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The Herald and News Entered at the Postoffice at vp\vStrry, S. C., as 2?d class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, July 13, 1913. Why not try the split log drag on some of our roads. Everything is in fine condition just now. It is an enexpensixe and very -efficient machin$. ESDI TORI AL .. Work lias been commenced on the paving of Friend street. It was needed. Work will be continued until the paving is completed from the postoffice to the railroad. The council is to be commended for doing this i work. Of course in this connection the streets as well as sidewalks around the postoffice will be put in proper condition. i, ? It would seem from the letters of Governor Blease to Sheriff Martin and Chief Constable Stothart, that he intends to have everything very, very; dry ^t the Isle of Palms by the time | i that the editors march upon it for a summer resort. It will no doubt be well if the Governor can succeed in ; his effort? tc enforce prohibition at | the Isle of Palms. ? We think that Governor Blease is j collect in his letter to President Wil- j son. We have often wondered why \ the United States government would continue to issue licenses to indivi- i duals or social clubs to sell liquor in j I territory where its sale is prohibited by State law. If the law requires: licenses to be issued, the suggestion of Governor Blease, that congress amend the law, is a good one. It would seem from the passage by congress of the Webb law that it was the intention of congress to have the laws of congress as to the sale of liquors conform to State statutes. There is not much use of the Webb law if the United States government is going to continue to issue licenses j to sell whiskey in prohibition tarri- \ tory. Gov. Blease is eminently correct in, his order to see to it that the Sabbath day is observed and not opsnly dese- 1 crated as seems to be the case at the Isle of Palms. FACTS ABOUT DEAD STARS. There are Ten Thousand Million of These Heavenly Bodies Chasing About in Space. Perhaps it has never occurred to! many people that there are such1 bodies as dark stars; but so great an 1 authority as Sir Robert Ball has said ! that the dark stars are to the bright j for numbers as the cold horseshoes in j existence are to the red-hot ones. In these days of motor vehicles it is evident that horseshoes are much less numerous than they were; but doubtless the proportion of cold ones fhnap at anv pivpti -mDment red un on the blacksmith's anvil remains as it always was. For every such hot one there must be many hundreds of cold ones, so that if the simile is * "T V J/ sound, the heavens must contain an incredible number of these derelics on the ocean of space, which, having lived their life, have grown old and j dead, but are still racing about at; star-speed until m their wanderings | they meet some other heavenly bodies j in terrific collision. Such gigantic catastrophe as . the! clash of two suns each perhaps millions of miles in diameter, rushing at each other at tfye rate of twenty or 1 thirty or even more miles per second, J would result, so the mathematicians | tell us, in a world-splitting explosion j exactly as if each were composed of billions of billions of tons of gunpow- : A r: *% t? A ?p? Avrvl a/1 U^l , axiu ao YV11C11 5UAJLiJV rr u^i CApiuu^ I nothing is left hut gas and smoke, so j in the clash of stars nothing would bej left of the two great solid "bodies which : had collided, but an immense whirling mass of incandescent gas called a nebula. of which, as most people know, th-ere are quite a number dotted over the heavens, his maelstrom of gas would sail about among the stars for ages, in the course of which it would naturally cool down and condense into a star-system much like our own, with probably a central sun, planed and moon. Some of these would sooner or later f arrive at a condition of temperature suitable for the support of life, and as the centuries passed would become peopled '.vith sentimental beings. Gradually they would grow too cold for life to exist, and finally become frigid, cold dark, stars once more. The number of stars visible to tfte naKea eye is oniy a few thousands. With the best telescopic and other instruments it. is calculated we can detect about s. hundred millions?not a large number (there are fifteen times as many people as that living on this globe); but judging by Sir Robert Ball's horse- | shoe simile, and reckoning only one ' i hundred dark ones to every bright | I ~ ~ fair/} if fh 9 f fn oro mil cf I i U11C, YVC III a J LO.XVV, waaui, v, be at least ten thousand million dark starts chasing about in space, most o! which we have never seen and probably never will see. I say most of which, for perhaps it may come as a surprise to some that the earth we live on is a dark star; so i are all the other planets and planetm'dc r\f nnr cr>lar svs+pm. whifth With their moons, of which bodies, shining only by the reflected light of the sun, there are at least 600 known to astronemers. Xor must we forget to mention those bodies called shooting stars which may be seen almost any clear night if patiently watched for. These, though they look like stars, are hardly i as every ones knows, to be dignified by that name, being mostly but very small masses of matter flying about in ml ~ ^ v, /I space. iney artj inline cuju emu ucj,jl?. until they enter our atmosphere, which they do at such speed as raises them at once to a white heat by friction of | their passage through it, and thus they ; are revealed to us. For every one we j see there must be many thousands j whose paths miss us entirely, ships i tnat pass us in me mgm, suwiuy mm j unknown. These too, we must class ; as dark stars, though very humble r ones. All these are cold and dead com-i pared with our sun or any of the stars we see. From the nearest they would be quite invisible; and, vice versa, we cannot <ree the planets which revolve around the stars, if j such there be, as is likely enough; for it is hardly to be supposed that, I our sun alone, among a hundred mil- ^ lion others, possesses such attendants. But we have one or two other rea- ; sons for thinking that there are dark I stars much larger than any of these. I Here and there are bright ones, which are fouDd to vary in magnitude at regular intervals. One, 41gol in Perseus, not far from Cassiopeia, varies every three days from a star of the second moomitn^o nnp nf thp third, and ' iixa^uxbuu^ wv v?v w A. v?w , gives .us only one-third as much light1 at its dullest as it does at its bright- 1 est. It seems probable that Algol is ' : really two stars revolving about each : other much as the two ends of a dumb- ; bell would revolve were it set spin- 1 ning. One of these is supposed to be | dark and cold, or comparatively so, ' and the other bright: it is easy to see how at each revolution the dark one | might come between us and its bright-' er companion, and cut off part of the light, thus causing the changes we see. About thirty of these variables have been discovered. It seems a small nilmber, but it is plain enough that for one of such a pair to eclipse the other ' its path would have to lie exactly between us and its partner. Probably there are many whoe paths do not fulfill this condition, and therefore cause 110 variation or ngut vjumms ?.u us. Others are doubtless flying about the heavens on haphazard paths, and it is conceivable that one might come along and collide witk us or our sun. The result of such a collision would undoubtedly be the end of this earth and its inhabitants. If this intruder were of any respectable size, a collision with any of the larger members of the solor system would produce sach a conflagration as would raise the temperature of all the rest above the point at which life as we know it could exist. "The earth and all the inhabitants thereof would be burnt up, and the elements would be burnt up, aud the elements would melt with their fervent h<at." Even if such a star did not collide, but merely passed through our system, the effect of its attraction -would altogether upset present conditions, and almost certainly bring about thec-essation of life on the earth. Neither can we encourage ourselves with the hope that the co lision would l>e too sudden for us to know much _1 x -*"L ^ Hnr cefrAr. ciUOUL It. i\ U ?>UUli LH J. JJL?,. VUA C4,kJ t-A VAA emers would see the star directly it got near enough for the sun to light it up, probably fifteen or twenty years before it arrived, according to its size and speed They would b<? able to calculate its path and torelell to a few minutes the precise momont of the catnstrrmhp and we would have the add ed horror of the anticipation of our slowly advancing doom. Indeed, the passage of even a small star quite out-' side our system by many millions of miles would still have a sufficiently disturbing effect on us to draw us out cf our path and alter entirely our climate and temperature. The organic life of our globe requires for its continuance a temperature range of about 100 degrees Fahrenheit, an exceedingly narrow one when we consider the possible range of judging by appearances. This will nothing can live and grow, and it is one of the marvels of creation that the eartii has for many millions of years maintained an average temperature over some part of its surface within this limit, and goes far to prove the existence of a mighty Mind at the back of it all who planned it with infinite skill and foresight for the very purpose of evolving the human race as we know it. And who shall say to what heights of intellectual and moral perfection man is desired to climb? It may be that the end of all things is at hand, and thsrt some one of these dark bodies is even now swinging along toward us from the depths of space; but seeing the many millions of yea^js the solar system has continued in "splendid isolation," we I may take courage for the future, and ' believe that the Mind that has by unniionffooiiio Ici-crc hmnerht. man to "his UiV *Ul.u - O present state will carry him on to such .perfection as he may be capable : of judging by appearances this will J take many aeons yet, so let us sleep peacefully in our beds for the present.?Chamber's Journal. A Pattern to Copy. J "Oh, Xorah! " exclaimed Mrs Stew-j art, "'what shall I do? I have just j broken my little hand mirror. You j know it is seven years bad luck and unhappiness 1o break a mirror." "Ach," sale Aoran, cneenuny, ; "don't be- afther frettin' about it. i mum. Why, jest look at me. Oi ain't a 'frettin' and i've jest broke the pier glass in the parlor."?Philadelphia approve, tacitly or eloquently. "We : were brought up, and we have since I schooled ourselves, to be in every respect at odds with tHeir abnormal and censurable demeanor. There is no danger of overpreaching the beauty or loierance, auu 01 me lenient endurance of another's infirmity, in view of our own manifold frailties and shortcomings. Sentence ought not to be pronounced till all The facts are in hand and the evidence has been duly pronounced. If we know all, perchance a light would shine. We should then iearn the extent of our grievous misrepresentations and be willing to retract it. We should regret our hasty induction from insufficient' premises. - We should see how great fire a little mattey had kindled; a cigarette smoker in the Adiron dacks throws a tiny spark into the j underbrush, and the loss may reach i thousands of dollars. So a small, con- j temptible rumor tending to uglify j another character gets started in a : dubious whisper and winds up in a , shout of defamation with innumerable ringing echoes in its train. The people who repeat kind, favorable things they hear?or who give' voice to the generous and charitable things they think?are among the best and "the angels are on their side.y They are ever more ready to commend than to condemn, and they make due allowance for errorful mortality. "Judge not, that ye be not judged"?there is no wiser saying. The habit of censure grows apace. We be gin by criticising what glaringly requires amendment, and not satisfied with that we begin to pick flawa in every part of our environment. A mere view c?.n stand it?the impersonal part of a sordid neighborhood passively endurfes it?but sensible people are sometimes bruised beyond healing. You can go out at your door and replace a picket in your fence, or a cracked paving-stone in the sidewalk ; or if you can achieve a miracle of landscape gardening | around you. and remold the face of j the earth, to suit your pleasure. But in the attempt to make over the people at your elbow you will?needlessly | ?incur resentment if you do hot go about it indirectly, hid^denly, cautiously. You may not fly right at them straight according to your thinking, j They do not acknowledge that you j have any supernatural * credentials empowering you to amend their mode of conducting .their lives. You look I to them exceedingly human. You stand no higher against the doorpost than they do. You seem of the earth just as they. In fact, even in the case of the most successful people -that we know, we take an unaccountable delight in finding that they do not loom upon the landscape a whit above ourselves. That man who has amassed colossal wealth is not nine or even seven, feet high. That great orator likes for dinner what we are accustomed to eat. This author whose works have gone into eleven foreign tongues, that vastly popular portrait- j painter, is afflicted vith. dyspepsia of ' thes ame afflicted with dyspepsia of ! the same variety as the besetting I complaint of some less gifted human j being. The range between rnediocri1 ty and genius, between badness and | goodness, between lowest and high I est, is startingly brief. The best of I men know how he has it in his ! 2art J to become the worst. And therefore , in his mind he find? room first of all I for the virtue of charity that "suffered long and is kind." The more we knew, the less in-?J -l_ e.?n 4.^ ?A Clllieu are we tu imu iauii auu lu cluminister rebuke. The ignorant and the shortsighted ars ever the unsympathetic.?Philadelphia Ledger. The Hard Row. i Apropos of a very r'%h woman's marriage to a man much younger than herself,' Mayor Thompson said at a dinner in tjnauanooga: I | "Rich old women who marry hand- i some boys have a hard row to hoe. I know of such an old woman. She said i tenderly one day 'to her youthful spouse: " 'What would you do, darling, if I I should die and leave you?' j "The young man, yawning behind his gold-tipped cigarette, said languidly: | "'Die and leave how much?'" ! j statement Of the Condition of The Farmers :ind j - Merchants Bank, Located at Lit- \ tie Mountain, S. at the Close of j Business June 4, 1913. j' Resources. Loans and discounts $ 74.979.95 | Overdrafts ... 204.32 j Bonds and stocks owned by j the bank 5,800.00 j Furniture and fixtures .... 1,581.11| Banking house 1,506.93 j Other real estate owned ... 300.00 ! Due from banks and bankers 3,838.70 ; Currency 367.00 j. Gold 50.00 j Silver and other minor coin 146.66 ! Checks and cash items . .. 166.19 1. ! I ! Total $ 88,940.86 f Liabilities. Capital stock paid in $ 20,000.00 Surplus fund 5,300.00 Undivided profits less current expenses and 'taxes paid 1,178.13 Individual denosits subiect to check 24,504.90 ' Time certificates of deposit 12,471.25 Cashier's checks 486.58 Bills payable, including certificates for money borrowed 25,000.00 Total $ 88,940.86 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry, ss. I Before me came W. A Counts, cash- : ier of the above named bank, who, | being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. W. A. Counts. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12th day of 'June, 1913. J. B. Lathan, Magistrate. Correct Attest: J. M. Sease, J. B. Derrick, Geo. B. Cromer, Directors. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY, Court of Common Pleas. J&raes N. McCaughrin, Plaintiff, against James M. Ward, Henry S. Chapman, Adeline Silvery and W. A. Speer, as executors jot the last will and testament of John Silvey, deceased; W. A. Speer, A. C. McHan, R. K. Rambo and W. T. McCullough, as partners doing business under the! firm name and stylfe of John Silvey & Company, Defendants. By order of the court herein I will sell to ithe highest bidder before the j court house of Newberry, S. C., on Monday, July 7, 1913, the same being; salesday, within pie legal hours of j sale, the following described lots of j land, as a whole, to wit: All those;! ten lots, pieces or parcels of land be- ; lng situate in the Town of Newberry, county and State aforesaid, being lots Nos. 72, 73, 74, 75 and 76, front- j ing on Kinard street, and lots Nos. j 87, 88, 89, 90 and 91, fronting on Hunt I street, in Block C, as shown by plat' made by F. W. Higgins, surveyor, and | recorded in the clerk's office for Newberry county, in Plat Book D, at j pages 210 and 211, each of said lots i having a frontage of fifty leet ana running back same width two hundred j and fifty feet. Terms of sale: cash. H. H. RikarS, Master. Xewberry, S. C., June 12, 1913. 1 ROYAL Baking Pc is the great* time helps t and biscuit I ? m ? a home bakini A profitable, food more guarantees alum and a L_ OTAIR TO THE DRUGGIST The Old Joke About "Something Just As Good," Doesn't Apply to This Drug Store. You have probably heard dozens of times theNold story that a drug store was a place to "get something just as crr\/^ri " Tlioro 7 c of loact nn^ dm? &VSVSU. AO C4.V ~ C gist in the world that you can't say this about. It is certain that an inferior article will never be substituted for a guaranteed one by Mayes' Drug Store. Take for instance a safe, reliable remedy for constipation and liver trouble like Dodson's' Liver Tone. This harmless vegetable liquid has proved so satisfactory a liver stimulant and reliever of biliousness, and to entirely take the place of calomel j without any danger or restriction of habits or diet, Ihat there are dozens | of preparations springing up with, imitations of its claims. But Dodson's Liver Tone is guaranteed to do all that is claimed for it, and if you are no*, satisfied with it, Mayes' Drug Store will hand your money hack with a smile. Any person going to this store for a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will he sure 'jf getting a large hotttle of this genuine remedy in exchange for his half 3ollar. * f NEV-R lliiiilil This Comb is No Comb yet ma< one in durability. 'The longer the better it become from other matei out until they b they will break w comb the Kair. These Combs, < absorb moisture a Dliable and full c * ber, when you I you help in inci sumption of cotto wmmmmmmmm "Better Goods al MAYES' RnoLr Rr AIB mama The HOUSE of I iwder jst of modem0 perfect cake nalring. Makes 1 pleasant and It renders the digestible and j it safe from j 11 adulterants. $ u r Efflw.. "ij^g rrjTfftflNMV iAm i t*J[lTOifHfll WBWBQMimyHnBF ^i * "I'm just as mad as I can be. , An angry farmer said. "Those strawberries of mine Desire a folding bed! I "And my potatoes have declined To ripen underground, Unless, to keep dust from their eyes. Smoked goggles I have found! KNOW IT 1YELL. J Familiar Features' Well Known to Hundreds of Newberry Citizens. A ianMiiar Duraeu m mairy uum^o. Th-e burden of a "bad back." A lame, a weak or an achimg back Often tells you of kidney ills. Doan's Kidney Pills are for weak kidneys. Here is Newberry testimony: J. M. Langford, 43 Mollohon Mill, Newberry, S. C., says: "I have had I good results from Doan's Kidney Pills ai d will recommend them to anyone. One of my family had backache and kidney trouble. A physician had failed to bring relief. One or two boxes- ' of Doan's Kidney Pills, procured at Pelham & Son's Drug Store, cured him." \ ' For sale by all dealers. Price cents/ FosteiVWilburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's?and take no other. I \ I BRAK B ' v ill Illlllllllllillllllllllllllilllllllllllllilllllllll/ made of Cotton. de can equal this % Comb is used the / r n s. tomus mauc ials keep drying ecome so brittle hen used only to I )n the contrary, nd always remain >f life. Remem>uy these Combs reasing the conn. : Same Money." S Variety TORE. 1,000 THINGS