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The Herald and News Entered at the Postoffice -?* VT-watery, S. C., as 2?d class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, August 29, 1913. - r-honnoll should Dut in Super visui vuuj-yv- _ a bid for some of the convicts that i are to be put on the public roads when the hosiery mill closes at the i penitentiary. Bids are to be received at the meeting of the directors of the penitentiary on September 10. Forty or fifty convicts properly managed could do a lot of good to the roads of Newberry county in a very short I i time. The crop prospect in Newberry county is better ihan it has been for / a number of years. A fine corn crop is , made. There is an abundance of I peas and they are fine. The cotton i is looking well and a good crop will j be harvested. Business in all lines should be good this fall. The most j important thing for the farmer is to j pay what he owes at store and bank ' then with a good feed crop in his barn he should be able to get along the next year without so much help j from store and bank. Whenever we ! reach that stage this country will prosper. Grow on the farm what we need for the farm. That should be ; the slogan. There ought to be more trucking around Newberry, and if the farmer would prepare for it there is no doubt it could be done profitably.. Ma.ny vegetables are shipped in from j other places that could be grown pro- . fitably right here in Newberry and | then they would be so much better 1 than vegetables pulled before they j are ripe and shipped in from other j places. Next Monday is the first day of September, the beginning of the fall business, when business changes are generally made, if made at all. What we need and what we would like to j see in Newberry is for every one to ! get together and pull together for a better trade the coming fall and all ! will reap the benefit. A strong pull I altogether is. what we need. It is easy. Try it. j We notice that the board of direc- 1 tors of the penitentiary have decided j to let the convicts to the counties to be worked on the public roads when ' the hosiery mill closes down on the first of November. That is the best use to which they could possibly be ! put. We hope the legislature at its - next session. wilL provide for the building of some State roads with these convicts, under the direction of a competent engineer and road builder. Thaw's lawyers seem to have won out in the first round with the Cana-1 ,dian authorities. We think it will i give pretty general satisfaction if the I Canadians decide to keep Harry be-! yond the border. President Wilson delivered his message to congress on Wednesday j on the Mexican situation. It would j seem that President Huerta would be I fho tprms hv i blttu WV/ V vw ?W ? ?v President Wilson and no doubt he would if tie could with safety to himself. The Columibia Record has the i i following comment on the situation and we agree with the Record: { Provisional President Huerta would j no doubt be glad to accept President j Wlison's terms if he could do so with j safety to himself, but he is in the j pusiuuu oi uit: iiiau ?iiu gui a tdii j hold on the bear and who could neith- i er hold on or let go his hold. Having obtained power by bloodshed and j treachery, he cannot relinquish it without danger of being treated to his own medicine. The desperation \ of his situation is illustrated by the j summary execution Friday night of Serapio Rendon, a member of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, following that of Deputy Bordes Mangel two days before. These executions are supposed to ; have been deliberately planned to terrorize other members of congress which convenes next month, says the Baltimore Sun. "They do not seem to indicate that Huerta has any i L r intention of letting go of what he has ' grabbed. The fact probably is that : he is obliged to hold on, in order to 1 prolong his own existence. He has created a desperate situation and the moment he relinquishes power he would be likely to share the fate of his victims. If he agrees to step Hrtwn will n pprl a Qtrnner psrnrt UV 1' AX J iJ>\s " A** v?b W- v**Q - to protect him as he is hurried out of the country. If the truth were known, perhaps he wishes he were safe on American soil. The furies are on his trail," ? GREAT HAZARD IX ART. Many Artists of Skill Who Scarcely Make a Living. In art, as in most other professions, the "plums" fail into the hands of the few. The Sargent or Herkomer may make his $25,000 in twelve months by his brushes; Mr. "Dauber," j who started his career with equal j promise, may barely earn the check; that pays his frame-maker's bill. Jean Francois Millet lived and i died a peasant, though he could wear < the ribbon of the Legion of Honor. It was the proudest day of his life when he received $360 for the "An-! gelus," which a genration later wis sold for $116,130 atvthe Secretan sale. ' John rome was glad to pocket dollar apiece for pictures, aDy one of which would be snapped up today for i * hundreds of dollars. George Borland 1 parted with many masterpieces for the price of an evening' carouse; and Rembrandt's canvases are valued to-1 day at twenty million dollars?yet he J left nothing to his heirs beyond his clothes and his paint brushes. i 1 And who will say that these magicians of the palette were less sk ful | than the Orchardsons and AlmaTademas of later years, whose can- j1 vases with the paint scarcely dry on ' them were exchanged for $10,000 or. >1 - AAA -U . TT* ,1- -n-V. ^ $.Lt>,VUlS tJcHJii, mail .riaiUY ?xun, *YUU painted $100,000 worth of portraits in a.single year; of Landseer, whose es- 1 tate was sworn at $800,000? Today the painting of pictures, for!( nineteen artists -out of twenty, is a 1 costly hobby, which leaves little mar-' gin for even such a modest luxury as I' marmalade. For every score of canvases that are fit to adorn the walls ! "] of Burlington house there is barely one purchaser, and he has a keen 1 eye to a bargain. ;1 Take two typical cases known to ' the writer. Both men are highly j( trained artists, whose acadamy pic- * tures are seldom branded with the fa- ( tal "R." One of these men confess- j ed that he had "barely $500 to show 1 as the net result of two thousand ( hours of industry last year. The oth- 1 er, who had a canvas "on the line" ! _ before - he saw his twenty-first birth- ] day, was glad to sell "his latest pie- < ture, the fruits of six months' work i for less than its frame cos'. < The picture buyer of today has very decided views as to what he I wants. Give him a bright landscape, < seascape or garden scene, with plen- 1 ty of color and he is willing to pay 1 for it?his own price. Problem pic- ] tures, historical canvases, he won't 1 look at. 1 put, sold or unsol<? the pictures 1 are equally costly to produce. There 1 may be little change out of the dollar : < for one day's paints and models 3 alone. Many a canvas, on which 1 months of work has heen lavished, j and ^*hich may go?if at all?in ex-1 < change for a $25 note, has cost from < $150 to $250 for materials. ? One able artist told the writer: "I ( Dav iust under $500 a year for mv < studio. A year's models, costumes,11 etc., costs me quite another $500; Ii1 pay from $35 to $50 for a frame. One ' way or another, I spend $1,250 in the ! r twelve months, and thus earn a net1 income at which many clerks would ' turn up their .noses." And this man is one of the lucky ( ones, outside the pale of the special-: ly favored few. < RIa TUtf AT PARR SHOALS. i s 1 ' j Construction of Long Concrete Dam i and Power House at Parr Shoals j! is "Being Pushed by Contractors. ] The State, 23rd. J Construction of the Parr Shoals j Power company's hydro-electric plant i on Broad river, 13 miles above the confluence at Columbia of the Broad I and the Saluda, is being rushed night j and riav bv the contractors, the J. G. j White Construction company of New : York. The substation at Columbia is nearing completion. Designed to impound water suffi-1 cient to form a lake 12 miles in!, length, and of 2,400 acres area, the 1. dam is fo have a crest length of', about 2,200 feet, is to rise 35 feet! above the mean low water stage, and will have a thickness at the case of1 j 45 feet, battured on the down stream ' j face to 10 feet. The construction is I ^ of cyclopean concrete masonry;!. \ / targe blocks of granite being mixed in with the concrete. The dam is built to withstand five times the normal pressure. Integral with tae dam itseii are rne OiU'ice-ga.ies, luieuay racks and flumes. The upstream face is perpendicular. The downstream face has the outline, in section, of an ogee moulding, that is, with a combination of concave and convex surface, curving from crest to base along the spillway, so that tne water may flow over more easily and with the least washing at the foot. Integral with the dam also will be the ->ower house at the eastern end, par allel with the dam. This power house is to be of brick and steei. It will be approximately 240 feet long, 80 feet wide and in height about 40 fee': above the level of the crest. In this building provision will be made for the ultimate installation of eight electrical generators of 3,100 K. V. A. capacity each, frhich will develop 25,000 horsepower of electrical power. These generators are of the umbrella type, and will be directly connected to vertical waterwheels or turbines. Each turbine will receive its water through individual forebays and flumes, the gates of which will be operated electrically, so that water may be fed to or shut off from any unit witnout affeciing the operation of other parts of the plant. In the building will be placed also all necessary switchboards, transforming devices, exciters, and other appurtenances incidental to the transmission of electrical nower. There will be nine wai ercooled transformers of 2,500 K. V. A., capacity each. The immediate installation, on completion of the power house, will be five units, or generators, capable of developing approximately 1S,000 horsepower of electrical power under a, 35-foot head, leaving three units to be installed later on, when the demand for power shall warrant the installation. The eletcrical energy will be developed by the generators at 2,300 volts. This current will then be ;ransformed to a voltage of 66,000 volts, at which pressure it is to be ielivered to the transmission line for its journey to Columbia. The high tension transmission line svill be run in two circuits of three vvires, 'strung on steel towers and will be between 26 and 28 miles long. rt is estimated, at the high pressure isei? in transmitting the current, that :he line loss will be not more than I per cent, when both circuits are T T X >perated at tne same time, ana auuui, I per cent, wnen only one is operated. At Columbia a terminal transformer station has been constructed, in dimensions* about 94 by 47 feet, in which will be installed large 2,500 K. V. A. reducing transformers, with the lecessary high tension cil swithching .ie vices, lighting arresters and switchboard apparatus, giving full control over the current. The electrical current from the power -house at* Parr Shoals will be delivered to the transformer station i:i Columbia at a pressure of 66,000 t'olts. When it reachos Columbia tnis iiifh pressure current will be passed :hrcugh the reducing transformers, by means of which it will lie reduced to a pressure of 13,500 volts for dis:ribution to large power consumers, :otton mills, etc., and to- 3,300 voltg tor distribution to small consumers ind for lighting purposes. The substation at Columbia will be equipped with 11 circuits for lighting ind small power consumers and with seven circuits for the large consum-? ^^ r, <nri11 olen V?o rno^ci fnr 215. nuvidlUUd win aiovs lAiuuv -.w* i line from this station t6 Cayce, as tvell as for lines to the State institu:ions near Columbia. Yes, Make it Statewide. The State, 23rd. R. H. Welch, a member of the Richiand delegation, suggested yesterday :hat the appropriation for the eradication of the cattle tick sought by :he Columbia Chamber of Commerce should be made an item in the county supply bill. Mr. Welch said that it seemed to him that inasmuch as some counties would be without the tick and not given perhaps to stock raisin? the aDDroDriation should not be State-wide. He said that if it appeared that Richland county had need Df an appropriation he would vote for it. The Chamber of Commerce resolution, passed Wednesday afternoon by the board of directors,' calls for an appropriation of not exceeding $40,000 for the whole State. Secretary * x 4.^ Plark was not prepared yesieruay iu say whether or not Mr. Welch's suggestion would be accepted by the chamber. "We want to make this a Statewide movement," he said. "We do not want it limited to a county here md there." Poultrvmen are pretty much alike, :he chap that is continually changing breeds and varieties never gets rery far up the ladder of success with my of them. /?/ f - f PRESIDENT REVEALS PLAN OF "HANDS OFF' IN MEXICO (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1). instruction of the president, is in part, as follows: "The government of Mexico 'has i paid due attention to the advice and considerations expressed by the government of the United States; has done this on account of three principal reasons: First, because Mexico ! entertains the highest respect for the i personality of his excellency, Woodrow Wilson; second, because certain European and American governments, with which Mexico cultivates the closest relations of international amity, having in a most delicate, respectful way, highly gratifying to us, made use of their good offices to the j end that. Mexico should accord you a hearing inasmuch as you were the , bearer of a private mission from the j presiaent ot tne Lnitea states, and, ; third, because Mexico was anxious, nor, so much to justify its attitude be| fore the inhabitants of the republic j in the present emergency, the great majority of whom have signified their ! adhesion and approval, as to demoni strate in every way the justice of its ; cause. "Tile imputation in v6ur instrucI tions that no progress has been made ' toward establishing in the capital of Mexico a government that may enjrty the respect and obedience of the Mexican people is unfounded." Must Decline Them. . i Senor Gamboa says his government snnrpciates the good offices tendered by the United States, "but if such good offices are to be of the character of these now tendered to us, we should have to decline them in the most categoriacl and .definite manner." I "Inasmuch as the United States is willing to act in tae most disinterested friendship, it will be difficult for it to find a more propitious opportunity than the following: If it would nni-17 u-at^Ti that nn material monetary ! assistance is given to rebels who conspire and provide themselves with j arms and food on the other .side of .the border: if it should demand from ' j its minor and local authorities the j strictest observance of the neutral-1 ity laws, I assure you, Mr. Confiden- i ftial Agent, that the complete pacifi-1 | cation of this republic would be ac-! complished within a relatively short, : time. , "An immediate suspension of the i struggle in I^exico, a definite armistice solemnly constructed and scrupulously observed, is not possible. Claims a Concession. j I "The assurance asked of my gov-' ; eminent that it should promptly con vene free elections is the most evi-' dent proof and the most unequivocal concession that the government of ^ the United States considers it legally j 'and solidly constituted and that it is! I exercising, like all those of its class, acts of such importance as to in- i dicate the perfect civil operation of a sovereign nation. While the pres- j | ent government is of a provisional j character, it will cede its place to the definite government which may be elected by the people. ' j j "The request that Gen. Victoriano Huerta should agree not to appear as i a candidate for t'he presidency of the rpnnhlin in thp rnmiriff el Actions can not be taken into consideration be-. , cause, aside from its strange and un- j warranted character, there is a risk that the same might be interpreted j ,as a matter of personal dislike. This1 point can only be decided by Mexican j i public opinion when it may be ex-1 pressed at the polls. | "The ambassador of the United j States of America in His high diploj matic investiture and appearing as ,and of the foreign diplomatic corps I accrediated to the government of the republic contratulated Gen. . Huerta ! upon his elevation tj the presidency i and continued to correspond with this department by means of diplomacy. "With reference to the final part of the instructions of President Wilson, which I beg to include herewith and which say, 'If Mexico can suggest any better way in which to show our friendship, to ser*e the people of moot nur intprnational j .ucaiuu auu ui^v/i. uui ' obligations, we are more than willing to consider the suggestion;' that part causes me to propose the following equally decorous arrangement: 0n?, that our ambassador be received in "Washington; two, that tfce United i States of America send us a new am1 bassador without previous condiI +; . ? " I uuiia. j Warns Americans to Leave Mexico. Washington, Aug. 27.?President I Wilson tonight -warned all Americans to leave Mexico. At the same time the American embassy and all consular representees throughout the Southern republic were instructed to "notify all officials, civil and military, in Mexico, "that they would be held strictly responsible for harm or injury done to Americans or their property/' Secretary Bryan dispatched long Newberry Bus Opens Fall Term First?Stenography Second?Book-keep Third?T elegraphy For Terms Mrs. H. Phone 244. telegrams to the embassy and all consular representatives, quoting ex- j 1 tracts from President Wilson's ad- j I - ..... ; , . ... 1 i aress to congress toaay, in wmcn ue , reviewed the futile peace negotiations with the Huerta government and the policy the United States would pursue hereafter towards Mexico, i In these messages the consuls were instructed to render every aid pos- [ sible to departing Americans, furnish-; ing transportation and-any other pecuniary assistance to the needy. They were informed that a sufficient number of ships would be provided to ! carry away those' in the seacoast , towns. Help to Foreigners. f Foreign governments will be noti-; 1 fied of the action of the United States so that they may give advices, but the American consuls will help all for! eig.iers in any emergency. 1 Within a day or two an announcement is expected of the mobilization i of large numbers of American troops along the Southern frontier to en-) : force neutrality in the traffic of arras and munition of war. President Wil- j son was in touch with Assistant Sec sretary Breckenridge of the war department tonight, ;but the nature of j his communication was not revealed, j It is believed the president not j only is preparing to strengthen the 1 border patrol, but desires to have the strictest vigilance by troops already j watc'hing the international boundary. Secretary Garrison of the war department, it was announced tonight, will I be in New York next Wednesday to ? U O T~ Y*T C? /"M"\ couier >viiu jt i an^ia j->ujl luh ixaiu^vu, but it was said at the "White House that his return to' the East from his Western inspection trip was not prompted by any prospective troop movement. Another >'ote. First results of the president's optimism were apparent tonight when j Secretary Bryan announced the re ceipt of a message trom Jonn Jjina, now at Vera Cruz, saying the Senor Gamboa, Mexican minister of foreign affairs, had sent a new note. Secretary Bryan described the situation as "encouraging" and commented on the fact that he had for several days used the word "unchanged." The president was informed of the late developments, but offered no comment. He was particularly pleased tonight with his reception in congress. Not only from th& applause that greeted him as he began his ad dress and at its conclusion, but j through personal congratulations, j President Wilson was assured that he had behind 'him the undivided support of congress, irrespective of political party. tv,o nroeiriont hflri an informal talk JL px ^Uiuvu w ? with Senator Root a Republican leader, in the speaker's room just before he was escorted to the house rostrum and learned that the New York senator soon would make a speech in support of the idministration's policy. Policy Will Be One of Peace. Washington, Aug. 27.?President Wlison laid before the world the details of the United States' efforts to bring about peace in Mexico, the facts concerning Huerta's rejection of the peace proposals, and the policy to be pursued by this government. The president announced the position of the United States to be as follows: Xo armed intervention. Strict neutrality forbidding the ex | portation of arms or munitions of war of any kind form the United States to any part of the republic of Mexico. Under no circumstances to "be the partisans of either party to the contest that now distracts Mexico or constitute ourselves the virtual umpire between them." To urge all Americans to leave Mexico at once and to assist them to get away in every way possible. Will Watch Citizens. To let every one in Mexico "who assumes to exercise authority know f iiness College September First 1 < >ing Apply to ^ 0. Ray * \ Newberry that this government "shall vigilantly watch tne fortunes of those Americans who can not get away and shall hold those responsible for their sufferings and losses to a definite reckoning." "That can and will be made plain * \ beyond the possibilitj of a misunder- standing," declared the president. Negotiations for the friendly mediation of the United States are open to resumption at any time upon eifn-* er the initiative of this government or of Mexico. n (Accompanying the president's address was the reply of the Huerta ' government rejecting the Ajnerican j proposals. It was written by Foreign ^ Minister Gamboa. It suggested the following alternative policy for the United States: Reception of a Mexican ambassa- dor in Washington. That the United States send a new ambassador to Mexico without re BlliHIiLS. Strict observance of the neutrality laws and "so to it that no material or monetary assistance is given to. the rebels." Unconditional recognition of the Huerta government. Duties of Neighbors. First pointing out that it was his J duty "without reservation to lay beforef1 congress all the facts concern ing the relations of the United States with Mexico," the president outlined with the United Slates had done "as a friend and neighbor." Asserting that this nation was glad to call itself Ihe friend of Mexico, and hoping for many future occasions to show that disinterested friendship, the president declared that "we shall yet prove to the Mexican people that we know how to serve them without first thinking how weshall serve ourselves." Describing Mexican conditions and fo. +V>n + - la/1 nn trt tho tile eveuta mai x<^u 1*4/ ?.w tiations just concluded, President Wilson, outlined how "war and disorder, devastation and confusion seem to threaten to become the settled fortune of the distracted country." As friends, he said, this country could wait no longer for a solution of things in the sister republic. He then outlined the position this government should take. * Concluding his address, the president predicted that the "steady pressure of moral force will before many days break the barriers of pride and prejudice down, and we shall triumph as Mex- j ico's friends sooner than we could triumph as her enemies." Senor G-amboa's note, which was appended to the president's address as an exhibit, was not read by the president, but was furnished to congress as a printed document. ? _ 1 Kimonotomy. An excitable man rushed into the general hospital in Buffalo and demanded to see his wife, who had ^ come there for an operation that afternoon. He said his name was > / James Hawkins. j The hospital authorities could re- f member no operation on a Mrs. Haw- / kins, and there was jio record of such an operation on the books. "Your wife is not here," they said to Hawkins. A "I know she is," persisted Hawkins. 4| "But she isn't. We have no Mrs. Hawkins here." ' ^ "Where is she then? She said she was going to the hospital for an operation. I found a note from her when I got nome.* "Let me see the note!" demanded the doctor, and when Hawkins handed it to him he read: "Dear Jim: I have gone to have my kimona cut out. \ d Lizzie."?Saturday Evening Post m 1 Miss Janet is a long time coming down," he said to the pretty parlor maid. "Perhaps she is?ha, ha?per- /j haps she is making up her mind whether to see me or not." The maid smiled coldly. "No," she said, "it is not her mlncj? she is making np."?Tit-Bits. j fl x ' " * ^ V ?.'"?!