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VOLUME L, XOIBEB 21. ' NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1912. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAR. ELOQUENT SERMON CV he I || HURMS U A I'lU */ ax* ""CHRISTIAN EDUCATION" DEPICTED IN GRAPHIC LANGUAGE. i Was Preaching in Behalf of the Lutheran College at Newberry?Ex tolled Influence of College. "The State. Rev. J. Henry Harms, D. D., president of Newberry college, preached to Torero rnn?rp?atinnfi vesterdav in v ? v " ? ?o o ?- V St Paul's Lutheran church on the subject, "Christian Education." Dr. Harms is presenting this subject to th>e Lutherans of this State, and also Georgia and Florida, with the view of increasing the interest which the members of the Lutheran church al^ ' 11 - ??A'* +V>/v w/ilfo r/i reaay noid in regai u iu mo and progress of the college. The principal service was held last night, the congregations of Ebenezer an/i st Paul's uniting in filing St Paul's church to its utmost capacity "with an attentive audience. The Text Dr. Harms in choosing his text from the call of the Prophet Isaiah to anTowal tr\ "1 onsrth^vn thv COrdS U i- OX U>V 4 AV/MQ w and strengthen thy stakes," declared it was no less a call which has come down the ages to the church today, and claiming the urgent interest ana the best attention of the reddest blooded men of the times in which we li\<e. The church of Jesus Christ, said Dr. Harms, is the biggest enterprise in the world. It exceeds in importance every other enterprise which interests the mind of man. It is not surpassed by either political or social en terprises?this great scheme for the redemption of mankind. ^ Church Compels Advance. ^The position which the church thus holds necessarily compels an advance ?a strengthening of stakes. The church relies on education as one of ^ the foremost means for its perpetua" tion and progress. In the colleges of the church her ministry and laity must be trained for the best service. LNinety-three per cent, of the ministers are graduates of colleges. The 'church college does not give sectarian instruction when it gives the Bible a .place in its curriculum. The Bibh: belongs to no denomination, and it Tightly finds the place in the college which stands for Christian education ^ and the impartation of character. Colleges a Factor. 73r. Harms presented many interesting arguments and valuable statistics .in behalf of the claims of the "church colleges as a factor in the work of Wo ct^tprl that under th\? commission of the South Carolina Lutheran synod it was his pleasure to present the matter of increased endowment of Newberry c-olkge to the .Lutherans of Columbia. The plan is ^ to raise $50,000, in order to secure W -$25,000 offered by Andrew Carnegie. More than half of the amount of $50, 000 has already be-sn secured. Dr. Harms will spend several days in the city in the work, and hopes that the whole amount can be reported as raised at the June meeting of th-e trustees. vTMi nrunY OAT i rnr JL I? DLlill A fc The President flaking a Strenuous ^ Struggle to Increase the En. . v dowment Fund. Editor Th^ Herald and News: There can be no doubt that but,few friends of Newberry college know what a strenuous effort the president of the college, Dr. Harms, is making to increase the endowment of the institution over which he presides and which he loves by the much needed sum of $75,000. One-third of this sum is promised by Mr. Carnegie on condition that the remainder be raised among other friends of the college. But to collect $r>0,000 in a territory of two or three States which are overrun by other collectors is a herculean task. It would be -easy enough in lumps of ten or even five thousand dollars, but when the largest and richLest givers do not exceed two or three hundred, it can readily be seen what high mountain Dr. Harms has unPl^ertaken to scale. Xo one will deny the needs of this I j additional endowment for Newberry j college, nor can anv one name an in- i ! " [ i stitution more worthy of help than j Newberry college. Upon it we are de-, | pendent in the Southern poition of the j i Southland for the replenshing of the j ranks of tiie JLumeran miiiibu). ?uc j public schools of South Carolina re-1 j ceive more teachers from its wall than 1 any other college in the tSate furnishj es. Our homes are embellished and elei vated by men and women educated in ! the halls of Newberry college. Few friends realize what a difficult | task^it is for Dr. Harms to go from I city to city, rrom congregation lu cuu- j | gregation, from man to man, in his j noble efforts to secure the needed sub| scriptious, and that too while he must i bear the ordinary burdens of providj ing for the current expenses of the ' institution, of performing his duties as president at long range, of spending his time like a drummer on the road when he should be with the students at college, of absenting himself froia hie familv in the bosom Of W'hich llG has a right to be sheltered and to en? joy himself the same as we, the friends of the college, have. I feel that a great deal might be done to lighten these burdens of our president and to make his efforts successful. The town and county of New berry are tne places most largely auu 1 directly blesseed and benefited by the location of this institution of learning. The closest and warmest friends of the college reside within the boun1 dary line of Newberry county. Now, let the trustees of the college of whom a number live in Newberry, call a large mass meeting in the near future and lay the matter before the business men and citizens generally and let at loact $90 Ann ho snhsrrihpd for the in stitution and the work of the president encouraged and brought to a successful issue. Fifty years ago the friends and professors of the college took off their coats, rolled up their 1 sleeves and with the profuse sweat of threir honest brows saved the school they loved so well. We do not nee^j to do that, but we love the institution j Inst as mnrh and wp must nreserve it I on its onward course of usefulness and to do this its friends must adjust the combination, open the safe and manifest a large hearted liberality. Let our president be supported in his loving efforts and let the institution be improved and strengthened by the generosity of its many friends. Un-der the munificent leadership of the board of trustees failure is impossible. A Friend of X-ewberrv College. HUGE RATTLESNAKE KILLED IN TIENDA Manila Times, Jan. 2'j. A huge diamond rattlesnake 20 feet long, 13 inches in diameter and with a head seven inches wid?, created a panic in the Chinese tienda at Xo. 21 j Calle uasmannas at n.^yu o ciock last night, and put up a fierce fight ""before yielding its life after two bullets and several blows with a crow' bar had been dealt it by Parrolmen Card and Lynch. The reptile was first noticed when it crawled across the table. The terrified Chinese rushed yelling into the street, overturning a lot of small stock in their haste to get out. When the r patrolmen arrived, me snaKe oacKea into a dark corner, and there, with gleaming eyes, blood curdling hisses, and awesome rattles, fought to the last breath. A Marriage at West End. On Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock the Rev. J. B. Harmon, at the Lutheran parsonage in West End, performed the rharriage ceremony which unit ed a loving cpuple?Miss Annie JtJouKnight and Mr. N. J. Kirbv. The bride J and groom left on the 3.20 train for I Florence, their future home. Mrs. Kirbv is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Bouknight, of West End. Both bride and groom are popular in their circles. Mr. Kirbv spent six months last vear in Wwherrv an insurance agent, leaving here in June, since which time he hadn't seen his fiancee until he came to be married, but the two hearts in the love match were; faithful to each other and the happy! marriage was the result. *< **** *********** * * * THE IDLER. * * * Mr. Idler: I am sure you will be glad to know your little sermons are much, enjoyed and appreciated by old ladies, as well as younger ones, who cll"2 VISllOI'S LU LUC rC&U 1UUUI, 11 u aimed me to tell you so, and as you are a very old man, as you write, so to invite you to the rest room and maybe you will have something nice to say for the ladies' home place, as they feel that it is theirs by virtue of right, title and interest in the old county court house, as much so as county officials who have a fine new court house built for their use, but not a space for women or children. That is one reason we love the old court house's east room for we feel it is ours, to have and to hold and to bring our babies and rest when shopping is finished and chat With a friend, and look out on Main street and see the sights of the city with all the stores in sight, and close of doctors, dentists and postoffice, market and fruit shops. And there is no fine parlor in town we prefer to our room. The country people have good trees and grass at home, with old time nowers aim smgi ing birds all day long, so your ap| peal for a park must be for your city people, and hope you will get one as the deed of some noble hearted persons, who will give the city land for ? : ? f ii+Ti T?Q Tint WP a parK in uic ucai .. ~ country women would not have time to hunt its rest as we do in a rest room, in a cozy rocker and at a warm fire place. So just write something for our room and the good gentlemen of your town who have given such sympathy to us and our little ones, and when you come our way we will let you sit under big oaks, walnut and hickory trees s:iid smoke your pipe in peace and wri:e little sermons for The Herald and News, and feed you on fried chicken, home cured hams and Dutch oven light bread, and U you bring a candidate for any office, be sure that he is on oar side and stands pat for the country women and children. One of Many. The above has been sent to me, and i I am glad that the women are pleased with my sermons ana I win rrom ume to time, continue their delivery. As to the rest room it is my recollection that it was The Herald and News which first suggested the old court house for such a purpose. That was before I began writing for the paper. Seems j to n>? The Herald and News opposed tearing it down \vh<?n the question was I submitted to the voters, and suggesti sd that it be used for a rest room for the ladies from the country. That such a room was needed, and that tms was too substantial a building to be torn down, and that its location was such that it would make an ideal rest room, and that the whole building should be used for such purposes? ' ' ~ o*c qtiH rno up- SLclllS l'-Jr [Jliuin; mcviiiibo The down stairs that was not needed for rest room purposes could be made into an ideal public library. If it did not, that is my recollection. And it could b? used for these purposes to great advantage to the people of the entire county. None of the building should be rented to private parties. This is a matter that vitally concerns the merchants of the town and I have been surprised at their apathy and indifference to a question that so vi tally concerns them. But if it suits them it suits me. Speaking about preaching and sermons T wonder if any one can tell me where to find the following quotations. In what part of the Good Book do they appear? If they are not there they are very true and are very good <exts from which to preach in this day: "A man may know his wife, but no woman knoweth her husband. "If thy husband kiss thee, count thy silver; he may have stolen a spoon. "If he praise thoe, look for Hagar i in the bushes; he loveth another." Let m-e give you a few more texts I * * ^ - ? rr?i, -?.:n I upon wmcn 10 poiiuei. i m-\ ?uij probably entertain you and keep you I from idle gossip and that may accom-! plisli some good. Listen: "Fill the heart of a woman, and her mind will not trip thee; but if thou leavest her loveless she will split thy hairs with arguments. "The woman who maketh an idea and pursueth it and teaseth it into words may'write a masterpiece; but she hath poisoned 'the milk of her i babe. "The mind of a woman dwelleth by nature upon the small point; it fitteth into the cradle and on the forefinger, T)ut not into the hatbrim of a man." I am not going to elaborate any of the points "to be drawn from these texts at this time, though they carry many things that might be said to advantage. Read them, think on them, they may do you good. I hope they will. They contain a great many j truths. j I was reading a story the other day j of a town which once contained the I aristocracy of the community and the wealth as well, but in which conditions had changed in many respects. It spoke of the good old julep days and the king's-grant prosperity which once characterized the community and the inhabitants thereof. They had all eot religion, however, and 'believed that when you danced, for instance, your feet took hold on hell. That you showed the evidence of a fallen nature. That virtue had gone out of you. That there was not a girl or a! respectable woman who had ever ! danced a minuet, or waltzed with a man's arm about her waist. There was ! I something wrong or contagious either about the arm or the waist. Then this statement is made a-nd that is what I am trying to lead up to: "But when vr>ur tvecomes Door and re ligious in his pride, he is one of the narrowest-minded moral skinflints in creation. This was why there were so many well-born, bony, unmarried, chaste, poor-spirited, women in the town. It also explained in part why all the men drank, played cards for money and went fox hunting in desperation. The poor creatures instincr * 1 A1- - 1_-1 tlvely revolted against tne iock?u?ai of such Inhuman respectability. Righteousness is a terrible thing when a conscientious fool enforces it. And if nine-tenths of us did not backslide, the world would dwindle down to a few childless ascetics on each continent and just the devil walking to and fro with all the natural instincts to tempt | them back to life." The point that struck me is that there are so many conscientiously righteous people (I went say fools) who are trying to enforce righteousness upon the people and who themselves know nothing of it from experience. Some one has said I that the severest form of indignation | i was righteous indignation because it j | can be indulged to any extent conJ sci'entiously. Now, don't misunder| stand me, because I believe in right | eousness, but the make-believes, wno are always talking about the unrighteousness of the other fellow, and trying to regulate him, when the beam is sticking way out from they eyes. What about such? The reformed drunkard, ! for instance, becomes the most^intemperate man in the community in trying to reform everybody else, and he goes at it with such extreme measures that he rarely accomplishes anything, r in tomnpranf!ft. in modera 1 U^llV ? V/ *** tion in speech and action, in giving the other fellow credit for the same honesty of purjK)se, and the same pure motives, that I claim for myself. But in this day anybody that does anything or attempts to do anything will have his motives questioned, and if j he doesn't agree with the other fellow j he is either a knave or a fool or j both. We need to preach toleration. I We need to instil the doctrine that the fellow who happens not to agree with us may be just as honest as we are and probably a little more so. That is the sermon and that's the lesson. j We need in this day broadmindedness. Xo one must imagine that the whole universe rests on his shoulders and if everybody does not agree with his notions he must not conclude that everything and everybody is going straight to the demnitioa bow wows. It ain't so. There is some good in j the people who do not think as we do j on every question. In fact there is; soir-? good in the worst of us and it! I should be our purpose to hunt for that RURAL SCHOOL BULLETINS. Prof. TV. K. Tate Calls Attention to Many Bulletins of Interest to Teachers. To the Rural School Teachers of South Carolina: While it is generally known that the United States government is now issuing hundreds of bulletins helpful to farmers and teachers, I feel that the teachers of South Carolina are not sufficiently well acquainted with the variety of these bulletins and the great possibilities of using them in connection with their school work. The de^ partment of agriculture has just issued Circular 19, entitled "Publicat| ions of the Department of Agriculture Classified for the Use of Teachers." This is a pamphlet of 36 pages, and in j it a teacher may find classified for ready reference the various bulletins which may be used in the school room and in the rural community. Every teacher in the State should have a copy of this circular. It may be obtained by dropping a card of request + +V?~. finnrofarv /~?f o omirfVil1n TO fill l/lf tuty OCV/A vttti j Wi U^HVUAVU* V) ? ? ington, D. C. Many of these bulletins could very properly find a place in the rural school library, and could be distribut: ed and read not only,by the children of the school, but by the farmers in the community. They will add interest and variety to the work in agricultnrp anri will <nrov? for thft teacher a fertile source of suggestions in the adaptation of her school to the needs of the community. The following are noted especially for their direct bearing on our work in South Carolina, and teachers should secure them at once; they are free. Farmers Bulletins. 218, "The School Garden;" 408, "School Exercises in nam rroauction;" 409, "School Lessons on Corn;" 428, "Testing Farm Seeds in the Home and in the Rural School;" 134, "Tree Planting on Rural School Grounds;" 155, "How Insects Affect Health in Rural Districts;" 385, "Boys' and Girls' Agricultural Clubs;" 422, "Demonstration "Work on Southern Farms." Circulars. t ? 60, "The 'Teaching of Agriculture in the Rural Common Schools;" 96, "Arbor Day;" 17? "Bird Day in the Schools;" 24, "The Man Who Works With Kis Hands." Documents. 644, "Boys' Demonstration Work; The Corn Clubs." Year Book Reprints. 443, "Does it Pay the Farmer to Protect Birds?" 518, "Comforts and Conveniences in Farmers' Homes;" 527, "Community Work in the Rural High I ? >> j auuuui. Very sincerely, W. K. Tate, i State Supervisor Elementary Rural j i Schools. Suspended on Account of Measles, j The Presslv school, in Xo. 11 township, Miss Mary Refoe, teacher, has! been forced to suspend for an indefinite timo rm account of the measles among the children of the school. It j is thought that it will not be possible to continue the session before July. Chinese Famine Fund, Previously acknowledged $62.50 Mrs. Kate Monts 2.00 A lady of Helena 2.00 Mrs. Jno. A. Summer 1.00 , Total $67.50 jrood and try to develop it. We can't do this by force of arms. In this year of grace in South Carolina do we want to instil toleration and soberness of thought and speech and try to give the devil even what is coming to him of the good as well as of the bad. ?o? What is going to become of our streets? Did you ever see them in the condition they are now? They are j worse than the public roads, I am l told. A city with all the advantages X-ew berry has should set the example in all forward movements and all j things that are for the betterment of. tlif- people. The rains are now over lor a while and the split log drag can woik wonders if gi,7en the opportunity. The Idkr. 1 b THE OLD DISPENSARY MATTERS AGAIN AIRED ALLEGED THREATS AGAINST PATTON AND FELDEK. John Gary Evans and Attorney Gen* eral Lyon Deny Blease's Implied Charge. Columbia, March 7.?The statement by Mr. Avery Patton, of Greenville, a member of the Ansel winding-up commission, tha+ threats had 'been ms|de against his life and that of T. B. Fel; der, the Atlanta attorney, while ha | was serving on the commission, was * I the sensational development at the hearing before the dispensary investigation committee this afternoon. Mr. Patton stated that the letters making the threats were anonymous and bore the Newberry postmark. The statement by Mr. Patton that the author-, j ship of the letters was credited to the then Senator Blease, was the striking part of the testimony. The alleged connection and the basis for the charge was not given. \ I Ex-Governor John Gary Evans and Attorney General Lyon denied emphatically and characterized 'as "without color of truth" the charge conveyed in the message of Governor . Blease, sent to the legislature in 1911, that an agreement had been reached . at a conference in Atlanta between Attorney General Lyob, T. B. Felder, : John Gary Evans and H. H. Evans | whereby the latter furnished informa tion which was used in the "graft* prosecutions growing out of the old dispensary regime and in the settlement between the liquor houses and the dispensary winding-up commission under Governor Ansel. The question, which was^ contained in a message sent to the legislature in 1911 by Governor Blease demanding an investigation of the Ansel dispensary commission, waa * "What was the agreement had with , ex-Governor John Gary Evans and : ex-State -Chairman H. H. Evans for | information given by them at confer*' j "ence held in Atlanta between thesd I A.i i i-i- ^ 1 TitA. j gentlemen, ailuiucj ucuciai xjjuu I Attorney Felder?" Both Governor ' s ? j Evans and Attorney General Lyon said j no such conference was ever held and 1 that the charge was a pure fabrication, originating in the brain of Governor Blease. J Blease's Reply to Inquiry. The other feature of-the meeting of i the dispensary investigating comniit . i foo tVifo mnrninp was the reDlv of Governor Blease to the marshal of the committee when he was sent to ask the governor to lay any information he had before the commission. That | 4 all the communication he had for them was contained in his letter sent them some time ago, that he had nothing further for them and that he didn't want to be bothered any more about the matter." In other words the governor notifies the committee that he will have nothing to do with it. The legislative committee to probe into all matters connected with the State dispensary met t^day promptly at noon in the State library and began work. The members were all present, except Representative Cary, who arrived in the afternoon. Senator Carlisle, the chairman, presided. The first matter was the swearing in of Capt R. H. Kennedy as marshal of the committee. Senator Clifton examined the witnesses for the committee. Present for the morning session were Dr. W. J. Murray, Messrs. J. Steel Brice, of Yorkville, and Avery Patton, of Green11 ^ w,nmW<! nf +V\ ^ Ancal /HcnonffflrT v lUCj >9 V/i IU^ ^ ^ committee; Mr. W. F. Stevenson, of Cheraw, who was attorney for the commission, and who will represent them at the investigation; Attorney General Lyon and former Governor John Gary Evans, of Spartanburg. John Gary Evans Testifies. Former Governor Evans was first called to the stand. Asked relative to his alleged conference with H. H. Evans, Attorney General Lyon and Felder, in Atlanta, contained in the charge * of Governor Blease in the question referred to above. Mr. Evans said there was no foundation- in fact for the charge of any such conference, and that it was never held; that he had