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Entered at the Postoffice at New berry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, January 2, 1912. Write it 1912. The legislature will meet nexi Tuesday. Let everybody be good during thic year and we will all be happier. A good new year resolution is tc resolve to attend to your own busi ness as an experiment and see if youz hands are -full. Let every one determine to get to gether for Newberry and demonstrate that it ip the <best tqwn in tho State. -Talk more buslues4 development and less politics. The Herald and News is going to be a bettfe. paper this year than it waq last year. You should have youz name on our mailing list at the ,be ginning of the new year. Watch the merchant who advertise judiciously and see how. his businesE grows, while the one who does not iE all the time talking about hard times Moral: Place an ad in The Herald an News at the beginning of the ne% year. Plant less cotton and prepare tc raise What you need on the farm or the farm. i mighty good rule to fol low during the coming year. The far mea who does it is the farmer whc will have something at the end of thE year. Let every teacher in Newberry county arrange to attend the county teachers' associa.ion on the 20th. It is part of your duty. You owe it to yourself and your school. We want the trustees to come also. It is part /of your duty. After the rains are over those whc live along the public roads should not neglect to use the split log drag. And this statement is meant to include every onle in Newberry county. Let everybody get ready and help use the split log drag. Nay, nay, Col. Billy Banks, Colone) Aull is not swelled up or puffed ui either. He is too old now to be af fected with anything like unto that. -Newherry Herald and News. This .- makes Editor Aull, by his own con fession, the oldest man we have evei known of.-Spartanburg Herald. Yes, the editor of The Herald and News is getting to be in the Methusela' class now. We think that Col. E. J. Watson is making a mighty good officer,- espe cially since he has stopped his ef forts to bring foreigners over here His enthusiasm may get the better 0: his judgment occasionally, but he is a hard worker and we believe is al ways working for what he conceives to be the best interests of his State. It has been early two centuries since this earth saw a perfect man, and wE do not want one in our business. We had rather have o'ne who occasionally makes mistakes and is manly enough to admit that he has erred. The Anderson Mail says Epps Brown, general manager of the South ern Bell Telephone company, is a self made man, having started in asa fire insurance agent. This disclosure of Mr. Brown's humble beginning greatly increases our respect for thE man.-Spartanburg Herald. We desire that theg Anderson Mail and the Spartanburg Herald knove that Mr. Brown is a nativle of New berry and one of the many successfu) yountg men who have gone out fro.n among us. We are all very proud o: him and the success which he has at tained and which he deserves. "The Jegislature should provide tc bave the county put on a cash basis. As it is no'7 you can't even user what t+e-~ -. .. in pavment of taxcs. You have to take the scripL: and discount it at 6 per cent. for three months and then the banks do not care to do that. There is no good business judgment in running the af fairs of the county on the credit sys tem. It is a bad system for the indi vidual, but sometimes he can't help it, but there is no good reason to run the county on the credit system. Pro vide enough money to run the county on a cash basis and stop borrowing and paying interest. It will cost the taxpayers less in the end. You are not reducing taxes by putting off the day of settlement and the people -know it. THE HOSIERY MILL. Speiaking of the hosiery mill at the penitentiary and of the critcisms of the Anderson Mail and other news papers of the position of the State board of health, we do not think it would be amiss to quote from a pri vate letter received by the editor of The Herald and News from the chair man of the State board of health. Re ferring to some of the comments of the newspapers, the chairman says if they "would take the trouble to look up the records they would find that the board of health has been trying to attract attention to the sanitary defects of the penitentiary for a good many years. With regard to the hosi ery mill, our position seems to be I generally misunderstood. We have at no time charged uncleanliness. The difficulty is with the kind of work. It is unwholesome under the most favorable circumstances, and with the -1onditions incident to prison life and with the class of men. and women who constitute the prison community, it is trebly unwholesome. From our point of view, it is practically impossible to make the work altogether desirable, no matter what is done." "NOT SO 'MUCH THE GOVERNOR'S JOB." W.hile we frankly confess that we feared the contrary, we feel it our duty to acknowledge that the prohibi tion laws, up to this time, have been enforced as well in York county by Governor Blease as by Governor An sel. There is not nearly so much blin'd tiger-ing in Yorkville today as there has been in times past, and from the best information obtainable we do not think the condition has grown any w'orse in any other part of the coun ty.-Yorkville Enquirer. After all the responsibility for the enforcement of the prohibition laws does not rest so much upon the gov ernor as upon the local authorities. If local authorities have the nerve and the inclination they may enforce these laws and make blind tigering a hazardous occupation. Where the blind tiger and the boot-legger over run a city, almost to the point of put ting the express companies out of business, the officers are mighty apt to be either crooked or cowardly. And officers can't fool the people all the time. The public know the tigers just about as well as the officers do. Spartanburg Herald. If the law against the sale of whis key and blind tigering in the various communities is violated the governor is held responsible for the lawlessness of the community. If the law is en forced and there is a decrease in the sale of wh.iskey, the governor is not due any credit for it, but it is a mat ter entirely in the hands of the local offie'ers. This seems t.o be the posi tion of the Spartanburg Herald- and we mention it only to say that this method of dealing with 'public officials who are not to our liking has a ten dency to lessen the influence of the press and the people see it and have recognized the unfair treatment with which the press deals with men in public positions. The head t6 this ar ticle is from the Herald. THE RETIREMENT OF MR. HOYT. We hope that the retirement of Mr. James A. Hoyt from the editorship and the management of the Columbia Record does not mean his retirement from journalism in South Carolina. Mr. Hoyt and his associates--Mr. Horton arid th e others connected with the paper-have made the Columbia Record a good, live newspaper. Mr. Hoyt is a good newspaper man. Hie -~ h a innge xwie-a and goodi training in the newspaper busimess, and he began with a native ability and an aptitude for the profession which are always essential. We wish Mr. Hoyt well in his future fields of labor, as we have wished him well in the past. * * THE IDLER. * * * "Ta, Ta, La, La." I have heard that "Ta, Ta," means "thank you," and that "La, La," means "I love you." In any event and in any meaning of the expression intended I accept it with thanks. I do not, however, thank thel Lord that I am not as other people, or that I was not brought up as other people, or that I am better than other people, for I know that I am a sinner, but I am trying to do my duty as I see it, and asking all the time for that power to conceive and appricate the right and to do the right. My prayer always is, "God be merciful to me a sinner," i ' Seems to me that I read somb where once-let's see-I think it was a parable recorded by St. Luke and spoken by the God man, whose birth we. are now commemorating, and the parable ran something like this: "And he spake this parable unto cer tain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised oth ers: "Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, -that I am not as other men are, extor tioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. "I fast -twice the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. "And the publican standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. "I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the oth er; for every one that exalteth himselfi shall be abased; and he that humb leth himself shall b" exalted." This is a wonderful book and un derstands human nature wonderfully well and fortunate are those who read and understand and follow its teach ings. I see from the .papers~ that Gov. ' te Blease has pardoned some thirty con- mr victs-either a pardon or a parole. I Thle do not know anything about the mer- the its of the cases in which'action was imn taken, and, therefore, I am not critic- whia izing him for what he has done. Ex-' kno cept that it does seem to me that it Ilte is wrong to grant either a parole or a st a pardon on the condition that the Hc person pardoned or paroled leave the re State. If he is too bad a man to re-i sal main in South Carolina we should not a t4 dump him off on our neighbors. I evier notice that Gov. O'Neal, of Alabama, that pardoned some 26, and that Gov. Col- hani quitt, of Texas, did the same thing er-lh for 25, and in several other States al chil number of prisoners were given their ly ti liberty as a' Christmas prese.nt. I ed should think there was nothing they 'o would appreciate more than their lib- see eTrty. . mu -0- the I see that sqme of the good people > eol are trying to argue- that there is no that such person as Santa Claus, and are* glad saying it is all wrong to fool the chil- that dren. Well, I am not going to argue tend the question with them, and I only but refer to it to say that it is but another den symptom of the materialistic tendency mor of the age, and to deplore this sort of and preaching. I read just today the fol- or r lowing in a newspaper: "The greatest feel tragedy of life, and probably the first, ther is when the child begins to doubt. the way existence of Santa Claus. put "A child's day dreams are the stars tear of its destiny. The child who has its then dreams may in after years dream some feel of the great things, that make the1 world better and happier. The dreams Al of one generation become the realities lowi of the next." And then the writer goes be f on to d.eplore the fact that some other- here wise intelligent people are trying to take away this dream-state of the Ami child, and says: "If we take from IIn s childhood the fancies that belong to1 You it, we rob it of its real happiness. A strictly matter-of-fact child is one of the most pitiful things on earth, and ihe a life lived out along those lines is as mournful as a funeral procession1 She and as unfruitful as a cemetery." Sho' -0 We need in this day to preach,more sentiment, yea, and to practice it, too. In d I read a book some time ago in which And the hero is a boy who never knew a 'ris mother's love, the sweetest and most naions thing of which a chihi can be New Year R '"Resolved; That I w Year right by opening The Exchange Bank. Because other leading firms viduals take advantage of th then, for the transfer of n bills. This can be quickI3 when deposits are made, ar of cash. This also insures A banking institution is for lic; and it's our business, as offer our patrons every acc< with sound banking, and to careful attention it deserves. Hoping that the New Yea of health, happiness and pro 4 * Paid on Savi The Exchai OF NEWBERI H. L PARR, M. L SPEARMM President Casb *W. C. HOUlSEAL, .Vice-President. cildless. He grew to be a young He' never knew his own namo. nkind treatment of the home and nging for a mother's% love led C t o leave the home. He wondered tthe big world was like. His ledge was limited.. The people in ome, of course, had exchangedF ik iled perfunctory sort of kindness. dvided tlie visitors who called on _________ iing days into three classes: "The isinging kind, that came with - in the eye and hypocrisy in came in silks and jewels, and ed out to those poor, little moth ungry souls worn toys that their Th ren no longer cared for, in exact-I 13same spirit in which they pitch bscuits to the monkeys at the "and for the same reason-to how they would take them and be _________ sd by what they M uld .do; and tird class, that he considered real I A )l, who made him feel they cared,fl i he was there and would have been to see him elsewhere." It is not he majority of people reay in-th to be unkind, or without feeling, te tendency of the age is to har- D i te heart, and, therefore, so mnuch U ethe reason for some dreamers te inculcation of mfr~e sentiment, aher to let people know that you___________ o them and that you care forTogthefvrfon a.Throw some flowers in the path- Adznnwwntcm while they live, and not wait to! them on the grave, or to shed1 sover the lifeless form. TellSh'lrtnfoeahc f it while they may know it andAhudeflofen: -0 ong this line I commend the fol ng beautiful lines to all who mayYuarhesnder otunate enough to read what is Wl o nwsel l written: ~' att crei Tell Her So! dthe cares of married life, Nvrlthrhatgo pte of toil and business strife, Rce eui iluf who value your sweet wife- Shiswrheregt TellTereso ndasar dr ad rens AnrI te Telhr o roerthe latisc and gt i the er oYon spet uc tmetowi hrmie,mi moet addw o'tscript ustas ellnowworh yur Heatsh kehery one mai Telluar hersso and taIsarthers tihevry beute wilhe unf as artie dark andgh fitds kdle sfelnsfre esolution ill begin the New an account with , corporations and indi e facilities offered by toney and payment of r and accurately done id checks used instead the payer against loss. the benefit of the pub it is our pleasure, to rmmodation consistent give each account the r may be for you full sperity. ngs Accounts. ige Bank lY, S. C. I, W. B. WALLACE, ier. LAss Cashier. .G. B. CROMER, Attorney. )pera House1 y, January, 12. ederick A. Cook etic Explorer and Lecturer. resting Lecture on :overy of the North kiss; have no malice in my soul. aad no. amiss- hatred in my heart toward any one. Tell her so! I am. getting old, and have begun the journey on the down hill road, and ress . it won't be long until the days will ness! come and go no more for me. I will le to bless!- soon reach that point where time and Tell her so! eternity meet, and I am trying to think kindly of every one, and will alone- 'endeavor to speak kindly of every one. you own; IThe road is lonely and desolate for Tel so! me, but it wont be long and my hope is that I may :be able to say some v cold- -thing that may satisfy some hungry ild; soul. Once more let me wish you all in gold!- a happy and a prosperous new year. Tell her so! T. I. TheBayoe. N OTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the stock t print what holders of the People's National Bank of the paper, of Prosperity, S.,C., will be held at ar, if you are the 'bank on Tuesday, January 9, 1912, k. please per.. at 1 o'clock p. in., at which time the to say that I election of directors will be held, and well in 1912, such other business transacted as w year with may come before the meeting. ad the very ;.T-f ?t '-y er~ I ,1-2-tm * asL..l