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Hie ||erali) anil jem Entered at the Postoffice at Newibwry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, January 25, 1915. ? I " J A PERSONAL STATEXEXTE. The 7tli of March, 1915, would have marked 28 years of my connection with The Herald and News as, nominally at least, part owner. During all these years my name has "been at the head of the editorial1 column as editor. 1: had become part of my life. My best years have been spent in an j i ii r\ noAnlo A" m V ! SriAVi L IV/ SCI V C liiC v. ill,- j and my county. I have served no master except what I conceived to bx. my duty and the right. Ail these years I nave labored under the burden of debt. The creditors -as a rule have been kind and indulgent and considerate. The business has grown and has been conducted with no commercial capital. We have constantly added to the equipment and today I believe we have as complete plant as any newspaper in a country town in the State. I have been a poor collector. At one time I charged off the books between twelve and fifteen thousand dollars in subscription accounts that were due and which have never been paid. The plant which the company ha's 4- TT- ^ 1 nn/1 -Pi ft On Y"? t Vl AllC VJU&L UCL ?'? CCil mci?c auu iiiivtu and dollars. The debts are not near that amount. Two of the mortgage creditors said during the fall that they must have their money. I made every effort to shift the debt but could no;. Then T called a mee+>"ng of the creditors and asked if they would cooperate with me r*nd I would make every effort to pay the debt, or at least :edue3 it uniII limes improved, whiu wo might find a purchaser at something near the com g! the equipment aa.i thus be able to pay the amount due. That if the property were forced on the r-arket now it would be dIPicult to find a purchaser aud it would not bring enough to pay the j eights and I would ha\e nothing left. But if they nv.-st Lave their money they would have to take the property, j and in that event I was willing to turn j it over and save the cost of a law- j suit and sue}! expenses as attach. A!) j I of the c reditors seemed willing to cooperate except one of tne mortgagees ?nd, of course, without unanimous ^ agreement nothing ccjld be done. I , fealized that during the past several ; weeks I was not ga ting out such a : i-aper as I should, and I did not want 1 to accept money on subscriptions wiih ' The possibility of the paper being dis- . continued, and I knew* the moment it ( was discontinued its commercial value < was decreased. ' l fet-'l that 1 have done everything 1 that 1 co'iid. and as there seemed no . prospect of agreement, and to con- ] tinue as we were was to do so at a < loss, at my request the holder of the 1 iirst mortgage, the t^rms of the mort- J z<ige being broken, hks authorized Mr. A. McSwain as its agent to take ... 1 charge o: the property covered bv t*e i mortgage, and on Saturday night at 7:30 o'clock he came in the office and fook charge of the plant covered by the mortgage held by the Carolina Life Insurance company of Columbia. And ' c t:is is not the creditor that was demanding payment. I was given per- t mission to use the plant to get out this < i*sue o: The Herald and News. i1 This is a brief statement of fact i1 ] which I feel that I should make to my friends in Newberry county. I have ho doubt but that the paper will be < continued and all subscriptions made < rood. If not some time in the future < I will make them good. The Herald and News is one of the oldest newspapers in the State. It ; has a record back to the fifties of the < last century. I have been with it 1 longer continuously than any other one man, except Mr. H. M. Bareger, , v. ho has been with the office since before the war. We go out together. I i regret the condition which makes this necessary but I can't help it. In March. 18S7 Mr W P Housea! and I purchased the paper from Mr. ; A. C. Jones. Seven years later I bought out Mr. Houseal. Seven years .'ater I formed the Elbert H. Anil comi any and now the other sev ^i years period ends. I I:" the creditors had accepted m\ proposition and had been willing U give me their cooperation, as I re quested, when they said they had t( have their money, I am satisfied un der the plan proposed we could hav< worked the debts out "and ever}- on< would have gotten every dollar due They saw it otherwise and as I an willing to grant they are better busi ness men than I am, I am. making n< protest against the course they havi taken. Personally I have no money and n< plans for the future. I shall rest < few weeks and await developments To those who have been good to me and I must say they are more thai I deserve, I express my grate.ul ac knowledgments and hope their goo: will has not been misplaced. To thos' who have knocked and said unkim things I have no word of censure bu wish they mighty well. "Mv "hemp had hppn that. T mierht b< able to round out my life as edito of the old Herald and News. I hav< had other and flattering offers t leave Newberry but have always de cline!. It seems that destiny has de creed that Z shall not have my wisl gratified. 1 ;tm making no complaint If I liad been a more exacting busi ness man possibly it would have beei otherwise, but I have all my life beej an E. Z. mark. The property of the Elbert H. Aui company to(?av is worth several thous and dollars more than it owes, but i put on the n'arket for a cash sale i will bring several thousand dollar less than it owes. That is the reaso: I tried to reason with the creditor and get them to agree to some sor of cooperation to bring the busines through ~hese stressing times, bit ccu'd not gw them all to agree am cf course it *ould have been of avail to have some of them go aheawith the others not cooperating. An: the creditors are very few. But the; are business men and men of larg< I affairs and I am not. They no dou:^ know best. Elbert H. Aull. Tf hflc hdPn morp than a half cen tury since the old Herald and New: failed to make its regular visits to tn< homes of the people of Newberry. THE HERALD AND NEWS. We deplore the fact that our loca' cotemporary, T^e^Herald and News, is in financial straits, and, as appears b> advertisements in this paper, will have to be sold for debt. It is a good newspaper, and has o:,e of the best plants in the State. Col. Aull, who has been the editor and publisher for more thau a quarter of a century, is an able writer and editor, a id understands th? printing business; but, like many others, he was rui ning on borrowed zapita*, and the i?ard times of* Che past six months has been very, very ~:ard en newspapers. The Herald and News will be resumed ag&in of course, and we would .ike to see matters so arranged th^J " nl F) "H Anil, our colaborer for so nany years in the Newberry newspaper vineyard, may be at the helm igain.?Xewberry Observer. This is very nice of you and I appreciate your kind reference to me nore than word* can convey, E. H. A. DRAGGING THE ROADS. The cheapest good roads maker }ver invented is the drag. If you lon't want impassable roads in Febndarv and "Miaroh. beein dragging hem now. Send to the United States lepartnient of agriculture, Washing:on, D. C., :or a free copy of Farmer's Bulletin Xo. 321, "Split Log Drag on Ea.th Roads.*' Also demand :bat your legislature make proper provision for paying farmers for dragging roads. Here is the gospel road dragging as given in a single paragraph by !.Mr. D. Ward King, inventor of the now celebrated split iog good roacte maker: "It's not the water that falls on your road that does tie harm, but Lhe water that stays on it. After you grade your road the surface is still composed of porous dirt. This absorbs water. Either you drive at on<: side or you drive at the top and cul it up. You know the kind of mud you find in a hog wallow. It is like wet cement. You could fashion a water-proof vessel from it. This sam* :ine dirt is found on a traveled road If it is not dragged after rains it is like a long basin, holding the water, later hardening into a rough, hump}' surface. Drag the road after a rail' r " C*V\ A rv f V> T ?-. 10 17 A."T? rvp +"hlC e iiu ?*vu <x acij w v/j. wiic fine dirt over the surface and it is beaten down. Drag it after the next rain an5 you put on another laye: * whirh is also packed down. Kce.j I ) | this up and after a while you will j _ i have a road, higher in t'"-e middle! than on the sides and covered with ! an 18-inch or 2-foot smooth, hard crown that will shed all water. - Using a simple drag is the only sug? gestio'n yet made that will not make a road worse "before it makes it better. Never drag up more at one time than can be packed down by the traffic."?^Edgefield Chronicle. 5 We believe The Herald and News is ? the pioneer in the advocacy of the split log drag among the newspapers of this 3 State. "Wle advocated the use o.' the A drag before we had ever seen one used ' or before there w*as one in Newberry '' county. The first time we heard of 1 the simple device was at a meeting *j of some kind held at Greenwood 3 J some years ago. We do not recall j now just wiiai c~e naiure 01 cue meei31 ing was but we recall that the super11 visor of Newberry county was present and Mr. Thorne, who died recently at Greenwood, had a model of |he r ' drag at the meeting and made a talk s on road building and pointed out th^ > advantage of the drag. He had just come to Greenwood at that time an-.! knew Mr. King personally and told about the fine roads that had been '* 11 c;.p <-yf thp> drAS'. OFrom that time on The Herald and News has said something about the J drag in nearly every issue that we have printed. * In coming on the train the other day we noticed tkat the drag had been f used on the Columbia road from Little t Mountain on towards Newberry. We s $ understand that Supervisor Sample is 3 , ? ? ? ??? a /V ? + /il ! * + n Zi | going 10 arrange iu cuuuo,vi ?im tut S ( i farmers along the public roads to have them, all dragged regularly. If he s does this we will soon have some pasI I ^ ; sable roads in Xewberry coun . It is what we have advocated :'or ^ years and pay these farmers for the work and require that it be done propi 1 erly. j Then place your chain gang on perinanent work and if your gang is r f large enough have one section on I bridges. / Systematic and intelligent direction - of t'ze forces will be a great saving 3 of money and will accomplish results i worth while. I The boys in the office have been ; loyal and are efficient and one of the ^ regrets in connection with the tem' porary suspension of The Herald an*i f News is they, too, will be out of jobs , j , " . i iTVinm Vioe Vioon r?nl\r f>Tld Sl7Tlfla.V ill I > | ii IIT;I U xid-0 ? ^ 11 about two months on which we have had sunshine, but we know that the 1 sun is shining- somewhere and we , should be glad for that. IThe year 1915 is going to be a goo3 : year for business. ^Fhe man who is ' permitted to stick it out :or the next ! I c ~ TT-ill lccfflTlo ivf tiprvn - it v> JJLlVilLUUJ Will ITOi XI itowviio v?i ^ ~ omy and when business revives, as it !> will in the fall, he will prosper. ^w. < (The news item which we print in re- < gard to the death of Mrs. Susan Keitt < n is mistaken in 5>aying that Prof. Thorn-" i as W. Keitt was fcer brother. As we ] understand the relationship Colonel i Ellison S. Keitt and Colonel Lawrence 1 ML Keitt, the husband, were brothers. MY BOO IS DYING. j My faithful old dog Uno was laken , | sick on c>unaa.y aim is nut ca^c^v-cu ^ to live through the day. In his deatii ( I feel that I am losing the best friend ^ l ever had. Me was .faithful and kin*' , ! and always glad to see me. But such is life. One by one we all have to answer the call to the Great Beyond. . E. H. A. 1 H-cw would it do to pass a curfew : , law in this State, while we are pronnsirvcr ,r> m^nv laws to reeulatft the l conduct of individuals. This thing of keeping late hours at night is ahout as bad as anything we know. Say . that you have curfew ring at 9 o'clock and every one found on the street af' ter that iour be subject to arrest. Suppose we do something worth while ' while we are at it. There & little doubt that the leg- : ; islature will* pass the prohibition re- . , ferendum bill and that the people will J \ote State wide prohibition. Still we 1 cannot help being of the opinion that : for the caus-* of real temperance and :.inal prohibition it would be better to do neither. This is no time to be torn up by elections and strife inei dent thereto. We make bold to sa .his knowing tr.e intemperate prohibi tionist.i will write us down as in favo of liquor. Governor Manning has issued proclamation revoking the commis sion of all constables, detectives an law agents and calling upon and ex pressing the belief that the officer of the various counties were enforcin the law. That seems to be the cus torn of ail governors. We remembe that come dozen years ago when th State constabulary was in force tha Governoi McSweeney issued a simila proclamation and wrote personal lei ters to the sheriffs and magistrate throughout the State, asking them t cooperate in the enforcement of th dispensary law for which the Stat constabulary had been created. It -a not long, however, before the Stat constables were reinstated or ne1 ones appointed. I? Gov. Manning can issue a procla mation declaring illegal and void proclamation issued by his predeces sor as to the National Guard, wh could he not by the same process c reasoning issue a proclamation declar ing illegal and void a proclamation b his preiecessor granting a full pai don to certain paroled prisoners ut on certain conditions. We do not se t:.e difference in principle. We understand that the attorne general rendered an opinion that Go' Blease had a legal right to issue hi proclamation disbanding the militi< Gov. I.Manning says he had no leg? right to issue such proclamation. W suppose Gov. Manning received his If gal opinion from some other sourc because it is scarcely possible that th attorney general would so soon r< verse himself in a legal matter. And ;t would seem if t?e governc had the right to disband one compan he would have the right to muste cut two or more or all the companiei And it was on this point that the dii ference arose between Gov. Blease an the war department at Washingtor He refused to muster out some set1 eral companies that the war depart ment said must he mustered out. It is not our purpose to question th legal right of any one or more gov ernors but we* are just trying to e concile the legal oainion. Gov. Bleas may have done wrong in issuing hi ' " \'r> + iAn Q 11 ociamauon cusu<muiug .xuuuui. Guard but if he had the legal righ to jo so would it not be better to mus ter them back in in a legal way than 1 try to make it appear that Gov Blease's action was illegal. We hav* set out to run a law and order am nonpartisan administration and w< should not make a mistake at the out set of our efforts. "" XT J O -f Ka 1116 .\0WS 3.11(1 V^uuncx sajo ma-!, wv, :ause a# the county superintendent' >f education who were in Columbia en lorse the compulsory school dtten :iance law suggested by iMr. Swear ingen it must be a proper law for th< egislature to pass. That may be a correct position, am :hen again it may not be. We have long been an advocate of : compulsory school attendance law. W< introduced a bill on two occasion, fthen a member of the legislature. 0: Dne occasion the same bill passed th< ^ ~ V?tr Cnriof Ar PqvcA StXlctLC, Hi Li vuuv;cru. uj otuaiui *vuv Df Orangeburg, and lacked only si: rotes of passing the Ihouse. IWe do not believe in a local optio: bill and yet Mr. Swe^ringen's bill, a; we understand it, is the least objec tionable of any local option bill on th subject, we have seen. It provides, a we understand, for a general com pulsorv school attendance bill with th proviso that if any county does no want it, that county has the* right t< order an election. This is one measure that should b State wide or not at all. If compul sory education is good for Newberry i is good for any other county in th State. We believe that any measure tha should be adopted should be mild am not drastic in its terms and provisions This law must be a process of edu cation itself and if too drastic a measure is adopted our people woul< rebel and the sentiment in favor o compulsory school attendance wouli be retarded. fi * y Does Your li Need Repaii I HIIIMWI II I III II I S ??A, 'watches) ret PpJ' and ,j JEWELRY skl e Ja wa " by incompetent workmen let experience as railroad watch ii l- antee of satisfaction if you brin y P P Taanc \ JEWELER; y >- | mi I ^ 0 : rt-w iiN i Lo 5 CHINACL< :! and see if ZZ" replenishing. And tli ri window and see if y! i . -\ wnat you want at i SPECIAL 1. I Mayes' Bo< Variety i : The House of 1,00' \ I ' HORSES & MULE! e I We must move our stock c s ness, wagons, stalk cutters mowers, rakes, binders, etc In order to do this we are them for mules and horses. i Bring your stock and coi i at once. 5 We will also sell you the be *?j it/mi turn imore tn 1 anu gitc jrvu irrv jviuo iv j 'I flHBBBB9HRESSEBB9BHmHHH i WISE-LATHAN S s rnHHMBnMBEUBMnBBMMBWMHHDHHaMM We have too many elections any way >"OTI( and when it comes to school matters iNotic the very people who would be th<* der&ign ^ Fellers greatest beneficiaries at the least cost ' b tlement are generally the ones wfco would op- tlle r.rvza. m'vct QtrpniioiiR]v thp verv mead- ponntv ures that are intended to benefit them, o'clock Therefore, we say if we are to have * as we should have, any compulsory holding school attendance law it should be present State wide with no local option fea- that da ture. " said esi ' If you want to vote a local tax, as - a rule, the people who pay the least L tax and receive the greatest benefits, Janu; .j are the ones to oppose most vig ^ orously any tax for schools. Invigor Let us Ifcave a State compulsorv at4 uoe oiu! tendance law but make it State wide grove'! with no local option features. tan?*At ? - J Vatch t } > :* ' "" O . V : ring: skilful art is watch ^airing and the lied repairer is close in to the manufac er? h combine both. vou have 'a fine .tch and any part is i )ken or lost, we v )lace it. " If your "| tch has been ruined j us fix it. -Years of ispector is a guarg your watch to us. i & Co. 5 u OUR J DSET I doesn't need en look in nw^H you don't seJIH # ? i j! ^11)^ lOc Things. v .. 1 ^Kipil . . *^_^_^B4|KWji 5 WANTElfl - > f <. - . . . >f buggies, bari, hay presses,- i ,, at once. going to- trade MMm ne to see us lifii st wagon made ]|i say for it ' $ STOCK CO. I =1 "E OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. ^ e is hereby given that the un- M ed as Guardian of Thomas M. V , a minor, will make final set- M : on the estate of said minor jB probate court -for Newberry fl on- February .19, 1915, at 11 Bj| in the forenoon and immed- k| hereafter apply "for letters disr as such guardian. iAJI persons 11 claims against said estate wili ; same, duly attested, before fl te and all persons indebted to Vf Late will make payment. Im J. L. Fellers, JlJj Guardian. iry 16, 1915. a ting: to the Pale and SickljS^ Standard general strengthening tonic, S TAbTELESS chill IONIC, drives oat rnrfches the blood .and builds up the sysxue tonic. For adults and children. 50c