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fkr gtaW mi p?rs Entered at the Postoffice v pwfcrry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, December 3,1912. / y We do not think much of thj/^talk | about pensioning ex-presidejtfs. If on their retirement from th# high office to which they have #een chosen they have not saved & competency they should be abl? to earn a livelihood. Many of thtise who were ex-presidents have (tone so. We notice that Col. / Hcj ?sevelt does not agree to the sug/gestion. He rather takes the position that if any employe of the government deserves a pension it is the small salaried one who has given the best years of his life to the faithful service of the government and has not been able to j lay by from his small salary a compet- j ence for a rainy day. James Madison returned to his farm j after his retimement and for many/ years was a help to his community and his neighbors. James Monroe/became a justice of the peace and a/fcember of the constitutional contention, and if we are not mistaken ryne of tha Adames was a member of congress af- j ter retiring from the presidency. They J can always find something to do. ?f THE ASYLUM/ BOND ISSUE. We are glad Vo learn at last that the vote against the issue of one million State bo/nds for the asylum was defeated. IX is a good thing that it required a/two third vote to carry it. j Had it tfeen carried by a mere ma- j jority would not have been satisfactory especially as the vote was so li gw/ /In taking this position we are iiot | ilo be put down as unwilling to fcave | / the State provide for her unfortunatej / citizens, but in this day of grift we! / are mighty anxious that great carej / should be exorcised to see that pro-1 per safeguards are put about a bond issue cf any kind. Evidenty there | poenss to have been a strong desire upon the part of some not born out of sympathy for the unfortunate to j have the bond issue. We confess that1 this alarmed a good many people, and 1 we are right down glad that there were , not enough votes to pass the amend. ment. We may be wrong but this is the way we feel about it.?Greenwood Journal. It would probably be interesting for the Journal to state what "proper, safeguards" the Journal would sug- j " gest "be placed around the bond issue" which was proposed for the develop-! ment of the new asylum that were ncc, placed there. It would be interesting | to have the Journal state to whom ir j refers in its insinuation that some- \ body was greatly interested in the "bond issue who was not in sympathy with the unfortunates. : i The bond issue was a simple business proposition and we are satisfied if the people had understood it thoroughly it would have carried without any trouble, but the newspapers that opposed it did so on such talk as the Journal indulges, that there was a scheme somewhere and then a vague . ] suggestion of graft. We are obliged to believe that there are still some honest people left in the world, and right here in South Carolina, that ] would have handled the proposition to the best interests of the State. , If you are not going to do anything 3 because there is a possibility of graft { then how are you going to refund your State debt Somebody may get * graft out of that. Somebody may get ( graft in spending your county money. ] We have got to have faith in one j another if we do anything at all. We ( have absolutely no personal interest t in the bond issue but it was such a < plain business proposition we cannot understand how any one who under- ? stood it could oppose it. ? The State cannot afford to discon- ] tinue the work unless it is decided to { take a backward step and if it does it a will be at great financial loss and be- i sides the congested condition at the i 'asylum will remain. The work must t ?go on. Means will have to be provid- r ed. The bond issue simply proposed to exchange the present property fo^ the new, without costing the State on^ o cent. c NEWSPAPERS AND CRIME. Dr. W. L. Poteat, of Wake Forest college, of North Carolina, has been taken to ta.sk for his severe rasping of the newspapers of today. He is quoted as having denounced the papers for "playing up the names of crime in type an inch high, giving vicious deA - wv^/vnAA/U r* nro frAm txtV* i/>h | 1.3.1 ii5 Ul Cuux l. yiutccuni5o Hum t? courts have excluded boys and carry/ ing these details into the home." /He / is also quoted as saying "the m/Mern newspaper drains the sewers o% civilit zation and poisons the fountains of morality; and you hold yoyr nose, but make no protest" / The Raleigh News aT^d Observer is quoted as making thp following com/ ment upon Dr. Pot^at's position: "There is reaL'iy no place in this sensible world 'for a newspaper ro | suppress a story of crime because ? - 1. | news of wrtyng-aoing may injure duulic morals./'The newspaper must print the news/such as it is. It is no Iong! er a newspaper when it suppresses what /everybody is talking about, whether it be a " 'irder, a suicide, an as/assination, a l .ion or a political a/ddress. "It is a map of busy life" /and must Ije a true map. The swamps j and depressions must appear as well ' as the mountains and hills. If a paper prints only good things, its readers come to have an incorrect knowledge of the world and think that sin no more reigns. If a paper prints only stories of vice and crime, the readers come to think that the world is a place of crime and evil. The truth lies between. The paper must print the news of the day, never appealing to the vul gar taste or dishing up stories of crime to attract those with low tastes. "Give me no expurgated newspaper," declared Lyman Abbott at Trinity college. "I must read in my morning paper the happenings of the day?the good, the bad and the indifferent?so that I can for myself see the world as; it is. If I read only of the good deeds,: I feel no impulse to reform. If I read( only the stories of crime, I grow helpless thinking the world is all bad. The expurgated journal' has no place for the man who is truly trying to know exactly what the world believes in so that he may be most helpful in his j generation." "Lyman Abbott's position is more nearly right than is President Poteat's, if the latter is correctly quoted." As we see it, there is much to be said on both sides of the question. Dr. Poteat is no doubt too sweeping in his. denunciation, but even yet in this day j it may be said with truth that the ten- j dency is too much toward giving the I details of crime. As the News and Observer says, the newspaper must! ! print the news. It is a dai'y mirror i of what the world is doing, and if only | the good things were printed ir would j not be a true mirror. Jtmt mere is a j way of printing the news and another way of printing it We heard a gentleman only the other day say that he always tried t: get hold of the paper before it went into his home because there was so often something in it that he aid not care for his children to read. He may have been over sensitive. It is probably not best for the child to train it up ro the idea that there is nothing but good in the world, because when it co-nes to rub up against the real world it may receive too- great a shock to withstand it. At the same time it is a fact that i too many of the newspapers do play up a little too much the details ot horrible crimes of all kinds. This can i not be for the moral uplift of the people and impressions made on the < youthful mind are enduring and the 1 more horrible the crime the more enluring they are. The newspaper is an educator?a school master?and if the publication i )f horrible crimes is injurious to pubic morals why should the newspaper Dlay u? the details. You wcuM not 1 ?xpect the school master to feature j hem in his school room or relate the < ietails to the children as a lesson j A real newspaper should be clean, it 1 should be fair, it should be just, 1*. 1 should contain the purest aud best English, it should be careful of the ?ood name and reputation of those , V - -v uu&e names are mentioned in Its col- jlmns. When it is then it comes mto | ts own and wields the influence for he betterment and the uplift ot hu- j ' I \ tianity which it should. j ^ We notice from/the Columbia Recrd, s-Lperv:sor of Rich'and :oun?:.. at work on the Co t Specia I Of Enair I To make room for my ( my stock of Enamel ware as they last. Now is t] (kitchen, bee my window BETTER GOODS AT 1 J "THE HOUSE OF A T lumbia and Newberry road, via Springhill, is going to continue the work until he reaches the Lexington line, wnicn -will cover the four miles of bad road mentioned in The Herald and News. There is no reason why this road between Newberry and Columbia should not be one of the best roads in South Carolina, even without having it adopted as the road for government experiment. As already stated in The Herald and News, this road could, with a reasonable expenditure of money, be made an ideal highway between Colummia and Newberry. The people of Columbia and Newberry should certainly contribute liberally in order to secure a first-class road between Newberry and Columbia. In order to do so, however, there must be concerted action all along the line. NOTICE OF ELECTION FOR MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE TOWN OF NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLIN A. i Notice is hereby given that the regular annual election for a mayor and five aldermen, one alderman for each of the five wards, to serve for a term of one year, for one Commissioner of Public Works and for School Trustees of the Newberry graded school district for Wards One, Two and Three respectively, will be held at the Council Chamber in the opera' house in the Town of Newberry, South Carolina, on the second Tuesday in December. ' 1912, being: the tenth day of said ' month,, the polls to be opened at 8 o'clock in the forenoon and to close ' it 6 -o'clock in the afternoon. G. W J Hiller, J. R. Davidson and Alex Single J ton are appointed managers of the said ' ^lection. By order of the Town Council of Yewberry, S. C., on this the 27th day of September, 1912. J. J. Langford, Vttest: Mayor, J. R. Scurry, C. & T. 1 Next time your liver gets sluggish and you feel dull and headachy go to 1 W. G. Mayes drug store and get a bot- I tie of the successful medicine, Dod- ] son's Liver Tone. t Tt will start your liver, gently b^t t firmly, and cure an attack of constipation or biliousness without any re- 1 striction of habit or diet. ^ Dodson's Liver Tone is a pleasant tasting vegetable liquor, for both chil- t Iren or grown people. Its use is not Followed by any of the bad after-effects i . which sometimes follow taking cal:>mel. ? W. G. Mayes drug store will give you A ^our money back if you do not find it / i perfect substitute for calomel. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. ? Notice is hereby given that I will Ja make final settlement of the estate of j a Dr. Geo. Douglass, deceased, in tb? Probate Court of Newberry Countr, G State of South Carolina, at 11 o'clock S n the forenoon, on Thursday, Decern- li Der 12, 1912, and immediately thereifter apply for letters dismissory as f idministratrix or saia estate. Lenora E. Douglass, Administratrix. 5 November 12, 1912. NOTICE. To the Stockholders of the Farmers )ank. Prosperity, S. C.: Notice is here)y given that, pursuant to a resolution idoptcd by the board cf directors of he Farmers Bank of Prosperity, at a , nf-oting held at Prosperity S. C., on _ ' ^ 2' th day cf October, 1 a spe-: ^r.tirg of the stockholders of the' ? 1 tl Sale iel Ware. Christmas Toys I will sell i at 10c. a piece as long lie time to furnish your T. :he same price at HOUSAND THINGS." said bank will be held at 2 p. m. on the 12th day of December, 1912, at the banking house of the said bank, in Prosperity, S. C., for the purpose of amending the constitution and by-laws of said banii so as to increase the number of vice presidents and the number of directors, and for the transaction of such other business as may come before said meeting. K. T. Patterson, Secretary. Prosperity, S. C., Nov. 9, 1912. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. - ? nloiin/i oo-oincf All persons uuiums v/iaiiua the estate of H. S. Graham, deceased, are notified and requested to present the same, duly attested, to the undersigned executors of the last will and testament of said deceased on or before December 25, 1912. B. C. Matthews, Olen Graham, ll-26-4t.ltaw. Executors. COLUMBIA, JfEWBERBY & LAPS EXS B. B. Schedule in effect June 4, 1912. Sub Ject to change witnout nouce. ouue dules indicated are not guaranteed: A. C. L 52. 53. Lv. Charleston .. .. 6.00am- 10.38pm Lv. Sumter 9.40am 6.55pm C., N. & L. Lv. Columbia 11.35am 4.55pn Lv. Prosperity 1.12am 3.34pir Lv. Newberry 1.29pm 3.20pn Lv. Clinton 2.30pm 2.35pn Lv. Laurens.. .. 2.52pm 2.05pD C. & W. C. ^r. Greenville 4.40pm 12.20pm kr. Spartanburg. .. 4.05pm 12.20pn i S. A. L. Aj. Abbeville 3.55pm i.02pii kr. Greenwood 3.27pm 1.33pn ir. Athens 6.05pm 10.30an ir. Atlanta 8.45pm 8.00an A. C. L. 54. 55. Lv. Columbia.. .. .. 5.00pm 11.15an Lv. Prosperity 6.26pm 9.50an Lv. Newberry 6.44pm 9.32an L?v. Clinton 7.35pm 8.44an 'jv. Laurens 7.55pm 8.20an No. 50. No. 51. 'jv. Columbia 8.00am 9.38pm liV. Irmo 8.26am 9.12pm l?v. Chapin 8.57am 8.41pm l<v. Little Mtn 9.11am 8.27am l?v. Prosperity 9.30am 8.08pm - v. Newberry 9.47am 7.52pm jv. Kinards 10.18am 7.21pm >. Goldville 10.26am 7.13pm) >. Clinton 10.41am 6.58pm ir. Laurens 11.04am 6.35pm C. & W. C. ir. Greenville 9.30pm 7.00aro S. A. L. iv. Greenwood .. .. 2.28am 2.38am Lr. Abbeville 2.56am 2.03am iT. Athens 5.04am 11.59pm Lr. Atlanta 7.15am 9.55pm Nos. 52 and 53 arrive and depar rom Union Station, Columbia, daily, .nd run through between Charlestor nd Greenville. Nos. 54 and 55 arrive and deparf Jervais street, Columbia, Zcdlr except lunday, and run through between Ooumbia and Greenville. Nos. 50 and 51 arrive and depart rom Gervais street, Columbia, on Sunay only. W. J. Craig, P. T. M., I. A. Terrer, C. .A, Wilmington, N. C. Columbia, S. C. CHICHESTER S PSLLS i THE 1?IAilO.\I> liZiAND. A V^/W;v\ ladles! 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