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r jjk Ijjtralii and Jems. j" Entered at the Postofficc XT^w- \t *"v. C., as 2?<i class matter. f E. H. AULL, EDITOR. t i 1 ; c T-. T-W 1Q 1Q13 ' lP , UClTniuci x?/, S- " ! ( SAI) ACCIDENT. The accident on Tuesday evening, by 1 which the life of a little boy was snuf-; 1 fed out. is very sad, and everybody in J the community sympathizes with the ( family, and also the young man, who 1 happened to be driving the automobile. * According to the evidence before s the coroner and the verdict of the,1 coroner's jury, no Diame attaches to i young Mr. Brown, and for this we are truly glad, at the same time we know ! that it will be a source of sorrow to | ? him for many years. We are glad . that no one seems especially to blame ] in this unfortunate accident; at the ' ( same time it only emphasizes what j The Herald and News has tried to im- ' press upon this community for a long i ^ time. Truly we have been expecting , i some accident, especially in the street , t in which this one occurred. The driv- i ers of the autombbiles. it matters not 1 how crowded the street may be and ; i, it is a narrow one?seem to take pleasure in driving through it, and we have 1 observed the same car pass through * -> hnlf dozen times within ' UiiO OV* v* i C the hour. j * There are other lessons we might; learn from this sad accident. It too j < frequently happens that automobiles j < are turned over to men and boys who i < j | have had?no experience in handling j( them. Very few of the cars observe the or- j' ! j dinance to slow down to four miles the 1 I 1 hours at comers and the wonder is < 1- ? ??+ hoon crniio trpffpdv i x ma.i iiitJit; licit) jiul u^tu juuiv ?.? 0v._. | before this one. i1 i While we are speaking of this, it 1 might be well to call attention to the 1 ordinance which requires automobiles to stop at the intersection of Main and t Caldwell streets. That ordinance says, 1 "self propelled venicles," which in- ( eludes motorcycles. Standing on that * corner only a few evenings ,ago we c observed a motorcycle pass along at! t a speed not legs than ten miles the j f hour, and no stop was made. i * ; I There is another thing, which people , who drive cars and buggies and wag- | ( . i ons and who walk, should observe, ana that is the law which requires all ve- * hides to turn to the right. If you 1 C are meeting a wagon in the road or ^ undertake to pass a wagon, you can s never tell which way or to which side 1 of the road a wagon or buggy is go- 1 ing to turn* In the city of Newberry automobiles and wagons drfre on eith- I er side of the street and stop on eith- s er side, regardless of which direction t they are going. With the number of | c oiit/\mnhiipc that wp ha1* e now the traf- ! ^ fic laws should be strictly enforced, I, I and unless they are, we may expectL r more tragedies and more sad acci-jf dents. j1 ! * Under t/he commission form of gov-jt ernment in Orangeburg the right of i recall has been exercised and a new c ? f election ordered for the mavor and one of the commission, the charges t being that a policeman has been re- f tained on the force who is objection- c able and cruel and generally unfit for * * v : V < V* .rv or?/1 tliof tVinc? A CTQ)ltl o m D Tl Q fD 1 i iiC juu, auu uiat tii^o^ ^ i * j r temperamentally not suited for the I jobs. If the right of recall is to be j x exercised in matters of this kind it r is probable that there will be end- c jj less elections all round. Over in Sparf tanburg the same thing is being talk- | ed because there are those who are opposed to the new license law that 1 has been adopted by council and a petition is being circulated for a re- 1 a call of the entire council. That is 1 government by the people. If they \ want it it must be right. There is ( danger, however, in carrying the re- 1 call too far. 't 1 We notice that Governor Blease has t granted a parole for a prisoner from t Xewberry by the name of Parris. The parole may be entirely justifiable. We ^ do not know Parris. neither do we j know anything of the circumstances s leading to his conviction. The gover- ' 1 ernor gives out a letter from Parris, in < which he charges cruelty on the part of Capt. W. H. Sondley and Supt. D. t ' I. Griffith of the penitentiary. It would seem to us to be a very i veak position, upon which to grant j i parole or a pa don. Xo doubt ev- j i *ry prisoner in the walls of the ponientiary would write a letter charging j ruelty on the part of the officers if . le thought by doing so he could se- , ure a release from prison. We do not know, as stated, about :his particular case, but it seems to us I that/the governor should be very careful, basing his reasons for parole up)n such communications. We know i Dersonally Capt Sondley and Col.. Griffith, and we would nave to nave ! some other evidence than the statenent of a prisoner that their treatnent of any of the prisoners was inltiman or cruel. Why not drag the roads regularly md often??Lancaster News. That is the only way to get the best "esulte from the use of the split log Irag. Use it regularly and often. Drag the roads now and the win er season will lose many of its terrors for those who have to travel ;hem to church, to school, to town or o their neighbors. Let's drag the -oads then and make the people hap-, rier.?Lancaster News. That is what is needed. Drag the ^ -oads and people will have no excuse j 'or non-attendance at church, or for 'ailure to go to town. This has been i fine fall for the effective use of the 1 split log drag. __jm > <?> v <s> $> <$> <$> <$> 0- $ e> * <e> S> THE IDLER, * <$> $> <?> $><?><$><$><?><$><$> I believe that I will write one more ;ime duning the year 1913. I have not elt in the humor to write much?no. rou see I am starting out with a bad sentence right in the beginning? well, the spirit to write has not vooed sufficients of late, and I have lot written. But here goes once no re. ?o- I was reading an editorial in Judge ;he other day on "The Tango." I rec-1 con you know what that is. If you ion't I am not going to try to tell rou, for I don't know myself, furher than it is some sort of dance that ihould be excluded from polite sociey. The point I want to make by reerence to. the editorial does not have o do with the dance or "The Tango," Hit with another matter altogether. 'The Tango," it is saiu, has set the { avilized world agog?that's a good vord. Judge says that, "Biologists, lave studied the characteristics of >eoples through their dances, and scientists have labored over the pysjhology of dancing. But the tango | >eems to have involved more of j lumanity than ever danced one dance j )efore. "The Kaiser has forbidden the tan- j ?o, and Berlin society is disturbed. | fhe Vatican has denounced it, and j ;till it will be danced.'' Now, here s j lie pumi i aur vuiuiug iu. ouuoci :ontinues: "Humanity is perverse. One j vay to insure the practice of some- j hing is to attempt to prohibit it. rhere are places where these pros3riptions of the tango will be effective, and other places where the rery fact that the dance has been nterdfcted will add to its vogue." I lave often wondered to myself if hose people who were constantly try-! ng to force their fellows to do things >r who were trying to prohibit them' rom doing things ;had ever consid-1 ired this peculiar trait of human na- ! ure. Most of us can be led or in- j luenced, but precious few can be j [riven or forced. Had you ever; liought of that? And wouldn't it be tetter to lead and to influence in the ; igiit direction than to try to d;'ive. I ?r to have so many shalt nots. And hen we don't all agree, and why ; tot have respect for one anothers'I pinions? Human nature is perverse, | tnd you can't make it otherwise by i orce or shalt nots. ?o?* Then there are people who like to 1 ead or think they are leading. 1 iave almost come to the conclusion hat if I had taken the position long- j Lgo that Xewberry did not need a | )ark, for instance, that there would I lave been some one or more good citizens to have said that I was a fool, md that I didn't know what I was i ;alking about. I should have argued : hat it would cost some one some j noney to build a park, and that these j ;ood patriots who had been so for- ( ;unate as to accumulate this money [ vould be foolish to spend it for the j advancement of the community, or i 'or the pleasure and comfort and enjoyment of any one but their noble selves. It was theirs and they should keep it. It was t.heir Christian duty 'o keep it?to hoard it. Not to spend i cent of it for the enjoyment of any >ne but themselves, and to live to .hemselves alone. That's the spirit to build up a community. I should have argued, and maybe then some one would have come forward and done * ^ -? - -r-n ? ~ fi. i 1,^,1 sometning, Ulll to ian 111 aner 1 nun suggested it and pleaded for it. would be like taking up my suggestion. But ! didn't aave any more sense than to say what 1 thought would be for the general good of the community. And the opportunity is passing and there is no park yet. Away back yonder some twenty or more years ago a certain prominent business man told me that he would sometime in the future go to a few of his friends and raise the money and buy a place which he said in the course of time would come on the market, and they would turn it into a park But, alas, for the uncertainty of human life these men all passed to the great be vond Detore tne piace an quesuou came on the market, and there was no one to buy it for this purpose. Only in recent years it was sold and would have made an ideal park, right in the heart of the city. It was better fitted for such a purpose than any other. What a great thing for the community if this gentleman and his friends had put up the money for this purpose. It would have been a monument to them, and those who got their money would have been just as well oft'. Many a child would have called them blessed for such a deed of thoughtful kindness. But they aidn t. Some of their children could do it now. But they won't. And so it goes. ?o? I sometimes have tnought that if the editor of The Herald and News would come out and take the position that beautiful Rosemont did not need any attention. That the driveways were all that were needed, and that it was a useless expenditure of hard earned dollars to fix the place ud. That the fence was a beauty. In fact, there wasn't any need of a fence any way. Why the thing probably would be fixed at once. What's the use of fixing up this place anyhow? That's the last place any of you want to go. After you get there it makes no difference to you what the condition is. Why waste money on it? You need to put up that money. To save it. Of course you do. You want to be able to say you have it, and with it you are boss of this country. Why fix it up. Let it alone. There isn't any use to do anything to a place like a cemetery. Stay away from it. Let the ghosts walk. They can't hurt anybody. You need your money for other purposes. Of course you do. A people without ruins are a people without memories. "The glad hand and the winning smile are a good holiday combination." Remember that. Take it with you through the Christmas tide. It may help you to do something that some one may be able to say after you have pccs:ed on that he lives because you came his way. I hope so. The Idler. Did you ever observe that the work of a committee generally falls to the lot of one member, principally the chairman? It nearly invariably hapWe Can Supp! ? ? ? ? _ _ In All Kinc Try the 5c Cinco, LJltin and the Havana Sweet fc i rv n A. U. Kl I Ask the man flail about his ] Michigan town cars, and forty And there are n the world over n hustle for its rec ularity. I Five hundred dollai the Ford runaoout; five fifty; the town | f. o b. Detroit, cc ment. Get catalog I Summer's Garag "?rnwr mi in I The Gi Ever offered this comr save small sums. Th* much for, will now op< tofore it has required ; Our CI Which starts Decern! sums yet devised. No. 1. By depositin week, 4c the fourth w time you will have sav No. 2. In Class 2, week, and so on for 50 before Christmas for 3 I No. 3. In Class 5, p week, and so on for 50 > f* /~\1 -l-i ? O. Deiore unnscmas ior We also have class* amount, viz: 25c each ' week, all bearing jnter Would not a check f to you two weeks befo Call in and let us explj i Ever] You can join by mai ?Con j The Bank , pens that way, for. some reason or other? This being the case, Col. Walter H. Hunt has a job on his already and always busy hands in memorializing the legislature on the temperance question through the State Baptist convention. A wedding of prominence and interest will take place at "the Oaks,'' 1 ~ ~/-v nf tWt> and Mrs tne nospiiauie uumc ui hu, C. W. Buford, of Kinards, when their daughter, Miss Carrie Lee, becomes a bride at half past seven o'clock Thursday evening the 25th day of December. ly Your Wants is -of Cigars. lore, Insurgent, LaFoliwin, >r the 2 for 5 Cent Smoke. iff & Co. om Ortonville? Ford. Here's a with forty-six JP -lour are ruius. iany other towns aaking Ortonville :ord of Ford pop-s is the new price of the touring car is car seven fifty?all >mplete with equipand particulars from e, Newberry, S. C. I m reatest Opp nunity in assisting and enc } penny,' considered by most m an interest bearing bank a a dollar to do this. kristmas Savins w )er 29. 1913, is the greates g 1c the first week, 2c the se reek, and so on for fifty w< ed $12.75 plus 3 per c pay 2c the 1st week, 4c ch i weeks, and we will mail yc >25.50 plus 3 per cent >ay oc the 1st week, 10c the I i weeks, and we will mail y? >63.75 plus 3 per cent 5s in which you can depos week, 50c each week, 75c ea< est. You can pay in any ch or either of the above amour re next Christmas seem- alrr ain our plan fully to you. It fbody Invited t< i 1 and pay by mail. iiriArria liiAVl ViUJ that Always Treats I Attei Santa See onr beastifol ai Fireworks, ail k Dolls, 25c. to | Books for Child Books for Grow Hand Bags, All Writing Tablets, Perfumery. Bruj ~ 9 * Brush Sets, Fou Nunnallv Candy, Leggitt's Candy. We can suit evi V . n 1 rrices Keasonai Gilder & lortunity ] iouraging our people to people too small to care M iccount with us Hereis Club, t plan for saving small , LAAM/1 TTT/\/\lr 0/? 4-1% A jcuiiu wcca, jc uie iiiuu m jeks, at the end of that :ent interest. I e 2nd week, 6c the 3d >u a check two weeks 1 : interest. 1 2nd week, 15c the 3d rM-i r\ r- ^ttta tttaaI/C* ju a uiicurv twu wcciva m : interest, sit every week the same \ zh week, or $1.00 each iss by the month. j its, plus interest, mailed lost like finding money? j .'s simple It's easy. LJ > Join. m 1 Bank | You Right. H lion I S*1 llaus ? iid complete line of B in Leather Cases, l9S I intain Pens, H [Weeks. B