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VOLUMIE L, NUBER Ii. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1912. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEA. THOUSANDS WITNESS THRILLING TRAGEDY THREE FLOAT TO DEATH IN NIA. GARA'S WATERS. Bridge of Ice Breaks Rrom Shorings, Carrying Down Stream Man and Wife and Youth. Niagara Falls, N. Y., Feb. 4.-The great ice bridge, that has choked the Tiver channel between the Cataract and the upper steel arch bridge, below the falls, for the last three weeks, broke from its shoring just at noon today and went down the river, tak ing with it to their death a man and a woman, believed to be Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge Stanton, of Toronto, Canada, -and Burrell Heacock, 17 years of age, of Cleveland, 0. Four other persons -were on the ice at the time, but man aged to get ashore in safety. \ The bridge was considered perfect 1f safe. For weeks the great fields of ice had been coming down the river, piling up against the barrier, until it -was from 60 to 80 feet thick, and un der the influence of zero weather had become firmly anchored to the shore. T he jam was about 1,000 feet in length, -and in some places a quarter of a mile in breadth. For two weeks it had offered safe passage to the hardy and today an immense crowd of excursion ists came to view the winter wonder of the river. Had -the accident happened an hour later in the day hundreds would have lost their liv+es, for the crowd was moving into Prospect Park in the ele vators that run down the cliff lead ing to the ice., No Thought of Self. Somewhere dee.p in the great whirl pool tonight lies the man partly iden tified as Mr. Stanton, who twice put aside chances of rescue in order to re main with his terfor-stricken wife, and who in the shadow of death-just at the break in the rapids-spurned .assistance for himself and attempted to bind about the woman's body a rope -dangling from the lower steel arch bridge. The lad, Burrell Heacock, was cast in the same mould. Had he at turned back on the ice to give as sace to the man, he, too, might ye made the shore. .M:OB LYNCHES NEGRO. baken From Officers in Railroad Iards Bektrayed by Chains' Rattle. Macon, Ga., Feb. 4.- liares Powell, a negro, who assaulted and robbed a young white woman here last night, -was taken from officers and lynched by a mob early today. The lynching took place in the yards of the Georgia Southern & Flor ida railroad, four miles from Macon, where -'the offcers, hoping to outwit 'the mob, had gone with their prisoner :to take a ti-ain for Atlanta. Powell was tied to.a telegraph pole and hun-. -dreds of bullets fired into his body. The crime with which the negro was charged was commnitted about 11 o'clock last night while the young ^woman was on her way home from the work in the downstown district. She was seized tby Powell, dragged down n embankment and assaulted. Tw6 policemen, sunmmoned by two young *-en Who heard thce you.ng woman's edies, arrived on the scene just as the uegro made bis wvay up the; ,mbanjk FAIR WARNING. A Line to the Wise Ought to Be Suf ficient, But Sometimes Is Not. Although the majority of The Her did and News subscribers renew promptly at the expiration of their -subscriptioins, or senid word that they "will pay in a few days," or words to that effect, still there are numbers of them-the sub>scription lists of The Herald and News containing a great many nameQs-who wait until their nannes are cut off then send renewals with requests for back numbers. The anagement doesn't mind putting the ames back on the list, although it would be much more convenient to keep them there, but it is not so easr to furnish back copies of the paper. that often the demand. exceeds th supply, and the very time you migh "want one the worse" there woulc perhaps be no back number. Thing happen that way. It is easy enough. If you desire t continue your subscription, why no look at the label. It is no trouble Turn your paper to the front. Lool on the margin at top of page. If i reads 15Feb12 send in renewal or no tify the office that you wish the pape continued to your address. If this i not done the names will have to b dropped regardless of persons, be cause all are treated alike. This i written on account of the way ii which some people act. They are lik some other people when it comes t the "purely personal" column. Whex visitors come to their homes, instea of furnishing the newspaper man wit the names so that friends may knov that they are in the city, they leav the matter to the newspaper man a though he should be expected to knov who comes and goes all the time. I is an accommodation to the publi that should be appreciated and whos advantages ought to be availed of But some people are so constitute that they are afraid that if their nam appears in print .the public will thin: they furnish the information them selves, hence the reporter has to gra such as he can on the fly withou much assistance, relying sometimes ox the goodness of some one who wil help him a little in this respect. Hu man nature is a bundle of inconsisten cies,. contradictions, idiosyncracies eccentricities, peculiarities, mystifica tions and nonsense. The newspape has been blamed for mentioning cer tain people and on the other han blamed for not mentioning certai: persons. Some let it be known whe: they go and come, others do not lik such publicity, whether it pays to ad vertise or not. In the circumstances what is a poor reporter to do about it Be cussed if he does and be cussed i doesn't. A man hopped on him Wed nesday for not going to the dynamit demonstration. No one sent a hack t take him the two miles and back t give a free puff to a powder -house Still the newspaper man must stop hi work, hire hack and give a big free ad vertisement. If any one intereste had written a description of the ex periment The Herald and e~Nws woul' have printed it gratis. T1hat is all tha could reasonably be expected of it. DOUBLE SUICIDE ENDS R03fANCI One Montlt 31arried, Couple Inhale Deadlyi sSqe to Sensation alI-Elopement. New York, F'eb, 4.-A double suicid today ended the ronmnce of the for mer wife of Walter L. Suydam anm Frederick Noble, the young plumbei for the love of whom Mrs. Suydamn rai away from her millionaire husbani and married. The bodies of Noble and his brid of a month were found in their Nes York home today. The couple hai been asphyxiated by gas. The suicid' pact, the discovery of its results b: Mrs. John J. White, of Washingtoni the mother of Mrs. Noble, and othe' features of the case were sensatioYnal The suicides left no notes to ex plain their act, but the police weri convinced that it was a case of doubli suicide. The coroner also declare< that -the circumstances left no doub that such was the case. He said th4 couple probably had been dead thre4 or four hours before their bodies wer< found. A few minutes after the discovery Mrs. Noble's former husband, Waltel Lispenard Suydam, a millionaire, war summoned by telephone and arrive< quickly in his automobile. He wat much affected by the news of the sui cide of the woman. He was not al lowed to view the body, which wat later given over to the custody of th< mother. It Is So Easy to Learn, Too. Newlywri-I d da see y.' Si:nday Did yo~u etay ha) ta' Oldhubby-Yes. Hy wife taught m< a new game called bashmarah. Newlywed- How do you play it? Oldhubby-You hang a carpet on a ie and see how many times you car hit it with a stick.-Cincinnati En A NEWBERRY BOY. t I J. Epps Brown Gets an Additional s Honor-Vice President of Anoth er Telephone Co. t The Herald and News is always gratified when any Newberry bc;y1 i makes good, either at home or abroad. t It is also gratifying that a great, . many of our young men, ir. fact, unir r ly all of them who go out f-m bom, make a record of whic'1 th-Kr friends at home may be justly proud. - All of us know J. Epps Brown, and s we know something of the success 1 '"t. 1j 1 J. EPPS BROWN. which he has attained in the telephone business as vice president and general manager of the Southern Bell Tele r phone company, practically the busi ness head of this great corporation. Only a few days ago, he was elected 1 one of the vice presidents and direc tors of the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph company at a meeting held in Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Brown will continue to have his office headquar ters in Atlanta. Mr. W. T. Gentry, who is president of the Southern Bell Telephone com pany, is one of the best business men in the South and with it one of the fine gentlemen of the -South. Mr. Brown began his car";er in the tele S phone business as chief clerk to Mr. Gentry and by his own worth, hard 1 work, and attention to business, he has risen to second in command of i these two great Southern companies. ti JONES MAY RESIG~N, Chairman of Democratic Party to Re' tire-Convention in Columbia I in May. Columbia State. Gen. Wilie Jones, for 14 y"eai LShai man of the State Democratic executive committee, will very probably offer ihis resignation when the State Demo cratic. convention m*eets here on May 13. He has made no official announce ment, yet it is practically certain that he will resign. Gen. Jones served for 16 years as secretary of the State exc~ cutive committee before his election to the chairmanship, and has attend ed several national conventions as a delegate at large, serving the party at considerable personal expense. Saluda Man Honored. -Saluda Standard. Gov. Blease has appointed Mr. C. J. SRamage on the State board, of educa tion to succeed Hon. H. F. Rice, of Aiken, who has lately been elected to Sthe bench by the legislature. We join the people of Saluda in extending Mr. Ramage our congratulations and we feel sure that Gov. Blease has made a wise choice and that Mr. Ramage will serve his State a.bly in this capaelty. Since Teacher Did Not Know. It was in the primary class of a Igraded school in a Western city, and the day was the 22nd of February. -"Now, who can tell me whose birth day this is?" asked the teacher. A little girl rose timidly. "Well, Margaret, you may tell us," said the teacher. "Mine," was the unexpected reply. --Ev~erybody's Magazine. Putting it Plainly. "What did the banker's daughter say when you asked her to marry "She said I would have to go to par before she con' the steck in m ' ropoitemn"-P?altimore American. I know. Selfishness is the predominat ing characteristic of this age and i knows very little of real, true, genu ine friendship. True, there are man: who will do you a favor, but nine time out of 10 they will expect something ii return for it at some time or otller. am not pessimistic. I am optimisti by nature, and I wish sometimes tha I 'had remained in the country an< not known so much of life and seei so 'much of human nature. Maybe am all wrong. I hope I am. The sui is shining somewhere. It never goec down. The darkness and the cloudi and the storms are necessary to exis tence they tell us. Maybe it is sec Anyhow they come. -o "It's a roof and four walls-that' all any house is, without the spiri that makes it home." Nothing wa more truly spoken. Money an< wealth and luxuries do not make home It takes something else. And whei that something else is gone there i: no longer any home. -0 I read the following in the Atlant, Constitution the other day. It wa in Frank Stanton's column. tI migb be interesting at this- time to som who are aspiring for position. Real it: The Wisdom of Dad. Dad says that when he was a bo they told him he'd be president som day, and after he grew up he wen to Washington and saw the Chair th President sits in, and he said to him self: "I can fill it to a T." But whe: he came home and told the folks abou it they shook their heads and sai something about wheels in other pec ple's heads. He didn't like that, an just to show 'em there was somethin in him he ran for the office of roa overseer, and was beat by a man wit one eye and one leg. After that th only thing he would run for was Stormpit when he saw a cyclone com ing. All Politicians and Office-seeker are not as wise as Dad is. -0 I was just thinking the other da what a glorious country we could hav if we could get our people always t speak kindly and pleasantly of eac other, and s.top this 'thing of sayin unkind things of one another. Ha you ever thought of it. Why shoul there 'be so much crime andl so muc struggling to get rich? This life i but a span at best. But I am,going t I alk about something else this time and finish my sermon at some futur tinme when I feel lletter........ -o By the way, I se~e the governmen has commenced work on the new post office building. I regkon that mean that we will have a new building il Newberry within the next two year or less. We have a pretty nice post office now. It won't hurt, hovwever, fo he government to sprend scme fift: thusarid or~ mfora ii the c.rmmunit3 What a pijty Friend stret was niot wi ened when tiiere nas iti opportunit, to widen the street. Somehow ou people are slow to sct vihd it c~.ome Sto public improven:lt.3. What about that etr 'et pa ;ing f6 Mayor? Of course, I understand tha you can not work wi':h the weathe: that we have had recently, but .ther< is nothing to prevent yoi g;ettin: everything ready, to begin wor<c whei the weather conditions are good. Thi cnition of the streets in Newhetrr for the past several weeks is su,fficieu argument for some permanent stree work. Do it now. That is the onl: sensible way to do it. What is thi use to wait? Newberry needs to waki up and do something. Do you see th4 point? I hope you do. --- "Somebody said once that all th4 wars had been caused by one set o1 people trying to force their opinions upon another set, who did not desire to have their opinions changed." Now I am for peace. I do not want an3 wars. I aim not tryig to force m3~ opinions upon any one, but I am giv. ing them for what they are worth ad if I can not convince you that 1 am right thien I don't want you t< adopt my opinions, but take those 0: .o' o:.e else wh knows better whai is- needed than I do. That is all ther( is+ to iThTe Idler. MAYES' BOO , VARIETY STORE. Commodious New Quarters Give Find Opportunity for Display of ' Big Stock. The commodious new quarters 'o: Mayes' Book and Variety Store, at th-< corner of Main and College streets, ir the room formerly occupied by the Ewart-Perry company, give mort room and a great deal better oppor tunity fcr the convenient arrangemeni and display of the handsome stocl, carried by this enterprising establish ment. The several departments of thf JNO. B. MAYES. big store are now arranged in attrac tive shape, and are shown to fine ad vantage. For many years the name of thi store has been Mayes' Book Store This name included only one depart ment of the business, and while th book department is a credit to the cit; it is by no means the greater part o the establishment. Hence, Mr. Johi B. Mayes, the proprietor, has change the name of the store to Mayes' Bool and Variety Store. The book and stationery departmen is now in the front, on the left as on enters, and in other sections are th+ leather goods, the fountain pens, th cut -glass and other glass ware, thi pictures, the toys and hundreds n other things which go to make up real variety store. In addition to thl many lines which he is now carrying Mr. Mayes will in the very near fu ture put in a line of er amel ware. By strict attention t lnisiness anm by honest busins methods, Mr Mayes has-built up this store yea? b: year, until he has made it one of th< piggest and best establishments o the kind in this section of country a stok atini kgp up with thi 30Cc66z: Just h the present time h tines, of every~ description and a prices to suit overybody. Mr. Mayes is always glad to Muv his friends call to see him, and will b glad for them to come and see hi~ new quarters. *THE IDLER. "The dead do not all die, rather the: rest in the bosom of those who lovei them best. After some time 'be pas1 they come again to solace and comfori us." I wonder if that Is true. I knov that the dead do not always die, foi there are some who rest in the boson f those who loved them best, but will they ever come again to comfort and: solace? Nay, nay, I fear not, but w' are told that we may go to them and that there will be recogijitionl there and that the reunion will be happy 'hey can never come back and remove the loneliness and the darkness of the lesolation. "Leave to the diamond its ages tc grow, nor expect to accelerate the irths of the eternal. Friendship de mands a religious. treatment. WE :alk of choosing our friends, but1 *riends are self-elected." I have ob served a good deal in my day and ! im about ready to bePevn this state ment. Real frien.dshipe' that Thst ar not easily made, and they era #-ae my have been so always for all thai SYNOPSIS OF WORK OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY LEGISLATURE HAS MADE GOOD TIME DURING SESSION. t Sbaping Matters to Adjourn Withoat Usual Rush-Review of Session by August Kohn. Columbia, Feb. 4.-The general as sembly will continue in session for two weeks, when it will adjourn. The _ work of the session is particularly well in hand, and if it really became - necessary an adjournment could be had prior to the 17th, which is the fortieth day of the session. The ap propriation bill is in hand, and could, according to the custom of previous years, be passed and ready for ratin cation by the end of the week, but it is evident that the purpose is to allow latitude for emergencies, and, of course, in this particular instance the emergency is the veto power of the governor. Last year, it will be remembered, a great many of the members went t home prior to the approval of the ap propriation bill, with many items eli minated as a result of the veto power. As It Used to Be. It is perhaps fifteen or twenty years since my good friend, A. B. Williams, e wrote a story about *the general as sembly that was then in session, and e he denominated it as a "June bug legislature." This was intended to mean that the legislature was allow t ed at t.hat time to fly at pleasure, but that t'iere wc a "string" tied to the. left hind leg from "down-stairs," and whenever the "June bug" flew too high, or got out of bounds, the "string" from "down-stairs" was pulled and the "June bu" had to stop its flight. .hat e was a very apt description 'of the gen eral assembly in those days, but what ever is least apt to be tied with the S "string" from "downstairs" would be best applicable to the present general assembly. Of course, everyone who y knows anything about legislation un-. e derstands that "down-stairs" is in o tended to mean the governor's office, and the "up-stairs" is in no degree 1 responsible in this year of our Lord I to the "down-stairs." This condition I of affairs and the gen'erous use of, the i veto power has made the general as s sembly cautious in one respect, and a expeditious in another. , By way of illustration: At the Iagt e sessionl of the p;neral assenibly a com mission formi of government bill was p>assed, as applied to the city'of Char t Jeston. Governor Blease vetoed the . bill and argued that It was nolt 0' o 'rect form of government. The house' Shas passed a bill n,- ru porating verhia tim the act that has been' vetoed, with -certain additions as to registration and r operation. 7 Lw As to Veto Po) VEr'. There is a clause in the constitution -which reads as follows: "If a bill or joint resoluti'on shall not be returned by the governor within three days af ter it shall have been presented to him, Sundays excepted, it shall have the same force and effect as if he had .signed it unl'ess the general assembly, t by adjournment, prevent Its return, in r whiich case it shall have such force dnd effect unless returned within two ddis after the next meeting." It is to meet this emergency that the gen eral assembly is giving itself two weeks. In 'tier words, such bills a2s the re funding measure, the commission form of governmnent bill, and various other matters, will be in the hands of the governor, according to the present program, three days prior to the ad journment. If they are not vetoed within these three days, they will be come the law - of the State, anyway, and if they are vetoed, they must be returnedi, as the provision of the con stitution contemplates, in time for them to be acted upon prior to final adjournment by this general assembly. This is indicative of the sentiment in the house~ and senate; that is, that the important matters should be dis posed of finally and conclusively by the present membership as they inv'iter responsibility. It is the correct way in rhich to legislate, and as a matte2r of fact the best thing that caddI ha;m.-e-n -fo the State woln t n nda