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The Herald and News VOLUME LI., SUMBEB 91. NEWBEBBY, S. C., TUESDAY, >OVEXBER IS, 1913. TWICE A WEEK, $1M A IE Alt CLEMSON SHOULD CAKE 1 FOR THE CATTLE TICK' 4SO.YERSO R BLEASE ON MOVEMENT FOR ERADICATION. Important, But iiatter for Clemson ?Tuberculosis Should be Looked After. Special to The Herald and News. Columbia, Nov. 17.?In view of the recent conferences and discussions in reference to the cattie tick and the $40,000 appropriation to be asked for at the next session of the legislature for the eradication thereof, Governor Blease was asked this morning what he thought of the situation. In reply, he stated that it seemed o him with the enormous amount of money ha Clemson college was geting from the fertilizer tax, that they should be able and should be the proper parties to handle this situation, without any extra tax or appropriation; that the farmers of South Carolina, who will naturally become the cattle growers, are the men who are using tlie fertilizer and paying the tax whch goes to Clemson college, and that it seems m him that from this tax should come 1 the $40,000 necessary, or whatever other amount is necessary, for the eradication of the tick. He said he could see no injustice in this, because this tax comes direct from the farmer and from him alone, as the only man who uses the fertilizer. The farmer pays this tax, said the governor, and why not let it go back to the farmer, instead of putting an extra tax on him j tor otner purposes: The governor further stated that he j thought another serious proposition ' which ought to receive careful con- ! sideration was the establishment of some place where tuberculosis patients could be properly cared for. It seemed to him, he said, that the life of a human being was certainly worth at much going to expend such, an enormous amount of money to eradicate ticks - they certainly ought to make some j provision by which they could take j care of tubercular patients This mai> ! ter, lie said, ought to foave been look- j ed into long ago, and he hoped the j next session of the general assembly I would take some definite step along I this line. There were other diseases, he said, which were secretly undermining the health and strength of not only the present but of coming generations?diseases that were kept hidden and concealed, and that there ought to be some place provided where they could be properly cared for and treated. The fathers and y mothers of this country would be horrified, said the governor, if they knew io what extent these matters are reaching and what progress is being made while every effort on earth is made to conceal it from them. The cattle tick question is by no means the most important to the people of he state today, ana wnne it snouia De cared for and properly cared for, there are other matters being overlooked which are of much more vital interest to the welfare and future of our State, said Governor Blease. THE SEWS OF PROSPERITY. Death of J. Willie Counts?Circus Day Improvement As sedation?Personal. Tfc : x X* 1 ? ? *>fT_ TT T * 1 1 _ I -rrosperuy, i\ov. xi.?iv;.r. vvime Cannon died Sunday night after an illness of several weeks, at the home of | his sister, Mrs. M. H. Boozer. Mr. Can- I non will be very much missed as he \ has always lived here, and was liked by every one. k He was a member of Grace church,: * and the funeral was conducted Mon- j day afternoon at four by his pastor, Rev. E. W. Leslie. He is survived by one sister, Mrs. M. H. Boozer, of Prosperity. Two brothers, Messrs. J. Press Cannon, of Washington, D. C., and H. Sam Cannon, of Columbia. Tomorrow, Tuesday will be circus day in Prosperity. The following will go to Columbia this week to see Ben-Hur. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Wise, Mesdames G. W. and L. W. Harmon, Mrs. G. Y, it ,. nuutex, jfii&stzo VY CIW>, r* imc Mae Wise, Martha Creighton, Mary DeWalt Hunter, Messrs. A. H. Hawkins, H. J. Rawl, A. B. W. J. and L. M. Wise. I rQute a number of Prosperity people j attended the funeral Sunday of Mr. Karl Counts in Little Mountain, who are as follows: Mr. and Mrs. E. 0. ! > Counts, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Kolin, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Wise, Mesdames Janie Reagin, A. X. Crosson, J. F. Browne, Misses Gertrude Boob, Xannie Wheeler, Willie Mae Wise and Lizette Counts. Messrs. Frank Bobb, A. B. W. J. and L. M. Wise, J| B. Ballentine, Roy Kohn, Prof. J. S. Wheeler, Rabert Counts and A. P. Birge. Miss Sadie Goggans, rural supervisor of Newberry county, organized a Rural School Improvement association Friday afternoon for the benefit of the Prosperity High school. rn maw. ? n n f nil /-vttc 1 lit; U1UUWS die its 1UUU r> o . President?Mrs. M. C. Morris. Vice president?M^s. J. D. Quattlebaum. Secretary?Mrs. C. T. Wyche. Treasurer?Mrs. G. Y. Hunter. Tuesday November 18, this assocition will serve hot and cold lunches on the public square. The proceeds will ge to the school. Mr. S. S. Birges left Monday for Asheville, N. C., to spend several days. The Misses Kawi ana miss Zienean, of Columbia, are the guests of Mrs. M. C. Morris. Mrs. Julia Quattlebaum, of Statesboro, Ga., is spending awhile with her son, Mr. J. D. Quattlebaum. Mesdames Rainey and Roche have returned to Columbia after a short visit to our town. Miss Sadie Gossans, of Newberry, visited Mrs. C. T. Wyche last week. Mr. Fred Scott, of Kentucky, has been visiting his father, Mr. J. P. 1. Scott. Mrs. Oxner has returned to Columbia after a visit to Mrs. John Crosson. Mrs. J. S. Wheeler spent Saturday in Newberry. Mr. A. Hart Kohn, of Colunioia, vicito/j Mr X R Wisp last week. Miss Mary Lou Moore, of Lexington, is visiting Mrs. G. S. Rikard. Mr. and Mrs. Furman Dominick, of Newberry, spent Sunday with Mrs. W. L. Dominick. Mesdan^f Q. Y. hunter and E. J. DeWalt, were shoppers in Columbia lasrt week. Mr. J. C. H. Fellers, of Colony, spent Sunday with Mr. S. L. Fellers. Mrs. Alma Nance has returned rrom a visit to Mrs. Jake Dominick, of Kinards. Mr. P. L. Langford was a business visitor in Sumter last week. FOR THE SIXTH TIME BORDER CITY FALLS. Mexican Rebels Capture Juarez, Coming in Early Morning and Catching Federals Unawares. El Paso, Texas, Nov. 15.?For the sixth time in the last three years Ciudad Juarez changed governments when 2,000 rebels, led by Gen. Pancho Villa, attacked and captured the town between 2.30 and 5 o'clock this morning. Taken by surprise the federal garrison of about 400 men put up a weak resistance. So unprepared for the battle were the federal defenders that Villa's troops actually reached the centre of t'he town before a shot was fired. Although an accurate count has not been completed, it is es-nmarea inat 40 persons were killed in the fighting. The rebels lost five men, the federal dead are estimated at 30 and four or five noncombatants were killed. Among them was Charles Seggerson, an El Paso automobile driver, who was on the main street in Juarez in his automobile. ''No looting" was the order given by Villa to his men after the town u"^ anH not a single JLidU DUi i CUU\/i vu, w*.v. _ w case of looting has been reported. Guards were placed at downtown stores with orders to shoot the first man who attempted to loot. The rebels captured 125 federal prisoners, 95,000 rounds of ammunition, two field pieces and two machine guns?in addition to an im1?x 1?n-n + rv on . Q poriant, uoruei wi ?, ^ s.un j ? military strategic point. Gen. Francisco Castro, commander of the Juarez garrison, is among the missing. Ii is the general opinion that he escaped. No trace of him or his body has been found. His scabbard, sword and epaulets were in his residence, and Gen. Villa has them for souvenirs. El Paso police this afternoon thought they had captured Gen. Castro in El Paso, but the prisoner proved to be a colonel from the Juartz garrison. He was sent to Fort Bliss a prisoner. Bullets fell thick in El Paso during the attack, and Chester L. Burnett, a messenger boy, was shot and killed. | TO ATTEND FLORIDA MEETING. Got. Blease and Col. Domiuick tVill Leave This Week?Comment From 0<*ala Paper. ' Special to The Herald and News, j Columbia, Nov. 17.?Governor [ Blease expects to go to Jacksonville j this week to attend the annual convention of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways association. The governor regards this meeting as of great im portance to South Carolina. He will be accompanied by Assistant Attorney General Dominick, who is one of the three delegates from this State. The two other delegates are Hon. J. Elmore Martin, of Charleston, and Hon. M. O. D. WMte, of Beaufort, and it is hoped they will both be able to attend also. I Speaking of the coming of Governor Blease to Florida, the Ocala Evening Qfor nf Mnvpmhftr 10. savs edi XU^ KJ tUl j v/i. ? > w , ?. torially: "Cole Blease, the governor-of South Carolina, is coming to Jacksonville. He will be here attending the waterways convention November 18. Men have maliciously slandered Cole. Blease who, in my opinion, is one of the biggest and best men in the South. A protector of womanhood against the most shocking crimes against them in the Southland, he should be loved and honored by all men who love | their wives and daughters. Jtiis heart is with the masses and he is an unrelenting foe to special privilege. | South Carolina are numerous in Florida and they will gladly greet the distinguished son of their native State. Floridians, too, should unite in giving | glad welcome to the great Southerner ! who has shown himself still possess I ed of all the noble characteristics of the true Southern gentleman wfao has oombatted the machinations of 'the [corrupt influences and who has been I a great factor in the upholding of i law. Men may abuse Cole Blease, but honorable men, who read his record, and then do so. should bow their heads i in shame. Cole. Blease is a great asI set to Southern manhood, and Flori (la snouia give mm a ruusmg when he comes.?Dixie. "Blease lias "been more abused than any other man in the United Sta:es, [but one of his next door neighbors I told the Star that in his home 'town and district he was the friend of every man who needed a friend, and the secret of his popularity lay in his unswerving devotion to any person or cause that !he believed to be in the right." D. A. R. TO ROCK HILL. j . Fund Started For Patriotic In- . dnstrial School. Columbia, November 14.?Rock Hill was selected today for the 1914 conference of the Daughter of the American Revolution. The meeting will be held the week commencing November 15. I Bennettsville and Greenville extendI ed invitations also, but Rock Hill won out. The invitation from that city was pesented by Mrs. T. L. Jackson. The conference to-day endorsed compulsory education for South Carolina. It is likely a compulsory education bill will be introduced at the next session of the general assembly. Mrs. Robert M. Bratton, of Yorkville, resigned as vice president for South PamUna in thp national organization ; of the D. A. R., and Mrs. F. Louise < Mayes, the retiring State regent, was chosen for this high honor. | A fund of $135 was pledged from the floor of the conference, and tbe remainder of a $600 fund left over from (the Wjllard School, from which sup! port was withdrawn, was given to; ward a fund for patroitic education. IA committee was named to select a site for a patriotic and industrial ed j The State conference announced cooperation with the Rebecca Motte ; Chapter, of Charleston, in regard to the memorial buildng the Government : has entrusted to that chapter, and ' the State regent will confer wth the regent of the Charleston chapter with regard to plans for this building. The Herald and News is a paper worth reading. The contest prizes are prizes worth winning. Each contesj.? t. i? ? or lo/^tr wnrth vmir ?iin U111C JS a juuuq ia.vij ~ port. Each merchant that shows his liberality by donating these special weekly prizes is worth his weight in gold. It will be worth your while to subscribe for The Herald and News / to help your favori**. win a valuable prize and always trade with a liberal merchant. Take the children to Robinson's, the home of Santa Claus. FIFTEEN KILLED AND OVER A HUNDRED INJURED i Packed With Passengers Three Rear Cars of Excursion Train Swing From Kails. Eufaula, Ala., Nov. 13.?Fifteen persons were killed and more than a 100 injured, some of them fatally, early to.day, when three coaches of a Central ! of Georgia passenger train left the ; rails at a point 17 miles South of here 1 and plunged down a steep embankj ment. The train which consisted of five cars, crowded with excursionists, was en route from Ozark, Ala., to Eufaula, where a fair is being hely. The indentified dead are- Pomp Outsey, aged 60, superintendent of the jBarbou county poor house at Clayton; I Monroe Floyd, aged 60, Clayton; Miss i Bonnie Brock, aged 18, Clio; child of B. F. Brock, Clio; Wash McRae, aged 70, Clio; Mrs. Alto Adams Elamville; Lennie Fryer, negro, Clio; Maude Mc-! Rae, negro, Clio; Sack Peak, Clayton; i | three negroes (unindentified). Among those who escaped with minor injuries was -Jefferson B. Clayton, a wealthy Alabamian and brother | of f United States Representative Henry D. Clayton of this State. Prominent People Hurt. Other prominent persons among the injured were: Sheriff Teal and Will Teal, Clayton; Mrs. M. McGilvary, j Claytton; C. C. Teal and wife, Clayton, ! Andrew Teal, Clio; Wash McRae, Clio; (Mrs. Fannie McRae, Clio; Simon Mc -v * . T Hf TT *tae, L<ouisviiie, aia., j. ivi. yyusuu, Eufaula; Henry Johnson, Clayton. A broken rail is said to have been the cause of the accident. As the crowded excursion train rounded a curve the three cars at the rear liter-: ally packed with passengers, suddenly 1 left the track and breaking away from ' the others dashed down the steep embankment. The wrecked coaches were \ practically demolished. Shrieks and ; groans rose above the crash of the splintering timbers. Occupants of the two coaches which remained on the rails made efforts to rescue hundreds who were caught under the mass of wreckage. Word of the disaster quickly reached Clayton, (Ala., three miles ' away, and relief trains, bearing surgeons and nurses, were dispatched I ' from Ozark and Eufaula where most of the dead and iniured later were taken. Take in Victims. Many of the victims were cared for Plavton where citizens turned their | residences into emergency hospitals, j Every physician within a radius of ; many miles hurried to the scene of the | wreck and assisted in caring for the j injured. So large was the number of I victims, however, that available space ;at Clayton soon was exhausted and ; many had to be placed on cots on porches and in front yards. i Because of the isolation of the place ; where the wreck occurred, and the J confusion which prevailed, identification of the dead and injured was slow. Not until tonight were names of a majority of those killed known with certainty. I | Tonight many of the injured were j brought here from Clayton, those suf- | I fering most being rushed to local hospitals by a special train. Others were ' transported by automobiles, carriages | and other vehicles. A majority of the injured sustained bruises and cuts , from splintered wood work and glass. : There were many, however, who suffered broken bones and other hurts of a serious nature. Railroad officials tonight issued a 'statement here in which they ascribed i j the wreck to a broken rail. It was an. nounced that an investigation will be j : instituted at once by officers of the I i Central of Georgia with a view of def- j : initely fixing the blame for the accident. TV. T. (Bos$) Crews. The Clinton Gazette has a new editor in the person of Mr. W. T. Crews. If the manager and proprietor of the Gazette, Mr. J. F. Cromer, was wanting to get a man as editor who could peel the bark, tear shreds and tatters, ' o-n/1 fir* onir on/1 <?VPrV+.h i nP" OT">TVOSin2T. 1 aiiu i ip anj unu v ? v* ^ a r ?. ?1_,/ i going to the bottom of it, coming out on all sides and at the top, cracks and all, he got him. W. T. Crews is a rip saw with every tooth firm, a meat axe with a blade that never gets dull and a handle that never breaks or gets weak. And fie cuts tne meat and saws the bones when "the other fellow" shows himself. "W^ake up i 7 i j snakes, and crawl, day's abreaking.' It will be lively with "Bose'' Crews as editor of the Gazette at Clinton, in j the community and in the surround; ing territory and a, "heap of it.*' HIERTA ONLY HALF CONVINCED. England Standing by the U. S. Impresses Him Most. I Mexico City, November 14.?President Huerta's attitude toward the demands of the United States that he make way for a new government is that of one only half convinced, notwithstanding a few of his friends and political advisers are arguing, with due caution, that he accede. The reDresentatives of this element in the Cabinet conferred to-day with Nelson O'Shaughnessy, American charge d'affairs, but were given no assurances that President Wilson has unbent sufficiently to warrant hope that the negotiations will be reopened. In spite of this, however, those friends of Huerta who now are convinced that the Unted States Government is not "bluffing," believe they I will yet be able to bring about the dej sired changes in time to prevent a complete rapture of diplomatic rela1 tions. This conviction is based upon the ' fact that Washington has not put into effect its implied threat to remove the , embassy or announced any new course of action. Sir Lionel Carden, the British minister, has conveyed to Huerta an inti' 11 i il TT 9J -3 n ' _ mauon mat uie unuea otaies is in earnest in its intentions and is said to have told the provisional President that the Britsh Government is disposed to back the United States morally. Deeply Impressed. Huerta is said to have been deeply impressed when he realized that the I | Nation which he had believed would I stand by him indefinitely had joined ' one he already regarded as his enemy. ! BLEASE DOES >0T FIGUBE I> IT. Wilson Seeks to Please Senators ini Patronage Matter, Washington, November J4.?Read- | ers of The News and Courier may have noted that its Washington cor| respondent has never undertaken to | explain the 'course of the contest for the district attorneyshp and the marj shalship in terms of the president s conjectured attitude towards the candidacy of Governor Blease for the Senate. Such explanation seems gra tuitous and far-fetched. All of the evidence which has come within the ken of The News and Courier's correspondent has led him to regard the disagreement of the two Palmetto State senators over the district attorneyship as the cause of the administration's worry, and not the probable effect of this or that appointment on the Blease candidacy. There is no reason to conclude that Attorney General McReynolds recommended Weston and Sims because he did not think them the best material presented for the places. As to the president, he has taken no action whatever, and want* the senators to agree before he does so. By the same reasoning that explains the attorney general's recommendations on the theory of a desire to injure Blease, the president's failure to act on the attorney general's recommendations would be interpreted as indicating a desire to help Blease. The plain fact is that the administion has failed to reach finality with regard to the distrtct attorneyship and he marshalship because of I the president's wish to accord each senator his due, and particularly be- ' cause of his wish to retain the cordial support of each democratic senator, who has been "regular" in backing up the Wilson policies. The TM-aoiHoni' ? rinf intend to eive of pi tOlUV/UU uvvw - - w fence to either Senator Tillman or Snator Smith if he can help it; and he really cannot afford to take chances of alienating or chilling support in the senate in view of the importance of keeping a Macedonian phalanx of majority voters in readiness for use. There have been similar disagreements between senior and junior Democratic Senators in other states than South Carolina over patronage ques tions. Tne present aeauiuv-tt. wuaiu m i all probability have existed just the same if there had been no Blease. The j whole trouble came about from a disagreement between the two Senators, and the additional district bill represents an effort to solve the tie-up by providing a district in which each Senator shall have the say as to the | i offices, as is the situation in Nor'Jh j Carolina, where Senator Simmons has just rerommended a district attorney and a marshall for the eastern distrct and Senator Overman has done the same for the western district. TOY PISTOLS AND BIG CRACKERS ARE BARRED OPINION BY ASST. ATTY. GENERAL DOMINICK. Of General Interest at This Seasei and of Particular Local Interest > j Special to The Herald and News. Columbia, .\ov. i/.?ur general interest at this season of the year, when the Christmas holidays are approaching, and of particular local interest in Newberry, is ' an opinion just rendered i by Assistant Attorney General ! Fred. H. Dominick, quoting the law | barring toy pistols and big fire crack' ers. Following is the opinion of tlhe |assistant attorney general: ! "Mr. Joel S. Aiken, Mgr., "McClure I Ten Cent Company, Greenwood, S. -c- . rti_. rrruS? .a?<ua In vAy-Afrvf "uear sir; auis omuca m ! of yours of the 13th instant, in refer| ence to the sale of paper cap pistols and paper caps for same, and in which you ask whether they may be legally | sold in this State. In reply I beg to ! quote you Section 512 of the Criminal Code of South Carolina, 1912, which 'clearly prohibits the sale of such ar tides. "It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, in tihis State, to sell, keep for sale or offer for sale, or give away, any toy pistol in which caps are cartridges are used, or any caps or cartridges for such toy pistol. Every person,, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned (in case of an individual) for a term not to exceed lun tjr uajc. "In this connection I will also call to your attention Section 161 of the j Criminal Code in reference to the sale of certain firecrackers, which is as follows: "It shall be unlawful for any person, whether in his own right or as j agent, to sell, barter or exchange witih-r in the limits of this State, any firecrackers, boiib, or any kind of explos- . 4 ive crackers exceeding three inches in length and not exceeding on?-balf inch in diameter, or any kind of explosive cracker containing dynamite. ? ?~ +>?a nrnricrmc of Any one y tuu ^..v. .uw^u -this section shall, upon conviction, bepunished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment of not more than thirty days." "Hoping that this gives you the deli sired information. Iam, "Yours very truly, (Signed) "Fred H. Dominick, "Assistant 'Attorney General." A Word to the Contestants. Say, listen, as the first contest manager would s? it is or tne utmost importance to find out if the names of subscribers are to be put I on routes. Many a man will tell you j his postoffice is Newberry, or Prosj perity, or so on, when they belong oa ! some one of the routes. Now this is | important. Get that into your I heads before you go another step, bei cause it gives the mail man at The Herald and News office a great deal of extra and hard work that could be avoided. Then, also, be sure to find out if Jimmie Green, or Sammie Black, or Johnnie Brown, or Tommie White is not the same as J. R. Green, or J. W. White, or J. G. Brown, as the case may be, because it may be that J. R. Green is on the list and the Jimmie Green may or may not be the same, and it makes a difference in the office. Now be sure to get these things right. It is easy enough. Get the correct name with the initials and the postoffi.ee route. Ask them, they will not tell you until you ask, nine times in ten. Another thing. On the first of December many subscriptions expire. A subscriptions expire. A - - 3 - * ? 17 1 TWv subscription reaas: jl. kj. i.ew, a 13. You go to Mr. I. 0. Yew and he will tell you -that his time is not up until the 13th. We have told people, time and again, that it means the first of December, 1913?lDecl3 is for short and convenience. Some have novor understood it. as simple and easy as it is. But the most important is the name with the initials and the | postoffice route. Names are piling in here by the load. It is necessary to have them rigTit to avoid confusion and mistakes. One of the prizes to be given this week in the prize voting contest is on exhibition at Copeland Bros. Dry | Goods Co., the "Stor? of Quality."