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M* pews Entered at the Postoffice at V*wferry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. . c== - = Friday, August 2, 1912. GRACE ASD THE PRESS. A portion of the statement of Jno. P. Grace, mayor of Charleston, which was carried by the Columbia State and the News and Courier, is too vile for publication in the columns of The Herald and News. How the Columbia State and the News and Courier managed to get through the mails, in the face of the inhibition against obscene matter, we do not understand. Tho rowoin/ipp nf trace's card is JL 11V v- ? ? published in The Herald and News today. By his own words Grace has branded himself as a man who wallows in the mire of filthy thoughts and filthy words. That the people of South Carolina will believe the statements of such a man is asking too much. It is a sad day for South Carolina when her two leading dailies, in their mad efforts to defeat Governor Blease, lend their columns to matter unfit to go into the homes of the people of South Carolina. Grace has proven himself too contemptible even for pity, and is unworthy of notice. Writhing in the agony of malice and of spite, he has put himself beyond I the pale of common decency. That a human being should descend so low is sad, it is true, and ~*e regret that he is a South Carolinian. But, without thp aid of newspapers who are "fighting Governor Blease, Grace was powerless to have his filth carried into the homes of the people of the State-. That is tne sad part or the spectacle?that Grace's foul words and lewd vaporings should be seized upon and presented as dainty morsels by a press which, in its- desperation, has shown by this act to what lengths it will go to try to stem the tide that is bearing Governor Blease to victory. It will be a relief when the campaign is over. Let's not forget the split-log drag and the wonders it will do for th? i*Oads if given a chance. The of thlc flrflne filth - strongly reminds us of that "buzzard cartoon" which appeared in the Columbia State just prior to the primary j election two years ago. Rural school education and road improvement are two questions which are engaging the attention of county candidates throughout the State. These are the questions of most vital importance in South Carolina at this time. Jno. P. Grace says1 he thinks some of his editorials written in the campaign of two years ago were republished in The Herald and News. We do not recall that this is a fact, but if it is, we desire to apologize to our readers. Crops are promising this years throughout Newberry county. There was rain on Wednesday night and Thursday morning in sections which had been suffering for rain, and the outlook was very much improved. The , Crops are promising this year crops this year bid fair to come up to + QrflroffA r? nrAn/1 wonV VAO rc 1 a*cia5r ui a 5WU uictxij past. "It is amusing," says the Manning Times, "to witness the antics of those newspapers which a few months ago were denouncing John P. Grace as if he were a pickpocket. They predictprf all kinds of shame unon Cha/rles ton did he become its chief executive, hut now they are falling upon his neck with joy every time he comes out in the newspapers and denounces Gov. Blease." It would be amusing, had it not passed the stage of amusement and gone into the realm of the vile and filthy. Dr. W. G. Houseal, of Newberry, than whom there is no more upright man and physician in South Carolina, knows something of the governor's condition the night preceding the inauguration, having taken the governor from Newberry to Columbia, leaving Newberry on the South ern train at 9.05 p. m., Governor j Blease being at that time a very sick i man- and in Dr. Houseal's charge. Grace says "about the nastiest recol- i lection" of his life was a "scene at Wright's hotel the night before his I (Blease's) inauguration. It was the first real insight I had ever had into Blease and the atmosphere in which he moved," says Grace. So much for Mayor Grace's veracity. The Spartanburg Journal says that "it has been argued to Mayor Grace that if he attempts to speak in Spartanburg he will be howled down; he will not be accorded a hearing and there may be trouble." The Spartanburg Journal then goes on to say: "Do we live in an age of barbarism, when the mayor of the largest city in the State will not be accorded a courteous hearing before an audience composed of the citizens of Spartanburg? Have jwe been driven so insane over State politics that reason, politeness, cour!tesy, have left us?" i We beg to suggest to the Journal that possibly the people of Spartan burg have regard for decency, and do not care to be addressed by a man who has descended to the yile depths to which Grace has descended. The Spartanburg Journal in the same issue says that to "preserve' common decency" it could not print certain vulgar stuff?evidently refer ing to the foul words wmcn cam? from the mouth of Grace. And yet it thinks that "reason, politeness, courtesy" would demand for Grace a respectful hearing before a Spartanburg audience. The Journal's politics seems to have made it somewhat inconsistent. WHAT WAS THEIR OBJECT? King and Watson claimed to have gone to the governor's mansion to secure a respite for a negro under death \ sentence. It now develops, according to the Yorkville Enquirer, that there was no need of a respite to delay the execution, as the notice of appeal served as a stay of execution. It seems f ? i ^ tt?/> -wn m t*?V? /v t*t m nprvi nr P??/vr? I licit LV>U IllCil w JL1U ? CI XT 5UI11S llvlll Greenville to Columbia in connection with a case of this kind must have known the facts in the case. The question then arises, What were King and Watson at the mansion for?what was their object there? The following is from the Yorkville i XliiilJUli CI . "There has been another development in connection with that Stake Morris case, out of which there grew such a sensational scandal because of the governor's alleged discourteous and rough treatment of King and Watson, two Greenville men who went to the governor's mansion two SunI days ago to get, so they claimed, a reprieve for the condemned negro. It will be remembered that Watson and King went into the newspapers with a story that they had been ejected from the governor's mansion, without cause. The governor on being forced to explain the situation for political reasons, said that the men who according to his assertion were drunk, had acted so badly that he had to i make them get away. There has been a lot in the papers about the whole ugly affair, and partizans have been ; believing whichever side of the story : that seemed in most harmony with their political sentiments. It turns out that Stake Morris was not hanged last Friday, the day on which he was sentenced to be hanged, and there was no reprieve either. As a matter of fact, according to the Greenville News, the negro was not to have been hanged on the day he was sentenced to be ; hanged. Immediately after the conIviction of the negro, his lawyers gave notice of a motion for a new trial, ana . after sentence was pronounced they 'served notice of appeal. The notice of ! appeal servd as a stoy of execution and | there was no need .whatever for the reprieve that Watson and King claimied to have gone to the executive man| sion for. The negro cannot be electrocuted until after he shall have been resentenced at the next term of the Greenville general sessions in Sep- J TemDer. k l Dr. Harms Lectured. The Normal had been invited by the trustees to have at least one lecture at Summerland, the location for the new Lutheran college for women. The invitation was accepted for Wednes day night and Dr. J. H. Harms, president of Newberry college was the lecjturer. This lecture was a rare treat to al who heard it.?Lexington Route 2 cor. Leesville News Advocate, 1st, from Sunday school normal. Cotton Weigher at Pomaria. , M. 0. Livingston was on Thursday i elected cotton weigher at Pomaria. There were several in the race. 1 Some Poetry in Reply. Editor The Herald and News: In reply to a few lines appearing in the Sunday issue of the Columbia State, I would be glad if you will print the following: In answer to the poet of Norway, I've only this to say: Just ask the people of Horray, What two ?nore years of Blease will pay. I Even Reed and his detectives, Tom Felder and his tribe, Failed to get the evidence, Or the dictagraph to bribe. Yes, where was South Carolina, Just two years ago; And where will the Norway poet be, When) Blease * is elected two years more. / They say, robbers,. thieves and out laws, In him a friend doth find; But where'll the good aristocrats be, When their pardons Blease declines. Ask Mister Tom Watson, Who lives in another State, What the Augusta meeting did, For Ira B. Jones' fate. I ' * * -Li TUey say trie tnease men are 1111 | scrapings, The scrapings they may "be; But they are going to scrape the country, Fore Oole. L. Blease, you'll Bee. We are all for higher morals, But where do these things be? Is it in the make-up Colie, Or that of Ira "B"? This is for you to decide but the writer prefers Mr. Blease. # Respectfully Citizen. Little Mountain, July 30. <8> <g> |<S> STATE CAMPAIGN DATES. * i<S> <$> One Week Off. Camden, Monday, August 5. Lancaster, Tuesday, August 6. Yorkville, "Wednesday, August 7. Gaffney, Thursday, August 8. Spartanburg, Friday, August 9. Union, Saturday, August 10. Newbery, Tuesday, August 13. Laurens, Wednesday, August 14. Greenwood, Thursday, August 15. Abbeville, Friday, August 16. Anderson, Saturday, August 17. Walhalla, Tuesday, August 20. Pickens, Wednesday, August 21. Greenville, Thursday, August 22. Dramatic Snap. Lippincott's. A number of players and playwright? at the Lamb's Club were discussing the question of what constitutes the "snap" so persistently demanded of the dramatist by the manager of today. "I have talked to so many managers on this subject/' said one writer, "but - --? v./>~ .riVi'lo +/-> civck mp anv Iiuxic ucia uccu w very definite notion as to just "what 'snap' is." "I can help you out," sa.d Eugene Walter. "I have an idea for a one-act play that just bursts with 'snap'. I'll give it to you. Here it is: ' "Play opens with man and woman in drawing-room, seated side by side on a sofa and embracing each other passionately. "Enter to them a man with a suitcase and an umbrella. He is, of course, I to all intents, husband unexpectedly returned. "Husband no sooner takes in the situation than he yanks out a revolver and shoots both man and woman. "Then he takes out his glasses, puts them on, looks about him, and suddenly gives a start. "Merciful heavens!' he exclaims. i'T'm on thp wrone floor!" Tlie Love That Dyes. She?would you lov? me better, ; dearest, if my hair were a different | color? i He?Well, I don't know, darling. | What other colors have you??Sketch. | [ Anderson | THE STOR1 Goods have bee every shelf, table a gains in every line. Colored Chamb One lot Colored Chambi limit, yd Bargains in Boys' Km Our New York buyer hi us a lot of Knee Pants at a bargain, 5 years to pair 49> VV1UUUTT U11UUI Fringed, colors blue and value, while they last Colored Lawn: Picked up cheap late in 12ic. value, our price, y Oil Color Calic T? -pocf 1' Ui VgU.ll I/O; XUOb W1VX Uj yd., our price yd White Counterpa The regular $2.00 val price : 1 Lot Children's Dres river) acres 8 to 16 vears 25c. to $1.19. Don't fail to see our alls, Knit Underwear, CaaJIa itn/l Vnfinn Iinae UUUUo duu ilUUUll 11UW. Andersoi 1112 I Making it Worth While. A neighborhood bully had run over a smaller boy so oftei that the fatter of the latter was impelled to say to him: "Sonny, when I was a youngster my -1 3 ?~ *imo o 71 v hr> v iamer iicKtJu mc cvci; mnv, UUJ did. I am not going to do that with you. Instead, I'm going to give you $1 every time you polish off that Jones boy." For several days the youngster showed up slightly mussed, but silent. At the end of the second week he put in a bill for $8. It was itemized and circumstantial and backed by a couple of vouchers in the way of teeth.?Chicago Post. Pointed Paragraphs. / It takes a shrewd man to get rich in spite of his wife. Silence is golden when it is purchased with hush money. There's many a slip 'twixt the solitaire and the marraige altar. Anything you 0"et for nothing is usually worth a little less. It's easy for a man to he patient with a stupid woman if she is pretty. The only time a bore is not a bore is when he talks to us about ourselves One seldom hears a married man boast that he never made ^ mistakein his life. A woman never overlooks an opportunity to put it all over her neighbors in some way. Give some men rope enough in the guise of campaign cigars and they'll vote the other ticket. Nearly every day we read of some poor man who unexpectely inherited a large fortune, but we never met any of them. Purely Ornamental. A small applicant for assistance was being interviewed by the charity worker. "Txrhot io. vrm-r father?" asked the VY ilUt *0 J WMA ? latter. "E's me father." "Yes, but "what is be?" "Oh, e's me stepfather." "Yes, yes, but what does he do? Does he sweep chimneys or drive busses or what?" "0-o-w," exclaimed the small applicant with dawning light of comprehension. " No, e' ain't done nothin' since we've 'ad 'im."?London Tit-Bits. s Dry Gofl E WITH A "NE n coming in for the p< id counter is full of "i ry. 31 ry, 10 yds. Sellg for ; ?00 special pric< ee Pants. ?;i is just sent picked up One lot Chi 17. Prices tivpH o p*p( c. to $1.98 n. age' price green, 40c. Mlli 25c Another shi S, priced. the season, IV?r|r f, d 7|c UUtK u ' These Cott( u* * j . _ size anu ui worth 7Jc. where at . c for Friday, nes, with a $i.c< ?eI^l White sesMar: 3, our prices *a'wv last I | line before you buy Shoes, 1 Tahlp linen RpH Snreads an Remember the place n's Dry Goc MAIN STREET, NEWBERRY Humor of the Day. Prudent Mother?Now, my dear, don't let any man come too near you when courting. Discreet daughter?No, mother; when Charles is here, we always have one chair between us! And the mother does not yet know what her daughter intended to convey. i ^Mn "I hear that Dr. Smith is treating you," said his friend. "Yes," answered Dobson. "What is he doing for you?" "Well," said Dobson, "we. chat together; he writes prescriptions and I tear them up, and then I feel better." Absentminded husband (in Paris) ?My wife asked me to get her some Eau-de-Cologne while I was here; - ^ now, what the deuce is eau-ue-cuiuguc in French? What a young man earns in the day time goes into his pocket, but what he spends in the evening goes into his character.?Dr. Cuyler. It is a high solemn, awful thought, for every individual man that his earthly influence, which has had a commencement, will never through all ages, were he the very meanest of us, have an end.?Thomas Carlyle. Reflections of a Bachelor. New York Press. , .1 Every man in a parade acts as if it's all for him. A man can worry a heap more over^ his baldness than his debts. A price tag gets pinned to about V. or in in cr mPr^V fV (SI J- Lliliig,, lllV.lUUll.j;, . A successful man can be a lot prouder of his children than they of him. A man needs money to get married, and then he* needs more of it forever after. Snobbish people go on a hunt for an ancestor and buy him in an old picture shop. Being a smart aleck can get a person into more trouble than being a dunce. The reason the whole family spoils the baby is because each one thinks nobody else ought to do it. The way a woman keeps free from $.< a-SlCKlieSS is iu sia> in , p.:"1 v.}(?.-> ft from others. . If you live in a rented furnished room, select a hall clock, price $175, for your wife. Everybody gets a. rest some time ids Store W STOCK" - .1 . 11 l\ ist tnirty aays ana lew goods." Bar5 in. Cambric. LOc. yard everywhere, H i, 20 yds. limit, yd. 7Jc | Idren's Dresses. ildren's Dresses just ar- j; 3 3 to 16 years, our ) 25c. to $1.19 ; t. sGd Underwear. ipment just in, specially !; i / v ! i stton Picking Bags. >n Bags are made full j 8 oz. Duck. Sell everyBOe. Our special price ! Saturday and Monday, i I [) purchase, each 19c < * i Corduroy Skirts. hipment of these Skirts, j $2.00 value, while they | $1.19 and $1.48 I I) Hats, Shirts, Pants, Overd everything in the Dry :' t ?ds Store < s. c. but mother. What makes a woman look so cool on a hot day is she doesn't feel 60.1 Being able to stay out of debt is commonplace, being able to stay in is artistic. A cri-rl -ihnilt Jin' PT1 ft &44 1 uvvw w wwv*v v-o?O" in the family the way a volunteer fire department does over a village burning: U, ^ >~ow is the time to subscribe to The Hi Herald and Sews, one year $1.50, six H| niODths 75c* foar months 50c. CALL AT ANNIE n Diin? miniL v. nun & co/s 1 /.. to get your ^ cigars/ Special prices to the ' merchants by the box. Phone 84-2, Herald and News Build ing. I KELLER INSECT POWDERS ' Gets The Files 10 & 25 cts. GILDER 4 WEEKS Everybody's doing it! Doing wljatf- * Reading The Herald and News.