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/ "VOLIME LII, MM I! Eli 13. NE1YBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, FEBRI'A 1!Y 13, lillJ. TWICE A WEEK, fUl A HA* k THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY F" RETURNS TO ITS WORK | k vyeJ?ESI)AY WAS SPENT IX CITY f BY THE SEA. Fortner Bill is Attracting- Attention in the Senate?Some Hard Work Ahead. Special to The Herald and News. Columbia, Feb. 12.?The general assembly gets back to work today, after spending yesterday in Charleston, A large crowd went down yesterday morning and returned in the small Bhlonr? of this morning. II The Fortner bill, which has passed the house, to prohibit white people from teacling negroes, is attracting attention over in the senate, and will be threshed out. The bill may come f up today. Governor Blease has sent to the senate the following special message in regard to the measure: Gentlemen of the Senate: In view of the Fortner bill, which is now before you, I beg to call your attention to a few facts. 1 herewith attach photograph of "the faculty" of "Benedict College, Columbia. South Carollina," taken from ?he "annual catalogue*' of 1912-1913, id "which photograph you will find white and colora persons?men and women ?-mixed, and I would be glad if you V would pay close attention to this k photograph. K I have been informed that one 01 the negro preachers, whose likeness appears in this photograph as a member of this faculty, is the same man who is the pastor of a negro church in Columbia, who has recently been under charges by <his church for assaulsulting or attempting, a negro woman, man, and that this is the case which . Jias recently been before Judge G. E. Prince, in the circuit court of Rich Ptfand county, upon induction or similar proceedings brought as the result of differences among negro church members caused by the charge of this assult or alleged assult against this man I have been informed that one of the white men whose likeness appears in the photograph has been playing on I the negro foot ball team of this colg lege. I have bee a informed that the negro boys' dormitory of this institution has .a white matron, whose likeness apI pears in this photograph. I have been informed that the negro L boys in this dormitory have pictures of white girls and of white women in their rooms. I have been informed that at a retention or "scoiable." as mv infor ^ mant called it, given or held on the ^Lcampus of this college recently, white j^women teachers mingled cn terms of I equality with negro boys and negro members of the faculty, and ate reft -'reshments at the same tables. I also beg to call your attention to extracts from a letter which I have received from the town of Beaufort: ^ "The President of the Board of Beaufort. Charles E. Danner. hand bs the funds of the Matha School negro), the white teachers of which I attend negro churches with their negro H^pupils. The secretary, George Waterhouse, is the son of a woman who V came here to teach and taught in Penn School, on St. Helena Island (negro ^chool, white teachers). It was at Bj^-house's request that Gol. Thomas Kimended the appointment of mja. B. Cooley as a trustee in St. Kna township." Bfalso beg to call your attention jto Ki<^ation from another letter receivBll from Beaufort, in which it is H^tated: "One Miss Marion Harmon, No. 27 |^^?rospect Avenue, Wollaston, Mass., wie to Beaufort to teach in this Bha School, some week or two ago. B come understanding she wag to Ri a white school, and didn't know Vit was a negro institution until arrived at the school. She was H^Korced to stay in same house with AM A MA V pp tCdVUCi O, Lil CI C <Li c yvtu Koes and white teachers in this Bpl." This woman will gladly ^^Lyou some valuable information conditions existing in ^^ers are from different ^this message is to r call to ycur attention the serious condition in this State at these negro institutions where white people are ^ ! teaching. 1 notice the press has made a great hurran, and some people have had a great deal to write and say | about the Former bill. Knowing con| ditions as I do, having seen with my 1 j own eyes and having heard with my own ca: s, ana navuig wisra 10 pfupit*, I say tc you gentlemen that the situation is a very serious one. The matter of a few white women teaching ' negroes in the city of Charleston may " not be so bad, and I shall not express, in this communication, my opinion as ot wnat I think of any white woman t who will teacli negroes anywhere. But the conditions in Charleston are i possibly quite different from what ) they are in :hese schools where white ; people are teaching neg' oes. sleeping L in the same rooms with negroes, eat i ing Nat the same tables with negroes, : going to the same church with negI roes, and associating with them generally?which is teaching the negro | [to look forward to social eauality, and ; which is putting in their hearts, as . the pictures of these white women j hanging in their rooms show, their i ! desire to come into closer contact with j j white people. , ; The preachers?some of them?and | I tho npwsnaDers?some of them?may i, I * ' . . . r , ! rant, but South Carolina is going to regret the day when she allows these j i conditions, and if these conditions con- j ; tinue you will have more lynchings, and. more stigmas upon the fair name . of our State. < . I appeal to you once again to pass : the Fortner bill. If Charleston is so terribly interested in her pet white teachers who teach negroes, let i Charleston be exempted from the bill. < She seems to be exempted from all other laws in this State, and I don't see that it would do any harm to make < her an exception in this matter. i As governor, I have sounded the note of warning. I have done my : ' | part, if ycu fai^ to dp yours, you and : . i you alone are responsible. Some of . ! you will not be in office when t*ie leg - j islature convenes again, but it is a j fact that you have a heart ar.d a con 1 science, and by not helping to relieve \' . | these conditions the day may come ; I when you will regret it. il There are sections of South Carolina i where things that are being permitted j in other sections would not be allowed j any longer than it would take to blow a horn and congregate a few people. < Very respectfully, i (Signed) Cole. L. Blease, Governor. 1 Columbia, S. C., Feb. 10. 1914. 1 House Kills College Merger. Tae house on Tuesday night by a vote of 65 to 36 killed the Lumpkin joint resolution providing for the merger of the College for Women with the University of South Carolina. The bill was under debate for nearly four hours at the morning and night ses- ' sion, and its end came when the house adopted Mr. C. C. Wyche's motion to strike out the enacting words. The iMoLaurin warehouse bill was advanced to third reading in the sen^ ^? ? ,1: iv _ x -1-1- . \ cite uuucj aii uuucrautuaiug UiilL IU? test vote will be taken there. Notice of general amendments were given. The debate lasted the entire night, with Senator McLaurin making what . is regarded as the final speech on the bill. 3 Tlie Negro Race Conference. r The sixth annual session of the negro race conference of South Caro- j lina, of which Richard Carroll is 1 president, or what you might call a conference for the common good, meets in Columbia, February 18 and con- 1 tinues in sesssion to the night of February 20. Able speakers from both races are on the programme. Col E. J. Watson, commissioner of agricul- 1 ture for South Carolina and J. W. Thomas, of Bennettsville, will address ( the farmers. J. LaBruce Ward, M. D., will address negro physicians. Re- ( duced rates, on account of the meeting of,the great Lutheran conference of the Southern States, which takes place in Columbia the same week, will < also be granted to all persons desir- ' ing to attend the race conference. Dr. < B. F. Riley, of Birmingham, Ala., one of the most prominent on "The Re- I lation of the White People of the South to the Negro." This conference is us- I ually attended by great crowds and is 1 , helpful to t;he colored people. V_ <$' ?' <?> i' <i> <?> ? ^ i' v5* 3> <$* '?> <4VAK10US AND ALL ABOUT. <?> < , '5> Comments and Clipping; by the t> Local Reporter. <J> e> < > < > 4- f- >3*- ^ <?' <?> ' <?> <3> We confess that our respect for the ground hcg has increased considerably sin po February 2.?Anderson Mail. The ground hog is beL:g ^cognized and getting his dues. He owes his success and popularity to the newspapers. as does many another. ? Jj: The president today nominated for district attorney 'Fiances H. Weston, Columbia, and Tnited States Marshal, James L. Sims, Orangeburg'?Washing nn t-wo + /->Vi T5\shrMia rv Q lUii A v w* ut4* ^ v No place in Souu Carolina is more interested in tins news than Newberry. * * * "Street car strikes auto."?Headline in Anderson (Mail. That street car auto be fined for striking the auto. What right has a big street car striking a little auto mobile"/ Way siiouict it striH.e me thing? .It ought to have stopped and given the 'mobile chance to get out of the way. ? The trouble with this week is that it brings Valentine's day.?Greenville Piedmont. You are getting old, man, and this shows it. The yoirng folks will enjoy it Saturday. * * * ^ ? * '? ? *? r? - f a f A r? AVCf/iT?0 vjrcL up a suuu ap^ciuc w: o, ice cream and cake, and salad, course of course, by Friday night and attend the Valentine entertainment, when you will be entertained by j'.ie members of Calvin Crozier chapter, U. D. C., in the store room lately vacated by Mr. E. M. Evans. "A word to the wise is sufficient" (at least it ought to be) [or this occasion. r * * Lcok out for sore arms.?Green'ville Piedmont. You dou't have to look out for them, they are showing themselves. * t- * Question of the hour: Have you been vaccinated in the past five years? ?Greenville Piedmont. Appropriate question. Those who lave not been ought to be. This is a ferv imuortnat question and should be attended to without further delay. The small por will linger until there has been a general vaccination, and the sooner it is done the better it will be. [t has been too long neglected. # * * More people have been vaccinated cflnm I A lip ft?Am .U.CL 11 * C71 UUVi C, 11 IV UO U VU1 Jie way some of them are "flocking" :o the doctors. I^cts of people are getting scared and are letting their irms become scarred. Some of those tvho have taken are decorated with Deautiful little scabs. * * Poor roads are much more expensive than good ones.?Lancaster News. Everybody knows this except the rery ones more directly interested. * * * The weather forecast for the week is in accord with the prophecy^f the ground hog.?Lancaster News. rrn j i f _ i 11 i ne grounu nog is Becoming as wen inown as the Dutch weather prophet, rhe Dutch weather prophet and the ground hog ought to form a combina:ion and publish an almanac. * * * ? Have you done your Valentine shopr>incr vaf'? T.'in/'Qctor Vqtvo ?7 v w uuuuukJbvi ?. ^ \* i? u. If you haven't, shop early. * * * One sure sign the world is growing better is that we seldom see lightning rod agents nowadays.?Lancaster News. It has been a good while since any }f them have been seen in Newberry. * * * Granted. narry maw may not De dangerous, but he should be made to suffer :he punishment he deserves."?Lancaster News. Why are you hard on rhaw? Wouldn't you be trying to regain your liberty if imprisoned? asks rhe Newberry Herald and News. Perlaps so, but society is interested as ivell as Thaw.?Lancaster News. We admit your contention, but Thaw, like every other individual, is an infinitesimal atom in the great body of society, a mere speck on the horizon of life, a drop on the ccean of time and a bubble in the immensity I of space. * * * Go to the carnival.?Chester News. That's what you say. Some people don't say that. That is a mere matter of how you look at.it before you see it* ? ? | They may say what they please about Dr. Babccck, but let's not overlook the fact that he lias done South Carolina great good in the matter of the pellagra disease. * * * Tt hoc hppn sfatpd that some neo pie go to a moving picture show because it doesn't make them think. Others go because it does.?Greenwood Journal. It may be that seme of the Greenwood people go because they think it makes them think. This is just what we think or what we think we think, c * * Greenwood wants the trolley line to Johnston.?Greenwood .Journal. There is a way to get it, but it L.kes some people a long time to find the way. We wish those places that want the trolley and are always talking abcut it could get it. * * * What does all this asylum talk amount to? What is it all about? It is making mountains out of moie hills and much to do about nothing much. It is enough to make a well man crazy and lunatics worse. We wonder what the inmates would think about it if t'iiey couM grasp it. " * * * Horse talk.?Headline in Anderson Mail. Wonder if Jordan .Green has been j in Anderson this week talking to the Mail editor. * * * Question Box: What is the quickest time ever made in putting a bridge ill position'.'?question 111 sparianDurg Journal. Come over to Xewberrv and talk with Mr. Monroe Wicker or Mr. Bill Hill or Mr. John Henry Chappell aud you will learn lots about the quickness and durability of putting bridges in position. * * The doctors of the State have again shown their generosity and their public spirit in their promise to undertake the matter of the inspection of tViq cr?hrw\lc in hnnrl frvr fchp fitatp and charge nothing for it, being satisfied if they can prevent the spread of disease and contribute to the welfare of the people.?Florence Times. We are alwaysglad to copy anything pleasant about the doctors, as Newberry doctors are among the leaders in the State. None in the State are better known than some of them from Newberry. * * The well known hobo "A. No. 1," who some time ago was reported j killed, has recently married. That re! minds us to wonder wftere A1 Edwards is by this time. It will be recalled that Edwards was in Newberry in May 1912, with his little wheelbarrow. He was on a tramp to visit the capital in each State of the Union within three years, starting from Indiana in Sep tember of 1911. * * Now is the time for the mothers of little children to give the old time remedy of sulphur and molasses for the It seems that some States have a purifying of the system. * * * class of people called anti-vaccinationists. It is a wonder they don't turn it into a political organi ation. * * ? The case of Wade Perry was cited in our last issue. He is a drayman and was fined for soliciting passengers " V ft n m i rt A inof V?/\ iur a LlCL\JI\.LUdll, YY UltU 133 agauio L. tuvs law as laid down. That alters the case. A drayman is not allowed to solicit business for a hackman. He must attend to his own business, which is a good rule. * * * News of the illness of Dr. 0. T. Wyche, speaker pro tern of 'the house of representatives, will be received with regret wnerever:iieds.Jmownt;Pr. ] Wycne has been for many years a r?p- ' resentative from Newberry county and ( lias always stood for the right. It is earnestly hoped that his illness will not prove as serious as at first thoug.it.?Greenville Piedmont, 7th. * * An honest man is the noblest work of God, but a good road is a noble wo'k of man.?Gaffney Ledger. If you keep on you will say something after a while. * * * f | A right-handed writer named W rignt, j In writing "write"' always wrote "rite." Where he meant to write "right," If he'd writte% "right" right, Wright would not have wrought rot writing "rite." ?Exchange. I * * * i j J Who was it said that a wise man I should never write a letter and never I destroy ore??Columbia Record. ; * * * Some newspapers refer to the split ! log drag almost as often as they do | the split skirt.?Greenwood Journal. ! VftiiP nf voiir insinuations. * * * .lolln Lind, we take it, agrees "with | the president's plan of lifting the em| bago on arms.?Greenwood Journal, i They ought to lift the embargo on j Lind's tongue. * $ * j | ii is nara ior some peopie iu uuuei; stand \vh? President Wilson is doing ! t'l^e honest thing in the Panama canal ' toll business.?Greenwood Journal. i Xot hard for honest men. * * * i j The Weather Man may yet vindicate ; the ground hog.?Greenwood Journal. ! Mr. G. Hcg may yet come in for his \ own. ? * * * ^ 1 1 fa n *-? r? i n rr/s AUIUI u:cs ctiitri 111a iitu mai ua6^. ! ?Headline in daily paper. I Time. * * * Some errors are not worth correcting. The intelligent reader can al( ways understand, while often the unintelligent couldn't understand the correction and would need an explanaj tio.i of the whole thing from the bej ginning. * * * | What in the world has become of Harry Thaw, and will the Parr Shoals mystery ever be cleared up? I * * We haven't time in this life to culti- j vate grouches towards folks.?Irving j P. Johnson. ' *j It is a pity more of us are not that way. * * * We have traits that are very disagreeable to other people, of which we ourserves a,re suuiiiiici/ uuwu^ivus. : ?Irving P. Johnson. If each of uis could only realize I this. . * * * Small pox situation is well in hand, [ say health authorities. Official says | there is no epidemic in this city.? Headlines in'Greenville News, 12th. That is the way it is in the various sections of the State. We breathe easier now. BASDIT EXECUTED I i i Castillo Said to Have Been Shot,? Cangrht By Cavalry. i El Paso, Texas, Feb. 11.?Maximo I Castillo and six of his followers were j captured and executed Monday near J Chocolate Pass, about 45 miles j northeast of Pearson, Chihuahua, according to telegrams received today by Franisco Villa in Juarez. Ttio mociffDc a'orp spnt from Oasas a ix^ iuvc ?? - ?? Grandes, he said, by rebel officers. A detachment of rebel cavalry under Maj. Juan Samaniego surrounded Castillo's band near the pass, it was reported, and captured seven of them, includng Castillo. Referred to the Genial Doctors in dewberry. Exchange. A big German once came to a doc tor In a state or tearrui anxiety regarding the state of his wife's health After explaining the ways in which she was "no good no more," t<ie disturbed man said: "I haf lost me alretty this year mine best cow, mine best horse, mine dog und.six sheeps, und -if-miae- vife die Ivill haf me hardly an animal left on mine place." BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLE'S UNION OF SOUTH CAROLINA Eighteenth Annual Session to be Held in (ireenville, S. C., February 17-19, 1914. I J Special to The Herald and News. Greenville, Feb. 12.?The 18th ani nual session of the Baptist Young ! People's union of South Carolina will | be held with the Pendleton Street J VUU1 Uil, Ui. tills ^ 1'CUlUaiJ JLI-JL.7, inclusive. Mrs. S. V. Parks, 110 Leach street, will be glad to make ample provision for the entertainment of all who may go, either as delegates from unions, or as repre: sntatives of the young people of churches having no union, or merely as visitors to the convention. This, promises to be one of the most largely attended sessions in the 18 years history of the convention. The Rev. C. E. Burts, of Columbia, is pres- , ident; Mr. J. G. All^n, of Columbia, is eecretary. The following is th>e programme: Tuesday Evening, February 17. 8?Devotional services?W. D. ! Wakefield, Columbia. 8:30?Address of welcome. Rei sponse. 8.50?Our Young People and the : Great Commission?E. S. Alderman, j Spartanburg. | 9:2()?Organization. Social gathering. Wednesday Morning, February 18. 9:15?Class in B. Y. P. U. Manual? W. E. Wilkfns, Greenville. 10:15?Devotional services?W. D. Wakefield. \ 10:45?-Three minute reports?'By delegates. 11:45?The pastor and his Young People?W. C. Allen, Latta. ' 12?The Call of the Hour?J. A. I Davidson, Camden. ; 12:20?Address?H. L. Strickland, j Birmingham, Ala. v j 12:5.0?Miscellaneous business. | 1?Adjournment. i Wednesday Afternoon, February 18. j 3?Class in B. Y. P. U. 'Manual?W. E. Wilkins. 3:45?'Devotional services?W. D. [Wakefield., 4.10?Demonstration of Devotional Meeting?Central Baptis* church B. Y. P. U? Greenville. ' n -w 1 5?Adjournment. Wednesday Evening, February 18. 8?Song service?W. D. Wakefield. 8:15?Devotional Address?E. M. Pot eat, Greenville 8:30?Address?C. M. Faithful, Anderson college, Anderson. 8:50?Address?H. L. Strickland. 9:30?Adjournment. Thursday Morning, February 19. 9:15?Clas6 in B. Y. P. U. Manual? I W. E. Wilkins. I r> o : *TTf r\ ri'.l.. jlu:io?cxnig oerviue?-vv. u. *vaa.efield. } 10:30?Devotional Address?Geo. W ; Quick, Greeiki ille. 10:45?Round Table Conference? j Overcoming B. Y. P. U. Difficulties? I Led by J. G. Allen, Columbia. 11.15?Address?H. L. Strickland. 11:45?Our Young People in the Colleges?T. V. McCaul, Clemson col| lege. [ 12?The Skilled Workman?E. J. Smith. Greenwood. | 12:20?'The B. Y. P. U. as a Traini ing Agency?Discussion. Led by J. C. Spivey, Conway, and E. H. Johnston, Anderson. 12:40?Report of eexecutive committee. Miscellaneous business. 1?Adjournment. Thursday Afternoon, (February 19. 3?Devotional services?W. D. Wakefield. 3:15?Demonstration of Missionary Meeting?First Baptist church B. Y. P. U., Columbia. 4:15?Our Young People and Mis sions?K. W. L?iae, Darlington. 4:'30?Adjournment. Vifeit to colleges. Thursday Evening, February 19. 8?Song service?W. D. Wakefield. 8:15?Devotional address?A. B. Kennedy, Columbia. 8:30?Young People and Evangelism?J. S. Dill, Gaffney, 8.50?-Presentation of banner. Closing words. Final adjournment. He has a greasy, oily way? Our saponaceous host; -He- rose and gave what I should call a Duuerea xoaei. ?iJudge. 1 <