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Entered at the Postoffice at New krry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, September 1, 1911. It is stated that Chief Justice Ira B. Jones is seriously thinking of enter ing the race for governor next sum mer. The publishers of the "Heart of Oak" readers has agreed to take out the objectionable phrase, "'dark re bellious host," which. appears in a poem referring to the Southern army, and which was condemned by the Con federate veterans, and the books will Temain on the list. The big storm in Charleston was in 1893 and not in 1894 as stated in thei last issue of The Herald and News. That storm was felt more severly in the interior than the one of this week. Seawi ed and sea fowls were dropped around Newberry as a result of the 1898 storm. The News and Courier staff did some fine work in getting out their paper Monday morning in the midst of the terrific gale which was raging around them. And the Oharleston Post is to be congratulated upon' its excellent iedition of Monday afternoon. It takes loyalty of a very high order and fine ability to bring out newspapers such as were issued by the News and Cour er and the Post under the circum stances. We -have been more impressed very recently with the danger of grade ci ossings than ever, before. . We are always careful in crossing a railroad track whether in a buggy or automo bile and have generally felt that when ?these accidents occurred they were the ~result of oarelessness. We are foroed 'to mnodify that opinion and to urge -miore stroungly the -importance of be ing rid of grade crosigs wherever it Ts possible to be rid of themi. - In the trip to Little Mountain on Wednesday in Mr. F. H. Domin.ick's obrd he drove carefully and we looked *uap and down the railroad track at 7each crossng. Just before getting to ILittle Mountain the same thing was done at the crossing anid no train was ween and neidher was 'the sound of one &ea#d. We had not passed the cross ing more than 30 feet before a freight * ~ came rushing by at tlirty miles an hour. If there bad been the least hitch in our crossing or the engine had * choked on us or any .ccident, how ever slighrt, that freight would have caught us iight on tfiat track. And no one could have been charged with carelessness. The thing to do- is to avoid these crossings. - STATE BOARD OF EDUCALTION. "Rebellious He'st" Poem Omitted-An other Poem to Reilace It,' After' cour consecutive meetings, beginning Monday evening, and ad journing only at 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, the State board of education frnished its meeting called for the 28th of this month. A mass of routine busi ness was disposed of. It is stated among other things, that the "Heart of Oak" r-eaders, put out by the D. C. Heath company, will be made satisfactory to' * 'the Confederate veterans, by the sub stitution of another poem -for the one which contained the objectionable * phrase, "dark rebellious host,'' as men tioned in the resolution adopted by the'veterans recently in session here. * A statement of the meetings, its ob jects, and the business accom-plished by it, was Wednesday afternoon made by State Superintendent J. E. Swear ingen, secretary of the board. The statement follows: Exchange Prices. "The State board of education ad journed Wednesday after completing much important business. The meet ing of the board had been called to consider exchange prices to be printed on the inside of the front cover of the recently aidopted texts. Labels show ing these prices in detail had been mailed each publisher on July 22. Sev eral requests for modification in these exchange prices were submitted to the board and all were declined. "The new books properly markerl should be placed on sale in every county at once and patrons and pupils should be careful to see that no sub stitutions for the adopted texts are imposed on them. Patrons purchas ing any but the adopted books will have to pay higher prices for all books purchased. "Monday evening, the board heard the appeal case in Cross Anchor school district number 15, in Spartan burg county. After extended argu ments by counsel the board ordered that the decision of the Spartanburg county board of education be sustained and the appeal dismissed. Tuesday morning three appeal cases consumed four hours. The appeal from the de cision of the Clarendon county boa-rd of education in the matter of Black River school district No. 14 was dis missed and the county board sustan ed. "In the matter of Strickland school district No. 1. in Colleton county, the contention of the appellants was en dorse-1 and the decision of the -Colleton county board of education reveirsed. "The appeal from Walterboro school district No. 19 will be decided at the next meeting. Scholarships Confirmed. "The Tuesday afternoon. session was taken up with confirming the rec ommendations submitted from the four State "oiles for the award of scholarships. Mr. George R. Remb.ert appeared befo,e the board to protest against the scholarship award to Clemson, made in Lexington county. The award was con-Armed as already announed. "The date of the next regular teach ers' examination was fixed for the first Friday in October, and questions bas ed on the newly adopted text books will be sent out to the several county superintendents in time.for this exam ination. At 1 p. m. Wednesday, the board adjourned. Heart of Oak Readers. "'Heart of Oak' reade;, book four, will be made satisfactory to the Con federate vpterans. Prof. Daniel and Prof. Rembert were constituted a committee to select an acceptable poem to be printed in this book in place of the present selection. D. C. Heath company readily assented to This proposition, and the reader~ will be ready for distribution next week." IRA B. JONES FOR GOVEEN0YB. Possibility of His Candidacy Taken Seriously-What His Home Pa - per Says. Columbia Daily Record. That Chief Justice Ira B. Jones of the State supreme court may become a candidate for governor is a possi bility thta is being taken seriously. Several newspapers have commented Oi 'his fitness for the position, and the Laneaster News, the home. paper of the chief justice, in its last issue, re produces these comments and adds the following: "It is very gratifying to Judge Jones' host of friends here to know that their distinguished fellow townsman is be ing urged to unter the gubernatorial -race, and it is earnestly hoped by them 'that he will be prevailed upon to do so. "Judge Jones would make an ideal chief executive. His irreproachable private character and spotless public record, his .preemilent ability, fine, discriminating judgment and univer sally recognized impartiality in the administration of justice, his wide knowledge of men and affairs, peculi arly and happily fit him fair 'the office of governor of South Carolina. "As a candida'e for w?e office, Judge Jones would be irresistible. He ,has no superior in the. State as a stump Speaker. Ev|er cool and deliberate, quick and ready in debate, resourceful, firm and courageous, eloquent and forceful in delivery, the judge is a man whom few if any would care to tackle in publde discussions before the people in a political campaign." Career of Chief Justice. The commanding ability of -the chief justice is everywhere recognized; his decisions have impre.. ad the bar with his learning and his fairness. During his service on the supreme bench he has followed South Carolina tradition and has- not p'articipated in political fights at all, but he is by no means a tyro in the political game. He served in the house of representatives from Lancaster county f.rom 1890 to 1896. He was chairman of the ways and means committee when Speaker J. L. M. Irby was elected senator to suc ceed Wade Hampton, and thereupon Mr. Jones was elected speaker, which position he 'held until January, 1896, when he was unanimously elected as sociate justice of the supreme court. In 1902 he was unanimously reelected for a term of eight years, but before the expiration of this term he was elected in 1909, chief justice to s'uc ceed Hon. Y. J- Pope, resigned. Chief Juticones was a membe of the c6nstitutional convention in 1895, of which hs was vice president, Gov ernor ENIans being the president. He was at one time a member of the State Democratic committee and has been active in -educational work. He is a graduate of Erskine college, one of his classmates being Maj. J. C. Hemp hill, now of Richmond Ximnaug. Returns. Mr. . A. Minmaugh : r"turned on Wednesday from the Ncrthern mar kets and the goods are coming in ev ery day. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Sligh, of Colum bia, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Fellers. HU _MAN AURA. Philadelphia Doctors Wi,tness a Strange, Uncanny Experiment. Philadelphia, Aug. 28.-Philadelphia scientists had their first opportunity today to view the much-discussed aura, or atmosphere, which surrounds the human body. Assembled in. the of fice of Dr. Arthur W. Yale, at 1524 Chestnut street, six specialis ts of This city went throu-, the necessary opd cal preparation, and then watched in a dark room while the life rays of a human model disrinctly jumped from her body to theirs. It was the first time such demon stration was made in Philadelphia, and, outside two similar private ex hibitions in New York, the .only one so far made in this country since Dr. Walter J. Keiner, of 'Ladbroke Grove, London, announced a few months ago that he had succeeded in photograph ing the aura, and lalter,. through a simple apparatus, showed, without the use of the camera, the extent and den sity of the rays surrounding the hu man body. Proving Value.of Results. Dr. Yale, it is said, has been work ing with an intimate friend of Dr. Keiner,.who has come,to this country for thast purpose. The results an nounced by the English scientists have been received with a great amount of skepticism by Americans, and today's demonstration was to prove the V'alue of these results. A female model was placed in front of a black screen. In a moment some thing similar to a vapor could be plainily discerned emanating from her body. Dr. Yale then showed (the life rays jumping from one body to an other by gradually placing his hand near that of the subject. It was as ser,ted that the aura of a woman is much stronger than that of a man. Confused in Hysteria. To the expert eye, according to Dr. Yale, the condition of patients can easily be ascertained by an examina tion of their aura.- In condition of hysteria, he stated, the aura becomes more and more confused, and is not so plainly outlined. The aura follows the contour of the b.ody: and in diseased portions be comes weaker. DYr. Yale, who is a specialist on tuberculosis, announced that in six cases in the past few weeks he had used the aura to locate 'the dis eased places of patients in the place of the X-rays, and in every case was successful. KILLED 8 CHILDREN AND THEN SUICIDED iSouth Thomaston, Me., Aug. 28. Grief over the death of his wife led Edward Bennett, an Englishman and a graduate of Oxford university, Eng land, who had been a resident of this city for the past six years, to murder his three children and then take his own life today. Two of the children were killed by the use of chloroform and the thbrrd by cyanide of potassium and chloroform. To make his own death ceWtain the man went to the water's edge and there took a dose of cyanide of potassium and jumped in. His body was found when the tide receded tonight. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *1 * * * LDIE AS ASOIL. * * Clemson Extension Work-Art!- * * ce 52. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Limre is not a fertilizer, but that is termed an "amendment,'' because it: brings about effects in rtihe soil that make the plant food already present more valuable. It sweetens acid soils, brings about conditions favorable for -the increase of the microorganisms that are helpful. These microorgan isms decompose organic matter and: liberate the plant food which is stor ed therein so that it can be used by the growing crops. Soil water charg ed with carbolic acid, which is a pro duct of the breaking. down of organic1 matter, is our strongest natural sol vent. In this way mineral plant food made available to the plant. Under certain conditions lime liberates some pctash from its insoluble combinations and makes it available. Some very desirable physical effects are produced by lime. It flocculates clay causing it to become more granu lar and consequently more open. On the other hand it tends to cement the sandy soils making them less porous. There are three forms of lime used for agricultural purposes: Quick lime, waterslaked lime, and carbonate of lime. The two forms first mentioned are quicl changed, in the ,soil, or when long exposed to the air, to the carbonate form. The finely ground limestone rock is already in the car bonate form. The quick lime is most drastic in its effects, the water slaked next, and the carbonate is mildest. Quick lime is the same whether it is made by burning oyster shells, lime stone rock or marl. When buying bear in mind that you want pound,-Of actual lime, therefore the analysis is of prime importance. We advise a liberal application of the lime at long intervals, rather than the use of a small amount often. We would use at least a ton of ithe finely ground lime stone, or of marl, or 1,000 pounds, or more per acre, of the quick lime, or of the so-called agricultural limes which are usually mixtures of the quick, water slaked, and air slaked lime. It is preferable to apply the lime as long before planting as is practicable. Quick lime is somewhat difficult to handle on account of its drastic na ture. It is best to put this form in small, piles at intervals over the field and cover with earth, it will slake and can then be distributed without much inconvenience. Quick lime, if pure, runs higher in content of lime than other forms of lime, but is more ex pensive. When the farmer fully realizes that lime is an amendment, and not a fer tilizer, that it cast best in connection with an abundant supply of organic matter, and, that, if properly used its beneficial effects are many it will find a' permanent place in our system of agriculture. Do not mix lime with fer tilizers that contain -a soluble phos phats or a salt of ammonia. This station has gotten good results from applications of lime at Clemson college and also in our experimental work in the lower part of the State. T. K. Keitt, Chemist, South Carolina Agr. Exp't. Station. THE FRATERNJAL PICNiIC AT LITTLE XOUNTAN (Continued from page one). he thought they were extravagant, and referred pa,rti:ulairly to an item of $2,000 for an artesianu well at the col ored oollege and also as item of $2,000 for a heatiUg plant at the same insti tution. He advised that the vceters find out who favored 'these items over his veto and why they did so. He discussed his pardon record along the same lines as heretofore. Xe said that he was governor and would 'be until the end of next year, that he had granted pardons and would cons tinue to do so if he thought the case meritorious. He also discussed the' hosiery mili and spoke ofNtt as a tuberculosis in cubator. He said that it .had been the ambi "tion of his life to be governor, that ambition had been gratified, and that durin:g his term of office he proposed to do his duty as 'he saw it and if the people wanted ~him for another term 'that be would be glad to serve them, but if they did not, he would retmrn 'to his home in Newberry, assume the practice of law and be happy. 'He asked that the people, when &&ye~ read a crirticism of any of his acts, undertake to find out the other side before passing hairsh criticisms or judgment upon him. It must be that a woman likes to take her husband calling because it spoils all her own fun at it. Happiest Girl in Lincoln. A Lincoln, Neb., girl writes, "I had been ailing for some time with chronic constipation and stomach trouble. I began taking Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and in three days I was able to be up and got better right along. I am the proudest girl in Lin coin to find such a good medicine."' For sale by all dealers. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 'LODGE DIRECTORY. * * * Woodmen of the World. Maple Camp, No. 437, W. 0. W., meets every first and third Wednes day eveLing at 7.45 o'clock. Visit ing brethren are cordially welcome. D. D. Darby, Clerk. T. Burton, C. C. Newberry Camp. No. 542, W. 0. W., meets every second and fourth Wed (I . .... . . ... .... .. ........ ...... . ...'.. . . '. Dr.G. 1 has returned to the city and any day. He has added t4 OPHTHALMOSCOPE combined, one of the highest instruments for the examinal Connor has now one of the fA State. Call and let him exa A THOISA To suit your fancy book.' They must I ciated. The best bc ehing in the Station writer supply lines. ture Frames, Elec Purses. Anything useful and ornameni 4 Mayes' B THE HOuSE OF A eday night . in Klettner's Hall, at o'clock. 0. 0.- Smith. C. C. J. J. Hitt, Clerk. Amity Lodge, No. 87, A. F. N. Amity Lodge, No. 87, A. S. 11., neets every first Monday night at 8 oclock in Masonic Hall. Visiting brethren cordially invited. G'eo. S. Mower, W. M. J. W. Earhardt, Sec. Signet Chapter, No. 18, B. A. N Signet Chapter, No. 18, R. A. I., eets every second Monday night at o'clock in Masonic Hall. Fred. H. Dominick, E. H. P. Harry W. DominiCk, Sec.. Bergell Trbe, N.24, L..LW Bergell Tribe, No. 24, I. 0. R. K., neets every other Thursday night at o'clock at Klettner's Hall. 0. Klettner, C. . J. H. Baxter, Sachem. ateehee Council, No. 4, D). of P., I. 0. I. N. Meets every Tuesday night at 8 o'cock .0. Klettner. R. C. ... ........ .... --- '44 X . . ...... -- . r onnor can be found in his office his instruments a Geneva A ND R E TINOSCOPE-I priced and most up-todte ion of the eyes made. r. nest Optical parlors in t mine your eyes. 9D THINGS aznd your . pocket seen to be' appre ohs at 26c. Every wy, Book and Type. Pictures and Pic tric Desk Lamps, you can think of taI4 at . BABBECUE. A flrst-class barbecue will be given by us at Jolly Street on Friday, Sep tember 15. Usual prices. J. W. Tnminick. * P. H. Kinard. 9-1-4t. SALE UNDER 3[OET4AGE. -Under the power conferred on us 'by J. J. Dean by a chattel mnortgage dated February 15, 1911, and duly in1 dexed on February 20, 1911, in the elerk's office at Newberry Court House, we wi-l sell at public outcr.y at store room recently occupied by J. J. Dean, Main street, 'Newberry, S. C., on~ the~ fifth (5th) day of September, 1911, at noon, the following chattels, viz: Two)p extenion tables, one lot piture moulding, one wardrobe, one glas safe, one sideboard, one hat stand, one lt wall paper, lot of crockery and glass-ware, and one lot of easels and4 curtain poles. Terms: Cashi. Geo. S. Mower, - John M. Kinard, Motgn