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f . "M? Jmll aatf pftrs Entered at the Postoffict n+ N" ?HT~ j < r oc onH Hass matter. 1PW i J j rw E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, July 12, 1912. The prospects for Democratic success in the national campaign this year grow brighter every day. "Fare ye well, Politics! See you later," said the Laurens Advertiser -when it went to work for Chicora college for Laurens. Good work. While all this talk about colleges is going on, we rise to remark that there is no better college than Newberry college. The three candidates for governor are all from Newbery, but the trouble -with two of them is they moved away. We know they regret it nov\ The use of the road drag is wonderfully improving the roads in many counties in the Sta4e. In the heat of politics, county, State and national, g/v let's not forget the roads. The Columbia State seems to take a great deal of pleasure in reproducing charges which it claims not to "underwrite." The Columbia State, however, gets its pleasure in various ways, * some of which would be hard to under stand were not its calibre so well known. 1 1. r A Oscar \V. Underwood has shown the yi stuff of which he is made. He is a big man, and the country realizes t it now even more than it did before the Baltimore convention. The manner in which he has conducted nimself since Ehe was defeated for the Democratic nomination is receiving the commendation of the press and the people < throughout the United States. "Wfe note there is a movement on foot to have both President Tat't and Col onel Roosevelt retire in favor of a third man upon whom both factions of the Republican party can agree. President Taft is a mighty fine gentleman ?wre regret we can not say the same in regard to Colonel Roosevelt?but the Democrats will retire them both ?m ' ... in November. The people of Laurens have entered upon a campaign to raise 175,000 to mm ' ^ secure Chicora college, now located in Greenville. A college in Laurens would do more than any other one thing, probably, for the upbuilding of +ho tmai'ri The rumnlp nf T.aiiTvms cPPm to realize fully the great opportunity that is presented to them, and seem to be in earnest in a united effort to take * advantage of it. - ? ^ ^ ??? In kicking against the probable removal of Chicora college from Green ville to Laurens, a citizen of Green ville, as reported in one of the Greenville newspapers, went a good deal out of his way to cast slurs, not only upon Laurens, but upon Newberry and other towns as well. We hope he feels better, now that his system has been relieved of the feelings to which he is . , . . reported to nave given expression. ? The difference between Governor Blease and the News and Courier seems to be largely a matter of construction. Anyway, it doesn't do any good to use ugly words. Ugly fcords are always in bad form, and very rare ly add to the force of an utterance. To our mind it doesn't add to the strength of Gov. Blease's arguments in the State campaign to call people bad names. The same may be said of Attorney General Lyon. Nor does it make the statement of Judge Jones any stronger for him to be calling some thing as "false as h?1," and to be using other expressions of similar nature. The weather is already hot enough, without charging the air with words carrying the odor of sulphur. We did not think Governor Blease intended to tell the people of Charlesthat if thov vntArl Aproinst him hp -would punish them with injunctions I / [ and metropolitan police. He had cited the record of Judge Jones on these j matters, and says he was telling the . people of Charleston what would he j I the natural construction to place upon ' a majority for- Judge Jones in Char-; leston. Even from the synopsis of his remarks published in the daily papers, this was a legitimate construction to place upon what Gov. Blease said, and what he says he read from his original notes bears out and sustains this con struction. What the News and Courier says it has in Governor Blease's handwriting, viewed in the light of his remarks submitted by Governor Blease, would not violate this construction. COCAINE AND OTHER SUBSTI- j TUTES. The News and Courier records the j fact that Judge Memminger has sus- i foirm/i o -iii/lp-mpnt nf the recorder in ! V*. J UViQiiiV. W ? , Charleston against a party charged j with selling cocaine in violation of j law. The use of cocaine and such like drugs will be one of the most serious evils with which we will have to contend in the next few years, un- j less the laws in regard to their sale ; are rigid and are rigidly enforced. ! Where the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited by law, the people are with substitutes which are I WUllVilVVU ? ? ? offered them, and of which too many j of them are usually anxious to take j } advantage, and, of course, in the na- j ture of things, most of these substitut- j es are highly harmful, and are usually I ? sold in violation of law. Cocaine is j one of the most harmful. We know ' nothing of the properties of so-called j "near-beer," but what seems to be the ' concerted effort to put it on the mar- j ket in dry territory is an evidence of I the trend of which we have spoken, i i That there are "bind tigers"-through- ' out the country, selling chemical com- ! pounds under the name of whiskey,! everybody knows. The final solution of the liauor aues-! tion rests in the building up of popular j sentiment In the meantime, there j I are problems which must be solved, j and solved in the light of common sense. We have heard some honest temper-! ance people urge mat tne solution 01 j the liquor problem, for the present, j % might be found in the sale, under prop- j er regulations, of light wines and pure j beers. We have heard others urge 'that we must have prohibition, absoi lutely, no matter what expediency j might demand. We have heard various solutions urged. We are today con- ' ' fronted with the indisputable fact that1 I in legally dry territory, in oSuth Caro- J lina, in North Carolina, in Georgia, | and in other States throughout the country, stuff much more harmful than pure whiskey and pure beer is being sold in great quantities, in violation of law. The laws are sufficient, in most j cases; the trouble is with their en- j forcement. .. , * - | The Herald and News is an earnest \ believer in true temperance. We are ; not offering a solution of the question, j ! We are simply calling attention to | facts as they are, among them evils j t which must be guarded against. It is a big question, worthy the earnest consideration of the best minds of the country. After all, we believe education? meaning the rigljf kind of education, and the. education of all our people? j education of mind and heart?is the final solution of all our problems, but % particularly of the problem which we have been discussing. WINDISG-UP COMMISSION. Dispensary Investigators Take Testimony on Charleston Situation. Columbia State, 11th. "Did you or any member of your firm with your knowledge at any time ever pay any money to any liquor constable or any officer charged with the enforcement of the dispensary law in consideration of immunity to be granted to you?" "Mr. Sottile declinesto answer the Question upon the ground that the answer may tend to incriminate him." This answer was given by E. W. Hughes, attorney for Albert Sottile of Charleston, before the legislative committee that is investigating the affairs of the old State dispensary I [ yesterday. The answer was giwn by the attorney for Sottiie in reply to a final question by the committee as to ; Sottile's knowledge of the whiskey sit- i uation in Charleston. Mr. Hughes raised the question of the right of the committee to investigate the whiskey situation in Charleston. The committee adjourned yesterday : afternoon at 3 o'clock until tomorrow i morning at JO o'clock in Augusta, | ttrVm*-. tViQ taptininnv nf T R ITolHop ! " "^11 lilt LCOlllllVll J V L JL A UiUVl) I the Atlanta attorney, will be taken. | The meeting in Augusta will be held in the Richmond county court house, beginning at 10 o'clock. Absence of Witnesses. The absence of material witnesses ; was the feature of the session of the I i legislative committee here yesterday, j The Dominion of Canada claimed at! least one witness. Others were said i to be enjoying the cool air of the mountains of western North Carolina and some seemed to have eluded per sonal contact with the officers of Charleston county. The first witness { to take the stand at the morning ses-! sion was Albert Sottile of Charleston. ; The feature of his testimony was "I ! don't remember. I don't know"?an- ; swers to nearly every question asked, j His attorney, K. vv. Hugnes of cnar- ; leston, was present and raised many ! objections. Mr. Hughes made a l<?ng | argument before the committee and ; contended that it did not have the j legal right to investigate the whis- j key situation in Charleston. He read ! an exhaustive paper, containing many j points of law. Tiie result was that i not one material point to the investi-1 gation was secured from Sottile. Several days ago the committee! J j went down to Charleston and took i some testimony. Several men were 1 placed on the stand and some interesting testimony was presented. These 1 men admitted that Oey were "blind ! tigers" and openly charged that they hurl hAon navincr n "nrotPPtion fund" I ^ ^ ^~ r ** - to a number of wholesale dealers. Among the witnesses summoned for the session yesterday were Santos Sottile, W. H. Behrens, J. Henry Doscher, ; ; Albert Sottile, James S. Farnum, J. P.1 B. O'Neill and Wallace K. Harley. A ! roll call of the witnesses showed that ' only Albert Sottile and W. K. Harley were present. Mayor Grace Present Mayor Grace of Charleston was present at the hearing. He asked for j permission to make a statement which i was granted. He said that previous ! testimony had been given before one j of the old dispensary commissions to | the effect that there was a system of fining illicit whiskey dealers in Char-; lootnn Mp sniri that tho svst.Am hart been instituted by Mayor Rhett several I years ago and that each dealer was i fined $200 a year or $50 every three j months. He said that he approved the j system as instituted by Mr. Rhett and that since he became mayor he had I more strictly enforced the system. He 1 declared that the money thus derived j was turned into the treasury of ^he j city of Charleston. He invited an in- > vestigation of the affairs and asked ! that any graft charges in connection with his administration be probed. Denies Protection Fund. When the committee held a meet- j ing in Charleston several weeks ago, John J. Miller testified that he had j heard that a man by the name of Har- : Ipv the np-erit nspri in hrins'infr tho ! + ~ ? ?Q , whiskey graft money from Charleston ! to the governor's office. Wallace K. j Harley was summoned to appear be- j fore the committee yesterday. He ad-; mitted that he was engaged in the j whiskey business, but denied knowledge of graft. He remembered very i little in connection with his business. I He said that he did not even know the i constabulary of Charleston county, I but that they raided his place some- i times. He denied that he had ever \ paid a protection fund to Ben H. Stot-; hart, the chief whiskey constable of > Charleston county. First Witness. Albert Sottile was the first witness ' called by the committee. "What line of business are you engaged in?" I This was the first question asked Tr j the committee, which, was objected to by Sottile's attorney. The witness said he had been in business for 18 years in Charleston. On indirect question he said he had been in the real estate and theatrical business. Questioned again as to his being in the whiskey business somie aecnnea to answer on the ground that it was beyond the power of the commission. Many questions were asked Sottile with reference to his business. He consistently refused to answer any of the questions. The witness said that ne nad Known Ben ri. stotnart, me | chief constable for 15 years. "Did you ever have any dealings with Ben Stothart?" t "I have been acquainted with him. I have spoken to him." Sottile said Stothart may have borrowed some money from him before 19u7?at that time Stoihan was buying bottle, the witness said. Sottile said that up to 1907 he had never seen anybody give money to Stothart. He said that rumors of graft in Charleston had always existed since the establishment of the dispensary. "Do you know Mr. Wallace K. Harley?" "Yes, sir." "Who was he connected with?" Here the attorney for Sottile objected. "How long have you known Har ley?" "Never intimately." He did not remember whether he had seen money paid to constables before 1907. On direct question he declined to answer on the grounds that he could not remember seeing graft money paid. "Did anyone tell you that he had paid gran money to any out: "I can not remember," replied the witness. "Do you know J. P. B. 0'X?ili?" "Yes." "When did you see him last?" "A few days ago. I think it was last Sunday." "Did he mention this summons?" Here the attorney for Sottile object ed. The committee overruled the obj action. Sottile said he asked O'Neill if he had been summoned and that O'Neill said he had not been served up to that time. He was questioned as to seeing several other witnesses who wptp summoned bv the committee. He knew nothing definite of the movements of the witnesses. The witness said that his brother, Santos Sottile, was out of Charleston while the first hearing was in progress in Charlestaon. Santos Sottile later returned. Witness ,.said that his brother was now in the mountains of western North Carolina. (aught Him 011 the Fly. The people of Laurens are working in earnest for the removal of Chicora college from Greenville to Laurens. May they succeed in the worthy undertaking: There is no finer place in the State than Laurens'for the re-location of Chicora, in point of healthfulness, climate, water, society and other advantages going to make a live and fine place, as the writer can testify after six agreeable and pleasant years spent there.' The newspapers of the city are alivf to the importance of the movement, In the last issue of the Advertiser, which iis full of it, the reporter inter' viewed prominent citizens of Laurens, and as our Mr. Jno. K. Aull was in that city the Advertiser man caught him on the fly, as follows, which is reproduced from among the bunch of those embraced by the live wire: "Mr. John K. Aull, of Newberry, was stopped on the street and asked to givee a little expression as to the advantages of Newberry college to Newberry. "Jt has done more towards the upbuilding of Newberry along material and cultural lines than anything else she possesses. From a material standpoint, it leaves a great deal of money in the town every year and it is all clean money. Newberry has been loyal to the college and realizes its advantages. This ^college movement is the biggest thing that has happened in Laurens in years." How Newberry Looks to the "People." Barnwell People, 11th. Newberry, the birth county of the three candidates' for governor, must have had an old fashioner oFurth. Six barbecue dinners were advertised for sale at different places in tiie county papers. One of them was a church function, with "speeches by prominent gentlemen in the forenoon and -high class baseball in the afternoon. Dinner, 40 and 50c." In an adjoining double-column w?re advertisements of Richmond whiskey and beer. CHILDREN'S DAY AT SXIBNA. interesting Proeram Excellently Car ? _ 0 ? w ried Out?New Pastor?Abundance to Eat. The ladies of Smyrna deserve a great deal of praise for their efforts in behalf of missions. They have a wideawake church. Three different societies besides the forward movement and home mission work. Children's Day has been a noted event each year for the past 21 years, which took place Sunday. The church was crowded to its utmost. It was beautifully decorated, showing the taste of its energetic women. The children displayed great talent, each reciting their piece in a charming style which showed they had been thoroughly trained. The choir gave us exquisite music with their chants, anthems and solos. The children's exercises were in the morning, then an intermission with dinner on i ih.- ground. The table fairly groaned with its burden of good things to eat j as those people of Smyrna know how i , to prepare. In the afternoon we had I 1 an able sermon by their newly elected i i i pastor, Mr. Croker. The ladies have ; fitted up a rest room for mothers and j babies, having all necessary comforts. | : The following is the program: Song by all the children. Prayer, by the pastor. Wplrnmp All. bv fivp small rhilriren. Chant. "A Missionary Hen"?Rebecca Ab-j rams. "The Last Chance"?John H. Dav-; enport. Song. Recitation?Miss Mildred Abra.ns. "The Sunbeams"?Vera Boozer. Song, by small children. i "Bnildine the Tower"?13 children.1 Song. "A Light for Jesus"?Azile Longshore. I "A Child's Thought"?Frances Ab- ; rams. "A Dream of the Beautiful Gate"? | : Myrtle Boozer. "Jack Horner Pie"?Thomas H. Wilson. "This Harvest Time"?Mary H. ( Longshore. Song. "Jesus Little Lambs"?Sue Johnston. 4Onlv a Little Lad"?Thomas H. | Davenport. "Broken for the Master's Use Made Meet"?Nina Maud Chappell. Song. "Somebody Else"?Gladys Senn. "Bible Alphabet"?26 children. "Sunshine"?Mildred Hudson. "How Do They Grow??Banna Neel. Song. "Growing"?John Davenport. "We Claim Our Land for Jesus"? Helen Clary. | "A Little Lesson in Arithmetic"? 1 Four children. I "Babv's Praver"?Mildrprl Wilson. i "Jesus is the Loving Sheppard"? i ; Leila Chappell. ; "Sharon's Rose"?Ten children. "The Little Lad"?Maxy Chappell. Collection while singing "The Mis- j ! sionary Hymn." A Friend. Sunday School Convention No. 9. The Sunday school meeting of No. 19 township will be held at Mt. Olive ! AM TT 07 rr\> /\ 1 /NTTT1? +V?A UU juy id I . X uc lUllUYYIUg AJS UllC JJX U" ! gram: j Meeting called to order by W. C. dominick, president. i i Devotional exercises conducted by Rev. Y. von A. Riser. Welcome address, Irby Koon. Response, Prof. R. M. Monts. Enrolling of delegates. Song No. 46. Topic No. 1. What should Sunday school scholars expect of the superin | tendent, R. T. C. Hunter, H.. T. Patter- ! son and Rev. S. C. Morris. Song So. 68. i Topic No. 2. What are some of the best methods of preparing the lesson? Prof. W. E. Monts, J. A. Shealy, W. H. ' Long. Song No. 72. Topic No. 3. Can we teach without ] jthe attention of the scholar? T. M. Mills, R. M. Monts, Rev. Z. W. Bedeni i baugh. Song. No. 92. Dinner. Topic No. 4. Does the success of the Sunday school depend on the character of jthe teacher? T. M. Mills, J. B. ! T. Scott, Kev. s. r. tuion. > Song No. 95. j Topic No. 5. How can the teacher induce the scholar to study the lesson at home? Prof. R. M. Monts, J. M. Bedenbaugh, Y. von A. Riser. Song No. 96. Topic No. 6. What methods in teachin^ arp most effective in winning j o isouls, Rev. Garrett, Rev. E. W. Leslie, | iProf. J. S. Wheeler. Song 106. 1 Topic No. 7. What are the essential ! characteristics of a model teacher? | Miss May Dominick, T. J. Wilson, J. | A. C. Kibler. j | Song No. 119. General Sunday school work, Dr. C. iT. Wyche, Rev. Garrett. | Song No. 216. ' " <" TTTT j. it. _ J..i_ ? (! ? ] I Topic J\0. 5. wiiac is me uui,y ui a. | teacher to those they teach, Miss Lilly Warner. Each Sunday 6chool is entitled to two delegates and all superintendents are members of the association ex officio. All schools are urged to send delegates, and superintendents are espcially urged to be present. Dinner will be served on the ground. W. C. Dominick, President. "Old Job Perkins fell into the creek last night and was drowned." "Thats what rum does." "Rum! If the creek had been full' o' rum instead o' water it wouldn't a hurted old Job a particle."?Life. Subscribe to The Herald* and Jiews. TEACHER WANTED. Teacher of experience wanted for Union school. Term of five months and possibly six, at $.")0 per month. Trustees will elect on August 3. Apply to either of the undersigned. C. L. Wilson, Prosperity, R. F. D. ; T P TTir?o OlinrVjc ID T? v^. iviuaiu, onguo, xv. .r. u. D. W. Buzhardt, Newberry, R. 5. % NOTICE SCHOOL MEETING. The trustees of the Newberry graded schools desire to give due notice that there will be a citizens meeting in the county court house on July 23rd at 11 ^ o'clock at which time the trustees will render their annual report. J. M. Davis, ** L'nairman. NOTICE OF ELECTION. A written petition having been presented to the undersigned trustees of Silverstreet school District No. 58 of Newiberry County, South Carolina, oior-nA/l K xt o 4- 1 An nf Y?/3 nf fha oigxicu uj cn icaoi uiic^uijiu WA uut *vw* dent electors and a like proportion of the resident freeholders of the age of ' twenty-one years, of said District, asking that an election be held to deter- , mine whether or not Silverstreet School District No. 58 will issue and 4 sell coupon bonds aggregating forty hundred dollars, payable within twenty years, at the rate of interest not exceeding six per cent per annum, payable annually, tor me purpose of erecting buildings and for equipment v for maintaining public schools in said District. ? -? An election fdr said purpose is hereby ordered to be held at H. C. Lake's * store in the town of Silverstreet on V* " OQ 1Q19?ot nrVl aW. lYLU-UMtJ y OKJLly %/JL.^f ?V TTUiVU V*^V tion only qualified voters residing in. A said District shall be allowed to vote. The ballot cast must have written or printed on it ttfe words, "For Bonds,'", or "Against Bonds." The following * are hereby appointed managers of said election: Jno. P. Long, G. T. Blair, and "VV. H. Hendrix. The polls will be open at 7 A. M. and close at 4 P. M. U. w. suDer, ? T. M. Werts, ^ H. C. Lake, Trustees Silverstreet School District No. 58, Newberry, S. C. Subscribe to Tbe Herald and News*. <S> LODGE DIBECTOBY. * j Wodmen of tUe World. Maple Camp, No. 437, W. 0. W., meets every first and third Wednesday evening at 7.45 o'clock. Visiting brethren are corially welcome. ! D. D. Darby, T. Burton, Clerk. C. C. . * Newbery Camp, No. 542, W. 0. W.* meets every second and fourth Wednesday night in Klettner's Hall, at S o'clock. Amifv Lnrtee. No. 87. jL F. 3L Amity Lodge, No. 87, A. F. M., meets every first Monday night at 8 o'clo^K""""^ in Masonic Hall. Visiting brethren \ cordially invited. | H. H. Rikard, > . J. W. Earhardt, . W. M. Secretary. ' ( Bergell Tribe, >*o. 24, I. 0. 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