at His Home in Lewiston, MIe.-State's Faith ful Servant. Lewiston, Me., Aug. 8.-The State of Maine lost its senior United States senator and almost life-long faithful servant when William Pierce Frye died today at the home of his daugh-~ ter, Mrs. Helen White, in this city. The end came at 3.55 p. m. At his bedside were Mrs. White and his other daughter, Mrs. Alice Briggs, who also resides in Lewiston. . Athough he had been ill for a long time, death came suddenly. Forced by the condition of his health to.resign his position as pres ident pro tempore of the senate at the beginning of the present session of congress, although he retained his membership in the senate, Senator Frye soon afterward made his last journey from Washington to the city which always had been his home. For several weeks his condition was not considered necessarily dangerous. Up to last week he rested in comparative comfort, spending much of his time in reading or having some member of his family read to him. Annual Pienic. Piney Woods Farmers' union will hold their annual picnic in front of Piney Wood's ~parsonage August 18. The public is cordially invited to at-1 THE NEWS OF WHITMIRE. New Buildings-Mrs. Fant Sells Her Home-Missionary Meetings Personals. Whitmire, Aug. 9.-Mr. W. D. Suber has 'bought from Mrs. Jno. P. Fant the house which she and family occupied while here. Mr. Suber will move into the house at an early date. Mr. James Abrams, who oversees for Mrs. Victoria Coleman, has bought the George Hughey place. He will build a nice residence there. '1he lumber has been shipped and is being hauled out each day. -Mr. Wim. Scott has had lumber saw ed for his new dwelling. He will build on his place near the Brick house Misses Mary and Louise Bat-s, of Carlisle, are visiting Mrs. W. A. An drews. Mr. Jno. Scott, Mr. Willialh Scott and Miss Sallie Lou Scott spent Sab bath with relatives here. -They wor shipped with the congregation at tlie Presbyterian church. Mr. Sam Young had his vacation last week. He spent part of the time in Savannah. Miss Willie Duckett went d3wn to Columbia last week and her sister, Miss Myrtle Duckett returned -home with her. Miss Myrtle Duckett went to Columbia several months ago and was in training as a nurse. She had a long spell of typhoid fever, and is at home regaining her strength. Mr. Henry Tidmarsh went up to 'Coronaca a few days- since, looking after some business interest of the future. Mr. Clough Rice 'and Miss Frances Rice have their vacation this week. They are visiting the home-folks at Coronaca. ' Miss Ruth Crosby, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. 0. A. Jeffcoat, has gone to Spartanburg,. where she will have work as a stenographer. Mrs. David Duncan has returned from a short visit to her sister in Clinton. The Foreign Missionary society and Ladies Aid society of the Methodist church will meet with Mrs. M. E. Abrams at her home this evening. Messrs. Thad Coleman and Wm. Watspn went over to Newberry last week. Miss Butler Fant is spending the week with her friend Misi Myrtle Suber. Mrs. B. H. Herreni and children, af ter a pleasant stay with 'relatives in Marion, have returned home. Little Henry, one of the interesting twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. Z. H. Sub er, is quite i-ll with some form of fever. Rev. Ray Anderson is conducting a tent meeting near Maybint,on. He preached there very successfully last summer. Mr. and Mrs. Z. H. Wright and Mrs. Robert Wright, after an extended visit to relatives here, have returned to their home at Denmark. Mrs. Robert Duckett and daughter accompanied them home. Miss Inez Dobbins is spending thne week renewing old acquaintances in the O'Dells neighborhood. Miss Annie Belle Sligh, left Satur day for a vtsit to her sister, Miss Mat tie Lee Sligh at Montreat, N. C. Miss Sarah Shannon is spending ti" week with Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Abrams. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hlipp and daugh ters are visiting relatives in the county this week. Miss Kate Har.grove has returned from a pleasant stay with the old folks at home. The family of Dr. R. R. Jeter are spending the summer in the moun tains of N. C. Nita. Just So. "Why do they call a bell boy in a hotel 'Buttons'?" "Because he's always off when you need him most, I guess."--Boston Globe. In No Danger. "Do you consider it a sin to be "No; at the present price of living I consider it impossible."-Chicago Record-Herald. Of course, the ice trust advances prices because the ice is so much cooler than formerly.-Atlanta Con titution. * * THE IDLER. * ** I thought I would quit writing and retire to private life, but somehoi*, you know, I have formerd the habit and it is very hard to leave off bad habits, and mighty hard to form good habits. In fact, you know, I have about come to the conclusion that it is very true, as some one has said, that man i's nothing but a bundle of habits. It is, therefore, of the utmost importanbe that the young should be very careful in the habits that are formed while they are still young. You can get in the habit of doing and of saying kind and pleasant things and it comes natural to do and say things like that. Then you can get in the habit of being cross and of saying mean things and these t4ings soon become a part of your nature and when you try to do good it becomes almost impossible. So I have formed the habit of writing and I guess I will just have to keep on writing. I hope I may some time write somebhIng that will be helpful and make somebody happier and better and give an In spiration to a higher living. I have been thinking about life a good deal lately. I have about come to the conclusion that It Is best not to think too much, but to do your duty as.it comes to you and to try to make some one else happy while you live, and to leave the rest to the All-Wise ruler of the universe. We don't know much about it. It Is all mystery. We are strong and healthy today. Tomor row we are on a bed of affliction and *oon we are gone. I have often won dered why people should 'be unkind and grasping and selfish and cruel. At best it is short and we soon pass on and leave the stage for some one else. * 0 I have just read an article in the Atlanta Journal of January 1, 1911, by Bishop Candler, on "Our Changeful Years, Our Changeless God," and while it is a little -long and was writ ten for the beginning of the new year, I 'want to print It in mypcolumn. It Is comforting to feel that duty and God retnain to grief stricken sou-ls, and while one sighs in vain for the touch) of vanishied lIands and the sound of voices forever hushed, there is a duty to be done and while we a4re left we must 'be .about that duty. It is true, however, that the burdens are heavy which can be laid down only at the gate of the grave. But here is the article, read .It through, it 'will do you good. --0 Very shallow and rivolous must be the soul upon whiich the solemn pro cession of the years makes no imnpres sion. The mere on-going of time by which, whether we will or not, we are ever borne nearer and nearer the end of our lives on earth must at times seriously affect every serious mind. The noblest spirits whose words have been preserved by mankind have been raised to loftiest contemplations by the consideration of the flight of time and the approach of the eternal' world. Moses the man of God, left alone in the wilderness with non e of them around him who came with him out of Egypt, cries out to God, "Thou car riest them away as with a flood... We spend our years as a tale that is told." Paul, the great apostle to the Gen tiles, amid the burdens which came to him from "the care of all the church es," comforts himself and his fellow Christians with the reflection, "Now is our salvation nearer than when we believed."' St. Peter reminds himself to be dili gent 'in his labours on behalf of the church by the words, "Knowing that I must shortly put off this 'my taber nacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me." Centuries afterwards Dr. Watts sang: "Time like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sOns away; They fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies at the op'ning day." Still later dear Phoebe Cary comn forte he a orphan-soul 'by singing, "One sweetly solemn thought Comes to me o'er and o'er; I'm nearer my home today Than I ever have been before; Nearer my Father's house, Where the many mansions be; Nearer the great white throne, 'Nearer the crystal sea; Nearer the bound of life, Where we lay our burdens down; Nearer leaving the cross, Nearer gaining the crown." All these voices from both the dis tant and the nearer past will find echoes in the hearts of thousands as they look backward today on the old year gone and forward to the new year just dawned. To some the old year will point the accusing fangers of an ill-spent and irreparable past. Days have been wasted; many days worse than wast ed. Opportunities have been lost which will never come again. Sins have been committed whose evil con sequences will.run on forever. Friend ships have been violated which can never be renewed, and hearts lave been estranged which can never be won again. Duties have been nglected which hafe passed 'beyond recall and must remain henceforth to eternity undon. 0 the fragedy of the lost year! Of one lost day Mrs. Sigourney sang in these sad lines: "Lost! lost! lost! I feel all search is vain; That gem of countless cost Can neer be mine again. I offer no reward. For till these heart strings sever, I know that heaven-entrusted gift Is reft away forever. But when the sea and land Like b4rning scroll hive fled, I'll see it in his hand Who judgeth quick -and dead; And when of scath and loss That man can- ne'er repair, The dread inquiry meets my soul. What shalj it answer there; If such be the lament~for o!ie lost day, what should the sorrow be for a lost year? . To others the parting year looks through saddened eyes. It stands by buried hopes and weeps over heart breaking bereavement. No -other year was ever like It. All tire years following It must henceforth be di! ferent from all that went before It; for how can life be ever again the same ..when one sighs in vain for the touch of vanishedhande an.1 the sound of voices forever hushe~d? Ah! the trials which have come to some which, must walk with them all the rest of the way! Heavy are the buirdens which can be laid down or.ly at the gate of the gravei To the young who have known little of gri:ef, because they have known lit tle of 'life, the thought of the old-year will be lost in the glow of the dawning year 'which beckons to them with so many high hopes. Let tliem rejoice in their strength "While the evil days come not and the years draw nigh, when they shall say, We have no pleasure in them." To the Epicurean atheist no thought of life's seriousness or deepest joy ousness can come. They will only say to their pleasure-sodden souls, "Let us eat, drink and be merry; for tomorrow we die." Having denied immortality and emptie~ the present ~life of all that makes It sacred and. significant, they utter the carelesk creed of the brutes and live up to their creed. Holding such a creed they. can draw no instruction from the, psat nor inspiration from the future. Time derives all its significance from eternity, and meaningless are all our years If life ends in nothingness. Words are iwasted on minds which can think so meanly of themselves. But to faithful souls, wearied and grief stricken by the changing years, duty and God remain for their com fort. The past is gone, but the present is with us. If we can not be what once we might have been, nor do what once we might have done, nevertheless, there is yet something good that we may be and do. The best repentance' for the irreparable past is the faith ful use of the living present. Well says Robertson of Brighton In one of his most helpful sermons, "under mi circumstances, whether of pain, or grief, or disappointment, or irrepara-:.1 ble mistake, can it be true that there is not something to be done, as welE as something to be suffered. An(I thus it is that Christianity draws over: our life, not a leaden cloud of remorse4 and despondency,but, a sky-not per-p haps radiant, but yet of most serene6 . and chastened and manly hope. There. Is a past which is gone forever. Bat there is a future which Is still our" own. Family circles have 'been brokent during the year gone; but some main whom we can bless with the services of love, and 1by whom we be blessed. Shall we not holdAl thi more tenderly those who are left it10 us because they too are bereaved ad. need as never before our sympethy? Comforting them we too shall be com..' forted. Bonds of friendship have bg SW ered, but all our friends are nt db parted. About us are many hearts upon whom we can lea trust fuliy and by whom we will be trute& Best or all, our God Is with -UL lives and shaH live. This was.*2. sublime faith in which Israel's gre law-giver reposed when all else gone. "Lord thou hast been u dwelling place in all generatious. fore the mountain were,,. brougM,' forth, or even thou hadst formed the'Z. earth and the. world, even from ever-_. lasting to everlastin& thom atGd." The unchanging God, "the same.yei, terday, today and forever," is our ref. uge and solace amid the.ha years. "Swift to its close ebbs out life's litt4 day Earth's joys grow dim, iti gloriesPa away; Change and decay In all around I 0 thou, who changest not, abide me!" - It will not do to think on thesd; things too much exdept to remembe. with the changeful years there'is:.' duty for you to perform and that: yo have left with you that Auty and changeless God. This thought will h you. It was not Intended to the eco . omy of nature that we should worry. and freat over things we can.not help. If we believe in the goodness' and mercy of Gad we must* believe that- hr cares for his onw cand that t he b does is 'best and we must go-on and be'1~ hapy and cheerful In the conscious~ -ess of doing" our duty and carrying . out( the purposes of' the Creatoj, 1 We can not understand.' --Posble lt is best - Tye Idler. 4.Suction TFan. "The two Bills," partners have In1 stalled a powerful cuction fan In the little .moving picture show On Main street next door to E. M. Lane & Co., which exhausts and changes the air in the building every nine minutes, making the place cool and comforta ble on the hottest night and giving pure and fresh air ,to breathe. The program for' today (Thursday) is: "A Society Sinner," adopted 'from Bernsteins Opera, "The -Thief;" "Fa- -- bans Hollow Tooth," a screming farce co'medy; "If it was ever thus," a rom*)pce, and "The Manly Man." We are on the job. Come and see us. Yours truly, - - "Bill and Bill," Miller & Gray. Partners. The Man at the Auto *heeL. li fatal automobile accidents of the ten days may be traced -to the 4 neglect of the driver in each instance to fix his attention on the steering wheel. - In- New, Jersey the other... day the - driver of a speedy car turned loose the wheel -to brush some cigarette ashes from his coat -In the .next instaiit, the ar smashed into a tree and the - three pasengers were thrown out and - seriously hurt A man speeding along the highway from Buffao turned his ead to ask his wife if she needed a wrap and the car was ditched. Both man and wife were killed. Here are two accidents out of many that can be connected directly with carelessness In steering. The man who can not fix his attention on the wheel and the road ought never to -- drive a car. Thes man ,who neglects even for a moment the wheel of a fast-.: moving car is an idiotic crimina-' . R.icmnd TimZ-Dispath.-ak