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The Herald and News Entered at the Postoffice nt AT^wSferry, S. C., as 2r*d class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, July 13, 1913. Why not try ^he split log drag on some of our roads. Everything is in fine condition just now. It is an enex pensixe and very efficient machine. ESDI TORI AL ... ..' Work has 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 2S to commended for doing tnis work. Of course in this connection the streets as well as sidewalks around the postoffice will be put in proper condition. j It would seem from the letters of Governor Blease to Sheriff Martin and Chief Constable Storhart, that he intends to have everything very, very dry at the Isle of Palms by the time | i that the -editors march upon it for I | a summer resort. It will no doubt be j "well if the Governor can succeed in ! his effortr to enforce prohibition at ' the Isle of Palms. _ ?i T, I We think that Governor Blease is coii-tct in his letter to President WilI son We have often wondered why ! the United States government would I continue to issue licenses to individuals or social clubs to sell liquor in v territory where its sale is prohibited hy 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 nr.oniH cppm 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 to sell whiskey in prohibition territory. Gov. Blease is eminently correct in his ord-er to see to it that the Sabbarh day is observed and not oprnlv dese crated as seems to be the case at the Isle of Palms. FACTS ABOUT HEAD 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 such bodies as dark stars; but so great an authority as Sir Robert Ball has said that the dark stars are to the bright ^ _ t. _ AV _ i j t i. ; ior numDers as me coia norsesiioes in 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 to those at any given moment red upon the blacksmith's anvil remains as it always "was. For every such hot one there must be many kuadreds of cold ones, so that if the simile is 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 dead, but are still racing about at star-speed until in their wanderings thev meet some other heavenlv bodies in terrific collision. Such gigantic catastrophe as the clash of two suns each perhaps millions of miles in diameter, rushing at each other at the rate of twenty or thirty or even more miles per second, would result, so the mathematicians tell us, in a world-splitting explosion exactly as if each were composed of billions of billions of tons of gunpowder; and as when gunpowder explodes nothing is left but gas and smoke, so in the clash of stars nothing would be left of the two great solid bodies which had collided, but an immense whirling mass of incandescent gas crlled a nebula, of which, as most people know, there 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, planets and moon. Some of these would sooner or later arrive at a condition of temperature < suitable for th- support of life, and as < the centuries passed would become 1 peopled with sentimental beings. Gradually they would grow too cold for life ( to exist, and finally become frigid, cold 1 dark, stars once more. The number of 1 stars visible to the naked eye is only j a few thousands. With the best tel-t ( on/J nfhor inctrnmpiits it 1R I , csuupiu auu uuiv-i ^ ? ? j calculated we can detect about a hun- , dred millions?not a large number ( (there are fifteen times as many peo- j: pie as that living on this globe); but j, judging by Sir Robert Ball's horse- j \ shoe simile, and reckoning only one ', [hundred dark ones to every bright r, one, we may take it that there must ? be at least ten thousand million dark j starts chasing about in space, most i of which we have never seen and pro- < bably never will see. j I say most of which, for perhaps it j may come as a surprise to some that i +>>r? nortli Tt'a 1 iT7o no io a flnrV ctar* sn f IliiU UCi X 1X1 >> A A. T V VH AO U v* w * a*. W "V*. J ^ v (are all the other planets and planet- 5 | oids of our solar system, -which with : j their moons, of which bodies, shining < I only by the reflected light of the sun, 1 there are at least 600 known to astron- ] emers. Nor must we forget to mention 1 those bodies called shooting stars < which may be seen almost any clear ] night if patiently watched for. These, i though they look like stars, are hardly < rNTx-L,. Vn r\-n-c to y>o r? i crn hv ! 1 <1S CVCIJ* Ulics ivnu >1 o, cw uiSun^u jj i . that name, being mostly but very j ] small masses of matter flying about in i space. They are quite cold and dark 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 on? we ] see there must be many thousands \ whose paths miss us entirely, ships that pass us in the night, silently and ' < unknown. These too, we must class ] as dark stars, though very humble .? ; ones. All these are cold and dead com- j pared with our sun or any of the !. tteoc TTrmn thp nearest thev i i j Otdl O VV ^ X A VAM V? V ?? ? _ _ - ^ | j would be quite invisible; and, vice ; < j versa, we cannot s-ee the planets '? j which revolve around the stars, if < 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.! j But we have one or two other rea- j jsons for thinking that there are dark ( 1 stars much larger than any of these. 1 | Here and there are "bright ones, which ] ; are found to vary in magnitude at reg-!? ular- intervals. One, 41gol in Perseus, ' < j not far from Cassiopeia, varies every | j I three days from a star of the second ! 1 magnitude to one of the third, and j gives us only one-third as much light \ I at its dullest as it does at its bright- ^ est. It seems probable that Algol is j | really two stars revolving about each < other much as the two -ends of a dumb- \ bell would revolve were it set spin- i ning. One of these is supposed to be i 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- ] I er companion, and cut off part of the j , light, thus causing the changes we see. { About thirtv of these variables have i 1 been discovered. It seems a small i number, but it is plain enough that for \ I"one of such a pair to eclipse the other * its path would have to lie exactly bei tween us and its partner. Probably there are many whoe paths do not fulfill this condition, and therefore cause no variation of light coming to us. Others are doubtless flying about the heavens on haphazard paths, and i it is conceivable that one might come I along and collide with us or our sun.' i The result of such a collision would ' | undoubtedly be the end of this earth iand its inhabitants. If this intruder were of any respectable size, a collision with any of the larger .members of the solor system j would produce such 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 ? land all the inhabitants thereof would t I be burnt up, and the elements would i be burnt up, and the elements would ] melt with their fervent h?at." Even if such a star did not collide, but i merely passed "through our system, the ] effect of its attraction would altogeth- i er upset present conditions, and al- ' most certainly bring about thecessa- 1 tion of life on the earth. ( Neither can we encourage ourselves < with the hope that the collision would 1 be too sudden for us to know much e about it. No such thing. Our astron- 1 emers would see the star directly it ^ got near enough for the sun to light < it up, probably fifteen or twenty years 1 before it arrived, according to ifs size < and speed They would be able to cal- ] culat-e its path and toretell to a few i minutes the precise moment of the ca- < tastrophe, 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- 1 side our system by many millions of t miles would still have a sufficiently i I iisturbing effect on us to d:*aw us out , cf our path and alter entirely our clinate and temperature. The organic life of our globe requires for its continuance a tempera:ure range of about 100 degrees Fahrenheit, ar. exceedingly narrow one svhen we consider possible range I I Df judging by appearanc-&s. This will i nothing ca.n live and grow, and it is j Dne of the marvels of creation that the j sarth has for many millions of years maintained an average temperature aver some part of its surface within this limit, and goes far to prove the sxistence of a mighty Mind at the back Df it all who planned it with infinite skill and foresight for the very purpose of evolving the human race aa 5ve know it. And who shall say to svhat heights of intellectual and moral - - "? ?*?J j. - ?i: ? -L o perfection man is aesirea 10 uiuuu: ; [t may be that the end of all things j is at hand, and that some one of these j lark bodies is even now swinging' ilong toward us from the depths of space; but seeing the many millions Df years the solar system has con- , :inued in "splendid isolation," we i nay take courage for the future, and | relieve that the Mind thai has by un- 1 changeable laws brought man to his 1 present state will carry him on to such perfection as he may be capable Df judging by appearances this will :ake many aeons yet, so let us sleep peacefully in our beds fcr the present.?Chamber's Journal. A Pattern to Copy. ; "Oh, Xorah! " exclaimed Mrs Stew-: irt, "what shall I do? 1 have just' )roken my little hand mirror. You j {now it s seven years bad luck and mhappiness to break a mirror." "Ach," said Xorah, cheerfully, j 'don't be afther fr-ettin about it. I i num. Why, jest look at me. Oi ain't i 'frettin and i've j - st b roke the pier ?lass in the parlor."?Philadelphia ipprove, tacitly or eloquently. We tvere brcught up, and we have since schooled ourselves, to be in every respect at odds with tKeir abnormal and :ensurable demeanor. There is no danger of overpreaching the beauty of tolerance, and of the I -? -L VlQr'c in. ier.lt lit Kl-lUUiCtUUC KJi. auuiugi o Ui irmity, in view of our own manifold frailties and shortcomings. Sentenfc^. :ught not to be pronounced till all :he facts are in hand and the evidence ias been duly pronounced. If we know ill, perchance a light would shine. We should then learn the extent of our grievous misrepresentations and be svilling l.o retract it. We should regret our hasty induction from insufficient premises. We should see how ?reat fire a little matter had kindled; i cigarette smoker in the Adironiacks throws a tiny spark into the inderbrush, and the loss may reach :housands of dollars. So a small, conl ~ + r\ ncrlifv I Lfiupiiuifcr rumui iciiuiui? ww us?".i j another character gets started in a j iubious whisper and winds up in a j shout of defamation with innumerable ringing echoes in its train. The people who repeat kind, favorable things they hear?or who give roice tc the generous and charitable things they think?are among the oest and "the angels s.re on their side." They are ever more ready to iommerd than to condemn, and they nake due allowance for errorful morality. "Judge not, that ye be not fudged"?there is no wiser saying. The aabit ol censure grows apace. We be?in by criticising what, glaringly rejuires amendment, and not satisfied ivith that we begin to pick flaws in jvery pan 01 our euvu'uuui^m. i nere view can stand it?the imperson-1 il part of a sordid neighborhood pas-1 lively endures it?but sensible people are sometimes bruised beyond lealing. You can go out at your Joor and replace a picket in your :ence, or a cracked paving-stone in :he sidewalk; or if you can achieve a niracle of landscape gardening iround you, and remold the face of :he earth to suit your pleasure. But n the attempt to make over the people at your elbow you will?needlessly j ?incur resentment if you do not go ibout it indirectly, hidd-nly, cautiously. You may not fly right at them straight according to your thinking. 1 They do not acknowledge that you : lave any supernatural credentials i empowering you to amend their mode >f conducting their lives. You look :o them exceedingly human. You stand no higher against the doorpost :han they do. You seem of the earth iust as they. In fact, even in the j iase of the most successful people ; :hat we know, we take an unascount- ! able delight in finding that they do j aot loom upon the landscape a whit ibove ourselves. That man who has iffiaSSeQ COIUSScll wtuim is nuo imxc Dr even seven, feet high. That great Drator likes for dinner what we are iccustomed to eat. This author whose ivorks have gone into eleven foreign ongues, that vastly popular portraitjainter, is afflicted with dyspepsia of the s amo afflicted with dyspepsia of the same variety as the bese:ting complaint of some less gifted human being. The range between mediocrity and genius, between badness and goodness, between lowest and highest, is startingly brief. The best of men know how he has it in his heart to become the worst. And therefore in his mind he finds room first of all for the virtue of charity that "suf femh long and is Kma." The more we knc*, the* less inclined are we to find fault and to administer rebuke. The ignorant and the shortsighted are ever the unsympathetic?Philadelphia Ledger. The Hard Row. Apropos of a very rich woman's marriage to a man much younger thin herself, Mayor Thompson said at a dinner in Chattanooga: "Rich old women who marry handsome boys have a hard row to hoe. I know of such an old woman. She said tenderly one day to her youthful spouse: " 'What would you do, darling, if I should die and leave you?' "The young man, yawning behind his gold-tipped cigarette, said languidly: "'Die and leave how much?'" 1 STATEMENT j Of tlie Condition of The Farmers :ind j Merchants Bank, Located at Lit- j tie Mountain, S. at the ( lose of! Business June 4, 1013. I i Resources. Loans and discounts $ 74.979.95 ! Overdrafts 204.32 j Bonds and stocks owned by the bank 5,800.00 J Furniture and fixtures .. .. 1,581.11 Banking house 1,506.93 Other real estate owned ... 300.00 Due from banks and bankers 3,838.70 Currency 367.00 j i Gold 50.00 - _i - ii ?i _ _ -I 4a cc silver ana otuer imiiui- cuin nu.uu Checks and cash items . .. 166.19 Total / $ 88,940.86 | Liabilities. ? [Capital stock paid in $ 20,000.00 j Surplus fund 5,300.00 ! Undivided profits less current expenses and taxes paid 1,178.13 Individual deposits subject to check 24,504.90 Time certificates of deposit 12,471.25 ! Cashier's checks 486.58; I Bills payable, including certificates for money borrowed 25,000.00 ' Total $ 88,940.86 ' STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry, ss. Before me came W. A Counts, cashier of the above nanved bank, who, j 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. Jts. Iranian, Magistrate. Correct Attest: J. M. Sease, J. B. Derrick, Geo. B. Cromer, Directors. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY, Court of Common Pleas. T xt 1K ftn *-rV? n James jitvaugiiuu, J. against James M. Ward, Henry S. Chapman, Adeline Silvery and W. A. Speer, as executors of the last will and testament of John Silvey, deceased; W. A. Speer, A. C. McHan, R. K. | Rambo and W. T. McCullough, as j partners doing business under the! firm name and style of John Silvey j & Company, Defendants. By order of the court herein I will sell to 'the highest bidder before the j court house of Newberry, S. C., on Monday, July 7, 1913, the same being salesday, within ?he legal hours of sale, the following described lots of, lonri o whole, to wit: All those! 1U.II VI y U. ? ? 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, fronting on Kinard street, and lots Nos. , 87, 88, 89, 90 and 91, fronting on Hunt 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 pages 210 and 211, each of said lots ho-irinor a fronta^o of fiftv feet and HU. r lii& - - O - v running back same width two hundred ; and fifty feet. ; Terms of sale: cash. H. H. Rikard, Master. Xewb:rry, S. C.t June 12, 1913. ROYAL Baking Pc is the greate time helps t and biscuit I home baking profitable. . food more guarantees alum and a UNFAIR TO THE DRUGGIST The Old Joke About "Something Just As Good," Doesn't Apply to This Drngr Store. i You have probably heard dozens of times the old story that a drug store was a place to "get something just as good." There is at least one druggist in the world that you can't say i this about. j It is certain that an inferior article will never be substituted for a guari anteed 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 i proved so satisfactory a liver sti'mu- | 1 lant and reliever of biliousness, and | to entirely take the place of calomel j without any danger or restriction of I habits or diet, ^iiat there are dozens . of preparations springing up with imitations of its clatus. I ^ ^ , , T . m . _ .But jjoason s Ldvt?r luiie is guar- i acteea to do all that is claimed for it, and if you are no*- satisfied with it, Mayes' Drug Store will hand your money back with a smile. Any person going to this store for a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will be sure | of getting a large botttle of this genuine remedy in exchange for his half dollar. Tyu \^V/lf [ NEV-R 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 hair. These Combs, < ahsrvrh moisture a pliable and full c ber, when you 1 you help in inci sumption of cotto "Better Goods at m* tri Book & The HOUSE of \ (waer sst of moderno perfect cake naking. Makes r pleasant and It renders the I digestible and i it safe from * 4 11 adulterants. "I'm just as mad &s I can be. An angry farmer said. "Those strawberries of mine T"\ ^ KoH t uesnt; a. iuiumg u^u. ' , "And my potatoes have declined J To ripen underground, Unless, to keep dust from their eyes, ^ Smoked goggles I have found! ENOW IT WELL. i Familiar Features Well Known to Hundreds of Newberry Citizens. A familiar burden in many homes. ? J The burden of a "bad back." ^ A lame, a weak or an aching back Often tells you of kidney ills. , Doan's Kidney Pills are for -weak kidneys. i Here is Newberry testimony: J. M. Langford, 43 Mollohon Mill, Newberry, S. C., says: "if have had 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 fail ed to bring relief. One or two box?s of Doan's Kidney Pills, procured at Pelham & Son's Drug Store, cured him." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. FostertMilburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United d States. ^ Remember the name?Doan's?and take no other. / fur, , # "BRAK 1 4 V made of cotton, de can equal this t / Comb is used the s. Combs made ?i i lals keep drying iecome so brittle hen used only to j >n the contrary, i nd always remain I >f life. Remem- 1 miv thpsp Combs reasing the con- I n. I n ftff if : Same money. S Variety 1 TORE, d 1.000 things i