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<ftk The Herald and News VOLUME LI., NUMBER 63. NEWBERRY, S. C*, FRIDAY, AUGUST S, 1913. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAB. V \ ANSWER IS MADE BY j COMPTROLLER GENERAL KEJOLNDER TO ATTORNEY GOT"? C JLKAJL rttrLi.^. Invites Attorney General to TaVe Disputed Warrant Before Board of Claims. The State, 5th. A. W.Jones, comptroller general, yesterday addressed to Thos. H. Peeples, attorney general, the following letter, in reference to the comptroller's refusal to approve a warrant . -drawn by Mr. Peeples for expense incurred in entertaining the National Association of attorneys general in Charleston: "Absence from the office on official business has prevented an earlier reply to your letter of July 26 with reference to your claim for expenses of entertaining the convention of attorneys general in Charleston. "I can not return this original claim, as it is now a record of this nffippt If vou wish copy of the same I will have one made for you. "My reason for declining to draw a warrant for the claim as preserved is that the appropriation does not provide for the payment of the expenses for entertaining this convention, hut only for the payment of your acr.ual expenses in attending the convention." "You quote my statement that the expenditure of the appropriation is within your discretion, and I so recognize, but you did not quote me in full. It is a legal discretion, wliicb <loes not authorize the diversion of \ the appropriation to other purposes than those ior wnicn 11 is maue. x also am a constitutional and bonded officer of the State and responsible to the people for any diversion of public funds which I may knowingly permit Before issuing my warrant i mj^t be able to put my hand upon an act of the legislature specifically directing the payment of the .fund in question. If such an act does exist and has been ignored by me, the i claimant has his remedy in the courts | and may obtain a writ of mandamus j to compel my compliance with the j law. "V/-?n S9V vnu rin not know that 11 ?ave the right to question any warrant that you may draw and present to me for payment. If you desire enlightenment on that subject, you can probably obtain it from the courts or from your own examination into tb-e statutes. I have nothing whatever to do with the question whether or not it was proper for the legislature to provide for the entertainment of this convention or whether it was desirable that they should do so; nor am I to%be effected in the performance of my duty by the advice and wishes of the hospitable people of Charleston. Before I can pay for the entertainment of the convention, the legislature musi so direct. "C note you state you will have the <;laim .discounted at one of the banks and present it to the next legislature for payment. This is a matter with which I have no concern whatever, but I desire to call your attention * to the act creating the board of claims (28 Statutes, p. 199), and if-you will allow me, I would suggest that you submit the claim to that board, of -which you, the secretary of State and myself are members. The intention Of tfi.6 legislature 111 ci eaiuis | "board was to have these claims examined into and reported upon be-j fore their meeting and the report of j th*j board is to be submitted to thej ways and means committee of the house of representatives ten days be\ fo:e the convening of that body." \ TO APPLY FOR BAIL \ !)(*mi nick Brothers Will Make Application August 8. Saluda, Aug. 6?Application for j Tnil' on behalf of 0. L. and E. L. Dom- I inick, who are chafged with killing Phil W. Perry in this county on July 23. will be made by their counsel at Laurens before Associate Justice Watts cm August 8. At this hearing the State will be represented by Solicitor George Bell Timmerman of the eleventh circuit and B. W. Crouch of this bar. Newberry Sup'vsr. Sends Resignation Columbia Record, oth. The govprror today received the resignation of \Y. A Hill as supervisor for Newberry county to take effect .August 15. Mr. Hill was recently appointc-d prsfmaster for Newberry. His successor will be appointed by the governor within the next few days. THE SEWS OF EXCELSIOR. | Bridge Washed Away?Annual Pic-; nic at Pilerim?Key. Anderson Preaching.?Good Rains. Excelsior Aug., 4.?We had a .heavy rain and wind storm in this section Thursdav nieht doins some damage to the crops. Mr. E. M. Cook spent Thursday at Bradley on business. Mr. J. H. Werts ana family, spent Friday with the Rev. Z. W. Bedenbaugu's family. Mr. Luther Wheeler-has been on a. visit to his brother, Mr. J. F. Whee?er. Prof. Eddie Werts, of Memphis, Tenn., &as been spending a few days with Mr. T. L. Wheeler's family. i\t!ee Toc?io T.nriok is visitins rela tives in Columbia. Dr. R. C. Kibler has been spendi ing several days with relatives at Old Town. Mr. R. C. Counts and family of Columbia, came up Saturday to spend a few days with their friends in this section. Rev. Jas. D. Kinard and family, of Greenwood, after spending a few days with 'her father's family at Peak stopped over here on their return home to visit his brother, Mr. H. J. Kinard and wife. The annual Sunday school picnic *1 1 J of Mt. Pllrgim church will De neia on Wednesday, August 13th. Tiiere will be speaking and good singing by the school along with one or two other addresses. The public is cord-.aliy invited to come and bring well filled baskets and spend a pleasant day together. The Rev. W. R. Anderson, of Laurens, stopped over in this section for a few hours on Monday while on his way home from Blairs, where he preached on Sunday. Mr. Anderson promised to come again soon and spend a few days and preach for us v.qt-0 \fr Anderson is a arood speaker j and 'has many friends in this section who are always glad to see him. i Mr. and Mrs. Aumerle Lorick, of j Irmo, have been up spending a few I v*. with his father's family, Mr. J. i D. Lorick. i | The bridge on tie public road near I Excelsior school house that Supervisor Hill recently removed and filled in with a three foot piping w'&s completely washed out by the rain on Thursday night, making it unpassable for traveling. The washout made it j very inconvenient lor persons gums iu i the Little Mountain reunion on Frii day as theyOiad to drive some distance to get around. Mr. Hill did a nice piece of work but it will require two piping to carry the water in place of one. This should be fixf ed at once. Sigma. ? .i LEYER MAY RU> FOR SENATE. Congressman from Senrentb District Seriously Considering' Hatter. News and Courier. Columbia, August t>.?congressman A. F. Lever, who made an addr^ here this afternoon before the conference for the common good on "A National Program for the Development of A merican Agriculture," has ^een the centre of interest' Scores of people have Ir^en ask'ng if he intended entering the race for the United States senate next year against I Senator Smith and Governor Blease. When approached about ! tae mater late this afternoon Congressman Lever, with that inscrutable Lever smile, would admit nothing further than that he was serious/ lv considering the matter. Congressman Lever's room at the .Jefferson Hotel was thronged with visitors aJl ""J if ic L-nnvvri thnr I tne aiternuuii emu it xo many men from different parts of the State urged him to enter the senatorial race, and that he received many fiattering proffers of support. Many from different counties called at. his j I room and" cifered to back him if he! would go into the race, but beyond j ! the statement that he was seriously i considering the whole matter, he j would not commit himself. j Mr. Lever left for his home in Lexi ington county to spend tonight. He j returns here tomorow for the conference of the common good and will leave for aWihotnngs leave for Washington tomorrow night. He is confident that the currency om i will pass and does not +hink congress will finish up until late in the fall. He is enthusiastic over the national administration and pleased with the prosperity which the country is enjoying. I HOW CATTLE TICK HURTS THE SOUTH DANGER TO HIDES WORTH CONSIDERING. Eradication of Pest AVould Bring Its | Own Reward and That Very Soon. "Washington, Aug. 5.?According to figures gathered by one of the veterinary inspectors of the bureau of animal industry, the presence of the tick among the cattle of ilic South net only lessens the value of the cattle on the hoof but causes the grading of hides that have been infested with ticks as No. 4 quality. The same hide, if free from tick inark^, would be grade No. 2. The difference in price between these two grades (/ : hides is 3 cents a pouud. as the hide of Southern steers weighs nbout 42 jotnds, the pres2nc;- of the tick in the hide causes a loss in the l.ide alcne more t.han ?1."<? por hide. Government specialists poait out that the cost c.1 tick eradica:-)i is only about --J Ct-D-ts per head so t - a: if the counties make a systematic campaign to '.radicate the tivjk. the increase "in value of the hirlc alone would ray I'oi the cost of tick eradication zrA leave the farmer a net cost of about. 76 cents per hide. The hide situation is becoming rather serioits. A prominent tanner in Pennsylvania states. ^ "For the class of leather we makewe prefer Southern hides for chrome on account of the close texture and fine grain, but on account of/the ticks we have had to practically stop purchasing Southern hides." This is particularly significant as the demand for chrome leather is increasing so that the normal demand for Southern hides will be still further decreased. A large percentage of the chrome leather now produced is finished with the grain left on so that all imperfections and tick marks on the grain side show very plainly. In the old days when all the leather for upi ?rs was made from bark-tanned stock, all leather was buffed and the grain was removed. For this leather tanners could use clean hides that were covered with imperfections and tic* marks and make fairly good leather. The situation today, as it. has been explained is very different as the public is demanding more and moro grained leathers for which large proportions of Southern hides will not be available until the tick is eradicated. Tennessee will probably be the first State to be entirely free from quarantine for ticks. It already has eradicated the tick in 51 counties and all that now remain under quarantine are parts of Marion, Wayne, Hardeman, McNairy and Decatur counties and all of Hardin, Henderson and Chester counties. It is hoped that by September I*these counties will be free from ticks , and the entire State out of quarantine. According to the specialists of the department of agriculture, it has cost less than 50 cents; per head to eradicate the tick in Tennessee and the cattle owners as a result have gained not less than $7 per head, thus adding to the value of their stock. There are some 500,000 cattle in the Counties already free from ticks and the immediate benefit to these owners j has been not less than $3,500,000. The j cost of tick eradication has been only $250,000 so th&t the investment paid for itself nearly 14 times over in a very short time. This does not include the additional nrofits which come from the fact that now that the tick is eradicated more cattle can be raised on each farm and that the cultivated fields are made more productive by the increase of the amount of fertilizer row available. -*?r- ' Death of a Young' (Jirl. Pear! Eoiine. daughter of Mr. and .Mrs. J. W. Pitts, died Wednesday midnight of congestion, after one day's illness, and was buried at Trinity church grave yard Friday morr.ing at 11 o'clock, service by the Rev 0. A TQff^r?ot Qho iv5is ninp vpnr-5 nlfl. This sudden bereavement to the family in the loss of a sweet and innocent little girl at such a bright and ^promising time of life is felt bv the community, and deep is the sympathy of all for the sorely afflicted parents in the hour of their distress. Mahon Smith and Will Meadows accompanied the bride and groom to Prosperity in the automobile Wednesday night. The car was driven ! by Mr. J. C. Sample. 1 rmmc i . " " rn GOING 10 THE SENATE SAYS GOVERNOR BLEASE DENIES ROIOR THAT HE SEEKS 3d TERM AS GOVERNOR. States Positively That He Will Be in the Race for U. S. Senate Next Summer. Columbia, August 6?Governor Cole. L. Blease, when asked this morning for a statement in regard to the Washington dispatch in The News and Courier to the effect that it is rumored that Governor Blease will seek a third term as governor instead of entering the race for the United States senate, said: "I have seen the article in this morning's News land Courier. It is only another one of the many newspaper lies that are now being, and have been *)r some time past, sent out from Washington trying to save somebody from defeat. The statement that 'a considerable proportion of South Carolina voters who are supporters of Blease for the governorship have said that they will vote for Smith for re-election to the senate. | is a lie out of the whole cloth, and i and this man cannot substantiate this j statement by giving names. I have i seventy-five thousand friends in ; South Carolina who will vote for me j for the governorship or for the 1 United States senate against anybody, j I am stronger with the people than I ! have ever been, as is evidenced wher- j ever I speak. "The statement contained in saia article, 'By the time Senator Smith's present term is over most of the small > amount of patronage that comes to the junior South Carolina senator by 'reason of the change in administration at Washington will have been distributed,' certainly places Senator Smith's candidacy for a second term ' ! upon a very low plane, which I hardly think will meet his approval. I am erfins: to the senate to represent allJ o W - of the people of my State and benefit I each of them by helping to enact good. j sound, honest laws, and am not going , there to represent only a few federal pap-suckers, whom I might be able to place at the milk counter. "K. P. M. will have to invent a new one. This one will not go down. "I will be a candidate for the Unit- : ed States senate in 1914, and I shall ; win, regardless of who or how many | may be in the race. They laughed ; summer when I said I would be j re-elected governor. I* am still on the job, and I will be elected to the United States senate in 1914, despite the liars." ' j Blease to Seek Third Term? News and Courier. Washington, August 5.?South Car- I olinians who have recently been in Washington have mentioned a rumor which they say has been discussed invarious parts of oeir Sr:Ue, to the effect that it has been suggested to Governor Blease by some of his j friends that instead of running for j the senate next year :he seek a third j term as governor. - . ' In support of this advice, according to the story, it is urged that there are a great many more people in the State who are aggressively interested in keeping Blease in the gubernatorial chair than are interested in sending/him to the senate. By > the | time Senator Smith's present term is over most of the small amount of patronage that comes to the junior ^ 1 " c nf Soutn Carolina senaun ijv i ca.-juii v/i. the change in administration at Wasi> j ington will have been distributed; and j it is hardly necessary to remark that, a senator cannot grant pardons or cut off the heads of State officers. Precedent in South Carolina is J against more than t\vo successive I terms in the governorship, but it is 1 noted that precedents have never had j muc'.i weight with Governor Blease.! and that they do not affect his follow- : ing. On the other hand, it is said, j that a considerable proportion of i j South Carolina voters who are supj porters of Blease for the governorship have said that they will vote for *? ?- -1 ^^t^ too ?f>natp smitn xur rc"ciutuuii iu on the ground that he has been active and energetic, particularly in behalf of the farmers and that he* deserves to be encouraged. 1A good deal of interest is felt here as to what Governor Blease will "have to say about the rumor that he is thinking about running again for governor and undertaking to get a legislature in complete sympathy with his policies. <5> ? ? * <S> THE IDLEIL $ ? ? It has been so hot that I just couldn't write or think, and I 'hope the readers of The Herald and News will excuse my absence from the columns of the paper. And then, maybe, there are some who would just as soon that I should not write any more any way. However that may be, I want to tell you, lest you forget; Friend street sidewalk has has been paved all the way to the depot and nice paved crossings have been made at the depot, and the street in front of the postoffice has been nicely fixed. Now if Mr." Mayor Wright ^will just go on taking my advice, and fix the street that leads up to his handsome residence from the frostoffice, it will begin to look like the old town is going to wake up. And lest you forget, let me tell you i."u : i ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ^ J suiuttuuiig eise. iue syeeu urumauuc has been decreased from six miles the hour to twelves miles the hour, as the Observer put it, and they teH me they are really enforcing the ordi- j nance?especially in the suburbs of the city?and it wont be long before they reach the main thoroughfares in its enforcement, if the good work goes on. Let everybody keep to tb^ right now, and there will be some safety in driving and walking the. streets. And don't forget to sound the gong as the law requires. And they are holding down the motorcycles as well. It 'is. a pity that you have to have laws to make people respect the | rights of others, .but it seems that ] human nature is so constructed that' it is necessary, and so long as It is, it is just as well to have them, if you are going to enforce them, but if _ ? - TVI -.*?? ?-<? - - - /' - V not, wipe thenK off the books. Some, fellow has handed me the following. I reckon he is a little sore, but that is all right if this ordinance doesn't go uip in a spurt?is that a good word? ?like the dog muzzling ordinance: s "Whether 'tis better to bide behind a tree out College street, to try to catch automobiles speeding, or to bang around Main street, where the traffic is heavy and the danger is greatest, does not seem to be the question in Newberry. For soiae times, at least?hardly good English, but expressive?a policeman gets, behind an oak in College street, out towards the fcollege, when, alaslMain street is sadly unguarded." That reminds me that there is a law requiring all dogs to be muzzled. And they tell me that dog days began a few days ago. I don't know much about that, as I never could keep up with all these things, but I read in the paper the other day where more - * ? l V. ^ w than three hunarea aogs iieiius uLa.u j been sent to the Pasteur institute in Columbia this year, and dog days had not yet begun. And all these heads showed signs of rabies. Don't you laink, Mr. Mayor Wright, that it is time for you to begin to enforce the dog muzzling ordinance, or repeal it? Yoif would feel bad if some poor child should be bitten by some worthless' cur snd die from the effects of the bite. Or for that matter, if it was bitten >y some fine bull dogt or fice or whatever name called. I know that" one can become very much attached to a dog?by whatever name^called, even an old hound dog?tout is a dog to be ~ *? U ^ compared 10 the life 01 a Human ucing, and the suffering and pain and .'igony which may result from the biting of some child by some dog. I trow not. Then enforce or repeal the j ordinance. Tie reason 1 put it that j way is if you rpeal it, then we are put I on notice to defend ourselves, and will j rot depend on protection from the police and the law. I don't get around the streets very much, but I am sure if you will walk out on the i square most any day you will see a number of dogs running at large. ?o? r <see from the papers that the civic association lias arranged playgrounds at the two public school buildings. This is very nice, but I cannot helD thinking how much more good for the j children and the people ot the community could have been dona if the ladies of the civic association had just taken up that park proposition of mine and pushed it to success, as^ t'hey could have done. And I told them time and again that they could (have all the credit?that The Idler got his satisfaction from the doing of things and not fron^ what may be written in marble or the praise of mere men. Then we could have had playgrounds and a keeper. I suppose V v CONFERENCE FOR THE COMMON GOOD OPENS CONGRESSMAN LEVER AND EDITOR POE HEARD BY MANY Prominent Xen and lVomen of State Meet in Columbia to Take Part in Epoch-Making Gathering. (Columbia, August 6.?Prominent men and women of South Carolina gathered here this afternoon in large f numbers to open a two days' session of a "conference for the common good.', Presided over by W. K. Tate, State supervsor of rural schools, as president; the initial sesion presaged the deep and lasting interest which this conference is to have on the people of South Carolina. There is encouragemeut 10 look for larger attend | ance and added interest at to-mor' row's meeting. | I "Co-Dperation for Rural Develop! mont" was the general topic of tlie I opening session this afternoon. F0I7 lowing the outlining of the general i purposes of the conference by President Ttate, "A Message to commonwealth Builders was brough. to the conference by Clarence Poe, of Raleigh, N. C., editor of the Progressive farmer. This was followed by a talk from the Rev. W. H. Mills, of Clemson college, on "The Part of the Church in Rural Development." A. F. Lever, congressman from the 7th district and chairman of the house committee on agriculture, delivered a a impressive dis course on the subject, "A National Program for the development of American Agriculture." There was discussions *on all these topics. Death of an Infant The_4-mpnths..old son of Mf. and Mrs. Ellis McCollum, of West End,died Tuesday night of cholera infantum and was buried at West End Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, service by I the Rev. A. M. Gardner. v ? Death of Miss Boazman. | Miss Mamie Boazman. daughter of | Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Boazman,_of Chappells, died at her home Wednesday midnight, after a lingering illness, Murine which she had been taken to the hospital. She was 30 years old. ~ The burial took place Thursday afafternoon at 4.30 o'clock, in the old family burying ground near the home. The suffering of the sick one is ovep with, and while she is at rest, we can but sympathize with the living at the loss of a loving one. of course, there will be a keeper and care taker for each of the grounds and that will cost more than if it had all been connected with the park. But it all suits me and I am glad to see anything doing because it is better to do and live than to stagnate and die. I am told that at the playgrounds in Columbia and" wherever they have playgrounds it is found necessary to have a director and caretaker. The.ie little playgrounds will be a step towards the park. Let every one give encouragement to the work of the good women. They want to do something, It is mighty hard to do so without the aid and cooperation of the men. Cooperation is the need of this day need the pull-together spirit to be developed. If we could just make the people see and realize how much lighter the load would be sometimes I think there migfnt be a chance to get them together. It is a hard job. I use to hear that if you would keep dropping water on a stone that it would make an impression after awhile. I am going to keep on trying and hoping. ?o? There is to be a conference in Columbia this- week for the commor good. That sounds mighty fine. I suppose that means for the good of everybody. They have some good subjects and some good men. assigned to discuss them. Talk is good in its place but the common good needs something more than talk. The people must be made to see. Talk can help in that work. Any 'how I wish I could attend this conference and hear what these good people have to say, so that I could come back and -help some one else and keep on x spreading the good work. l - nope there will be a number of men and women present at this conference from Newberry. It may be that some one there will tell the people bow to get together and the advantages of cooperation. ^ " The Idler* I ' '