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ii& Entered at the Postofficc ^ v'-vJfcrry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, January 7, 1913. This is a mighty good time to use the split log drag. Had you thought -i?* ,f ,1At VOM have another cUJUUl it. it 11 w thought coming to you. Beware how you sign petitions. You can never tell how much influence your signature may carry with it. Of course, if you mean it, it is all right. The legislature meets next Tuesday. Better subscribe for The Herald and News now if you want to keep posted on what your legislators are doing. The Herald .and News w*Il have a special letter for each issue covering all Columbia news. And that gathering \ye wanted of the people of Xewberry around the same board with their feet under the same table, it seems, is going to fail, too. That is too bad. What can we suggest for the good of the order? Surely there is something. Help us. The petition for the annexation of a portion of Lexington county to Xewberry has been filed with the governor and is said to contain a majority of the residents of the portion proposed to be cut off and the election will be ordered as soon as all the require ments of the law are complied with. Some newspaper correspondent is sending out from Columbia the rumor that the lines will be drawn in the legislature between the adherents of Gov. Blease and those opposed to him. Why try to stir up matters like this? Let us hope that the legislature will not waste its time in petty poliics. loot lotritelntiire rfid n suffciencv of x laow ? ? that. The railroad commission of Georgia has issued an order requiring railroads to tell the truth in their bulletins as to arrival of trains". If a train is an hour late it will be a violation of the order to mark It up twenty minutes late and then change the marking up later. A heavy penalty is tc be imposed for a violation of this order. Will the South Carolina railicad commission please take notice. We can see no good reason for the railroads to withhold the correct information as to the delay of trains. And yet they do it nearly every time and cause great loss of time to many passengers. Gov. Blease has revoked a number of commissions of notaries public. We i co not know his reason, but we hope it is' not because they are not political ft friends of his, or that some one has said they do not want a commission signed by him. Things like that are too email to be taken cognizance of by a governor. It any ot these gentlemen are so small as to make such a remark let them he small enough to resign their commission. There are big things demanding the attention of the chief magistrate of this State at this time, and there is no use to fritter iwov rAn:< onartrv r?n littlo i Hr?c n uj j'VlIk vwv/i vu inviv pvn This is a time demanding constructive statesmanship. The following are said to be some of . the new measures to be introduced at the approaching session of the legislature. Some of them are good and should be made the law of the land, while some of them should find an easy oblivion never again to be resurrected : A bill to abolish the hosiery mill at the State penitentiary; a bill to provide a two-cent passenger rate on railroads; a bill for a State warehouse system for storing cotton, perfected so as to meet the defects of the bill passed last year and which was declared unconstitutional by the supreme court; a resolution to submit to the people an amendment to the constitution so as to provide for the election of all judges by the people; a bill to raise the salaries of all judges; a f bill to perfect the law in re'ation to tile duties of the board of pardons; a i bill to perfect the law in relation to j i th. electrocution of condemned crinij I inals; a bill providing for compulsory | education; a bill providing for women; suffrage; a bill to prohibit hazing in colleges, and a mass of local bills, chief among which will be one to pro* 1 mrfif am i'r\ V t Vl C* : VICI6 tl Illgll HUCJ1BC s.t aicui ivi iuv, i regulation of the liquor traffic in the city of Charleston, and a bill amending the Charleston commission form of government act so as to give the peo- j ! pie the immediate right to vote 011 it. ? r t ?> <$ $ THE IDLEK. ^ * ' * * <9> <?> <$> <i> "$> <? <?> -?> $> <? I heard a man say the other day | that the old story yon used to hear! that "Competition is tlie life of trade,*' was all wrong, and after thinking about it I am about persuaded that J this man was right, or is right, in this ! 1 conclusion. Too much competition j and the cutting of prices below a legitimate profit and the making of an hor.ert living, is not the life of trade, ..... ,, i I but may result in driving out an com-i petition, because the strong can soon make the weak go to the wall, a.::d 'then the strong will have the business all to himself. This1 same man remarked that "Competition is good for manners" There is a whole lot of truth in this statement. Had you ever thought of it in this light? A little competition makes every one just a little more polite. I believe that the telephone is one thing that should have a monopoly, because it is confusing when we have two or three systems in a town, and then it is more expensive, too, and yet sometimes I am almost persuaded?not meant for Newberry? uidi 'a. uti-ic v-uuijjcutiuu JII nit H.1&phone business might be good for manners. Courtesy, politeoiess, kindness, oh, these are great assets'. What little use I make of the telephone in Newberry I can say truthfully that I have always received the most prompt and courteous attention, but now and then I have had occasion to use the telephone in other places; afld I have wanted, so bad, to say a woVd to express the thought above?"Competition | is good for manners." This applies not only to telephones, but to all other public business, and I hold the position that no one has a right to take a situation that requires work for the public, who does not beforehand make up his mind to be polite and courteous, even to people who ask silly and foolish questions. ?0? A long time ago I had the pleasure to make a trip to New York, and it interested me very much. I could profitably spend the time standing on the sidewalk?sufficiently to one side not to be run over?looking at the great throng of people coming and going?especially in the morning and in the afternoon when the people were going and returning from their work. I looked and wondered, and looked and wondered some more, where all these people came from and where they were going; and where they lived. *nd what their purpose in life was; nnd then I wondered again why sort>e cf them did not come down to this beautiful and balmy Southland of ours, where they could have plenty of fresh air and have elbow room. I stood one evening about dark at the entrance to the great Brooklyn bridge on the New York side of the river, and watched the thousands and thousands of people who-were niaking their way to the Brooklyn side of the river. A policeman wras stationed there. A great big strong Irishman. I stood by him for some time. He was asked all sorts of foolish questions, some that I, a stranger, would not nave a'.Keu, uecause they were silly and useless. He invariably answered every one politely and courteously and generally with a . smile. I finally asked him, when there i was a little lull in the questions, if | he didn't get tired answering so many ! silly questions. He' answered politely i niid courteously: "That's what I*m j here for." I have thought of that Irishman many a time since, and wondered whv we could not all realize and I I appreciate what we are here for, and J if we didn't know, make diligent inquiry and try to find out. It- would be of great benefit to the world if we ^onld just find out what we are here for. I sometimes wonder if some of us are here for any good purpose, and then I think of the great Creator who ! "a r .jnvthinp without a Dili*- | | UCVti UV\^W i pose, and wonder again why we can ! not find out what that purpose is. | What are you here for? That's the ; question you better ask yourself. Then try to fill that purpose. ?o? r ran across a man the other day who was a wonder. He knew it all. i What he didn't know about politic?. ...... !ir r.-'1 \on .:!': (! .-fili and takr !r{tic". Yi)!i, no (loui)i, haw seen n jpl?' like that. The know-alls?rliry are wond'-rs. Some of them live right here in Newberry. And why shouldn't they liv( h' re. This is good soil in which to ti?rive. 1 read a book the other day in which amo: g the thirteen great tilings of the world one was ?et 'down as Ignorance. That nay seem strange, but 1 am inclined to agree with the author. Ignorance. That may astound some of the people who are decrying the ignorance in this State, but I almost concluded that it was a great thing to be ignorant. Especially when I see and size up some o{' the learned people with whom I come in contact nearly every day. "A man who pretends to knowledge which he has not, is like a pigmy wearing giant's clothes, ?j?1??. V./-V u-Vin Qflmitc Tenor riuicuiuuis, uui iic "uu .j. anc? is like a strong knight, clothed in a well-fitting suit of mail, ready to achieve truth. "When a man declares openly hi? ignorance concerning things of which he knows but little the world listens wi:h increased r spect when he speaks of the things he knows; but when a man claims knowledge of all things, the world doubts mightily that be knows much of anything, a id accepts questioningly whatever he says of everything. 1 i- -1- - ?<*? " f nnt ImilTV 1 nai wnicii a man u*j- o ii..u harms him not at all, neither does it harm the world; but that, which, through a shallow, foolish, self-conceit, he professes to know, when he at best only has half knowledge or, in a self destructive vanity, deceives himself into thinking he knows, betrays him always to the injury of both himself and others. An honest Ignorance is a golden vessel, empty, ready to be filled with wealth, but a pretentious or arrogant knowledge is a vessel so filled with worthless trash that there J-'U ^ 4- 10 r\ VQ llip '' is no room ior uiax ?uiuu 10 I make no charge for giving this information, but I do most sincerely hope that some of the people I have met would read what is- here said and take notice for their own sake and for their friends' sake. "One should not think that because a man is ignorant of some things that he is therefore a fool; his ignorance may be the manifestation of a choice wiser than that of the one who elects' to sit in judgment upon him." The first step to - * L' * * - knowledge IS, inereiuie, i(j icani you do not know it all. That there is something you may learn. Take the hint? See the point? They tell me the chamber of commerce couldn't mset the other night. It rained. Of course you could not expect these tender and dsiicate people to go out when it looked like it^ might rain. I move that the chamber ,)f commerce disband and let everybody look out for himself and "devil take the hindmost." That is about the way it is any how. Why make the r?>;leme of getting together and trying to do anything under the general welfare clause? Mr. Mayor Wright, some one told me you had a little book in which you put down all suggestions and all advice that was offered. Please get out that book, and take your pencil in hand, and then get in your automobile and make a note of some of the streets you have right up your way, and right out the other way, and then rio-ht rmt thp other wav. and see if you can't do something. Yes, do something. That's the thing. Don't simply make a note, but act. How can you expect your city to grow and prosper when you permit such miserable things as you have to pass for streets'. Good roads?good streets? are an evidence of civilization. Did you hear that? It is a quotation from a high authority. You desire your city to rank among the civilized tribes, I know, and I know you c laim a high state of civilization. Then let's have some streets that would be a credit to civilization. Look at them and answer me man to it if we have them. Then I am told out here on the road to Prosperity, right in town, is one of the worst mudholes between here and Prosperity. It would' cost only a few dollars to repair it. If you are short of funds suppose we take up a charity subscription to fix it. I will contribute one dollar. I know Mayor Wright will give five dollars and the Summer garage will give ten and that is all that is needed to do the work. Let*s do it now, today. Why wait? Then the road to Prosperity and to .Talapa and to the steel bridge and to Cald wells and to the poor house?just think of it?the road to the poor house is almost impassable and we may need to use it. Let's fix it and all the others. Just a little attention. The cost would be insignificant. And remember, good roads is an evidence of civilization. The Idler. Fanners Arc Semlinir Lxliiiiils to the ( orn Exposition Hems of Local and IVrsonai Mention. Special to The Herald and News. Prosperity, .Jan. (!.?Mr. F. S. Schum1 pert, of Augusta, spent Sunday with hie iwiflior \1v< T I. ?5r-hiininfM*t Mr. S. S. Bilge is visiting in Colnm! bia. i Mr. and .Mrs. A. G. Wise spent Frii j day in Columbia. j Mr. I). H. Hani,.owner of the Prosi perity Furnition Co., was operated on at the Columbia hospital Saturday for appendicitis. His many friends wish hm a speedy recovery. | Mr. S. D. Duncan, of Greenwood, | spent several days here last week. Miss Cousin, of Newberry, spent tne wppfc?pnrl with Iipt* viator \!rc Frn.ilr Merchant. Mr. .James Douglas, or Blackstock, is m ! visiting his sist r, Mrs. P. L. Laaul'.mi. I 1 Mr. Lamar Dominick, of Ciiappells, j spent the week-end with Mr. C. A. | Cook. i Miss Louise Largle lias returned to | Peak, after a visit to Mrs. Klvira Kib! ler. Mi*. A. A. Sing ley has a his guesc j Mr.* Will Singley, of Texas. Mr. Lee Singley, of Gary, was a busij ness visitor here Friday. I 'Irs. J. A. Dominick has l^turned to; i t.': , ?- i- i i iMi.ai u:, duel a v ion lu :ic*: iiia:i> t.ives here. Air. and Mrs1. Marcus left Friday for Salem, Va., after a very pleasant visit to Rev. and Mrs. E. W. Leslie. Master Watson Luther, of Columbia, has been visiting his grand parents, I Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Luther Mr. and Mrs. .1. B Bedenbaugh, of Pomaria, spent the week-end with Mrs. J. M. Werts. Messrs. W. B. Wise and Vance Matthews, of Little Moun.ain, spent Sunday here. Mr Virgil F! Knhn will nnpn n ?pn cral mercantile stoie in the Duncan; block about January 15". Miss Edna Fellers has accepted a position with the Black's Dry Goods company. Mr. W. C. Dominick is preparing to build a dwelling in McNary. Our new R. F. D. carrier Mr. T. L. Shealy, will move here as soon as he can find a vacant house. At present there is not a vacant dwelling in town. We are pleased to note that our new sheriff is going to have one of his rural police-men to reside in our town. Messrs. Barton and Duncan were ! here Friday, helping our farmers to j I select their corn to be sent to the; | corn exposition in Columbia. Judging j j from the number of boxes going, No. j i). township will be well represented. | I The Bank of Prosperity and the Peo- j : pie's National bank, each declared | 1 their usual semi-annual dividend of I 4 per cent. The Hunter & Saner company, of I Prosperity, has been commissioned I with a capital of $5,000. The petition- j ers are G. Y. Hunter.and C. F. Saner. | Mr. John D. Dominick is represent- j ; ing the Chicago Portrait company, and ' will make Prosperity his headquarters. The quarterly conference was held i at the Methodist church Saturday by ! Presiding Elder W. T. Meadows, of j I this district. The Indies' Missionary society of thb I Methotlist church will meet Thursday : afternoon at 3.30 with Mrs. D. H. Ham. J Dr. J. T. Wheeler spent Saturday in Columbia. Rev. S. C. Morris and family have ! returned from JLaKe city, wnere tney i have been for several weeks. j Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Boland, nee ! Singley, wife of John Adam Boland, i died at her home near Slighs, JanuI ary 1, 1913, aged 56. Her sufferings j were of many years duration, but she | bore them all with patience and resignation. She was a faithful member of; i the Lutheran church from her youth, i a; d has' entered into that "rest that " ~ T ^ remametn to tne peopie oi u-ju. m ! the presence of a very large congrega- j tion the funeral and burial services ! I were conducted by her pastor, Rev. E. j i ' W. Leslie, assisted by Rev. Y. von A. j j Riser. ! I | ! " " " I STOCKHOLDER'S MEETING. i The regular annual meeting of the share-holders of the National Bank of | Newberry, S. C., will be held in the j president's office on the 2nd Tuesday ;of January, 1913, at 12 o'clock m., for ! the election of directors, and suck oth; er business as may come before said j meeting. R. D. Smith, j Uasmer. j i , TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. An examination for teachers' certificates will be held on January, 10, 1913, at the court house, at Newberry, beginning at 9 a. m. Applicants will furnish all stationery. E. H. Aull, County Superintendent of Education. f jUr%Ulll^2? UMBoaaaaBaB Be Warn EI: She makes "It best v culinary depute ~nt, tu }y upon ziuhjalloiM, or acce-nscri^s. She is 3C th?t tr io Lien -mv c oe: cf i.T2i-or m al, flour, c: is an e nmest advocate baked food, and has pr< statements of the expei ing in the # world today ^Baking Powder. ^ c ^ T Annir niRprTAPT. 3> 3> <?> Newbery Camp, No. 542, W. 0. W., meets every second and fourth Wednesday night in Klettner's TXali, at 8 o'clock. 1; c Amity Lodge, ]N*o. 87, A, F. M. h Amity Lodge, No. 87, A. F. M., meeta J every first Monday night at 7.30 o'clock in Masonic Hall. Visiting brethren cordially invited. T. P. Johnson, W. Earbardt, W. M. r Secretary. WodmeD of the 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, J. A. Derrick, Clerk. C. C. Bergell Tribe, So. 24, I. 0. B. ?. Bergell Tribe, No. 24, I. 0. R. M., will meet Thursday night, September 19, and every Tjursday night there- s after. g Ira M. Sligh, U Kiettner, oacnem.. Chie? of Records. Signet Chapter, >'o. 18, R. A. M. Signet Chapter, No. 18. R. A. M., meets every second Monday night at 8 o'clock in Masonic Hall. Van Smith, T. P. Johnson, E. H. P. Caoteechee Council, >~o. 4, P. of P. I 0. R Cateechee Council, No.' 4, D. of P., meets every other Tuesday night at 8 Omaha Tribe, I. 0. R. M. t | Omaha Tribe, No. 75, I. 0. R. M., ^ ! Prosperilty, S. C., meets every first and j third Friday night at 8o'clock in Ma- I ] I CI* Tnn Ci Dig 1CU \A O! Glass Ware, | . China Ware Statuary a Station* Enarr Se< Better Goods at A Mayes' K The House of a 1 i Mis'JieHonie /ho, looking after the ms her back resoluteeven suspicious, food j Gnomical; she knows ; no J: consist in the use r bakbg powder. She of home made, home Dved the truth of the rts that th? best cook- i is done with Royal j i onic hall. Visiting brethren are "welome. G. K. Dominick, Prof. J. S. Wheeler, Sachem. Chief of Records. -11-12-lyr. Lacota Tribe, I. 0. B. & M Lacota tribe, No. 79, I. 0. R. M., Ja- ^ apa, S. C., meeting every other We<i? tesday night at 8 o'clock in Summer tall. Visiting brethren are welcome. M '. Wm. Folk, v Sachem. | Keeper oT Records. I Newberry Commander?, No. 6, K. T. Newberry Commandery, No. 6, K. T., neets every third Monday night at 8 ('clock in. Masonic Hall. Fred. H. Dominick,. C. P. Johnson, , E.C. Recorder. ? WTT Hf A -WT SOUTllJSJbUI J?Aiii VTAX? Schedules Effective December S, 1111* Arrirals and Pepartnreg dewberry, S. C. (N. B.?These schedule figures ar? tfiown as information only and are not guaranteed.) 8:51 a. m.?No. 15, daily from Columbia to Greenville. Pullman sleeping car between Charleston i 11:50 a. m.?No. 18, daily, from GreenTil 1a to Columbia. Arrives Column bia 1:35 p. m., Augusta 8:35 p. m. Charleston 8:15 p. m. 2:45 p. m.?No. 17, daily, from Colum- ^ bia to Greenville. S: 05 p. m.?No. 16, daily, from Greenville to Columbia. Pullmac sleep- I ing car Greenville to Charleston. 1 Arrives Charleston 8:15 a. m. Arrive Savannah 4:15 a. m. Jacksonville 8:30 a. m. Four further information call on icket agents, or E. H. Coapman. V. P: fe G. M., Washington, D. C.; J. L. tfeek, A. G. P. A., Atlanta. Ga., or F. 1 Jenkins. T. P. A., Augusta, Ga. i ?~?I < ent Values [ | ? . > nd Vases, 11 try, lei Ware. 3 My Window. ^ le Same Price at KAND Oi L [iety aiure w fhousand Things. \ k